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I guess I never really noticed it, but it does happen to me. Just tried it.
I see it on mine in Austin tx
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Pretty sure all sprint versions of the One do this.. I have yet to see one that didn't in areas around - 93dbm, always drops to -100+dbm when the grip is applied in lower left corner.. Although I don't call it a death grip because it actually does not kill the connection like the iPhone 4 did. And when you're in a call it switches to the top antenna so no big deal.
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BrianBaker said:
Pretty sure all sprint versions of the One do this.. I have yet to see one that didn't in areas around - 93dbm, always drops to -100+dbm when the grip is applied in lower left corner.. Although I don't call it a death grip because it actually does not kill the connection like the iPhone 4 did. And when you're in a call it switches to the top antenna so no big deal.
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It happens in my area as well and I'm not sure my device is switching to the top antenna because I will drop calls as soon as the signal strength drops.
I never hold my phone in a way that contacts the lower left when in a call. But just to test it I make a call and if I have 3 bars and grip lower left I can see it drop to 1 bar then immediately to 5 bars. I assume it's switching antennas because that's what I read it was suppose to do.
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Like the iphones of old, will a skin or case prevent the death grip?
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MojoSwag said:
Like the iphones of old, will a skin or case prevent the death grip?
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Nope.. I'm cased up and it still does it..
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BrianBaker said:
Nope.. I'm cased up and it still does it..
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I see it on my 2 week old Black ONE. Thought it was the work-in-progress issue with using cm 10.1, and decided to bare with it by assuming that the Cm 10.1 folks will find a solution. After reading this post and watching the videos, I was stunned to see that this was the actual reason for the low signal and slow data speed... and possibly a few dropped calls? I finally noticed that when the phone is on but laying on table top... it can show 4g signal rather well. But, as soon as I grab it to use in my hand... the 4g data symbol disappears.... signal meter drops to almost nothing... then comes to 1-2 bars at most showing 3g data. I still thought 4g was not rolled out in my area.... But, my wife, who has N2, said she has been noticing it for few months already.
Overall, besides the camera, I was pretty happy with this phone, but I am realizing it has worse signal than my old epic 4g. I am hoping this is a fixable issue for HTC and Sprint... I am contemplating returning to exchange for S4 this weekend, before my return period runs out. demmit.
this has already been discussed somewhere else, may have been the international forum. but like i said in that post, it is nothing extreme. and it is CERTAINLY not a death grip. death grip COMPLETELY kills your active connection, or drops you to 1x. in this video, the signal was already ****ty... dont worry about it, every phone always hovers in the -70 through -98 range... stop worrying about it... just stop. a 10db loss is nothing people...
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hmmmm i can't reproduce this in my case....
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Is there any death grip issue with this phone? Have you ever experienced of it?
Hmm, so far nope. How did you hold your phone?
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I have my OB for almost two weeks and i haven't had any problems regarding reception.
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Never have such death grip problem with my OB
Nohow. I am still considering this phone to be my next gadget nut here at xda read that somebody experienced death grip holding it in his left hand I guess and lose courage because of it.
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Hmm, so far nope. How did you hold your phone?
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Yea that's me. If I hold the phone with my left palm covering the handset it loses some signal. Not a huge problem.
The worst things about the device at the mo are the awful battery life (which should be fixed with a custom Rom) and the cheap build quality. I've just sold mine because of these issues.
Nice screen though
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Yeah the battery issue is definatelt software related. I'm getting much better battery after uninstalling alot of the LG crapware that came with the phone.
A custom ROM would be perfect for this phone because the hardware is really good.
I am also noticing serious signal drop when my left palm covers the left side. However dont have issues in making or receiving calls. Not sure if it will affect 3G usage though.
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I am also noticing serious signal drop when my left palm covers the left side. However dont have issues in making or receiving calls. Not sure if it will affect 3G usage though.
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No drop signal when I hold the phone with my left palm. But Heat & small speaker volume sometimes annoying.
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Oh, mine drops rapidly from 4 bars to 1 within 5 seconds. Doesnt happen on 2G network. Also seriously affects 3G download speed. Flat on my table, i can get 3mbps but with my left palm, only 1mbps. Sigh, a little put off with OB now.
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that's true. even i have the same problem. also this has been clearly mentioned in the user manual.
Oh, it is mentioned in the user manual? Btw, where can i get the user manual in PDF format?
