I went from having like 1 bar without the MicroCell to obviously 5 with it. Now with the 4S I get 4-5 bars without the MicroCell.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Who doesn't need their MicroCell anymore since the 4S??
- Thread starter SRLMJ23
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
so far i've tested it a lil bit with it on people can't still understand me but when i turned it off they can hear me a lot better, as far as 4 and 5 bars go i still don't get that
i get stuck with 2 and 3 bars witch is not bad i guess but i was hoping to get at least 3 and 4 bars gurenteed.I have just a tad bit more signal without microcell, but I still get no signal in my house without it.
A small box from your mobile provider you connect to the Internet. Calls in your house, for example, go to the microcell and out over the Internet rather than over the air waves. Helps in areas where people have a bad signal.
Same here, though the "tower power" still fluctuates a bit. What used to drive me crazy is receiving a call when I'm in a part of the house with good tower strength, then walking downstairs and seeing the call drop when the microcell took over. That doesn't seem to happen any more. I wonder if they finally fixed it so if you start a call on the tower, you'll stay on it until the end of the call even if the microcell signal beats the tower... that would be very nice.
there is no way your 4s improved your signal by 4 bars unless your 4 was just defective. The difference between a normal 4 and 4s will be a nominal improvement at best. What is more likely is that a tower was added or improved in your area during the period you were on the macrocell and you didn't notice.
Maybe and maybe not. At my girlfriends apartment complex its pretty much in the woods. She lives on the bottom floor. In her apartment with ym 3GS I had ni bars. She has an iPhone 4 with Verizon and gets no bars. I have the 4S with AT&T and now I get 3 or 4 bars. Apple definitely fixed the antenna.
I can only tell you what happend to me at my home in ct.
my iphone 4 was loosing calls have 1 to 2 bars at the most,
my iphone 4S has at list 3 bars and never loose a call,
I agree with you iphone 4 was defective phone and apple shuld replace it for free by replacing any one with iphone 4 with iphone 4S and giving out rubber gloves for useing the phone
That's a femtocell, no a microcell.
A microcell is actually a cell network tower that serves < 2km.
Yeah but AT&T calls its product a "3G MicroCell". Probably does better in selling it than "FemtoCell".
While technically you are correct, AT&T's name for the product is the 3G MicroCell
Verizon Calls it the Network Extender
you cant compare phones on 2 different networks. they use different towers so of course they will be different