So I have 2gb of data and used it all up. If I understand correctly it will still say 4g but throttled down to 2g. If I go to my settings wireless and mobile networks and change to use gsm only it will actually switch to 2g in the notification bar. My question is by only using gsm instead of wcdma will I have a longer lasting battery? Doesn't wcdma require more power consumption? And last, I've also noticed that if I have wcdma 4g throttle down with 2-3 bars vs gsm 2g full bars I get slightly better speed results. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Floyd P.
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For sure it will have better battery life, edge connectivity uses less battery life, in addition, it won't have to ever switch back and forth.
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I thought so... I also noticed speeds are faster on edge when I have full bars which is 80% of the time. Thanks
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Has nothing to do with the Amaze 4G.
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A ton of battery use goes to your device searching for the best/strongest signal...eliminate the need for it to search, and you will definitely save power.
Thanks for the info guys
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Sorry if this was ask before...
So i heard if you put your phone on cdma only it will save some battery because is not looking for both signals "dual mode" I believe. Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone don't have to look for 3G signal and maybe save some juice?
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Only if you want battery drain. Imho there isn't a phone on the market that comes stock aside from the Maxx that is viable to run LTE only for any extended period of time. The hardware technology hasn't matured enough to keep up with the resource drain LTE uses. I rarely ever have it turned on myself.
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Kratz17 said:
Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone...
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If there were, it would no longer be a phone. Currently, on Verizon, LTE is data only. All calls go over the CDMA side.
Kratz17 said:
Sorry if this was ask before...
So i heard if you put your phone on cdma only it will save some battery because is not looking for both signals "dual mode" I believe. Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone don't have to look for 3G signal and maybe save some juice?
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If you did that, you wouldn't get any phone service either
I swear there was a setting for LTE only. I believe I came across it once while messing around with some settings trying to get 4G back, before I found out it was a outage lol... It bumped me off of 3G and put me on 1X.
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There is a setting that is CDMA+LTE only. So you get calls and texts over 1X and have 4G, but if your 4G drops you go to 1X. However, that is how the phone works even with 3G turned on so there are no battery savings.
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Only if you want battery drain. Imho there isn't a phone on the market that comes stock aside from the Maxx that is viable to run LTE only for any extended period of time. The hardware technology hasn't matured enough to keep up with the resource drain LTE uses. I rarely ever have it turned on myself.
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if you set it for 3g only does that save on battery and how do you do that exactly?
You can actually do it two ways under settings go to power-power mode- and choose normal performace(instead of high) OR under settings- wireless & networks- mobile network settings- network mode and choose cdma only!
Hope that helped!
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Thanks for all the feedbacks guys really appreciate
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Does setting network mode to Cdma only turn off the Lte? I think it would but I read online that Lte stays on all the time
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It not only tells the device NOT to turn on LTE but also tells the devicenot to LOOK for an LTE signal which in my experience enhanced battery life... Well may not have enhanced battery life to be honest because I was only on charge number 2 when I turned it off LoL but will actually turn it back on and see how battery fates then to compare and do my best to keep using the phone as much as I have been to get proper results for the comparison.
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Thanks. I feel like this would be like leaving GPS or Wimax on. Wasting the battery.
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Natodu said:
Thanks. I feel like this would be like leaving GPS or Wimax on. Wasting the battery.
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Except leaving GPS on doesn't waste battery. It's only using power when it's actually active. This was a big question people asked 2 years ago when the OG Evo came out.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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But with all the apps that try to pull your location I always thought it was hurting my battery on the OG. I am a battery whore so it could have been in my head.
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Yes, it is really only active when instructed to do so by certain apps at certain times like posting on FaceBook, using Nav, etc etc.
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I am actually now having an issue with location. Basically phone can't find me
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Has anyone seen there att one x + pick up 3g ? I ask because I have never seen mine say 3g only lte 4g edge g-for gprs but that's it. I don't want to be on 3g for good but it would be nice if my phone would connect to 3g in areas where I only get edge or gprs and a iPhone sitting next to me has 3g why is this ? Any ideas ?
