Originally Posted by
Slomo11 Hi there,
I have two phones: One old iPhone 4 and a new Nokia Lumia 830. For both phones I have the same provider.
Especially in rural areas I quite often have no reception at all with my Lumia, whereas my iPhone give me 3 (out of 5) bars.
Has anyone else noticed bad reception with the Lumia 830?
cheers,
S.
One question, by no reception at all do you mean that you cant make calls with it and you can with the iPhone? And more importantly are they using the same band at the time, ie is the 830 on the same 3g or 4g or 2g?
Only thing i know is that my 830 shows much fewer bars then any other phown i own, but at the same time has the best reception (i use mainly 800 & 900MHz bands). By best reception i mean keeps reception the best even though showing bad reception, as in this phone shows "true reception" with it's bars, also the "bar meter" reacts very slowly to changes in rception compared to others. As a more clear example, an older Android phone shows three bars while the 830 shows none to one under the same circumstance, the Android cant make or recieve calls without loosing connection, the 830 can. I checked the real dBm value at that spot and it shows around -106dBm, still many phones show this as half reception which is just BS. at -110dBm nearly all cell phones won't pick it up at all. Good reception (what full bars should be) is around -50dBm.