Dial *18 when your signal is bad.

jtaylor13 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 04:29 PM

I was told this by sprint tech guy.It seems to work for me.anyone really know??

tool2269 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 04:36 PM

http://www.everythingwm.com/forum/mo...html#post65705

post 4
Can you hear me now?

Yes--that can be frustrating, I know, but dial *18. That is the number for Sprint's Cell Tower Signal Enhancement, and please don't ask me to remember who told me--but it works! I locks onto your present location and boosts your signal by at least one bar (I've gotten a two-bar boost @ some locations).

This presupposes the need to dial *18 at each low-signal location but it's as free as I can see on my statements and it works. My work suprervisor tried it on her Sprint phone in a blank spot in north central Texas (Stephenville) and was pleased with the results.

Hope to hear (no pun intended, but it's a good one!) that you and everyone else out there w/Sprint finds this useful.

EDIT: I posted this info on another forum and a poster said his signal bars went from 2/3 up to 5 bars.

**OMJ** · #3 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 07:54 PM

interesting...

Mightymike314 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 07:57 PM

just tried it and went from 3 bars to 4 (5 for a second) then back to 4 consistently.

dan330 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 09:21 PM

wow.. cool.. i will remember that...

guessing.. it might pump up the battery power... to juice up your signal. and eat your battery a little.

but great if works and would be handy. Hope I remember to use it!

**themuffinman** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 09:28 PM

Interesting indeed, I will need to check this out once I get to my office since I get 2 bars max at that location.

tech · #7 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 09:59 PM

i dont see no difrence on my end

NuLLKiLL · #8 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 09:59 PM

Hmm it must boost our cell phone's radio signal.

I know our phone are capable of pulling in much better signals but it is regulated due to the cancer causing elements. After the Nokia cancer thing they put a limit on how many, I want to say watts but could be off, the radio could put out to limit damage to our brains!

**OR78** · #9 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 10:09 PM

Holy crap.....I never thought this would work...lol....I went from one bar to 3....its not much but better than what I had. Thanks for sharing....

pinkbunniz · #10 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 11:30 PM

Yeah Im usually at 3 bars where i am, took me up to 5 but only for a short while not long enough for anything special tho, unfortunately.