Note 3 Signal Strength problems

KosanRio · Nov 23, 2013

So apperently the signal strength on our devices is not up to par. Ive heard a large amount of people having bad signal quality compared to their previous devices as well as previous Galaxy devices. Personally I've owned an SM-900A (AT&T) and an SM-900T (T-Mobile) Note 3 and they've all had pretty garbage signal strength (10+ DBm worse than any of my other devices on LTE, 3G, and 2G.) For example my budget Pantech Burst gets about 10DBm better than my Note 3 on any network type which is pitiful since its a 2 year old budget android device...
Its not even close to the signal strength i got on my AT&T Note II. I constantly drop from LTE to a just as weak 3G signal and sometimes ****ing EDGE! (2G)
It doesnt do this on my other devices
All of this has been on AT&T.

So what the hell is causing this guys?
Is it the power enveloping **** they implemented?
Are the antennas ****?
Its seriously bothering me.

MILJANN · Nov 23, 2013

KosanRio said:
So apperently the signal strength on our devices is not up to par. Ive heard a large amount of people having bad signal quality compared to their previous devices as well as previous Galaxy devices. Personally I've owned an SM-900A (AT&T) and an SM-900T (T-Mobile) Note 3 and they've all had pretty garbage signal strength (10+ DBm worse than any of my other devices on LTE, 3G, and 2G.) For example my budget Pantech Burst gets about 10DBm better than my Note 3 on any network type which is pitiful since its a 2 year old budget android device...
Its not even close to the signal strength i got on my AT&T Note II. I constantly drop from LTE to a just as weak 3G signal and sometimes ****ing EDGE! (2G)
It doesnt do this on my other devices
All of this has been on AT&T.

So what the hell is causing this guys?
Is it the power enveloping **** they implemented?
Are the antennas ****?
Its seriously bothering me.

I have Samsung galaxy note 3 with snapdragon 800. No problem with GSM signal strength... And wifi signal strength is much,much better than on,for example, iPhone five. i have both of these devices.so I can see the difference.

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Mrlovkim · Nov 24, 2013

Also having reception problems with calls. The bars drop to zero then back to all bars when sitting in the same place. Have read of others as well having this problem. Vodafone is my carrier here in Holland.

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MILJANN · Nov 24, 2013

Mrlovkim said:
Also having reception problems with calls. The bars drop to zero then back to all bars when sitting in the same place. Have read of others as well having this problem. Vodafone is my carrier here in Holland.

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Interesting. I'm also in Europe. I also have a random signal bar dropping, but that does not influence in quality of calls.

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DAGr8 · Nov 24, 2013

Dito same problems I was going to repair center but it seems I ain't the only one. .

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Mrlovkim · Nov 24, 2013

Because of this happening I get missed calls messages or calls go right to voice mail. Very annoying.

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klau1 · Nov 24, 2013

MILJANN said:
I have Samsung galaxy note 3 with snapdragon 800. No problem with GSM signal strength... And wifi signal strength is much,much better than on,for example, iPhone five. i have both of these devices.so I can see the difference.

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Which ROM are you currently using? Lots of people are having WiFi issues even with the auto network switch off.

Solarenemy68 · Nov 24, 2013

I just got a Note 3 last week from ATT and I have no issues with signal strength. In fact it has better signal strength everywhere than the Nokia Lumia 920 that it replaced. Where I work at few phones can get reception due the the metal frame of the building and the numerous RF and electronic sources we have in the building. But my Note 3 has no issue in any part of that building. Again I am in the US and on one of ATT's flagship regions so that may be the difference.

MILJANN · Nov 24, 2013

klau1 said:
Which ROM are you currently using? Lots of people are having WiFi issues even with the auto network switch off.

but it was the same wifi strength anyway in every version of rom. I'm using galaxy note 3 with snap dragon 800. And people was complaining about wifi in other topics ...yes...but not about wifi strength ....it was upload and download speeds. Later they solve the issue .it was program glitch

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radicalisto · Nov 24, 2013

My signal bar has never been over 3 bars ever. I found it odd.... but put it down to my carrier (3 UK) - so seems like a wide issue with signal strength then?

