Hey all
I got my honor 8x a few days ago, everything is perfect except one thing : the wifi on it is quite weak compared to my old phone (xiaomi redmi 6a which is a weak phone)
Anyone experiencing similar issues?
Thanks in advance
Honor 8x wifi 5ghz not enabled
I got my phone yesterday and love it but only problem is I have no 5ghz wifi. I have 4 other devices on my wifi router and they work and have been working fine. I do not even see an wifi for the 5ghz band...…………. I 've searched but see nothing to enable/disable 5 ghz wifi?
What am I missing...……… thanks
Well just got off Chat and Honor is telling me this version has no 5ghz...……….. I find that quite odd... attached are the specs
Honor 8X
hardware ver HL3JSNMN
Model JSN-L23
Build JSN-L23 8.2.0.133(C605)
EMUI 8.2.0
Android 8.1
IMEI 860060041318935
860060041348940
CPU Kirin 710
Ram 4gig
Int Stg 64g
Hardware Ver HL3JSNM
In todays age I can't see not having 5ghz wifi, can't believe they would sell w/o that chipset
Honor 8x not support dual band wifi
garythompson said:
I got my phone yesterday and love it but only problem is I have no 5ghz wifi. I have 4 other devices on my wifi router and they work and have been working fine. I do not even see an wifi for the 5ghz band...…………. I 've searched but see nothing to enable/disable 5 ghz wifi?
What am I missing...……… thanks
Well just got off Chat and Honor is telling me this version has no 5ghz...……….. I find that quite odd... attached are the specs
Honor 8X
hardware ver HL3JSNMN
Model JSN-L23
Build JSN-L23 8.2.0.133(C605)
EMUI 8.2.0
Android 8.1
IMEI 860060041318935
860060041348940
CPU Kirin 710
Ram 4gig
Int Stg 64g
Hardware Ver HL3JSNM
In todays age I can't see not having 5ghz wifi, can't believe they would sell w/o that chipset
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I couldn't agree more with you that a modern phone such as the 8x would omit 5ghz wifi in this age and time. Even my Samsung Galaxy from 5 years ago have them. I also bought the Honor 8x model JSN-22 which do not support 5ghz wifi either. This is the biggest disappointment I have with the otherwise excellent phone. I also search around for solution and found out that there are three variant of the 8x and only the model JSN-21 support dual band wifi ,the rest(like ours) don't. As far as I know JSN 21 are available in some European countries only, and unfortunately my friend, we got the short end of the stick!
opatbeer said:
I couldn't agree more with you that a modern phone such as the 8x would omit 5ghz wifi in this age and time. Even my Samsung Galaxy from 5 years ago have them. I also bought the Honor 8x model JSN-22 which do not support 5ghz wifi either. This is the biggest disappointment I have with the otherwise excellent phone. I also search around for solution and found out that there are three variant of the 8x and only the model JSN-21 support dual band wifi ,the rest(like ours) don't. As far as I know JSN 21 are available in some European countries only, and unfortunately my friend, we got the short end of the stick!
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What about JSN-L42 does it support??
opatbeer said:
I couldn't agree more with you that a modern phone such as the 8x would omit 5ghz wifi in this age and time. Even my Samsung Galaxy from 5 years ago have them. I also bought the Honor 8x model JSN-22 which do not support 5ghz wifi either. This is the biggest disappointment I have with the otherwise excellent phone. I also search around for solution and found out that there are three variant of the 8x and only the model JSN-21 support dual band wifi ,the rest(like ours) don't. As far as I know JSN 21 are available in some European countries only, and unfortunately my friend, we got the short end of the stick!
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My 8x max has 5ghz support, and the 2.4ghz archieves 100mbps so its using the latest antwnna agreggation technology. I have the chinese version.
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opatbeer said:
I couldn't agree more with you that a modern phone such as the 8x would omit 5ghz wifi in this age and time. Even my Samsung Galaxy from 5 years ago have them. I also bought the Honor 8x model JSN-22 which do not support 5ghz wifi either. This is the biggest disappointment I have with the otherwise excellent phone. I also search around for solution and found out that there are three variant of the 8x and only the model JSN-21 support dual band wifi ,the rest(like ours) don't. As far as I know JSN 21 are available in some European countries only, and unfortunately my friend, we got the short end of the stick!
