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Apple Addresses iPhone Signal Strength Display in iOS 4.0.1, iPad Wi-Fi in iOS 3.2.1
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lmao beautiful
this is like watching a room full of pale friendless virgins at a star trek convention
Does anyone know if 4.0.1 fixed the problem that 4.0 made the iPhone 3G unusable due to horrid slowness of absolutely everything? Because I really don't like how the iOS 4.0 software update made the iPhone 3G worthless, forcing owners to upgrade (or revert), but then all these shennanigans over the iPhone 4 makes it very hard to actually buy the new phone. I imagine it'll be even longer now before white iPhone 4s are released if the black ones are going on extended backorder.
Uh... considering the software update does NOTHING to fix the actual hardware issue, Id say there is still a good chance that they will announce some sort of hardware fix or voluntary/partial recall or a send & fix warranty work.
seriously - did you really just say that? do you understand even the basics of this upgrade? jeez.
can anyone comment on this?
iOS 4.1 beta includes Bluetooth AVRCP. I assume the 4.0.1 doesn't but it would be nice if it did.
iOS 4.1 beta includes Bluetooth AVRCP. I assume the 4.0.1 doesn't but it would be nice if it did.
lol yes.. but i meant they show your bars more accurately now and everyone has said their bars have dropped for 5 to 3 or something similar. so if you set the iphone down and let it get as many bars as it can then that shows how well att is actually doing, which i am curious about because i would think i live in a great signal area.
That's essentially what this update was supposed to do. Let it be clear that this is no magical "happymaker" update, it's a "setting the record straight" update. From the minute it was announced, people had a hunch it would only make everyone more ticked off than before since they would lose bars while the reception issue itself would remain unchanged.
I dread to install it on my old 3G... I'll miss the 5 bars that are always up there 24/7, even if I know they're a lie.
yup, you saved them locally. I also just saved my ipad and iphone 3gs 4.0 shsh's. whew!
The new bars look "really stupid." Mostly, you'll be reminded how bad AT&T is when you are looking at one tall bar. They should have just reversed it, and put the largest bar first. Then you could have said that the largest bar offers the largest amount of noise, the smaller the bars, the better (which we'll mostly never see again).
before and after
Before: 5 bars in house
After: 1 to 2 bars in my house
How did this help me? Why does Apple think they can fool use with this useless update?
iPhone 3GS
PS: I can now make the signal drop from 2 bars to 1 with the "death grip"
Does anyone remember awhile back when Apple updated the bars to show a stronger signal? I do....
Before: 5 bars in house
After: 1 to 2 bars in my house
How did this help me? Why does Apple think they can fool use with this useless update?
iPhone 3GS
PS: I can now make the signal drop from 2 bars to 1 with the "death grip"
Does anyone remember awhile back when Apple updated the bars to show a stronger signal? I do....
new way of showing bars based on signal strength
so basically they were manipulating the bars like crazy last time.. i wonder if any other phone companies do this
This comparison tells us nothing of value. How do you know what they use to calculate bars displayed on the Blackberry?
Given what Apple said about the update (we were showing too much signal when in low-signal conditions, we're going to show less bars), what did you expect it to do?
Interestingly, I'm on O2 in the UK, and have had no problems with signal at all, no dropped calls, though even on the old 4.0 it is constantly around 1-2 bars inside the house except at windows. I can't even reproduce a drop when gripping the phone, but can see the signal vary if I move around inside a building, as you'd expect. Doesn't matter if I touch the phone though. Seems to be quite a difficult problem to reproduce - some people have it all the time, some people haven't seen it.
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My 3G as well. It just can't handle iOS4. Even though it's still a little slow, what helped a lot was resetting all settings. It's faster and less choppy than when I first downloaded. I'm waiting awhile before I update again.
TouchYourHead said:
My 3G is unusably slow... Unfortunately my region still has not start selling the iPhone 4...
My 3G as well. It just can't handle iOS4. Even though it's still a little slow, what helped a lot was resetting all settings. It's faster and less choppy than when I first downloaded. I'm waiting awhile before I update again.
well, the new update has caused my phone to exhibit the dropping bars when I didn't have an issue before.
My bars drop real fast now, and always stop at 1 bar. Granted, my signal is not great here, so it's not unexpected to have 1 or 2 bars, but from 4 to 1 bar in less than 5 seconds is scary....
I haven't tested to see if calls drop or not, so it may just be a visual thing in the bar meter....
My bars drop real fast now, and always stop at 1 bar. Granted, my signal is not great here, so it's not unexpected to have 1 or 2 bars, but from 4 to 1 bar in less than 5 seconds is scary....
I haven't tested to see if calls drop or not, so it may just be a visual thing in the bar meter....
I can't say about 4.0.1, but I've heard that 4.1 beta dramatically improves performance on the 3G.
Dave
well look at the picture of how they did it. they gave the 5 bar way too big of a range.. and look at the 3 bar, wat a joke.