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Why would it take 20 seconds for this to work? Radio is not slow.
by maxklein 16y ago
Why would it take 20 seconds for this to work? Radio is not slow.
- jamesbkel 16y agoSurely it's just a result of the bars being smoothed/some sort of running average of strength.
- maxklein 16y agoBut if I move my iPhone around in the room, it seems to change pretty quickly.
- lukeschlather 16y agoTo save power, the phone shouldn't be constantly trying to acquire a signal when it can't find one. It should try for 10-20 seconds, give up, then go to sleep, only waking every 30 seconds or so to try again, briefly.
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoDon't you guys remember Antennagate, where the following iOS update smoothed how fast the bars change? I bet if you did the same thing with a phone running iOS 2.0 it'd move instantly.
- drzaiusapelord 16y agoMost likely these are natural bar changes that are happening anyway. The glass or the "magic sticker that goes on your battery" just fools you into believing confirmation bias.
- Roritharr 16y agonope, its not, complete reproducable with 3 different phones.
- nosht 16y agoAnother datapoint: There's no cell coverage in my basement. Sometimes you'd get 1 bar, but it will drop soon afterwards. After putting the phone inside a glass, I have 3 bars. I took it out, held it by the charm (is that how it is called? The little string with a little figure that you can put on most phones today) and coverage dropped to 0. Works for me.
- CamperBob 16y agoThe radiation pattern of the antenna is probably different enough with the phone in the glass to cause the network to switch it to a different cell tower altogether. Also, "radio is fast" but signal-strength indicators are not updated at millisecond frame rates. :-P