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Serious antenna problem!

With the external antenna a lot of people are having signal issues. If you hold the phone in a way that, your hand covers or touches all three sections of the band, the signal just falls almost instantly. It's terrible and probably the reason for the bumpers.

I mean, why would you really need to protect stainless steel!?


I have a cell tower literally yards away from my house and can destroy all 5 bars by holding it a certain way.

Is everyone having this problem!?

Message was edited by: RyanGSXR

iPhone 4, Windows 7, Close cell tower too!!!

Posted on Jun 23, 2010 11:46 PM

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Jun 24, 2010 12:29 PM in response to livingdead

It was/is an issue for quite a few 3GS owners including me.
It only seems to happen in poor reception areas. I can have my phone on a table with 2 bars, pick it up, hold it in a certain way, and watch the bars go from 2 to 1 to 0 to 'searching' to 'no signal'. Then put it back down on the table and watch the process happen in reverse!
I just ignore the problem as I kept on being told it was a network issue here.

Serious antenna problem!

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