wtf i just relized my galaxy S3 is not in 4g

[waggy]

and according to verizons covrage map i am in S4 coverage area. So i called and they said if its not working im not.

WTF grr i feel i was cheated!

 

[Sheep]

Never, ever rely on any carrier's coverage maps. The reality is usually pretty damn far away from what they display.

 

[waggy]

yeah. im bummed. but not really a big deal.

 

[gorcorps]

If it makes you feel better, your battery life is better without it

 

[Spoooon]

I would guess that my phone spends 90% of the time in 3G by choice. 4G is sweet, just not necessary most of the time.

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[shurato]

and according to verizons covrage map i am in S4 coverage area. So i called and they said if its not working im not.

WTF grr i feel i was cheated!

Goto Settings -> More Settings -> Mobile Networks -> Access Points Names ->

From there select LTE - Verizon Internet

Do a soft reset and take out your battery and then put it back in and reboot.

Check to see if 4G works after that.

That's what I had to figure out on my own. Idiot tech on Verizon kept telling me if my phone was on the Internet then that's how it's supposed to work.

 

[shurato]

I would guess that my phone spends 90% of the time in 3G by choice. 4G is sweet, just not necessary most of the time.

Sent from my Nexus 7

I don't know about you but 3G on Verizon runs like dog shit. at least in my area it felt like excruciating dialup when I had it. 4G is the only way to go in my city to get sane Internet speeds on Verizon.

 

[Bman123]

Verizon gets 3g everywhere but the speed sucks so bad I ended up dumping them and going straight Talk with a hspa+ phone, it gets 3g battery life and super fast data speeds

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Yay 4G everywhere in Raleigh.

Too bad I'm in Tokyo using my cousins wifi

 

[waggy]

lol at my daughters Gymnastics if i sit in a chair on the right side of the building i get 4g if is it on the left i dont (the sitting room is maybe 20ft wide).

4g was fucking fast though.

 

[KLin]

I notice that every now and then. Depends on where I'm at.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Pretty much all of so cal is 4G. Hell I get 4G in the middle of the desert on the way to vegas lol.

 

[olds]

lol at my daughters Gymnastics if i sit in a chair on the right side of the building i get 4g if is it on the left i dont (the sitting room is maybe 20ft wide).

4g was fucking fast though.

Huh, I thought 4G didn't work on the S3?

 

[muk1604]

sometimes even the people you call to check even don't know the exact problem

 

[zerocool84]

Huh, I thought 4G didn't work on the S3?

He means HSDPA+ which T-Mobile and AT&T refer to as 4G but it's really just a turbocharged 3G. It's still fast though.

 

[waggy]

He means HSDPA+ which T-Mobile and AT&T refer to as 4G but it's really just a turbocharged 3G. It's still fast though.

meh it says 4G and its fucking fast.

 

[Strk]

meh it says 4G and its fucking fast.

Yeah, it doesn't matter that HSPA+ can scale to silly levels and that it is already faster than a lot of people's home connections.... It's not 4g!

Then again, neither is the current deployment of LTE.

 

[wirednuts]

yep. i dont mind tmo calling their 3g, 4g. go ahead. nobody has 100mb connections yet, so nobody actually has 4g.

when speeds do get that fast, itll be called turbo g or some stupid shit

 

[lupi]

and will cost $14.99/gb.

 

[Thegonagle]

Yeah, it doesn't matter that HSPA+ can scale to silly levels and that it is already faster than a lot of people's home connections.... It's not 4g!

Then again, neither is the current deployment of LTE.

Right you are. But the difference in spectral efficiency is significant to the carrier (and the user, if the cell gets congested). It takes a crazy amount of spectrum to get HSPA+ to 42 Mbps. LTE takes a lot less.

LTE also wins for uploads and latency.

HSPA+ is at the end of its road. LTE is at the beginning of a new road, and will eventually scale to well over 100 Mbps.

In about 5 years, LTE will also start replacing the current voice networks. Once they can turn down/off the current voice networks, that makes room for even more LTE. WOOT!

 

[NoStateofMind]

Goto Settings -> More Settings -> Mobile Networks -> Access Points Names ->

From there select LTE - Verizon Internet

Do a soft reset and take out your battery and then put it back in and reboot.

Check to see if 4G works after that.

That's what I had to figure out on my own. Idiot tech on Verizon kept telling me if my phone was on the Internet then that's how it's supposed to work.

Not me. I just installed phoneinfo and went to settings manually changed to 3g and then back to 4g and voila!

 

[hanoverphist]

i cant change my razr maxx to 3g only anymore.