Hi folks,
I'm hoping someone here can suggest some alternatives for dealing with this problem I'm having with my RMHD running Jelly Bean. For the record, it did the same thing on ICS before the update.
While I get good 4G data connectivity in most places, sadly my office where I spend 8+ hours a day is not among them. But the phone doesn't act like I would expect, and I don't know how to improve the situation.
Here's what I see:
Basically, despite the phone showing good signal for 4G LTE (four or five bars), while I'm using the phone for data activities (web, forums, etc.), it will suddenly stall and I get no data. The thing will still show 4G with good signal (blue indicators). But no data. I can try refreshing the web page or whatever, but nothing comes through. I can set the phone aside and it will be a long time before it finds the ability to get data again... maybe on average 10 minutes before it seems to notice the data stall and do something about it.
When it is in one of these stall modes, if I flick Airplane mode on and off (rapidly), the phone will cycle the radio, reacquire signal, and in a minute or so I will have a data connection again.
What bugs me is that when it stalls, there IS A USABLE SIGNAL because I can recover connectivity by cycling the radio. But when stalled, it doesn't quickly automatically recover.
Sometimes it will show on the indicator no data connection when I'm in my office, just the bars with no 1G/3G/4G indicator. AGain, if I cycle the radio, I quickly get data connections.
These stalls can happen frequently. Every couple minutes. With a minute or 90 seconds downtime for powercycling the radio.
Is there some way or app that will automatically be watching out for data stalls and do whatever is necessary to reconnect? Or some way to suspend 4G altogether and try my luck on 3G when I'm in my office? Sometimes it drops to 3G and I've found data to be stable in this situation. Then it goes up to 4G again, then stalls.
I'm not worried about data speed or battery wastage... for me it's loss of time waiting for reconnection of the data stream. I get short breaks now and then and hate wasting them waiting for the connection cycling.
Network Info app shows data connection during the stall, even with a smiley face, though usually with -97 or -96 db signal...
Any thoughts on how to improve data performance in weak / garbled singal areas? And why does it show a strong 4G signal when clearly there's a problem?
Marc
I'm hoping someone here can suggest some alternatives for dealing with this problem I'm having with my RMHD running Jelly Bean. For the record, it did the same thing on ICS before the update.
While I get good 4G data connectivity in most places, sadly my office where I spend 8+ hours a day is not among them. But the phone doesn't act like I would expect, and I don't know how to improve the situation.
Here's what I see:
Basically, despite the phone showing good signal for 4G LTE (four or five bars), while I'm using the phone for data activities (web, forums, etc.), it will suddenly stall and I get no data. The thing will still show 4G with good signal (blue indicators). But no data. I can try refreshing the web page or whatever, but nothing comes through. I can set the phone aside and it will be a long time before it finds the ability to get data again... maybe on average 10 minutes before it seems to notice the data stall and do something about it.
When it is in one of these stall modes, if I flick Airplane mode on and off (rapidly), the phone will cycle the radio, reacquire signal, and in a minute or so I will have a data connection again.
What bugs me is that when it stalls, there IS A USABLE SIGNAL because I can recover connectivity by cycling the radio. But when stalled, it doesn't quickly automatically recover.
Sometimes it will show on the indicator no data connection when I'm in my office, just the bars with no 1G/3G/4G indicator. AGain, if I cycle the radio, I quickly get data connections.
These stalls can happen frequently. Every couple minutes. With a minute or 90 seconds downtime for powercycling the radio.
Is there some way or app that will automatically be watching out for data stalls and do whatever is necessary to reconnect? Or some way to suspend 4G altogether and try my luck on 3G when I'm in my office? Sometimes it drops to 3G and I've found data to be stable in this situation. Then it goes up to 4G again, then stalls.
I'm not worried about data speed or battery wastage... for me it's loss of time waiting for reconnection of the data stream. I get short breaks now and then and hate wasting them waiting for the connection cycling.
Network Info app shows data connection during the stall, even with a smiley face, though usually with -97 or -96 db signal...
Any thoughts on how to improve data performance in weak / garbled singal areas? And why does it show a strong 4G signal when clearly there's a problem?
Marc