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Does anyone else experience a decrease in signal reception in their DUAL? I have a Nokia N95 8gb and I get a strong signal (5 bars) compared to 2 bars on the DUAL.
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As long as you can speak clear, I dont think there would be a problem. Probably the N95 shows full signal in areas where HTC can show 2bars but still take the full signal
The best way to test is by making a call in poor reception areas on both the devices and see which one works better or the same.
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i had that alot and i bought a signal booster from ebay which has made a diffrence it gives me two strong bars where befour i had one which came and went. they are only 2.00 and stick under the battery hope this may help.i am with orange and also have an n95 which has a good strong signal at home.
Goto>Settings>phone>band> then change from Auto to GSM in network type. It might help. soft reset.
naser404 said:
Goto>Settings>phone>band> then change from Auto to GSM in network type. It might help. soft reset.
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yup, that helped me when i saw that on another thread. if you're not using the higher speed internet, it's a good tip
shame the "auto" is biased to faster data networks - i'd like to have it search for a more applicable signal only when you need a data connection
Hi,
My brother has a Intel xolo x900 and I have a photon. My brother's phone pwns my photons signal strength (reception) BOTH for wifi and gsm network.
I am very much disappointed. I have seen that the wifi reception on the iphone 4s is stronger than mine!
It has been same from the beginning. Am using gingerbread CM. Is it just our phone that is weak? I am hating the video camera on my photon as well! The front cam takes bettery videos compared the the rear camera.
Thanks!
androiderb89 said:
Hi,
My brother has a Intel xolo x900 and I have a photon. My brother's phone pwns my photons signal strength (reception) BOTH for wifi and gsm network.
I am very much disappointed. I have seen that the wifi reception on the iphone 4s is stronger than mine!
It has been same from the beginning. Am using gingerbread CM. Is it just our phone that is weak? I am hating the video camera on my photon as well! The front cam takes bettery videos compared the the rear camera.
Thanks!
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sounds like a bad device. reception is pretty good on mine (electrify). most people report that signals on the sunfire (photon/electrify) is generally much better than any other phone. as for the camera. motorola sucks at making them. they've always had horrible cameras i think.
na7q said:
sounds like a bad device. reception is pretty good on mine (electrify). most people report that signals on the sunfire (photon/electrify) is generally much better than any other phone. as for the camera. motorola sucks at making them. they've always had horrible cameras i think.
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Can a bad device receive a little bit of less signal compared to other phones?
Both wifi and mobile network
well we all know Iphone and Crapple lies about their bars like everything else lol
androiderb89 said:
Can a bad device receive a little bit of less signal compared to other phones?
Both wifi and mobile network
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it's entirely possible!
foxsdaddy67 said:
well we all know Iphone and Crapple lies about their bars like everything else lol
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this is also true! haha. icrap always lies about things.
so basically what you need to do is test it. not by bars, but the actual signal in terms of calls and or data signals. you could even check the signals dbm level to verify it. although it may be inaccurate because again, people lie.. so i'd test with calls and data connectivity.
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it's entirely possible!
this is also true! haha. icrap always lies about things.
so basically what you need to do is test it. not by bars, but the actual signal in terms of calls and or data signals. you could even check the signals dbm level to verify it. although it may be inaccurate because again, people lie.. so i'd test with calls and data connectivity.
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When I walk in my terrace, my brothers phone (Intel xolo x900) catches the signal about 10 meters further than my phone can and also when he has network coverage in his phone, I dont have. *When we go on adventures on the mountains n stuff*
androiderb89 said:
When I walk in my terrace, my brothers phone (Intel xolo x900) catches the signal about 10 meters further than my phone can and also when he has network coverage in his phone, I dont have. *When we go on adventures on the mountains n stuff*
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sounds like a bad phone then.. mine is top notch. better than most other devices i've compared it with. so maybe a new phone or replacement would better for you if you're looking something a little better..
na7q said:
sounds like a bad phone then.. mine is top notch. better than most other devices i've compared it with. so maybe a new phone or replacement would better for you if you're looking something a little better..
