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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] imtoomuch:
The reception on my SIII is pretty good. I do have trouble in some parts of my commute where the road is covered by trees, but it's pretty good everywhere else. The reception is MUCH better than my Droid Incredible's.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ilogik:
How the hell do you make calls through WiFi? As soon as I walk into my house I get NO signal, it drops from 4 bars to 0... Its a brick building but my work iphone 4s has no issues, it gets 3 bars outside and 3 bars inside...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tyggy:
I just upgraded from Captivate on AT&T to SG3 on Verizon..and my signal now is excellent..I roam around the try-county are of Metro Detroit and have no issues anywhere..At my office on the Cappy I had no signal or barely a bar, where with the SG3 I get excellent signal...running stock rom, not rooted, fully updated...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mdt73:
I have been spending way too long looking at the current crop of phones available on Verizon... even though they offered me a different phone in exchange, I have no idea what is a decent alternative. I might just wait a week or so and move to the Note 2. The S3 has such potential, but I hate feeling like a beta tester.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aypeeootrek:
I got better reception with my Droid x in a lot of areas
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nohbdyshero:
I haven't had any issues throughout the DFW metroplex and down to Houston
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antawnm26:
Im with you on that.. I just posted a thread of Verizon offering to switch devices now or later tried to give me the razzr maxx i said no have replacement coming tomorrow...My rezound kicked this phones ass in reception/data stability
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] backcourse:
I'd bet a decent pile of money the note will be no better. From what I've gathered in the numerous threads on this is that samsung produces ****ty radios. They've pretty much turned me off altogether. If you can release an update that fixes all your ****ty bloat but not fix the damn reception problems a lot of us are having your priorities are messed up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boe:
While I love the S3 in almost every way - the only reason I'm thinking about upgrading to the DNA is the crappy radio on the S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
Lol just using your logical fallacies
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
This is to the people complaining about samsung phones. Don't buy Samsung phones.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
What? Why? Don't we as consumers have the right to ***** if something isn't working right? Don't we have the right to request updates that fix the phones issues?

For ****s sake man..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] asaetern:
I was worried about buying the sg3 from reading all the posts about the reception issues, but decided to buy it for me and my wife. I figured if the radio signal was that bad that I'd return it for something else.

But fortunately for me both me and my wife's sg3 has great signal and great wifi signal as well. I tested the phone at all the usual spots we normally go to and receive great lte speeds and voice quality is way clearer than Sprint's garbage network. I'm glad we don't have any issues because I'm in love with this phone and didn't really wanted anything else.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] benattar:
I'm running CleanRom 5.0 with the BLK1 radio and rpm. My receptions is consistently full bars. I live in the Bay area.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
Verizon gives you two weeks to return the phone. If you're in an area with poor reception I would advise you to get a Motorola. You should get a phine for its usefulness to you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] broprah:
I live right on the edge of a dead zone. My HTC incredible used to get a bar or two constantly. With the S3 on TW roms I can make voice calls reasonably fine but on AOSP roms my reception is spotty at best. I get cut outs and dropped calls if I'm not in the right part of my house.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andybfmv96:
Actually I get pretty good signal with my s3 on Verizon. Signal is -97db usually
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tonu42:
Man this is an old thread. So highly scientifically proven. The galaxy S3 is too small - confirmed. Source: me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
I could be wrong but I didn't think -97 was very good. Are you talking 3g or 4g?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
This is mine, where I'm at current in the hills in my guard shack 4g doesn't reach but 3g is ok, when I'm home my 4g is excellent.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TCM55:
I can tell you that the signal on my GS3 is stronger and more consistent in the areas that I frequent than my Rezound or Thunderbolt.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
Confirmed that you're stupid.

My signal is (and always has been) just fine.

Did you ever own a bionic, by chance? That phone had a garbage signal/connection.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
You mean the updates/radios that we already have available to us? Have you tried to flash ANY of these?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blaine07:
I will personally say the reception/signal on this phone is FAR superior than that of my Gnex. At least in my experience.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] patt2k:
I am suprised that you people say quality , reception sucks I live in New York and often people live in basements , I don't however when I visit people sometimes depending on location people with AT&T have no service I get like 1-2 1X bars and the call quality is as good as I would have full 4G , anyone else having same experience ? just my 02 cents I am satisfied my only problem is I get bored with phones too quickly -_-
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
The title says confirmed, can't change confirmed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
He did it while in a phone call, didn't wanna wait to point that your stupid lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
Your post makes zero sense. Try again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] landshark68:
Your screenshot with the different radios has the phone icon in the notification bar. So it appeared you were on a phone call when you took the screenshot, and couldn't wait until you were off the phone to point out all the different radio options to the OP.

