[PPCGeeks4ME]

Okay, first off, I just reflashed my radio and it did not change the settings back. So please, if you're going to change these values, document every single thing you do and how to change it back, because there is no (to my knowledge) reset hard enough to revert these.

On another note, I drove home from work today with all the values at 1. I got the same dead spots I usually do. Signal strength was great, but the phone still couldn't find an active set. Moreover, the phone has been acting generally weird: the signal strength meter flashes between four bars and none, I occasionally hear the "connection established" sound when I shouldn't, and there were several times when the fields in the HDR section of FieldTrial showed completely garbage values.

As I suspected, grabbing noise and making the phone think it's a signal is probably not helping anything, and as others have said, it may be hard on the radio. I'm going back to my defaults now. That was fun while it lasted.

Next time I plan on visiting a known dead spot, I might try it again.