HTC HD7 Death Grip

[leonardphill25]

This video is a favorite on Havana

[BudooKing]

*Smash!*



[Perlnx]

Hey I use T-Mobile HD7 too but this thing never happen to me, I tried to hold it many time.

I think the real problem is your carrier because I'm use it on other country GSM carrier and It's never be problem.

[xEffectsx]

T MOBILE IS SHI% PLUS THIS GUY HAS A GRIP LIKE FU%#$IN HELL BOY LOLOLOLOLOL

[xEffectsx]

t mobile is just SHI#### my hd7 gets more reception when i hold it like that lol....fag company

[dinarliibo]

fuck jou idiot

[12amal34]

dude ur squeezing it like a fuckin vice grip hold it a normal human would not hulk

[dogfurr]

@12amal34 lmao............hahahahahahaha good one

[coley1555]

i did exactly what the guy in this video did and i got no change in reception at all.

[coley1555]

@coley1555 actually nevermind i did the same thing but with my opposite hand (covering most of the right side of the phone) and it dropped 2 bars. that would explain why i normally have a bit lower of a signal than i should because i am right handed so im always lowering my signal

[ilichxtrm]

it happens to me too!!! :( EPIC FAIL!! but it doesnt matter, because you need to be under your bed if u wanna lost all the signal..

[snakeheadfreaks]

almost all cell phones acts like this, but if the signal strength is very excellent, this won't happens.

[opoyman]

maybe the t-mobile issued phones have problems.

[opoyman]

tried it, no signal loss/decrease on my hd7.

[xchamox]

What kind of idiot holds the phone that tightly naturally anyway? Almost every "death grip" video that I've seen for any phone that has the issue always entails some guy with sausage fingers deliberately squeezing the crap out of the phone until the signal goes down. Be more gentle you brutes! ;)

[Adee267]

@xchamox Hahaha 

[demonshadowfication]

waow. it was never a problem for me, i didnt even know it did that. but my bars do decrease when i do that

[denNamehatkeiner]

Telefonier mal dabei! Wenn das Gespräch dann abreist, ist es der Todesgriff.

[25mirko74]

das stimmt, hab ich getestet

[MrBigblockbuick]

I have the same problem with my right hand

[Babtou92]

Change hands

[Mick0las]

@BitchHunter2000 I'm left handed so go fuck your flawed technology.

[BitchHunter2000]

@Mick0las

No Fuck You! Learn to Use your right Hand!

[RomeoValentino]

@BitchHunter2000 lmao

[KnightFader]

Worked on my mom's and on mine. And we just bought the two like 3 hours ago.....fuuuuuuuuuuuuu....

[RockabillyBird]

"Hey Doc! It hurts when I do this!"

So...stop doing that! Duh!

I have one, too...and no issues of the sort.

[joe645733]

i was a bit ashamed when i saw the title of this video. i can see yours losing bars with your left hand. i tried it with mine, exactly the way you held it, and my HD7 is fine. i also have t-mobile as well. you must have bad hands haha

[zenbyo]

I have the same phone and have no problems losing connection or anything.

[badboykilla47]

haha



[MikeDMinor]

@BitchHunter2000 you apparently do not realize that this is Microsoft Windows Phone 7 phone. Or Is reading not an option?

[schmak01]

My HD7 does not have the same issue, although I tend to hit the search button to easily.

[ImpatientPollo1]

who's next? Nokia!

[BlindLightbulb]

Steve Jobs was right.

[MyIOnU]

Thank for the vid to show how stupid you are :) ... Show me you talk on phone by gripping the phone like that. But who know, you may get some xmas gifts from S. Job.

[hammer082]

@MyIOnU

that's not the point ... it's that everybody was bitchin about the same problem on apples iphone ... but the fact, that it happens on other phones, was ignored ...

he want's to show, that the world is full fo hypocrites ...

