Heya,
I'm wondering how I can change my signal bar's appearance to show 5 bars of signal rather than 4. Currently when I am at full signal it shows it with only 4 bars and for some reason that really really bothers me. I'm wondering what I can do so that it shows 5 bars of signal (these are all cosmetic in appearance) rather than 4 as a maximum.
here's an example although it's only showing 3 bars at the moment.
I know with CDMA phones there's a registry change you can make, but I don't believe the GSM radios recognize it and it doesn't do anything on GSM phones, I've tried.
bars still aren't a reliable source of info on network connection you know...
it's mostly for a mental reference.. and a mild xase of OCD because i somehow feel the need to have more numerous indicators. don't ask, it doesn't make sense...
any suggestions?
Learn to cope with it or take a whiteout pen and draw it on
mputtr said:
Heya,
I'm wondering how I can change my signal bar's appearance to show 5 bars of signal rather than 4. Currently when I am at full signal it shows it with only 4 bars and for some reason that really really bothers me. I'm wondering what I can do so that it shows 5 bars of signal (these are all cosmetic in appearance) rather than 4 as a maximum.
here's an example although it's only showing 3 bars at the moment.
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Try searching for topbar icons, maybe someone has developed one.
I have seen bars, circles, squares, etc. but they have all been in 1/4 increments.
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Try searching for topbar icons, maybe someone has developed one.
I have seen bars, circles, squares, etc. but they have all been in 1/4 increments.
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you could find the image files and replace all with 100 bars
start with the 'image' packs, to find which files you need to replace
man you guys drive a nasty bargain.
I'm actually currently using Tsowen's taskbar. I noticed that he provided one that has 5 bars and another with 4. both part of the same file... so the thing is, how do i make it so the phone actually show in increments of 1/5s.
No way - 5 bars are for CDMA phones.
now i think i'llhave to go ahead and QQ in my little corner
Any else with a possible answer to my problems? I know it's a minor one, but it's something that's been bothering me since day one.
having let this thread fall to page 3, I'm hoping to shear an answer from u guys.
I've been doing forumwide search and it's ridiculously tedious so i have to find my answer in there if it is even in there.
please? I really do want to figure this out.
mputtr said:
please? I really do want to figure this out.
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I do not think it is possible at this time.
bummer. i was hoping there was a way to show 5 bars... thanks anyways.
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When i had my blackberry, i had full bars at my place, with this phone, i only get 2-3 bars. I also managed to reproduce signal strength issue while holding the bottom back of the phone with the CASE ON. The bar goes down 2-3 bars. Although calls didn't drop, data slowed down. I hope it's just poor calculation on the signal and a fix is on the way. Were you guys able to reproduce this issue or at least have less bars than your previous phone?
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My Captivate holds calls through areas that my BB Bold 9700 always dropped. Bars are not relevant, it's holding up the call that counts.
I did notice that I get fewer bars shown on this phone than my old iphone. My old iphone would show 1-2 bars in my living room. This phone shows no bars and if I leave the living room it goes to no signal icon. But I did a speedtest with no bars being shown and I got 1.2Mbps down speed and 148kbps up speed, so thats pretty decent. But you're right, I dont think the antenna in this phone is as good as in some other phones. Even sitting at my desk at work I barely get a signal, showing only one bar, where my old phone got 5.
derek4484 said:
I did notice that I get fewer bars shown on this phone than my old iphone. My old iphone would show 1-2 bars in my living room. This phone shows no bars and if I leave the living room it goes to no signal icon. But I did a speedtest with no bars being shown and I got 1.2Mbps down speed and 148kbps up speed, so thats pretty decent. But you're right, I dont think the antenna in this phone is as good as in some other phones. Even sitting at my desk at work I barely get a signal, showing only one bar, where my old phone got 5.
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Just wandering around XDA today -- thought I'd offer my 0.02c.
