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I was wondering if there would be any way to add NFC capabilities to the Galaxy S. Of course, replacing the phone for a Galaxy S II would be the fallback option.
I've read about some companies that develop microSDs with NFC, also, it seems some SIM cards can have NFC embedded.
Do you know if there are some of those products that can be bought and used with the Galaxy S?
The second questions is whether it would then be compatible with Gingerbread's NFC capabilities and the applications that will start appearing soon.
not unless the drivers and kernels are included for the ROM
Unless if you live in Japan, NFC probably won't matter to you until you buy your next smart phone.
Blackberry or someone is releasing new backplates with the chip in it for NFC but I doubt Samnsung would do it for the Galaxy S. NFC is in it's infancy right now anyway, wait a year and get a phone with it built in.
I guess gingerbread includes NFC drivers... So will we be able to use it? thanks!
Yes it is possible as some networks are building NFC into their SIMs.
So the location of the NFC chip is in our sim cards? I was thinking that the chip was in the phone, inside it.
They are built into many phones and more will follow but they can also be built into the sim. My Barclaycard credit card has it.
I was quite surprised to learn that the Tab S series of tablets ships with the aging Snapdragon 800. I find it's a bit out of place on a tablet where all other specs are top notch. The reviews I read specifically say the tabet can be sluggish at times when more CPU power is required.
I guess I hold out on my upgrade a bit longer then...
rodrigorajao said:
I was quite surprised to learn that the Tab S series of tablets ships with the aging Snapdragon 800. I find it's a bit out of place on a tablet where all other specs are top notch. The reviews I read specifically say the tabet can be sluggish at times when more CPU power is required.
I guess I hold out on my upgrade a bit longer then...
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Only the LTE versions come with the Snapdragon 800. Wi-fi gets the Exynos 5420.
how is the 5420 ?
I'm kind of disappointed the UK versions have the 5420 - I find my Snapdragon 800 in my Note 3 phone super quick
is the 5420 just as snappy ? Looks such a good screen on the 8.4 and 10.5 Tab S
Buckster76 said:
how is the 5420 ?
I'm kind of disappointed the UK versions have the 5420 - I find my Snapdragon 800 in my Note 3 phone super quick
is the 5420 just as snappy ? Looks such a good screen on the 8.4 and 10.5 Tab S
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Reviewers are saying the 5420 wi-fi versions are noticeably faster than the 800 in the LTE. I believe benchmarks show the same.
The 5420 is amazing. Uses all 8 cores at the same time if needed now. They fixed the memory dump issue found in the previous iteration as well.
The only thing I'm bummed about, is the 5433 ( coming out soon)destroys Snapdragon's 805 SoC .... In benchmarks. I wish that processor was in the new Samsung flagship device. Ugh.
According to all the reviews I have read the opposite is true and they are recommending the processor in
the LTE version as the faster of the two.
I have to run to work but quick google search..Engadget ( which I hate) has this to say..
"If it's any consolation, the as-yet-unreleased LTE models are supposed to use a Snapdragon 800 chip instead of the Exynos 5, so maybe performance will be snappier there."
Snapdragon seems to get the most development too.
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According to all the reviews I have read the opposite is true and they are recommending the processor in
the LTE version as the faster of the two.
I have to run to work but quick google search..Engadget ( which I hate) has this to say..
"If it's any consolation, the as-yet-unreleased LTE models are supposed to use a Snapdragon 800 chip instead of the Exynos 5, so maybe performance will be snappier there."
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Anandtech clearly said Samsung made a poor choice with Exynos. They should have gone 801 or 805.
oh well - and 16gb too for UK version - grrrr
still prob going to get one though
maybe it will handle streaming video better than the Snapdragon (well the implementation of it on the Note 3) - after lots of updates, I still can't get smooth streamed video on my Note 3 - youtube, netflix, Sky, Iplayer etc - yet download to phone first (latter 2) - or play local content and smooth as silk
There probably won't be a 32gb version. Samsung said there'd be a 32gb 8.4 pro and there never was.
I can confirm there are LTE versions with Exynos processor, at least mine is so, bought in Spain (10.5"). I could change it for a snapdragon version though, but I'm not sure if it is worth it.
