I reluctantly switched from my much loved 7+ and never looked back. My xs max is better in every way. Love Face ID (thought I’d hate it) and its much faster. Also love the display. I’m on Verizon if that helps.
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iPhone XS Max Is the mobile reception on the xs Max even worse than iPhone X ?
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Since the 12.2 update, my Xs Max on AT&T is not performing as well in low signal areas such as at my home. I tested it for the first time tonight and confirmed the speed sucks.
Prior tests while on 12.1.4 at home I could get about 1.3 - 2.3 mbps down and 0.05 to 0.4 mbps upload, but tonight at home it's 0.64 mbps down and 0.00 mbps up with 1 bar of LTE. It's never been this slow before.
Just a few hours ago at dinner downtown tonight, with 3 bars of LTE, I was seeing 92.6 mbps down and 21.8 mbps up (and on 3/25/19 I got 101 down and 15 up while near downtown).
UPDATE - After typing all of this, I saw my Xs Max signal hit 2 bars of LTE which almost NEVER happens at home, so I tested it again. Somehow I got the fastest speeds I've ever seen at home, ever. Just 15 minutes after having almost no speed above (and it's felt slow on LTE for several days prior to this).
This inconsistency is SO irritating. We never see 2 bars with any of our devices (Air 2, Mini 4, 7, 7+, X and Xs Max), and then after several days of poor speed on 12.2 and posting here tonight, then it suddenly speeds up as I'm posting my complaint.
I go to walk the dog and sometimes miss calls or can't get data while walking down my street, and it's not like I'm the boonies, we live just under NORAD in Colorado Springs (in our backyard). I usually have to turn LTE off when at home, and back on when I leave the house. SO IS THERE ANYWAY TO LOCK IT INTO THIS NEW PERFORMANCE FROM 5 minutes ago FOREVER, OR DO I NEED TO SUCK IT UP WHEN IT'S SLOW AGAIN IN 15 MINUTES?
Prior tests while on 12.1.4 at home I could get about 1.3 - 2.3 mbps down and 0.05 to 0.4 mbps upload, but tonight at home it's 0.64 mbps down and 0.00 mbps up with 1 bar of LTE. It's never been this slow before.
Just a few hours ago at dinner downtown tonight, with 3 bars of LTE, I was seeing 92.6 mbps down and 21.8 mbps up (and on 3/25/19 I got 101 down and 15 up while near downtown).
UPDATE - After typing all of this, I saw my Xs Max signal hit 2 bars of LTE which almost NEVER happens at home, so I tested it again. Somehow I got the fastest speeds I've ever seen at home, ever. Just 15 minutes after having almost no speed above (and it's felt slow on LTE for several days prior to this).
This inconsistency is SO irritating. We never see 2 bars with any of our devices (Air 2, Mini 4, 7, 7+, X and Xs Max), and then after several days of poor speed on 12.2 and posting here tonight, then it suddenly speeds up as I'm posting my complaint.
I go to walk the dog and sometimes miss calls or can't get data while walking down my street, and it's not like I'm the boonies, we live just under NORAD in Colorado Springs (in our backyard). I usually have to turn LTE off when at home, and back on when I leave the house. SO IS THERE ANYWAY TO LOCK IT INTO THIS NEW PERFORMANCE FROM 5 minutes ago FOREVER, OR DO I NEED TO SUCK IT UP WHEN IT'S SLOW AGAIN IN 15 MINUTES?
Same here, my Xs reception is worse after 12.2 update. My 10.5 iPad pro gets faster speeds!
A little over 30 minutes later and I'm already back to 1 bar LTE with 0.75 mbps down and 1.43 mbps up. Sucks.
Reset Network Settings got me this on 1 bar of LTE at home. It's better. I'll keep checking it over time.
my iPhone X has much much better reception and better down and up, than my iPhone Xs Max.
Did the network reset, did not help one bit.
Did the network reset, did not help one bit.
The reset network settings above gave me back my typical speeds as posted above. Typically my Qualcomm X on AT&T doesn't do any better with the poor AT&T cell reception we get near NORAD.
I've posted my X gets similar slow speeds at home, and when I'm downtown it runs about half the speed of the Xs Max with a strong signal on each phone. For the past year I've been turning off LTE on my X when I'm home, but had not needed to turn it off on my 7+ to maintain calls and data (but still only 1 bar showing).
I have to use WiFi 99% of the time when I'm home, but when I walk my dog in the neighborhood I can miss calls if I don't turn off LTE. If I use xfinitywifi hotspots emanating from the neighbor's homes while on a walk, then I lose wifi-calling every time I walk too far away and haven't reached the next hotspot.
My 7+ has a Ting.com SIM for emergencies which is a VMNO on T-Mo towers, and to test it's LTE speed and reception I would have to swap in an AT&T SIM or otherwise I'd pay $3 to Ting for every Speedtest done on LTE ($6/mo to use it for 1-100 phone calls, add $3 to use 1-100 texts, and another $3 to use the first 100MB of data.
My wife's 7 also gets 1 bar LTE at home, and if she's not on wifi-calling it drops calls occasionally. My Air 2 and her Mini 4 also have 1 bar of LTE, so I'll test all the speeds on LTE this week, but we're basically living in a coverage black hole.
I've posted my X gets similar slow speeds at home, and when I'm downtown it runs about half the speed of the Xs Max with a strong signal on each phone. For the past year I've been turning off LTE on my X when I'm home, but had not needed to turn it off on my 7+ to maintain calls and data (but still only 1 bar showing).
I have to use WiFi 99% of the time when I'm home, but when I walk my dog in the neighborhood I can miss calls if I don't turn off LTE. If I use xfinitywifi hotspots emanating from the neighbor's homes while on a walk, then I lose wifi-calling every time I walk too far away and haven't reached the next hotspot.
My 7+ has a Ting.com SIM for emergencies which is a VMNO on T-Mo towers, and to test it's LTE speed and reception I would have to swap in an AT&T SIM or otherwise I'd pay $3 to Ting for every Speedtest done on LTE ($6/mo to use it for 1-100 phone calls, add $3 to use 1-100 texts, and another $3 to use the first 100MB of data.
My wife's 7 also gets 1 bar LTE at home, and if she's not on wifi-calling it drops calls occasionally. My Air 2 and her Mini 4 also have 1 bar of LTE, so I'll test all the speeds on LTE this week, but we're basically living in a coverage black hole.
Is your X qualcomm or intel? If qualcomm do you see a lot of difference between the 2? In real world use it doesn’t seem like there is much difference?
I don't know what is going on and I will certainly not defend the iphone, ... when I tried an XR last week I saw it go down to about 1mbps when the signal strength was low, but it usually came to about 20 or so mbps with decent signal.
My S10e over the past few days has been hovering from 36, 46, 34, 53, 63, 47, 70, all the way up to over 100 a couple of times. Ceratainly much better than 1mbps but still very inconsistent.
My S10e over the past few days has been hovering from 36, 46, 34, 53, 63, 47, 70, all the way up to over 100 a couple of times. Ceratainly much better than 1mbps but still very inconsistent.
So I just did a few speed tests at -101db signal strength -- Galaxy S10e on Tmobile.
4.19
2.79
3.61
3.20
Yesterday, signal strength averaging about -80 or so;
46.7
34.5
53.7
63.7
A few days ago I went up over 100.0 a few times with signal strength average around -80db or so.
Normally I seem to be averaging between about 30 and 60 mbps at around -80db or so.
It's not just the new iphones that experiences slow download speeds at poor signal strength.
I don't believe any random speed test is any indication of a bad modem at all. Just too many variables at any one given time to come to that conclusion.
4.19
2.79
3.61
3.20
Yesterday, signal strength averaging about -80 or so;
46.7
34.5
53.7
63.7
A few days ago I went up over 100.0 a few times with signal strength average around -80db or so.
Normally I seem to be averaging between about 30 and 60 mbps at around -80db or so.
It's not just the new iphones that experiences slow download speeds at poor signal strength.
I don't believe any random speed test is any indication of a bad modem at all. Just too many variables at any one given time to come to that conclusion.
Please read my post again for some of the answers, and if you still have questions ask me again. Thanks.
The answers to your questions were LITERALLY in my post that you previously quoted.
The poll states over half have the issue. I’m sure a large percentage of those that don’t do not know what to look for etc so my guess is most have this to some degree and it might be resolved with the new screens in the 5 as they will be a different manufacturer in japan. I think cherry picking will be a pain. Best just hold off until the next version or live with the imperfection of its not to bad.
Same here with the Max. Sometimes my stuff won’t even load and tells me there’s no internet connection at home.
My MaX has had the best cellular reception on any iPhone I have owned, hands down.
I'd have to say the same. Yesterday, I was in a theater where no previous phone I have had has had any reception at all. My XS Max had 1-2 bars and I was able to load email and web sites.
It is so baffling. I believe that there are those having zero issues. Myself, I tried two (AT&T version and unlocked) and both had wifi and LTE connectivity issues. Both showed problems within two days of owning them. I returned both to the Apple Store. Not sure why some have no issues and others do...this is one of the strangest issues I've seen.
My reception is better than any phone I have had but I have had occasional glitches where I had to toggle airplane mode but I can count these on one hand.
Hopefully not during the movie...
nah - it was live theater and before the play started and at intermission. My previous phone on the same Sprint service - a Galaxy S7 Edge - had zero reception in the same theater.
I had the same experience with 2 unlocked Maxes back in the fall both were returned.
Must the living a charmed life but no dropped calls and I use my BT often with AirPods or Bose NC headphones and not a single problem.
Hope you get it sorted out.
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