Hello to everyone and congrats for this perfect site.
I bought my SGS 6 days ago with firmware JG3 installed. Now I installed the new JM6.
I have noticed that the GSM/3G signal recievement is poor. I do not mean when I have the phone in my hand. For example when i had with my old nokia 2 out of 5 bars signal, with SGS i have 0 out of 4.
So, sometimes when i have 0 or even 2 bars I try to make a call and I cannot, I just don't hear anything for some seconds and the line drops. Of course neither the others can call me in this situation.
Does anyone else has such problems?
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Hello, and pardon if this is in the incorrect forum for this question.
I just got my Kaiser yesterday, and all the features and things are really nice. However, I can't seem to get a signal on it. My old Nokia 3595 gets a completely full signal sitting side by side with the Kaiser on the same network (both are AT&T). The Kaiser only gets 2 bars. When I try and dial out, the phone says "dialing" for about 5 seconds and then hangs up. After about 3-10 tries it will actually start ringing. When someone answers, I can hear them perfectly, but they either won't be able to hear me at all or won't be able to hear everything I'm saying. I called AT&T and they told me to RMA the phone. I am hoping there is a simpler fix, since I can hear incoming just fine; seems to me that isn't a signal problem then.
Any suggestions? Or should I do like they said and just RMA the phone? Anyone else had similar signal problems with the Kaiser?
Edit - Fixed, thanks to Bandswitch! Sweet little utility that allowed me to tell my somewhat belligerent Kaiser not to use 3G because the coverage here sucks.
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Hi, may I know where to get the utility? I'm also hving the poor signal problem. Thanks
Can you please elaborate on the utility.........me too having the same problem!!!!!
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Hey guys,
I have an issue with my S730 where calls drop out. Seems random - I may not lose a call all day, and then the next day I will lose four calls. Could happen after 5 minutes or 30 minutes. I travel, and it happens in multiple cities too (in Australia).
Two questions:
- Does anyone else get this? I am a pretty heavy voice user, and talk about 1-2 hours on the phone each work day. It didn't use to happen with my nokia (same carrier), so I'm thinking it is an S730 issue.
- Will the hacked ROM/radio help with this?
Thanks.
I had exactly the same problem with my TyTn but haven't noticed anything similar since swithching to the S730 a few weeks ago.
According to the sales rep the problem with the TyTn was that it wasn't capable of switching between 2G and 3G networks and that's why the calls dropped. The hardware(?) in the S730 is obviously upgraded to cope with this...
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Hi,
I just got my replacement captivate (New not refurb), and though the battery life is much better than my original captivate and it hasn't been shutting down.
Its dropping calls like its going out of style. Ive had tons of dropped calls, and Ive noticed after calls that do last like 15minutes and drop require a reboot to redial, or else theirs no ringtone.(Though the rebooting has only been on when i make calls on the bus, usually in the same area)
Also I have 3 to 4 bars whenever these drops happen.
Is anybody else experiencing something similar? Is this "normal" for the captivate?
R5R said:
Hi,
I just got my replacement captivate (New not refurb), and though the battery life is much better than my original captivate and it hasn't been shutting down.
Its dropping calls like its going out of style. Ive had tons of dropped calls, and Ive noticed after calls that do last like 15minutes and drop require a reboot to redial, or else theirs no ringtone.(Though the rebooting has only been on when i make calls on the bus, usually in the same area)
Also I have 3 to 4 bars whenever these drops happen.
Is anybody else experiencing something similar? Is this "normal" for the captivate?
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Really? Normal for a phone with 3 or 4 bars to drop calls, :facepalm: You have something else going on.
I guess im gona have to call rogers AGAIN to get a new one. This is ridiculous, i'm never buying a Samsung phone again they got some serious quality control problems.
Do you ever think that it could be Rogers? I know their data and voice services have been pretty wonky the last few days.
I have flashed my phone to cognision (only used Rogers Firmware for 1 day).
Compared to my BB Bold 9000 the signal on this Samsung is lower; i'm not sure how everybody else is; maybe the stock firmware has tweaks for Rogers, but from a signal point of view i'm not impressed.
My work has Rogers Cell signals towers on it and i would always have a perfect signal but now i'm only getting 3-4 bars out of the 5.
I'll need to download an app to get the actual db of the signal.
Is there anything we can do to boost the signal or make sure its taking advantage of all the frequencies that are available for Rogers ??
My work has Rogers Cell signals towers on it and i would always have a perfect signal but now i'm only getting 3-4 bars out of the 5.
