Comments on: Use Field Test Mode to See True iPhone Signal Strength as Numbers Instead of Bars

By: alaskan master

alaskan master — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:08:30 +0000

-34 is the signal that you will see standing right in front of a UMTS sector (4G tower)

By: SmashDanny

SmashDanny — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:49:37 +0000

It automatically switches from Bars to Numbers. For Example I open WhatsApp and the Bars change to Numbers. Then I tap on the Numbers change it to Bars, but maybe after 2 minutes it switches again.

By: Wicho

Wicho — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:09:54 +0000

Just tap the Numbers and switch between Bars or Numbers.

By: SmashDanny

SmashDanny — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:53:29 +0000

No that didn’t worked. I tried it just with pressing the home button and with force quit. Also restarted my iPhone.

By: Koen

Koen — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:35:36 +0000

I assume you have force quit Field Test to show numbers instead of bars. To go back to bars you just need to re-open Field Test and everything will go back to normal.

By: SmashDanny

SmashDanny — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:56:49 +0000

Is there a way to disable this ?

By: frank

frank — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:13:48 +0000

This is great for 3G but what about wifi? I’d like to be able to get the reading on my iPad/iPhone on how good my wifi signal is…

By: evge

evge — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:01:00 +0000

I can’t seem to get rid of the bar at the bottom that showed up that covers the names at the bottom of my home screen. Any ideas besides whats been listed here.

By: fido

fido — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:05:39 +0000

Should work on every iPhone regardless of carrier, but you will have to try it to find out for sure.

By: vdiv

vdiv — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:20:00 +0000

Aaaah, numbers… But what do they really mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:59:50 +0000

This has been most useful to me over the last few weeks. Our reception is -45 a few hundred metres away, drops to -65 a hundred metres away then right down to -100 to -116 in or outside our house.
Next to impossible to make a call for more than a couple of minutes. Telstra doesn’t care.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:28:15 +0000

Does it exist for android ? ^.^

By: Andy Matheson

Andy Matheson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:22:27 +0000

Does this work in the UK?

By: Mike Stead

Mike Stead — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:32:05 +0000

Garbage.

The bars are a QoS score not a signal strength score. In 3G networks it is possible to have very poor call quality with strong signal strength, and a perfectly good connection at very low signal strengths.

3G is all about dominant-to-interfering carrier ratios. Suggesting this gives a more accurate idea of call quality is fundamentally incorrect.

By: Avenged110

Avenged110 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:13:26 +0000

Ftr, I have an iPhone 4 on AT&T and I can only get it to drop about 1 bar when bridging the antennas. I don’t use a case and have never had any issues which surprised me, considering I’m left handed and always death grip it…