How to improve mobile signal strength at home

Mobile phones are the biggest reason why we are connected with the entire world. With just one touch we can find out all that is happening on the opposite end of the world. News travels faster than time due to the advancement in technology. Social media has become a huge part of our lives. Updating the world about what you are up to these days is now a common routine of our lives. But these blessings come with a burden. To maintain this chain of connection we need to maintain the signals around us or else we will end up disconnected from all the others. All of us have struggled with the phone calls dropping time and again more than once in our life. This can be tolerated once or twice, maybe even thrice but when you can’t get ahold of the signal inside your own home for the fourth time, it can get a little bit infuriating to handle. Especially after the coronavirus pandemic, most industries asked their employees to work from their homes. During this time, the use of your home wi-fi and internet was at its peak. This is when most of the people found out about the flaws in their wi-fi.

• Working of Phone Signals:

You can fix these flaws only when you find out how a phone signal is received and how can you boost your phone signal. A mobile signal works on the services provided by the telecommunication service providers. Your mobile phone searches for signals in your vicinity in order to operate and make calls. There are transmitters in our phones that converts our voice into electric signals. These electric signals are then carried over by signals towers called base station transceivers. A base station transceiver operates on radio waves. These radio waves are then converted back to sound once they reach the other end. A mobile phone connects with a transceiver and establishes a connection to emit encrypted signals.

• Reasons Behind A Bad Network

Radio waves can be easily interrupted by physical obstacles, especially the ones that are present around us. For instance, buildings made out of concrete, trees, walls, etc. Because of this reason we experience bad signals and call drops. We are surrounded by materials that will enhance the speed of our call drops and things that will worsen our mobile phone signals. So, how do you solve this issue? Should you move to a place that is entirely free from all the concrete obstacles? Even if you wanted to, you could not have done so. Because due to the modernization of the world, it is nearly impossible to find a place that is free of buildings and modern architecture. So you have to think of ideas about how to boost your phone signal while living in the modern world. If this were 2012 or 2013 then the alternative to your phone signal problem would have been a landline phone. Landlines establish signals through fibers and hence the signals formed are fixed for one carrier and cannot be broken, as a result of which the call drops are almost negligible and very rare. Mobile phones on the other hand use radio waves for transmission. Radio waves may be faster but they can be easily interrupted thus resulting in dropped calls. So what are the things you can do to boost your phone signal? If you keep reading, by the end of this article you will have a definite solution to your problem.

• Fixing A Bad Mobile Network

You can start by checking the actual strength of your phone signal before you start to snoop around your phone settings. You can go to the network settings on your device and look under the “Signal strength” option. The exact strength of your cell signal will be displayed there in decibels. -60dBm represents good signal strength. Anything lower than that is problematic. Once you have made sure that the phone signal strength is low and needs some checking then you can start to make some changes and see if it helps to boost your phone signal.

1. Out of the signal blind spot

Sometimes the cell phone signal is poor, you may be in the signal blind zone, the mountainous areas of the cell phone signal is weak or unstable, outdoor cell phone signal is difficult to penetrate into the room, so it is more obvious signal blind zone. At this point you can try to get out of these signal blind spots by trying to pick up your cell phone outdoors or near a window instead of talking deeper into the building. Buildings and other large objects can block cell phone signals.

2. Switching cell phone carriers

Sometimes it is possible that you are in a place where the network operator’s signal is not good, which can also cause the signal to be unstable, this is where you can change your cell phone’s operator from automatic to manually selecting the operator and try to see if there is any effect.

3. Check your phone’s performance

Sometimes, the problem can be with the actual mobile device. Make sure your phone is performing optimally, has a fully charged battery and has the latest software updates. Older phone models may not have the hardware to access faster, stronger networks, so upgrading is a possibility.

4. Toggle The Airplane Mode

 You should start with the most simple and handy solution; try toggling the airplane mode from off to on and then switch it off again after giving a gap of around two minutes. By doing so, any small glitches in your mobile phone will get out of your way and you will see your signal getting restored to its full strength. If this doesn’t work, you can try another alternative for the same solution; restart your phone. This will also resolve minor glitches if any.

5. Remove the metal case from your phone

If you have a metal case, remove the case and replace it with a factory-fitted case to protect the phone and observe the use of the phone.

6. Unplug the SIM card

When the signal is not good, there may be a problem with the SIM card of the cell phone, you can try to remove the SIM card of the cell phone, blow it and then put it back, restart the cell phone to see if the signal of the cell phone has improved.

7. Clean up your cell phone’s garbage

Use the cleaning tool to clean up all kinds of garbage of the phone, in fact, this on the one hand can prevent the slow running problem caused by the flood of information on the phone, on the other hand, there is more space to receive the signal, so it is also one of the easiest ways to enhance the signal of the phone.

8. Enable The Wi-Fi Calling

 If you still don’t see any progress, you can enable wi-fi calling on your phone. If you have a mobile phone that supports wi-fi calling then this will solve most of your problems as long as you are in the vicinity of your wi-fi. But before you enable wi-fi calling, make sure that your phone is updated. If not, go to the settings and update your phone to its latest version. Try using the wi-fi calling option after this and see if your phone signal is boosted. If not, try another one of our solutions.

9. Restore network settings

There is another method you can try to restore network settings, but this method should be noted that you may forget all the WiFi password Oh, click into the phone’s 【Settings】-【Restore】-【Restore Network Settings】, so that you can reset the network to improve the strength of the signal.

If you have tried the above methods can not help you to enhance the signal, you can only choose to install a cell phone signal amplifier, cell phone signal amplifier is specially designed to improve the weak signal without signal problems. The whole set of signal amplifier mainly consists of signal amplifier host, receiving antenna and transmitting antenna. Having a signal amplifier host is also the most convenient and effective way to improve cell phone signal.

10. Fix a Signal Booster At Your Home

 There are devices available in the market or online known as “Signal boosters”. A signal booster works for all carriers but there are also boosters made for your specific carriers. A universal signal booster is more cost-efficient and works well with all carriers. Plug in the booster in the room with your wi-fi, This will make sure that your wi-fi signal is boosted to its maximum level. Before plugging in the booster make sure you read the device manual and follow all instructions.

The above-given methods are the most efficient and effective solutions to fight off the problem of low mobile signals. These methods are completely safe and can be tried at home without any requirements for expert supervision. But if the problem still persists, it is advised that you take your mobile phone to an expert technician and get it checked.