Woke up this morning to be greeted by the 4G notification on the title bar. Yippee, so turn your radio to LTE more and enjoy.
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Congrats! Soon I will be able to make the drive to Milwaukee without ever dropping LTE.
Noticed mine last night!!
its been kinda spotty jumping back to 3g every so often,
but lovin the speed!!
Seeing as I work downtown, it would come on occasionally over the past month, but it was very infrequent and spotty at best (I think they were testing). Today it's been on all day, and surprisingly my battery life hasn't tanked like it did last month during testing. It's still worse than 3G, but it didn't drain in six hours like it had in the past (I still have 66 percent left with moderate usage). I am getting about 8 down and 5 up downtown - nice!
So far so good down in Racine it's been on all day for me. Now to see how fast my battery changes.
Awesome here in Brookfield and Menomonee falls has it too I guess. I'll find out after work
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I am visiting Orlando and have gotten much better battery life.
I am from Central NJ and work in NYC. At home in NJ I get a good 4G
signal but it keeps switching to 3G. I will lose 20% battery within an hour, and even with it on LTE only will lost battery. In NYC I get a sold 4G signal and it never switches to 3G, and there will still have to charge the phone within 4-5 hrs.
Where I am staying in NE Orlando Verizon coverage inside this house has always been poor for anyone phone. We need to go outside or the back porch for a decent call. 3G was getting no data so I switched to 4G. Even with 1 bar or no bars I had decent data. Yesterday we drove to Disney and I left the phone on CDMA+LTE so I would have data. As the day went on I was checking e-mail and also keeping an eye on battery. I had 3 bars in many places in Hollywood Studios and many time 1 or no bars. The phone stayed on 4G and I never once saw the phone change to 3G.The battery stayed all day. I made a couple of calls, texted lightly and received a lot of e-mail all day.
I had take the phone off the car charger at 10am, and at 10pm still had 45% battery left. This is far better than I have ever gotten in my home area.
Even though my usage was lighter I never would get anywhere near this in the NY/NJ area even with almost no use.
Has Verizon changed anything or has anyone else noticed a difference in other areas? Like everyone else I have been leaving my phone on 3G only to save battery.
Like the air quality, the water is purer and in turn.. so is the electricity!
Boom-tsh!
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Before 4G went out few days ago, I was getting pretty good battery life (40% - 60% remaining by bed time). Since it's been back online, my phone is only lasting about 6 or 7 hours before it starts to die.
Has anyone else noticed worse battery performance since 4G has come back online?
Thanks all.
I noticed the same thing
Same... And slower speeds.
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samesies....Idk what verizon did when the network went down but it was for the worse. Ever since I have had terrible battery life (did full restore, not that) and I lose data ALL the time. It's atrocious I have to reboot my phone like 7x to get data back. It will show as connected, but won't actually transfer anything.
I want this update pushed out immediately and hope that it fixes my data issue. I'm tired of not having data especially when I need it most (GPS)
Hopefully they get their network figured out so I can go back to using my phone like I did with my incredible
I'm not noticing any difference in speed or battery.
Thanks for all of the replies everyone.
Yesterday, I ran my phone using 3G only; I turned off LTE. The battery was amazing (running Tesla Coil and lean kernel).
I'm wondering if I should just leave 4G off until I really need it to download a file or something. It would be a different story if Verizon was charging additional fees for LTE.
I had the same problem a few days ago, shortly after the network came back up. I noticed that my 4G signal, which once was always at "full," would bounce between half 4G, full 4G and then down to 3G without really evening moving the phone.
I think that, despite the network coming up, it still wasn't perfect on the signal and that's what was killing people's batteries faster. I'm now getting a solid signal and have noticed my battery life returning back to the way it way before. No empirical data here, just my observation.
my phone is jumping between 4g, 3g and no data so often that its worthless for downloading or browsing the web today. Been having this issue since the outage. I assume this is killing my battery.
It's much better today! I'm guessing the network wasn't fully functional until recently.
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I am getting amaign 4G speed again. startign today, been flaky even after they fixed it.
I wasn't sure if it was because I installed Tesla yesterday or what, but I had only 30% battery drain in 15 hours yesterday, albeit on 3G.
I've been using 4g pretty consistently since I got the phone a few days ago, and haven't noticed any real battery life issues. I wonder if you really only get issues when the phone is bouncing back and forth between 3 and 4g?
I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
Jealous. I wish they'd work on my area. Upstate sc
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Jealous. I wish they'd work on my area. Upstate sc
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Your day will come, and when it does.
You will be prepared
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Be prepared to get worse battery life than before. LTE really chews battery life alive. I turn off mobile data when I'm not using it just to get better battery though.
im on LTE and get 24 hours easy...and id consider myself at least a moderate user.
I havent noticed bad battery life when I was using it before but its never been constant so I guess Ill find out soon haha
Ottawa - Canada
Where LTE covered pretty much everywhere. I've used LTE on my device and I get at the most 6hours of usage.
I consider myself very heavy user. Download, online music, browsing, IM+ etc... Switching LTE off and going only on 4G I get an extra 12hours worth of juice but the speed is more then what I need 4G speed here is an average of 8mpbs UP and DOWN. That translate to 800K per second in transfer rate. Just as fast as you regular high speed at home. So no there's no need for LTE personally. It just kills your battery off in no time.
