[Q] Weird Wifi Bar - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Hello guys,
I received my TF201 just last week, and overall I am quite happy with it.
I noticed one issue with the wifi bar. Although I am getting good signal when I test it with speedtest (I get 16-20 MB), but the wifi bar is ALWAYS changing between 2 bars, 3 bars, and full bars. It does not ever stay at one position.
My Nexus S which is in the same room is always on 3 bars and never changes. I just wanted to see if anyone is having the same issue.
But like I said, I am getting high wifi speeds regardless of the number of the bars and this is not affecting it, just curious why it constantly jumps up and down.
Thanks,
Sam

I really wouldn't worry about the bars you're seeing on screen. Those are not very indicative of the actual signal strength. It's probably just bouncing around the pre-defined threshold for what is 2 bars and what is 3.
For example, if 2 bars is everything from -85dbm to -50dbm and 3 bards is -50dbm to -40dbm, then the signal level is probably hovering right around -50dbm and keeps transitioning between 2 and 3 bars.

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Signal full to 1 bar or to none?

Have yall notice that lately and more often to the date of october 7 wierd huh what could it be?
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It might be that Sprint is upgrading their network.
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mine has been doing that to.
Most likely your phone is jumping from tower to tower. I use to have an app that would show the currect connected tower and my phone would skip around to several towers in the area within a few seconds.
Usually signal strenth doesn't indicate quality of service. As long as you have connectivity, the 0s will still be 0s and 1s will still be 1s.
I am not sure I trust the signal strength meter at the top of the home screen at all. I have an airave here at the house, and sitting on my couch, I can see the "bar" go from 1 bar to full strength. But just for comparison, I loaded an app that displays the actual signal strength in db, and that is holding steady at -72db regardless of the where the bar graph is at. Keep in mind that for every change of 3db equates to a change of half power. Since the phone works well when not at home with a signal of -92db, I am not sure what the bar graph is intended to represent.

evo lte & wifi/bluetooth

newbie owner of an Evo LTE, and i'm wondering if the phone has signal issues. my wifi signal strength seems to vary from 0 bars to 4 bars (typically staying around 1 bar). I remember reading a while back ago that these bars mean nothing for data speed. anyways, I've ran some tests on speedtest app, and my wifi speed has fluctuated from as low as 100kbps to over 10mbps at different times at roughly the same location.
The time when i have the most issues is during skype, dropped calls, etc. I sometimes use a bluetooth adapter and sometimes don't and have had issues regardless. so my question is does the phone have a weak wifi antenna or something?
No. Change your wifi settings to
"Always on" and set the frequency to 2.5ghz if you haven't already.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE

Poor LTE reception and Wi-Fi reception

Most of the time Wi-Fi is at 1-2 bars along with LTE.
Noticed this problem in Hong Kong,China and Taiwan. Various dim cards and various Wi-Fi routers.
poor LTE speed
desiregeek said:
Most of the time Wi-Fi is at 1-2 bars along with LTE.
Noticed this problem in Hong Kong,China and Taiwan. Various dim cards and various Wi-Fi routers.
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i m facing the same problem i have note 4 that is quite well than s6 edge in 3g and 4g
This could be the cause of some people's battery drain as their phones keep switching from LTE down to 3g. If this phone was better tuned for LTE it would be more battery efficient.
Not sure a software fix can do much about this. Its probably the antenna design, but we can live in hope!
My Wifi is fine.
However, I've been having poor 4G since day 1. I keep having 1-2 bars of 4G consistently at my workplace where my G3 did 3 or more bars.
The thing is, it does stick to 4G pretty well and not loose that 1-2 bars easily to downshift to 3G, so I am not too concerned. Voice calls and data speeds are also not affected. It's just that vidual indicator...
my wifi and data signals are excellent. haven't been to a spot where there's good lte signal
Always use device status to read signal in dBm.
Many phones' "signal strength meters" are far from accurate often showing much higher perceived signal than reality.
My S5 was like that.
This may just be corrected now in as much one bar for -112dBm (instead of three) is more accurate, relatively speaking.
A device should only show five bars if the signal level is very strong, say -65dBm.
Problem is most of the time people would never see five bars. Carriers don't like that.
Perhaps we need to change to an advanced "tech" mode where the signal strength readout is in "S" units with 9 being the reference and stronger signals show in "dB over nine". Like HF transceivers and CB radios (anyone remember those? )
I would be happy with -dBm on the status bar instead of a series of bars. iOS allows for it and it's accurate. Can't believe it's not baked into Android being it's the choice OS for techies.
Compared my Wifi download speeds to my iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 was faster. These 2 pictures are wifi download screenshots from iPhone 6
Here is the same location using my Galaxy S6 Edge
Hello, compared to Note 4 S6 really hurt my Edge captures the mobile network.

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Hello everybody,
I'm observing an odd behaviour by my phone concerning the reception bars on the status bar.
Most of time I only have 1-2 bars but when I'm going to the SIM info part of settings it most of the time switches to more bars.
When checking the dBm and asu values one and the same value gives me different bars.
Right now I have 106 dBm and 34 asu with 1, 2 or 4 bars randomly jumping up and down every few minutes even though it's always the same value.
Can somebody explain this odd behaviour and provide a fix?
Kind regards

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