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Hi,
So i recently bought a used LG VU3 after my beloved Meizu M1 Note was stolen.
In the Meizu, the mobile network indicator on the top bar could show one of a couple of states, depends on network coverage and speed - G, E, H and 4G .
The LG on the other hand, shows only one of two states - 2G or 3G.
The internet speeds are also considerably slower, 3G is very slow, and with 2G indication it's impossible to do anything on the internet.
Is that supposed to be like that? Or does my LG have a worse wireless network Tx\Rx that it only practically function on one of those two states?
Is that the case with all the LG phones from this generation (Because i'm planning on getting a used G Pro if there's a specific issue with the VU3)? [G Pro, G2, GX etc.]
Thanks
Can you please explain what this issue has to do with Paranoid Android ROM?
Pirateghost said:
Can you please explain what this issue has to do with Paranoid Android ROM?
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Wow, your'e totally correct, i mistakenly posted it in the wrong sub-forum. Mods would you mind transferring it to the correct forum?
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Hello,
I bought the unlocked Moto G4 from best buy last week to use with ATT. I started the phone initially without any sim card in it. Next time i restarted i put in the sim card and it detected as att sim card and everything seems to work until when I notice that when i am in my office building I only see H and not 4G LTE. I had Nokia 640 earlier which was ATT go phone and i was getting 4G LTE on it in my office building. And I have also got LTE earlier on other phone in same building. I checked the APN settings and they looked ok since I am getting 4G LTE at most of the places. chatted/talked to ATT and they are of no help, they are saying that since its not ATT and unlocked phone, there is no guarantee that you will get lte everywhere and may be the antenna could be weak on the phone. But I am just not sure if I got a faulty piece or what. Since even the lower end lumia 640 was giving me lte in my office building. I am not sure if I should just return and get another piece or just return it for this issue.
Any help is much appreciated..
There are several good apps on Play that show you cell signal strengths and such. Do a search in Play for "cell signal info" and try one of those apps. It will at least give you a place to start and a comparison tool to compare phones.
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I own a G3 and a Moto X Pure, I am on AT&T and have noticed the past few days LTE seems very... umm, weak I guess... at least in the Minneapolis/St Paul area, and my phone was falling back to HSPA+ way more often than "normal" this week (I travel here every week). I thought I was crazy but maybe there is more too it than that. I do know that AT&T has been doing lots of upgrades recently and rolling out LTE-A, or at least some kind of LTE upgrade, in some areas. Back home my LTE speeds consistenyl went from 20Mbps to 70Mbps down and 5Mbps to 25Mbps up in the last couple of weeks.
Best thing to do would be get a signal strength app, like LTE Discovery or Network Signal Info, and compare it to another phone on the same carrier in the same area and band (LTE Discovery will tell you the LTE Band you are using). Remember that not all phones report it the same, it can be wildly different, but it might give you some insight.
My point is, it may not be your hardware... and Moto's in general are known for really good signal reception. Just do some due diligence before returning it, but if you feel it is hardware, but all means exchange it.
thanks guys..will try it out..
Maybe I am being paranoid, but sometimes I wonder if cell carriers some how optimize their LTE signal to work better with their own phones. I have noticed this on T-Mobile when I always seem to get a stronger signal with a T-Mobile branded phone than with a third party unlocked device.
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Maybe I am being paranoid, but sometimes I wonder if cell carriers some how optimize their LTE signal to work better with their own phones. I have noticed this on T-Mobile when I always seem to get a stronger signal with a T-Mobile branded phone than with a third party unlocked device.
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LOL... No, carriers have the ROM modified to make the icon show more bars on their subsidized phones. They can't actually throttle 3rd party phones on the same plan as a carrier branded ones, legally at least.
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acejavelin said:
LOL... No, carriers have the ROM modified to make the icon show more bars on their subsidized phones. They can't actually throttle 3rd party phones on the same plan as a carrier branded ones, legally at least.
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That's what I thought., although I still wonder why I usually get a better LTE signal with T-Mobile branded phones. This seems to be especially noticeable since I have upgraded to Marshmallow. Recently, I have or have owned a T-Mobile LG G4, an LG G3, an Axon Pro, and a Moto X Pure. As a rule I have noticed the signal strength being stronger on the T-Mobile branded phones.
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That's what I thought., although I still wonder why I usually get a better LTE signal with T-Mobile branded phones. This seems to be especially noticeable since I have upgraded to Marshmallow. Recently, I have or have owned a T-Mobile LG G4, an LG G3, an Axon Pro, and a Moto X Pure. As a rule I have noticed the signal strength being stronger on the T-Mobile branded phones.