Remember if you compare against an iPhone that the recent adjustment to the display of the signal bars will show less bars than before. Also, AFAIK every mfr displays them differently anyway...
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Just wandering around XDA today -- thought I'd offer my 0.02c.
Remember if you compare against an iPhone that the recent adjustment to the display of the signal bars will show less bars than before. Also, AFAIK every mfr displays them differently anyway...
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Yes, especially since Apple said they "were completely wrong in calculating signal strength and the number bars to display". Seems they can make the bars whatever they feel like. I would go by the dBm before any bars.
cellgeek said:
My Captivate holds calls through areas that my BB Bold 9700 always dropped. Bars are not relevant, it's holding up the call that counts.
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This^ Unless you're dropping calls, I wouldn't worry about it.
derek4484 said:
I did notice that I get fewer bars shown on this phone than my old iphone. My old iphone would show 1-2 bars in my living room. This phone shows no bars and if I leave the living room it goes to no signal icon. But I did a speedtest with no bars being shown and I got 1.2Mbps down speed and 148kbps up speed, so thats pretty decent. But you're right, I dont think the antenna in this phone is as good as in some other phones. Even sitting at my desk at work I barely get a signal, showing only one bar, where my old phone got 5.
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The iphone had vastly inflated bars to hide its poor reception. Thats what made the iphones antenna problems appear to be even worse.
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The iphone had vastly inflated bars to hide its poor reception. Thats what made the iphones antenna problems appear to be even worse.
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QFT. Apple faked bars... Enough so to where it showed as many as 2 bars more than what it should have.
Everyone does this to some extent, and being the open platform that Android is, I'd suspect they're probably going to be the most accurate as far as bar representation.
I wish carriers would just start putting the signal level there instead.
The signal strength reporting on this phone isn't very granular. It's basically the same as the bar indicator. 5 bars is -51 dBm, 4 is -81 dBm and 3 is -97 dBm. My tests with all signal strengths so far in terms of download speeds in 3 locations in Manhattan are identical. I'm getting ~3mps down and ~300 kbps up (AT&T please fix this!).
Is anyone reporting dropped calls or data slowdowns due to signal loss?
This phone updates the single faster then anyphone I have ever owned. I *think* most phones a buffered a little but this phone, My girlfriend was driving the other day and I was watching the bars change constantly.
Since I got this phone on Saturday, I have rarely had full bars even when driving through town. But I haven't had any problems with performance so far. Still, it bothers me because I want to be sure that I don't have a lemon as other people I know have been getting full bars.
I can hold my samsung captivate between my butt cheeks and i get full bars, i just had to say it, cause now that the icrap4 has the anntennaassgape, everyone thinks there device will have it to, its not the smartphone scene's fault that apple doesn't know how to design high end smartphones...
adamandro12 said:
Since I got this phone on Saturday, I have rarely had full bars even when driving through town. But I haven't had any problems with performance so far. Still, it bothers me because I want to be sure that I don't have a lemon as other people I know have been getting full bars.
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That just means this is the only phone you've owned that displays bars correctly...
I went from 5 bars (3GS) down to 2 bars (on the Android).
Simple fact is that Android's representation of bars is closer to what it should be.
rafyvitto said:
I can hold my samsung captivate between my butt cheeks and i get full bars, i just had to say it, cause now that the icrap4 has the anntennaassgape, everyone thinks there device will have it to, its not the smartphone scene's fault that apple doesn't know how to design high end smartphones...
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Hahahaha. I couldn't agree with you more.
I'm referring to other captivate owners who have told me they get full bars.
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I'm referring to other captivate owners who have told me they get full bars.
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Only way I'd trust something like that, testing if you've got reception issues, is having them side by side.
Oh good, I thought I was the only one with this problem just got the mine and I notice the signal would change constantly thinking of returning it .
