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Just wondering the nearest city to have LTE is 12miles away,will i be able to pick that signal up or is it to far away.
Also on the iphone 5 i have noticed when i am on wifi in a pub,when i leave i have No Service msg for at least 10min when i have left,i have to turn the phone off then back off again then i get 4 bars and 3g is this right ?
Also on the iphone 5 i have noticed when i am on wifi in a pub,when i leave i have No Service msg for at least 10min when i have left,i have to turn the phone off then back off again then i get 4 bars and 3g is this right ?
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Ok thanks will have to keep an eye on my signal then when ive been on wifi.
Also noticed that the speedtest.net i am getting 1.50mbps thats with full signal and 3g thought i would be getting more than that,when i try it with my wifi i get about 10mbps
I know there's a bug where it sometimes doesn't let you hop onto a Wi-Fi network - loading up some Apple login page instead, before dropping the Wi-Fi connection - so maybe it could be something related...?
Only if the network has a captive portal.
Unlike 3G LTE was designed to work up to distances of about 25 miles or more but since LTE is going to use some of the 1800Mhz spectrum of the 2G network I suspect they'll tune the coverage roughly in line with that of 2G. I could of course be wrong but that makes sense to me
On the WiFi issue I have noticed that my iPhone 5 sometimes does take a while to pick up a cellular signal when I go outside and come off WiFi. It's not 10 minutes. More like 3-5 but it can be annoying. It's could well be a glitch that Apple needs to fix. Haven't found it a major problem though.
By the way, you don't need to turn the phone off and on again. Just go to Settings and turn on Airplane mode (kills all radio), wait a second and then turn it off again. My phone then finds the signal right away!
Using Vodafone, when the phone is moving from wifi to cellular it fails to connect to 3G and only gives edge connectivity. I just turn 3G off and on again to restore service.
i found this helped me with the above problem
go into settings
privacy
location settings
system services
& then turn on mobile network search
Ok thanks I will try this and see if it works someone said try resetting network settings this is what apple told me to do today when I called them they are well aware of the problem they said and am trying hard to release the correct software to rectify it it's not only happening with just the iphone 5 it's happening with all iPhones with the iOS 6 update
My iPhone 5 with a 3 sim in will last me 2 days, pop in my Tmobile sim and I'm lucky to get through my working day.
Same goes for my previous 4S actually.
One thing you can do to increase battery life generally is to turn off the LTE toggle. When we actually have LTE then you can turn it on again but for now the iPhone 5 is constantly searching for a non existent LTE signal and I certainly noticed a difference with it off. Doesn't sound like this is your main problem though.
Does this really improve the batt life ?
I usually get good speeds from T-Mobile sites, but more and more often recently when doing a speed test I max out at around the 1.9Meg down and 0.5Meg up mark.
If I turn airplane mode off and straight on again and then re-do the speedtest I am getting 14Meg+ down and around 3.5Meg up.
I have checked the network and cell ids and these are the same for both tests so I know i'm not jumping cells at the restart.
Has anyone else noticed this? I'm using an iPhone 5 with a T-Mobile SIM in.