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Though its under warranty, I am in India and the warranty isnt covered here. The cam has a burnt spot in it as well. Can the cam be replaced with an another phone having a good one lol
androiderb89 said:
Though its under warranty, I am in India and the warranty isnt covered here. The cam has a burnt spot in it as well. Can the cam be replaced with an another phone having a good one lol
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it could be. but that would be extremely difficult! you could easily break the entire thing!
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it could be. but that would be extremely difficult! you could easily break the entire thing!
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OK I have sold my phone. I got the Galaxy S2
The WIFI antenna on the Photon is a bit more powerful than the S2 I9100 lol But the Intel Xolo X900 RULEZZZZ!!
Have you noticed your G6SE is dropping calls and has overall poor reception?
I've had mine for four days now and have dropped many calls and lost signal where my previous phone managed to easily retain the network and never dropped calls.
Also I noticed when connected to my car's bluetooth, the signal display never shows full strength where again my previous phone always did. The GS6E only ever shows 80%
20150424_222933-1 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
when looking at my signal history in gsam, it also never goes above 80% which ties up with what my car's display.
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-15-33.png by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
Now i've made a comparison between my M8 and the GS6E and this clearly shows the GS6E is less sensitive to cell reception and this equates to the dropped calls.
The M8 can achieve -69 dBm at one one one point
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-52-42 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
and the GS6E a lower -81dBm
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-56-54 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
Ok, so the GS6E is not as good as others at cell reception. Is this a hardware limitation? or could new radios help this?
What is your experience of this?
There are various reports cropping up now about this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/08/samsung_galaxy_s6/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/204525
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/516324-poor-sprint-lte-reception.html
mwatson said:
Have you noticed your G6SE is dropping calls and has overall poor reception?
I've had mine for four days now and have dropped many calls and lost signal where my previous phone managed to easily retain the network and never dropped calls.
Also I noticed when connected to my car's bluetooth, the signal display never shows full strength where again my previous phone always did. The GS6E only ever shows 80%
20150424_222933-1 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
when looking at my signal history in gsam, it also never goes above 80% which ties up with what my car's display.
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-15-33.png by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
Now i've made a comparison between my M8 and the GS6E and this clearly shows the GS6E is less sensitive to cell reception and this equates to the dropped calls.
The M8 can achieve -69 dBm at one one one point
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-52-42 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
and the GS6E a lower -81dBm
Screenshot_2015-04-24-22-56-54 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
Ok, so the GS6E is not as good as others at cell reception. Is this a hardware limitation? or could new radios help this?
What is your experience of this?
There are various reports cropping up now about this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/08/samsung_galaxy_s6/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/204525
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/516324-poor-sprint-lte-reception.html
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Veedubs unite!
What country and carrier are you on?
I'm in the US and on sprint and drop calls like crazy with my gs6e. Never had this issue with 10 years on sprint. I've noticed that I seem to drop calls more frequently while travelling on 9 at high rates of speed. It seems to be a tower handoff issue. I don't have the issue whilenjoying stationary.
I'm on tmo (US) and no issues. Honestly I've not read a lot of complaints about cell reception or at least no more than usual on any device. Regardless of that why I chimed in was really to say that my first phone was defective. The issues I had (horrid batt despite trying every fix mentioned here and all across the internet, fingerprint scanner was about 50%, again tried every possible fix I was able to scour up. New device and the fingerprint scanner immedietly worked perfectly and my battery life was fixed without me doing a thing. Keep in mind that by fixed battery I mean I get about 4 hours screen up time which isn't good but about what I would expect for a small battery in a bloated device.
Long story short, consider exchanging it. The lack of reports that speak of bad cell reception imply you may have a lemon to me.
Did you click on any of the links I posted in my original post? There are more too, but i thought that was enough.
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Veedubs unite!
What country and carrier are you on?
I'm in the US and on sprint and drop calls like crazy with my gs6e. Never had this issue with 10 years on sprint. I've noticed that I seem to drop calls more frequently while travelling on 9 at high rates of speed. It seems to be a tower handoff issue. I don't have the issue whilenjoying stationary.
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Yeah love the VeeDub!
I'm in the Uk on the 3 network...
Here is my wife's 2013 Moto G next to my 2015 GS6E. She is also on 3. As you can see the Moto G performs much better than the GS6E. Moto G on the right obvs. It was also £500 cheaper!