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And JSN-23 also lacks NFC! I don't understand why they did this. Every other version of the Honor 8x seems to support it. It's so confusing that sellers were advertising the 23 as having 5ghz and NFC because the other versions had it. When going back to the sellers and letting them know - they are telling me I am wrong. Clearly there are some pretty big differences between the versions available.
All I can say is be very careful about which model you buy as retailers seem to be struggling with getting this stuff right (even online review sites).
5ghz not supported
So i'm confused, all specs show it will do 5ghz AC but the phones wont. Is this simply a disabled feature that the newest update will unlock or a Rom will allow or are we up a river without a paddle?
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Hi!
I noticed my honor 9 has some problems with the WiFi strength.
I have an honor 8 all, so I compared with it.
First of all wifi when is 2,4ghz is too slow (other phones speedtest does 77mb, honor 9 45mb max).
Second: my router has the automatic 5ghz switch.
At the same distance with the honor 8 from the router, the honor 9 switch to 2,4ghz (with the problem of the speed said above) and the honor 8 stay to 5ghz.
Can someone help me with this issue or say if your H9 have the same problem?
What's firmwares are yours honor 8 and 9 for your tests ?
Both oreo, latest builds ?
Oreo 368 (C432) in the Honor 9 (but it was the same with B180) and Nougat B407 for h8.
And in the same place a Huawei GT3 (LOL) wil 2,4ghz made 77Mb vs 42 of the Honor 8 and 9 with 2,4ghz
Unfortunately I have the same issue, to solve this I usually turn off the wifi and then I turn it on again. That should fix your problem. Sometimes, when I had my wifi on when I was away from the router and got closer I could only get the 2,4ghz signal and I'd get around 50mb of download speed, but when I do that it changes to the 5ghz signal and I'm able to get 180-200mb
Yeah the problem is that H9 switch off the 5ghz so easily, H8 instead, keeps it also of is farther.
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Yeah the problem is that H9 switch off the 5ghz so easily, H8 instead, keeps it also of is farther.
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Yeah, I also face that same issue and unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it... My iPad is able to stay connected to the main router at 5ghz in almost every place of my house, however my Honor 9 is only able to get 5ghz in a some places near the router. I fixed this by installing some more routers throughout the house, but it's never the same as using the main unit, as of the 2 additional routers I have only one of them is connected through cable. I hope Honor fixes this in a future update, as ever since I got the phone I've been having this issue (I got it a little after it was released, so I used Android 7 for around 6 months)
Hello,
I have just gotten an S9+, EU version.
Model SM-G965F
Baseband G965FXXU2BGR8
Build Number R16NW.G965FXXU2BRGA
I live in France, the device came from Italy for 30% less than Samsung prices. It had a double blister and "EU Sim only" sticker" and all that. I checked with Samsung support and it is apparently a proper EU version.
My problem:
My land line is very bad so I got myself an unlimited 4G plan to compensate. I set up a mobile hostpot on the phone and share it with my desktop PC and tablet.
I used to have a Xiaomi Mi Mix that got stolen a couple of weeks ago, and it used to work fine as a 5GHz hostpot. My 3 (long story ) PC USB adapters saw it without a problem. With the S9+, only the 2.4 GHz hostpot is seen, the 5 GHz one is not.
I have a Netgear A6210, an Asus AC54 and a no-name Chinese Realtek-based of the 10€ on Amazon kind. The Netgear and AC54 do not see the 5GHz hotspot. The no-name Chinese does, but it is too unstable to be of any use besides detecting networks. My Chinese Teclast tablet see it as well, but I do not care about this device.
What I saw with the no-name adapter is that the S9+ is transmitting on channels 149 + 153. Europe being 36-140 with the US being 36-165 and China 149-165. The rather dumbed-down interface in the S9+ settings only allows one to change the channel for the 2.4 GHz channels, 1-11, nothing for 5 GHz. For some reason this EU model wants to transmit on US channels. Or, more likely, Chinese channels, since these do not overlap with the EU ones like the US ones do, and that is why my two Chinese devices see it.
For the Netgear, in regedit we have the "CountryRegion" parameter set at 4, I blindly tried some other numbers to no avail. In device manager I tried changing the "5GHz country" parameter on the Asus adapter to no avail, even though most of them do include the 149-153 range.
It's weird that an allegedly EU device will transmit 5 GHz on Chines/US channels, and that it is hardcoded. Samsung support says that's life what you gonna do, return it and see if we care.
