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I think it's more of signal strength in your location. I can't get it to drop any bars in Abq, but in SF yesterday where I had four bars to start with, I could get it to drop two bars.

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On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Mark <hargrme@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's weird that some people have the problem and others don't. Could it be
> our body chemistry?
>
> I don't have this problem. My iPhone 4 works great!
>
> Mark
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM, pabitra saha <pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
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>> It is not shorting of antenna but shorting of two antennae with skin
>> connecting the two and changing the effective shape and hence associted
>> electro-magnetic profile. The two antennae are for different radio circuits.
>> If the shorting of single antenna was the problem then touching any where on
>> the metallic strip would have been the problem. In this case, the touching
>> of only left hand cornet is cause of the problem
>>
>>
>> P K Saha, FIETE, FIE
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>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 21:15, Ken Bandy <kbandy@iatse30.org<kbandy%40iatse30.org>>
>> wrote:
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>>> I don't know. From what it sounds like to me (and I don't have a 4 yet,
>> so
>>> I could be completely wrong), the RF signal is being attenuated by
>>> "shorting" of the "hot" and "ground" of the antenna by a person's hand.
>>> The
>>> reason I say this is it sounds like putting the rubber bumper on the
>> unit,
>>> and therefore insulating the antenna from contact with the skin, corrects
>>> the problem. Trying to correct this problem with a software "tweak" is
>>> analogous to attempting to correct a short in a household power circuit
>>> with
>>> the wave of a magic wand.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com <apple-iphone%40yahoogroups.com>
>>>> [mailto:apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com <apple-iphone%40yahoogroups.com>]
>> On Behalf Of Roger Prokic
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:23 PM
>>>> To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com <apple-iphone%40yahoogroups.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] Leaked: Apple's internal iPhone 4
>>>> antenna troubleshooting procedures
>>>>
>>>> It's not a hardware problem. Its a calibration issue that
>>>> gets tweaked with software.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Roger R. Prokic
>>>> -=[ This email was wirelessly beamed from my ? iPhone 4 on
>>>> the AT&T Network ]=-
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:07 PM, "Ken Bandy" <kbandy@iatse30.org<kbandy%40iatse30.org>>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> SNIP
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clearly Apple is taking the position that nothing is wrong with the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> antenna, although that's not surprising since most companies
>>>>>> will never
>>>>>>
>>>>>> willingly admit their flagship product is potentially
>>>>>> suffering from an
>>>>>>
>>>>>> unfixable flaw. But does anyone else find it interesting, if not
>>>>>>
>>>>>> troubling, that there is no mention of an impending software fix?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How can there be a software fix for a hardware problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>
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