Anyone NOT having antenna reception issues?

Got my iPhone 4 the day it came out. The apple store employee had some issues getting it to activate and popped the sim card out and put it back in and then it seemed fine. I was having a few reception issues here and there and went to ATT and got a new sim card. Since then absolutely no reception problems, no matter how I hold the phone. I even had a friend (chubby guy with sweaty hands) try to death grip my phone and still had 4 bars 🙂.

No issues here. Not that I've actually tried to reproduce the problem. I put a bumper on it when I got it on launch day (I was planning to do so anyway). No dropped calls and signal strength seems the same as it was on my 3G

Regards

What a crock, referring to the normal way most people would hold a phone in their left hand, as a "death grip". The only "death" part, is the death of the signal. I held (gently) an iPhone in my left hand and watched the bars go from 5 to 2, in the presence of a store's microcell.

Agreed, David. Calling it a death grip implies that you have to squeeze the heck out of your phone to get it to lose the signal. If my pinkie even touches that little black band in the lower left corner, I drop from 5 bars to 1 bar in less than 30 seconds. What's worse is when I accidentally have a finger on the bar during a call, the call fails. One finger is hardly a death grip.

Well i am also facing it, but i bought a case for it, and my problem is resolved, i guess you just need a case for it try couple of them, see this one i like this one http://blog.magofe.com/2010/07/vapor4-iphone-4-another-case-for-iphone-4g-recept ions-problem-solution/

Man who are you kidding it's happening to all IP4s. Every person that has one is having this issue. It's not happening to the diehards who don't want to admit to it.

I have no issues. The performance of my IP4 is better than my 3GS in every way. Maybe I'm lucky but I'm a heavy user in the San Francisco Bay area, notorious for bad AT&T coverage. The IP4 has mot cured AT&T's issues but it definitely holds a signal better than my 3GS.

I miss the feeling of the 3GS in my hand and pocket, still haven't got used to the IP4's sharp edges but that's not really a complaint.

No problems with my wife's IP4 either. Both are in cases

I'm not a fanboy or Apple apologist.

All I know is what I see with my two eyes. I am not a Jobs-fanatic and wouldn't make excuses for bad product. I am told by forums and by the media that if I hold my hand this-way or that-way, I can watch the bars drop. With the one iPhone 4 I own, I can not duplicate. My two eyes do not see a bar drop as represented by the upper left corner display of the iPhone.

Is this a scientific experiment? No. Am I causing some signal reception issue that I am not seeing? Perhaps.

Is Jobs' current software explanation the answer? I think, what a crock. In my office my 3G had "no service". I had to turn it to "Airplane Mode" to save battery for the outside world or it would chew down always looking for a signal. The day I received my new IP4, I went to work and for the first time since taking the job (Dec 09), I had bars at my desk. I had two little bars that allowed my wife to call me via the cell, also send and receive texts. I was stoked.

So what part of this is a software problem? The fact that I finally am able to get bars when before I was "no service"? How is that a problem? Is this software fix going to take that away from me?

The forum thread asked if others had no antenna issues. I responded I did not and can successfully say I got bars where there were none.

Nope, I may have issues I cannot see or notice easily, but no dropped calls, good reception and once again in areas I did not get it with my 3GS, if you think I would buy a sim free iPhone and keep it if it did not work...well you would be very off the mark, I like Apple products, but I want to use them, not look at a phone knowing two plastic cups and a piece or string would have better communication properties. So you are wrong, some of us have less issues than others, that simple.

I live in a poor reception area. Orange and T-Mobile are scarcely useable at all, O2 (which my iPhone is on) works, but you would risk no signal if the phone is in your pocket or you’re holding it and in the wrong room.

While my iPhone 4 is sat on the desk, I see 5 bars!!! If I pick it up and hold it normally It drops to 2, Yes - I can squeeze the phone in my left hand and cause a drop-out. Overall the iPhone 4 still performs significantly better than my 3GS , or the 3G or the original iPhone.

Personally I can't reproduce the issue with my phone using all the various methods mentioned here and other forums.

I actually have better reception in some areas than I had with my 3G. I also haven't experienced any dropped calls.

It is very apparent that some have an issue and others don't. No one though ever speculates that there could definitely be a batch of phones with a defective part that not all the phones have. When you manufacture this many phones all the parts aren't from the same batch from the manufactures that Apple purchases from.

Many of us could just be lucky that we received phones with no defective parts in the antenna or proximity sensor.

All Apple has done is create awareness of how holding the phone affects attenuation. They should hire a decent psychologist onto the team - the Antenna engineers seem to have done a perfectly good job.

We used to stand in a certain way in a certain room pressed up against a certain window and be happy that that magically makes the signal good. Every person in the house would have their own magic solution for getting a signal. Now, we all hold the phone in the same way and we’re united at last.

I am not having either call drop issues or call quality issues.

I travel for a living and use my phone in lots of places. I can make calls now in places I could not with my 3GS. The call quality is better everywhere with the new phone.

Notice that I didn't say a word about wether I can recreate the signal strength symptom. If I go out of my way, I can recreate the disappearing bar symptom. However, this does not affect my ability to make a clear consistent call.

Frankly, there seems to be a lot of fuss over something that does not seem to effect the quality of the call, at least for me.

Before anyone calls me stupid for not having the same issues they think they have, my experience may be different than yours, but thatndoes not mean that I am stupid, or that my mother wears combat boots. Chill out.

You are trolling.

Whether the signal drops or not is immaterial if the phone works. Indicators do not matter. Phone calls and fast data that work do.