Carrier VZW Carrier Settings Update?

[Armen]

I guess you can think of them more along the lines of how hard your phone has to work to keep the connection.

So a glorified battery indicator.

 

[ABC5S]

Scroll up to post #3... go to settings>> general>> about - Carrier entry - you should have Verizon 24.1 unless Verizon hasn't made it available in your market yet... you'll be prompted to update if available by going into settings-general-about...

Thanks. Found it

 

[geoff5093]

Since the number of dots don't really indicate whether or not you can place a call or how fast your data will be they may as well replace it with signal/ no signal.

No that would be awful. If you only have one bar, if you are on a call you have to worry about dropping that call if you move very far or go inside. And before you go to use data you can expect it to be pretty slow, along with getting poor battery life.

While speeds vary greatly, if you have 3-5 dots you can generally expect data and voice to work well.

 

[Armen]

No that would be awful. If you only have one bar, if you are on a call you have to worry about dropping that call if you move very far or go inside. And before you go to use data you can expect it to be pretty slow, along with getting poor battery life.

While speeds vary greatly, if you have 3-5 dots you can generally expect data and voice to work well.

My experience with Verizon is that even with 1 dot my calls don't drop.

 

[geoff5093]

My experience with Verizon is that even with 1 dot my calls don't drop.

True. But it lets you know that if you start driving or walking it has the potential to drop if you move even further from the cell tower.

 

[Applejuiced]

I understand what your saying but if there is no network congestion wouldn't I get more bandwidth with 5 dots compared to 2 dots? Doesn't signal strength also impact throughput?

No.
You dont know if there is network congestion on a particular tower.
Do you go around counting every person within that 30-45 square mile radius to know how many people are connected? Not possible to know.
And like he explained to you above dots only mean how strong your signal/connection is to the particular tower. You might be connected well but the cell site is congested with lots of data traffic and only puts out 1-2mbps per user for that particular time.

 

[Jimmy James]

Is signal strength shown at standardized values? I don't think so. It's all relative.

It would be like trying to measure vehicle speed based on the speedometer being in the middle of the gauge. A tractor might be at 10 mph and a fast car at 120mph.