Help Reception Extremely Poor

[adam.t]

I do not have the best reception at my business but wow the thunderbolt has been significantly worse than any blackberry or droid I have tried in the past. I only have 3g in my area and have disabled the 4g. I called verizon and sat on the phone with a tech that almost put me to sleep. They had no idea that there was any issues and opened a ticket so they would look into it...

Has anyone else had similar problems or any possible solutions? The switching from no data, 1x, 3x is extremely poor and I barely get any bars. The phone is pretty much useless if its going to be this bad.

 

[mark959022]

Just had my phone next to a friends Motorola Droid 2 and her reception was -50db and mine was -100db. Her 3g download speed was 2.3mg and mine was .4mg. What gives?

 

[rushmore]

Just like the folks that claim "bump" charging is giving them over a day of heavy use with a 1400mah battery with everything on, those same folks will state their db signal is equal in scale of similar "creative measurement".

They probably get signal in submarines

 

[mark959022]

It wasn't stated, I checked myself!

 

[digdug1]

my thunderbolts reception is much worse that my x. that said my 3g speeds are greater. go figure.

 

[dylo22]

Just like the folks that claim "bump" charging is giving them over a day of heavy use with a 1400mah battery with everything on, those same folks will state their db signal is equal in scale of similar "creative measurement".

They probably get signal in submarines

We get it. You had a bad experience with the thunderbolt. Time to move on. No need to rag on other people's positive experience with the phone.

 

[ovenman]

I have noticed the signal is a bit worse than my old Droid X - but I've decided it doesn't bother me a ton because I like the phone so much more.

 

[adam.t]

Apparently it was an issue with the network and the 4g phones but was fixed on saturday. I did a factory reset today since everything was fixed by vzw and I get 3g all the time now.