> This happens quite often on my phone as well. Atleast, in my phone, this
> is due to switching between UMTS (WCDMA) and GSM ie., 3G and 2G.


I know that, and I usually use only 2G or 3G, never work with dual mode
becz of it.  My issue is different it goes zero beyond some place and never
comes back even while its in coverage area!! :)

While I am browsing, everything will be fine until it goes to 0 bars and
> comes
> back with full signal. The full signal is actually with GSM/EDGE. To
> test this theory, I disabled UMTS on my phone and this was no longer
> happening. Without UMTS, I get full signal almost all the time. But then
> I was able to browse only at EDGE speed instead of HSDPA. So, I have
> reverted back to the old configuration with UMTS enabled.
>

This happens because of some error in network selection in Dual mode, they
at times tend swithch to 2g and search for tower again, by the time they
find 2g tower, phone jumps back to 3g! Use 2g or 3g alone (Nokia u got net
mode selection, think there's option for frequency selection in Samsung and
others!) to solve it!

>
> As the 3G coverage improves, this problem should go away over the years.
>
> its got nothing to do with 3g coverage as far as I understood, it happens
even when you're right next to the tower! Its with phone's mode selection
stuff! But yea, am not a pro, these are stuffs I understood through
observation!
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