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If you are having weak signal issues...

MrKleen said:
This moron went through all that testing to say there was no issue.

I would be willing to bet he is next to a tower and has good signal to work with.

How does his study explain how many of us drop signal completely along with calls?

I dont compare bars but i do compare dBm numbers. How does he explain -140 dBm on my Nexus while my Thunderbolt is in the 90's?

He is probably a teenager.
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If you bothered to read the article, you would see that the thunderbolt is apparently reporting evdo signal strength (along with all the other pre-4.0 devices). If this is in fact true (and I believe it to be so now), it would appear there isn't really an issue.
 
I don't have a Gnex (i always wait, done with being an early adopter). For the people with bad reception, not only should you be posting the signal readings, you should also include a build date / batch # if any. This is how you figure out which batches have bad signals....etc


Hopefully this gets resolved. My OG is on its last leg...
 
MrKleen said:
This moron went through all that testing to say there was no issue.

I would be willing to bet he is next to a tower and has good signal to work with.

How does his study explain how many of us drop signal completely along with calls?

I dont compare bars but i do compare dBm numbers. How does he explain -140 dBm on my Nexus while my Thunderbolt is in the 90's?

He is probably a teenager.
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Anandtech is a very well respected tech site. If you read the article you would notice it says Android 4.0 is the first version of Android to show true LTE dBm numbers, so your Thunderbolt which is using 2.3-4, isn't showing actual LTE numbers.

There's also been an article recently showing that the LTE network is the cause for dropped data when transitioning from 3g to 4g, not the phones, hence the reason the problem occurs on all 4g devices.
 
If change from 4g to 3g causes the drops then why do people in 3g only areas get drops? My phone is set to 3g only and I still get drops...not as many as before update but it still happens...and is your signal strength showing 4g (lte) signal? or 3g? What if you have a bionic on 3g and a nexus on 3g next to each other? Can you compare signal strength then? Saying there is no problem just a misunderstanding of nexus signal strength doesn't help those who cannot make a call or txt where their old phones could at the same location.
 
Again guys, I don't care what the numbers or bars say. Why does the phone lose connection completely if it is just a "misunderstanding"? Why do phone calls go directly to voicemail? Why do calls drop while in the middle of talking and you look down and check and the phone is not connected then comes back?

I understand what he means about not going by what the bars say. I am talking about barely being able to hold either a 4g or 3g signal at times when other 4g devices in the same locations are working fine and not losing service.

While I am sure there are those that are only looking at their bars of service and making assumptions, this is not what I and many are talking about.

If you are not having the issue that is awesome, but please don't assume that everyone that is saying they have signal issues are stupid.

I think that study came to a conclusion that his phone was not having an issue so nobody is having an issue.
 
syndicate0017 said:
-120 DB over here...hopefully don't have to wait to long on a fix.

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Hopefully... I'm seeing alot of numbers in the -100+ area so I would assume there working on it now does the delay make more sense for u all now.. I wonder how bad it would be without that update u all got when u got the phone. does anyone know what that addressed??????

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Liderc said:
Anandtech is a very well respected tech site. If you read the article you would notice it says Android 4.0 is the first version of Android to show true LTE dBm numbers, so your Thunderbolt which is using 2.3-4, isn't showing actual LTE numbers.

There's also been an article recently showing that the LTE network is the cause for dropped data when transitioning from 3g to 4g, not the phones, hence the reason the problem occurs on all 4g devices.
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Why do I never have this issue with my Thunderbolt? Yes the network has issues from time to time and everything goes to crap, but why does one phone work and one doesn't? Then Anandtech has the nerve to say it's our imaginations because his phone didn't see the issue?

Tell that to my Nexus when it is not connected to a network at all while a Thunderbolt in the same room is just fine.

I have no problem saying that whoever that guy was from Anandtech didn't know what he was doing. If he did he would get a phone from someone claiming to have the issue and compare his working phone to the other in different areas of the city where the signal would vary in strength. Just because you don't have an issue where you are you can't make the statement that an issues doesn't exist. He said he was confused with Verizons statement because he said it appeared there was no issue.
 
MrKleen said:
Why do I never have this issue with my Thunderbolt? Yes the network has issues from time to time and everything goes to crap, but why does one phone work and one doesn't? Then Anandtech has the nerve to say it's our imaginations because his phone didn't see the issue?

Tell that to my Nexus when it is not connected to a network at all while a Thunderbolt in the same room is just fine.

I have no problem saying that whoever that guy was from Anandtech didn't know what he was doing. If he did he would get a phone from someone claiming to have the issue and compare his working phone to the other in different areas of the city where the signal would vary in strength. Just because you don't have an issue where you are you can't make the statement that an issues doesn't exist. He said he was confused with Verizons statement because he said it appeared there was no issue.
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Look at the 3rd pic of the phone's with the charge and nexus then read right above it and under it.. this guy is talkin out his "butt"
... And they still look the same to me -100 to -120 is bad in CDMA and lte.... and ppl right in this thread are saying -100 for 6 pages so there must be some kind of problem
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Well. I just flipped to 3G to check where I know what my signal should be. Still getting -20 dBm worse than on my thunderbolt. Sigh. Bring on the updates and lets see if they can fix this.
 
Snow02 said:
Well. I just flipped to 3G to check where I know what my signal should be. Still getting -20 dBm worse than on my thunderbolt. Sigh. Bring on the updates and lets see if they can fix this.
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Do u mean -120

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