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Signal Reception of the 6S models

Has the reception improved in comparison to the previous models?

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Did you reset network settings? Also, doesn't Verizon still have that *228 nonsense? Maybe give that a go if so.
 
I would say maybe defect. My 6s+ before I returned it had better reception than my 5s.
 
archrider said:
I have a theory about Apple phone reception. I've put an Aluminum bumper on my iPhone 6 and the LTE signal went from -100 to -92, a better signal. To me that makes no sense. A metal bumper should mess up the signal a bit. this only makes sense if the phone will at a certain level of signal degradation send more power to the antenna thus improving the signal reception (at a cost of battery life). I think a better antenna like you 6s over your 5s can receive calls and function with less power to the antenna which will appear to be a worse signal but the battery power savings is worth the slight drop. Therefore I think this is a battery life improving feature of the phone. The impact of the decrease in signal isn't significant.

This is my theory that only Apple can verify.
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I just reread your post and my theory wouldn't seem to apply because an automatic decrease in antenna power shouldn't cause a call to fail.
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Which aluminum bumper ? Thank you
 
Thanks for the tips.... I'm resetting my network settings now. I'm off tomorrow, so it may be a day or two before I know if it helps.
 
My iPhone 6s single strength is much stronger than my iPhone 6. I don't know if AT&T has boosted the network around my general area, but it is definitely better.
 
Zero reception issues here. No worse than either my old 5S of the 6 my mrs has, on the contrary it's slightly better.
 
My 6s plus seems to get roughly the same reception as my 6 plus. But more importantly, it seems more usable with the low reception than my 6 plus ever was. The 6s will still manage to load pages while the 6 would give up in the same places.
 
The blind leading the blind. Here is a snippet from the article: "-100db being 10 times better than -90db". That is backwards. -90dBm is actually 10 times stronger than -100dBm. So the article writer doesn't know squat about the subject. The professor who did the study may not be much more informed. His table shows a measurement of -98.8dBm being #1 with a measurement of -88dBm being #37. Does this mean that #1 is the worst performer and #37 is the best performer? I don't know. I'm not are how much faith to put in his raw measurements with his table of results being backwards.
 
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I get better signal than I did on my 6+ and also on the other phones I've used my second line on while driving around (Note 4, G4, S6, Nexus 5).
 
adamhenry said:
The blind leading the blind. Here is a snippet from the article: "-100db being 10 times better than -90db". That is backwards. -90dBm is actually 10 times stronger than -100dBm. So the article writer doesn't know squat about the subject. The professor who did the study may not be much more informed. His table shows a measurement of -98.8dBm being #1 with a measurement of -88dBm being #37. Does this mean that #1 is the worst performer and #37 is the best performer? I don't know. I'm not are how much faith to put in his raw measurements with his table of results being backwards.
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I think the professor is saying the signal strength required. No. 1 is able to pick up a signal strength of -98.8 dBM, while no. 37 requires a stronger signal (-88 dBm).

What I find interesting is that the iPhone 4 is rated 13 spots better than the iPhone 4S. I thought the 4S cured the reception woes of the 4.
 
Broadus said:
I think the professor is saying the signal strength required. No. 1 is able to pick up a signal strength of -98.8 dBM, while no. 37 requires a stronger signal (-88 dBm).

What I find interesting is that the iPhone 4 is rated 13 spots better than the iPhone 4S. I thought the 4S cured the reception woes of the 4.
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That was different, hold it badly and it had *no* reception.
 
Newtons Apple said:
I can not remember seeing less than 3 bar/dots on my S+. No complaints here.

It also looks like Tapatalk is not working well either.
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Correct when I tried posting this thread Tapatalk kept indicating it was unable to start a thread which clearly it was. So sorry about that.
 
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