If EVERYONE has gone from 5 bars to 3........

[Slip Jigs]

After updating my iPhone now goes from 3 bars to NO SERVICE instead of from 5 bars to NO SERVICE when using death grip at home. Great job Apple! So now I'm supposed to be happy because I'm losing 3 bars instead of 5?

I'm waiting to see what happens at the press conference Friday. If a design solution and replacement program are not announced, I will return the iPhone 4, keep the 3GS it replaced and call it quits until next year. I refuse to pay for a product with a design defect, whether it affects my everyday use or not. Unless Apple deploys a fix, the iPhone 4 will remain a stigmatized product and we can call this the beginning of Apple's second decline.

If you were to see the actual numeric levels, you would see the exact same signal attenuation as before.

Were you expecting something different, or just hoping?

 

[bLaZ3n]

I also went from 5 bars before update to 3 bars after update.

But, if you check out the image.. 3 bars after the update is equivalent 4/5 bars before the update, so I really don't see a "real" change.

Your reception is still the same before and after update.

 

[triptyx]

Went from 5 to 4-5 here.

 

[photomac]

5to3

This is so fked up! Come on apple this cool aid is too bitter

 

[Goldinboy17]

Then are we even sure this really is a TRUE reading???? Surely if it was a true reading....some people would be on 2....some 4, some 5 some 1 etc etc....but 95% of ppl seem to be showing 3 bars like me.

God knows what to think any more

Dropped from 5/4 to 1/2. Tired of ranting.

 

[goobot]

own

 

[b00st3d]

5 -> 4

 

[eron]

I have a feeling that the Signal strength inaccuracy was purposefully created since the first iPhone so that its signal could be perceived as STRONG as compared to the competitors' offerings. When in actual fact, an iPhone's reception has traditionally been weaker than many phones.

Imagine many people seeing iPhones as having 3 bars in areas where previous phones had full 5 bars.

Now the supposedly software enhancement has resulted in ridiculous drop-offs due to death-grips. The thing is, my 3GS reduces reception with a bottom right death-grip on a poor network, but doesn't nudge on a strong network. The problem was always there, but more serious on the iPhone 4.

What has seemed to perceptively 'improve' the reception on the iPhone in the past has now came back to bite them.

 

[mgamber]

Had 1 before, have 1 now. I don't see any difference.

 

[mytakeontech]

Between 3/4. Mostly 4.
Had constant 5 earlier

 

[jlyanks85]

My room (third floor of the house) I get 4-5 bars. On the first floor of my house I get between 2-3 bars, sometimes 4.

Haven't tested it outside yet

 

[zizo79]

Between 3/4. Mostly 4.
Had constant 5 earlier

Did you run a speedtest ?

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

5 bars just like before.

 

[nin7474]

I updated and got 3 bars maximum. I reset my network settings afterwards and now I am at a full 5 bars. Not saying that this is a fix by any stretch but it seems to have changed for me.

How do you reset the Network Settings?

 

[rangtang]

In a single room, my phone goes from 5 bars to 3 to 2 to 5 to 4.... No idea what the story is there.

 

[xraytech]

4-5 with the "Pinky of Death"

 

[Blue Fox]

In the places I get 5, I normally stay at 5. The worst I've been so far is 4.

 

[Blue Fox]

4-5 with the "Pinky of Death"

I used to be able to get my phone to display "no service" when I held it tightly in my left hand, but I cannot duplicate it, it won't go down past 2 bars anymore, so I think I'm safe to say that this software fix actually fixed it (who would have thunk it?)

 

[The General]

Formulae?

plural for formula. formulas is also correct.

 

[whynot83706]

I don't know how 5 bars look like, all over Phoenix area I have 3-4 bars.

 

[Fliesen]

plural for formula. formulas is also correct.

Dear Ted: It's "encyclopedia", not "encyclopaedia". You always pronounce things in the most pretentious way possible, and it makes you sound douchy, and not "douchay".

 

[DoNoHarm]

I feel lied to.

LOL, no big deal, but yes, they were basically lying to us. For some reason, Apple decided to cover AT&T's butt by showing 50% signal as full strength...

 

[ntrigue]

I spent two hours on the road from San Francisco to Carmel. I observed five bars for about five miles total. They quickly went to four and I was at three bars 75% of the time.

 

[kr00k322]

I went from 5 to 4.

Yeah that's exactly what happened to me.

 

[Stiss]

Guys!

The number of bars DOES NOT MATTER!

Look at the diagram above.

3-4 bars in the 4.0.1 is equivalent to 4-5 bars on 4.0.

You have not got a weaker signal. It is just displayed differently now.

Get over it or get rid of your phone. It's really that easy now.