[MyIOnU]

@hammer082 the problem happens to the Iphone even when they hold it normally. Tell me who hold the phone while talking like that.

[shad0w4life2]

Jesus, that is a death grip,Put the camera on a tripod and show yourself using the phone please, that has to be the most unnatural grip, seriously who curls their fingers infront of the screen, let alone holds a phone like that, I just tried my x10, pointer finger sits at the top of the phone so it doesn't fly out of my hand. Other fingers point out and don't curl around the phone..the only normal thing about the hold is the thumb up along the side against palm.

[Doctors2Advocate]

I can't get my Desire to drop even a single bar no matter how I smother the phone with both hands.

[ultimatexpka]

wow i think we neeed to go back to the old antenna design X(

[pokergypsy]

I think almost all smart phones have a death grip! Just adjust the way you use your phone!

[mupet00000]

I have the Desire HD and have experienced the "Death Grip" signal loss. After I started getting used to the phone and how big it was I stopped having the problem, I guess I hold it better now that I'm used to it.

[satansblackhole]

Back in july, what HTC said remember: “The reception problems are certainly not common among smartphones,” HTC Chief Financial Officer Hui-Meng Cheng said. “[Apple] apparently didn’t give operators enough time to test the phone.”

Now where is my free bumper htc? I have hd7 & having this issue.

[LoryLandskipper]

@satansblackhole

yes, except with the iphone 4, simply touching it with a single finger could wipe out all signal.

Squeezing a phone as hard as you can is not the same as what was happening with the ip4, so shut the fuck up spazoid.

[SmileyMan45]

@LoryLandskipper I'm certain that if you put a finger on a specific spot in the area where the guy's left hand palm touched, you'll get the same signal drop.

The above is not because he was "squeezing [the] phone as hard as [he] can", but because he linked two parts of the antenna. Just like on the iPhone 4. Except there, it only happened in low-signal areas and iOS 4.0.1 fixed it. (I don't get that bug.)

[LoryLandskipper]

@SmileyMan45

No, you're wrong. The antenna doesn't work like that on this device.

Some signal loss is to be expected, but the initial issue with the iphone 4 was it was reporting a stronger signal than it actually had. That combined with a more sensitive signal loss issue, and that's why the drop in signal with the touch of a finger was so severe.

What you see here is a slight signal degradation, but not on the level of the iphone.

[SmileyMan45]

@LoryLandskipper Well, as of this writing, doing the death grid (or death "poke") on my iPhone 4 makes it lose only one bar. So it's not really severe.

[LoryLandskipper]

@SmileyMan45

Cool, that means all are the same as yours. It's nice being able to have a single device as an example of what millions of others see.

[SmileyMan45]

@LoryLandskipper I didn't mean that. Perhaps I should've said more:

Apple and others have stated this is an issue where the signal level is low. I've used the device without a case for a while and the signal never dropped more than a bar or two if I held it with a death grip. This was with 4.1. Apple have stated that 4.0.1 resolves this issue, and I believe they're right.

It's possible that the iPhone 4's acceptable level of signal was too low, and that the death grip, in low signal areas,...

[SmileyMan45]

@LoryLandskipper ...dropped the signal just under the device's acceptable signal level, causing it to "lose signal". It's possible 4.0.1 lowered that level and/or caused the phone to use more power for the antenna if the signal reaches a critically low level (Possibly due to the death grip or just an area with crappy reception), "fixing" this hardware issue in some cases.

Now *that* is what I meant.

[joshuajmv1]

Like Apple said, it's in every phone...

[mike1lu2og]

The thing I funny is that he has huge, fat shovel hands and has to squeeze the phone tightly make it loose signal. But that's physics for you. Any phone does it.

The case with the iPhone 4 was that it was originally showing stonger signal than it actually had, and that you only need to use 1 finger to affect the signal.

