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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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I really like the new "bar".....my new large 'one bar' that I get to stare at really makes me feel a lot better about having that 'one bar'. Thank you Apple for providing the "bigger is better" mentality that majority of us Americans subscribe to.....I should name my new large big bar since it the only bar I have.....but at least it's big!
At least now you'll know that if you were dropping calls, they weren't being dropped from a location with full signal strength. Now people will know exactly how strong AT&T's signal is at any given time, and not freak out from dropped calls in already weak areas.
I think it's the exact opposite. This whole time, the iPhone has been erroneously showing 5 bars when it was actually closer to 2 or 3.
Read the release notes on here and on iTunes when you click "Check For Update".
They never said they were fixing the 3G being buggy. This is the problem on here, people having expectations of things that were never going to occur.
The 3G is old, it's dated, old hardware cannot keep up with the latest software ... it's the nature of technology.
But assuming, or expecting, somehow that an update for the signal bars (which was made abundantly clear on here over the past 24 hours when the beta was released), would fix your buggy 3G is just way over zealous.
I'll have to wait until I get home to download. Looks like it won't fix the major issue of the proximity sensor not functioning properly, very frustrating.
Right now, at home on our crap O2 connection (always poor in this area, regardless of using an iPhone or not), I get one or two bars on GPRS.
This update should, by rights, show me zero bars ...
4.0.1 FTW!
This update should, by rights, show me zero bars ...
4.0.1 FTW!
Does this fix anything else, like the bluetooth headset issue that occurs when switching sources with Jawbone & Plantronics headsets?
Just updated my phone and after having 5 bars at home I now have 1-2 bars. Which seems more accurate to me since I always have a poor signal in my home.
When talking to people at home I always said, "I have 5 bars" and was wondering why I dropped phone calls. Now with a more accurate signal strength I can see why some of my calls were dropped.
When talking to people at home I always said, "I have 5 bars" and was wondering why I dropped phone calls. Now with a more accurate signal strength I can see why some of my calls were dropped.
man, iphone 4 updates so quickly compared to the 3g.
Bars look pretty funky now, so used to the smaller visual.
Bars look pretty funky now, so used to the smaller visual.
When I update, and if I'm lucky enough to ever see 5 bars again, I'm going to take a screenshot and use that badboy as my lock screen wallpaper ... five bars for life bitches!
Ok, Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vodafone UK here... The signal has gotten worse! HOW THE FRAK is that possible!?!?!?
I am so pissed now!
They better recall or refund! this is a disaster!
you do know what this update was about? did you read anything about this or do you just click update and think you get 5 bars?
this is just dumb..........
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/0...th-display-issue-only-software-update-coming/
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.
I don't like how my 3G bars are not symmetrical any longer..........
Can I return mine for that reason?
Can I return mine for that reason?
After reading 7 pages, the sheer stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.
No, it will not make your 3G run better. It's old hardware that shouldn't even be supported anyways. To expect it to run a new OS well is just naive, no, just stupid.
Also, no, you did not lose signal, no, it did not make your connection worse; IT FIXED THE SIGNAL REPORTING. I don't know how this is hard to get; it now accurately reports the bars you have, unlike before, where it lied to you.
But alas, no one from the iPhone forum reads anyways, so this will fall on deaf ears (or rather blind eyes).
No, it will not make your 3G run better. It's old hardware that shouldn't even be supported anyways. To expect it to run a new OS well is just naive, no, just stupid.
Also, no, you did not lose signal, no, it did not make your connection worse; IT FIXED THE SIGNAL REPORTING. I don't know how this is hard to get; it now accurately reports the bars you have, unlike before, where it lied to you.
But alas, no one from the iPhone forum reads anyways, so this will fall on deaf ears (or rather blind eyes).
Were they? The first thread I saw in the Hacks forum about "backing up blobs" was this morning. Since I was already at work, it was too late. And I've been checking that forum periodically since I received my iPhone 4.
Granted, I skipped the 3GS (though my 3G remained jailbroken its entire life), so I had to even look up what a "blob" was. I never had to worry about that on the 3G.
Kind of upset I missed it.
That thread is almost 2 days old now. However, people who would like to jailbreak usually keep up with Twitter accounts related to the iPhone Dev Team, like Planetbeing's twit about making your SHSH blob back-up. You'd also be aware there is an unlock for the iPhone 4 already, albeit not released yet.
Anyone that has had low bars (1-3 bars) before the update are you noticing that you now have no service or is this more of a five bar to three bar type of update. Just wondering if the code has been written to make it harder for the phone to drop to no service...knowing that this isn't solving death grip problem but could they make it slower to react and get to no service?
I really don't see the point of this. Why should I care how the signal strength display is calculated? The bar display doesn't have an effect on how clear the phone call is, or whether or not it gets dropped, does it? I don't check my bars and think "oh, I only have 3 bars here, I'd better walk a couple of blocks till I get 4 before I make a phone call." And it doesn't make a difference in places where I get NOTHING. If there isn't a strong enough signal, the call or data doesn't go thru.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
Crap! The back of my iPhone is STILL made of glass after the update!!!!111111!!!!!!eleventy!!!!!111
DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS...YOU AE TRULY EVIL!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!\
DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS...YOU AE TRULY EVIL!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!\