[mikebear]

I used to have full gray bars about 60% of the time and it was driving me nuts as I like to stream music while driving. There were parts of my commute where I new I could listen to music because I had blue bars, and multiple mile stretches where I knew my bars would be gray. Now, I'm blue all the way!
I starting reading the thread about Nova launcher about a week ago and decided to give it a try. With the extra real estate I decided to add a Wi-Fi widget to my home screen so I could turn it off when not at home or the office to conserve some of my precious battery. Well much to my surprise, as I drove around with Wi-Fi off, I was able to get a good strong 3G signal everywhere, even those spots that I ALWAYS went gray. I drove to work this morning and for the first time, never lost blue bars. I guess the Wi-Fi radio was competing or drawing priority from the 3G radio? I'm not sure, but I'm very happy today. I've never seen this posted before, so I wanted to throw it out there.

[watchtheflames]

Get an app called profile scheduler. It let's you set up specific phone profiles for whatever you are doing. I have separate profiles for home, car, work, night, silent, and for just normal use. It will automatically turn off/on things like Wi-Fi Bluetooth, sync, set volumes, and it even turns on spotify for me when I get in the car! One of the best apps I've ever used.

[TabGuy]

mikebear,

This is good news. Especially since you'll now spend more time watching the road and less time watching those 4 bars!

[ConTejas]

^^nice! LOL.

There's also a stock widget called "power control" you can use on any home screen to toggle wi-fi, BT, GPS, sync, screen brightness/auto if you're not into Nova Launcher. Just go to apps and keep scrolling to widgets.

[mikebear]

I grabbed the profile scheduler, it'll do the job nicely, thanx

I threw this out there because so many people complain about their signal, I just wanted to offer some help. It improved mine tremendously.