Help signal bars

[lordie]

Hi i am new here
On my phone
my signal bar ( reception bars) bars
go from green to white .my data works
on both
When the signal bars are white doesn't that mean
too many on the network (gsm)
I had a cdma phone and it kept going to 1x everytime too
many was on the network .
Is it the same or something different
thanks
lordie

 

[Rukbat]

The CDMA indicator is a signal quality indicator, the GSM indicator is a signal strength indicator. They're totally different. (Actually, since each manufacturer uses the bars to mean whatever they decide they mean, they're basically useless, but most CDMA phones use the inherent quality of signal indication [there's no such signal in GSM] to drive the display.)

 

[lordie]

Thanks
I took my phone to radio shack and they looked at it and said the signal bars change because they are searching for network .