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I can confirm there are LTE versions with Exynos processor, at least mine is so, bought in Spain (10.5"). I could change it for a snapdragon version though, but I'm not sure if it is worth it.
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Thanks for your confirmation arbiskar.
It was rumoured the Tab S would be 5420 for WiFi, and 5420 + Intel LTE Modem for LTE models, that seems to coincide with the reports such as yours, that the LTE models is Exynos based only.
I doubt that Snapdragon based LTE models of the Tab S exist, if the LTE model you purchased is 5420, I'm going to assume they all will be...
Model numbers other than the T700, T705, T800 and T805 would need to exist for Snapdragon variants, so I don't believe we will see Qualcomm chips in any of the Tab S models.
Thanks.
Hi,
I ordered a LTE Tab S, in germany it will release on friday the 11 July. Before I ordered I thought all versions will have the Exynos 5 Octa and perhaps an optional LTE Modem. After my order I saw that the LTE version will be a QSD 800
Now you say thete will be LTE and Octa. Is it real? Do you know what version Samsung will sell in germay? I think I have to wait a few weeks before I get my tab S because I bought it with a LTE Contract and the Provider cant give me an info when they get the hardware from Samsung.
Now I don`t know if I should cancel the order and buy me a wifi version because the octa is better or will the QSD 800 ok too?
Svendrae said:
Hi,
I ordered a LTE Tab S, in germany it will release on friday the 11 July. Before I ordered I thought all versions will have the Exynos 5 Octa and perhaps an optional LTE Modem. After my order I saw that the LTE version will be a QSD 800
Now you say thete will be LTE and Octa. Is it real? Do you know what version Samsung will sell in germay? I think I have to wait a few weeks before I get my tab S because I bought it with a LTE Contract and the Provider cant give me an info when they get the hardware from Samsung.
Now I don`t know if I should cancel the order and buy me a wifi version because the octa is better or will the QSD 800 ok too?
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The sd800 is slightly better than the octacore, so I wouldn't worry.
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is it confirmed the LTE version in US is also Exynos processor instead of snapdragon 800? Thanks
rankman2004 said:
is it confirmed the LTE version in US is also Exynos processor instead of snapdragon 800? Thanks
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No. Lte is Snapdragon only. Samsung only announced today a new exynos processor with Lte for future products.
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simacca said:
No. Lte is Snapdragon only. Samsung only announced today a new exynos processor with Lte for future products.
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Apparently, some people here have the LTE version with Exynos, so I'm not so sure.
They announced a new Exynos processor with LTE integrated for future products, but that doesn't mean there isn't a LTE chip in addition to the Exynos SOC in the Tab S LTE versions.
It would be nice if someone could confirm.
I'm also waiting to see if there will be a 32GB.. and which version to get
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Apparently, some people here have the LTE version with Exynos, so I'm not so sure.
They announced a new Exynos processor with LTE integrated for future products, but that doesn't mean there isn't a LTE chip in addition to the Exynos SOC in the Tab S LTE versions.
It would be nice if someone could confirm.
I'm also waiting to see if there will be a 32GB.. and which version to get
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Would like to see some proof of that. Check out link below.
http://www.gsmarena.com/exynos_modap_is_first_samsung_chipset_with_integrated_lte-news-9006.php
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Apparently, some people here have the LTE version with Exynos, so I'm not so sure.
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Someone from Spain said s/he has an Exynos/LTE device. The Spain Samsung site also has the LTE version listed as Exynos.
The announcement yesterday was for a quad-core chip with integrated LTE, not the 5433 next-gen big.LITTLE chip everyone was expecting. Without knowing the GPU of the chip announced yesterday it's hard to say where in the fold it fits (high-end, low-end). There's nothing that's ever prevented Samsung from using Exynos with a stand-alone modem it's just that S-800 with its integrated modem is cheaper. Maybe that's what they're doing in Spain. That or it's a typo and the aforementioned owner "thinks" s/he has Exynos LTE. Everything I've read indicates the S' are using the same S-800/5420 architecture of all Samsung's previously released high-end tablets. So I'm going with typo until someone posts a CPU-Z (available in Play) read out which will say specifically what chip a device is using.
