So here's my experience so far:
I have 1-2 bars of LTE, on which I get 15mbps to 50mbps, depending on where I am.
If I switch LTE off an go HSPA+, the transition is smooth and silky. The LTE indicator turns off, a moment later 3G comes on (4G for those of you on AT&T ).
There's typically 4-5 bars of 3G (HSPA+) and I get around 10-15mbps on it, depending on where I am.
If I flip the LTE switch back on, however, the indicator goes off and comes back... still on 3G (HSPA+).
If I keep flipping it, if I flip data off and on, if I flip Airplane Mode on and off, it always comes back as 3G (HSPA+)
The only way to get LTE back is to wait an indeterminate amount of time, or reboot.
I'm not sure if this is just because I'm so far on the edge of LTE service, and 3G is so much stronger here, that if I give it up the radio just doesn't want to let go of the stronger signal, or if there's something wacky in the radio stack that not properly re-engaging.
Phil Nickinson has filled my head with horror stories of early, horrible Android device LTE handoffs, so I'd like to figure out just what's happening here.
Anyone else experimented with this?
I have 1-2 bars of LTE, on which I get 15mbps to 50mbps, depending on where I am.
If I switch LTE off an go HSPA+, the transition is smooth and silky. The LTE indicator turns off, a moment later 3G comes on (4G for those of you on AT&T ).
There's typically 4-5 bars of 3G (HSPA+) and I get around 10-15mbps on it, depending on where I am.
If I flip the LTE switch back on, however, the indicator goes off and comes back... still on 3G (HSPA+).
If I keep flipping it, if I flip data off and on, if I flip Airplane Mode on and off, it always comes back as 3G (HSPA+)
The only way to get LTE back is to wait an indeterminate amount of time, or reboot.
I'm not sure if this is just because I'm so far on the edge of LTE service, and 3G is so much stronger here, that if I give it up the radio just doesn't want to let go of the stronger signal, or if there's something wacky in the radio stack that not properly re-engaging.
Phil Nickinson has filled my head with horror stories of early, horrible Android device LTE handoffs, so I'd like to figure out just what's happening here.
Anyone else experimented with this?