5G toggle

[evohicks]

So this will be my first 5G phone, I've had a couple of Huawei 5G phones and they have an option in the pull down menu to turn 5G on and off, is this an option in the S20/Note 10/Note 20 series? or do you have to go into settings to change it.
The reason I ask is because for now I will have no need for it.

 

[Venom0642]

If your on carrier, will be automatic. No need to do nothing as far as i know.

 

[evohicks]

If your on carrier, will be automatic. No need to do nothing as far as i know.

Unlocked in the UK

 

[Deke218]

You should be able to select which radio you want to use in settings.

 

[Venom0642]

Unlocked in the UK

Can change settings for Unlocked just like above post said.

 

[evohicks]

So there is no toggle in the pull down notification tab then.

 

[msm0511]

So there is no toggle in the pull down notification tab then.View attachment 324011

Unless Samsung added it in One UI 2.5, no. You have to go to the network settings.

 

[boufa]

you really don't need to manage that feature. Turning it off would be a microscopic battery savings. Not worth the effort.

 

[evohicks]

you really don't need to manage that feature. Turning it off would be a microscopic battery savings. Not worth the effort.

As in it would be always searching for a 5G signal whereas if I disabled it, it would just be searching for 4g.
I'm sure everyone knows that if you are in a bad area for signal on a mobile phone, it will use more battery trying to find a signal than if you were in a good signal area.
I don't really know if this works the same for 5g but if it does, then I want as much battery savings as possible on my Exynos 990 if my current network don't support 5g and I have a 5g enabled phone.

Looking at the Huawei phones that I was using, it was a simple pull down of the notification bar and hit the '5G' option to turn on and off, thats why I didn't get a 5g Note 10+, but there was no option for me to get an LTE only Note 20 Ultra, although I believe they exist and come with 8gb
of RAM and not 12gb.

 

[msm0511]

As in it would be always searching for a 5G signal whereas if I disabled it, it would just be searching for 4g.
I'm sure everyone knows that if you are in a bad area for signal on a mobile phone, it will use more battery trying to find a signal than if you were in a good signal area.
I don't really know if this works the same for 5g but if it does, then I want as much battery savings as possible on my Exynos 990 if my current network don't support 5g and I have a 5g enabled phone.

Looking at the Huawei phones that I was using, it was a simple pull down of the notification bar and hit the '5G' option to turn on and off, thats why I didn't get a 5g Note 10+, but there was no option for me to get an LTE only Note 20 Ultra, although I believe they exist and come with 8gb
of RAM and not 12gb.

If it works the same as my OnePlus 8 does you can go into the network settings and choose either 2g/3g/lte/5g auto or just 2g/3g/lte auto. I keep the first option on and it doesn't seem to affect my battery too much even though I don't have great 5g signal where I live.

 

[boufa]

As in it would be always searching for a 5G signal whereas if I disabled it, it would just be searching for 4g.
I'm sure everyone knows that if you are in a bad area for signal on a mobile phone, it will use more battery trying to find a signal than if you were in a good signal area.
I don't really know if this works the same for 5g but if it does, then I want as much battery savings as possible on my Exynos 990 if my current network don't support 5g and I have a 5g enabled phone.

Looking at the Huawei phones that I was using, it was a simple pull down of the notification bar and hit the '5G' option to turn on and off, thats why I didn't get a 5g Note 10+, but there was no option for me to get an LTE only Note 20 Ultra, although I believe they exist and come with 8gb
of RAM and not 12gb.

It's logical, but I think you are assigning more effort to it than the system actually uses. When your device connects to a network, it locks on to whatever signal it gets. When it hands off that connection to the next tower (or frequency band) it does the same thing. That "conversation" with the tower is the same whether you find 4g, LTE, 3G or 5G. But that is essentially the end of the conversation. Your device will have a signal, so it won't be killing battery "searching" for more. A lack of 5G is not seen by the device in the same way as a lack of signal.

Your phone will be satisfied simply by having a signal...no stress on the battery. If you can't get ANY signal, your phone turns up the sensitivity on the antennas.. and effectively screams out to find signal...begs for signal, and really tries hard to see if it can get something, anything. But this "panic" mode only really kicks in with no signal (or low signal) and isn't band specific.

 

[frederickdawg]

My Hong Kong version sm-n9860 had 5G quick pull down toggle. My current american sm-n986U1 doesn't. Same sim used.