Ok so I love the inspire, big screen is awesome compares to the iphone 4. I'm just wonder if anyone here have both phone and find that the iphone 4 get better reception than the inspire? Where I live for some reason, I get a low signal with att but on the iphone 4, at least it will hold a constant signal where I can make and receive calls and text ect, with the inspire, the signal would go in and out, i would get like miss call alert and stuff when the phone doesnt even ring. Now I've try flashing a couple of different radio but they all dont really improve anything. Anyone can suggest a radio firmware that get good signal? I dont care about battery life. Btw im on leedroid rom and tried the suggested radio, no good either.
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Yeah I am having the same issue. I have an iphone 3g and 4 as well as many other htc,samsung,palm smartphones. Of them all the inspire has the weakest signal all things being equal. Kinda disappointing. I honestly think it has something to do with the crap ass cover on the bottom,aka one of the antenna's. I plan to experiment this weekend and see if something cant be done. I am on the stock radio but have tried many different roms and tons of playing in the build.prop to no avail,except exponentially increased data speeds.
maybe there are just some bunk inspires out there. I dont get too many dropped calls and my data is ok, but compared to every other phone I have its sub par.
It could be the 4g reception is not as strong I also came from iPhone 4 and I noticed the reception in some spots on the inspire is not as good but I am happy over all
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No experience with an iphone 4, but I can definitely say it's not quite as strong as the captivate I came from, but not to the point that it's worth switching back.
That's not really my problem though, the audio quality on it is pretty bad, talking on the phone itself it's not too bad, but while talking on my bluetooth headset the "gsm hiss" is extremely pronounced at all times.
I came from a craptivate, and here in Los Angeles County, USA, my signal with the Inspire 4g is way better than my craptivate... and it spends less time scanning for a signal too than the samsung!
You should compare dBm of each phone because HTC uses a different range with their bars. At -89dBm HTC will switch to 3 bars, -109dBm will be near zero bars, etc. But apple uses completely different range. So the only way to know for sure is compare dBm numbers.
Newer radios give approximately a 10 db increase over stock.
Bars mean nothing. If you are not comparing db you're doing it wrong and inaccurately.
I used the phono app on the inspire and the reading on it is always worst than the iPhone, I really think it's the antenna design on the inspire. Newer radio works better? Is it the new one that leak from the gingerbread rom? I might have to try that, if I can get 10db more and lose a bit of battery life then I'll gladly do it, I really like this phone but at the end of the day if I can't use it as a phone, it's no good to me
Radio thread.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
I am not having any speed issues at all with the Inspire.
It does seem to switch between GSM and WCDMA a little more frequently but speed is the fastest I have ever had on a mobile device without WIFI on.
I just did a quick test again because I am getting very annoyed at the poor signal of this phone. I have an aria here next to me. The aria is at -91db and the inspire in the same spot is at -103-105db, obviously the higher the worse it is. Also the aria is more stable in that it goes right to -91 and stays there while the inspire takes some time to settle, and never really settles completely like the aria. I did experiment with the antenna but could never get the signal any better than the cover despite my best efforts.
I have not given up yet. I will try a different radio as I have only used the stocker since the beginning. 10+db's is a hell of a difference in my opinion, and in real wold experience the difference is painfully obvious. I dont even want to get into how much better the signal is on my dumbphone.
Try radio 12.41.60.19_26.06.04.14_M, I was having a ton of dropped calls on the stock radio, that fixed it.
I have a weaker signal but I drop significantly fewer calls then I did when I had an iphone 4.
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Ok so I love the inspire, big screen is awesome compares to the iphone 4. I'm just wonder if anyone here have both phone and find that the iphone 4 get better reception than the inspire? Where I live for some reason, I get a low signal with att but on the iphone 4, at least it will hold a constant signal where I can make and receive calls and text ect, with the inspire, the signal would go in and out, i would get like miss call alert and stuff when the phone doesnt even ring. Now I've try flashing a couple of different radio but they all dont really improve anything. Anyone can suggest a radio firmware that get good signal? I dont care about battery life. Btw im on leedroid rom and tried the suggested radio, no good either.
