Poor radio signal

[glocker]

Just got the Nexus yesterday, and my 3G signal is -100dbm to -120dbm.  My Iphone 4 was -85dbm to -93dbm in the same area.  Have not had a problem with calls, but I will lose data signal.  Have tried to set it to CDMA only, does not make a difference.  Is anyone else having signal issues with the Nexus?

[B33]

Well a 15% restocking fee these days i' ll say is going to be hard to get out of unless you can get the Rep to Wave it. When i got my X an my Incredible there was a restocking Sticker on the box.  But like i said if this phone is going to be prone to Issues then i'd get something Els. Unless you want to be in for the long haul of waiting for Updates an issue related problems to Subside. An with this Device being So New it's hard to Tell how long it'll be before Samsung can get the issues straighten out of it. If they can at all an they're not to Quick on getting updates out as well. But that can always Change. B33   

[BobbyDigi]

Good sentiments B33. I just believed, way too much in this phone, I guess, which is not to say Im gonna take it back. I may be willing to wait and deal with updates and a multitude of batteries. But that is only because I have been dying for a replacemnt to my Incredible for a while now. Funny though...my incredible has a better signal than this and seems more stable (not quicker though) and was rooted to boot (better battery too, by double)! Funny. I suppose I wish it wouldve been an HTC Nexus but I always kinda liked Sammy. Good HDD and great/yet expensive LCDs. I hope all the horror stories of samsung being bad about updates are overblown. Specifically because I thought the fixes would come by Google, and they would be rolled out with greater regularity since the Nexus corwd pays more to be in bed with the developers. Still up in the air but atleast its not an iphone 3.04G/s? or whatever.

[jsprake1]

Guys updates are coming from google not Samsung. This phone (Thank god ) doesn't have touch wiz. This phone has been better than the bionic and the razr (droid) I had before it.

[21stNow]

jsprake is right about the updates being from Google, not Samsung.  Samsung may be weird about update schedules, but Samsung didn't slow down progress on the Nexus S.  Google pays attention to updates and if they don't go well, they will pause them, as they have with the ICS update rolling out to Nexus S devices now.

[B33]

Hoom!  Well since Google is as you say steering the ship alittle more than Samsung is. Things will probably get done Quicker... Updates an such.  Make me wonder if things will go alittle faster for Moto since Google has alittle more to do with them!    B33 

[Tidbits]

Read This - There is nothing actually wrong when you COMPARE other devices.

Devices will show 4G, but the bars shows 3G reception.

The Galaxy Nexus shows 4G and 4G bars. When it's on 3G it shows 3G bars.

Due to this discrepancy it seems like Nexus has a problem, but it actually doesn't.  The OTHER device have the problem...

So Verizon FIX will be to have it show just like all the other devices because that's what everybody is used to...

[Teryl]

I have seen the issue with the signal bars being absent and the dbm also being at 100+ but the Nexus has held 3g so much better than my Droid X, Droid 2 or Droid Incredible 2 that I'm not going to complain. I work in what is best described as a cement bunker and I have never had consistent 3g.  With the nexus I get no bars but, I still have a solid 3g connection and I have not once dropped to 1x like the other phones did constantly.

[vidguy7]

There are tons and tons of these reports across the internet. This is a serious issue and hopetully it's not a typical crap Samsung radio, but rather software. This was the major reason I dumped the Samsung Charge, a lousy radio that never got fixed.

[AntInPhilly]

Reference this page and see it's not actually the phone itself, it's the network.  There are many of sites now proving it to be the network.

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/20/galaxy-nexus-lte-signal-is-more-accurate-than-others-there-may-...

I did side by side signal comparisons between my Galaxy Nexus and my Thunderbolt (w/newest update), phones are about dead even in signal strength.  Problem I am having is when my nexus leaves my wifi network and tries to connect in 3g or 4g only voice and text messaging works.  Signal bar will stay gray and I have to reboot the phone for it to connect to data to work again.  Now many sites are saying that's also an issue with multiple Verizon LTE enabled phones. 

Lets give it time and hopefully they will work out the kinks.   

[#11]

I am a Sprint user who is thinking about switching to Verizon due to the crappy 3g service I'm getting with my Galaxy S2 so I stopped by here to see if there were similar problems with Samsung phones. Apparently there are.  What I saw on the sprint network is that HTC phones in low signal strength areas were far superior to my galaxy S2. My colleague and I did side by side tests, both on sprint, in low signal areas and his HTC Evo was able to browse the web without issue while my Samsung Galaxy S2 could not even open one of the web pages he was browsing. This has been reported by hundreds of Galaxy S2 users on Sprint forums conducting similar tests.

In medium to good signal areas, Samsung's phones work fine. It is when you get to low signal areas where their phones start to struggle. Samsung is clearly using inferior radios/antannae in their phones. 

[#12]

@AntinPhilly:

Over at the sprint forums, we were all hoping the same thing. We waited for the update and when it finally came, fixed the loss of service issue that was crippling thousands of phones, but didn't improve the 3g performance problems . Many of the GS2 users also reported GPS problems where the GPS radio struggled to lock on to the satellites and wi-fi problems. Basically, anything radio related, the Galaxy S2 was struggling. The speed of the phone is amazing though and its unfortunate that the radios aren't up to the task.

[nectar4bc]

I went into Verizon yesterday about the signal issue.  Apparently they have a widespread issue beyond just the Galaxy Nexus.  This is ridiculous.

[glocker]

I returned my phone, was losing service a few times a day, two different 4G phone.  Old 3G phone no problems.  This buy a phone and then wait for a update or two so 4G and 3G work as advertised is getting out of control.  The radio in the phone should work properly when released.  If it is the LTE network, stop advertising it until it works with the LTE phones that Verizon is pushing.  I refuse to pay Verizon to test there devices and 4G services.  Good luck to everyone with a 4G phone.