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Originally Posted by bubbatex
I only have one question (disclaimer - I do not have a Mogul nor a 700wx) - how do you know the signal strength is weaker if you have not activated it and actually made calls on it?
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good question. although the mogul is not activated, it will still pick up a sprint (or roaming) signal and report signal strength. you could try to place a call and connect to the network, but would get a message that your phone is not activated.
most people are probably looking at how many bars they have. i do not know what the OP is checking. the proper method would be to run a field test on each phone (ive setup treos for customers at work, but ive never owned one and never tried to find out how to do a field test - on the mogul its \windows\fieldtrial.exe) and look at the dbm reading for received signal strength. example: my mogul and Q rssi reporting is flaky by the 'bars', but if you run a field test on each phone you see that the mogul is getting 5-10 dbm better signal than the Q at all times.
'activating' a phone is 2 things - program the device (put the MDN and MSID in) and register the ESN with the telco. this has no effect on the devices ability to connect to the cellular network and report signal strength.