iPhone Intermittent signal/no service after ultrasn0w 1.2.5 and iPhone 4 @ 5.0.1

Are you using your phone on official carrier with ultrasnow installed just to fix the signal bars?
Or are you unlocked on unofficial carrier?

My wife's 4 is on 5.0.1 with the 1.59.00 baseband. She's on H2O but I had to install ultrasn0w to fix the signal bars also. I installed the update the day after it was released and she hasn't had any problems.

I could be wrong but you may be having issues due to the huge amount of traffic Cydia is probably getting right now. With the untether just being released, people are downloading off Cydia like crazy. I know I was having some issues installing something on a customers phone earlier. Cydia was loading really slow and I was getting some errors basically telling me a package didn't install fully. I would try to download it again later in the night or just hold off a few days for traffic to die down.

I'd just leave it off then.
It's just for looks anyway.

soulvoid said:

Ehhhh I know but it would be nice for it to correctly show me my signal strength. Especially when I might actually need to know if I have signal. Haha

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I hear you.
I used to have the same prob and I would get the correct signal after installing ultrasnow but would lose mms and visual voicemail.
It's a pain.

To avoid losing mms and vvm, the "fix" is to automatically reinstall ultrasn0w after a reboot. This can be done with a little scripting, an example of which can be found here:
http://jailbreakqa.com/questions/32589/no-mms-or-vvm-after-ultrasn0w-update

Keep in mind, should you need to update ultrasn0w to a later version, you will also need to place the new .deb file in the Autoinstall folder.

It's a bit of a kludge, but until a proper fix it seems to work well most of the time.

Looks like I'm having this same issue. I can't figure out if there's a pattern to it but my phone will also just go to "No Signal" and the only way I can bring it back is to toggle Airplane mode on and off until the signal comes back. I'm guessing that ultrasn0w is the culprit but good luck getting the dev team to fix it. I hate that I even have to install ultrasn0w since I really don't even need it right now but I can't stand only seeing one bar of signal strength when I know damn well that I'm getting a strong signal.

I said screw it. VVM and mms (mainly vvm) are more important than having a visual representation of signal bars. When I do install ultrasnow to use my phone in another country, it's not like vvm or mms will really be needed anyway.

psywzrd said:

Looks like I'm having this same issue. I can't figure out if there's a pattern to it but my phone will also just go to "No Signal" and the only way I can bring it back is to toggle Airplane mode on and off until the signal comes back. I'm guessing that ultrasn0w is the culprit but good luck getting the dev team to fix it. I hate that I even have to install ultrasn0w since I really don't even need it right now but I can't stand only seeing one bar of signal strength when I know damn well that I'm getting a strong signal.

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psywzrd said:

Looks like I'm having this same issue. I can't figure out if there's a pattern to it but my phone will also just go to "No Signal" and the only way I can bring it back is to toggle Airplane mode on and off until the signal comes back. I'm guessing that ultrasn0w is the culprit but good luck getting the dev team to fix it. I hate that I even have to install ultrasn0w since I really don't even need it right now but I can't stand only seeing one bar of signal strength when I know damn well that I'm getting a strong signal.

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That does sometimes happen in low signal area's. Airplane mode on/off or respring should solve it.

Its the only nag, pit i prefer this over the 1 bar or no phone at all

Dang it... I am thinking about just updating my baseband [1.59.00 BB is the reason for all this right?]. I am on AT&T but I plan to sell my iPhone to my friends afterwards since they're on T-Mobile.. Might just sell it to another AT&T user or something. I am personally anal about these type of things. Everything must be perfect. This is a bad trait of mine .

Yup. Same issue here. iP4 5.0.1 1.59.00. I usually have to reboot my phone to get the bars back. It seems to happen when i lose reception and it wont pick it up again til a reboot. Sux.

This is becoming a huge problem for me. My phone froze up and was displaying "No Service". I rebooted and it came up with "Searching". Uninstalled and reinstalled ultrasn0w, toggled airplane mode on and off, resprang multiple times, etc. and still no signal. Ultrasn0w is a real problem. I'm considering upgrading my bb or just removing ultrasn0w altogether since I don't even need it - it's completely unstable.

As I like having the signal strength visual indicator on my iPhone, I depended on ultrasn0w. But unfortunately, I too was seeing constant "no signal" problems with ultrasn0w 1.2.5 when running my iPhone 5.0.1 with 1.59.00 baseband. So after numerous custom builds of my iOS with the 1.59.00 baseband rolled in, I did the unthinkable, and did a standard upgrade to the latest baseband... so no more unlocking for me on this phone (which I never needed -- just kept it for resale value).

