Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless,comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Is there a way to get WiFi NOISE levels for a mobile device? Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:16:05 +1000 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <99h9patnm9s3cicvb8dt1543og9llhfqa2@4ax.com><7hcbpad70fu8u5cijde679bstk39pe7pmf@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WJBXS/laKF8rJct7BgbH1QbPsDtEkd7xsc3zNoMIrxas101Ak= Cancel-Lock: sha1:w9toaMDSc0cEmD7HHX6LNNemuQ0= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: aioe.org alt.internet.wireless:14401 comp.mobile.android:20670 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:75303 "Rod Speed" wrote in message news:cvm010FjobiU1@mid.individual.net... > > > "Paul B. Andersen" wrote in message > news:mn4d3k$4da$3@news.albasani.net... >> Jeff Liebermann wrote in message >> 7hcbpad70fu8u5cijde679bstk39pe7pmf@4ax.com >> >>> Any chance you're rooted the tablet and/or are running a custom ROM? >> >> Hey Jeff, >> I love the WiFI SNR app you found, and I don't know HOW you found >> it without me having known about it prior, but I'm glad you did! >> >> Rest assured, I have been playing with it for two days straight >> now, and I can't get over how it tells me such useful information. >> >> One question only of you, which is maybe a device-specific problem, >> and I don't want you to research it but just to let me know what >> you "see" on your screen. >> >> QUESTION: Do you "see" the yellow SNR graph? >> >> Here is a test I just ran now: >> http://i.imgur.com/Lm9Xhbz.png >> >> I don't "see" the yellow SNR graph on my Samsung Galaxy S3: >> >> I had to go into the WiFi SNR settings to turn on the option to >> "Display results in text" (which you can see in the shot above). >> >> So, it's not a big deal (since the SNR *value* is what matters). >> But, I'm just wondering why I don't see the yellow graph? >> >> Does anyone else see that yellow graph? > > I did see it yesterday when I first installed it but haven't seen it today > for some reason. > > Uninstalling and reinstalling made no difference, still don't see it. I've just noticed that the orientation of the tablet is what makes the difference. Its there when vertical but not when horizontal and with it vertical and laid on the crap to the left of my chair when typing here, it usually goes away even when vertical. And both the signal strength and the SNR to vary quite a bit when you turn the tablet from vertical to horizontal, not very surprisingly, presumably that's because the antenna is mostly vertical in this Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5110