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chad5871
5th October 2009, 09:23 PM
So in anticipation of the HTC Hero on Sprint I've been using Android 1.5 on my HTC Touch (CDMA Vogue). I had previously been using Windows Mobile 6.1 which I absolutely despised.

I noticed something very interesting today when I used it today during class. I have class in two lecture halls every day, and when I was using WinMo 6.1, I would get very spotty signal. The phone would constantly be searching for a signal and going in/out of signal area (and sometimes roam). Because of this, my battery would usually be dead by 1 or 2 in the afternoon.

Well today, using Android, I found myself getting a strong 2-3 out of 4 signal strength in both lecture halls (one is like 30 feet underground). So just out of curiosity, I have to ask: Can using a different operating system on the same device really affect signal strength that much? Why is this occurring?

orb3000
6th October 2009, 12:17 AM
Welcome to forums

The radio version you use it can be very diferent form one to another in terms of battery duration and signal strength, if having signal probs try to change to another radio version, that corrected my probs before.

Hope it helped,