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Chrome Faceplates
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Posted by: jre1000

Does anyone know if chrome faceplates actually do interfere with reception on phones? I've heard of this before but I didn't know if it was true. So I got a chrome faceplate for my 6590 and all day today I had only one bar of reception and I couldn't even use GPRS at all. This caused my battery to completely die by the end of the day. Right now I have the battery cover off the phone but the chrome front piece is still on and reception went back to normal. Maybe its just the back piece that interferes with reception? If anyone has had similar problems could you please help me out? Thanks.

Posted by: Roameo

Hi, I have a chrome faceplate for my 6590 as well. You are correct in assuming that the back part is interfering with your reception. The internal antenna for the phone is located on the back of the phone just above the battery. For some reason I have had no problems with my faceplate/reception. You might want to try just using the front part of the faceplate and getting a black back piece to use with it or something.

Posted by: jre1000

Well I used my phone today with the same faceplate and there are no problems with reception. I don't know why is was like that yesterday but now its fine...

Posted by: cyberpsionic

From my experience with chrome or other metallic colored face plates is that these type of face plates do diminish the RF reception especially if the phone's back plate is chrome/metallic colored. The reason is the paint contains metallic particles which interfer with the RF Tx/Rx. The antenna on most of Nokia's GSM/GPRS handsets is located directly above the battery on a small plastic panel which is another reason why you shouldn't hold your phone near the antenna when using it.

Posted by: prefernokia

I've also concluded that all the reflective covers do interfere with reception big time. The front part is OK to cover with metal. But for the back part has the antenna and IS NOT OK to cover.

Take a look at the Nokia 8801. It's a sleek looking phone enclosed in real metal. But, notice the top 3rd of the back part of the phone IS NOT covered in metal. This is the antenna area. And so if Nokia engineers couldn't pull off the feat of getting a $799 phone to be all metal don't expect that you can.

On my Nokia 7610b it cut my signal strength by about 1/2.