Signal strength seems low

Compared to my Note 2 the Note5 seems worse at picking up the Mobile Signal. I have 3G in some places that were 4G, and dropouts in places that were 1x.

This is a Verizon Note5, and so was my Note 2.

Any thoughts? Anything I can do to increase strength?

Thanks.

Speaker question not as it seems

Okay so I am not exactly a noob by any means, however I have the OPO and I have a portable BT speaker. jam XT to be exact...I want to know if it is possible to to use both the phone and speaker as a 2 way communicator. A better example of what I'm meaning is picture yourself going to MacDonald's drive thru you order food at the over mic, they hear you and you hear them. In like mannar is this possible with a phone and bt speaker? The speaker has a built in mic and I'd like to use it for the reasons of family matters and the like. Please and thsnkyou.


Was sitting outside and thought of this so I had to ask as I can't find anything related to it. Spent hours trying to find it...

Flashing seems OK, but i got original recovery

Hello guys
Sorry about my bad english.
I aready flashed twrp, philz,CM recovery but I still got the original recovery instead.
The CMD windows says OK.
My phone is stuck in the aqua splash logo, looping the splash.


"C:\Users\Guilherme\Downloads\New folder>fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.5.0-titan.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (9694 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.329s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.195s]
finished. total time: 0.527s"

Completely stock Xperia z crashed and now seems bricked

The phone is my mums, never rooted never unlocked just 100% stock. She was playing candy crush or something when it crashed. It never came back on no matter how much it was charged. Not detected by pc either, sent to a repair shop and they couldn't get anything to work. Can't send to Sony because the backs been opened now so I really don't know what to do

This happened before once too and that time a long charge (about 10 hours perhaps) fixed it
This time, when connected to charger the red LED appears for almost exactly half a minute then dies out and doesn't come back