The user manual come with your box inside, is same with the pdf manual download from LG site also, I'm user from Malaysia too!
Yay, fellow OB user from MY! My set actually from Taiwan. I connect it to the LG Suite but there are no options to download the PDF. The user manual that came with phone is all in Chinese and i dont understand a single letter, haha. Is there a direct link to download the PDF?
I swear there is a thread somewhere for this, but I can't find it. So flame away.
Speaking of flames if I'm ever freezing, and the area I'm in has horrible signal I'll just use my phone as a heater.
The heat from this phone is seriously drying my hand out from charging it and tasking it with games. Plus always having terrible signal. Thanks sprint. I feel like it shouldn't be this warm though? Please inform me if I'm wrong.
Oh temperature is at 101°F just sitting charging.
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Its fine and yes, there are several of these threads. The phone is made of metal as opposed to plastic. Youre using one big heatsink.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2264371&highlight=hot
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I swear there is a thread somewhere for this, but I can't find it. So flame away.
Speaking of flames if I'm ever freezing, and the area I'm in has horrible signal I'll just use my phone as a heater.
The heat from this phone is seriously drying my hand out from charging it and tasking it with games. Plus always having terrible signal. Thanks sprint. I feel like it shouldn't be this warm though? Please inform me if I'm wrong.
Oh temperature is at 101°F just sitting charging.
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Don't quote electronics temperatures in F.
101 F is 2-3 degrees above body temperature. That seems reasonable.
I wouldn't expect someone to consider it hot until 50-60C. Or about 125F or above.
You're dealing with metal, metal conducts heat far better than other materials you can make phones out of. Metal will transfer the heat to your hand. I would have thought this would have been obvious when you bought a metal phone, but some people seem surprised.
I am running at -25 mV and I haven't had any battery alerts since.
D3rped out Beastmode! HTC ONE!
The only time I ever had an issue with heat had to do with the rom/kernel I was running. I really thought something was wrong with the phone until I changed roms.
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A ROM change actually made a world of difference.
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A ROM change actually made a world of difference.
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What rom and/or kernel where you using?
Morghan said:
I swear there is a thread somewhere for this, but I can't find it. So flame away.
Speaking of flames if I'm ever freezing, and the area I'm in has horrible signal I'll just use my phone as a heater.
The heat from this phone is seriously drying my hand out from charging it and tasking it with games. Plus always having terrible signal. Thanks sprint. I feel like it shouldn't be this warm though? Please inform me if I'm wrong.
Oh temperature is at 101°F just sitting charging.
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4G (especially marginal) chews battery switching between 4G and 3G.
You can't use the Signal Strength to know what the 4G strength is.
I have since shut 4G off and my Battery is much better. You can shut it off by using non LTE PRL or set to CDMA only.
The non LTE PRL (12126) makes this the best 3G phone ever, for me.
Sprint has been "Rolling Out" 4G for 6 months in eastern MA and just seems to be getting worse.
I'm running Viper with what ever Kernel he supplied with it. My phone never gets hot. Maybe slight warm if running NAV while Charging.
I never play games.
Having big issues with the Wifi on my phone. I just bought it a week ago, but the wifi is incredibly weak. I have found very little info on issues with the wireless, so I'm inclined to believe that something's wrong with it.
Basically, it works, but at approximately 10-15 feet away, I've got one bar. This is through two walls, but other devices get great signal in this spot. I get absolutely no signal in my bedroom at any time, and while my EVO LTE got one bar, it at least got something. The bedroom is around 30 feet through 3-4 walls, depending on where you stand in the room.
Have you all had good experience with the phone's wifi? Since I haven't read much about wireless issues, I'm assuming I got a lemon.
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Forgot to add, I have a Linksys E3200 which is still a pretty high end router. The router is NOT the issue.
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Bumpus maximus
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Well, I swapped the phone out today, and the new one is working great. As I walked out of the store in the mall, I was playing with the WiFi and saw TONS of networks I didn't see before walking in. The WiFi works great now, even better than my EVO 4g lte.
The 3g signal is reporting that it's higher, but I haven't made enough phone calls to thoroughly test it. The defective phone was dropping calls left and right, but I made 3-4 calls today on the replacement without any drops, so I think the phone was just screwed up all around.
I'm definitely happy, since the S4 demo I used stuttered like crazy, so I would have had to get an iPhone 5 since that's about all Sprint has.
