Hi guys
I've had my Ignito for a few weeks now, love it. But, I can very rarely get an HSDPA signal?? my old Orbit II always had a full signal where I work. Has anybody else got the same problem, or changed radio ROM and found one that works better (im using 05 at the mo)??
Thanks for your help
Some people are claiming that .08 gives them a better signal, but you will get wildly varying reports depending on who you speak to.
Best bet is to just try them all for yourself, you can flash a radio without affecting anything else....Always a good idea to make a backup tho just in case.
I've got the Ingnito as well and have never once had an HSDPA signal, the only thing I ever have displayed is the E icon for EDGE despite living and working in an area with solid HSDPA coverage according to O2's website. I'm not massively bothered about it as EDGE is fast enough for my needs generally, but it is mildly annoying to pay for a 3G handset and never be able to take advantage of it.
Glad im not the only one having that problem. I'll try a few of the radios and report back.
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I've had the Ignito for two weeks now, and whilst it the HSDPA signal isn't as good as on my Touch Cruise, it's still there and seems to work perfectly, both in the UK, and when I was in Barcelona last weekend.
(Slightly off-topic, but I've noticed the battery getting better and better every day, to the point where it still had 30% last night before I went to bed! )
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I’m really confused as to why there is not a huge outcry by Kaiser users regarding dropped calls and complaints from people on the other end indicating voice drop outs.
Is this limited to certain areas only? It happens to me regularly here in south Florida. The voice drop out issue is fairly serious to me. I have read only a few posts regarding this issue.
Should this issue be raised a little louder to the powers that be? The Kaiser is a phone after all and conversations should be a no brainer for any phone!
Anyone else?
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Joe
I have never had any of the problems you speak of here in south carolina.
Have you installed the bluetooth fix available from HTC to deal with 'dropped calls' problem?
Works fine for that here in the UK too...
I had the same problem but only when I was calling with my g/f, then I realize that my girls phone is damaged and my keiser is ok.
So in Europe its fine
I live in Tampa and haven't had any issues. ROM and radio version issues, perhaps?
I am in Chicago and I don't have any of those problems, you must be in a bad cell area.
Are you on bluetooth? are you using speaker phone? or does it always happen? are you talking to people on same network?
As far as reception, dropped calls, and audio quality; the Tilt is probably the best phone I've ever used. I remember when I first got it, people would ask if I had a new phone. Just about everyone commented that it sounded great on their end.
BTW, I'm in the DFW, Tx area.
I'm in UK, but have also used my Kaiser in France, Germany and Romania - all ok. Maybe you've flashed a ROM and not selected the right radio.
If you've flashed a ROM check here for which radio is correct.
Been using my phone in Thailand and India, without any problems so far relating to the Signal and call drops.
The signal is actually better with the Tytn II than my previous P3300.
jpasint said:
I’m really confused as to why there is not a huge outcry by Kaiser users regarding dropped calls and complaints from people on the other end indicating voice drop outs.
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Ummmm, because simply because this is happening to you doesn't mean that it is happening to everyone else?
Frankly, it sounds like a geographic issue.
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Ummmm, because simply because this is happening to you doesn't mean that it is happening to everyone else?
Frankly, it sounds like a geographic issue.
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Well, it certainly is not happening only to me but I guess it is not as wide spread as I ASSumed it was. I definitely recall reading others with similar issues but....
Maybe it is just at&t’s network in south Florida. Had these issues with 3 different Kaisers.
Joe
I'm at work now (I work at an AT&T store) and I'm looking at the internal coverage map. Florida has decent coverage overall but it is admittedly weaker in the southern areas (Pretty much everything south of Tampa). There are good spots but it's mostly "moderate" coverage. This basically means that your phone will work in the open but there are no promises indoors or in cars. Hope this clears things up a bit.
No problems of the sort here in New Orleans, La. I believe i had one hiccup on a call and dropped it once when it switched from 3G to Edge.
You might want to try a new ROM and radio. I do some business in Miami and forgot that I had the Tilt the last time I was there. Think I was using Alex's UC then (Dutty's v2 Medium now) and had no problems - both via the phone itself and bluetooth. Good luck.
I have been wanting a nexus one really bad and the only thing holding me back is the 3g/edge switching problem I have heard some much about. Is this really that big of a problem? Should I wait for the HTC Desire?
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Jartrip said:
I have been wanting a nexus one really bad and the only thing holding me back is the 3g/edge switching problem I have heard some much about. Is this really that big of a problem? Should I wait for the HTC Desire?
