I recently moved from the Samsung i760 on Verizon to the iPhone on ATT. While ATT has been surprisingly good in most areas, it is pretty crappy at my apartment. What's odd is that I do get fantastic reception at times and no signal at all at others. Most of the time I get 1 or 2 bars which as you know means a dropped call within 10 minutes.
I saw that plastic case that allegedly gives you slightly better reception in some environments but I'm not getting it unless I hear good things.
In the past I have seen expensive devices that allegedly boost signals but are apparently against most carriers' TOS and considered illegal by the FCC (which I don't care).
Thanks in advance for any insight that you can provide.
Have you done the cell tower update thing, I did the same thing (VZW to iPhone) in April, I had the same experience. Appearantly the only way to update your cell towers on the iPhone is to power down and restart ... ie ... hole the power button down and slide to power down ... I did that a couple of times and my reception has improved dramatically ... I was told to do it in the worst cell reception area I had ... which happened to be home ... I'm consistantly getting 3-4 bars and even 3g where as before I was getting 1-2 and edge ... so give it a shot ... ya got nothing to loose.
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Kyo 6035, Sam I300, Sam I330, Kyo 7315, Treo 600, Sam I600, Sam I700, GL1000, HP6315, SX56, PDA2K, Jam, Xv6600 W/cam, Treo 650, I730 Wm2K3, Treo 700W, I730 w/WM 5.0, XV6700, Moto Q (Silver), Treo 700WX, xv6700 wm6, Moto Q Black, Moto Q9m, Sam I760, xv6800, xv6900, Q9C, Touch Pro, iPhone 3G 16G, iPhone 3gs 32G ... not even gonna list the non converged units
Have you done the cell tower update thing, I did the same thing (VZW to iPhone) in April, I had the same experience. Appearantly the only way to update your cell towers on the iphone is to power down and restart ... ie ... hole the power button down and slide to power down ... I did that a couple of times and my reception has improved dramatically ... I was told to do it in the worst cell reception area I had ... which happened to be home ... I'm consistantly getting 3-4 bars and even 3g where as before I was getting 1-2 and edge ... so give it a shot ... ya got nothing to loose.
Nah I did that the other day. Dropped two calls within 5 minutes since.
I am having the same problems, I have 4-bars w/3G, and I still get drops calls since the update, (3.1) I had no drops calls at all......anyone with some answers on how 2 fix that......
I am having the same problems, I have 4-bars w/3G, and I still get drops calls since the update, (3.1) I had no drops calls at all......anyone with some answers on how 2 fix that......
I had the same issues after installing 3.1. It was so bad that sometimes when trying to call out the phone would go through the motions on the screen but not ever get a ring through the speaker. I would then have to reboot the phone to be able to make calls. I finally did a restore via iTunes to 3.1 again and set it up as a new phone ... not using the backup ... kind of a pain ... the results were outstanding. I routinely have 3-4 bars now and haven't had a dropped call or an outgoing call failure since doing the restore ... might be worth a try for you.
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Kyo 6035, Sam I300, Sam I330, Kyo 7315, Treo 600, Sam I600, Sam I700, GL1000, HP6315, SX56, PDA2K, Jam, Xv6600 W/cam, Treo 650, I730 Wm2K3, Treo 700W, I730 w/WM 5.0, XV6700, Moto Q (Silver), Treo 700WX, xv6700 wm6, Moto Q Black, Moto Q9m, Sam I760, xv6800, xv6900, Q9C, Touch Pro, iPhone 3G 16G, iPhone 3gs 32G ... not even gonna list the non converged units
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