Wow, more than 100 days since I pre-ordered with PDA Plaza. To clarify, this is the dual sim Snapdragon variant of the 512GB/16GB RAM S20 Ultra (aka SM-G9880).
So far, everything mostly works as it should except for one thing. I live in Toronto, Canada and have my personal sim with Telus and my work sim with Bell. I noticed today while making calls on my Telus sim that the connection would drop down to H or H+ during calls. Some calls would not even connect and others I had horrible reception as if I'm talking to someone 10 stories underground. Calls on my Bell sim on the other hand were clear and data connection wouldn't drop. I did some reading and double checked VoLTE was on.
No matter what I tried I couldn't get the Telus sim working properly. I swapped sim slots and same results. Also noticed my speed tests on the Telus sim were horrible around 7mb download and 38mb upload on most tests. I did a chat with Telus support, they said my phone was not provisioned for VoLte on their end. That fixed that problem. We spent about an hour or so troubleshooting my horrible data speeds. I found that when I disabled the "automatic network selection" option and manually selected Telus as the network that it boosted my data speeds up to around 25mb on the download and 40ish on upload which the said is about where it should be for LTE.
Now the last thing I noticed is my phone NEVER displays LTE on the notification bar as my data connection. I'm literally right downtown Toronto and in the best possible area for signal. And the speedtest app itself says "LTE" in the results page when I perform my tests. Yet it will only display 4G as the connection. Same with the Bell sim. I'm not sure if this is a software "bug" because it's from Hong Kong but I have to assume that they have LTE there lol.
If anyone has any advice or questions about the variant I'd be happy to answer them!
So far, everything mostly works as it should except for one thing. I live in Toronto, Canada and have my personal sim with Telus and my work sim with Bell. I noticed today while making calls on my Telus sim that the connection would drop down to H or H+ during calls. Some calls would not even connect and others I had horrible reception as if I'm talking to someone 10 stories underground. Calls on my Bell sim on the other hand were clear and data connection wouldn't drop. I did some reading and double checked VoLTE was on.
No matter what I tried I couldn't get the Telus sim working properly. I swapped sim slots and same results. Also noticed my speed tests on the Telus sim were horrible around 7mb download and 38mb upload on most tests. I did a chat with Telus support, they said my phone was not provisioned for VoLte on their end. That fixed that problem. We spent about an hour or so troubleshooting my horrible data speeds. I found that when I disabled the "automatic network selection" option and manually selected Telus as the network that it boosted my data speeds up to around 25mb on the download and 40ish on upload which the said is about where it should be for LTE.
Now the last thing I noticed is my phone NEVER displays LTE on the notification bar as my data connection. I'm literally right downtown Toronto and in the best possible area for signal. And the speedtest app itself says "LTE" in the results page when I perform my tests. Yet it will only display 4G as the connection. Same with the Bell sim. I'm not sure if this is a software "bug" because it's from Hong Kong but I have to assume that they have LTE there lol.
If anyone has any advice or questions about the variant I'd be happy to answer them!
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