Is there a way to change these 5 GHz channels or the country it thinks it is in? I'd rather try this, the alternatives being abusing Amazon's return policy to try and get a stable chinese adapter, or just plain returning the phone.
Thank you.
This is my hotspot setup screen. Does anyone have a channel choice drop down for 5 GHz?
Mine is always connected to a 5ghz band however must say that S9 plus dont like it. near the router the signal is always dropping if I go to 1st floor on the house need to go to the 2.4ghz or 1 bar all the time.
brunotuga said:
Mine is always connected to a 5ghz band however must say that S9 plus dont like it. near the router the signal is always dropping if I go to 1st floor on the house need to go to the 2.4ghz or 1 bar all the time.
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The problem is not connecting to a 5GHz signal, but emitting as a hotspot on non-chinese channels at 5GHz. It's like they are hardcoded into the phone.
I have a Galaxy S9 and it used to hotspot to my xbox 360 with no issues. Since updating my S9 I can no longer do this. I'm terrible with technology and need a simple answer. Will my S9 ever be able to connect to a xbox 360 again?
Hi!
Hope someone can inform me about the following:
I am considering buying this phone for running workouts, and was wondering how accurate the GPS is?
And when having a fix, does the GPS logging start right when you press start in your sports app?
Thanks in advance,
Dennis
I haven't measured exactly but later when viewing my recorded walks on map, it looks about right.
The nice thing about this phone is, it supports all the major navigation systems: GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), BDS (China) and GALILEO (EU) so you have the max number of possible satellites to use of which the phone will pick the ones with the best signal.
Draqula said:
I haven't measured exactly but later when viewing my recorded walks on map, it looks about right.
The nice thing about this phone is, it supports all the major navigation systems: GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), BDS (China) and GALILEO (EU) so you have the max number of possible satellites to use of which the phone will pick the ones with the best signal.
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Thanks so much! The fact that it picks up more satellites, is that a specific trait of this phone, that you know? Or do more relatively recent phones do this? Like the Samsung A3 2017 for instance?
dmxl said:
Thanks so much! The fact that it picks up more satellites, is that a specific trait of this phone, that you know? Or do more relatively recent phones do this? Like the Samsung A3 2017 for instance?
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No, it's not only specific to XZ1.
Most phones on sale today support GPS (the grand old system built by USA), BDS (maintained by China) and GLONASS (Russian system, doesn't have full coverage yet).
Galileo (the system built by European Union) is the latest one and that is supported by the least number of phones.
If you do a free text search on gsmarena.com phone finder for Galieo...
... you will get about 80 phones with Galileo support.
The thing is that Galileo system is not yet complete - they have not yet brought all the planned satellites to orbit, no full coverage yet.
So in Estonia when I have checked, what satellites does my phone "see", I get mostly GPS and GLONASS satellites with just a couple of GALILEO sats and some BDS.
Taking all that into account I can't really say if it's worth to specifically get a phone that support Galileo, maybe in a couple of years it could have a bigger effect.
Draqula said:
No, it's not only specific to XZ1.
Most phones on sale today support GPS (the grand old system built by USA), BDS (maintained by China) and GLONASS (Russian system, doesn't have full coverage yet).
Galileo (the system built by European Union) is the latest one and that is supported by the least number of phones.
If you do a free text search on gsmarena.com phone finder for Galieo...
... you will get about 80 phones with Galileo support.
The thing is that Galileo system is not yet complete - they have not yet brought all the planned satellites to orbit, no full coverage yet.
So in Estonia when I have checked, what satellites does my phone "see", I get mostly GPS and GLONASS satellites with just a couple of GALILEO sats and some BDS.
Taking all that into account I can't really say if it's worth to specifically get a phone that support Galileo, maybe in a couple of years it could have a bigger effect.
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Thanks again for your extensive elaboration! I was familiar with GSMarena, yeah. I'll have a look. Have a great day!
Tried searching but no luck. x96 with the S905x2 cannot see my 5ghz network. Can see my 2.4 just fine. My android phone and laptop can connect to 5ghz with no issues.
I've tried:
switching channels on the 5ghz
turning the 2.4ghz to just b+g (without the n)
The box is only 1 yard away from the router, so distance is not an issue. I'm using ATT U-verse, if that helps.
downloaded aida64 and turns out that 5ghz is not supported, strange
My understanding is that only the 4GB RAM models have a dual band wifi chip.