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Could just be the indicator doesn't change. I have a 3g microcell in my house (long story) which I don't believe is even 4g capable and my HOX+ still says its 4g. Doesn't really bother be either way, I still get better signal strength than I did with my iPhone 4.
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Us Haas thinkin 4g and 3g ate the same since 4g is just 3.75 3g w/ enhanced backhaul. So pretty Much any time I see 4g symbol its really a 3g tower just all of them in my area have backhaul so I never see 3g symbol.
Please correct me if im wrong
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The 4g is a 3g back hauled hspa+ system it gives better speed than reg 4 g its marketing I assure you but most likely 4g. Is the back hauled hspa+
remember the HTC inspire 4g and the galaxy s2 both had the 4g hspa+ radios and it was marketed as 4g
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I can confirm that in my area with a Nexus 4, the phone will switch between H (3G) and H+ (4G) AT&T HSPA and HSPA+. With the One X+ however, it will only display 4G LTE, 4G, and E. Also, Viper XL+ lets you flash the stock international signal indicators which display LTE, H+, H, and E in my area. The decision to only include the 4G HSPA signal indicator is most likely a marketing decision.
It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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You need to check your apns and put in the correct t-mobile apn so it will give you the proper hspa+ rather than edge.
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Check and make sure your phone isn't set to GSM only under network settings.
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Most likely you have gsm only on
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Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
I usually set my phone to GSM Only when I go out, because it saves a lot of battery and still lets me stay connected to the internet.
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Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
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There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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Me too. :laugh: Your friend's Verizon LTE was slow likely due to tower congestion. That's when too many people are on the tower and the bandwidth becomes tiny and people get slow data. I hope it doesn't happen to future T-mobile LTE,
My galaxy S6 is stuck on Edge as network type and it refuses to get out of GSM Only even if I try to set preferred network type. I can see the other network types displayed but when I press them it switches back immediately to GSM Only
please advice which is the better one, :good: going to buy one soon tnx
LTE of course
Aside from the modem that allows a faster data connection (download/upload) on the LTE they are exactly the same device!
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LTE gives you faster performance on the data side.
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but is that true LTE drains battery faster especially when signal is not good?? tnx
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but is that true LTE drains battery faster especially when signal is not good?? tnx
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None is better. Only change speed on data and yet not everywhere. So C6802 is better if you don't have Lte and C6806/6833 are better if you have 4G. Lte drain more battery when using it, only on Internet as voice calls do not use it. Having more drain on my C6802 with poor signal, this is basic to all type of mobile network not especially for 4G.
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That's not the case look on new iPhone 5s 4g tilktime is longer than 3g
Apple fans are hilarious! Swallowing everything without thought.
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Sure, because you don't call on 4G or 3G. Voice call are still using 2G GSM or cdma2000. So how can the talktime be longer?
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None is better. Only change speed on data and yet not everywhere. So C6802 is better if you don't have Lte and C6806/6833 are better if you have 4G. Lte drain more battery when using it, only on Internet as voice calls do not use it. Having more drain on my C6802 with poor signal, this is basic to all type of mobile network not especially for 4G.
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so basically, without good signal LTE will only drain more power and still be slow. is that correct? tnx
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so basically, without good signal LTE will only drain more power and still be slow. is that correct? tnx
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With a poor 4G signal it'll simply switch to 3G/H+ and always try to look for a good 4G. Same thing happen if H+/3G signal poor it drop and try to find it back. Only difference is that with a 4G phone it stop looking for faster network only when on 4G. After with a simple 4G/3G switch you will be able to enjoy full 4G speed when browsing Internet and can turn it off to limit battery drain when not browsing or when in a non or poor 4G area.
I do not have a Lte version only because shop in Vietnam advertise having the C6833 but don't have it and don't know when will. So I was impatient and bough the C6802 (my old phone died 1 month before).
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thanks for all the info. :good: