My phone was working fine until about 7 this evening in my apartment. I was getting texts just fine, sending them fine, able to call people if needed. Now that isn’t happening. I’ve never known the apartment to be a dead zone before, and my iPhone shows that it has full signal.
I walked across the street, just to see if I could call from there. I managed to and also texted a few times. I walked all the way back into the apartment on the phone with my mom, telling her I was testing the situation. She managed to stay on–no signal disruption, it was fine. Then she tried calling me back and it went straight to voicemail for her.
Considering my phone is my only real means of getting in contact with someone in the event of an emergency, I’m a little concerned. I figure if it isn’t working by tomorrow morning, I’ll talk to people in charge.
Does this sound like someone has a cell phone jammer to anyone else?
If it was working fine when you walked back in and it wasn’t until you tried to get a new call, then it’s not a jammer. If there was a jammer present the call would have dropped on it’s own. The first thing you should do is power cycle the phone. That tends to clear up a lot of issues.
If you have wifi turned on, turn it off. On my Android phone, if I have a wifi connection and I lose that, sometimes my entire connection will go down with it, though I suspect that’s just an Android issue, but it’s worth exploring.
Having said all that and anything anyone else says, I highly doubt the presence of an actual cell phone jammer. Maybe some sort of (new) local interference. Or more likely a local tower has gone down or is having problems and walking outside allowed you to connect to one further away but going back inside the phone was still trying to connect to the bad one.
As someone who doesn’t have a CJ, I can’t tell you that its range is about 15 yards in the clear.
If you’re always 20 feet from some stranger no matter what, then you can suspect RFI.
Even the most powerful jammers reasonbly available are limited to a few dozen yards, and therefore couldn’t even cover a whole apartment building or theater.