Unfortunately, almost all reviews are for these 4/32 or 4/64 boxes, so it rarely (if ever) even gets noticed and the typical sellers of these cheap Chinese android boxes pretty much all use the same copypasta advertising crap, often just reusing the same templates for all variants beyond the headline differences (ie. RAM & internal storage) without bothering to actually check.
Premium Unleaded said:
My understanding is that only the 4GB RAM models have a dual band wifi chip.
Unfortunately, almost all reviews are for these 4/32 or 4/64 boxes, so it rarely (if ever) even gets noticed and the typical sellers of these cheap Chinese android boxes pretty much all use the same copypasta advertising crap, often just reusing the same templates for all variants beyond the headline differences (ie. RAM & internal storage) without bothering to actually check.
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that is exactly what happened in my situation. returned it to ebay
akeem_da_dream said:
that is exactly what happened in my situation. returned it to ebay
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oh crap, i have ordered the same box.
I know am having doubt regarding chipset also. can you confirm the physical chip was indeed s905x2?
abhifx said:
oh crap, i have ordered the same box.
I know am having doubt regarding chipset also. can you confirm the physical chip was indeed s905x2?
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according to aida64, yes it was the s905x2. unfortunately that was the only thing good about it. i returned it and got a t95q
akeem_da_dream said:
according to aida64, yes it was the s905x2. unfortunately that was the only thing good about it. i returned it and got a t95q
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Ok so i have confirmed that not only wifi is single band, even bluetooth is not available.
But i guess i am ok with that.
Thank you for the confirmation!
I have Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (SM-S918B/DS)
tom_shon said:
I have Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (SM-S918B/DS)
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Same here Same model , only 2.4 & 5 ghz
if you want full speed tethering,you can use usb tethering.
domperidane said:
if you want full speed tethering,you can use usb tethering.
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This is not the problem, some S23U devices have 6 GHZ , others aren't " see attached pictures " I don't know if it is regional dependent or not
hoss_n2 said:
This is not the problem, some S23U devices have 6 GHZ , others aren't " see attached pictures " I don't know if it is regional dependent or not
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Samsung advertises WiFi 6E on every model of the S23 in every market they sell into. I randomly loaded the specs page for several countries on the Samsung website and they all state WiFi 6E.
It's only WiFi 6E that has a 6Ghz band and if it doesn't have a 6Ghz band, then it's WiFi 6 and not WiFi 6E (WiFi 6 uses the 5Ghz band). So if you truly only have 5Ghz, send it back because the phone you have is not compliant with the published specifications.
In addition, in the second screen shot the interface is different. I doubt that this is a screen shot of a S23. Note the slider option on the left vs the list option on the right.
@tom_shon you say you have something similar. Could you post a screen shot?
dl12345 said:
Samsung advertises WiFi 6E on every model of the S23 in every market they sell into. I randomly loaded the specs page for several countries on the Samsung website and they all state WiFi 6E.
It's only WiFi 6E that has a 6Ghz band and if it doesn't have a 6Ghz band, then it's WiFi 6 and not WiFi 6E (WiFi 6 uses the 5Ghz band). So if you truly only have 5Ghz, send it back because the phone you have is not compliant with the published specifications.
In addition, in the second screen shot the interface is different. I doubt that this is a screen shot of a S23. Note the slider option on the left vs the list option on the right.
@tom_shon you say you have something similar. Could you post a screen shot?
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The USA version right now is only showing 2.4Ghz/5Ghz option in the Hotspot settings. Returning it for another device will not change it as all the USA versions have the same option.
cledee said:
The USA version right now is only showing 2.4Ghz/5Ghz option in the Hotspot settings. Returning it for another device will not change it as all the USA versions have the same option.
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Then sue them. They've sold you a non-compliant phone. See screen grab directly from the specification page for the US. It clearly states WiFi 6E.
dl12345 said:
Samsung advertises WiFi 6E on every model of the S23 in every market they sell into. I randomly loaded the specs page for several countries on the Samsung website and they all state WiFi 6E.
It's only WiFi 6E that has a 6Ghz band and if it doesn't have a 6Ghz band, then it's WiFi 6 and not WiFi 6E (WiFi 6 uses the 5Ghz band). So if you truly only have 5Ghz, send it back because the phone you have is not compliant with the published specifications.