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Actual signal strength or the icon? LTE Discovery usually shows the truth...
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This is based on readings from LTE Discovery, not the number of bars the phone is displaying. I suppose you could also come to the conclusion that LG phones have a stronger radio signal than other phones.
I'm having the same problem with both of my g4's in my area and seattle international airport... if it's not working there... then where will it work?
kevin347 said:
Hello,
I bought the unlocked Moto G4 from best buy last week to use with ATT. I started the phone initially without any sim card in it. Next time i restarted i put in the sim card and it detected as att sim card and everything seems to work until when I notice that when i am in my office building I only see H and not 4G LTE. I had Nokia 640 earlier which was ATT go phone and i was getting 4G LTE on it in my office building. And I have also got LTE earlier on other phone in same building. I checked the APN settings and they looked ok since I am getting 4G LTE at most of the places. chatted/talked to ATT and they are of no help, they are saying that since its not ATT and unlocked phone, there is no guarantee that you will get lte everywhere and may be the antenna could be weak on the phone. But I am just not sure if I got a faulty piece or what. Since even the lower end lumia 640 was giving me lte in my office building. I am not sure if I should just return and get another piece or just return it for this issue.
Any help is much appreciated..
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AlexanderJohn said:
I'm having the same problem with both of my g4's in my area and seattle international airport... if it's not working there... then where will it work?
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Yeah well I ended up keeping the phone. Someone else in the same building also reported lower quality signal with even Iphone and moto g4, all other areas we are getting lte so guess, i took my chances.
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I'm having the same problem with both of my g4's in my area and seattle international airport... if it's not working there... then where will it work?
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Using "nxtgenphone" APN? Sometimes LTE doesn't work unless you do
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I ended up calling att and they provisioned my line for lte. Fixed both phones.
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We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy Note 8's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.
I am blown away by the LTE speed in my area! My previous ATT branded LG V20 couldn't top 75Mbps, so this is a leap for me with LTE+
I am very curious about signal strength in areas that don't have blasting towers in the background. My old S3 always had poor signal. I was blown away by how much better my soon to be defunct Note 4 was at picking up and holding a signal. I hope that the Note 8 continues that fine tradition.
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I am blown away by the LTE speed in my area! My previous ATT branded LG V20 couldn't top 75Mbps, so this is a leap for me with LTE+
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I have Verizon and I have also noticed it switches between LTE and LTE+, I assumes the LTE+ is better speeds but never saw any sort of LTE+ on my LG V20 either.
My signal blows compared to my S7Edge, but it's on par with my S8+.
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My signal blows compared to my S7Edge, but it's on par with my S8+.
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I will be honest, the signal blows me away. I have never gotten any bars of signal inside of the manufacturing plant I work in, but with this phone I have nearly full service . ALL previous phones I have used, which have all been ATT branded mind you, have failed in here. I can sit at my desk here and browse the web like its no big deal. Old phones I had to run out to the sidewalk to use it, for anything... I don't understand why this is SO vastly better now, but I cannot complain. Part of me wonders if it has to do with the ATT CSC layer - which is why I have worried about flashing that to this unlocked device whenever it shows up in the wild. It is exceptional right now, everywhere I go! :good:
Using tmo.
Fastest speed I've ever seen on a phone.
i would have a question to add for everyone posting. are your phones unlocked or not and/or are they from the original region your service is on.
thanks.
Went from 90/50 mb to 150/50. S7e to n8tmo. Same location.
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I'm on a very old grandfathered unlimited data plan. Previously up to my Note 4, I was only able to get 4G speeds. But since getting my Note 8, I'm all of sudden able to get an LTE connection (while still on the old grandfathered plan). Take a look at this one freak result:
Im on T-Mo and also on a grandfathered plan with unlimited data. As of this morning, the download speed has gotten less than 3mbps
No idea why. I have downloaded about 50 apps this morning since I was just setting up my Note8, but all was going fast and suddenly turtle slow.
I was disabling a ton of things in Package Disabler, but not sure what it could possibly be.
It gets better signal run my S7 Edge. In areas where the S7 Edge may go to Emergency Calls Only, the Note8 will hold 1-2bars consistently, no missed calls or deoppe calls.
Luckily I have now moved to a new office which has great signal to.
Got this speed from Reliance JIO India. Never seen such speeds before.
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Using tmo.
Fastest speed I've ever seen on a phone.
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um. you're on wifi bud.
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Got this speed from Reliance JIO India. Never seen such speeds before.
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you're also on wifi lol
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um. you're on wifi bud.
