I have a Droid Bionic under Verizon. I did the OTA update to ICS yesterday and since then I haven't switched to 4G once. Places where I had 4G signal before I'm left in 3G.
What did they 'fix' on the 4G/3G problem? Does it force a much higher 4G signal before switching now, or is it something else?
I'm on unofficial 232 and the 3g 4g is awesome....however it eats battery life so bad it almost drains the battery faster than I can charge it.. j have to turn on airplane mode to get it to charge in a decent time frame
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Does anyone really see that much of an increase in battery life if you're in a 4g area but force 3g?
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Powell730 said:
Does anyone really see that much of an increase in battery life if you're in a 4g area but force 3g?
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I do on the Bionic and the TBolt. I always leave them on 3G. 4G is not needed for anything I do.
It makes a big difference on my Bionic. I don't use 4G unless I'm doing some real surfing. Otherwise I leave it in 3G only mode.
It makes a huge difference in battery life for me, and I live in a good LTE area (Portland, OR). I generally only turn it on 4G if I need the throughput.
Well it was helping but since the update anytime I force cdma only I don't get any data...
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also saves me a buttload of battery. Once the update hits my phone, I'll be interested to see if it's still a big battery saver or if the frequent G-Cycle issue was responsible for more of the battery drain than the LTE is, seeing as how that bug has been known to lose me 50% or more of my battery in less than an hour on occasion
For those coming from the LTE you know of which I speak.
How is the LTE/3G hand off?
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Its been good for me, but I never had any problems with my lte either.
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It's been very smooth for me unlike my wife's SGS3 which has a long pause while switching from one to the other.
It works a lot better than the HTC EVO 4G LTE, had both side by side in the same area. Doesn't take long to switch to 4G, the LTEvo however wouldn't connect without toggling airplane mode.
Much improved over the lte.
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It hands off fine in really good signal areas,much better than the Evo LTE..But my Galaxy Note II picks up 4G almost any where there's 4G. Where as the One does not..
But from what i've noticed this may actually be better because in a lot of these areas with my Note II it would say 4G but when running a benchmark it would be just as bad as 3G and sometimes not transmit data at all even with the 4G icon..
But all day yesterday anytime my One said 4G i had actual 4G(>6MB/down).
Keeps changing back in forth
With my One at the house it keeps changing back and forth from LTE to 3g when i had my SG3 it constantly stayed on LTE
Agree. Approved greatly. On the LTE I would switch on/off the airplane mode to get my 4g back going
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This is an ongoing gripe of mine. I'm wondering if it's just me or if other people have this problem. When I'm on 4g it intermittently turns off data for a few seconds. The 4g icon goes away and comes back a few seconds later interrupting my connection. Only happens on 4g. If I set the mobile network to just 2g or 3g I don't have this problem. I've tried lots of different modems. So I'm wondering if it's an Optus thing or an issue with my phone? ?
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This is an ongoing gripe of mine. I'm wondering if it's just me or if other people have this problem. When I'm on 4g it intermittently turns off data for a few seconds. The 4g icon goes away and comes back a few seconds later interrupting my connection. Only happens on 4g. If I set the mobile network to just 2g or 3g I don't have this problem. I've tried lots of different modems. So I'm wondering if it's an Optus thing or an issue with my phone? ?
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probably poor coverage of 4G network
Why 4G when 3G is enough for watching video etc etc?
And it drain more battery also
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probably poor coverage of 4G network
Why 4G when 3G is enough for watching video etc etc?
And it drain more battery also
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I'm literally right next to a big city. Its not a coverage thing. If I have a 4g phone why not use it. I get about 24 hours of battery life from it so that's not an issue
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I updated to 4.3 just now and my lte signal dropped to 1 to 2 bars, from a constant full bars. I noticed the performance is equal, meaning it may be just a difference in the sensitivity of the antenna's display of good signal however, it drops from lte a lot and stays in 3g. Has anyone verified the changes in the new modem? Any other bugs I should be aware on the 4.3 update? Also, Dashclock widget doesn't work on htc's widget lock screen.
Looks like before the bars were for voice and now they represent data. That's the way it is in AOSP.
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I imagined since there were no changes in performance per se. I just wish I could restrict my one to lte only. Either 4g or no data.
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I work relatively close to a 4G LTE tower before updated it showed full 4G with fast speeds, now it shows little to no 4G and would switch to 3G. I tried to Factory Data Reset with PRL and Profile Update and still shows the same, and I'm running all stock no root, and I'm pretty sure it's not the tower.
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I work relatively close to a 4G LTE tower before updated it showed full 4G with fast speeds, now it shows little to no 4G and would switch to 3G. I tried to Factory Data Reset with PRL and Profile Update and still shows the same, and I'm running all stock no root, and I'm pretty sure it's not the tower.
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So your on the updated prl (55016) then?
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Yup..
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Looks like before the bars were for voice and now they represent data. That's the way it is in AOSP.
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This is correct. You can verify this by connecting to wifi and then disabling mobile data. Your bars will instantly change.
I like this change. Now I can see that it is not possible to have more than 1 bar of 4G pretty much anywhere in my area. No wonder the speeds are so average and I almost never get 4G, the Sprint towers are all so far off the main roads that by the time the signal gets there it's weak. You can get full bars... if you drive up to the Sprint call center in Bristol, TN.
Before this change it was a lot harder to tell whether you were getting good 4G or 3G reception.
Edit: I just want to say that the reception itself is largely unchanged. When the phone goes from 4G to 3G, nothing will make it go back to 4G except toggling the data off and on.
Just to throw this in the mix. I live in an area that never had 4g but after this update I have it now. My signal strength also shows the one bar but coming from 3g only my connection now is 4g and has increased significantly. Maybe this new radio has a factor that extends the overall 4g coverage? I guess it could be just timing and 4g was opened up in my area but like I said I now have it after this update.
So yes it's another battery thread but I'm noticing that my signal compared to the note 3 is not even as half good.. Where I would get lte, it drops to 4g, and it's alot of dropping back and forth between the signals and where I would get 4g I get edge, is it possible of being the update?
Just curious.
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