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Cellular strength and throughput

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 Nokia 7 Plus'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.

Like a freaking BoSS...
At my in-laws place, the network is so weak that with all my earlier phones, be it MiA1 or G6 or U11, I had to go outside to make a call that too at a particular place.
And FORGET about using Mobile data ever.
But then comes Nokia 7 Plus...
I call people from anywhere and everywhere...
I watched Chelsea vs Huddersfield live on Hotstar streaming.
While others suffered with their mobiles...
Freaking BAWSE

I would say that it is awesome. As a comparison my wife and I are on the same network and both of us had the same LTE network bands.
At times my wife's Mate 10 lite / nova 2i would lose signal and mine will still have excellent LTE signal.
But there's only one complaint is that the phone, despite of me selecting manual network, it will then change back to other network. ( I received 2 bands of LTE network at my place one is faster than the other and both have strog signal but it will always go back to the slower one).

Easily goes into 4G+ mode and hence, higher speeds.
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Does anyone nokia 7 plus heat up during weak coverage...mine get extremely warm to 45C when coverage is very weak.

Y45 said:
Does anyone nokia 7 plus heat up during weak coverage...mine get extremely warm to 45C when coverage is very weak.
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That's normal for most if not all phones. To avoid this try locking into a single network like 3G only if 4G is weak

Great signal quality and coverage here as well.
Like some phones( sony and samsung for example) it heats up a bit and use a lot of battery during low signal quality.

Cellular strength and throughput

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 LG G7 ThinQ's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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The Airtel Network (GSM) on my USA unlocked LG G7's reception signal works nicely even at weak areas. 4G LTE speed sometimes work awesomely even less than 1 bar. Love the LG G7!

I have noted no regression from my P9 Plus, all connectivity and throughput works just fine. Compared LTE network(4G) speed with a friend who has Galaxy S9, we had identical downspeed being in the same place at the same time. 80Mbit/s at the edge of the city, the G7 had slightly faster upspeed of 56Mbit/s vs 50 flat for the S9.

Noticed that i always get 4g signal whenever i go to my work. Which is unusual for my previous iphone. Great cellular strength!

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
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 LG G7 ThinQ's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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My sprint g7 thinq lte is almost non existent

My Sprint phone, shows LTE all the time. But doesn't mean it actually has it..

My theory is that the flat ribbon signal wires on this phone are not as good as your conventional antennee wires you see in any other phone.

not so good, now i'm with a sony z1 compact because my lg is at service, the sony have 1/2 bars of signal where the lg g7 have no signal

not really seeing much of an improvement in signal strength over the lg g4, doesnt seem to hold 4g or lte any longer when going inside concrete buildings or going further out to camping grounds where i may get no signal. only throughput seems improved able to pull 170mb dl compared to g4 80-90mb dl from the apartment

I have issue with network connectivity. Getting less network for Jio sim and pathetic speed

Ive been on T-Mobile US for years. I've had several Chinese phones of supposed less quality and yet all of them run circles around the T-Mobile LG G7. Wifi works only half the time. Having issues watching videos on youtube connected to the wifi. I thought it was just my router, but it happens at any wireless router I connect to. I was getting better reception on the chinese phones inside and outside of my house!! Needless to say I will never get another LG phone again!!

Dvalin21 said:
Ive been on T-Mobile US for years. I've had several Chinese phones of supposed less quality and yet all of them run circles around the T-Mobile LG G7. Wifi works only half the time. Having issues watching videos on youtube connected to the wifi. I thought it was just my router, but it happens at any wireless router I connect to. I was getting better reception on the chinese phones inside and outside of my house!! Needless to say I will never get another LG phone again!!
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Yep and LG Fanboys think it's the greatest phone on the planet.

I plan on switching out to a Oukitel K9 or Ulefone Power 6. Going back to reliable phones!
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My G7 thinq have so bitter network. I'm getting very slow internet speed & very fewer bars on the screen where I've Nextbit Robin, Mi Note 6 Pro & iPhone 5 SE which works very fine on same network & getting more network bars than my phone.

On the best network in the middle of the city or town centers, I'm getting 2-4 bars. But as soon as I enter a building it can go 1-2. I feel it's not great. I can call, but 4G doesn't move. Falls back to H, 3G and can't even load a website
I wonder if this is an LG thing. I've owned the G3,4,6. I always end up with LG, as galaxy too exp, and LG has the best mix of value. At home I can't get 4G inside the house.
Her Galaxy seems half-1 bar better.

Cellular strength and throughput

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 Google Pixel 3's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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This may be an issue of the P3 having 600 and 700 MHz band support, but I get full LTE coverage in my office in a high-rise building where my Nexus 6 used to cut out on T-mobile. Nice improvement.

I can confirm that it is bellow the P20 in this category.
But nothing serious. Will compare further if I get the chance.

it's good, no complaints here. then again i live in the netherlands which has a full lte coverage.

