Signal strength?
 

How good is your signal strength? My almost always sits at -96 or -101db which means usually one or two bars are showing. This is much worse than my Droid which usually gave me three or four in the same areas. I have found that the fascinate has call quality issues in areas my Droid did not also.

Any one else notice this behavior?

Re: Signal strength?
 

epic isnt so great either if it helps ya feel better. i can put any wm device next to it and all wm phones are better but sprint sent me free airwave so im not as unhappy.

Re: Signal strength?
 

No, unfortunately it doesn't. Not sure I can keep a phone that has these issues since I live in an area where signal is not great most of the time.

Re: Signal strength?
 

The radio chipset should be the same as the Droid aka the Qualcomm QSC6085.

Re: Signal strength?
 

Hmm. I'll have to look in to that. However, I do notice a distinct difference.

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; MSM Build/MASTER) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1)

Even with the same chipset, the antenna configuration may have an impact.

Re: Signal strength?
 

havent looked at any numbers but i can receive and make calls with the Fascinate places i couldnt with my TP. now i can actually use my phone in all of my house instead of at the front door and the kitchen. so far, no problems and calls sound fine.

Re: Signal strength?
 

Just a hair better than the TP2 was.

At home, it is much better, as in I can make and place calls from anywhere in the house. With the TP2 I had no service in my livingroom. At the office, still pretty much no service.

On a side note, I wonder how WiFi affects service. At the office, their is an "N" access point about 5-6 feet behind me, and at home in the living room, their is one directly below me in the basement.

CMS

Re: Signal strength?
 

IT doesn't..WIFI is on 2.4ghz band and 5ghz band..CDMA is 800 and 1900 MHz bands...

Re: Signal strength?
 

The signal reporting is a bug as far as I know and is planned to be fixed with an upcoming update (DJ05), along with a bunch of other issues. With DI01, the signal reporting is off and will only display up to -86dBm or something like that, but with the update, it's reporting better and also the bars seem to display more accurately.