Reception Question LG CU 400

I recently bought a home antenna for my LG CU 400 phone. Could not get a signal at the house. The antenna works fine and I'm able to use the phone at home. My daughter has a Nokia 6102i and get get three bars without an antenna. I fired up an old Nokia 6010 I still had. Took the SIM card from the LG and put it in the Nokia 6010 and am able to get three bars. Are the Nokia phones that much better than other phones ( even an older Nokia 6010 ) ? TIA


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On 2007-11-14, bigtoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently bought a home antenna for my LG CU 400 phone. Could not
> get a signal at the house. The antenna works fine and I'm able to
> use the phone at home. My daughter has a Nokia 6102i and get get
> three bars without an antenna. I fired up an old Nokia 6010 I still
> had. Took the SIM card from the LG and put it in the Nokia 6010 and
> am able to get three bars. Are the Nokia phones that much better
> than other phones ( even an older Nokia 6010 ) ? TIA

It is possible the phone is that much worse, but there's at
least one other possibility. If you search around in the network
selection menus, can you find a way to tell the phone to not use
3G/UMTS/WCDMA, or whatever they call it, and just stick with
GSM?

If you are in a place where AT&T has both 850 MHz and 1900 MHz
spectrum, the phone might be preferring 1900 MHz for 3G, or
doing something similarly silly related to 3G on the phone.

Dennis Ferguson

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:37:13 -0500, "bigtoe" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I recently bought a home antenna for my LG CU 400 phone. Could not get a signal at the house. The antenna works fine and I'm able to use the phone at home. My daughter has a Nokia 6102i and get get three bars without an antenna. I fired up an old Nokia 6010 I still had. Took the SIM card from the LG and put it in the Nokia 6010 and am able to get three bars. Are the Nokia phones that much better than other phones ( even an older Nokia 6010 ) ? TIA
>
>


Cellular carriers make almost any signal record more bars these days
as it makes for fewer support calls. Different manufactureres switched
how the bars react to signals at different times.

Basically bars are almost meaningless anymore.