-JT
MT3G/Super D 1.9.3
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How is the signal strength where you live? I have had my Nexus since the day it launched, and dont experience any of those issues. But then again....I have great 3G/HSPA connectivity here in Denver.
I live near Detroit MI and the 3g is ok. I do get edge 40% of the time when I am in my house but wifi fixes that.
I have had mine 48 hours. It has worked properly about 2 hours. The rest has been filled with lost data connections, signal going from 4 bars to zero bars, and back to 4 bars within seconds, and many many missed calls/messages/aborted calls. NOT HAPPY AT ALL. I thought this was going to be an upgrade from my G1- the speed is great but it is totally unusable as an actual phone. BTW, 3g in my area is excellent (on the G1).
I'm in Tulsa, OK and have yet to see EDGE on my 3G ATT Nexus. I've had it all day and been all over town and now home and I've got 3G all day and 4 bars 3G at home in the house.
I had my Nexus since the day it was launched, and dont have any 3G issues. I have great 3G/HSPA connectivity here in Las Vegas.
I had my N1 about couple months and so far it seems that it's the only choice!, didn't get any major problems, amazing speed I always get daily updates!
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I'm in Tulsa, OK and have yet to see EDGE on my 3G ATT Nexus. I've had it all day and been all over town and now home and I've got 3G all day and 4 bars 3G at home in the house.
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Wow on Tmobile I only get edge, and I'm in Oklahoma City,OK. Doesnt make any sense.
gospeed.racer said:
I have had mine 48 hours. It has worked properly about 2 hours. The rest has been filled with lost data connections, signal going from 4 bars to zero bars, and back to 4 bars within seconds, and many many missed calls/messages/aborted calls. NOT HAPPY AT ALL. I thought this was going to be an upgrade from my G1- the speed is great but it is totally unusable as an actual phone. BTW, 3g in my area is excellent (on the G1).
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same here basically. I'm 1 mile from an HSDPA enabled tower and can't get anything faster than EDGE on a consistent basis. Dropped and garbled calls galore.
gospeed.racer said:
I have had mine 48 hours. It has worked properly about 2 hours. The rest has been filled with lost data connections, signal going from 4 bars to zero bars, and back to 4 bars within seconds, and many many missed calls/messages/aborted calls. NOT HAPPY AT ALL. I thought this was going to be an upgrade from my G1- the speed is great but it is totally unusable as an actual phone. BTW, 3g in my area is excellent (on the G1).
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galaxys said:
I had my Nexus since the day it was launched, and dont have any 3G issues. I have great 3G/HSPA connectivity here in Las Vegas.
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McHale said:
same here basically. I'm 1 mile from an HSDPA enabled tower and can't get anything faster than EDGE on a consistent basis. Dropped and garbled calls galore.
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Las Vegas is one of T-mobile's best connected cities... so no surprise there. But even in Toledo, OH, I get 3G outdoors without issue and switch between 3G and Edge only indoors, where I have wifi anyway.
Maybe you guys that are having problems might call HTC for swaps.
All of this worries me. I don't want to shell out $530 for a phone that could have issues with keeping a 3G connection. Even on cyanogens wiki he sates "Is the 3G issue fixed? No. While Google did issue an Over-The-Air update On 2010-Feb-02, it doesn't fully fix the switch from 3G to EDGE, which might be a mix of a hardware problem and a software one." I am hoping the desire comes out soon to see if that has the same problems. It is almost the same hardware so I would think it would be the same but we will see.
If anything it's the baseband programming from Qualcomm... I'm NOT seeing as bad as an issue as before. I do on occasion see it go to EDGE; I've just not got in the habit of leaving my phone on 3G only now.
no trouble in austin tx 3g and H all the time
Called HTC and they had no other solution but for me to loose $45 (because it was etched) plus shipping to get me another phone that would likely do the same thing. So, I rooted and crossed my fingers that having a choice in radios would help. Nope. Oh well, it looks cool. I use it to show off, and make calls with my G1
It's always good to try another SIM card(S) from a different carrier before coming to conclusions.
wind0zer said:
It's always good to try another SIM card(S) from a different carrier before coming to conclusions.
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That's really not possible in the US. We have 2 GSM provides and both use different frequencies. You're definitely not going to get 3G with the other provider's SIM.
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Las Vegas is one of T-mobile's best connected cities... so no surprise there.
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Its true I get good 3g when I go to vegas, but the weird thing is,i get absolutely zero gps functionality there. Any app that requires gps like sherpa or maps is useless. Go figure.
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Its true I get good 3g when I go to vegas, but the weird thing is,i get absolutely zero gps functionality there. Any app that requires gps like sherpa or maps is useless. Go figure.
