Omnia Signal Strength - Which Rom is best?

[Guest berrymwb]

I have to admit that I am pretty disappointed with the signal strength of my Omnia. I have a 1.5 hr train commute and my surf time has been dramatically reduced from compared to my old N73 due to loss of signal.

I'm on HG5 rom and people to indicate better signal strength with different roms. Is this really the case (I would have thought this is mostly hardware dependent) or do people really find better results with different roms?

If you genuinely think that signal strength has improved with a specific rom, can you post the rom version number?

I would toy with a few roms, but bricked the first Omnia so really don't want to do a trial and error run.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Edited October 12, 2008 by berrymwb

[Guest Ingvarr]

Signal strength is hardware dependant, its mostly related to antenna and amplifier layout.

All firmware can do is to adjust how much bars it display for given strength in dB.

[Guest 6gate]

I guess it also have to depend on wat location the user is at. :lol:

[Guest Ingvarr]

I meant mainly a difference between different phones. If a given phone, say, have bigger antenna and lower SNR amplifier, it will "generally receive better". Smaller antenna, worse quality amplifier - less reception, no matter where.

I would say Omnia is average in this respect. Its definitely can be better, but its not the worst either. HTC Diamond is worse for example (i suspect due to smaller case and less antenna space).

Edited October 12, 2008 by Ingvarr

[Guest adzrm]

my d900 was much much worse.. i'm satisfied with i900 reception also because sound quality it's better

[Guest berrymwb]

People are reporting different battery life with different roms, presumably because different pieces of hardware are working harder or lighter.

Is it possible that different roms increase or decrease receiver/transmitter power?

I have no idea, I'm no expert.

Edited October 12, 2008 by berrymwb

[Guest Ingvarr]

People are reporting different battery life with different roms, presumably because different pieces of hardware are working harder or lighter.

Is it possible that different roms increase or decrease receiver/transmitter power?

I have no idea, I'm no expert.

Since to increase heard voice quality, you have to increase cell tower transmitter power, I would say ROM will not help here :lol:

[Guest berrymwb]

Since to increase heard voice quality, you have to increase cell tower transmitter power, I would say ROM will not help here :lol:

Yes indeed. You are right.