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RoboMonkey

RoboMonkey

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Its super flakey 3G is driving me crazy so I've fired back up the old evo for now.
I live in Sprint home town and have never had these issues on my evo.

I need the 3G to tether my iPad at work ( 4g does not work in the building).
 
I'm seriously thinking about doing the same thing. Where I was getting strong 3G with my EVO I'm getting just 1x. I use WiFi at home and never lost a signal with the EVO (I'm about 15' from my router and it's mounted on the wall with no obstructions between me and it) but I keep losing the signal. I got mine last Friday so I'll wait at least til this Friday before I return it. It seems like between me and the Nexus brand theres a jinx. I bought the Nexus One but returned it before the month was out. It was set up for T-Mobile and the signal reception was dismal. I was hoping this one would be different but so far it isn't. I'll happily go back to my rooted EVO.
 
sorry to hear about that :(

i havent had that issue tho.. i actually find that my 3G signal is stronger on this phone than on my Moment. Dunno... I'll have to walk around with my EVO to check out the signal difference...
 
I get a lot of signal attenuation on mine, especially with 3g. It ranges from -76db on desk to -96db in hand. In hand I'm just holding it, not doing the death grip. I've got a case arriving today, so we'll see if that helps matters
 
That is a big factor for me. I already barely have signal in my house and around town with the evo, so i dont want to make matters worse.
 
If its a "bad service in my house" issue (the 3g reception that is) i highly recommend calling customer service and signing up to receive the airave. I will put myself out on a limb and basically swear on this little box. It really does work. But if your issue is outside your house on a daily basis during your day to day musings then (sadly for sprint) you might want to look into a different service provider.
 
I called Sprint last night and chatted w/ a live rep with Samsung and they have heard of no known issues yet...they better get on the ball or i'll be returning the device.
 
dyeLucky said:
I called Sprint last night and chatted w/ a live rep with Samsung and they have heard of no known issues yet...they better get on the ball or i'll be returning the device.
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Get on the ball with what??? A new phone doesn't magically build a cell site outside your house. If you're in a poor coverage area, you will have low signal quality with any phone.

To the guy with -76dBm, that's not bad at all. Can you conduct complete phone calls or is it dropping calls? Is there a high bit-error rate that chews up your words? That's the test.

The bars on the phone can be made to display anything, so don't go by that.
 
boteman said:
To the guy with -76dBm, that's not bad at all. Can you conduct complete phone calls or is it dropping calls? Is there a high bit-error rate that chews up your words? That's the test.
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-76 is sitting on my desk, not touching it at all. As soon as I pick the phone up it goes to -96
 
I'm getting really weak 3g coverage with it compared to my EVO, but no way I'm taking it back. The EVO was really weak at first too, so a little update and it'll be fixed.
 
I have had mine since the 8th and I haven't noticed anything different about the 3g (coming from an epic). My wife still has an Evo, so I will have to start paying attention to see if I notice a difference.
 
Well don't forget I run with the hotspot on at work for my iPad and the 3g is up down up down and when it's up its super slow. I ran all day on my EVO again today with zero issues at work.

It has to be the Nexus. I could try setting up super user on the phone and installing wireless tether and see if it's just the internal hotspot app causing my issues.
 
One more strange thing I noticed when the hotspot feature is running, I can not run SpeedTest from the phone.

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Did some more testing with the phone. I had my wife’s Epic and the nexus side by side and she was getting a 4g signal while the nexus was not. The Epic would get 3bars and the Nexus would drop out of 3g down to 1x.

This one is not a big issue, but I also ran quadrant and her fps were like 54 and mine were like 22 but the end result was my final score was in the 1300s and hers as in the 900s. Still the Epic would finish the test like 40 seconds b4 the Nexus.

One more thing even next to the Epic the Nexus colors have a green hue.

I'm taking the phone back tomorrow or Friday.
 
Well, I will taking mine back tomorrow. I think mine is defective. Today I found it was overheating badly. I didn't have any apps open open that I normally don't have open. The battery had gone from 67% to 29% at the time I noticed the overheating (I mean it was HOT!) Before that I would have no data connection numerous times at all. So, I'll go do a exchange and see if that makes a difference.
 
well if any of you that are second guessing want to get rid of your Nexus S, i got 350 bucks waiting on you.
 
I took mine back also. But I just exchanged it. The new one acts completely different. Everything appears to work great (knock on wood) at this time signal wise. So, I'll stick with the NS4G for now. Hopefully Google/Samsung will come up with a fix for the signal trouble we've been having in the near future.
 
Is a higher db or lower db better? I am at 86 db sitting in my office. and I am getting dropped wifi signal at my house too, but that wasn't the case with my htc hero. Have the people who exchanged the phone had luck with the exchanges?
 
signal strength is at -96 dBm at my house which according to Sprint's coverage map, my house is in their "excellent coverage" area. all i get is 1 bar of signal and 3G service but according to Sprint's coverage map, i should be getting 4G inside my house (dark blue on their coverage map).

i switched to Sprint from Verizon, i love the phone so far but i do not like Sprint's coverage. i switched based on their online coverage maps and it's not working out for me.
 
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