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that's simple. They don't want you to leave!
Ughhh, I'm line of sight to a tower and get -70 to -75dBm all the time but I swear I jump for joy if I manage to get 600kps on this N1.
I went to the outdoor mall in my neighborhood that has the T-Mobile antenna there. I was getting about -75dbm and when I covered the back of the phone with my palm as demonstrated in the videos showcasing the 3g problem my reception would drop to about -105dbm... is it me or is that excessive considering how close I was?
I am a pilot.. Usually my signal fades out around 2000feet or so. This seems to be worse with T-Mobile. I flew with a guy who had an iphone on att and it worked fairly well at 9,00ft. I had a CDMA phone a few years ago and it would work at very high altitudes 30,000ft plus. Nowadays, I usually cruise at less than 10,000ft, but I still have no service.
It seems to me that I should get better service at altitude, but this is not the case..It seems like one might have the same problem at high altitude in mountainous regions... .I have googled this for years but never found the answer... I was hoping someone on here might be able to answer my question: Why does my cell phone signal drop out at altitude? (I understand this :http://ashsd.afacwa.org/print_article.cfm?homeID=17917 but I am on a private aircraft) I understand the rules, but they don't explain the loss of signal...
I hope this is the right place to post this and thanks for your help!
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I am a pilot.. Usually my signal fades out around 2000feet or so. This seems to be worse with T-Mobile. I flew with a guy who had an iphone on att and it worked fairly well at 9,00ft. I had a CDMA phone a few years ago and it would work at very high altitudes 30,000ft plus. Nowadays, I usually cruise at less than 10,000ft, but I still have no service.
It seems to me that I should get better service at altitude, but this is not the case..It seems like one might have the same problem at high altitude in mountainous regions... .I have googled this for years but never found the answer... I was hoping someone on here might be able to answer my question: Why does my cell phone signal drop out at altitude? (I understand this :http://ashsd.afacwa.org/print_article.cfm?homeID=17917 but I am on a private aircraft) I understand the rules, but they don't explain the loss of signal...
I hope this is the right place to post this and thanks for your help!
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I believe that most cell sites work by line of site. If you are above them then I can see this happening. Besides, cell sites have a limited range anyway. Going straight up... who knows. But I only put my phone on Airplane mode while on flights and turned it on once (feeling rebellious) and had no signal. Of course I wasn't really surprised. Besides, cell towers have to hand off the signal from one tower to another to prevent dropped calls. If your travelling at 300+ mph I can see how that might complicate things as well. But these are just my own theories. CDMA signal is possibly more powerful than GSM. I've been out of the game for a while but again... it's just a theory.
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I believe that most cell sites work by line of site. If you are above them then I can see this happening. Besides, cell sites have a limited range anyway. Going straight up... who knows. But I only put my phone on Airplane mode while on flights and turned it on once (feeling rebellious) and had no signal. Of course I wasn't really surprised. Besides, cell towers have to hand off the signal from one tower to another to prevent dropped calls. If your travelling at 300+ mph I can see how that might complicate things as well. But these are just my own theories. CDMA signal is possibly more powerful than GSM. I've been out of the game for a while but again... it's just a theory.
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Sure...but I am usually less than 2 miles high and usually under 200MPH..Signal usually goes out when climbing out at under 150mph...
Thanks for your reply....
I was told a few years ago that it's the association with cell towers being the problem.
If you are going over them at 150mph+ its going to struggle to keep a decent signal....
Although i can confirm satelitte phones do not have this problem (neither does GPS tracking)
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I was told a few years ago that it's the association with cell towers being the problem.
If you are going over them at 150mph+ its going to struggle to keep a decent signal....
Although i can confirm satelitte phones do not have this problem (neither does GPS tracking)
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I suppose I should have also stated that the same thing happens when I climb into a strong headwind and travel over the ground at 100mph or less..does not seem to be speed dependent..
I know this thread is kinda old.. but I am still wondering..
I don't think it was anything to do with speed.. I could do very tight circles in the plane and still have the same results....
Just guesswork here, but it could have a lot to do with antenna design. In a prior life I had to design a couple of wireless WANs and found a wide variety of dispersal patterns available in different kinds of antenna. By restricting the pattern you can concentrate all your available power in any particular direction. I'm guessing they narrow the vertical dispersion to get more effective signal strength horizontally. Don't know if that's actually the case, but it sounds good to me.