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I have both and just compared them. I held them side by side and observed the signal bars and both were identical with two bars showing. I moved them apart about 10 inches...still holding them in hand.. and the signal is 1 bar each. I laid them down side by side and saw that the Inspire had 3 bars, the iPhone 4 had 2 bars. I moved them about 3 inches and now the iPhone has 3 bars and the Inspire has 1 to 2 bars. I moved them to a different spot about 1 foot away and separated them by about 5 inches and they both show 2 bars consistently.
From what I'm seeing, I would say they both have identical signal strength quality. At one point I did see 4 bars on the iPhone 4. So I moved the Inspire to where the iPhone 4 had 4 bars...exact same position and place...but it stuck with 3 bars and never showed the 4.
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I just did a quick test again because I am getting very annoyed at the poor signal of this phone. I have an aria here next to me. The aria is at -91db and the inspire in the same spot is at -103-105db, obviously the higher the worse it is. Also the aria is more stable in that it goes right to -91 and stays there while the inspire takes some time to settle, and never really settles completely like the aria. I did experiment with the antenna but could never get the signal any better than the cover despite my best efforts.
I have not given up yet. I will try a different radio as I have only used the stocker since the beginning. 10+db's is a hell of a difference in my opinion, and in real wold experience the difference is painfully obvious. I dont even want to get into how much better the signal is on my dumbphone.
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That is pretty weak. Have you laid both on a table so that your hand is away from the antenna not causing attenuation? Just as a baseline test.
That's exactly how I did it. Layed it on a my wooden dining room table in the middle of an empty room. I even moved away so as to keep my body from being a shield/conductor. Same sim card to by the way.
as for the iphone 4, they calculate their bars differently than htc does. Apple is notorious for giving more bars per db than other makers, they took some heat over it a while back, remember antenna gate.
I am gonna try to switch to the radio listed above and see what happens. I love this phone too much to give up that easy.
Yeah dBm is the best thing to look at. All I can say is keep doing more tests and see if you can find any more info. Maybe different locations. It is possible for the phone to use 2 different cell sites in same exact spot. So install the app antennas and record which towers on the map your phone is using.
My inspire gets probably between 2-3 bars in my area. Compared to my Cappy before i rooted would get 2bars at the most and i would lose a signal in alot of places.
Stop quoting how many bars you get. It is a meaningless comparison.
If you aren't comparing db you are doing it wrong.
I have been trying to figure out what the significance is of the color of the signal bars and the data icon (4G,E,G) in the status bar. Sometimes they are green and sometimes they are grey... I may have any signal strength, but sometimes the bars are green and sometimes they are grey.. I have never seen an explanation for this.
(I thought I posted this question earlier, but its not here.. I guess I forgot to hit submit!)
Thanks in advance for your help!
I belive it turns green when the phone is syncing your accounts.
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I have been trying to figure out what the significance is of the color of the signal bars and the data icon (4G,E,G) in the status bar. Sometimes they are green and sometimes they are grey... I may have any signal strength, but sometimes the bars are green and sometimes they are grey.. I have never seen an explanation for this.
(I thought I posted this question earlier, but its not here.. I guess I forgot to hit submit!)
Thanks in advance for your help!
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they turn green when it connects to Google
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I read in a post a while ago that when your data icon is green it is connected to Google's servers, and when white its not, Ive gotten green signal bars before even when I have had syncing turned off. Although I think I can say that I do notice a speed improvement with the green icon.
Best of luck! =)
Here's one example: The carrier-version S7 from Sprint (SM-G930P) has a solid ramp as its notification bar signal meter. Whereas the US unlocked S7 (SM-G930U) , when on Sprint's network, has a signal meter composed of 4 defined separate bars. This difference has to be a firmware thing, right? If I flash the 930P firmware onto my 930U, it will likely show the solid ramp signal meter instead of the separate bars, correct?
