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AT&T Signal Fluctuation?

MattMJB0188

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Anyone else get this? When I turn on my phone I will sit at 5 bars for about 15 minutes, then 4 bars, then it goes from 1 bar to 3? Then I'll turn unlock my phone and have 5 bars again. I'm not that far from the tower but I should be sitting at 3. Call quality is fine and I have NO problems but I am very curious to why it does this? My friend's iPhone does the same thing and my iPhone did this also. Could this just be the location as it does this nowhere else except my house? Thanks
 

ladyc0524

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I have this issue with my iPhone 4 at my home also. I'm on AT&T, and normally I have a constant 5 bars in my house. But occasionally it'll fluctuation between three and five bars. Seems weird to me.
 

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Signal fluctuation is normal. Even more so when everyone else has the same issue at your location on iPhones. My advice? Move.
 

MattMJB0188

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Common for it to flucuate between 2-4 bars but 1-5? It sits on 5 bars every time I turn the phone on for at least 10 minutes then it goes to 4 for 5 minutes and then 3. Then fluctuates between 1-4, and 1-5?

To guy that said "move", what a wonderful idea, to bad I didn't think of that before posting this thread. Silly me.
 

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