Okay so I've always known my D2G was a little off with its signal strength especially how it represents it, and I know that all cell phones represent the number of bars based on signal strength differently. However as far as I understand it is still a cut and dry system within each phone, so for example -75 dBm should always be a certain number of bars on a phone correct? Yet my D2G does not seem to think this. I have only been carefully monitoring it today. However Right not is has been bouncing around -62 dMb at 0asu to -69 dBm at 0 asu. It increased from -69 to -62 and stayed at 2 bars the whole time for a while, now it is at -64 and is showing 1 bar. How can -64 be 1 bar is -62 was for a good 30 seconds holding 2 bars? Isn't -62 stronger? Also this morning it moved around -65 to -69 and 1-4 bars at random where the numbers seemed to have almost no correlation to the number of bars. Is this at all weird or am I just crazy? This really has me missing the T-mobile G1 which had much more normal signal strengths and made much better sense of them.
I have considered installing the Fission rom, but before I do that does anyone thing an SBF would be worthwhile to have a fresh install? Some people have claimed that seems to help with their phones, I was wondering if it might help with mine too.
Also as a side note, my phone's 3G speeds seem to drastically increase when the phone shows 4 bars of signal, download goes from maybe 600-900kbps up to 1.3-2.0mbps, regardless of what my phone says the signal strength is. However upload is always the same, so at 1-3 bars upload is always faster than download or close to it which seems weird to me.
One last example, my phone just in like 5 seconds went from -64 to -65 to -65 to -66 to -68 and the bars for those were 1 then 2 then 3 then 1 then 1. It makes no sense if the signal is getting weaker consistently for the bars to increase with each decrease then suddenly decrease.
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I've noticed that I get a significant variation in signal bars (from 0 to 4, but usually between 0 and 2) in my house as an example, and everywhere else. Is this normal? it used to only vary by 1 bar at the most if at all on my stock rom and kernel. I've even dropped a call and gotten sketchy reception at times.
I'm running Oxygen 2.2.2 with the netarchy 1.3.7 CFS kernel and the KE5 radio update.
I've already tried wiping cache and reflashing the radio and it didn't change anything.
Thanks in advance.
mine bounces around all the time. i have 4 bars constant at my house, when i start using facebook or twitter the bars will drop to nothing then 1 and all over the place
I have the same setup as you and have the same problems. My signal is incredibly jumpy, and completely dies when something attempts to use it.
Recently I found the CM7 option to change my signal meter to be displayed in DB rather than bars. I have found it very interesting as it gives me a much more accurate reading of my signal strength or lack there of.
When sitting at my desk my reading is -95 DBm ( terrible data coverage )
At the gym I get -63 DBm ( excellent data coverage, with streaming netflix over 3g / 4g )
I am thinking about trying some different radios to see if that makes a difference.
What kind of readings is everyone else getting?
I work in a downtown Dallas office building and am running radio 12.39a.60.19u_26.06.06.30_M on AOSPX ICS rom. My signal strength is at -89 dBm 12 asu, yet I have a difficult time getting a consistent transfer rate from my phone while at my desk. The data package also switches between "3G" and "H" occasionally. My battery life is okay, but Speedtest.net is reporting a download speed of anywhere between 512 and 781 kbps and upload speed of 739 and 1038 kbps. It's very inconsistent and sporadic.
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I work in a downtown Dallas office building and am running radio 12.39a.60.19u_26.06.06.30_M on AOSPX ICS rom. My signal strength is at -89 dBm 12 asu, yet I have a difficult time getting a consistent transfer rate from my phone while at my desk. The data package also switches between "3G" and "H" occasionally. My battery life is okay, but Speedtest.net is reporting a download speed of anywhere between 512 and 781 kbps and upload speed of 739 and 1038 kbps. It's very inconsistent and sporadic.
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Bad signal, interference, los to tower issues, a lot of people on same tower during peak usage. Pick your poison.
How does it perform outside the building? If it performs properly then it's just any or all of the mentioned causes. If it's still bad, then we can work on that. I personally get no signal for the 9hrs im inside my building at work, walk outside, 3g with full bars lol.
There are little tweaks you can do, keep phone in upright position (creates antenna alignment'ish to the tower), you can remove the case as well, (each layer the signal has to go through reduces it's strength)
I figured as much
And it does seem to work fine outside of the bldg. The only problem is that most of my coworkers' devices work fine in the bldg. They are on different networks. I'm on AT&T.
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And it does seem to work fine outside of the bldg. The only problem is that most of my coworkers' devices work fine in the bldg. They are on different networks. I'm on AT&T.
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You are comparing apples and oranges. My company has a repeater installed in it for verizon, so all the verizon people get perfect signal. Something similar may be at your place. either way, i dont see a problem that can be fixed on your end, other than switching networks :/
I have this "problem" as in the title. The signal dBm reading is inaccurate and certain app needs more accurate readings. When there are four bars, the dBm is -89dBm, and three it's -93dBm and one -101dBm and zero -111dBm.
The signal strength reading is dependent from bars.
My app needs more accurate readings between the bars, for example -90dBm and so on. How to improve it?
Hope you understood, it's a very little but annoying issue.
I got the Droid MAXX yesterday and the phone is amazing except that I notice the signal strength varies wildly depending on how its held and other factors. In one location half a block from the tower I'd have -57db 1x strength and 5 bars and if moved 5 feet it would show -79 db 1x and 3 bars. The same thing happened in the middle of an open parking lot. I'm wondering if I got a bad phone or if Verizon phones always fluctuate 10-20 db when moved. I've dropped no calls or had any data dropouts but such fluctuations concern me. By the way at -57 db speed test results were 45-55 MBps, at -79 db they were roughly 15-20 MBps.
Edit: when comparing to a Galaxy s4, the maxx does maintain better rf though it fluctuates a lot more. Perhaps the maxx refreshes signal reading faster than the GS4?
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