Signal Strength

[Guest B12]

I have two omnias both on Vodafone and I am using DXHH3.

I have noticed that my signal strength indicator is going up and down continously on both phones with lots of time having no signal at all.

I do live in a notoriously bad area for mobiles, but every other phone I have does not do this

Namely my Nokia n95 and SonyK800 - both of these always showing full signal

ANyone have any idea why its dancing around so much on the omnia - It seems even worse when I am holding it as opposed to leaving it on the table

COuld it be this Rom perhaps ?

V. Interested to hear any one elses observations ...

Steve

[Guest B12]

I have noticed that if the phone is held in my hand so the back panel is totally covered, the signal strength will drop straight down to 0 - not available.

Does noone else have any issues with signal strength at all ??

Steve

[Guest Ingvarr]

Just don't bother about it - as long as you can receive/make calls, its good ;)

Some phones just display indicator more "optimistically" and update it less often.

[Guest msjfb]

I remember seeing somewhere a diagram that showed that the Omnia antennas are on the bottom of the unit...

I think this is a little unusual (normally near the top ?), but could explain variations in reception when holding it.

[Guest mjbrooky]

I've noticed that the antena doesn't seem to be as good as other mobiles I've owned on the same network. For example I leave my phone in a closed drawer of my tool box at work, when I come back every now and again to check on the phone It shows no service, I leave the drawer open a jar and it picks up reception. Before with my old SE mobiles they would happily receive texts and missed calls etc whilst kept in the closed drawer. However with the Omnia I don't get anything, when I know for a fact I've been a text, until it obviously regains a signal again.

[Guest new2city]

before, I bought my omnia, a friend of mine who owns a D900(or was it U?) told me that Samsung phones, in general have very weak radios... Seems like he was was right....

Well, at least I know I can "hide" from unwanted phone calls in certain areas of my production line...(I work in a factory).

[Guest Reuben (MY)]

Omnia wasn't wind prove ;) the signal fly away whenever wind blows

hmm.... back serious, i do suspect it's due to WM os, because my HP also have the same problem (running WM 5.0) but iPhone doesn't seem to behave that way.

[Guest Ingvarr]

Its enigma to me why do you assume that indicator is showing 100% accurate signal strength ;)

And also that you assume that "1 indicator bar" is some standard measure same across all the phones. It set to whatever value phone manufacturer wants it to be.

Edited September 26, 2008 by Ingvarr