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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
Att or verizon? 3g or 4g/lte? Android or iOS? Uhhh maybe you have the wrong forum or you are just trying to be funny...... yeah let's go with it being a joke. Lol that was a good one .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
I think verizon 4g is just a bit buggy still. I'm routinely in cherry hill new jersey and usually have full 4g here. The past 2 days 4g is no where to be found... Here's to hoping verizon gets this figured out.

-Hai guise I haz problems on the pre-alpha release and I don't know why.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 95talondsm:
I've had a lot of fluctuation in my mbps. Signal strenght is usually decent (3 bars on average) My fastest mbps was 25 down 23 up, but on average I get about 6-10/sec. I have had the phone for a week as of today, and I've only switched to 3g twice for about 30 seconds. I live in the chicago area where I believe there is a lot of coverage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vdChild:
Still hoping Samsung can get a proper radio out both my thunderbolt and rezound get great signal and speed both at work and home twhere as the S3 get horrible speed and signal :'(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
I get a huge fluctuation is speed too although I am on 3g and have not seen 4g yet.

Two speed tests done back to back, one can be as low as 30 kbps down with 500 kbps, the other 1500kbs down with 100 kbps up.

My phone is being returned as "DOA." It's not my network as I made the 3 hour drive to the city to compare it there. As compared to phones running the same apps, in the store, side by side mine was noticeably slower and far less consistent.

My battery life is miserable as well so if you have these issues- sounds like the device is faulty.

Let me stress- I have not received a replacement of my S3 yet so I am unaware if this issue is across the board, or, isolated to particular phones.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigmook:
I have better speed and a good signal strength. coming g from the bionic so ...yeah
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
Same here, my three Rezound's have a much better radio than any GSlll.

I knew this going in however, Samsung has always had cr@ppy radios (my Droid Charge was the same way) & the radios in the Rezound are some of the best out there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
Just ran a speedtest in my office... 186kbps / 21 kbps on 3g... WTF?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Exact same symptoms mine displays.

Lame.

Keep trying it and see if it fluctuates.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
Hmm I've been bouncing back and forth between no data, 1x, and 3g all day in an area I always have strong 4g. Weird.

EDIT: and full 4g just magically reappeared here. -83 dbm , 57asu
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
Just ran another speed test... 48kbps, 115kbps. Signal Strength: -80dBm, 8asu

I wonder if I should return it, again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Tough call. They'll want to give you a refurb. I am going to try one more s3. If I experience the same issues I'll make the jump to a different device. (Dinc4g, maybe)

Sent from my locked S3. F*** Verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drbveb88:
My Verizon signal has been pretty decent. I have better signal strength on my rezound but my speed tests weren't much different. Here is a recent one on my GS3. My dbm were -91 when this was done.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drbveb88:
Here is newer one... Alot better!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tbuff80:
I dont know if this will be any help to you. But when I complained to Verizon re my signal issues, the response was because i am on unlimited data and verizon is limiting users on unlimited data to which towers they can access. Basically forcing an upgrade to a package data plan. Their excuses was to "not bog down the network for other users..." If you preordered to keep your unlimited data that could be the culprit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
That better be a joke. :mad:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AlexDeGruven:
It's been stated thousands of times on here. Don't take anything a rep tells you as fact.

Unlimited users can access the same towers as everyone else. The throttling you're referring to is for top 1% users who are using 3G (EVDO) on an already-congested tower. They have many more less-shady ways to get you away from your unlimited, this is most definitely not one of them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddy Revell:
When it comes to signal strength and reception, here's what I observed from my Verizon phones from best to worst.

1. Thunderbolt

2. GS3

3. Droid Charge

4. Galaxy Nexus
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
ROTFL, what a load of BS..........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rexxman:
Came from a TB. Although S3, in some instances, shows fewer bars and less signal (dbm), the connection is very solid and blows away the TB in upload/download speed.

Loving this beautiful beast!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Desterly:
I've had the same thing the last couple days where I'm at. Last week or two i've had strong 4g no matter where i go... Monday i looked down and had 1x... 30min later it went to 3g.... then a little later went back to 4g.

I'm guessing they are still tweaking the network in areas
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Interesting- when I asked about that very thing the rep told me it wasn't legal to throttle a 4g phone- even if it's on a 3g network.

Verizon is just as fragmented as Android itself.

Mass confusion apparently = hefty profits

Much like my return date issue. I finally decided to return my device. I went to the store to do it and they were going to ship me out a phone. Long story short, they didn't but what I found out from the Rep I had on the phone was my 14 days expired 4 days before all the other reps told me because all the other Reps got it wrong. 14 days starts from the date the device was shipped, and not when the device was activated. I had 5 different Reps before tell me it was activation date.

I'm convinced they manipulate their "policies" at their will. All under the guise of the "Reps aren't responsible for giving you false information" bull**** clause in the contract.

