Thanks for the nice words.
Cell phones lie. SwitcheOn doesn't. If it shows 1 bar, that means 10-25% of optimal signal. It should work perfectly fine on 1 bar. Check the app occasionally and look for it to be shown as "offline". If it does go offline sometimes, external antennas work great.
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(I'm the creator of SwitcheOn)
My initial privacy policy came from an online generator. I unchecked just about everything, since we don't have any ads and don't sell data. But, after your comment and a friend noticing a few other things in there, I went ahead and redid it using a better...