[solideliquid]

"Holding it wrong"

[V8SilverFox]

HTC's CFO said this at the time when the same "issue" came up with the iPhone4 "The reception problems are certainly not common among smartphones," the company's chief financial officer, Hui-Meng Cheng, said. "They apparently didn't give operators enough time to test the phone."

Who looking like a dick now?

[SavbersTv]

Next thing you know Apple is Sueing HTC for copying their Death Grip Position. XD

[DiscoKiller]

Maybe you should have gone with a decent network? I have not managed to recreate this problem and I have bigger hands...

[jabberwolf]

This can be done to most phones if you completely envelop your entire palm around it.

The iphone showed it losing reception completely... and EASILY.

This kinda reminds me of the iphone spoof where the guy was trying to do anything to make other phone show the same signal loss.

[xXSCARFACE1983Xx]

I have the same problem - brought it back :(

[hoemmerich]

Using the HD7 for a week now and NOT able to reproduce this problem, no matter what I do... Maybe your HD7 is simply defective? To me, it's the best phone I ever had (switching from iPhone)...

[leimy2k]

@hoemmerich

It's probably the same problem others trying to reproduce this issue with the iPhone had. In Seattle, I never have the reception issue with the antenna. In outlying areas, it's easily reproducible. Depends on signal strength.

[elksalmon84]

now try this again, but lay it down on desk without touching to metallic edge of keyboard

[V8SilverFox]

@elksalmon84 that "metallic' edge is plastic.

[ShooterLH187]

no smartphone is perfect

[sgminva]

I've been an HD7 user (no case or skin, on T-Mobile in the Washington, D.C. area) for a couple of weeks now, and have never had a reception problem. After seeing the video, I tried to replicate the change in signal bars it showed, but could not. I held my phone in the same way, but there was no change at all in signal bars displayed.

[DEVILSNAKELDS]

lol, Unlike jPhone 4 (JunkPhone 4) it still keeps holding on with one/two bar/s xD

[guythatdrums2009]

I'm thinking that the death grip is happening to people who are very conductive to electricity, more than others O-o... But I don't give a shit because I freakin love my Iphone 4..

[joshuajmv1]

@guythatdrums2009 I know it's so awesome, couldn't be happier with mine :) lol

[10millionproductions]

i have this phone and i tried doing your "test" but it didnt work...your phones just screwed up

[Apollogx11]

I tried doing this and even putting my hands covering the whole phone, had no noticeable signal loss. So I dunno how tight this guy is gripping it, but I don't see you gripping it like that in everyday use....

[xXSCARFACE1983Xx]

I have the same problem... FUCK!!!! I love the HD7 so much but I always want a good signal... I guess I gonna get the Samsung Omnia 7....

[avatarfilmeaza]

the test seems useless .. the signal never drops to zero so the connection it's not lost....

[josuam]

just get a case and you'll be fine lol

[nicomors]

@josuam

A program case from HTC?

Ahahaha

[girlsdrinkfeck]

loli have the htc hd2 and i get no loss when gribbing it by any way

[MRDJW1983]

I removed my last comments on this phone as i stumbled across a possible fix for the reception issue. I'm not saying it will work for everyone but it worked for me.Worth a try if you have the same problem.

All i did was change the sim to a different network, do a hard reset of the phone with the other sim in, reboot then put my normal sim back in. Now the lowest my reception goes to is 2 bars which is quite good round here as the reception generally isn't great.

[beldugo79]

I have the same issues. I went to tmobile and they suggested swapping out the SIM card (did not work). Also tried the old BS taking out the battery (did not work). Taking this sucker back and see if I can get another one.

[BudiPang]

today is just another day

that you would never forget

-apple.com

[swulaki]

my devce have not the problem

[dhaoracle]

Sorry dude this has been in many phones who put there antennas in the bottom of the phone sucks that HTC doesn't learn like Samsung did and put their antennas at the top.. 

[devGOD]

@dhaoracle very true. and you see how tight he has to grip it for it to happen. no one holds there phone that tight like that.