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JB 4.3.1 and my signal strength is only one bar

mikeylikesit

mikeylikesit

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I just upgraded my iPhone 4 from JB 4.0.1 to 4.3.1. I had a lot of problems with the phone being in a restore mode loop and had to use fixrecovery from tinyumbrella sight to exit. At this point i'm not even jailbroken, however, my signal strength is only one bar on AT&T when it usually was 5 bars. I've seen some references to this on other threads but I don't understand why I have this since I haven't jailbroken after the upgrade. The one thing I do notice is my baseband is still at 1.59.00. I tried restoring again through iTunes and again was stuck in the retore loop and had to use tinyumbrella to exit.

Any thoughts on why I'm having this problem and is this a signal problem or a firmware indicator problem? I tried the phone and the call quality seems ok, but I'm concerned since I use it for work.

I went into field test mode and it showed my signal strength as -113db which from what I recall is not good.

Thanks for your thoughts.
 
It's a bug, I think the dev-team is going to work on a fix. But your signal is fine, you have nothing to worry about.
 
Right i seem to have found the problem, it was Tiny Umbrella stopping the Apple 4.3.1 update getting signed and seemed to stop the Baseband being updated. To fix the problem go into TinyUmbrella and in the Advanced preferences, unchecked "set hosts to Cydia on exit" and then restored by iPhone. Restore didn't force me into recovery and now I have full bars.

Let me know how you get on
 
My iphone also is only showing 1 bar. iP4 w/ 1.59.00 BB. The pwnage tool jailbreak and everything else went fine. Pkgbackup almost restore all my apps. Call service/quality has been fine. So has 3G service. It has not changed from 1 bar all day long. :eek:

OPPS ---just saw the other thread. Sorry!!!
 
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same here.

but it's no prob.

bars are just a waste of space anyway to me – kinda like a 'call me back' voicemail.
 
My iP4 GSM (on AT$T) 4.3.1 w/ 01.59.00 BB is the same as you described. One signal bar constantly so far on EDGE and 3G both. Hopefully the update the dev-team is working on for ultrasn0w fixes the issue, although I have not had any problems with calls/SMS/data usage, so it seems to be a signal display issue related to the incompatibility between the new FW and old BB and not an actual problem with signal strength as others have mentioned.
 
Did you use Pwnage to JB? I id and had the same issue, 1 Bar and not AT&T logo. I have the BB of 04.10.01. I restored back to original settings and then JB again using Redsn0w. Worked like a charm and had no issues. I would recommend that.
 
FastangV6 said:
My iP4 GSM (on AT$T) 4.3.1 w/ 01.59.00 BB is the same as you described. One signal bar constantly so far on EDGE and 3G both. Hopefully the update the dev-team is working on for ultrasn0w fixes the issue, although I have not had any problems with calls/SMS/data usage, so it seems to be a signal display issue related to the incompatibility between the new FW and old BB and not an actual problem with signal strength as others have mentioned.
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I have the same setup (iP4 GSM on AT&T 4.3.1 w/01.59.00) and with the same issue. It doesn't appear to affect calls or usage. I'll subscribe to this post in case someone has a fix for it.
 
Paratel said:
Did you use Pwnage to JB? I id and had the same issue, 1 Bar and not AT&T logo. I have the BB of 04.10.01. I restored back to original settings and then JB again using Redsn0w. Worked like a charm and had no issues. I would recommend that.
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I used pwnage tool to JB. I am hoping that the upcoming ultrasn0w update via cydia will fix this (even for people on official carriers like me), but we'll see. I avoided redsn0w because i would like to keep the older BB to allow for future unlock.
 
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FastangV6 said:
I used pwnage tool to JB. I am hoping that the upcoming ultrasn0w update via cydia will fix this (even for people on official carriers like me), but we'll see. I avoided redsn0w because i would like to keep the older BB to allow for future unlock.
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I used Pwnage as well.
 