I've consistently gotten over 24 hours with light usage on LTE. Obviously reception and level of usage will make a big difference. But for many people the battery life on LTE is plenty good enough to use all day, then charge when you sleep.
LTE destroys battery, but that's what 3g is for
Hail Cobra!
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Be prepared to get worse battery life than before. LTE really chews battery life alive. I turn off mobile data when I'm not using it just to get better battery though.
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I haven't noticed a significant drain on the battery going from HSPA+ to LTE.
I don't use wifi because of the bugs so i'm always using data.
I easily get 18+ hrs with heavy usage, including 3+ hrs screen time on LTE, so not real sure what you are expecting from the battery. It's a high-end Smartphone, use it for what its meant to be used for.
Based on some of the responses, the logic is like buying a Ferrari and only driving it 55 in the slow lane cuz you're worried about not getting good gas mileage.... Com'on people, use the damn phone!
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I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
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Yes, I never got a LTE signal at my house which is roughly 50 miles from Atlanta, but recently I've started getting a very good LTE signal at home.
I also don't see any of these battery drain issues everyone talks about. I'm on LTE for about 16 hours a day before I plug my phone in at night, and I always have some juice left. This has changed to be even better recently since I tend to need wifi more using AOKP and it's inconsistent mobile data. But my good battery life was consistent with stock and other Sense ROMs using only LTE.
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Justjusten said:
I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
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Lmfao, me too. I'm in hiram. I now have lte all the way from Atlanta to Paulding county. In fact, I have had constant lte since. I was sitting at the bowling alley, which I use to struggle just to get any signal, and I had two bars, lte.
Really haven't noticed much of a difference in battery drain either. Now I do use wifi at the house but still, been pretty impressed actually.
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When you get throttled what are typical speeds?? Out of nowhere my speeds went from 16-24mb down and 7-11mb up to about 3-6mb down and 1-2mb up. Checked my usage (unlimited) and i've only used 200+mb so far. Whats up with that?
I suspect that the people complaining about LTE battery drain also have their brightness turned way up, like at full. I know, b/c I'm one of those people. Almost any phone is going to last you an entire day, of even heavy use, if the brightness is down to 10%. Even in the laptop world, the battery life differential going from 10% brightness to 100% screen brightness is double, real world use.
Hey all,
I just wanted to let the community know, that it looks like there is some LTE by AT&T hitting Connecticut (I'm in the city of Danbury)
Hope you guys are getting it too
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just got some in Louisville, Kentucky too. my at&t Onex is loving it too.
Noticed last night that we have it here in Pensacola, FL as well, and boy is it fast!
Have either of you noticed a significant battery drain now that you're on LTE? My phone easily lasted a full day with moderate use. Today, I am at 30% battery after only 6 hours. I've got 4 bars of 4g LTE, and have never seen my battery go this fast. Coincidentally, today I also experienced my first random reboot EVER with this phone.
Regardless, the LTE speed is stupid fast! I really notice it when doing things like voice dictation and voice search.... it's almost instantaneous. :good:
Well my battery does seem to drain a little bit faster, but nothing like yours. It still lasts me for most of the day with regular use
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Just noticed LTE in the Milwaukee area and SE Wisconsin this week. Download speeds are smokin' fast... take a look at the broadband comparison.
Noticed last night that we have it here in Pensacola, FL as well, and boy is it fast!
Have you noticed a significant battery drain now that you're on LTE? My phone easily lasted a full day with moderate use. Today, I am at 30% battery after only 6 hours. I've got 4 bars of 4g LTE, and have never seen my battery go this fast. Coincidentally, today I also experienced my first random reboot EVER with this phone.
Regardless, the LTE speed is stupid fast! I really notice it when doing things like voice dictation and voice search.... it's almost instantaneous. :good:
Jealous! Still waiting for it in Tucson. Hopefully this means they're actively expanding the network and we'll be up soon...we're supposed to have it before the end of 2013.
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Noticed last night that we have it here in Pensacola, FL as well, and boy is it fast!
Have you noticed a significant battery drain now that you're on LTE? My phone easily lasted a full day with moderate use. Today, I am at 30% battery after only 6 hours. I've got 4 bars of 4g LTE, and have never seen my battery go this fast. Coincidentally, today I also experienced my first random reboot EVER with this phone.
Regardless, the LTE speed is stupid fast! I really notice it when doing things like voice dictation and voice search.... it's almost instantaneous. :good:
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Haven't seen any significant drain. It could be that you tend to use more data with LTE hence the extra battery usage.
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Just noticed LTE in the Milwaukee area and SE Wisconsin this week. Download speeds are smokin' fast... take a look at the broadband comparison.
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I live near General Mitchell Airport. You would think I'd be getting LTE but I've only seen it in the downtown area.
And I spoke too soon. The highest speed test I saw was 16mbps.
I actually noticed it at a Brewers game in late September, but it seemed like it was only right around Miller Park. The last week or so it's been more consistent. Hurray!
Just popped up today in Columbus, OH as well. Nice.
Just noticed that Minneapolis also got it. Just in time for thanksgiving.
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