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Originally Posted by ryanlw
So, a few things about this.
1. I tried the airplane mode solution. It seems to show some difference but I can't tell if it's placebo affect for me. Occasionally I will have 3 or 4 bars and be really happy and then it goes back to 1 or 2. Or 0.
2. when the phone is plugged in and then unplugged, it resets the "Time without a signal" and other "Battery use" catergories because the only thing it is listing is Time "since unplugged." This is why the time without a signal goes away or drops significantly. It is not a fix. (Though it may, somehow or another, have an impact on cell signal).
3. I am getting better (not good, maybe good for the eris) battery life although the phone is still reporting low signal strength. It is hard to tell if i actually have low signal strength or not. Most calls have been good. A couple have been really bad.
4. Someone (can't remember who) had mentioned that the "Time without a signal" when at 50% was very closely related to the amount of time the phone was off the charger. I can't remember exactly which numbers were compared but I checked earlier today and the numbers matched. In my opinion, the 50% is a simple glitch that is miscalculated from either the Up time, Awake time, and/or Time on values.
I don't know how much any of this helps. Where I am right now is basically, battery life is a little better, I think I'm getting a signal but I really wish I knew what was causing it to report such a horribly low signal, and "Time without a signal" seems pretty much arbitrary to me for now.
Thoughts?
ryan
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You may be right on all accounts. As I said before, I was getting the 50% time with out signal, but it really had nothing to do with my time off the charger. I would take my phone off the charger at the beginning of the day and wouldn't put it back on until the mid afternoon. My phone showed 50% time with out signal the second I took it off the charger in the morning, even after a restart. The only thing I ever figured that airplane mode actually did for this was to turn off the connection to the network and, once turned back on, allowed it to establish a reasonably solid connection again. Like I said before, I experienced better battery life (lasting a whole day again), I have more bars (3 now where I only had one just before I made the post you quoted) and I no longer have the 50% without signal issue. Of course that all goes away if the phone has to be restarted.
I don't think I ever really had a problem with the actual signal, more of a problem with the way the phone was reporting it. I haven't hit a single problem with 3G so far. My battery was getting sucked down pretty quick though and I do think that the % without signal may have been causing that.
If it helps someone it helps them, if it doesn't it doesn't. Either way, I don't think trying it is going to actually hurt anything.