I'm new to Zooper, but have learned a lot since messing around with it. I found some icon sets with battery, wifi, and cell strength bars. The battery scalable icon set works perfectly, surprisingly. It shows accurate battery status with no advanced parameters at all?!? The wifi and cell strength sets are not as cooperative. I have tried adding in the #NWSIG# and #NCSIG# tags in the advanced parameters field, but no luck.
Can someone help me understand why the battery icon set would work and the others don't. And then, is there a way to get the wifi and cell strength scalable icon sets to properly display the signal strength?
ok, this is annoying as hell. There has to be a way to do this. With all the skins and icon sets out there, I can't believe that there isn't a way. How does the battery set work?
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Voice vs. 3G Data Signal ( bar ) : Are these separted in any status bar mods?
Is it possible?
I've never seen one that separates them, however AOSP roms will always show the 3g strength instead of voice strength.
sitlet said:
I've never seen one that separates them, however AOSP roms will always show the 3g strength instead of voice strength.
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Well that is good to know. And explains the discrep I notice when driving, would like to see these broken out somehow though
Hey,
When making calls you are only using 1x and that is many times what your signal strength is, "Except as noted above by Sitlet ASOP which use the bars as 3g". When you are using data on lets say a sense rom you know its going through because you see the 3g on your status bar going. Now there are apps out there which allow you to see the signal strength in decibels and that would be the best way to determine your actual signal strength via 3g 1x 4g etc, but to answer your question I have never seen any mods that do this for you!
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Stevo
I think I remember an app it was called Tasker. Where it ( I believe ) used your location to set certain settings. True? If thats the case, couldn't I set it to change my internet to 3g when I get to work and wifi turn on when I get home? If it does use your location wouldnt that use more battery? Or is a simple toggle the best? Id like an automatic option if possible.
Battery usage depends on how it detects your location. GPS would me the most accurate and use the midst battery. Network is only accurate to a couple miles/km, but uses less battery. I use what cell tower I am connected to wish is more accurate than location, used less battery but can be less reliable as there can often be several towers you connect to, took me a few days to set them all. Also, if towers get upgraded, that can throw things off until you update your settings. I also had problems with wifi calling as that disconnects you from towers all together.
But yes, tasker is awesome.
Tasker and Locale do this, and much much more. Looking to just change networks, other apps like Juice Defender will do it too.
They of course will drain some battery because they need to use GPS and be running in the background to properly work. Of course you could choose to use network location but you won't get as good of performance as far as specific location services.
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I had sent my phone for repairing the WiFi death grip issue. After the fix, the signal seems to have improved drastically but the WiFi indicator bars keep shifting between 0 bars and 4 bars.
This usually happens when the phone is in an area where the WiFi signal is weaker. Close to the router, the indicator is always constant.
Anyone else noticed this on their phone? Any idea why this could be happening?
EDIT: I've checked on my other devices... the signal on my laptop or other mobile phones does not fluctuate like this while at the same spot.
Try enabling "best WiFi performance" under the "advanced" section of WiFi settings and see whether that helps.
jam256 said:
Try enabling "best WiFi performance" under the "advanced" section of WiFi settings and see whether that helps.
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That did make a slight difference.. I was able to pick up signals which otherwise do not appear in the AP list.
change WiFi channel
I was in the same situation as you are in. I was able to fix it by changing my WiFi channel (on wireless modem) to an unused one (#13).
Give it a shot, best of luck
I have a widget which includes a cell signal strength progress bar. It worked fine initially, but now it seems to be "frozen". No matter how my signal strength changes, I get the same reading from zooper for dBm and ASU. It is stuck on -125 dBm and -6ASU (which is not correct for ASU anyway). Any idea on how to fix this? I think this happened after I went through an area that switched from 4G to 3G, and then back to 4G, but whatever the case, the zooper reading is not changing at all now from the above numbers.
update - Tasker seems to work, so that is what I am using for now. Possibly this is bug in Zooper similar to what some others have seen, although my numbers are different. It is strange however that it worked to start with.....
As it is well known there are preset thresholds on each device to drop to the lower type of network. For example, if there is less than -125 dBm on 4G/LTE it will drop to 3G, and it the 3G signal goes to lower than -125 dBm it will drop to 2G. I know how to lock in one network through the hidden phone info menu, but I would like to know how can I edit these settings/thresholds on the Pixel 2XL. I'm guessing the values are in the radio image, but how do I actually manipulate them?
The reason being that I work in remote locations and I would like it not to switch to the slower network unless it goes to a lower value than the preset ones.
Would really appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.