I was having the deathgrip issue pretty bad the moment I covered antennae no matter where I was the other line wouldn't be able to hear me. I just did a factory restore and restored from backup now it doesn't happen.... Lets try this guys!
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Possible attenuation fix for iPhone 4!
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Tried that last night after the SIM snake oil didn't work. Both factory restore without restoring my backup, and a factory restore followed by restoring my backup. Neither helped. Same issue... bars drop when I touch the sensitive spot on the lower left side of the band.
Something interesting, which I don't know if anyone has tried or documented, is that the same signal droppage occurs if you bridge that little gap with a piece of conductive material (I used a paperclip held in place by scotch tape). Without even touching the phone with my hand, the signal bars dropped as expected.
Something interesting, which I don't know if anyone has tried or documented, is that the same signal droppage occurs if you bridge that little gap with a piece of conductive material (I used a paperclip held in place by scotch tape). Without even touching the phone with my hand, the signal bars dropped as expected.
After a bit more testing looks like i was a little fast on the jump it didn't cure it completely if I'm inside where i only have 2 bars it stil drops but when I got outside where there is normally 4-5 phone drops about 1 bar but still holds calls and people can still hear me... Will try the conducing thing in a sec.
just tried your exact scenario with scotch tape and paper clip no issue, use staple and screw as well which still didn't result in any problem.