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you're also on wifi lol
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Buddy, check closer. WiFi was on when I took screenshot. That session was done when WiFi was off.
Very bad signal reception for me
I am using Airtel, Jio and Reliance GSM 4G sims in India and I have compared signal strength of Note 8 with Redmi Note 4, Nexus 6P and LYF Flame 1 mobiles.
And I found Note 8 to be having the weakest signal reception strength. Same pair of sims when used simultaneously on these phones, (not nexus 6P as it is singal sim) Redmi Note 4 and LYF Flame 1 never had any issues with signal reception. But with Note 8 both Reliance GSM 4G and Jio sims are having almost no LTE signals and for Airtel where other phones show all 5 bars, note 8 have 3-4 bars.
I am not sure if this is the problem with just my phone or others as well in India.
I'm with ragavbpl.
My 7+ and X show me full bars, my unlocked N8 barely 2-3.
Using a combination of 3 different carriers, slots changed out frequently, locations. But is the same everywhere.
4G drops off and goes to H+ (what is that anyway...2G?) or even E, very frequently, when the other phones on the same network have full 4G.
This causes pages not to load, just when you need them to, emails and chats to stop or get delayed, more often than not.
I wonder if this is a carrier issue? Or a phone one?
The LTE speeds on my N950N is amazingly fast when compared to my old N910C
With Freedom Mobile, I'm using Open Signal, to see what cell tower it's connected to, as well as other towers in my area. Using this tool, tests your data throughput at the tower site itself. The signal in my whole neighborhood is weak so I'm connected to WiFi (and using VoWiFi as a result -- "Voice-Over-WiFi"). Normally the signal will alternate towers from 12-15KM away and this results in dropped calls no matter what device I use -- they need to work on getting some microsites, or sharing more of the existing infrastructure (there's an underutilized tower site in the strip mall right next to me even).
ragavbpl said:
I am using Airtel, Jio and Reliance GSM 4G sims in India and I have compared signal strength of Note 8 with Redmi Note 4, Nexus 6P and LYF Flame 1 mobiles.
And I found Note 8 to be having the weakest signal reception strength. Same pair of sims when used simultaneously on these phones, (not nexus 6P as it is singal sim) Redmi Note 4 and LYF Flame 1 never had any issues with signal reception. But with Note 8 both Reliance GSM 4G and Jio sims are having almost no LTE signals and for Airtel where other phones show all 5 bars, note 8 have 3-4 bars.
I am not sure if this is the problem with just my phone or others as well in India.
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netwrk speed is too slow
Does Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 support carrier aggregation?
SD660 has X12 modem, which is capable of 3CA downlink. Can someone please confirm if asus has added this in the Indian variant ZB630KL and if speeds are actually better with Jio and Airtel compared to other phones?
I haven't noticed any difference in speed of jio and i haven't got 4G+ sign
Asus has enabled carrier aggregation for the Zenfone Max Pro M2 in India.
Yes speed on my Max Pro M2 is much higher at times compared to older phones. I think if VoLTE is enabled it may improve further
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Yes speed on my Max Pro M2 is much higher at times compared to older phones. I think if VoLTE is enabled it may improve further
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Can you or somebody post screenshot from Network Signal Guru app to see which bands are being aggregated on Jio?
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Can you or somebody post screenshot from Network Signal Guru app to see which bands are being aggregated on Jio?
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Anything that works without root? I would love to check but i really don't want to root at this time.
Speedtest with fast.com shows speeds upto 100Mbps and averages around 70-80 most of the time on jio.
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Anything that works without root? I would love to check but i really don't want to root at this time.
Speedtest with fast.com shows speeds upto 100Mbps and averages around 70-80 most of the time on jio.
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Oh, not too sure myself. Most people on XDA are rooted so I just assumed
Maybe Network Cell Info Lite app shows? I've seen it show 4g band on unrooted phone, maybe it will also display CA state..
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Anything that works without root? I would love to check but i really don't want to root at this time.
Speedtest with fast.com shows speeds upto 100Mbps and averages around 70-80 most of the time on jio.
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Check this app NetMonster and share its screenshots
I am able to get 4G+ with Vodafone. Still, the speeds are not the best, well, I guess that's because my carrier is slow lol. P.S. I am on stock non rooted ROM.
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I am able to get 4G+ with Vodafone. Still, the speeds are not the best, well, I guess that's because my carrier is slow lol. P.S. I am on stock non rooted ROM.
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Thnx alot , i had doublts not having 4G+ sign
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Thnx alot , i had doublts not having 4G+ sign
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No worries mate. Which carrier are you using because I was able to get 4G+ on Telstra as well though I don't get VoLTE in either of my SIM. I guess Asus has not enabled VoLTE.