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3g is pretty spotty in my area. When I move out of a 3g area it takes the phone sometimes 15 minutes to get it back. It's quicker to pull the battery and do it that way but what a pain. Seems like you're having the same problem.

If I recall correctly, VZW is the only provider in my area- I don't seem to ever get a 1x and I certainly don't get 4g so all things being equal, I'd say your device may be experiencing the same issues mine is.

I love when my phone goes full bars of 3g, then immediately drops to one or two. I have no idea what the db ratings are when they do that as it happens so quickly but damn- they need to fix this, like, now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Im on unlimited and my 4g absolutely flies! Only in remote areas does it ever switch to 3g...signal is good and so is call quality! Outside my house I see -65db signal, inside is around -105db and still pulls 15-25mb down on speakeasy...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] littleneutrino:
coming from the Droid 3 i have noticed i have MUCH less signal in all areas i normally travel with the GS3 however, this is based on bar counts not on DBs
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
going off of bar counts is meaningless!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gm2racer:
The 4S isn't even LTE?!?! You're comparing apples to chickens.

I don't get 4G (LTE) signal either at home (at least inside) or at work and the 3G on my VZW SGS3 is generally gets better reception than my Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmg5461:
My 4g like to turn off every now and again until I restart the phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Sounds to me like this issues is far more widespread than VZW would have had me believe when I spent 10-15 hours trying to troubleshoot the god damned thing.

"I've never heard of this before..." "It must be your network- lets get an engineer out there." "Does your house have a metal roof?" "Lets swap out your SIM card, for the 4th time." "Have you called Samsung?"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nightwind Hawk:
I have no issues with data but I find call quality to be awful on this phone. SO bad that I'm worried about keeping it past my 14 day return period.......

but I love the phone otherwise... :crying:

Anybody else have the same problem as me??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
call quality is awsome on mine...however I normally turn the incall volume down a couple notches as it makes the speaker "rattle"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Does the person you're speaking with sometimes sound like you're on the cusp of losing signal? It's hard to explain- a stuttering, oscillating, fading sound eventhough you're not moving around or on the verge of losing reception?

If so, yes, I have this issue. As I'm stuck on 3g, and my data connection seems hammered as well I think the two issues are correlated. You mention no problem with data- by chance is that on 4g?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
Do you happen to have an "updated" device? On my original gs3, the incall volume seemed pretty low at max volume. However, on my updated device the incall volume is much louder and I also experience the speaker "rattle" at max volume. I was thinking it was a hardware issue, but maybe not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquila76:
Yes. Both my Thunderbolt and my wife's Charge are about 10mbps faster using speedtest.net. Hopefully it's just a firmware issue and can be fixed by updates. Call quality is fine, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slick_shoes:
My data speeds on the GS3 are twice as fast compared to my tbolt.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
nope I preordered mine on 6/10/12 and received it 7/12/12.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] backcourse:
It looks like there's now 2 threads going on this, any way to merge them?

I've been on with 3 different tech support people, and have an ongoing ticket open in the Wichita area. According to the techs, there's been no other complaints in the ICT area. My research mostly anecdotal is in the other tread. I've been obsessing(sort of) over this for over a week now, trying different things, now that I have a micro-sim -> regular sim adapter I am going to do some more testing and comparison between my tbolt and the SGS3 RE: signal strength as displayed.

Here's the other thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29166050#post29166050

Make sure you're all calling and getting tickets opened on this problem. Until there's numerous tickets open and not resolved there's not going to be anyone at VZW giving a crap.

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MY data speeds are just as fast, however that's not the problem. The problem is that the phone wont keep a lock on 4G. Any time I'm in a remotely sketchy signal area it starts trying to dump me into 3G. While I understand it's probably a "feautre" it's hardly working out as such in the real world. My thunderbolt gets about the same signal strength(as displayed in the unit), not sure how reliable that REALLY is, but it hardly EVER makes the jump to 3G. It just makes the "weak" 4G signal work. And if I use an app to force my S3 into LTE ONLY mode, even with 0 bars showing, and -120 dbm, essentially no signal, I STILL get ~10 Mbps. So that tells me that the device or the tower is dumping it from 4 to 3G in search of a "better" signal. Which seems odd considering most places the 3 and 4G routers/switches/whatever are on the same bloody tower. Our devices are not handling the weak signal properly or the 4G "side" of the tower is handing us off to the 3G "side" prematurely. I'm not sure where this decision is made, tower side or device side, or a mix, but it's messed up. I'm thinking it has to be device side, otherwise my thunderbolt would do the same thing in the same places as it is getting just about exactly the same signal strength in the same places. At least as much as you can measure something with a friggin cell phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] joerph:
Same problem here.My first phone worked awesome as did the wife. My first phone cracked on the side and under the battery. These were preordered phones. I went into store and got a brand new replacement and data will dnot stay connected on 4g. The data signal stays around -110 to -120. My thunderbolt was always around -76. I have tried all the settings with phone info app. FInally just setting it to cdma auto till I get back from vacation. My phone seems hotter at the bottom too when compared to the first one. My hand gets warm while surfing the net.