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that's normal - antenna just not pointed down, but pointed horizontaly.
so if you get 3-4 bars - it's good at that location.
I don't think it just happens on you.
What i found out, recently Rogers and FIDO both have really bad drop call problem.
Mine cappy and my friends iphone have this problem randomly last week.
humm yeh i think you guys are right its rogers because the calls always drop in the same place when i take the bus between two streets, must be something messed up with their network.
My old nokia N86 never had any dropped calls compared to the captivate, the signal was much better, but then again the captivate has a lower SAR rating which explains the weaker reception
Here's the situation:
I have a Galaxy S, Firmware 2.3.3
1 week ago, my phone started behaving funny in my apartment (in greater Vancouver BC, north Burnaby). It would randomly cut off the other person, sometimes right away, sometimes after 20 minutes of talking.
It was not dropping calls though, the person on the other end could still hear me, but I couldn't hear them anymore. The call timer was still counting, it was just dead silence. No disconnect noise or anything, just suddenly I couldn't hear them.
I haven't dropped, upgraded, or otherwise changed my phone recently. So far it works properly in other areas of the city.
The interesting part is, my girlfriend is with Telus and her phone is behaving in the same manor. She just bought her phone 3 weeks ago, a crappy flip phone (as her blackberry curve kept dropping calls in the apartment) and hers has the same "muting" issue in at least 2 locations in the city.
Both companies suggest it is a phone issue, not a service issue, and we should buy out our contract with them and get new phones. They say that is our only option.
What can I do about this?
Well they lied about the phone issue. Only the network provider (like at&t) can cause these problems. Ive experienced it before and i know how network providers work. (been there, done that) change network provider or do whatever else you want. There isnt much choice here...
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Thanks for the reply
I'm paying for services not received and I signed a contract with them so there must be something they can do.
Anyone else have some thoughts?
Well you can try to unlock another phone (4g maybe) and put your sim in there...it might help but out of all my expieriencez i never thought the phone was the problem...
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Hey guys, i have a problem with my signal, sometimes it passes from full signal to 2g, even though I'm in a full 3g covered area, and i lose connection in skype every few minutes while I'm on a video call.
I didn't have the problems before, that started today, i tried to re flash the Rom, hasn't solved it, my only concern that yesterday i have tried to charge the phone with the pogo pins, but instead of putting the - on the - and the + on the +, i have put it the wrong way, and the phone had shutdown, and then nothing happened, just that stupid and annoying problem!!!
is it have something to do with that? how can i fix it???
[email protected] said:
Hey guys, i have a problem with my signal, sometimes it passes from full signal to 2g, even though I'm in a full 3g covered area, and i lose connection in skype every few minutes while I'm on a video call.
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I'm on O2 UK, this phone probably has the worst signal i've ever experienced. It'll regularly go from 4 bars to "x" (no signal) on and off all through the day, or it will say it has a full signal and my friends tell me they've been trying to call me all day & have sent me texts.
It's got to the point where I'm looking at selling the phone now, as it's fast becoming no use to me. It's not the network, I can sit next to a friend also on O2 UK with an iPhone and they can stream a youtube video, I can't even make an outgoing phone call (just goes BEEP BEEP BEEP and hangs up).
Shame, I love the features of the phone, but its useless if i cant receive phone calls or texts on it.
Its about 2 months old, never been rooted has all updates applied that have appeared (14.1.G.2.257 at the moment) and has had the awful signal problems since day one. If i knew it was going to be so bad I would have returned it, but left it too late (14 day return period)
Never happened at the moment.
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I am also having poor signal problems maybe someone could help with setting ideas??????????
micropizza said:
I'm on O2 UK, this phone probably has the worst signal i've ever experienced. It'll regularly go from 4 bars to "x" (no signal) on and off all through the day, or it will say it has a full signal and my friends tell me they've been trying to call me all day & have sent me texts.
It's got to the point where I'm looking at selling the phone now, as it's fast becoming no use to me. It's not the network, I can sit next to a friend also on O2 UK with an iPhone and they can stream a youtube video, I can't even make an outgoing phone call (just goes BEEP BEEP BEEP and hangs up).
Shame, I love the features of the phone, but its useless if i cant receive phone calls or texts on it.
Its about 2 months old, never been rooted has all updates applied that have appeared (14.1.G.2.257 at the moment) and has had the awful signal problems since day one. If i knew it was going to be so bad I would have returned it, but left it too late (14 day return period)
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The signal fluctuation is most likely related to the aluminum sides(a reason why T-Mobile went with plastic).
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