DSC_0647 by markcaigerwatson, on Flickr
Definitely some poor signal reception on Galaxy S6 Edge. Mine has poor signal reception as well. Bought mine unlocked in Hong Kong model 9250.
If I tell one of the people in HK about this they will give me the same old lame answer that no one has complained about thus issue yet.:silly:
Poor reception on China Unicom in China, poor reception on CHT in Taiwan and poor reception on CSL in Hong Kong. Last but not least is Wifi reception is literally horrible unless you sit or stand right next to Wifi router!
Yep I'm having the same issue with my S6 Edge to. At first I thought it was my network (Three UK) but after doing some research, I'm reading the issue is more widespread, internationally 2. Calls keep dropping when I'm on a call and I'm getting a bad reception in places where my S5 didn't. Really not happy about this. I hope this issue can be fixed with an update.
Experiencing the same issue. I put my S6 edge, old S4 and iPhone 4 + 5s side by side and they all have max signal while my Edge had just 1 bar.
I've been researching and somehow got to the Sprint forums where they were also reporting the same problems. I saw there that you could try switching to CDMA only. Tried it and while it did improve the signal, it prevented me from using LTE which I'm not really willing to compromise.
mwatson said:
Yeah love the VeeDub!
Here is my wife's 2013 Moto G next to my 2015 GS6E. She is also on 3. As you can see the Moto G performs much better than the GS6E. Moto G on the right obvs. It was also £500 cheaper!
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Got the same problem here in Oz. btw what app is that showing the signal strength?
-ivar
Samsung really needs to get this fixed ASAP as this could ruin the Samsung Galaxy Brand.
ivaho said:
Got the same problem here in Oz. btw what app is that showing the signal strength?
-ivar
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it is called Network Signal Info.. Free from Google Play.
This is in México City full LTE with my Note 4 , but the EDGE has This really poor reception.
The Phone is faulty or is the same case as others report on signal issues?
Same here for me on EE in the UK, switch to 2g/3g and signal is fine, set it back to 2g/3g/4g and 1 bar
Not sure what the problem is with this Galaxy S6 Edge but the 4G LTE reception is poor and download speeds are slow.
Same for me. I m in France near strasbourg with operator orange. It works fine with iphone but not with my galaxy s6 edge! !! With the same sim card of course!
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I have not been able to connect to LTE since I got the edge a month ago. I'm currently on OE3 if this helps. Could this be a hardware issue?
I have received a few updates on my Galaxy S6 Edge but until now the wifi reception along with 3G and 4G reception suck. Even when reception is great or average the download speeds suck and are about half of what they are on my iPhone 6. Was expecting better results out of this phone but I guess not. My guess is that they either intentionally turned down the power provided for cell reception and wifi reception for longer battery life or their antennas on this smartphone really suck. Definitely a problem that Samsung needs to look into.
Mine is also struggling with connecting to stuff. 4g is spotty, calls drop and break up, wifi is shockingly bad, even in the next room to the router. 1 bar or no service on EE UK in a good signal area.
Going to call Samsung tomorrow and if they have no solution, it is definitely going back.
I am going to get rid of this Galaxy S6 Edge when the new Motorola comes out. The reception for both wifi and cell signal are beyond horrible on this phone. Battery life is quite poor as well. Try making a call using speakerphone if you have to talk while driving and see how many people tell you that you sound horrible. Samsung should learn a thing or two from Motorola,Apple and Blackberry when making phones for phone calls.
Samsung dropped the ball with this phone in two areas: Battery and Reception.
I am moving to a new phone as soon as I can sell this.
Hi,
I recently bought a black z5c from handtec and I'm currently using it on US T-Mobile.
I think I have the apn settings set correctly but I'm only getting one bar for LTE here in LA, even outside with no buildings.
HSPA, however, has strong signal. Any recommendations?
Tuan
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I get very good signal with mine. Even with one bar I get good speeds (tested via speedtest).
You can just use the download internet settings under networks/more if you are worry about using the wrong apn settings.
I'm also using T-Mobile.