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hi guys this is my second device but no solution
you guys can check your one have this problem
the problem is if seeing youtube in Landscape mode is signal is very slow some times it wifi drops
i attach a video see this video and tell me its have wifi death grip problem or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ArHHyYWvhc
I do not have this problem at all. My WiFi has never dropped. Might be a weak router.
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The Project said:
I do not have this problem at all. My WiFi has never dropped. Might be a weak router.
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I m using Samsung galaxy s3 and iPhone 4 but no problem at all
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I had the same problem but the 4.2.2 update seems to have fixed it.
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I've just tired it on both my htc ones. didn't encounter any signal drops. are you using 802.11n with 5ghz band? I've heard 5 ghz tends to drop signal easier.
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The WiFi antenna is at the top of the device. Your hand will affect the signal if your signal isn't very strong to begin with.
I can hold my hand over top of it all I want with a strong signal, but when I move pretty far away and hold it it does drop bars. There's really nothing you can do about it, except move a little closer.
I'm sure of you held the other devices ontop of there WiFi antenna you could see a drop.
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I have noticed it as well, but having had experience with anenna design I think that there is not much you can do with it. The antenna matching always gets distorted by the human body. HTC have designed the antenna matching for the hand holding the phone in portrait. When you use the phone in landscape your body connects to the antenna system differently debalancing the matching (I tested with my friends iphones and samsungs and all of them react similarely some more and some less). So basically you want to be closer to your router or a more powerful one.
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japjit100 said:
hi guys this is my second device but no solution
you guys can check your one have this problem
the problem is if seeing youtube in Landscape mode is signal is very slow some times it wifi drops
i attach a video see this video and tell me its have wifi death grip problem or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ArHHyYWvhc
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I've been aware of this too. It's only noticeable for me though when connected to 5ghz wireless. This is a feature of the frequency - it's unable to penetrate as well as 2.4ghz
If I use case with this problem it improve or not
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So after I got my s5 from att I immediately realized a weird smudge on the left and right side of my front ear speaker. If I clean it with a cloth it disappears and reappears after some light use. Now I am assuming this may be some way the phone protects the speaker from water. However I don't know if other s5 have this as well. It can only be seen on angles while in a good lit room. Looks like finger smudges but doesn't change shape or form only disappears and reappears from wiping it away. Anyone else noticing this or know what it is?
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Cjohns8792 said:
So after I got my s5 from att I immediately realized a weird smudge on the left and right side of my front ear speaker. If I clean it with a cloth it disappears and reappears after some light use. Now I am assuming this may be some way the phone protects the speaker from water. However I don't know if other s5 have this as well. It can only be seen on angles while in a good lit room. Looks like finger smudges but doesn't change shape or form only disappears and reappears from wiping it away. Anyone else noticing this or know what it is?
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Nothing like that on mine.
That's weird.... I would go back to AT&T and have them replace it, if it bothers you.
I had never noticed, but just looking up at it now I saw them and wiped them away. I guess I'll see if they come back.
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Ironmagz said:
I had never noticed, but just looking up at it now I saw them and wiped them away. I guess I'll see if they come back.
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Hmm..
I forgot to ask, what color do you two have?
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Nothing like that on mine.
That's weird.... I would go back to AT&T and have them replace it, if it bothers you.
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Not really a bother to me. You definitely notice it more if you dab a drop of water near it. Other than that it's too high up to notice much.
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Not really a bother to me. You definitely notice it more if you dab a drop of water near it. Other than that it's too high up to notice much.
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Yeah, you were probably right, something to do with the water protection. Oh well, if it doesn't bother you, then good.
Mine is black
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My phone is black also.
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You guys can try this also. Huff onto the phone. Like breathe hot air onto it to make it foggy near speaker you will notice it for sure if your phone has this weird area too
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My original release day S5 had exactly what you are describing. I returned it since it bothered me and this one hasn't had the issue.
I would get a replacement if it bothers you.
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Cjohns8792 said:
You guys can try this also. Huff onto the phone. Like breathe hot air onto it to make it foggy near speaker you will notice it for sure if your phone has this weird area too
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Just tried that, nothing showed up.
If it makes a difference, I have a White S5.
I'm pretty sure ATT won't do anything for something that doesn't affect the device use. It has been more than 30 days. And there are minor scuffs on the stupid chrome bezel
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