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iPhone 4 Reception Issue? [Video]

dwcolt said:
This is definitely a hardware design flaw. Here is a very simple demonstration where data is completely choked-off when the two antennas are bridged, but then bounces back immediately when unbridged:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6oflC4qo8M
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I have no doubt that hardware plays into it, but I feel like it's more about how the software is dealing with that bridging. Especially since people are able to recreate this issue on the 3G and 3GS, which do NOT have the new antennae design.
 
gloss said:
I have no doubt that hardware plays into it, but I feel like it's more about how the software is dealing with that bridging. Especially since people are able to recreate this issue on the 3G and 3GS, which do NOT have the new antennae design.
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Wrong bars is a software problem.

The iPhone 4 problem is that the bars are RIGHT. Calls actually drop when the bars fall to 0. 2 different problems.
 
my new iphone 4 did it last night when I was using the original charge it shipped with. After I drained the battery for the first time and then let it charge 100%, I tested it again today. It is no longer dropping the signal even though I hold it the exact way I did yesterday. Anyone else deplete their battery 100% and then recharge it and have it still happen or are you all using the initial charge it shipped with?
 
cmaier said:
Wrong bars is a software problem.

The iPhone 4 problem is that the bars are RIGHT. Calls actually drop when the bars fall to 0. 2 different problems.
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Yes, but the software doesn't just exist to display the bars, it also exists to dictate how the phone handles its connection to the towers, etc. The hardware plays into this, but the phone's firmware determines how it "understands" what's happening. It may very well be that linking the two antennae is producing a result that the phone doesn't correctly understand how to parse, which is manifesting in lowering/disappearing signal. It could very well be fixable on the software side.
 
ohgodohgodohgodohgod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YlytfAxMkw
IT HAPPENS WITH THE BUMPER ON TOO!!!

It seems the root of the problem is that the i4 gives its owners supernatural powers much like Magneto. The signal drops occur due to unchanneled brain waves that are coincidentally produced during the orgasmic mind state produced when a person simply touches an i4. There is also a direct correlation between people who are unable to channel their brain waves and people who ejaculated in <30 seconds.
 
3GS has the same problem.

Alright People. listen, this same thing happens on the 3GS if you hold the right side of the metal. Take off the cover put your right hand touching all the metal on the right side and it will drop to 1 bar or no signal...
 
gloss said:
Yes, but the software doesn't just exist to display the bars, it also exists to dictate how the phone handles its connection to the towers, etc. The hardware plays into this, but the phone's firmware determines how it "understands" what's happening. It may very well be that linking the two antennae is producing a result that the phone doesn't correctly understand how to parse, which is manifesting in lowering/disappearing signal. It could very well be fixable on the software side.
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2g iPhone drops bars... nothing new with ip4 design.
 
Definitive proof of the bridging-flaw

Here is a continuously-shot video that shows websites loading up quickly and easily when the top-part of the phone is held, but completely freezing up as soon as the person moves his hand down. Then as soon as the hand is moved back up--bam--the website loads. Jeez, Apple, how could you guys miss this? This is not an issue of someone just putting his hand around a phone and reducing the signal strength. The bridging of the two antennas is clearly causing major havoc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVxwKJWGV0

Here's the annotated version of the same video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6oflC4qo8M
 
Ok, on my iP4 (16GB on 02-UK) I can only recreate the fault if 3G is turned on. If 3G is on, the signal bars will drop until I have just an EDGE (o) signal available. The signal bars will then increase back to normal even with my finger in place.

I turned off 3G and held my finger over the joint and nothing happened.

I repeated this several times. I'm now going to test it on my iPhone 3G on OS4 and hopefully prove this to be a software fault and not a balls up with the 3G antenna on the phone.

Anyone else with the issue, turn 3G off and try and recreate it please..i'd be interested to see if you have the same findings...
 
kopite19 said:
Ok, on my iP4 (16GB on 02-UK) I can only recreate the fault if 3G is turned on. If 3G is on, the signal bars will drop until I have just an EDGE (o) signal available. The signal bars will then increase back to normal even with my finger in place.

I turned off 3G and held my finger over the joint and nothing happened.

I repeated this several times. I'm now going to test it on my iPhone 3G on OS4 and hopefully prove this to be a software fault and not a balls up with the 3G antenna on the phone.

Anyone else with the issue, turn 3G off and try and recreate it please..i'd be interested to see if you have the same findings...
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i can recreate with iPhone 2g running ios3.

this is not a new design flaw in ip4.
 
If I hold in the bottom left hand corner, the full bars that I had decrease to one and a 3G connection becomes Edge. If I maintain the same grip for another 20-30 seconds the bars increase to three or four and 3G comes back. Holding the phone at the top and reception is not reduced. Weird.
 
baabaa90 said:
If I hold in the bottom left hand corner, the full bars that I had decrease to one and a 3G connection becomes Edge. If I maintain the same grip for another 20-30 seconds the bars increase to three or four and 3G comes back. Holding the phone at the top and reception is not reduced. Weird.
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Exactly the same as me then. I even tested making a call and it never dropped at sll. i'm thinking software now...
 
I have the 3Gs. Up in Canada and the I4 is not for sale until July at some time. Anyway as I read some comments about this happening on a 3Gs I thought I would give it a try.

I am running 3.1.3 and I AM NOT experiencing any drop in bars no matter which way I hold the phone. I have tried many times and may ways.

Anyway, I am glad Canadians were left out of the first shipment. Otherwise I would be with all you guys going crazy over this defect.

It has made it to all mainstream websites, newspapers, etc. Apple will have to come out with some press release soon. Wonder how long the lines will be if they have to recall. I personally like my phone WITHOUT a cover, so if a cover is their solution. I will have to go without an I4.
 
allanweinman said:
I have the 3Gs. Up in Canada and the I4 is not for sale until July at some time. Anyway as I read some comments about this happening on a 3Gs I thought I would give it a try.

I am running 3.1.3 and I AM NOT experiencing any drop in bars no matter which way I hold the phone. I have tried many times and may ways.

Anyway, I am glad Canadians were left out of the first shipment. Otherwise I would be with all you guys going crazy over this defect.

It has made it to all mainstream websites, newspapers, etc. Apple will have to come out with some press release soon. Wonder how long the lines will be if they have to recall. I personally like my phone WITHOUT a cover, so if a cover is their solution. I will have to go without an I4.
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if you cup and hold with your left hand you cant get it to drop bars? i am able to do it with my 2g with the same software as you.
 
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