IPhone :: Updating Often 4 Bars Down 1 Then Back Up 2
Aug 3, 2010
A few weeks ago I updated my iPhone 4 to the new 4.0.1 software. Since then, my phone has been doing something strange. In areas where I always had 4-5 bars with it, my old 3G, my current Blackberry Bold from work, and various other AT&T devices, it will often go from 4-5 bars down to 1 and then back up to 2-3. During this time, my Bold sitting right beside it will constantly stay at a full 5 bars. Now obviously the signal strength depiction is going to be lower after the update as that's what it's intention was. What's strange though is how it jumps around at certain times, will often show 1 bar where my Bold (which isn't the greatest at RF to begin) with stays at the full 5. If I force the phone to 2G only however, the issue seems to go away.
I've tried resetting the phone, network settings,different cases, all to no avail. Does anyone happen to have any insight on this? Is the phone defective, is there something else I can try? It's obviously extremely annoying because when the phone is showing 1 bar, I don't know whether or not there really is low signal strength, or if the phone is simply depicting it wrong.
This question may apply to lithium cell phone batteries in general, or at least to more than one phone.I just got a used VX4400 with two batteries. One of them goes dead very quickly, then recharges very quickly, then goes dead again very quickly, so I think I can assume it's toast, unless someone has some advanced tricks for reconditioning it.
The other battery shows some life, but after a few minutes of calling after a full recharge, the number of bars quickly goes down to one. But then if I leave it idle for a while, it goes back up to 3 bars. I've tried this a few times without recharging, and it keep bouncing between one and three bars.Is there a way to recalibrate the battery meter, or is this a sign that the battery is bad? Or does this phone just have a funky battery meter?
I need help getting cell tower reception on my phone. Using China Unicom as Network Carrier. I am located in Guangzhou China (a major metropolis). The problem is not with the SIM Card itself because it has been tested and placed in other phones & it works well. Reception Bars fluctuate between 0-2 bars at most, both in and outdoors.Have noticed these problems since upgrading the phone to IOS 5.0 & now also on 5.1.1. No problem with Wi-Fi Networks. I have also tried Resetting the Network & taking out the SIM Card and putting it back in, but this has not helped.
Info: iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1.1, Model MC637ZA Serial 83028W5VEDG
I was able to update my Iphone and got all my apps. But when I did my husbands all his apps were gone off the phone, I searched itunes cannot find them.. He is so mad how can I get them back?
Info: iPhone 4, iOS 5, want to know if I can get apps back
When I updated my IOS8 I thought I lost my photos, so I have restored my iPhone but after restoring I have discovered that I lost all my photos, how can get/ retrieve all the lost photos specially since I didn't do backup?
I just updated my blackberry and I forgot to make a backup file of everything. So I lost everything memo and contacts. Is there any way I could get my information back?
When I leave my iPhone on my desk the signal fluctuates between four bars and one bar throughout the day. it's either one bar or four bars and I don't change the phone at all. what could be causing this?
Well I have found a way to easily switch your signal bars on your status bar from regular bars to db's and back whenever you want. Well I'm on the latest beta of 4.1 (8b5097d) on IPhone 4 and it does have feild test (maby it's just because I restored from my 3GS but idk). So go to your phone app and then to the keypad. Then type *3001#12345#* and press call, this will put u in field test app. At the top I can tap the bars and it will switch to db's and if tapped again it will go back. So once u tap to change to db's hold the sleep button till slide to power pops up then let go of the sleep button and hold the home button (this is a respiring). Once u do that u can just easily tap the bars or db's and switch where ever you are in your phone. Good luck hope it works on all your phones. And ps you don't need to be jailbroken!
I have been having this problem a lot since I got the phone. If I am out especially in building where it shows good signal it take it forever to load data. text goes through fine but data takes forever. Much slower than my 3GS why is this? Is it my phone or are others getting this?
