7 Ways to Improve Your Phones Signal Strength

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Luckily, weve spent many years reviewing cell phones at PCMag, with a focus on networks and radio signals. Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone 4 in 2010 (Credit: Dai Sugano/Mercury News) The ultimate way to test this is to just hold up your phone with two fingers, blocking as little of the device as possible. You can start by popping your SIM out and cleaning its metal surface with a disinfectant wipe or a cotton swab and a little bit of rubbing alcohol. Ive seen instances where a network demands that a phone try to grab a weaker signal thats farther away just so it can get a "5" in the status bar. Its worth toggling between different available network modes in case your carriers logic is privileging newer systems over more usable ones.

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