Sent from the Shark Tank using XDA premium
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
Correct! Lol. I multitask when I tapatalk ;)

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I get it now! Awesome and true :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ben7337:
Not sure where people are getting ideas of this phone having terrible signal reception. I can't speak to 3x and 1x reception, but 4g signal strength is what my phone reports and what I watch and view as most important. I have owned a

Samsung Stratosphere

HTC Thunderbolt

Galaxy Nexus

Droid RAZR

Pantech Marauder

Galaxy S3

Now I can say some of the thunderbolts had issues with upload. The stratosphere had amazing reception. It could not report the signal strength of 4g due to only running Gingerbread, but it did manage to find weak 4g signal that was barely usable where no other phone could.

Overall I can't count the stratosphere for signal as it could not report the signal strength, and the thunderbolt I only had for a week in a different location. The Galaxy Nexus, Droid RAZR, Marauder, and Galaxy S3 however, I all had in the same location, my house, where 3g signal is not super strong, but not insanely weak, it runs about -88 to -93dbm on 3g, 4g runs -102dbm to -108dbm. Now I saw these same signal strength figures on all of these phones. The razr, nexus, galaxy s3, and marauder all report the same signal strength. I have also compared at my verizon store where signal is only marginally stronger around -95 to -102dbm on 4g, and the marauder, galaxy s3, galaxy nexus, rezound, razr, razr hd, etc, all report the same signal strength. How they show it in signal bars will vary, but the actual signal strength is the same. Similarly, all of the phones with the new qualcomm chipset get the same download and upload with this weak signal. However I will admit upload is a bit of a problem for this chipset with weak signal on all of these phones. Download however is always just fine. On the older phones like the galaxy nexus and razr, I found much lower download speeds, and similar upload issues. In a location where I get 8-16mbps on my galaxy s3 with up to 20mbps peak, I see 4 to 12mbps on my galaxy nexus.

All I can say is that, as a consumer I have done my best to compare as many phone models as possible, both in real world conditions and in stores so as to compare them all, and they all report the same thing. Signal strength from one second to another and how you hold the phone can vary a lot, especially in weak signal, and that along with slow updating (once every 10-20 seconds) for a phone to report the signal strength it is seeing, is why people see differences. If your Motorola phone shows -95dbm and your galaxy s3 shows -102dbm, try holding both in the same position with just your middle finger and thumb on the sides and wait 30 seconds, watch the signal strength and see how it varies. Try putting both of them down a few feet apart and letting them update over another 30 seconds. Odds are they will appear to display the same general signal strength on average given adequate time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sm973:
Well the gs3 has terrible reception i see it varys from device to device some people get bad reception some people get good I've went through 4 gs3s all the same thing my rezounds and incredible 4G get around 75 - 80 dbm. My gs3 105 to 113dbm in my house at work its about the same difference everywhere in the city of las vegas
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
You condradict yourself.

You say "the s3 has terrible reception" than in the same breath you say "it *varies from device to device". So because your signal sucks in Vegas, mine does in Cedar Rapids? C'mon, man.

Seriously though, I'm not trusting a guy who's had 4 of the same phone ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
He's making a hasty generalization.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Chocu1a:
My S3 gets better 4G reception than my old G.Nexus, but inside my work, I get worse call reception on the GS3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bond32:
Should really change the title of this thread from "confirmed" to "speculation".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Polymira:
Meh, I could make calls in my house and in my back yard on the iPhone 4S. I can't on my GS3.

