50% cell signal

I'm running bb v0.1 with the most recent base band. I noticed my battery life is god awful and was going through what was eating the power up. It looks like my phone isn't connected to the tower or something like that for 50 % of the time. Is there anything I can do or should I go back the previous baseband?

Thanks,
Brian

 

I'm getting the same thing. I used to see this when i was running CM 5.0.6 I think. if you put your phone into airplane mode for a few seconds then turn it off it seems to fix it till your next reboot.

 

I had thought we'd seen the last of that mother, but I noticed it on BB 0.1 as well. I also saw it on either Onix 1.2 or Team Chaos, but can't remember which; I've flashed so many in so few days!

I have not yet seen it on Chevy's SS4, however.

 

*228 option 2 fixed it for me on birdman's FLY rom. Worth a shot on BB.

 

what are yall using to monitor the time spent without signal/searching?

edit, nevermind found it in whats using the battery...im on BB v.1 and i have 0% time without signal

 

Settings > About Phone > Battery Usage > tap Cell Standby

 

I just looked setting>about phone>battery use>cell standby. It says "time without signal" 50%

 

try a *22899 or *228 option 2...

 

Mine is at 24% but i have no idea what it was before i upgraded to the P Baseband, which uses 12% of my battery usage.

 

I've had to revert our Droids (the wifey and I) to the C_01.41.00R froyo baseband because with the C_01.43.01P baseband signal constantly fluctuated between 3G 3-bars to 3G 1-bar to 1x, and so forth... C_01.41.00R is just much more stable for us with even greater signal strength as well!

 

I've had the same issue, with 3G and WiFi. .41 did the same thing. Going back to 3E.03P and see if that does the trick, 3G/WiFi were much more stable and twice as fast as what these new basebands are giving me.

Makes no sense at all to me other than VZW's software, I think, has some tweaks depending on where you update (why they tell you to do the *228 when you go to different cities and have issues) that I'm guessing is causing some compatability/functionality issues for some people who have done this.

 

I too have had some weird behavior with the new basebands (Pandora skipping a bunch, and the signal meter jumping all over the place).

I don't think the baseband has anything to do with wi-fi.

-Mike

 

Yeah, I figured out it wasn't the baseband because I had the same issue with 3P.03 on Froyo. All the basebands seem to work fine on 2.1.

Listened to Pandora the other day, on HQ, with no issues. I think my 3G is a little fussy, but not sure. I've gotten 3G speedtest of @ 1.1mps, but thought in the past I've topped out at 2-2.5 mps. But maybe I'm just not remembering very well...also possible the 2-2.5mps was an outlier test in the early morning when traffic is very low.

I wonder if it's possible the unoptimized task management making ram a little sluggish is somehow affecting download speeds of 3G and WiFi?

 

This is a common issue with pretty much any setup you may be running. The 50% time without a signal happened to me when I first upgraded to BB1.1.

I was told to put the phone in airplane mode, plug it into the charger for a minute, unplug it, and turn off airplane mode. Since then, the battery life has been awesome again and the problem hasn't popped back up.

 

I noticed this today when I switched to P3s 1ghz kernel.
No issue previously on the stock kernel.

I'm not running a custom ROM yet, just the froyo FRF57