MILJANN · Nov 24, 2013

radicalisto said:
My signal bar has never been over 3 bars ever. I found it odd.... but put it down to my carrier (3 UK) - so seems like a wide issue with signal strength then?

my signal is variable... But i never lost a call or being unavailable. so that signal bar, for me is kind of fake

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radicalisto · Nov 24, 2013

MILJANN said:
my signal is variable... But i never lost a call or being unavailable. so that signal bar, for me is kind of fake

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I've never lost a call, but I lose data a lot. And then it takes about 10mins for it to come back, but as I said I put it down to 3 UK being silly. Hoping their LTE network will be better. I'm assuming it will be as they're piggy backing on EE UK's network.

MohJee · Nov 24, 2013

Did you update to MJ7? Because that brought me significant signal boost. I'm getting full bars inside my bathroom whereas before It went dead whenever I entered it.

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radicalisto · Nov 24, 2013

MohJee said:
Did you update to MJ7? Because that brought me significant signal boost. I'm getting full bars inside my bathroom whereas before It went dead whenever I entered it.

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Yeah I'm using MJ7. Didn't make any difference to the signal

Andrewtst · Nov 24, 2013

No issue so far.

My call signal and data signal is pretty strong. MJ7 here.

Ce · Nov 24, 2013

Mrlovkim said:
Also having reception problems with calls. The bars drop to zero then back to all bars when sitting in the same place. Have read of others as well having this problem. Vodafone is my carrier here in Holland.

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+1

GSM reception is pretty lousy, a few signal drops a day. While my HTC ONE had a signal strength from -90 dBm most of the time (in my house, same provider) the Note 3 is almost never better than -100 dBm with a daily average about -105 dBm.
Signal bars go up and down all the time...most of the time no bars at all (but with reception)

The Note 3 is my first smartphone in years that has Wifi reception problems. I have 10 wireless devices connected to my router and the Note 3 is the only one with reception problems (dropping signal and switching to 3G...when available)

I'm on MJ7

MILJANN · Nov 24, 2013

Ce said:
+1

GSM reception is pretty lousy, a few signal drops a day. While my HTC ONE had a signal strength from -90 dBm most of the time (in my house, same provider) the Note 3 is almost never better than -100 dBm with a daily average about -105 dBm.
Signal bars go up and down all the time...most of the time no bars at all (but with reception)

The Note 3 is my first smartphone in years that has Wifi reception problems. I have 10 wireless devices connected to my router and the Note 3 is the only one with reception problems (dropping signal and switching to 3G...when available)

I'm on MJ7

It's strange. I'm using wifi all the time in my house and I have no problems of that kind. Since we have iPhone 4s,iPhone 5 and iPad 4 I can tell that's wifi strength of note 3 is much, much better. so I'm very satisfied. On the same spot I've got a new usable signals that I don't have on iphone 5 iPhone 4s and iPad 4. It was a very pleasant surprise for me and that is not the only case with Apple products. I've done some comparing with Motorola and lg .note 3 got usable signals that Motorola and LG don't have. So far so good....

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Mrlovkim · Nov 24, 2013

My problem is not with wife or data it's strength of for phone calls. I have read quite a few having problems with their Samsung unit. Went from a S3 to the Note 3 and the S3 did not have this problem and it was the same carrier.

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MILJANN · Nov 24, 2013

Mrlovkim said:
My problem is not with wife or data it's strength of for phone calls. I have read quite a few having problems with their Samsung unit. Went from a S3 to the Note 3 and the S3 did not have this problem and it was the same carrier.

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Its very good that you don't have any problem with your wife ??????

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Mrlovkim · Nov 25, 2013

Stupid auto correct...urgh

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