iPhone 4 reception - possible SOLUTION?

[Nrwrit3r]

Okay, I'm doing a poll to see if this truly is the iPhone 4.

**PLEASE POST if you still have the plastic on the iPhone 4 and what happened**

If you have a 3gs/3g WITHOUT ios4 on it, please try this too. Do what they do in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixIHyEPO5g

Here's the thing - if people with 3gs and 3.0 software can't, but people with 3gs ios4 can, then it means that it's software and not hardware.

 

[phrint]

Please post this in one of the other half-dozen threads about this topic.

 

[Press22]

I did it with my iPhone 4 and I kept all 5 bars.

 

[Nrwrit3r]

Please post this in one of the other half-dozen threads about this topic.

Please see the poll.

 

[dojoman]

Your poll does not make sense. It's quite obvious that the metal antenna is causing the signal drop. How can this happen on 3G/3GS?

 

[Nrwrit3r]

Your poll does not make sense. It's quite obvious that the metal antenna is causing the signal drop. How can this happen on 3G/3GS?

People have posted in the other thread about the issue that they can reproduce the problem on their 3gs.

 

[hippo206]

Put on hand, both hands completely cover the iphone 4 and could NOT reproduce what was in the video. At one point, i went from full bars to 4.

 

[dojoman]

People have posted in the other thread about the issue that they can reproduce the problem on their 3gs.

No freaking way! No video, no proof. Even if it drops 1 bar it's just coincident. The antenna design is really flaw on i4.

 

[mkrishnan]

Wait, I'm still confused. How do you "replicate" this on an iPhone 3GS? What are you touching in two places (since there's no external antenna)?

 

[paulisme]

Your poll does not make sense. It's quite obvious that the metal antenna is causing the signal drop. How can this happen on 3G/3GS?

I tried it with my 3GS and my signal dropped from 5 bars to 1 bar.

 

[-aggie-]

Wait, I'm still confused. How do you "replicate" this on an iPhone 3GS? What are you touching in two places (since there's no external antenna)?

He’s saying it could be a software issue?? I don’t see how, if it involves touching the phone.

 

[mkrishnan]

He’s saying it could be a software issue?? I don’t see how, if it involves touching the phone.

Yeah, that's where I'm lost....