I find it hard to believe that no one here has an idea as to why the cellular network signal indicator ramp among S7 variants comes in two different styles. No one replied to my OP, so I have to assume that no one has the answer, or even a theory. As stated in my OP, I would really like to learn why certain S7 models display the solid triangle illumination, or 'wedge', to represent cellular network signal levels on the status bar, whereas other S7 models display 4 separate illuminated bars within the full ramp outline. Might the solid triangle indicate LTE plus? And does that style of signal indication only appear on the Sprint variant? I sure thought xda would be the place to ask this question. So if you have any thought's, please reply. Or, please even tell me if I've missed something and there's a way to switch the signal bars display to the solid display (or vice versa) on every S7 as a user preference sort of thing. Thanks in advance!
I'm getting ready to flash 930P firmware onto my 930U - I'll likely do it in a few days. The U's have the bars. The P's that I've tested from Sprint have the solid triangle. I'll be curious to see whether my bars have turned into a solid triangle after my flash session.
Please feel free to let me know what you think the solid triangle or the bars mean with respect to one another.
Thanks
Obviously there's little interest about this topic here. But in case at some point in the future someone with some interest happens to stumble upon this thread (via a search or whatever), I'll go ahead and report the following...
For what it's worth, I flashed 930P firmware onto my 930U phone this afternoon. The process did not go without complications, as some of you may have noticed in another thread that I started upon the outset of said difficulties. But I got things to work, and can now report that the 930P firmware running on my 930U phone indeed produces the solid illuminated triangle instead of the 4 separate bars that were present when it had 930U firmware. So whether or not this solid ramp is just Sprint aesthetics, I'm unsure. Perhaps no one will ever figure why they've done this on their S7 variant. But oh well, I guess.
My Verizon one shows solid as well. But I'm not sure if it's because I'm using Good Lock. I know that it changed a lot in my notification bar, including my Bluetooth icon. I am running stock without root as well.
it's on the software side, basically customizations these carriers have on the firmwares for their specific device models. I prefer the separate bars over the other one.
Hi!
Did anyone notice that the phone will display at least 2 signal bars at all times, even when the signal is so weak that calling and browsing is not possible?
The attached screenshot was made in an elevator: the phone displays 3 bars but the app shows the real measurement (0 bars).
Other apps might show something different.
Maybe OP thinks 125dba is good signal and they set the ui to 3 bars. While the app developers don't think it's good... My point being if I make an app, I could set it to 250dba being 0 bars :s
P. S also no, I don't share the same issue as you. if I go down to 1 or 2 bars I can still surf and make calls.
Oneplus 3T & 6 owner here - yep, did notice it as well.
These devices do not shine for signal reception, in my opinion.
Yeah. Sometimes my phone shows 2 signal bars in my basement, but no calls can actually be made.
Any other phone shows "no signal" sign in here.
Problem known since 3T I think. Custom roms on 3T shows correct amount of bars, where OOS shows 2-3 bars more.
On 6 i have OOS at the moment and I can't browse Internet when I have ~2 bars.
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Maybe OnePlus is yet another victim of antenna gate-related bad publicity, and they want to pump up the signal reading...
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Maybe OnePlus is yet another victim of antenna gate-related bad publicity, and they want to pump up the signal reading...
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I always have a signal reading app in my status bar. This allows me to accurately measure signal performance.
They have some build.prop added in to *enable signal cheating*, maybe remove that line and see if it changes anything.
Ascertion said:
I always have a signal reading app in my status bar. This allows me to accurately measure signal performance.
They have some build.prop added in to *enable signal cheating*, maybe remove that line and see if it changes anything.
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LOL, is that the build.prop from stock OP6?
How did they get that far?
I am not rooted, and don't want to get root, so no dice for me, right?