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Re:The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I hav... by jamesbkel on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @09:55AM (#2327427)
Surely it's just a result of the bars being smoothed/some sort of running average of strength.
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Re:The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I hav... by maxklein on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @09:56AM (#2327433)
But if I move my iPhone around in the room, it seems to change pretty quickly.
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Re:The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I hav... by lukeschlather on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:00PM (#2328052)
To save power, the phone shouldn't be constantly trying to acquire a signal when it can't find one. It should try for 10-20 seconds, give up, then go to sleep, only waking every 30 seconds or so to try again, briefly.
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Re:The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I hav... by xpaulbettsx on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @10:05PM (#2330372)
Don't you guys remember Antennagate, where the following iOS update smoothed how fast the bars change? I bet if you did the same thing with a phone running iOS 2.0 it'd move instantly.
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