We know there are S-800 SM-T805's because reviewers have tested them. It would be extremely odd that Samsung would give the same model number (Spain's SM-T805 also) to two devices with totally different architectures. They never have before. At a minimum they'd append a letter to it (EG: the N10.1-14 LTE with 700MHz bands sold in Latin America is the "P-SM605M."
As for S-800 being long in tooth, it's not really. The CPU is more than adequate for the workload. Here's a slide from Qualcomm saying 85% of apps don't use two cores better yet four. And the majority of apps never leave the A7 core on 5420.
The challenge is the enormous amount of pixels being pushed on large QHD tablet displays. S-801 uses Adreno 330 just like S-800 so until some SoC with a more powerful GPU is released (released = shipped in a production product) Adreno/Mali is the best we've got and the differences between them performance wise aren't that significant (Mali's about 10% weaker than Adreno when maxed out).
New member here.
Received today my Tab S 8.4 LTE (SM-T705) sold here in Finland. And it is indeed an Exynos 5420.
I don't have a Micro-SIM card for it yet, but it certainly is the LTE version. Does someone know how to check the LTE chip version?
Took captures with CPU Z, but I can't apparently post outside links yet. See them here: pentsin.portaali.org/samsung/ along a photo of the box also claiming 1.9GHz Quad-Core + 1.3GHz Quad-Core.
BarryH_GEG said:
Someone from Spain said s/he has an Exynos/LTE device. The Spain Samsung site also has the LTE version listed as Exynos.
The announcement yesterday was for a quad-core chip with integrated LTE, not the 5433 next-gen big.LITTLE chip everyone was expecting. Without knowing the GPU of the chip announced yesterday it's hard to say where in the fold it fits (high-end, low-end). There's nothing that's ever prevented Samsung from using Exynos with a stand-alone modem it's just that S-800 with its integrated modem is cheaper. Maybe that's what they're doing in Spain. That or it's a typo and the aforementioned owner "thinks" s/he has Exynos LTE. Everything I've read indicates the S' are using the same S-800/5420 architecture of all Samsung's previously released high-end tablets. So I'm going with typo until someone posts a CPU-Z (available in Play) read out which will say specifically what chip a device is using.
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Thinking of getting a Note 5. I know that Android is a mess and functionality varies from one android phone to another. Does the Note 5 support VoLTE?
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Thinking of getting a Note 5. I know that Android is a mess and functionality varies from one android phone to another. Does the Note 5 support VoLTE?
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Not used it but I think it's have VoLTE as in ROM devs shared VoLTE patches and information regarding VoLTE working or not.
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> Not used it but I think it's have VoLTE as in ROM devs shared VoLTE patches and information regarding VoLTE working or not.
Does that mean it works only with custom ROMs and not natively?
CSMR said:
> Not used it but I think it's have VoLTE as in ROM devs shared VoLTE patches and information regarding VoLTE working or not.
Does that mean it works only with custom ROMs and not natively?
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It would tend to be the other way... Sprint and T-Mobile have voLTE built in. But custom roms tend not to, esp. when having to deal with a US carrier. It is less of a deal, however, than one might think. The one real time voLTE is nice is when one is out in the boonies somewhere "out of range" but has an internet connection.
Wow this is ridiculously complex. Can we start with the basics. Does a Note 5 without customization (by carriers or custom roms) support VoLTE?
CSMR said:
Wow this is ridiculously complex. Can we start with the basics. Does a Note 5 without customization (by carriers or custom roms) support VoLTE?
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Yes it does.
I am looking in the UK and all the Note 5 models I can see are SM-950A unfortunately (unlocked AT&D models). I suppose that means the risk of carrier-specific hardware customizations, carrier-specific software customizations (and the risk of no volte), and slow or missing updates? So I should look for the standard model which is the SM-950I?
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Yes it does.
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Are you sure? I got a Note 5 sm-n920c, and advanced device info settings has "VoLTE Provisioned" off, and it cannot be switched on.
On EE UK, setting to LTE only prevents making phone calls.
Need to confirm whether this is an EE problem, or a Note 5 problem requiring hacking the phone.
