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  • #251
    Jumping on the issue with the iP4's signal issue....I heard there was an easy fix for it. Of course it shouldn't be this way in the first place, but a way that "supposedly" works is to take some scotch tape and tape it on the sides a couple times. (not completely around the phone, just the corner area where lies the antenna. (I don't know if it actually works though, but somebody on youtube mentioned it).
     
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    I don't see all this fuss about the dreaded antenna problem.... I don't have the issue and most people don't... I think the ones that do are already in a terrible coverage area and are getting a false pre-test reading.... I mean this isn't exactly a scientific test.... People are comparing fucking cartoon stripes that represent signal strength.... I'd like to see a true quantatative test, not compare the little icon tests.

    My best semi-educated guess is that with the software algorithm used to determine which frequency will work best at a given time is too sensitive to the resistance value of the antenna, meaning if the resistance changes out of a specified range, it tries to search for a less than optimal frequency than that new resistance value is tuned for. If they tweak the tables to search for a more optimal frequency than the problem will be gone. I think this also explains why some people have this problem and some don't... Different skin resistance values change how much the antenna changes and different locations mean different available frequencies and signal strengths. Design flaw? Maybe, more like overlooked design complication... Nothing that can't be overcome. Honestly it's their own fault for not testing and wanting to release the phone asap.
     
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    Stink Star Productions said:
    I don't see all this fuss about the dreaded antenna problem.... I don't have the issue and most people don't... I think the ones that do are already in a terrible coverage area and are getting a false pre-test reading.... I mean this isn't exactly a scientific test.... People are comparing fucking cartoon stripes that represent signal strength.... I'd like to see a true quantatative test, not compare the little icon tests.

    My best semi-educated guess is that with the software algorithm used to determine which frequency will work best at a given time is too sensitive to the resistance value of the antenna, meaning if the resistance changes out of a specified range, it tries to search for a less than optimal frequency than that new resistance value is tuned for. If they tweak the tables to search for a more optimal frequency than the problem will be gone. I think this also explains why some people have this problem and some don't... Different skin resistance values change how much the antenna changes and different locations mean different available frequencies and signal strengths. Design flaw? Maybe, more like overlooked design complication... Nothing that can't be overcome. Honestly it's their own fault for not testing and wanting to release the phone asap.
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    46% of iPhone 4 owners have reported this problem, 83% in the UK

    This is a serious issue as it is a design flaw, not a software problem. Apple has already confessed to this, and have been tap dancing around a permanent solution for over a week. There is a class-action suit already in the works :-\....

    I still want one, and use cases anyways, but just pointing out the #'s.
     
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  • #260
    i finally got my phone to experience this "problem" today... its one of those things where if i was never shown how to make it happen i would have never noticed.... i dont really full-palm death grip my phone while using it so to me it really is a non issue. Its a shame that people can be shown a way to make a great product not work and then think there is something wrong with it. i mean if somebody showed you that if you use a blender next to your tv antenna the reception will be fuzzy, would you say your TV is defective? no, you would be like "well i should avoid doing that" i dont care how anybody else holds their phone.... any way that i hold mine that feels natural to me does not result in this phenomenon so i could care less. everybody else can return their phones for all i care, more bandwidth for me! 1.7 million people cant be wrong, it is still a great phone, if not the best one out there.
     
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    Whoa, Apple just admitted that there's an issue with the iPhone 4's reception, but it might not be what you think:

    Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

    To fix this, we are adopting AT&T's recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone's bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.

    We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.
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    Sure, the odd way Apple calculates bars has been noted before, but what's troubling is that this is the second time Apple has blamed signal strengh / reception issues on software and it doesn't fully explain calls dropping and data degradation when the iPhone 4 is held in a very particular (but common) way. It's also worth noting that Apple in no way admits to an antenna design flaw.
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    and second...the below vid was shot w/ an iphone and this wicked lens :wackit:

    http://www.wantowle.com/

    [YOUTUBEHD]o5JQdgvzuL0[/YOUTUBEHD]
     
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