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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 Asus Zenfone 5V's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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I got better signals quality than on my OnePlus 5.

does it work on tmobile? i see its missing band 12 unfortunately. a little worried about that

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does it work on tmobile? i see its missing band 12 unfortunately. a little worried about that
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Yes it works but you will only get 3g and hspa+. I also noticed that I would lose signal indoors.
Sent from my ASUS_X00QD using XDA Labs

Great on open area but drastically dropped inside or behind walls. I got roughly 60mbps outside my house but when I Wa inside the best was only 7mbps. Distance between the front and inside is only 2 meter

Are you talking about the Zenfone 5? If you bought the global one it doesn't support the necessary LTE bands to work in USA.
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Coverage is good, mind you this is in comparison to the OnePlus 6.
On band 2, I get several better dBm readings on the Asus, but for whatever reason, I'm pulling much faster speeds on the OnePlus 6. Asus will be sitting at -90 dBm vs OP6s -96dBm.
I just did a test on the same server in the same location and the Asus pulled 74.5 Mbps DL whereas the OnePlus 6 pulled 113 Mbps. This leads me to believe 4x4 MIMO is not active or it is not utilizing T-Mobiles 256QAM technology. My guess is 4x4 MIMO, and I can't test if it's active unless I root.

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 Realme X2'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 recent phones i.e realme 3 pro and 5 pro had relatively bad indoor cellular strength, internet speed was lower than other devices indoor but was fine on outdoor.
Thanks realme fixed this in x2.
Excellent strength both indoor and outdoor.
Edit: i talked to customer support and got to know that none of realme phones supports carrier aggregation (4g+),in my locality indoor receptions is low so 4g+ is a must here, as realme phones don't support it, indoor reception is really poor and slower internet speed.
I think I will be trying to enable it with tools from xda, as this chip supports it, but maybe or maybe not our devices lacks required antenna.

Indoor receptions have some issues.
Very slow internet speed indoors sometimes untill you put the phone on and off of Airplane mode.
Could definitely be fixed by software updates though.

Same problem with my unit too!
narshi shukla said:
My recent phones i.e realme 3 pro and 5 pro had relatively bad indoor cellular strength, internet speed was lower than other devices indoor but was fine on outdoor.
Thanks realme fixed this in x2.
Excellent strength both indoor and outdoor.
Edit: i talked to customer support and got to know that none of realme phones supports carrier aggregation (4g+),in my locality indoor receptions is low so 4g+ is a must here, as realme phones don't support it, indoor reception is really poor and slower internet speed.
I think I will be trying to enable it with tools from xda, as this chip supports it, but maybe or maybe not our devices lacks required antenna.
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hello,
as you mentioned the problem,its exactly the same with me!
tried speed tests with moto one power with same jio sim and found my X2 is consistently giving about 1.5 times less speed from that phone!
researched a lot and found moto has 2CA and my device even with sd 730g which supports 4CA is giving ****ty results bcz realme doesn't bother enabling it!
if you have any solution please let us know!
thanks

Can anyone help I have realme X2 but after software update I am not able to use lte 4g it automatically connects to 2g
I have done factory resets
Apn settings
Force lte
But still I am getting this issue..
Please Help

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