Donna, that AT&T rep is full of crap. The processor has nothing to do with it.
Each brand and model of cellphone has a different capability to receive a signal. There may be a difference in how often it searches for a _new_ network connection.
Years ago I was with Verizon, and my first phone was a Motorola StarTac. You could put it in a bank vault, in a granite mountain and it would find a signal. I traded up to a Kyocera with a Qualcomm chip. Qualcomm is who invented CDMA the signal type Verizon uses. If you put the Kyocera in a brown paper bag, it could not find a signal and thought it was a PB&J sandwich. Same area of use. One time I was on the Columbia river and could see the Verizon cell tower. I could not get a signal, while my friend was talking on his phone.
How often d you take those cross country trips? In your case, I would reset the network connection. With Vz I would have them update the (?) before long trips.
In Alice's case, I think the real answer is that along the coast you are often in a geographic shadow of the cell signal. Remember, cell signals can not travel through land.
Brent
On Aug 23, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Donna wrote:
Hi Alice
I have AT&T on an iPhone 5. I travel a lot up and down the East coast with my partner. He has a Samsung 3 and is on my AT&T plan. We just recently took a trip from the East coast to the West coast and back. I learned something interesting on our recent trip. There was a lot of times in which my phone showed that I had no service, but my partner who was sitting right next to me would have service. I found that if I would turn my phone off then back on, I would get service as well. I have inquired with At&T why this would happen. I was told that it is because the processor in the iPhone is slower than that in a Samsung 3. So the iPhone has trouble keeping up with the many signal changes friom cell phone tower to cell phone tower. So next time try turning off your phone then back on again. Our trip back home was much more pleasant once I had figured out how to solve my no service problem. Yep this is a BIG pain, but there isn't any other way to solve this problem that I know of.
Donna
> I'm on AT&T with an iPhone 5. Trips up or down the coast there are a lot of places I don't get signal. Not having signal uses up battery since my phone is constantly looking for a signal in that situation. I think looking for a signal sucks more battery than using any GPS app.
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Alice
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>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 10:25 PM, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Around town, Maps, google maps or MapQuest. Long distance, I want the iPhone free so I use a stand alone GPS device. I used to travel often where there is not cellular signal to place the map behind the location indicator, and so GPS on the iPhone without the maps downloaded to the phone prior made it useless. Also in mountains and in valleys, you also don't have cellular signals.
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>> I have tried using the iPhone GPS on a 3 day drive up the Pacific coast, and beside sometime not having a map, it ran up the cellular data usage way up on that billing cycle.
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>> Brent
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>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Thomash wrote:
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