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Reception issue or perceived reception
I am having the same issue, but on AT&T. My model is the E5823, black. I have been swapping my sim card back and forth between the z5c and my Nexus 5 and have noticed that the nexus will have full bars of LTE while the z5c will have maybe one bar. More importantly, though--the db reading from the phones are almost exactly the same and the download speeds are very similar as well. So I think this may not be a reception issue in my case, but an issue with how the z5c displays reception vs how the nexus 5 does. The nexus 5 with full bars should having blazing LTE speed. Sadly, both of these phones are giving me barely 3 mb download speeds. I think AT&T may be having an issue in my area but I can't get a customer service rep to acknowledge it.
I hope I'm right--I'm loving this phone despite the terrible (possibly perceived) reception. I have downloaded an app called real signal and it shows a more accurate reading of actual reception and it is confirming my suspicion.
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I am having the same issue, but on AT&T. My model is the E5823, black. I have been swapping my sim card back and forth between the z5c and my Nexus 5 and have noticed that the nexus will have full bars of LTE while the z5c will have maybe one bar. More importantly, though--the db reading from the phones are almost exactly the same and the download speeds are very similar as well. So I think this may not be a reception issue in my case, but an issue with how the z5c displays reception vs how the nexus 5 does. The nexus 5 with full bars should having blazing LTE speed. Sadly, both of these phones are giving me barely 3 mb download speeds. I think AT&T may be having an issue in my area but I can't get a customer service rep to acknowledge it.
I hope I'm right--I'm loving this phone despite the terrible (possibly perceived) reception. I have downloaded an app called real signal and it shows a more accurate reading of actual reception and it is confirming my suspicion.
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This is exactly my experience. Not as many bars as my other phone, but actual signal strength is almost identical. I think it's just a difference in how they are showing bars. I think signal strength is actually good.
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phositadc said:
This is exactly my experience. Not as many bars as my other phone, but actual signal strength is almost identical. I think it's just a difference in how they are showing bars. I think signal strength is actually good.
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I'm glad to hear that. This was driving me nuts thinking I'd have to return a phone that I imported and eat a 15% restocking fee. It's also really the only small phone I had my eye on once I saw that the Nexus 5X would be just as big as the regular sized Xperia Z5.
I'm experiencing something similar. I think I have 1 less bar of 4G signal in every place compared to my previous phone. But the phone still works great and seems to not drain more battery regarding this.
But the "time without signal %" is considerably lower than before. (Still. This could be just because of the bad 2G/3G signal at home, which is terrible and is improved now).
Also. Im now getting 4G+ signal (I think it's based on CAT 6). But maybe the strength is just the same as with 4G.
One more thing:
I bought my phone in Italy but I'm using it in Spain. Could that be an issue? I dont think so...because in Europe the LTE bands are almost the same everywhere.
Also. What would happen if we disable all other LTE bands from other countries? Could that help?
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I'm now having -107 dBm 33 asu. How bad is that?
thesebastian said:
I'm experiencing something similar. I think I have 1 less bar of 4G signal in every place compared to my previous phone. But the phone still works great and seems to not drain more battery regarding this.
But the "time without signal %" is considerably lower than before. (Still. This could be just because of the bad 2G/3G signal at home, which is terrible and is improved now).
Also. Im now getting 4G+ signal (I think it's based on CAT 6). But maybe the strength is just the same as with 4G.
One more thing:
I bought my phone in Italy but I'm using it in Spain. Could that be an issue? I dont think so...because in Europe the LTE bands are almost the same everywhere.
Also. What would happen if we disable all other LTE bands from other countries? Could that help?
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I'm now having -107 dBm 33 asu. How bad is that? [emoji14]
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107 is pretty weak but without having another phone to compare it to it's impossible to say if it's the phone's fault or if you are just somewhere with a bad signal!
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Hi,
I think my signal is poor compared with my previous phone
I have 105 dbm
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Hi,
Did you try entering Service Phone info and check settings from there ?
for that dial in :
*#*#service#*#*
then service settings and select the right network mode
chrisftlse said:
Hi,
Did you try entering Service Phone info and check settings from there ?
for that dial in :
*#*#service#*#*
then service settings and select the right network mode
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My phone has this option selected "LTE_GSM_WCDMA" and I think that it's the right choice.
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I had same issue with att. Then I realized I forgot to call them and give them my imei number to put into their system. Did you do that?
