Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Re: [apple-iphone] Leaked: Apple's internal iPhone 4 antenna troubleshooting procedures

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


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM, pabitra saha <pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 21:15, Ken Bandy <kbandy@iatse30.org<kbandy%40iatse30.org>>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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