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WiFi deathgrip

Has anyone noticed that when you have the phone in landscape mode and you have the keyboard out and you are typing you loose wifi signal? Then remove left hand and signal comes back? I will have to make a video when I get home and have a camera to do so. Anyone else?
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Just tried it and nope...My signal doesnt even change 1 bar.

Your holding it wrong lol
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I tried this and I did lose one bar of wifi. I also tried with the keyboard closed by covering the top of the phone with my hand, and also lost a bar of wifi. But it was not a deathgrip issue where signal was instantly lost. Guess this just means the wifi antenna is on the top of the G2, and obstructing it has an effect.
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Defiantly not holding it wrong...and not apply hardly any pressure. I didn't notice it at all at home...but at my in laws. Possibly not a very strong wifi signal but makes 100% difference when I have my hand over the top of the phone. I've had an email waiting to send and as soon as I removed my hand the email sent. Will post video hopefully tonight showing how little pressure is applied and how strongly the signal is affected.
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ultma75 said:
Your holding it wrong lol
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Thanks Steve lol
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I don't lose any bars from my wifi. That's odd though.
I lose a bar from my phone signal.
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Death grip on atrix

I am experiencing a iphone like death grip on my atrix. Anyone else?
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Nope, not one bit.
Edit: By not one bit, I mean that under normal circumstances of me holding the phone how I normally would it does not drop even 1 bar. I've made no attempt to purposefully smother it because thats well... stupid. If it works how you use it, why do you care if you can go out of your way to smother out a signal?

care to elaborate?

tried it, like on any phone out there...it goes down a bit but not badly. I even tried to smother it with both hands while running pandora, it dropped one bar. I'm not concerned with it. Motorola has been building radios for a long time, they know how to do that stuff.

Every single phone loses some signal when you basically cover it with your hands and squeeze. The reason the iphone was singled out so bad was because you could basically use one finger to short out the antenna and lose like 3 plus bars.
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Although I did manage to make it lose 2 bars of signal strength. My Vulcan death grip did not work. I then realized it was a Borg, as it proceeded to assimilate me.

Mine usually goes to 1 bar when i hold the phone in left hand. Was just curious.
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xorpion said:
Mine usually goes to 1 bar when i hold the phone in left hand. Was just curious.
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goes to one bar from full bars or were you already in a low signal area?

[Q] Antenna Problem

Hey im curious if anyone else is having this same problem. Every time grab my phone like im going to use it...i go down atleast 1 or 2 bars signal...does anyone else have this problem??

em2drvr03 said:
Hey im curious if anyone else is having this same problem. Every time grab my phone like im going to use it...i go down atleast 1 or 2 bars signal...does anyone else have this problem??
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I've noticed quirks like that on almost every phone I've owned. It doesn't do it every time though, and doesn't seem to matter where on the phone your hand is.

All devices without a physical antenna do this. Which is almost every phone now a days. All my phones done this.
Try this, hold your device sideways in landscape mode wrapping your index finger along the side, right on top of the ear speaker. You'll see your bars increase.
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coupetastic-droid said:
All devices without a physical antenna do this. Which is almost every phone now a days. All my phones done this.
Try this, hold your device sideways in landscape mode wrapping your index finger along the side, right on top of the ear speaker. You'll see your bars increase.
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yup they do...so i guess just deal with it??

em2drvr03 said:
yup they do...so i guess just deal with it??
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Basically, untill they make better internal antenna strip later down the line.
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coupetastic-droid said:
All devices without a physical antenna do this. Which is almost every phone now a days. All my phones done this.
Try this, hold your device sideways in landscape mode wrapping your index finger along the side, right on top of the ear speaker. You'll see your bars increase.
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while patting your head and rubbing your tummy. oh also juggling upside down and buying an iphone 4

Nicgraner said:
while patting your head and rubbing your tummy. oh also juggling upside down and buying an iphone 4
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dont forget while hopping on one foot...