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy A50's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.
Always high ping on online games but my other phone works well on same simcard
Mobile data is crap i swear
Works perfect just like my s9plus
Something is gravely wrong with this phone. I have the Latin American variant here in the US using T-Mobile SIM card and the variant has all the T-Mo bands, but 4G LTE data is crawling slow, very slow. I have several phones at various times, and this is the slowest I have seen. Even the cheaper Galaxy J4+ is a lot normally faster than this Galaxy A50.
this phone mobile signal is horrible, I don't have any signal issue with redmi note 5. This phone is pretty disappoint me
It's roughly the same as other phones I own (S2, S4, S8, Lg v10..)
Horrible Mobile signal using on AT&T in the USA! Especially on LTE. One has to be right by the cell tower to get Full signal. Don't know...may be the radios are not optimized for the networks here. But the phone has all the LTE bands used here. Where my other phones show full signal, this phone barely shows any. Now,when close to the tower and full signal is shown, it has excellent LTE speeds. Using LTE discovery app, I have observed my device connect to LTE bands 2,4,5 and 17 on AT&T.
If there is a Samsung representative who reads this forum, I want to say something, your A50 is sucks
Quite good Cellular strength here. i use 2 sim ( 2 operators ) , and both works fine
Worse than my old iPhone 7 here in the UK, At home I would have got 2 bars, I get none on this phone, at least I have wifi calling thought. It is a major disappointment at work though, I would have got 1-2 bars now I have no bars unless I go outside.
Network reception sucks, especially the data speeds, im Using Jio 4G & Vodafone 4G.
While my friend who has recently bought A50 which has older March update patch doesn't have any such problems though the operators are same & We stay in the same building.
I believe its a bug in the recent update (June/May).
Same here, I have the latinoamerican version A505G with June patch (may patch same problem).
I live far away of the city. With LTE I have one bar or 0 sometimes. I tried with my old samsung j5 2016 (Snapdragon 410!!) and in this I have 3/4 signal. In 3g is the same proportion. In the places with full signal, I have not any problem.
I have been discover the A50 is using the band 28 (inside places). How I can change the band ?
fablebreton said:
Quite good Cellular strength here. i use 2 sim ( 2 operators ) , and both works fine
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ATT?
Does anyone have good cellular strength? What model A50 hardware and what date firmware update are you on?
Anyone have an A50G and their cellular strength is good?
Terrible Cellular Strength
I've been using this phone for couple of months but honestly cellular strength is very weak! Mobile data keeps struggling and frequently changes status 4G to H+
One of the most annoying thing is when I first enable the mobile data it gets automatically disabled/enabled on its own for more than 5-6 times! It happens each and every times!
I doubt it. It's probably one of those saturated places where the network towers are not too far apart. This device's cellular radios is definitely not optimized for the US market. As I posted above, very horrible cellular signal using it (I have the Panama version A505G) on AT&T. Signal is good only if right next to cellular tower.
Tons of complaints in this samsung forum - https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5...twork-problem-in-low-signal-area/td-p/1345215
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ATT?
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I want to know as well. Very horrible cellular signal using the A505G on AT&T.
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Does anyone have good cellular strength? What model A50 hardware and what date firmware update are you on?
Anyone have an A50G and their cellular strength is good?
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i think i'm going to pass on the A50, samsung downgraded it to 4gb of ram anyways
AS I posted above, very horrible signal for me as well. Using the A505G version on AT&T.
Several complaints here - https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5...twork-problem-in-low-signal-area/td-p/1345215
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I've been using this phone for couple of months but honestly cellular strength is very weak! Mobile data keeps struggling and frequently changes status 4G to H+
One of the most annoying thing is when I first enable the mobile data it gets automatically disabled/enabled on its own for more than 5-6 times! It happens each and every times!
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I doubt it. It's probably one of those saturated places where the network towers are not too far apart. This device's cellular radios is definitely not optimized for the US market. As I posted above, very horrible cellular signal using it (I have the Panama version A505G) on AT&T. Signal is good only if right next to cellular tower.
Tons of complaints in this samsung forum - https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5...twork-problem-in-low-signal-area/td-p/1345215
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I want to know as well. Very horrible cellular signal using the A505G on AT&T.
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If the device supports the correct bands, shouldn't the signal be fine?
What kind of optimizations are needed to have it perform like other Samsung devices that have support for the same band, but get good cellular signal on that band?
Can we flash the optimized radios from those other devices onto the A50?