I have the 920T on T-mobile and it supports volte.
Is it have Volte in galaxy note 5 n920s by sk telecom.
Galaxy note 5 by sk telecom n920s bandLte .is it work volte in indian network. anyone's know . Please tell about
sinanpt said:
Is it have Volte in galaxy note 5 n920s by sk telecom.
Galaxy note 5 by sk telecom n920s bandLte .is it work volte in indian network. anyone's know . Please tell about
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Post in thread 'Airtel Volte on Samsung Galaxy Note 5 still not Working ?' https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ote-5-still-not-working.3839531/post-84852033
Hello,
I've read on a russian website that all unlocked S10 in USA & Canada (Snapdragon) will have FM Radio (via NextRadio App I suppose). Hope this is true.
Any clue for European versions with Exynos chip ?
Pops
DJPops said:
Hello,
I've read on a russian website that all unlocked S10 in USA & Canada (Snapdragon) will have FM Radio (via NextRadio App I suppose). Hope this is true.
Any clue for European versions with Exynos chip ?
Pops
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I bought unlocked 10e north am snapdragon. It didn't come with fm radio apps. I had no idea. Plugged in headphones and downloaded nextradio. It has very good fm radio or at least the sound and reception is very good.
I tried it on mine with Exynos and NextRadio app:
"NextRadio won't work on your device"
As far as I know no Exynos device had FM functionality in the last years.
guest_2011 said:
I bought unlocked 10e north am snapdragon. It didn't come with fm radio apps. I had no idea. Plugged in headphones and downloaded nextradio. It has very good fm radio or at least the sound and reception is very good.
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It's a good news for our snapdragon model.
Very useful to have radio fm without the need to use data
how good is the reception?
pixiebob said:
how good is the reception?
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It's as good as a small radio on mine. I sometimes use an old cutoff earbud for an antenna so I can play thru the speaker and I get great reception. The antenna I made isn't a foot long.
i have a China Mobile S10e SM-G9708 (Snapdragon) and it comes with FM radio and Samsung app preinstalled.
Feel so bad to see the Exynos variation has less functionality, performance, and battery life.......
siamchen said:
Feel so bad to see the Exynos variation has less functionality, performance, and battery life.......
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Yeah stupid Samsung... At least we can be happy we will have root and custom ROMs etc.
I've been looking into this issue today and found lots of evidence that virtually all smartphones have the FM chip built in but mobile networks disable them for financial reasons. Mobile networks put pressure on manufacturers to disable the chip so that we are forced to use mobile data to stream music. I remember back when the S7 came out, it didn't have support for FM radio out of the box but it received an update which enabled the chip later.
Hi, would you please share the FM Radio apk. It's a feature I like but don't have available
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Feel so bad to see the Exynos variation has less functionality, performance, and battery life.......
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It also has root. Totally worth it IMO.
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CroGamer1 said:
I've been looking into this issue today and found lots of evidence that virtually all smartphones have the FM chip built in but mobile networks disable them for financial reasons. Mobile networks put pressure on manufacturers to disable the chip so that we are forced to use mobile data to stream music. I remember back when the S7 came out, it didn't have support for FM radio out of the box but it received an update which enabled the chip later.
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This isn't the case with exynos phones. They never had radio chip (unlike snapdragon variants) so there is nothing to enable. Spirit FM radio on very old devices (around android 5.0) was somehow able to use the bluetooth as FM radio receiver on some devices, but the reception was poor and it was killing battery life. That's not possible anymore.
I love having fm radio on my phone so I have been constantly searching for solution since galaxy s8 and there is none (for the exynos model). Snapdragon version of the s10 has also better battery life and performance, so if you really want fm radio + benefits and don't care for root (the only advantage of exynos models for now) u should try to find one.
DJPops said:
Hello,
I've read on a russian website that all unlocked S10 in USA & Canada (Snapdragon) will have FM Radio (via NextRadio App I suppose). Hope this is true.
Any clue for European versions with Exynos chip ?
Pops
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I have an unlocked US version and it does have the FM radio.
