Reception

[korben dallas]

I get 0 bars at home a lot, but never dropped a call yet on my eris. So far the eris's call quality is better than my storm.

 

[Bswartz95]

I live in a rural part of TN (was that a banjo?) and signal is usually pretty good. We have our dead spots that everyone is familiar with. I do notice that I usually only get 1 or 2 bars at my house(my wifes enV3 usually has 3 or 4). Sometimes if I hold my jaw a certain way and put all my change in my left pocket and stand on one leg I can get three bars. But in town I get full signal everywhere. I think the radio is just a little on the weak side and has trouble holding on to a signal when close to the fringe of service.

I agree with everything you say. I've experienced the same when comparing my Eris to friends enV.

I get 0 bars at home a lot, but never dropped a call yet on my eris. So far the eris's call quality is better than my storm.

How's your battery when you have 0 bars? Do you leave mobile network on?

 

[Frisco]

I was in the basement floor of a large hospital today and despite no bars at all I had a prolongued phone conversation and several texts back and forth between people.

I am not sure whether to attribute that to the Droid Eris, Verizon or both.. but I have never seen anything like that with any device I've had before. With my Blackberry 8330 on Alltel (now Verizon as everone knows) I always had to go up at least on floor to use the device: no bars meant no calls or texts.

 

[swe3t23]

i have been dropping calls lately with my phone. My other household has verizon and they get perfect service.

 

[bassplyr]

If you have weak cellular reception, what about switching to wifi if you have a wireless router in your home?

Thanks,
Roger

 

[swe3t23]

i don't have wireless at home

 

[MisterMcGoo]

My phone dropps calls a lot at work. My q never did. Maybe ill get this phone checked out. Its pretty bad.

 

[Frisco]

My phone dropps calls a lot at work. My q never did. Maybe ill get this phone checked out. Its pretty bad.

I'm really sorry to see that being posted around here. I really thought this device had something about it that caused it to be better at processing weak signal, etc.

As I've posted, I can text and make calls in places that my Blackberry 8330 and Samsung Instinct just could not do that.. I know all those places well. But this Eris has no problem, not a broken word during calls, not a lost call or text, etc. People call me and I call them from those bad places.

Maybe I got a good one? If that's so, it bothers me that quality control might be the issue.