Sucks.

headcase said:

As I like having the signal strength visual indicator on my iPhone, I depended on ultrasn0w. But unfortunately, I too was seeing constant "no signal" problems with ultrasn0w 1.2.5 when running my iPhone 5.0.1 with 1.59.00 baseband. So after numerous custom builds of my iOS with the 1.59.00 baseband rolled in, I did the unthinkable, and did a standard upgrade to the latest baseband... so no more unlocking for me on this phone (which I never needed -- just kept it for resale value).

Sucks.

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Same exact boat I'm in! I preserve my bb for resale value only but I'm beginning to wonder if it's even worth the aggravation, especially when you need ultrasn0w to "fix" your signal strength (it seems to break more than it fixes).

Was your phone freezing up at all when you had the 1.59.00 bb and did you use pwnage tool?

psywzrd said:

Same exact boat I'm in! I preserve my bb for resale value only but I'm beginning to wonder if it's even worth the aggravation, especially when you need ultrasn0w to "fix" your signal strength (it seems to break more than it fixes).

Was your phone freezing up at all when you had the 1.59.00 bb and did you use pwnage tool?

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Yeah, I found my iPhone was getting slightly buggy with 5.0.1 and 1.59.00, so between that and the "no signal" issue, I decided to update with a standard build.

Is this a known problem that the devs cannot fix? I am debating either to:

A) Downgrade to back to 4.2.1
B) Update baseband.

I am leaning towards A more since I really do not use the notification center much for my phone.

nfrs2000 said:

Yup. Same issue here. iP4 5.0.1 1.59.00. I usually have to reboot my phone to get the bars back. It seems to happen when i lose reception and it wont pick it up again til a reboot. Sux.

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Also, when you are taking about reboot, do you mean holding down power and shutting the phone off correct? Not respring.

so how how did it work out for you guys?

Im on 5.0 thetered and was planning tu upgrade to 5.0.1 unthetered but i do depend on my unlock since i use a mexican carrier. I do have the 0.1.59 baseband and was almost ready to create a custom ipsw with reds0w until i saw this thread...

So for now should i wait until ultrasnow is more stable, please let me know how this goes for you guys if the signal issue gets fixed or not.

americaroma said:

so how how did it work out for you guys?

Im on 5.0 thetered and was planning tu upgrade to 5.0.1 unthetered but i do depend on my unlock since i use a mexican carrier. I do have the 0.1.59 baseband and was almost ready to create a custom ipsw with reds0w until i saw this thread...

So for now should i wait until ultrasnow is more stable, please let me know how this goes for you guys if the signal issue gets fixed or not.

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Did what work, ultrasn0w? I do not have that installed on my iPhone simply because I am on AT&T. I keep the low baseband just for resale value.

vong said:

Did what work, ultrasn0w? I do not have that installed on my iPhone simply because I am on AT&T. I keep the low baseband just for resale value.

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Well aparently ultrasn0w is what is causing the problem (based on what im reading) The latest version was supposed to work for 5.0.1 but this is exactly the problem that its not working or its giving some users problems with signal, thats why i havent tried it yet, im tethered rigtnow but wont go to unthetred 5.0.1 until the signal issue gets fixed.

americaroma said:

Well aparently ultrasn0w is what is causing the problem (based on what im reading) The latest version was supposed to work for 5.0.1 but this is exactly the problem that its not working or its giving some users problems with signal, thats why i havent tried it yet, im tethered rigtnow but wont go to unthetred 5.0.1 until the signal issue gets fixed.

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Well the problem is that iOS 5.0.1 gives signal problems for users with BB 1.59.00 [I think it is 1.59.00 BB only]. In order to fix this problem, you COULD install ultrasn0w but installing ultrasn0w would cause another problem. The user not being able to receive/sent MMS/VMM. this problem can be fixed simply by turning on/off airplane mode multiple times or reinserting your sim card. Although you would have to do this every time you reboot.

vong said:

Well the problem is that iOS 5.0.1 gives signal problems for users with BB 1.59.00 [I think it is 1.59.00 BB only]. In order to fix this problem, you COULD install ultrasn0w but installing ultrasn0w would cause another problem. The user not being able to receive/sent MMS/VMM. this problem can be fixed simply by turning on/off airplane mode multiple times or reinserting your sim card. Although you would have to do this every time you reboot.

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Yea thats the thing, im on 1.59.00 BB and 5.0 thetered jailbreak but wanted to go to 5.0.1 because its unthetered but if that baseband is gonna give me issues with signal then i wont even risk it for now... So im probably staying on 5.0 until i see theres a solution for the signal problem on ultrsn0w for users with 1.59.00 bb.

you anal ocd people really do irritate me

you would rather have a phone that loses signal all together over having one that shows a single bar but mantains a consistent signal ?

like others i have the single antenna bar and just don't worry about it