Poking around in Android the other day I found this nugget in Carrier Config manager; a flag (KEY_INFLATE_SIGNAL_STRENGTH_BOOL) to always report the signal strength to the user as one bar higher than it really is. It’s not documented in the Android docs, but it’s there in the source available for any operator to use. Notably both AT&T and Verizon have this flag enabled on their networks, I’m not sure who was responsible for requesting this to be added to Android, nor could I find it in the git-b...