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Why Cant We Enter Field Test Mode on iPhone 4?
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BrownManUPS
macrumors 6502a
The feature has been disabled in the software. I've tried to do some searching on it and it seems that this is not a carrier thing.
You can jailbreak it and download the app yourself, but as of right now I can't find anything.
You can jailbreak it and download the app yourself, but as of right now I can't find anything.
Ah thanks for the heads up. It would REALLY help this signal loss situation if we could look at the signal strength rather than the bars.
Title change maybe?
Could you maybe change the title of the thread, please? A "How To:" title would be instructions on how to actually do it. a "How To?" title would be a question for others to tell you how to do it. See the difference?
Could you maybe change the title of the thread, please? A "How To:" title would be instructions on how to actually do it. a "How To?" title would be a question for others to tell you how to do it. See the difference?
Thirded.
I came in here thinking the iPhone 4 / iOS 4 way had been found 🙁.
keyofnight
macrumors regular
Disabled because Apple knew the first thing people would do is enter field test mode when they discovered the wonders of their not-so-improved antenna.
saving107
macrumors 603
This and the fact that Apple for the first time decided to create a case for their iPhone that magically only covers the effected area makes me believe Apple knew the iP4 was going to have problems.
extrachrispy
macrumors 6502
Interesting. Although I cannot get into field test mode either, the "tap the bars to toggle to dB, tap again to get bars" hack still works for me.
I enabled that on my 3GS back in early iPhone OS 3.x days, and it persisted across the upgrade to iOS 4, and even survived the restore-from-backup that I applied to get my data onto my iPhone 4. Of course, now it toggles by itself rather often, but it's there.
I enabled that on my 3GS back in early iPhone OS 3.x days, and it persisted across the upgrade to iOS 4, and even survived the restore-from-backup that I applied to get my data onto my iPhone 4. Of course, now it toggles by itself rather often, but it's there.
appleguy123
macrumors 604
Seventhed! I thought that you were telling me how to do it. At least add a question mark in your title.
S1njin
macrumors 6502a
Supposedly, go into Field Test and hold the home button for several seconds until the app is shut down. I tried on my iOS 3.1.3 phone, but the Field Test app never quit - I wonder if Apple disabled force-quit of Field Test in 3.1.3.
For 3.x to force quit you need to hold sleep/power until shut down prompts and then you hold home for a couple seconds. Did that method on my 3gs on 3.1.2 made a back up and restored to ip4 and now toggle works.