My iphone 3Gs and iOS 4.0.1!!

your signal remains the same, the way its displayed has changed.

The new update shows the bars correctly now. Before they were showing full bars when really you only may have had 2 or 3. Have you not seen all the news about this on the web?

no, however in Buffalo anyway the whole city is in good 3G coverage and I can make a call from anywhere so how many bars i have really isnt a problem, and my data speeds are around 2000kbs everywhere on average.

With you on that Atticaz , the update is complete c **, i'm sitting next to the cell tower and the bars have nearly dropped off completely.

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Why do you and so many others care how many signal bars the display showed? The most important thing is whether the iPhone can hold a voice call with good audio quality and data stream at any particular location. As far as I can tell, iPhone works very well and is very competitive to other cell phones out there. So stop being obsessed over what's displayed.

So don't worry about the signal strength display until the iPhone is dropping calls and losing data.

i have iphone 3g and got the 4.0 update and the phone itself is slower and messing up my apps... its ridiculous... and i also during the update lost all my songs off my ipod on the phone that i purchased thru itunes... does anyone know how to get a hold of these ppl so i can get them back... i had like 60 songs... 1.29 a piece! i need help.. i've called 1-800-my-apple and tried to get a hold of tech support but never get anyone... i'm desperate...

The problem with the stupid formula, as far as i can see it's making weaker signal look stronger an stronger signal look weaker, i'm downgrading

Every mobile phone has an algorithm that display the signal strength in some non-linear relationship to the actual signal strength. So what Apple used on the iPhone is nothing out of the ordinary for these devices. This whole paranoia is significantly a mental problem of the users and 4.0.1's algorithm tries to address that.

I'll tell you what's got me worried. I just noticed that you (SoGood) have only two bars of reception on this forum (looking to left of post) and OMG. I've only got two as well. I realize the forums are provided free of charge but I don't know...

It took me awhile to train myself into not answering my phone when I didn't recognize a phone number. If it's someone I know, they leave a message. Usually it's not or they would most likely already be listed in my contacts and therefore would display a name instead of a number. That's also about the time I stopped looking at the bars on my phone unless I really lost connection.

I just did the upgrade from 4.0 to 4.0.1 on my 32g 3Gs and got an error with the firmware installation. Of course, I did a backup before doing the upgrade. I had to boot into recovery mode and do a restore, which took about one hour because I have so many songs, videos, and photos on my phone. I compared my signal bars with my wife's iPhone which runs 4.0 and the bars are bigger and fatter. My iPhone is also speedier, but I think that is a result of the restore, not the update.

I've had an iPhone since January 2009 and have NEVER, not once, had a dropped call from AT&T. I switched from Verizon and now enjoy rollover minutes and a more crisp, clear connection.

I would beware of doing this update - as anyone should with any update. And do a backup. Everything should be fine - but I don't feel this is a necessary update for anyone using an iPhone 3G or 3Gs.

As for getting an iPhone 4, I'm going to do it. I think the "death grip" is a non issue. Yes, people see their bars go down, but it has no effect on whether or not they will have a dropped call - that's what everyone is saying that has an iPhone 4.

I know people don't like to see less signal bare, but I really think it is more accurate now. My 4.0.1 3GS works fine but I too show less bars at times compared to my new iPhone 4 with 4.0 I just picked up today. Outside both show 4-5 bars as if nothing were different. Sometimes my 3GS drops to 2-3 bars while my i4 shows 5. Inside my work building my 3GS shows 1-2 bars at best while my i4 shows 4-5 bars. I know the signal is weak in our building because I often loose data connection. It seems the new 4.0.1 really is showing a more accurate signal. I haven't dropped any calls on either phone so far.

While everyone else seems to be obsessed still with how many bars they have I've been poking around with my iPhone to see if they actually fixed anything else. I just find it hard to believe that all they did was change the bars. Interestingly enough, I previously was not able to make my bars drop to even 4 no matter how much I "smothered" the phone in my hands, but now I can. Whatever... it's still working the same as far as I can tell so far. Something that I have noticed that has been improved is that when using a keyboard to post on forums here now, I can still see text as I type. In iOS4, once the text got to a certain length in a field in Safari, I would no longer be able to see what I was typing. The text now displays much better for text entry into Safari.

The phone seems a bit snappier too. I've been looking at a system utility app too to see how memory is being managed and I believe they may have made some fixes there as well. It will take a few days to be sure though.

Dude I know I'm furious.... I had a perfectly good working I phone 3gs earlier today now I can't make a call. I called apple and they couldn't give me an answer. They said that restoring was a " long term fix for now" lol. And it didn't even fix it. Now I have a death grip on the right side of my phone. I'm sooooooo done.

I've just upgraded my iPhone 3GS 32GB to iOS 4.0.1 and am now only getting 2-3 signal bars inside the building instead of full bars I previously had. I haven't tested outside my office yet. But, I won't worry to much about the signal bars as long as I don't get drop-off calls or data streaming problem.