thanks for letting us all know..i was considering getting ones of these

 

Sorry to hear that Barbara. You may have had better luck with my "twist-tie mod".

 

its funny because you did this for your signal and then almost had a disaster i dont know if you saw my post from last night but i almost had my own disaster trying to improve my signal but by doing it in a totally diff way

 

yeah i went into settings i shouldnt have...problem is my signal actually is a problem i might wind up calling verizon or going there to see if anything can be done doing *228 doesnt help me so it sucks..i mean its not horrible signal but considering its bad where i use the phone the majority of the time thats the problems

 

yea ive seen all the posts im probably going to try and call them this coming week and see what can be done

 

Just curious, was the antenna you bought supposed to be installed in a certain direction? If so, did you try in the opposite direction?

 

Those things are snake oil anyway.

 

If the manufacturer only had to buy a $2.00 part to significantly enhance the phone's performance, they wouldn't hesitate to do so.

 

2nd.

Total Scam. There's no possible way for something like that that's not connected to your antenna to boost the signal to your antenna.

 

yea that was me have them do a PRL load to your phone...it worked for my signal problem alot better than *228 did...

 

I originally tried the *228 and then my phone would to boot - thought it was bricked. I was finally able to patiently get it to boot - and figured out later that it was b/c of the 30-odd apps I had installed all at once, back to back, without rebooting. The *228 was not the culprit.

I went back and enable it again on a much more stable phone, but since I had nothing to really compare it to before, all I can say is that it is working....

Most of those 'guaranteed' to fix something are snake oil products one way or another....

 

Actually there is, but these don't. For the life if me I can't remember the term, but those external car cell antennas that stick to your window, then the other half stick to the inside of the window use the technology. There's no physical connection between the two.

 

There are many things not connected to your antenna that will boost the signal to your antenna (repeaters, Femtocell, cantenna). Granted, the first two are active devices, and the cantenna will make your phone highly directional. But certainly, the antenna booster is not going to do anything to improve the phone's performance.

 

+1

 

I hadn't even heard of these things before, but it's nice to know that if I ever got the itch to buy one, I'd know not to. Glad to hear the phone is still working okay, though. Whew!

 

Aren't those Antenna boosters basically the same exact thing they used to sell to "block the harmful raido waves from your head" to keep you from getting that oh so insidious cellphone induced brain cancer?

Interesting for the same thing to be sold alternately as something to improve reception yet block radio waves.

 

I know this is a bit of a necro, but, this is just such a QFT moment. Succinctity.

 

This sounds like a really good opening to a C-grade horror movie. Or maybe one of those creepy, circa 2007 Verizon commercials..

 

I had one of those boosters in my old lg phone and my son had the same phone. with the booster in i always had 1 bar more signal than him. when i got the droid i took it out of the lg and it has been in my droid ever since. i didnt notice any change at all. the phone works fine but i dont think the signal is any better.

 

"Inductive coupling" is the term for the way the two part antennas work.

Those "antenna boosters" you put behind your battery are designed to work at a specific frequency so it may not have been the right one for the phone. An antenna for any radio transmitter has to be at a multiple of the frequency - 1/2, 1/4, 2x, etc. Most likely, the phone was rebooting because of the antenna mismatch - it was causing too much reflective power to "bounce back" at the phone when it tried to transmit a signal to the cell tower. The "reboot" was a protective measure to keep the phone from being damaged.

No damage done to your phone ... it's smarter than a 5th grader.