Thanks, i have an Audiovox 9500 right now and im gonna get a used v60 just for fun. Do you know if it has good reception? i go to college in a fringe area with terrible reception.
I always had excellent reception on my v60i. It's known to be one of the best performers on Verizon's network.
Ceno, my v60i, seems to perform okay, but, seems reception sometimes sucks...did you always pull your antenna up when you were using it?
I'm in a well covered area, but, at times, it will get 3 bars with the antenna down, but 5 with it up. Just wondering if I need to have it checked out?
Bars really dont matter in a Digital Area, the information is digital, its either there or not. Do a self service and update your PRL.
Sniffer- Getting only 3 bars is nothing to have the phone checked out over. I doubt anything is wrong with it, your coverage area is just different than mine.
Cop: As always, I have my PRL already updated. Ceno: I always considered our coverage areas, but, with my previous phones (Nokia 5185i, Kyo 2035a,Moto v120c, and Moto v120e) always got 5 bars all the time. I'm guessing it's just the repositioning of towers around here..related to my specific PRL?
No, won't have anything to do with your PRL, that only controls what SIDs your phone looks for in what order, not what towers it uses. The other thing you have to consider is that every phone is different, in terms of how well it picks up signal, as well as what the signal meter displays. You may have two phones side by side, and in test mode, they may both show a -60db for signal strength, but one may show 4 bars, and the other show 5. The signal meter on your phone isn't a very accurate depiction of how well the radio is performing. It only reads the strength of the paging channel, which your calls don't even get processed on. Secondly, with two phones side by side in test mode, on may show -60 db while the other shows -80 db. Some radios perform better than others. Secondly, CDMA is a "power efficient spread spectrum"... meaning that it will pull only the amount of signal from the tower that it needs to successfully complete a call. If it's not showing full signal on the signal meter, this is not neccessarily a bad thing, it may mean that that's all it needs at that time.
