reception bars on status bar jumping up and down - Moto Z Questions & Answers

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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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.

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