OK, I did a battery change (charged my extended battery and put the stock back in), which of course did a hard reboot. I now have 58 mbps sitting in my same chair, router in the same place it was yesterday when all i had was 19 mbps. Could it have been the hard reboot? Nothing else changed. LOL, I thought I left battery pulls behind with my 9700 and Torch.
Poor wifi signal on Inspire
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Failed to mention this earlier because I got so excited about the router, but signal strength and speed are not the necessarily tightly correlated. You can get excellent strength with low speed and vice versa. Both metrics can change independent of each other.
Low speed with high signal results in slow but reliable data transfer and connection.
High speed with low signal results in packet loss and dropped or poor connection.
Another thing I have noticed with the inspire its that the wifi status is very laggy. It routinely shows some portion of wifi strength in the status bar long after I have left the range of a hotspot.
While I seldom question the positive results of a good reboot, in this case they could be spurious. The only way you would know for sure is to check transfer speeds by transferring the same file to multiple phones at the same location over your internal wifi network. Using an entire mp3 album or small video would be good.
I also recommend trying the free speedtest.net app
Low speed with high signal results in slow but reliable data transfer and connection.
High speed with low signal results in packet loss and dropped or poor connection.
Another thing I have noticed with the inspire its that the wifi status is very laggy. It routinely shows some portion of wifi strength in the status bar long after I have left the range of a hotspot.
While I seldom question the positive results of a good reboot, in this case they could be spurious. The only way you would know for sure is to check transfer speeds by transferring the same file to multiple phones at the same location over your internal wifi network. Using an entire mp3 album or small video would be good.
I also recommend trying the free speedtest.net app
OK, very valid points. If, when I put back in the extended battery, my reception drops back down, then something weird is going on. LOL. Anyone know a good exorcist? Thanks again for your help.
I did fail to add that I have this thing encased in a Seidio Rugged case (3 layers). I'm sure this is not helping my reception, but I have the same case on my i4 with no issues.
My signal and speed would bounce at times,even sitting in the same spot. I tried everything with the phone and the router. Made a similiar comment like you, about the router or phone being possessed. LoL. I was fixing to take the router back, when I decide to go ahead and move it, since I figured I really needed to do it anyways. Since I have moved it , it has been like night and day. I can even go to the location where the router was previously located and keep a good strong connection. You have a bad location or you have some interference.
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Do you tend to hold the phone towards the top back or into your lap when using it? The microwave wifi signal is very sensitive to the moisture on the surface of your skin (for the same reason your microwave oven cooks your food). Notice if you cup your warm most hand over the upper half of the back of the phone, you should notice a reduction in signal strength as reflected in your status bar.
I always hold my phone on the lower half when using it, so I don't typically notice my hand causing interference, but your problem prompted me to try an experiment.
The lower cellular radio frequency will pass right through your hand, but the higher frequency wifi microwaves will have trouble. Even placing your hand a few inches behind the phone will have an effect.
The iphone antenna is less susceptible because it uses the entire stainless steel case as its antenna.
Turns out the wifi antenna is actually in the sim/sd cover. Cupping both hands over the back of the phone and thus covering it will better demonstrate a loss of signal.
Gps antenna is at top, radio antenna in battery cover.
Gps antenna is at top, radio antenna in battery cover.
I see. Yeah the reception in the living room is the same, no matter if I'm holding it or not. I guess I just need to move my router a few feet.
So the android source I got this from was wrong (had it backwards). Straight from the htc inspire manual:
Radio antenna is in sim compartment
BT and Wifi antenna are under battery compartment
Yes that what I meant. When you cover the top left corner of the phone the signals DECREASES. Does anybody understand what I'm saying. Also Apple product have a tendency to have higher quality of build (processor, memory, etc). You shouldn't really compare Apple product with a lot of other product. This is mainly because Apple's product are somewhat custom made which explains the ridiculous prices. HTC sometimes have annoying death grips as I mentioned before.
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Sorry Robo, I missed what you posted about the wifi signal blockage. The microwave blockage will present itself whenever you place your body parts between your phone and your router in a way that substantially covers the phone. The microwave (wifi) antenna is located in the battery compartment on the right, but, right now as I post this message, my phone is in my left hand with the router to my extreme left such that the battery compartment is farthest away from the router, and I can reduce the the wifi signal to minimal by simply cupping my right hand over the top of the phone.
The microwave antenna can compensate as long as you don't engulf the phone with moist body parts.
Typically custom would mean something designed to suit a specific individual user, not an entire company like Samsung does for Apple. I do agree that Apple designs a more rugged device with better quality control than any other smartphone manufacturer, but I have no problems comparing the inspire to iphone4.
True. But the inspire best in everything except probably the signal department. But duck Apple for suing Samsung and HTC. If they want to beat those companies apple needs to do fare and square. XD
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