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The imei will not impact reception. GSM is purely sim based. I'm curious about this issue as well. I had exact same issue with my z3c on tmous. Lower signal readings both visually and dbm but it operated fine
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I got a Z5 compact and I'm definitely getting poorer reception than my previous phone (2013 Moto X) on AT&T. Not just the display, but I find more calls going to voicemail from my apartment than before.
I think it's just the way sony is translating actual signal strength to bars displayed. On WCDMA it looks correct, but on LTE bars are always low even though reception and signal is fine.
Hello,
What is your experience with the GSM reception of the S23 Ultra? Mine is lower than my previous phone(S20 FE 5G); I don't have 5G in my region atm, and with S20 in my apartment had like 1/4 strength 4G, with S23u I have the 4G sign, but not most of the time it's 0/4 lines of strength, and also when I get a phone call half of the time I get small interruptions and this is annoying.
EDIT : after march update ,signal reception seems a bit better and also the battery.
G...S...M? What's that? (jk lol)
I don't think many of us really bought this phone for strong GSM performance and it's not really a focus of manufacturers either. Have you tried switching carriers?
You are right...but...its a phone first of all,we should have a great signal fir this miney. Its annoying to have poor recetiin at home and ppl make fun at you "omg you git a such expensive phone and Such a poor signal"
For me compare to S22U (Exynos) is a lot of better and little better than Fold 2 - so overall is good (snapdragon here in EU). I work where is poor cellular strenght.
Signal definitely seems worse than my S21U. I live in an area where indoor coverage is poor and I'm having to rely on wifi calling a lot more than I did with my previous handset.
Personally, I have always found Samsung modem and radio reception to be weak compared to OnePlus. The same place my OnePlus 8T can get 4 bars, my s23 Ultra gets 2. At our last apartment, we both ditched our Samsung devices because we got no service in that apartment but has 1-2 usable bars of service with our OnePlus 7 Pro's.
Hi all!Today I noticed my S23 Ultra network signal is poor as many of your phones.Before I had a Pixel 6 Pro but the network signal was much better than this Samsung.I don't know why ,I have 2 network bars or even no one ,then the phone connect through wifi calls!I am living in UK,Lebara network!Thanks
Mihai2103 said:
Hi all!Today I noticed my S23 Ultra network signal is poor as many of your phones.Before I had a Pixel 6 Pro but the network signal was much better than this Samsung.I don't know why ,I have 2 network bars or even no one ,then the phone connect through wifi calls!I am living in UK,Lebara network!Thanks
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I had the P6P and that was the worst phone I've ever had regards signal
Shipoftheline said:
I had the P6P and that was the worst phone I've ever had regards signal
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I don't know how but I check the signal reception and during travelling by train to work and is worst with S23U than P6 Pro.I wasn't happy with P6P,some things but the signal was better than Samsung for me!Even now the Wifi calls is connected because I have a poor network signal.
I hardly got any signal at home on my pevious phone (s9+), but all great with s23 ultra, tbh
Mihai2103 said:
I don't know how but I check the signal reception and during travelling by train to work and is worst with S23U than P6 Pro.I wasn't happy with P6P,some things but the signal was better than Samsung for me!Even now the Wifi calls is connected because I have a poor network signal.
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Maybe a silly question but why do you keep posting screenshots of yourself commenting
Just keep asking and maybe you can answer yourself!
I found opposite. My old 10+ have much worse signal than my 23u. Inside my house i still have 4 bars of 5G.
Very strange. My S23U is night and day better than my P7P was.
Mine is better than Pixel`s I had been using, the pixel 7 pro I was using was horrible, the S23U is way better.
Signal is all over place, wh3n in low 4g reception it falls back to 3g and when im back in well covered 4g+ it will stay at 3g until I flight mode it. Seems even worse than puxrl 6 pro I had.
fastie said:
Signal is all over place, wh3n in low 4g reception it falls back to 3g and when im back in well covered 4g+ it will stay at 3g until I flight mode it. Seems even worse than puxrl 6 pro I had.
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That sounds like your carrier is the problem and not the device.
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That sounds like your carrier is the problem and not the device.
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My oneplus 8 pro and Pixel 7 pro had no problems at all with the same sim card installed, its just this samsung that drives me crazy
I don't see any difference, and Im in a very low signal zone. Both s23 and op5 didn't loose signal , but 1 bar and no way to make a call.