I received my iPhone 4 on launch day via a pre-order. I am very grateful to have it and to have received it while others still try to get one. Anyway, onto the issue. I had signal drop issues from the get go, occasionally even a few dropped calls. Per Apple's statement and other blog recommendations I bought a case to alleviate the issue. It's the Griffin Reveal. It is a nice case too. Last night I noticed low signal bars after a dropped call and realized I was holding it over the left corner. I let go and up went the bars.
I called care. They opened a case # and gave me the same as anyone else. I was told that I needed a bumper to fix the issue, that they couldn't guarentee with any third party case it would fix the issue. I responded asking why I should give another $30 to fix an issue they know about. I asked if I would recieve and email or call to follow up and they said they didn't know. I will follow up in 2 days and let you know. Is this a ploy to just get people to spend more money? 1.7 million sold in three days x $30 for a bumper = $51 million more for.
Strangely enough, I do. I miss 4.0 over the 4.0.1 I had to restore to after my 4.0 restore froze up using SHSH blob. I know it makes no difference for reception, and I know that 4.0.1 reports it more accurately, and it's small, but I preferred easily attaining full bars and being lied to :P
I have been searching for a way to remove or hide signal bars in ios4. I will often have very low bars and keep looking & thinking about it. But most of the time my IPhone 4 works as I need it to. I would like to remove or hide the bars, out of sight out of mind.
On my 3GS the signal bars are sporadically cycling down to one bar, then searching, then no service, then back to full 3G bars. All this happens in about the time span of 10 seconds or so. Anyone else have this issue on a 3GS that's jailbreak / unlocked! I've removed the blackrain app off the phone, winterboard and the issue continues to persist.
Some times my phone stops making and recieving calls. It looks like it is working, shows it has signal on the bars, for a while, then they disappear.I have tried hard and soft resets and restoring the phone. Usually if I leave the phone over night it starts working again in the morning so I figured it might have been a carrier issue. I am using GiffGaff but the phone was purchased directly from Apple and is factory unlocked. When this happens, if I make a call it looks like it is about to start making the call, but never changes; If you his the end call button it says Ending call... but freezes like this until you restart the phone or kill the phone app. I have tried my sim in my wifes phone and it works fine, I am unable to try anyone elses as they don't wish me to butcher their sims My phone acted exactly like this once when GiffGaff had issues one weekend, once they sorted their issues it has worked fine since.
I am a good 70 miles or so from a Genius bar and never really wanted to send the phone away in the post, as likely it'd take over a week to get it back, how ever, as my phones no longer functioning as a phone, I guess it isn't much of an issue any more If I could fix this myself I think it'd be great but I have started to get the feeling maybe it is some hardware issue with the phone.
I have been experiencing too many call failures lately. It seems that I have enough bars. If I do a hard reset, the phone acts better for a short time, then the call failures come back. I have ATT.
my iphone 4s i was using one week, after shuting down signal can't get, it's showing no signal on network bars.change few sim card none of them it's connect. I try with update software 7.1.1, after update still no signal. I activate phone with sim card of t-mobile macedonia. and still searching for signal
My iphone 4s was working fine then stopped making calls. It shows 02 as carrier but no signal bars. I swapped out the sim and tried it in my husbands spare iphone 4s and it works fine. I have done a reset 3 times now.
iPhone keeps going from 3G to Edge and then showing no bars. And after I turn off cellular data and put it back on to get back 3G it loses all bars completely and goes to "searching.." and then finally "no network"Â and then I have to manual search for my network. Whole problem starts happening all over after connecting again.
I have been pretty happy with my iPhone 4 up until today but I have discovered a bit of a problem.When I touch the bottom left of the phone the signal drops 1 - 2 bars.It has not been dropping calls but I dont think my phone should be doing this. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
I m having an factory unlocked iphone 4S and i starts losing my signal bars when i take out my phone from case (bumper) and sometimes in case also when i hold my phone with some force its again starts lossing its signal bar Is any 1 having this problem ..?i m having iOS 5.1..!
My battery icon from time to time moves to the left. I've done some search but couldn't find if anyone else is having a similar issue. I'm on 4.0 iphone 4 stock. Jailbroken, Unlocked. I'm not sure if I remember this occurrence before the jailbreak.
