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iPhone 4 Reception Issue? [Video]

zerostar said:
I just got my iPhone (been working and following this thread) and it is NOT exhibiting this problem. I am however in a smaller town that just got 3G the very year the iPhone 3G came out... less people here so we usually have good signal I guess :)

I have covered it, bridged it and even used some aluminum foil to "join" the two antennas and its pretty solid 4/5 bars no matter what, I have not made any calls but have used data and that has been steady so-far.
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Seems you guys down there are really getting a mixed bag...some phones not working at all, others working great. Kinda glad i have to wait till its launched here in Canada, you guys get to work out all the kinks ;)

You tried aluminum foil....if thats not a good bridging material, i dont know what is. :p
 
someone try this on their IPAD, wrap your whole arm around, you can use both, see if you lose signal. Lets get to the bottom of this.
 
I've been on mine all afternoon. Works a treat, no matter how I hold it.

Whoops! Bang goes your theory then, dude. :rolleyes:
 
stuartlowb said:
alexbates said:
I just tested my 3GS on the AT&T 3G network. IT WENT FROM 5 BARS TO 1 BAR WITHIN 12 SECONDS! This is just something that ALL cellphones will do, and we just have to live with!

Nonsense! If you held your steering wheel in a certain way and your MPG goes from 35 to 15, would you accept it?
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People would buy a steering wheel bumper until Apple released a software update to fix it.:p I really don't know why Apple customers really think a software update can fix everything. They thought it would fix the yellow tinted iMacs.:eek:
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this guy even predicted this before the thing was released!

So much for a "brilliant feat of engineering." A third grader could have done a better job of designing the antenna.

-aggie- said:
Anything from Gizmodo is suspect.
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So do you actually have an iPhone 4 or the ability to comprehend the overwhelming evidence that this is a serious problem? Or are you just spouting crap based upon the site name alone? Wait, no I can answer that. The latter.
 
Benji222 said:
Mines completely fine?
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Is that a question or a statement? lol

I have a question:

If I buy this phone tomorrow and decide to return it within 30 days because of this problem, do I have to pay a restocking fee, lose my upgrade eligibility, or have to stay in the new 2 year contract I start when I bought the phone? In other words, if the problem turns into something major I don't want to deal with, can I return the phone and go back to my 3GS and have everything back the way it was before I bought it?
 
Seems like a software problem to me..

I've only gotten this to happen twice today. Speeds were never affected. Hell I just noticed latency was much better with one bar.
 

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Follow up... Although my device suffers from this too I'm finding if I'm in areas that typically have very strong signal then when I grasp the phone it does not have this behavior.
 
LordOBoogie said:
I've been on mine all afternoon. Works a treat, no matter how I hold it.

Whoops! Bang goes your theory then, dude. :rolleyes:
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Whoops! The fact that yours is fine means almost NOTHING if 599,999 other iPhone 4's have the problem, dude. :rolleyes:




But I sill want to believe that they will all be fine...
 
Without a case, my phone went from 5 to 4 bars. once. I couldn't reproduce it. With a case though, it doesn't happen. I have 5 bars all the time. I've had a case on it since I received the phone at 10:20AM this morning, so for me it is a non-issue. :-\
 
Whats fail here is the OP, apple already addressed this saying there's a issue with the software displaying incorrect signal strength readouts and that calls are unaffected.
 
I just did this test....Sadly, mine does the exact same thing as what is shown in the video. However, call quality seems to be okay. I hope its just a software glitch
 
jbuck777 said:
Seems you guys down there are really getting a mixed bag...some phones not working at all, others working great. Kinda glad i have to wait till its launched here in Canada, you guys get to work out all the kinks ;)

You tried aluminum foil....if thats not a good bridging material, i dont know what is. :p
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THANK YOU!!! At least this alludes to the fact that it isn't a design fault (in terms of simply shorting antennae), and hopefully localised to a batch of devices or a software issue caused by the reception search protocol
 
KevinChaos said:
Without a case, my phone went from 5 to 4 bars. once. I couldn't reproduce it. With a case though, it doesn't happen. I have 5 bars all the time. I've had a case on it since I received the phone at 10:20AM this morning, so for me it is a non-issue. :-\
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what kind of case?
 
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