Titanium3 said:
Hi, would you please share the FM Radio apk. It's a feature I like but don't have available
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I bought S10e from finland last week and had to send it back because the FM-radio just didn't start functioning. No radio app, downloaded and installed nextradio apk but it said there is no suitable software on phone to start fm tuner. So it is totally turned off from factory I guess. Anybody have success to get FM tuner receiving on European version?
spacesnow said:
I bought S10e from finland last week and had to send it back because the FM-radio just didn't start functioning. No radio app, downloaded and installed nextradio apk but it said there is no suitable software on phone to start fm tuner. So it is totally turned off from factory I guess. Anybody have success to get FM tuner receiving on European version?
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The Exynos devices don't have a FM tuner built in. Only way to listen to radio is over the internet.
I mean this sucks. Why doesn't Sammy install one in their chips? It's not super expensive technology. I don't think that a valid argument is for carrier monetary reasons since mid-tier and low-tier Samsung phones have the tuner built in
CroGamer1 said:
I mean this sucks. Why doesn't Sammy install one in their chips? It's not super expensive technology. I don't think that a valid argument is for carrier monetary reasons since mid-tier and low-tier Samsung phones have the tuner built in
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You're right...there's no real reason for this but to save just a tiny amount of money. Samsung does this for a couple of years and never mentioned why with a good reason.
Also integrating DAB wouldn't be hard work but a really nice feature, especially in Europe.
What programs out there work besides next radio?
CroGamer1 said:
I mean this sucks. Why doesn't Sammy install one in their chips? It's not super expensive technology. I don't think that a valid argument is for carrier monetary reasons since mid-tier and low-tier Samsung phones have the tuner built in
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A lot of companies do that, Motorola is famous for it. I once asked a Motorola engineer why they didn't put NFC on their US phones and he told me that no one in the US uses NFC anyway. This was only a few years ago too. No one knows why companies make those idiotic decisions but I guess they figure that millions of pennies add up.
palamosteliaro said:
It also has root. Totally worth it IMO.
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This isn't the case with exynos phones. They never had radio chip (unlike snapdragon variants) so there is nothing to enable. Spirit FM radio on very old devices (around android 5.0) was somehow able to use the bluetooth as FM radio receiver on some devices, but the reception was poor and it was killing battery life. That's not possible anymore.
I love having fm radio on my phone so I have been constantly searching for solution since galaxy s8 and there is none (for the exynos model). Snapdragon version of the s10 has also better battery life and performance, so if you really want fm radio + benefits and don't care for root (the only advantage of exynos models for now) u should try to find one.
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Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) have Exynos and have FM Radio.
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a8_(2018)-8886.php
Hi
I've seen that The pixel 4 phones is not advertised with wifi6/802,11ax capability.
However, the snapdragon 855 soc HAS wifi 6 capability.
However, the phones we've seen that use wifi6 today, Like Samsung S10, use a broadcom chip for wifi6. No SD855 phones today uses the socs wifi6 capability.
At the same time, the wifi6 certification program launched more or less at the same time as the pixel 4 launch (one day difference? Don't remember).
Can this just be a certification issue? So the Pixel 4 and other 855 phones will get wifi6 support via the 855SOC via a SW update?
It's REALLY weird that google launched a wifi6 mesh system but their phones won't get it? I REALLY hope wifi6 will be activated on pixel 4 at a later point.
Any ideas?
johnkristian said:
Hi
I've seen that The pixel 4 phones is not advertised with wifi6/802,11ax capability.
However, the snapdragon 855 soc HAS wifi 6 capability.
However, the phones we've seen that use wifi6 today, Like Samsung S10, use a broadcom chip for wifi6. No SD855 phones today uses the socs wifi6 capability.
At the same time, the wifi6 certification program launched more or less at the same time as the pixel 4 launch (one day difference? Don't remember).
Can this just be a certification issue? So the Pixel 4 and other 855 phones will get wifi6 support via the 855SOC via a SW update?
It's REALLY weird that google launched a wifi6 mesh system but their phones won't get it? I REALLY hope wifi6 will be activated on pixel 4 at a later point.
Any ideas?
