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DROID INCREDIBLE 2 : BAD Reception !

There's been complaints on the Incredible 2 of its Reception with the Towers but what some people may be overlooking or just don't realize is it has 2 radio receivers 1# A CDMA receiver to read the Towers in the states an 2# A GSM radio receiver to read towers in other Countries.

An i think whats happening is the Gsm radios are Turned when they leave the store or when a customer orders the incredible thru the web site an if this is the case it would impact reception an Battery life.

And i think what need to happen here in this case is Verizon needs to pute a small note in box to remined the customer that buys online or the Rep. in the store needs to check the setting an make sure it's on the CDMA setting. before usng the incredible.

So any contributors that are carring the incredible 2 check your cdma / gsm settings to make sure gsm is off. an cdma is on

An a footnote to Pass on: For new Droid 3 Owners

An i'll provived a linc for one's to read it's also mentioned in a droid life artical for Droid 3 owners to turn off there GSM radios in them as well

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/07/20/tip-turn-off-global-roaming-on-your-droid3-and-save-battery/

Comments

cactusjumper

My Incredible 2 is set to CDMA and I still have lousy reception.

B33

Got to ask a favor how far are you from the nearist Tower an are getting the 3G indicator strong all the time an whats the signal strengh on your Dinc.2 like my Dinc. has a dBm of -83

so8sk

Clearly the poster hasn't read the other posts on this topic. My GSM is OFF, my phone is set to CDMA only, and my reception still SUCKS! My signal strength in my home ranges from a -105 to a -125. It's ridiculous. My reception/signal strength in the very same home w/ my MOTO Droid was excellent (low -80s).

Nice try. But your post is clearly not the solution to the issue that a ton of Dinc2 owners have.

gnwest12

As I posted in similar threads, I'm convinced the signal/reception problem people are experiencing with the DINC2, myself included, is a result of poor antenna design. If it's a hardware/design issue, a software update won't help, not even doing a *228, factory reset or battery pulls a thousand times.

This issue has been reported on many, many other cell phone forums.

21stNow

DincX110, are you saying that you have no signal problems? I don't mean this as a dumb question but I was just wondering if anyone had a DInc 2 that didn't have reception problems. In reading through the various threads, it seems like all DInc 2 phones have this problem. Usually, a forum regular at least jumps in and says "hey, my phone works great!".

pappy53

Okay, here goes: "hey, my phone works great!'. My wife and I have had them about two weeks with no problems. Just lucky, I guess.Maybe it was a bad batch of phones.

cactusjumper

I am four miles from the tower and if I stand in my front yard I can see the tower.

My signal has never been better than -97 and most times runs -101 to -105, if it is even getting a signal. Flashes no signal at least every hour, and sometimes stays on no signal for 10 to 15 minutes.

The type of network indicator goes from 3G to 1X. I haven't timed how long it will stay on 1X.

JonDoh

I live a mile from a VZ tower and my phone stays between -86 and -92 db and often goes over -104. Even at -86 the call quality is poor. A lot of dropped calls too.

There are five towers, including Verizon's, within a mile from me and every carrier's phone shows a full signal and has excellent call quality. When I called Verizon to report the high number of dropped calls I was eventually put on the line with a tech who told me the tower was bad, but they had no plans to do anything about it. It seems that in the short time I've been with Big Red I've heard every excuse in the book as to why they have poor reception and call quality but the bad tower one takes the cake. That's right up there with "the dog ate my homework."

DionM_VZW

cactusjumper wrote:
I am four miles from the tower and if I stand in my front yard I can see the tower.

My signal has never been better than -97 and most times runs -101 to -105, if it is even getting a signal. Flashes no signal at least every hour, and sometimes stays on no signal for 10 to 15 minutes.

The type of network indicator goes from 3G to 1X. I haven't timed how long it will stay on 1X.

Hi cactusjumper! I'm curious about how you came to get such accurate signal readings. Are they from an application? If so, what is the name?

As for the rest of the community, thank you so much for sharing your experiences. I want you all to know that I have reviewed this with our technicians and we have taken your feedback for review. We hope to have this matter resolved soon!

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