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Re: Nice hack to increase signal strength

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UPDATED INFO JUL-29

Certain providers need certain items in the RF radio. My buddy had a VZ phone and I also had to change the following items. If they are in your phones RF items then change them. If you cant find them then you dont need them.

NV_FM_AGC_1 (default MIN = 43 MAX = 2
NV_CDMA_MIN_RX_RSSI_I (default -1150)
Interesting - Sprint here. Neither of those items are present in the NV items for me.

Bumping the values down even further to 1749 and 1994 respectively didn't help with signal strength (default ranged from -76 to -81 while tweaked ranged from -16 to -79) but did increase draw on the battery from an average of 159 mA to 184 mA (resting docked, screen on over a 10 minute period).

I am curious if this would work better in a "low" signal area rather than somewhere with a strong signal. Anyone have a convenient low signal area to try? Around here we are short on areas of low signal.....I guess that's not a bad thing though.
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