TBH,
I had never had the IPhone issue with a phone until I owned an Iphone....and then I owned a mytouch 4g and my wi-fi signal would drop depending on how i held it....
But nothing too bad

carmeng4evr said:
TBH,
I had never had the IPhone issue with a phone until I owned an Iphone....and then I owned a mytouch 4g and my wi-fi signal would drop depending on how i held it....
But nothing too bad
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Actually, nothing is as bad as the iphone antenna. My friends iphone was horrible on that.
Yea, the mytouch is not so bad. I'm usually always holding my phone in landscape which is how it gets the best reception, so its all good.
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I think every phone does
My wifi signal even loses a few bars for some reason when I do, and the router is ~20ft away without any walls

EDIT:
****, wrong forum.. sorry!!

Think I may have discovered something Wi-fi

I've noticed that when I covered the back of the phone with my hand (particularly the middle area) the wifi signal dropped a bar, but when let go, it would suddenly go back up again. This isn't particularly relevant if you're only like 2 feet away from the access point but just thought its something to bear in mind, if this has already been discussed then I apologize,i missed the discussion
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I think this is true for all phones. Cover the antenna area and the signal is due to go down a little at least. Look at the iphone 4, cover that tiny gap and you can go from having 4 bars to having 1 or no service. Same goes for wifi with another area. My Blackberry also has this. All phones do. It just depends on where the manufacturer put the antenna.

Yeah I remember the uproar that came with the iphone 4 antenna but that turned out to be a myth created by people who hated the iphone is what i heard
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Don't know if it's been discussed but this is a common occurrence in most phones. You'll probably lose a bar of cell if you cover the bottom part of the phone as well since that's where the cell antenna is.

Posted weeks ago as well .
Bottom halve of the phone drops WiFi one bar .
Did not on SGS 1 .
jje

cina182003 said:
Yeah I remember the uproar that came with the iphone 4 antenna but that turned out to be a myth created by people who hated the iphone is what i heard
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Lol is that why apple sent out 1000's of free cases due to the lack of reception when holding the bottom of it.
All phones suffer..Ive noteced my SG2 loses a bar or 2 when I hold it a certain way

cina182003 said:
Yeah I remember the uproar that came with the iphone 4 antenna but that turned out to be a myth created by people who hated the iphone is what i heard
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A myth? Tell that to my apple loving cousin.
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no its real, you only have to test it yourself to see it, it does effect all phones some a lot more than others, this phone does seem to have it quite badly albeit held in a specific way - which incidentally is the way most people hold it, for me WI-FI was a bit of a fail for the SGS2, however the many great and fantastic elements to this phone more than makes up for this slight inconvenience.

True for most phones. My 5800 Express Music even had a chart showing the different antennas, and told you not to hold there because you would loose reception.
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Quite a dip in signal bars but no real change in actual performance for me.
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[Q] Dark line on my screen.

One thing that annoying me on my nexus 4. You can see on the left of my screen, straight dark line from top to bottom. I haven't drop my nexus before. It appeared on dark colours especially grey colours. For your info its start to appeared when 10 minutes screen on after about 20 minutes screen off. Is it normal? Anyone here have the same problem?
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Holy damn. I was just about to make a thread. But mine can't be screenshot. Its seen just like you said and I can flick the different home screens and it stays in the left I've flashed back to stock and still there. Been a week. It got less noticeable when used less. I'm wondering if its because I'm near a big subwoofer in my living room. I know TV used to do this like a bleed line. Have you heard any data yet??? I will send mine back. Please let me know...
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Droid2drummer said:
Holy damn. I was just about to make a thread. But mine can't be screenshot. Its seen just like you said and I can flick the different home screens and it stays in the left I've flashed back to stock and still there. Been a week. It got less noticeable when used less. I'm wondering if its because I'm near a big subwoofer in my living room. I know TV used to do this like a bleed line. Have you heard any data yet??? I will send mine back. Please let me know...
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I dont know what have caused this until now..can you attach picture here? I'm use other phone to take picture..
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i have used lcd test to test this issue but it doesn't appear on my phone

Mine is the same

meangreenie said:
Mine is the same
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can you attach picture? for your info it start happened when I'm using franco kernel..maybe related to voltages drop? how about you?
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same here. Just noticed having it after 4 months.. I don't think it's always been there though.. its pretty recent I guess.. don't know what happened though cause I didn't drop it or anything

bellasahbella said:
same here. Just noticed having it after 4 months.. I don't think it's always been there though.. its pretty recent I guess.. don't know what happened though cause I didn't drop it or anything
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it happened to me for a month now..it always been there..will claim for warranty soon from LG service center in my country..
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