[Q] Radio quirkiness amongst different nexii (Verizon)

[k.electron]

My nexus is a hw version 9. it had some hand off issues from wifi to data with the 4.0.2 radios. the 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 work so well i almost thought they could do no wrong. until i got my wife's nexus which is hw version 10. this one works fine with 4.0.2 doing handoffs just fine, but with 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 i get this weird signal drop every once in a while where the network goes away, the bars become a solid dark grey triangle for 2-3 seconds, then connectivity comes back and data shortly thereafter. anyone else seen this?

UPDATE:
i noticed the problem happened even with the 4.0.2 radio. also the longer the phone went without a boot cycle the more frequent the problem became. asked for a replacement and got a CLNR which is hw9 that doesnt seem to have a problem.
see post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23621403&postcount=15

 

[cordell12]

where are you determining what hw version you have?

 

[k.electron]

the bootloader for one. also the about phone says it in the radios/baseband.
the version 9 reads 1515.09
and the 10 reads 1515.10

 

[cordell12]

Got it. I have version 9 as well. I live outside of a 4G area so I pop in and out of 4G coverage quite often. Personally the 404 radios are working the best for me right now, switching between 3G/4G is pretty seamless. Though I cant honestly say I have had the device in my hand, screen on, and using DATA while it went from one service to another.

 

[k.electron]

yeah thats how my hw9 behaves.

im parked solidly in the middle of a 4g zone and the hw10 just loses all connectivity albeit for just a couple of seconds on the 4.0.4.
4.0.2 works fine.

 

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I'm on HW 10 and the 4.0.2 radios work great.No issues here and no problems with dropped data.

 

[charlescom]

I am HW 10, 4.02 Stock.
And my GNex has been dropping data+voice every 5 mins when I try to use 4G. As long as LTE is off, 3G+voice is fine.

I also have tried 4.04, and same problem...and came back to stock 4.02 and waiting for OTA I guess..or that's what VZW tells me to do...

 

[adrynalyne]

I had just mentioned this in another thread, but I haven't had the loss of call audio bug since my rev 10 device.

At the same time, my wife has a rev 09 device, and never had it. We are both on 404 radios, and I only drop data when in fringe areas. I never, ever, drop voice.

charlescom, dropping LTE does not affect voice.

 

[spencer88]

I had just mentioned this in another thread, but I haven't had the loss of call audio bug since my rev 10 device.

At the same time, my wife has a rev 09 device, and never had it. We are both on 404 radios, and I only drop data when in fringe areas.

Consider yourself very lucky. I'm about to get rid of this phone because of it.

 

[charlescom]

I had just mentioned this in another thread, but I haven't had the loss of call audio bug since my rev 10 device.

At the same time, my wife has a rev 09 device, and never had it. We are both on 404 radios, and I only drop data when in fringe areas. I never, ever, drop voice.

charlescom, dropping LTE does not affect voice.

Adrynalyne, that is what I thought until I bought gnex.
Check out this google issue if you are so lucky to have picked a good gnex out of lemons.
This is one of major flaws that affected so many gnex users. Officially titled gray triangle of death....

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24345

If you scroll all the way down, you will see all the screen shots I uploaded on exactly what a user faces as the voice and lte drops...

Thank you..

 

[adrynalyne]

Yeah, I have never seen that before.

Weird.

Edit: Allow me to rephrase. I did have that once. It was a bad sim.

 

[tbeas]

I have this issue. Stock 4.0.2. Have only had the phone for like a week and it is pissing me off

 

[Sleuth255]

That does look potentially SIM related. The VZ phones do have a micro sized SIM card.

With posters reporting the same issue on multiple replacement phones, I wonder... was the same SIM card transferred to the next new phone?

 

[charlescom]

At least at my location SIM replacement was the first thing on the list way before vzw even start thinking about giving out a replacement. And yes, I have been given so many SIM replacements you dont even know....and as far as bad batch goes.....why are there so many bad batches to begin with.....hahahahahaha...it is almost a joke. I am not even getting frustrated any more...i just laugh....lol

 

[k.electron]

it was definitely not sim related. its my wifes gnex and i swapped sims with her. her phone gave me the same problem with my sim and her sim worked fine in my phone.

doing some more research, here is the findings.

my phone - hw9 - works flawlessly
her phone - hw10 - has problem

got a CLNR from verizon which is hw9 which seems to work flawlessly again.

interesting thing is the difference between the stickers on the insides of the bad and replacement phone:

the good one (CLNR hw9) is the left and the bad one (new hw10) is the right.

there is a long thread on rootz about this very issue and the conclusion is that if u have this particular problem, its hardware, go get a replacement.