Hello Folks,
I am posting this thread after a very long time on XDA as I was not using any HTC device.I was using Iphone since it was launched in USA.Now I bought 3 nexus one for me and my family with very high hopes but after iserting my simcard into it since last week I am very much disappoined.beside other samll issues like less responsive touch screen the problem I am having is a cellular signal. I am using this phone in the same area where I was using my 3gs phone and it was giving me full bars.And with nexus one I am having a really hard time to get signals some time even no signal and my calls are being missed/droped.I believe due to this problem battey life of the device is not impressive. And that was the main reason of quitting Iphone as I wanted multitasking device with better bettery life.I spoke to nexus one support line for few times their response was good but I it did not help me as I am having same problem although they offered me to replace device.but the thing is I already have 3 devices and if they are giving me same problem.
All I am hopping is a new upgrade to fix this issuse and I have no idea if this gona be fixed with the software upgrade?.
Idea of this thread is to get feedback from other folks using ATT/Rogers version of Nexus one specially in Canada/Western Canada.And any advise /help form my experts folks in this respect.
Your taking time in reading this is much appreciated.
May Almighty Bless you all.
Thanks.
I am using the same version of the N1 as you, with Telus. I have had absolutely awesome coverage, so I'm not sure what the source of your signal issue is.
Really depends on where you are. Western Canada is a large place. I'm using Fido in Calgary and I don't have any troubles at all.
using rogers in edmonton.. signal is considerably worse than my old blackberry 9700.. but only slightly worse than an iphone 3g.
Hi Folks ,
I really appreciate all of you for your feedback and advise.I hope that more peoples will share their experience here.One thing I would also like to share is that I am using home rom and did not go for bootloader unlocking and on my phone problem I have is with the cellular signal.my data signal is always on 3g as I am in city of Calgary.My son got his nexus one bootloader unlocked and installed ceynogen 5.06 rom installed I used his phone aslo for a day and only difference I noticed is that it shows "H" when u do browsing on data and otherwise is stay 3g.but with home it always show " 3G " sign and never to to "H" .but when you check details of connection it tell you that it is connected HSDPA.
If anyone else noticed the same? or anyone else getting H sign with home rom?
your views/experience regarding Home vs Ceynogen rom are also appreciated.
I am still looking for the actual benifit of having ceynogen rom over home?as I did not see any difference.
Thanks once again
I already answered you in the Nexus One General forum. Try not to post the same thing everywhere.
Hey guys, I bought my N1 2 days ago right when Google announced they were closing down N1 sale..... I was on the fence for long!!! I am trying hard not to like the phone yet since I have seen some signal issues with this phone! I live in downtown and work around the same area, T-Mobile coverage map shows strong signal but my phone keeps switching between Edge and 3G. If that is bad enough, some times it shows 3G and if I try accessing Market, I get data connection lost error!!
When phone was shipped, it came packaged with 2.1.1 and soon after I got an OTA and upgraded to 2.2!!
Is it how it is going to be? I use this phone for work so definitely can't keep it if I can't get good signal. Is there a fix without rooting? Can I try a different radio or something!??
Also, I have contacted all 3 companies in the mix and waiting for the response! Any help to get this thing fixed, if possible, would be greatly appreciated!!!
It could be that you are just in a bad Tmobile/Att area, the Nexus One has a small problem with signal strength, nothing that has EVER dropped a call or stopped me from surfing.
its really sensitive to your hand blocking the antenna. leave the internal antenna exposed by slightly spreading your fingers apart. antenna is on the bottom behind the words HTC.
question: why are so many recent cell phones so sensitive to the hand obstructing the antenna? samsung galaxy s is it worst that i've ever seen. HTC nexus one has this issue, htc incredible, desire, nokia e71, etc. is it because these phones are getting so thin that it puts the distance between our hand and the antenna that much closer? i cant think of any other reason. i refuse to believe that its from poor components considering samsung, htc, nokia, all different manufacturers have the same problem. so it cant be quality of components.
Ive been having the same issue from Day 1 with my nexus but only in certain areas. Buildings where the T-Mobile coverage map shows 3g but it just switches back and forth edge/3g when i pick it up(block antenna)
Thanks a lot for all your response guys! So if I buy a rubberized cover, should it improve the situation?
Don't trust carrier coverage maps. Where I live tmobile promises good coverage. I got zero bars. Try to compare the reception with another phone on tmobile.
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Don't trust carrier coverage maps. Where I live tmobile promises good coverage. I got zero bars. Try to compare the reception with another phone on tmobile.
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Its a bummer that carriers lie on their coverage map! This is the only T-Mobile phone I ever owned and I don't know anyone else with T-Mobile 3G handset!! Well I just have to see next few days and decide whether I want to stick with it or not! I really hate to return it though!