How come cellphone signal-strength bars are so often wrong?
I’ve often been dropped from calls when I have 5 bars (full) strength signal. Or, on other occasions, I’ve noticed, while on a call that signal strength falls to nothing, the call drops, and then, at that point, the signal jumps to full strength. What the?
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Sometimes what you’re seeing is the cell phone switching from one cell tower to another. Tower A gets further away and the phone switches to tower B. If that process goes wrong, the phone can’t hand off the call properly, so it drops out of service on tower A, then connects to tower B and reestablishes full service—but without your phone call.
As for getting dropped from calls with full signal strength, that’s weird. Could be the other person’s phone, or you phone / service could be weird.
also, sometimes phones exagerate the actual signal strength. Like for example, your phone won’t actually show less than all of the bars until your signal gets really bad
I got together with friends recently and we all have iPhones… there we stood together in Central Park NYC and each of us had different levels of bars and some had Edge while others didn’t… I don’t get it.
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