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Icyman

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I checked the differences in reception for the standard battery cover vs the extended battery cover. I found that with it laying on my desk there was a -1dBm difference with the standard cover being better. But the difference with the device in hand vs on desk was much larger.

standard battery on desk = -85dBm
extended battery on desk = -86dBm
standard battery in hand = -102dBm
extended battery in hand = -102dBm

Conclusion: no difference in reception between battery covers.

One issue I saw today was that in my local Home Depot I completely lost signal. I tried rebooting with no effect, failed calls three times. I've never had an issue getting reception with my iPhone in this store. In Addition, my wife's LG Cosmos had a decent signal. she tried calling me with it going straight to VM each time. This is a problem.
 
Icyman said:
I checked the differences in reception for the standard battery cover vs the extended battery cover. I found that with it laying on my desk there was a -1dBm difference with the standard cover being better. But the difference with the device in hand vs on desk was much larger.

standard battery on desk = -85dBm
extended battery on desk = -86dBm
standard battery in hand = -102dBm
extended battery in hand = -102dBm

Conclusion: no difference in reception between battery covers.

One issue I saw today was that in my local Home Depot I completely lost signal. I tried rebooting with no effect, failed calls three times. I've never had an issue getting reception with my iPhone in this store. In Addition, my wife's LG Cosmos had a decent signal. she tried calling me with it going straight to VM each time. This is a problem.
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What was your power setting set at? Performance, Normal, or economy? Settings>Power if you're not sure. I try to keep mine on Performance, but I think I'm going to try to keep it on "Normal" for now.
 
Wow, after dropping my power settings to "normal", I lost 4G connectivity.....I guess I'm going back to a higher performance setting. Try changing the setting and then rebooting, see if that helps (unless you're already in performance mode).
 
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