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Root Weak Signal, CM 10.1 Roms

hdv1990

Newbie
So I just did S-OFF, and am at HBOOT 1.50. I flashed the Angry Beans rom and noticed I barely had any bars, then I tried Pacman, and then Wild for the night, All had the same weak signal, less than 1 bar in most cases.

I can flash harmonia rom and get normal signal strength. Anyone else experiencing this? Did I forget to flash a radio or something?

Thanks!

Edit: OR is it like the Iphone 4 where the bar meter was just off, and it turns out I just have really bad signal?
 
AOSP ROMs will always show your "true" signal strength. The meter isn't off. If anything its likely skewed in the stock ROM.

Most of the the stock ROMs or stock based ROMs will tell you a little white lie about the actual strength of your signal. Why? It makes the carrier look better.

Remember, flashing ROMs doesn't touch your radio, they can just change how its displayed
 
i have noticed, at least in my neck of the woods, that my reception at home went from 4-5 bars(full service) to 0-1 bars. I contacted VM about this and they told me they show no outages in my area, and to reset the phone, blah blah and see if that fixes the issue.
Long story short, i have 5 old sprint phones, 4 VM phones, 1 boost phone (not all activated) and they all show the same drop in signal strength. Where as previously my VM and Sprint phones all showed full bars. So it definitely isn't just my phone (which is running angry bean) or my wifes phone (which is running harmonia) some of the other phones are bone stock, some have other roms.
This all started about a month ago. So not sure what is going on but if VM/Sprint can't figure it out soon i may just have to go get a Straight talk phone that uses Verizon towers.
I've noticed a lot of people talk about signal drop issue in the angry bean rom page, but i don't think it really is a rom issue.
 
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