My GS3 does consistently have worse signal then any Apple or Motorola phone I've had. I'm still keeping it mind you, but it's a major annoyance that will greatly affect my next buying decision.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bond32:
That doesn't make any sense. Technology advances crazy fast every month. Look at how many people said they get signal on their S3 where they didn't get signal on their galaxy nexus
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boe:
I've had the following phones

Motorloa startac - OK reception (a lot less towers back then)

Nokia dumphone - terrible reception

LG (dumbphone) - Good reception

HTC 6600 - Good reception - terrible Bluetooth

HTC 6700 - Good reception - terrible Bluetooth

HTC 6800 - Good reception - WORST Bluetooth

HTC 6900 - Good reception - OK Bluetooth

HTC EVO - Good reception - pretty good Bluetooth

HTC EVO 3D - terrible reception - pretty good Bluetooth

ET4G - Great voice reception - terrible data reception - good bluetooth

RAZR DROID MAXX - GREAT reception - good Bluetooth (uninspiring pda)

Samsung Galaxy Nexus - WORST reception - OK Bluetooth

Samsung Galaxy S3 - bad reception - OK bluetooth
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] k0admunk33:
My GS3 has the weakest reception of any smartphone I've owned. I've never owned a GNexus, though. I have a weak signal at my house, but my OG Moto Droid, Thunderbolt, my wife's Bionic, and my daughter's Razr Maxx can all hold onto calls without dropping. My GS3 can make and receive calls at my house, but it frequently drops calls there. The other phones I mentioned can usually hold onto a 3g signal at my house, occasionally dropping to 1X. My GS3 constantly switches between 3g, 1X, and no signal. I don't have problems at other places I frequent as the signal strength in my area is generally pretty good.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kristlynngirl:
Same problems as the majority here. I live in the Pittsburgh metro area and work within the city limits, and usually at best I have 2 bars of 4G but terrible speeds. Sitting in my living room by window, I just got ping 209ms, down 1.68mbps and up 0.59mbps....which has been around the normal range for me. Luckily I can use wifi at home....and I haven't had any dropped calls. But trying to do anything that uses data when I'm at work or out and about? Works but very very slowly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
That's odd I live in Washington,45 mins from the burg at home my 4g is great..in the burg my boys sg3 has great 4g also.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kristlynngirl:
Makes me wonder if there is something wrong with my phone.

Has been the same both stock and CM10, and have tried about 3 different modems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
What build your running now, if it's hardware then yes better off getting a different one if you can.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kristlynngirl:
I'm using the latest CM10 with the VRBLJ1 modem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sm973:
You can say I contradict myself but all in all there is no consistency with these devices yes my galaxys3 in Las Vegas sucks when I had my HTC devices i had no problems whatsoever. My incredible that's outdated shouldn't have better reception than my brand new gs3 so people can say what they want I'm giving my opinion and yes my brother has a gs3 with no problems I've went through a couple and have problems
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
Did you try the hd or other radios?I tried the he but went back to hd.did you try the clean Rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kristlynngirl:
I tried the K1 radio as well. And have tried MIUI and Paranoid Android and CM10 as far as roms go.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ECrispy:
I am on K1 radio and rpm and it has made no real difference. I was hoping it would after reading good things.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
Maybe they it just your phone only way to kinda tell us if somebody with an s3 it's on the same place where your at see your signal compare to there's, but then again so many variables...you may be running different software, really hard to tell...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boe:
An easy way to tell is to test with other phones in the same are your phone drops signal as I have done. The Droid Razr and iphone work great on Verizon's network. The Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Nexus can't maintain a signal. The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars but lies in our phones, that we are end users.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
But you can't compare the signal with the razr or the iPhone as we know them two get better signal.why I say has to be compared to another s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boe:
So you are saying that is a known fact that the Verizon S3 gets crappy reception but some S3's may be even worse than others for radio strength?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
Yes it's well known Samsung phones are great phones but they lack in the radio department.Motorola radios are the best but their phones are way too buggy.I've Owned both....but no matter I love my s3....Samsung phone with a moto radio that'll be awesome haha.
[General Questions and Answers] recyclebin75:
Hi, this is my first post in this forum, really nice to join at the forum as a newbie :D

I have problems about my device which is Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus P6200. In installing either the CWM9 or the CWM10

I did upgrade my OS device from Gingerbread to ICS and it success.Unfortunately I rooted my device before I found this forum with :

SuperOneClickv2.3.1-ShortFuse.And it did successful :crying: And as I realize that rooting my device with SuperOneClickv2.3.1-ShortFuse not include with the CWM.Actually i founded the CWM.zip in my external SD. An after I check the file is CWM5 which is a little bit old. Perhaps the SuperOneClickv2.3.1-ShortFuse comes with that CWM5 version.But still I can't extract it through recovery mode. It say "can't mount the sd card, I did recheck and found out that I already checklist the USB debugging. :(

I figure out that i must install it separately after rooting with SuperOneClickv2.3.1-ShortFuse. I also read the thread about installing the CWM 9 or 10. One of the thread in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1576553 it is a nice thread, but I still need detail steps in installing either CWM9 or CWM10 on my device.

