Motorola Droid
signal strength / bars on moto droid
Question for those who have switched to the Droid, how is your signal strength compared to what you switched from? So far I have not dropped any calls, but have concern because the phone has never gotten 4 bars that I can notice and is usually bouncing between 1 and 2 bars, esp at my home and office, where the bulk of my usage is.
I came from AT & T with a blackberry that always had 3 or 4 bars except for a couple of very specific weak zones, and I knew right where they were on my commute. So, I'm trying to figure out if this is a network difference or a Droid thing. Are there others that are averaging only 1 or 2 bars? Also, I noticed that it does pick up another bar usually if I hold it in landscape mode while typing, but it's the...
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I came from AT & T with a blackberry that always had 3 or 4 bars except for a couple of very specific weak zones, and I knew right where they were on my commute. So, I'm trying to figure out if this is a network difference or a Droid thing. Are there others that are averaging only 1 or 2 bars? Also, I noticed that it does pick up another bar usually if I hold it in landscape mode while typing, but it's the...
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Since the signal bars are a relative indicator, I don't think it is realistic to compare "bars" results across multiple phones.
Droid can report the ACTUAL received signal strength, in the phone status screen (I think this is actually an Android feature, not just a Droid feature, so you might get a more realistic answer by comparing the signal on the Eris (the actual signal, not the bars) ).
If Droid is reporting less bars for the same signal strength, all it means is that at the high end, there's more resolution, instead of at the low end, like many phones.
However, even if the signal is actually less, there's lots of variables in the antenna design and even the case design that can affect your received signal; however, until you s...
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Droid can report the ACTUAL received signal strength, in the phone status screen (I think this is actually an Android feature, not just a Droid feature, so you might get a more realistic answer by comparing the signal on the Eris (the actual signal, not the bars) ).
If Droid is reporting less bars for the same signal strength, all it means is that at the high end, there's more resolution, instead of at the low end, like many phones.
However, even if the signal is actually less, there's lots of variables in the antenna design and even the case design that can affect your received signal; however, until you s...
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Hey Mupi -
Thanks for the tip about looking up the actual signal strength, since the menu choices under "about phone" are basically the same between the 2 phones it was pretty easy to find. Turns out they are very similar, but now I'm wondering what the 2 numbers that appear under signal strengh mean...
The current signal strength on my wifes phone is reading -81dBm 16asu. When I walk around our house, it will change though, and the most it jumped was -89dBm 12 asu. It appears the asu changes when the dBm does on her Eris. On my droid, it is hovering between -85 to -92 dBm sitting on the same table in our house, but the second number on the Moto Droid is "0 asu" at all times. I'm thinking this may be a GPS signal strength, but t...
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Thanks for the tip about looking up the actual signal strength, since the menu choices under "about phone" are basically the same between the 2 phones it was pretty easy to find. Turns out they are very similar, but now I'm wondering what the 2 numbers that appear under signal strengh mean...
The current signal strength on my wifes phone is reading -81dBm 16asu. When I walk around our house, it will change though, and the most it jumped was -89dBm 12 asu. It appears the asu changes when the dBm does on her Eris. On my droid, it is hovering between -85 to -92 dBm sitting on the same table in our house, but the second number on the Moto Droid is "0 asu" at all times. I'm thinking this may be a GPS signal strength, but t...
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