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Default What rom has the best radio? Or what rom gets the best service from experience?

I've used many roms so far and my current one is cm7 nighty 99, and I know I don't have service in my school, even next to a window... the previous rom I had was incredible HD 1.0 which I had a bar and service in my school. Ill know when I have the best service is when I know ill have service in there, and yes everyone with att has complete full bars, but thats besides the point. I truly don't mind changing roms, and I'd rather right now so I could care less to upgrade the radio so how about some input guys?

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ROMs don't effect real signal strength. There can be variations to how each rom reports signal strength, but the actual signal isn't determined and can't be enhanced by the rom. For example, I've seen one rom constantly bounce around, displaying 1 bar for -90dbm and 3 bars when the dbm was -100+, where another rom was more consistent, but the true signal strength was the same between the two. Probably one just averaged more when determining what to display.

I've battled with low signal strength for the past 2 years on Verizon. Tried every trick in the book, and nothing did a thing. The only thing that helped was getting a network extender.
 
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Hmmm... interesting. Then what do you think could have given me signal in my school versus this current rom which gets nothing?

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Nvm stupid question

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What radio do you have.

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Droid Incredible 2 (S-OFF)
Android Version 4.1.2
Psycho-M3-vivow
Kernal 2.6.35.14-ae-15
Oc 1.3mhz
 
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Hmmm... interesting. Then what do you think could have given me signal in my school versus this current rom which gets nothing?

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Not a stupid question at all.

As a matter of fact, ROM's will not affect your TRUE signal strength, but I have tried Sense and AOSP ROMs on the Inc1 and its readout 'bar' wise did change between both styles of ROM.

More then likely its a reporting issue on the Dinc2 - which means nothing really.

If on AOSP you should be able to change the bar readout to -dbm readout which will be more accurate.

The true question is this...have you been measuring by dbm in 'about phone'?

And the real money maker...Are you able to make and receive calls? Is data speed an issue?
 
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