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Google New mesh system is NOT wifi 6
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OK. Anyway, it still doesn't explain the 855 / wifi 6 situation
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OK. Anyway, it still doesn't explain the 855 / wifi 6 situation
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Just cause the 855 is WiFi 6 capable doesn't mean they'll have it on.
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Well, obviously.
But it's still VERY strange.
johnkristian said:
Well, obviously.
But it's still VERY strange.
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Doesn't seem any more strange to me than the new Nest WiFi not supporting it.
Perhaps, just like 5G, they don't think its worth supporting it at this time.
https://9to5google.com/2019/10/17/pixel-4-5g-reason/
Pixel 4 uses the "Murata SS9709025" WIFI SoC, but we're (NetHunter & Nexmon devs) looking for more information about the chipset.
If someone could post a full "dmesg" and "modinfo wlan" and most logs available really so we may identify this chip.
Btw, Hei John K
Arw you
johnkristian said:
Hi
I've seen that The pixel 4 phones is not advertised with wifi6/802,11ax capability.
However, the snapdragon 855 soc HAS wifi 6 capability.
However, the phones we've seen that use wifi6 today, Like Samsung S10, use a broadcom chip for wifi6. No SD855 phones today uses the socs wifi6 capability.
At the same time, the wifi6 certification program launched more or less at the same time as the pixel 4 launch (one day difference? Don't remember).
Can this just be a certification issue? So the Pixel 4 and other 855 phones will get wifi6 support via the 855SOC via a SW update?
It's REALLY weird that google launched a wifi6 mesh system but their phones won't get it? I REALLY hope wifi6 will be activated on pixel 4 at a later point.
Any ideas?
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Are you sure? Because the S10 series have several version. Maybe the Exynos uses Broadcomm so there is nothing to port. The 855+ Samsung phones can be possible to port. But there is no dev who wants to deal with that.
kimocoder said:
Pixel 4 uses the "Murata SS9709025" WIFI SoC, but we're (NetHunter & Nexmon devs) looking for more information about the chipset.
If someone could post a full "dmesg" and "modinfo wlan" and most logs available really so we may identify this chip.
Btw, Hei John K
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Any updates on the mod?
The SD855 also supports 5G, but Pixels didn't support 5G until the Bramble.
V0latyle said:
The SD855 also supports 5G, but Pixels didn't support 5G until the Bramble.
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Naw, the modem is wrong. For the SD855/855+, Samsung gets shotgun by Qualcomm just to keep them in the US market. But it happens that Samsung uses another modem by Qualcomm or broadcomm. For example, all SD855 phones use the X24 LTE modem while 5G enabled SD855 phones use the x50 Modem. On the issue of sd855 that uses the WCN3990 Wi-Fi chip there is not a single phone with Wi-Fi 6. But wait there is more, some 700 series SOC does use the WC3990 Wi-Fi chip with Wi-Fi 6 but the catch is that that it's on another chip architecture. So porting is a issue, the Qualcomm blobs doesn't like that.
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borisSweden said:
Naw, the modem is wrong. For the SD855/855+, Samsung gets shotgun by Qualcomm just to keep them in the US market. But it happens that Samsung uses another modem by Qualcomm or broadcomm. For example, all SD855 phones use the X24 LTE modem while 5G enabled SD855 phones use the x50 Modem. On the issue of sd855 that uses the WC3990 Wi-Fi chip there is not a single phone with Wi-Fi 6. But wait there is more, some 700 series SOC does use the WC3990 Wi-Fi chip with Wi-Fi 6 but the catch is that that it's on another chip architecture. So porting is a issue, the Qualcomm blobs doesn't like that.
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Makes sense
V0latyle said:
Makes sense
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well after doing research for GNSS Galileo support for the Oneplus 3, it very clear Qualcomm added a back porting fail-safe on all their blobs. I made a suggestion if someone has the time and brain to make it work by taking a 2020 midclass chip from the 600 or 700 series.
You can install DeviceInfo HW to check if the hardware is there for wifi6 before trying out software to make it work. But then you can get to another issue of the right pin not being added, like FM radio for Snapdragon phones, the hardware is there but the OEM didnt pay the 1 cent for adding support.
Edit: WCN3990 is old old old chip used since the SD835. But we can add Bluetooth 5.1 instead.