Post #3144729

2025-10-07 00:47 UTC

In 4.0.1, they changed these values to be way smoother. Mapped onto a chart, you can see that it takes a lot to drop from 5 to 0 bars. It’s harder to see 5 bars, but it’s harder to plummet bars.

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@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io 2025-10-07 00:47

So there ya go. 20 bytes. This has concluded a Tech Thread. Back to shitposting.

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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2025-10-07 09:21

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io So they "solved" the problem by changing what the bars mean? That's a very post-97 Apple solution.

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@yertle@mastodon.cloud 2025-10-07 13:51

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io how do they map it now, for 3G signal strength?

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@m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net 2025-10-12 05:51

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io A lot of stuff Apple gets bad rap for us like that. Remember that update that enabled more aggressive CPU throttling on old phones? A lot of people were like: "Apple is slowing down old phones to force you into biting new ones!!! 😱",— but no, it's not that, I have a phone that never got such an update, it has an old battery that can't hold the voltage steadily and when you start doing CPU-intense things, the phone may just shut off randomly — is that any better than being throttled? Don't think so! And this Antennagate always seemed a nothingburger to me, thanks for detailed explanation! Apple does a lot of bad things — but some of them are hardly as bad as people think of them and are just hard to fix PR disasters.

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