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iPhone 5 or earlier iPhone 4S Wifi Deathgrip
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You won't get free bumpers from this. On the 4S, the WiFi antenna is internal, roughly an inch below the camera. I can get my 3Gs to do this and my 4S. My iPod Touch 1G and 2G do this when covering the plastic hole on the back. Nothing new.
Tried it on mine. No change in signal at all. He was probably far enough away from his base station that it was close to a two bar zone. Then covering that portion of the antenna slightly attenuated the signal enough to drop it down a little closer than normal.
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Wow one bar lol
Wow one bar lol
Seriously another of these threads? Hey guys, if I put my iPhone in water I can't get a wifi signal.... Or get it to power up at all....
Well, kind of. I can make it drop one bar by holding it across the top, touching the join between the bands, and the top band. However it's not a position anyone would ever hold it, I don't think, so not much of an issue. I am close to the router so it's not a low signal issue.
thats probably why. i believe you have to bridge the two bands together and/or coverup the black line.
The bands on the iPhone 4S have nothing to do with WiFi. They are for cellular/GPS use only. The iPhone 4S' WiFi antenna is internal.
I'm sure that's true but nevertheless touching the top band while bridging both the two top side gaps causes the WiFi signal to drop. I can make it happen every time now, not that it makes any difference to anything. It's an academic exercise.
well whatever the reason is, the signal drops when that action is performed. thats all im tryin to put get across
Yep sorry to break it to you antennagate fans but the wifi antenna is inside the phone on the opposite side to the rear facing camera, so licking the external band (or whatever you kids are doing these days) has nothing to do with the wifi antenna at all. Sorry 
Yep sorry to break it to you antennagate fans but the wifi antenna is inside the phone on the opposite side to the rear facing camera, so licking the external band (or whatever you kids are doing these days) has nothing to do with the wifi antenna at all. Sorry
i don't care if the wifi antenna was outside the phone in a little pouch...that fact is, if you perform the actions above, you lose one bar of wifi signal. and its not a coincidence because it can be performed in different locations and/or by other people and get the same result
OMG OMG when I hold/touch/tap my iPhone in a way that I never actually would in normal use, it does [insert anomaly here]!!!!!!
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