I think you are correct with your discovery. I put the phone info app on the wife phone but hers will hand off and doesn't matter on the strength it prefers 4g.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] switch81:
I'm in the Los Angeles, CA area, and I've noticed my 4G speeds have taken a HUGE hit throughout the month.

I'm looking back to my speedtest results, from the same place (at work):

7/11/12 8:24AM: 18.55 Mbps down, 11.49 Mbps up

7/12:12 9:35AM: 13.77 Mbps down, 7.28 Mbps up

7/16/12: 10:38AM: 15.61 Mbps down, 3.39 Mbps up

7/26/12: 9:19AM: 3.59 Mbps down, 4.10 Mbps up

7/27:12: 8:04AM: 2.21 Mbps down, 2.11 Mbps up

Is the network just overloaded? Maybe a ton of people in the LA area are switching over to 4G LTE phones recently?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duxup:
I don't have any past 4G phones to compare it to. Once in a while 4G drops in my area but it comes back fairly fast and doesn't seem to be related to location / reception.

I know I'm having way fewer problems than a friend with a Nexus whose 4G drops in and out insanely often. So much so he just sets it to 3G and has gone through 5 new phones with Verizon and been unable to fix it (except for 1 replacement that worked... but then the ear speaker died).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] foxalot:
Bandwidth is fine, but my reception/ability to hold 4G rather than dropping down to 3G in fringe areas is downright atrocious compared to my old Thunderbolt.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
I have received a second device. This one worse than the last. 60% of my speed tests end in a "network communications failure." 22 minutes for my new device to download the Google Maps update from the play store. I haven't gotten a speed over 300 kbps on 3g and my lowest has been 5kbps.

Opened another ticket with Verizon and Samsung considering the new IMEI#. Network engineers will be looking into it, supposedly.

I'm up to 22 hours on the phone with Verizon tech support and 6 hours with Samsung, still unresolved.

****ing lame.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elite49:
Just got this phone coming from a Droid X2. 3G only phone and noticed this phone gets utterly ****ty speeds compared to it. On 3G I get 0.97 MB down and up I get 0.57. My X2 I used to get 2 - 3 MB's down and 1 MB up. 4G is fine on this phone, but luckily my house is literally a block away from the cutoff.

Contacted a Verizon rep and they said its normal for phones to have that...

Bull crap, on my last two phone they had about the same for speed. Is their something wrong with this phone or are Samsung Radios that bad?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Interesting... I came from a droid x2 as well.

Sent from my locked Verizon s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] backcourse:
You know now that you mention it, I was in the store a month ago or so when my tbolt radio **** out, and the chick working the counter said her droid razr had been cycing between the 4g and 3G and that it was "normal" so she kept hers on 3G only. SO maybe it is normal and some devices just got some of us exceptional data connections that aren't the norm? I really don't know, I just know my tbolt shows the same dbm of strength give or take a few dbm, but it never drops 4G. And my friend's rezound is solid too. So I guess it could be that samsung just makes sucky radios...but this REALLY seems like a programming issue rather than a hardware issue. Maybe the devs can work on it or something.

All I can REALLY recommend is to pester the **** out of tech support. Until tech support starts *****ing about our complaints we will go unheard by the folks that can actually fix this.

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Looks like I was right about the antenna location....

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/06/12/samsung-looking-to-avoid-galaxy-s3-antennagate/

I wish these companies would step back for a minute and just produce quality devices that work exceptionally well. This whole "gotta be the fastest, thinnest, lightest, firstests, and if it happens to work for the customer once bought, great, if not, they will have to wait 2 years to buy something else or pay 600 for a different device!" mentality really sucks.

ETA: Found a thread that was mentioned on the other thread about a user on android central having the same problem that looks to be getting a bit more response from VZW. They claim to be working on it...dunno if that's good or bad really. Seems like every update they fix one problem and create 5 more, but at least they're aware of it lol.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...1-galaxy-s3-signal-issue-verizon-support.html
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] leggy:
There certainly is a flactuating quality from device to device. The first phone I got could not send and receive phone calls or text messages although 3g and 4g were working fine.

Replaced it and the new phone looks to be working fine but it still can not beat my droid x signal, I have bad signal at work, with droid x I could make calls and even get slow internet but wth the S3 I can not do that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Fadingintofall:
getting much faster speeds than on my thunderbolt, and side by side with my friends razr, I'm regularly beating him on 3G and 4G. I will gladly accept that I got lucky and have an exceptional device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Should sends yours back to Samsung with a "THIS" tag on it along with mine labeled "NOT THIS!"

