Edge vs hsdpa

[krmurrayjr]

I live and work just outside Philly and use T-Mobile. When I'm at home and at other locations in and around Philly, I have a strong LTE signal. Unfortunately, my workplace seems stuck in a dead zone with no LTE at all, and my Nexus 5 spends much of the day switching back and forth between an HSDPA signal and an EDGE signal, and if left alone will typically spend a few consecutive hours stuck to one before switching to the other.

When on EDGE, the data connection is somewhere between excruciatingly slow and completely lifeless. In trying to find a way to avoid the EDGE connection, I stumbled upon a solution that actually works reliably every time: any time I'm on EDGE, if I call the Nexus 5 from my work phone, wait for the N5 to ring and then reject the call, the N5 will immediately switch back to the HSDPA connection.

While it works every time, and I'm glad it works, does anyone know why?

 

[tippmann15]

I'm not sure about the call thing, however you could try putting your phone on 3g mode (instead of LTE preferred).

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[foxbat121]

When phone receive or dial out a call, it will drop out of LTE and force into HSPA mode because it is not yet possible to do voice over LTE.

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[rmercovich]

Not sure why, but I have similar trouble getting "stuck" on edge. I just toggle airplane mode and it usually goes back to hspa+. I think it might be if you get off a call and the phone starts trying to use edge data. It doesn't seem to want to interrupt any transfers to make the switch.

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