Applejuiced said:
Even though I'm on official carrier I'd like to keep my 01.59 BB but this bug sucks. Would they need to update redsnow and pwnage for a fix or would it come thru cydia?
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I am guessing that a fix will be put out the same time as ultrasn0w and probably will be able to be patched through Cydia.

nebo1ss said:
There is a fix in the pushfix repo.

http://cydia.pushfix.info/
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This is just a fix for ultrasn0w to work on 4.3.1 and I wouldn't use it. I would wait until the dev-team fixes the issues 4.3.1 caused when using it with older BaseBands & releases an updated ultrasn0w.

I updated to 4.3.1 and kept BB 1.59 and tried the jailbreak and things didn't run as smoothly as they should. Like the dev-team said if you are an unlocker (or preserve your baseband) stay away from 4.3.1 until they work everything out.
 
Applejuiced said:
Interesting. What if you don't want or need to install Ultrasnow?
Just an older BB with the new jb firmware?
Anyone try this fix without Ultrasnow installed?
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I'd like to know this as well. I preserved my bb just in case I need to unlock at some point (or if I want to eventually sell my phone as unlocked) but this signal meter thing is annoying. Kind of makes me wish my bb updated (tinyumbrella caused the bb update to be blocked even though I didn't even have it running when I did my restore).
 
Applejuiced said:
Interesting. What if you don't want or need to install Ultrasnow?
Just an older BB with the new jb firmware?
Anyone try this fix without Ultrasnow installed?
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You can't install the fix without ultrasn0w installed (it is a dependency).

I did install ultrasn0w to test the fix (I'm on ATT so don't need ultrasn0w except when I travel overseas).

The fix works in that it allows ultrasn0w to work as it should - the device is unlocked and will work on TMo. The fix does not correct the issue with one bar showing for your signal, but that's not what it is meant to do AFAIK.
 
stlblufan said:
You can't install the fix without ultrasn0w installed (it is a dependency).

I did install ultrasn0w to test the fix (I'm on ATT so don't need ultrasn0w except when I travel overseas).

The fix works in that it allows ultrasn0w to work as it should - the device is unlocked and will work on TMo. The fix does not correct the issue with one bar showing for your signal, but that's not what it is meant to do AFAIK.
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Cool, thank u for the info.
 
JB 4.3.1 all good!!

mikeylikesit said:
I just upgraded my iPhone 4 from JB 4.0.1 to 4.3.1. I had a lot of problems with the phone being in a restore mode loop and had to use fixrecovery from tinyumbrella sight to exit. At this point i'm not even jailbroken, however, my signal strength is only one bar on AT&T when it usually was 5 bars. I've seen some references to this on other threads but I don't understand why I have this since I haven't jailbroken after the upgrade. The one thing I do notice is my baseband is still at 1.59.00. I tried restoring again through iTunes and again was stuck in the retore loop and had to use tinyumbrella to exit.

Any thoughts on why I'm having this problem and is this a signal problem or a firmware indicator problem? I tried the phone and the call quality seems ok, but I'm concerned since I use it for work.

I went into field test mode and it showed my signal strength as -113db which from what I recall is not good.

Thanks for your thoughts.
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Hi - i just joined to post a reply as this is exactly what i did. I was on 4.0.1 and updated to 4.3.1.

I had a recouring loop with phone in restore mode once it was upgraded and could not get it out using Tiny Umbrella. I googled and followed instructions to use the fixer tool and .dll etc...etc...

As per an earlier post, the problems with 1 bar are related to keeping 1.59 base band. If you havean unlocked phone like i do, and don't care about BB, then this can be fixed by an iTunes restore.

The iTunes error/restore loop issues are alo related. There is a setting in TinyUmbrella Advanced tab - Set host to Cydia on exit. Uncheck this to upgrade your BB. You will also not have any iTunre/restore loop issues.

Once this has been done, restore using iTunes. Then use Redsnow latets version to JB.

I have done this and now have iP4 on 4.3.1 with BB 4.10.01 and Cydia installed. Just in the process of re-installing all JB tweaks now and all is fine. Have full signal bars also.

Hope this helps. Not shure why keeping BB 1.59 is neccesary if you have an unlocked phone?

:D
 
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