I can't believe the swing in quality from device to device...

Sent from my locked Verizon s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dohturdima:
It is Samsung's radios and, yes - they are generally worse than Droid line Motos.

Wife had Droid2Global, and now with S3 there are reception and/or call quality issues in the basement where there were none with D2G (and D2G also pulled 3G data faster and more consistently).

I have a Samsung Epic (SG1) with Sprint, but when I would force roam on it to VZW it would still have worse reception than D2G - but pretty much on par with VZW G3. And I thought that GIII would have a better radio than the Epic. Of course, YMMV, but that has been my experience.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Fadingintofall:
We will do no such thing! I'm not giving my phone up for that long. But I support your cause
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Hahaha... hardly supportive then...

Sent from my locked Verizon s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
It is definitely hardware, SamSung phones have always had crappy radios (they are known for It). The radio in my Wifes Droid Charge sucks too.

I have three Rezounds and the HTC radios blow away the Samsung radios. I love my G3, but if you're going to own any Samsung phone you have to be willing to accept that the radio will not equal an HTC or Motorola prodcut.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Wished someone had made that clear to me when I ordered the thing...

Wished Samsung would pull their heads from their asses and just assume, maybe that a good radio would be a useful feature of a cell phone...? Maybe?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neyenlives:
It's good enough to enjoy it man. I've been using Samsung devices for years.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] backcourse:
I'd beg to differ. My old tbolt lacked in some areas, but I never worried about connection issues. How can you enjoy getting financially raped by vzw and samsung? They know we're having problems, and their answer is to lie, obfuscate, pretend nothing is happening, factory reset our phones, waste countless sim cards...instead of putting the damn antenna where it needs to be, and making the phone just flat work. That's like buying a brand new car, KNOWING it's got a bad engine. I NEED that engine to work, furthermore I PAID for that engine to work and am STILL paying for a service I can't make use of in the place I spend 90% of my time.

They give you no out, I mean 14 days? WTF is that? Most of us, by the time we figured out what was REALLY going on only had maybe a day or 2 to decide if it's worth taking the chance on keeping. And what can we do? We're locked in for another 2 years, with a phone that samsung evidently knows comes equipped with a crap radio. If you can't make a cell phone radio that works, bow out of the friggin market. Don't make promises you can't keep. Many of the "features" of the phone need healthy signal to function remotely right. Yet they just keep on rollin out sub-par crap. And why is it so hard, nigh, impossible for them to fix their crap? OR at least put in the product description, "only buy if you want spotty 4g service that you're paying $40 a month for.". A good company should have no fear of truth.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ercDROID:
My thunderbolt got much faster speeds and much better reception in pittsburgh compared to my verizon s3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquila76:
This is pretty much how I feel. I almost blame Apple because Samsung had to rush this out before Apple's ITC ban kicked in. Whatever the case, it seems like it is not a finished product and between Verizon not mentioning the locked bootloader and the poor radio in this phone I'm very close to just returning this or trading for a Galaxy Nexus.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Nevermind, I'm a moron.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
A galaxy nexus won't solve anything, if anything the radio is even worse in the nexus.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] egore93:
I agree my Thunderbolt was also better then the S3!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chefdave12118:
Not true in my case.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
I had a nexus, it was the biggest pile of **** I've ever owned.

The G3 definitely has a better radio than the nexus (although that's not saying much)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Exact same thing happened to me except I'm in Honolulu. Was getting over 20Mbps earlier in the month then at 7/30 all of a sudden it dropped to 2-4 mpbs. In fact, I did a speed test mid-day and got around 12mpbs then later that night and ever since, nothing about 4mpbs. Called Verizon and opened a ticket. No change to baseband, ROM, or anything.

I seriously hope this is only temporary, my speeds were great and I was very pleased with the phone but now they're unacceptable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edwards311:
I have had no problems with speed when I have a signal. Coming from a DX, I do notice a definite difference in signal compared to my SGS3. Motorola has always been known for good radios, Sammy not so much. I only have 3G at my house, so I am comparing signal based on that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ExodusC:
I didn't come from a 4G phone, but I can say my Galaxy S3 does a very good job holding onto a 4G signal in my area.

My friend's Droid Charge drops off the 4G network constantly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Abhisshek:
Yap connection suddently getting off

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yap me too having the same problem , my connection suddenly getting off . only option i had is to reboot the phone , than same times it works some times it need multiple reboot to work !!!! . i am using AOKP Resurrection Remix JB v 3.0.1 with SiyiahKernel 3.5.2 ( no mod no theme) on My Samsung Galaxy S!! I9100
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lsxrx7:
the GS3 is got better reception than the RAZR
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
I haven't heard this yet. Care to elaborate?

Sent using my locked down S3.