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Other 12/13 pro users, is 5G on or off?
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Enabled. 5G isn't available in my area, but I travel to areas where it is available so I make use of it where I can.
Enabled love TMobiles 5g it's all around my area in south jersey.
Off. Occasionally 5G is faster than LTE. But at home especially, 5G is much slower and worse signal strength than LTE. (T-Mobile… and its only been recently that LTE has been strong, fast and usable at home.)
Also, occasionally I’ve found that certain apps fail to communicate with their services when 5G is turned on… I discovered that turning 5G off resolved the issue / apps started working as expected. Odd. So, I just leave 5G off for now. Not missing anything yet.
Also, occasionally I’ve found that certain apps fail to communicate with their services when 5G is turned on… I discovered that turning 5G off resolved the issue / apps started working as expected. Odd. So, I just leave 5G off for now. Not missing anything yet.
Off. No 5G here. Heck, we’re lucky if we get 4G half the time. Oh the “perks” of living in the boonies.
I live in Pennsylvania but am visiting California right now and had this happen a lot recently. Must be something with Verizon here because I’ve never had it happen at home. I guess I’ll disable it and see if I keep getting that issue or not.
Thanks for the idea.
On. 13 PM 90% of the areas I travel have 5G coverage. I have seen speeds in the 500 range. As a side note, batt. life is outstanding on this phone compared to the 12 PM I had before. After streaming XM all day (13 hrs) and running Apl maps about 50 % of that time I had 37% batt. charge left. I would have needed to charge the 12 PM. Pic of my "office".
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Yeah. At first I thought there was just something wrong with T-Mobile in general because I could do a speed test and it would connect and run the test properly… just certain things would just not actually connect. Then I had the idea to switch to LTE and it resolved. Not sure what specifically is going on but it’s odd.
Mine is on with my 13 Pro Max. I've got the battery capacity to justify it, and when detected its automatic. Man, 5G is FAST!! Plus, where I work nobody gets a decent signal indoors. One bar, maybe two if you're in just the right spot in the building. But even though 5G is reportedly poor with building penetration I get a strong 5G signal where LTE was nonexistent.
Enabled, 5G is still overrated, but it is much improved over the last year in my area.
How is the battery life? Daily screen on time and what brightness setting. I am wanting to turn it on since they are a bunch of 5G towers or 5G antennas? on street poles but only get 9hrs screen on time on my 13 pro max and then it dies.
I had it on but just tested at my house. LTE was almost 10 times faster than 5g. 5g only hit 13 Mbps
Same, I have tried it near the mini towers on the street poles and LTE is noticeably faster. So I’m keeping 5G off, I do wish battery drain would stop. But ehh just going to restore soon.
On, 13 Pro. Download speeds are about the same but upload speeds are 10mbps on 5G vs 2mbps on LTE. I’m on ATT
Edit: haven’t noticed much of a difference in battery drain
Edit: haven’t noticed much of a difference in battery drain