{"id":273,"date":"2008-09-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-09-27T01:54:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T08:54:13","slug":"did-the-iphone-21-update-reduce-dropped-calls-not-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/did-the-iphone-21-update-reduce-dropped-calls-not-at-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the iphone 2.1 update reduce dropped calls? Not at first.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about this before, using the iphone field test to get numbers instead of bars to see what kind of reception you are getting on your phone. When I checked my phone before 2.1, I used to get -99 to -107 db on my couch. Once I updated to 2.1, I was still getting -99 to -107 and during a call&#8230; dropped.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured, ok, yet another useless update.<\/p>\n<p>However, a day and a half later, I finally jailbroke (pwned) the phone and did another field test. \u00a0This time it was coming in at -77db. (lower is better folks) Hmmm.. So the question is; was ATT slow in updating the software on their towers or did jailbreak actually improve my iphone performance!! \u00a0Well, I&#8217;m pretty sure it was ATT, but its fun to think it was jailbreak.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I have not had another dropped call, but I do not use the iphone that much (mostly a skype user) so I&#8217;m not sure we can jump to any conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, BTW, to get the field test, get to your phone keypad and enter *3001#12345#* then click call.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The iphone 4 death grip drop call fail should be fixed with iOS4.0.1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/the-iphone-4-death-grip-drop-call-fail-should-be-fixed-with-ios4-0-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The iphone 4 death grip drop call fail should be fixed with iOS4.0.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Will the new iphone4 antenna reduce dropped calls?  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When I checked my phone before 2.1, I used to get -99 to -107 db on my couch. Once I updated to 2.1, I was still getting&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/did-the-iphone-21-update-reduce-dropped-calls-not-at-first\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,74],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","tag-dropped-calls","tag-iphone-21"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-4p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}