In addition, in the second screen shot the interface is different. I doubt that this is a screen shot of a S23. Note the slider option on the left vs the list option on the right.
@tom_shon you say you have something similar. Could you post a screen shot?
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When I changed my csc to eux It was enabled by itself with the same interface with the slider as the screenshot and then I could enable 6GHZ , from my search it is only avalible in European software unfortunately
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Then sue them. They've sold you a non-compliant phone. See screen grab directly from the specification page for the US. It clearly states WiFi 6E.
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Just because it states on the specs that it can do it doesn't mean it's been approved or even certified by the government or the carriers since Hotspot is a feature that carriers provide on your phone plan.
For those with Galaxy Watch 4's or with the new Galaxy Watch 5 or 5 Pro, some regions have access to blood pressure and others do not. and the temperature reading sensor is still not even working for any regions right now and it's been more than 6 months already.
Samsung did not sell me a non-compliant phone. It will probably be available in a future software update once it has been approved.
cledee said:
Just because it states on the specs that it can do it doesn't mean it's been approved or even certified by the government or the carriers since Hotspot is a feature that carriers provide on your phone plan.
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Interesting - so the US carriers make customers pay more to enable it? That's outrageous. It works in Europe by default regardless of carrier and for no extra money. After all, it's just using data the customer is paying for already.
WiFi 6E spectrum is already US approved: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22857852/6ghz-wifi-win-fcc-wi-fi-6e-7-att-spectrum
cledee said:
Samsung did not sell me a non-compliant phone. It will probably be available in a future software update once it has been approved.
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Well, if it doesn't do WiFi 6E / 6Ghz then it's not compliant, even if they enable it in a later software update. This is the stuff from which class action lawsuits are made.
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Interesting - so the US carriers make customers pay more to enable it? That's outrageous. It works in Europe by default regardless of carrier and for no extra money. After all, it's just using data the customer is paying for already.
Well, if it doesn't do WiFi 6E / 6Ghz then it's not compliant, even if they enable it in a later software update. This is the stuff from which class action lawsuits are made.
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some carriers charge for hotspot, some don't.
look at my watch example. just because it's listed on specs doesn't mean it has been approved, so while they can list it on their spec sheet (they are not lying that it can be done) it still needs approval so that it can be available in your region.
In Europe a lawsuit for this would be easier to accomplish. In the USA, you would have to sue government agencies or even the carriers themselves, which is most likely a losing battle.
Blood Pressure check up on Galaxy Watches are not available in the USA because the FDA needs to approve it. Can you sue Samsung because this feature is not on your watch? Yes you can, and it will be thrown out because it's being held by the FDA not Samsung. Can you sue the FDA of course, it will be in the court for how many years and the FDA will state that it's not up to par with current medical blood pressure devices.
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Well, if it doesn't do WiFi 6E / 6Ghz then it's not compliant, even if they enable it in a later software update. This is the stuff from which class action lawsuits are made.
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Samsung doesn't advertise 6GHz hotspot and WiFi 6E does work otherwise. That's the death of your class action.
Damn, I changed csc to EUX now I have 6Ghz switch but looks like phone still making 2.5Ghz chanel even then I select 6Ghz hotspot and phone display this 6Ghz selection in settings. Bandwidth tests still give me only 50Mbit real speeds not 450 like with my OnePlus 7 pro phone.
Does anyone know how bypass this restriction for EU version phone? I am ready get root for 5Ghz hotspot if needed. 2.4 its just terrible for file transfer!
dl12345 said:
Interesting - so the US carriers make customers pay more to enable it? That's outrageous. It works in Europe by default regardless of carrier and for no extra money. After all, it's just using data the customer is paying for already.
WiFi 6E spectrum is already US approved: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22857852/6ghz-wifi-win-fcc-wi-fi-6e-7-att-spectrum
Well, if it doesn't do WiFi 6E / 6Ghz then it's not compliant, even if they enable it in a later software update. This is the stuff from which class action lawsuits are made.
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I doubt that that would have any leg to stand on in court given that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Gen 2 both carry a WiFi 6E Tri-Band Wireless NIC.
Devices have to be certified not only for connecting to a radiation band (2.4, 5, 6, 60), but also certified for emitting radiation on that band. the US has not allowed portable devices to emit on 6GHz for things like WiFi Direct and Mobile Hotspot, so these things you would need to sue the FCC over, which is not happening since they are not permitting certification for it currently, unlike the EU.