I’ve talked about this before, using the iphone field test to get numbers instead of bars to see what kind of reception you are getting on your phone. When I checked my phone before 2.1, I used to get -99 to -107 db on my couch. Once I updated to 2.1, I was still getting -99 to -107 and during a call… dropped.
So I figured, ok, yet another useless update.
However, a day and a half later, I finally jailbroke (pwned) the phone and did another field test. This time it was coming in at -77db. (lower is better folks) Hmmm.. So the question is; was ATT slow in updating the software on their towers or did jailbreak actually improve my iphone performance!! Well, I’m pretty sure it was ATT, but its fun to think it was jailbreak.
So far, I have not had another dropped call, but I do not use the iphone that much (mostly a skype user) so I’m not sure we can jump to any conclusions.
as a cellular engineer I can tell u that no software update gets done on towers. They probably increased their transmit power or u r served by a new cell
Comment by Jason — October 11, 2008 @ 9:35 am |
I checked the c list before and after so I do not have new cell towers, but increase power I can understand. Is that done remotely through software or does someone physically have to go out there?
Comment by perivision — October 11, 2008 @ 10:20 am |