This is my device specification :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f3eir4a0u726uq2/export_04.png

Can anybody kindly help me to get through with this newbie problems. I appreciate your help.Thank you so very much..
[General Questions and Answers] recyclebin75:
I brick my device already. I mean it's really brick, because I can't even touch the device because the overheat was very terrible.it's overheat when I reboot the device after installing the zip wcm files. And there was a little smoke comes out from the speaker at the bottom part. What a day :eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
As soon as I put the battery in my phone, it till vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and keep doing this non stop with a black screen. i haven't even been able to get into download mode, as soon as i put my battery in it just start booting immediately.

what can i do? no idea where this came from ;(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] don728871:
Let it sit for an hour on the charge and don't touch it and them come back tell me what happen bye
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
Samsung logo came up, then for 2 seconds the AOKP boot animation came up, and now it just keeps doing what it was doing in the first place. black screen, vibrate every few seconds.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] don728871:
Can u go to cwm recovery

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Take out the battery and than put it back in hold volume up and down and see if u can go to the cwm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Calz-:
I had this happen to me too. I thought it was a software problem as well but its the power button. What I did was Odin back to stock and unrooted it. Went to T-Mobile since problem was still happening and they ordered me a new s2 and yeah :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
cant man :( i hold down the vol up down and power button, its like im not even holding them down, it just keeps vibrating, pause, vibrate, pause, vibrate, pause.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
i cant even get into download mode tho, the second i put the battery in my phone it just starts trying to boot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Calz-:
Try to beat it, its frustrating. You have to be quick. I was doing that fast. Once you go into cwm recovery use the bottom buttons of our phone to navigate thru it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
i made in to the warning screen, but then it restarts and does the vibrate, pause, vibrate pause, with a black sceen :(

fuuuark even in download mode, i press the vol up key to get into into it fast as hell, but it goes black and restarts and does the vibrate pause vibrate pause..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Calz-:
Dam I would try to push and hold down the power button while doing all that. You know to counter it. Idk I'm just guessing now. Sorry I couldn't help much.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
its fine man, i think im royally ****ed. not sure what to do at this point. luckily i like literally backed up my apps/texts the night before this stuff happened.

i REALLY hope the boot screen animation doesn't pop up when i bring it into t-Mobile, im afraid they wouldn't replace my phone in that case.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spagman72:
Get a jig stick it in the phone, then insert the battery... Should get you in download mode.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
where do i get a jig from?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] richardlibeau:
try this it will boot your phone into recovery automatically as long as your computer recognizes your phone. just open up the application bat file on computer within 2-3 secs it boots you straight to recovery. good luck.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Dude it sounds like your power button could be stuck the way your making it sound
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bombaybadboy:
Look on eBay you can get them for pocket change there
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
i think this must be it... cus i managed to get it to boot, and everything loaded fine. but as soon as it got past the boot animation, the toggle that has power off, screenshot, etc (the thing that pops up when you hold the power button on) comes up immediatly.

how can i fix this bs?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] richardlibeau:
Either you have a defective button or you need to clean it because it might be getting stuck for some apparent reason .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
ok so i for sure have a stuck power button... im gonna go to t-Mobile tomorrow to try to get this sorted out.

thing is, im on the latest AOKP nightly, are they gonna **** me over on my insurance policy (the like 3-4 bucks you pay a month to tmobile) cus I rooted my phone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] richardlibeau:
Mostly likely yes if the tmobile knows its not stock. They could say it was your fault by saying you put a defective rom on your phone that's not factory. They try to get out of s**t all the time. But you could get lucky. But if I were you I would restore it to factory before I took it to the store. Just to be on the safe side.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] giri_189:
Hi all,

I have submitted the request for Case mate in Facebook to make cases for Sony Ericsson Live with walkman as well. So I request all LWW users to vote for my suggestion so that Case mate might think seriously about Live with walkman users.

Here is the link: http://uservoice.com/a/cP2qN
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Souldat:
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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick Fury:
You might be better off asking/requesting this in Apps and Themes as its more that section mate