Okay so I've always known my D2G was a little off with its signal strength especially how it represents it, and I know that all cell phones represent the number of bars based on signal strength differently. However as far as I understand it is still a cut and dry system within each phone, so for example -75 dBm should always be a certain number of bars on a phone correct? Yet my D2G does not seem to think this. I have only been carefully monitoring it today. However Right not is has been bouncing around -62 dMb at 0asu to -69 dBm at 0 asu. It increased from -69 to -62 and stayed at 2 bars the whole time for a while, now it is at -64 and is showing 1 bar. How can -64 be 1 bar is -62 was for a good 30 seconds holding 2 bars? Isn't -62 stronger? Also this morning it moved around -65 to -69 and 1-4 bars at random where the numbers seemed to have almost no correlation to the number of bars. Is this at all weird or am I just crazy? This really has me missing the T-mobile G1 which had much more normal signal strengths and made much better sense of them.
I have considered installing the Fission rom, but before I do that does anyone thing an SBF would be worthwhile to have a fresh install? Some people have claimed that seems to help with their phones, I was wondering if it might help with mine too.
Also as a side note, my phone's 3G speeds seem to drastically increase when the phone shows 4 bars of signal, download goes from maybe 600-900kbps up to 1.3-2.0mbps, regardless of what my phone says the signal strength is. However upload is always the same, so at 1-3 bars upload is always faster than download or close to it which seems weird to me.
One last example, my phone just in like 5 seconds went from -64 to -65 to -65 to -66 to -68 and the bars for those were 1 then 2 then 3 then 1 then 1. It makes no sense if the signal is getting weaker consistently for the bars to increase with each decrease then suddenly decrease.
I have considered installing the Fission rom, but before I do that does anyone thing an SBF would be worthwhile to have a fresh install? Some people have claimed that seems to help with their phones, I was wondering if it might help with mine too.
Also as a side note, my phone's 3G speeds seem to drastically increase when the phone shows 4 bars of signal, download goes from maybe 600-900kbps up to 1.3-2.0mbps, regardless of what my phone says the signal strength is. However upload is always the same, so at 1-3 bars upload is always faster than download or close to it which seems weird to me.
One last example, my phone just in like 5 seconds went from -64 to -65 to -65 to -66 to -68 and the bars for those were 1 then 2 then 3 then 1 then 1. It makes no sense if the signal is getting weaker consistently for the bars to increase with each decrease then suddenly decrease.
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