Only a handful of countries/networks have CA combinations defined for them.
3x CA LTE-A works on those that are defined, otherwise you will stay on 2x CA max.
4x CA is only defined in a few MBNs (Vodafone DE and some French ones seem to be the only ones in Europe).
2x CA on uplink is not supported.
Here is a list for CA combinations on the Pixel 3/XL.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B1tN9uw5aKy4LNWF5R7_KZ8WYzzdMALSzsJH9qwpVMA/edit#gid=0
Otherwise 256QAM and 4x4 MIMO work fine. Reception wise its ok too.
It is however not the phone you would use if you wanted to go hunting for 1gbit LTE.

Hi guys not much info in here.. Did some research and turns out Pixel 3 phones are notorious for poor signal and call quality. Looking at how long the issue has been around for I'd put it down to actual hardware not being up to scratch. If you need a phone with good reception and/or make calls frequently then give this one a miss.
I cant post links for some reason? but look at issue 124412355 on google issue tracker

Seems fine with no major issues. Haven't had any dropped calls. Used the Essential Phone for a while and this is quite good compared to that phone with weekly dropped calls.
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Cellular strength and throughput

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 Google Pixel 5'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.

Side by side with my Pixel 3XL I have the same poor 4G indoors and great 4G outdoors.
Nearest 5G signal is a good 5 miles away or so and haven't been able to test that yet

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Side by side with my Pixel 3XL I have the same poor 4G indoors and great 4G outdoors.
Nearest 5G signal is a good 5 miles away or so and haven't been able to test that yet
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Any problem you face like no signals in buildings or apartments

chickentikka007 said:
Any problem you face like no signals in buildings or apartments
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I've been working from home today and been out for a dog walk. No issues. Signal is poor in my new build but I'd say it's exactly the same as my pixel 3xl.
Only get 4g where i live, can't test 5G here

I have little or no signal compared to the same SIM in my Oneplus 6t. I was told by Google Support to change carriers to one that has 5G...

following, especially for posts comparing the 4XL vs the 5.

Mine is being a bit weird, there are 3 band 3 cells all within a 1 miles radius of my house and on all my previous recent phones they have use those and i have had strong signal but for some strange reason my Pixel 5 is handshaking with a band 20 cell that is absolutely miles and miles away

Returned the Pixel 5 after 20 days due to the phone not able to maintain 4G in my office building. H+ speed is not acceptable in 2020.
This is not a network issue as my Note 10 and Pixel 4 don't have this issue in my office.
So for me the Pixel 5 has very bad mobile reception. 0 star since I'm not able to watch video or steam audio, when I can do the same with phones released one year ago.

I have signal strength issues too. I had preinstalled 5g sim and still not as good signal strength as my old oneplus6t. It's not terrible but it's not great either. Will do further testing on the road.

I came from a Pixel 2 XL. I haven't noticed any difference either way.

I'm having problems with signal strength where I'm at too, major let down, I have 2 other devices that are older and they have much better reception than then the p5. IDK what to do at this point.

Cellular strength and throughput

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 S20 FE'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.

5g on this phone is trash
I have had this phone for over a month now. I have to say that the network speed on this phone is complete trash.
5G is worse then LTE on other phones.
Here is a screenshot of the S20 FE 5G next to a Tab A, Both from Tmobile, same room.

I disagree... Best antenna I've ever experienced. Beats out the pixel 3a xl, s8, v20, etc.
Speeds I achieved in rural WV...

coolmaster121 said:
I have had this phone for over a month now. I have to say that the network speed on this phone is complete trash.
5G is worse then LTE on other phones.
Here is a screenshot of the S20 FE 5G next to a Tab A, Both from Tmobile, same room.
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I'm having an even more severe issue at 7.93 down and 0.21 upload. Making the phone almost unusable when not on wifi. Been troubleshooting with Sprint/T-Moble for a couple of weeks now.

Yeah I wish there was a way to lock out "5G" truly it's worse everyday speeds vs ny one plus 7 pro one Verizon. Not too happy about that at all. I'll stick with 4g lte+ over this slow fake 5g

coolmaster121 said:
5g on this phone is trash
I have had this phone for over a month now. I have to say that the network speed on this phone is complete trash.
5G is worse then LTE on other phones.
Here is a screenshot of the S20 FE 5G next to a Tab A, Both from Tmobile, same room.
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it is fine for me it might be your ISP throttling your speed
look at this

my understanding as of this week is that there are 3 types of 5G connections / infrastructure. it looks like you are on a mmwave connection @isamahdi which gives the great speeds but requires you to be very close to a tower. the other two types are low band and mid band. low band gives much slower speeds (100 to 200 mbps) but travels much further and mid band is the half way house between the two extremes.
different networks are rolling different versions of 5G.
some people might receive rubbish speeds because the available bandwidth is split between all users until more towers are put up, bit like all being on one Wi-Fi network.
experiences will vary wildly depending on network types, distance and infrastructure work completed before we even get to account for the phone itself.

My S20 FE 5G is really less good at hooking up weak signals in WiFi, 4G and 5G than my Oneplus 8T