Hi, I am a vodafone user. I had a pixel 5 with Vodafone physical sim. Unfortunately the phone got crushed under a car in an accident. I got a samsung s22 as a replacement but i could not recover the sim from the pixel so I chose the E-Sim option. The problem is that i am not getting the same signal strength with the E sim in S22. I am not sure if it is a phone problem or the E sim problem and if getting a physical sim will help. Please do share if you have had similar problems and have a solution. Thanks
Physical Sim Vs E- Sim
oz-romeo on 17/04/2022 - 01:39
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Could maybe be a Vodafone reception issue with your particular s22 phone (they don't like each other),
anyway all phone antennas in phones are different in length, how many antennas etc though one would assume the latest phones that have come out would have improved and the best of antennas with best of reception, funny the antennas well I know with my Samsung phone is placed on the bottom part of phone,.. I'm assuming safer as when on top and phone is near your ear (on a call), well those radio waves have a direct entry through ones ear cannel into your skull and have a nice time bouncing around in ones skull,. lolz
Actually have you changed reception from 4G to 5G? Sometimes 5G might be worse reception, if you have changed to 5G there is a setting in your s22 to force 4G see how that goes, anyway is this bad reception just at home or in general everywhere?
And have you tested another provider, just go buy a $2 simcard starter kit for both Telstra and Optus to test reception with them
And what we saying too 1 bar lower or 2 bars lower? each phone can read reception differently, well count how many bars out of,.. Samsung might have out of 6x bars while the pixel has out of 5x bars, in your phone there is a setting to actually show the actual reception amount (not by bars)
how about your download speeds, still the same speeds etc,..if so close speeds then I wouldn't worry to much about reception readings, well 3 bars is plenty, again depends how your s22 reads the reception signal amount compared to your previous Pixel phone
The problem is that i am not getting the same signal strength with the E sim in S22.
What was it before and what was it now? Speed and coverage wise. If it was 4G to 4G It could just be as simple as the phone prioritising a less used frequency band. eg 2100MHz has better speeds then 850mhz.
I went from a solid 3-4 bars on my S10+ to 1-2 bars on my Note 20 ultra.
Turns out after some investigating the 3-4 bars was 700mhz and only had ~100Mbit/s during peak. Fine for me.
The 1-2 bars was 2100mhz and had speeds of ~350Mbit/s even during peak.
So don't always assume higher coverage = better speeds.There is an android app you can test it out called Quickshortcutmaker by sika524. It's free on the google play store.
The guide is: Install it.
Open it let it display all the options as it will take a few seconds to display everything.
Tap Call settings which should be the last option before Camera. That will drop down select the very last Call settings in the new drop down, again should be the very last before camera. Tap try.
Tap Band selection mode. it should say success if so.
Tap the = next to NETWORK and tap select bands.
You can now manually select bands. LTE 1, 3, 5 etc Also works for 5G and 3G if anyone else want to test those.
Use https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/mobile_phone_frequencies and https://www.rfnsa.com.au/ to see what is available in your area etc. :)Another great Android app is Aus Phone Towers, it's an app which tells you what phone towers is in your area actually all phone towers in Australia (with eay to use detailed maps etc and other features), has information for each tower, what big 3x telcos are on the tower, if 3G, 4G and 5G capable, the frequencies of each 3G, 4G and 5G bands and the most important one is the bandwidth on each tower, enjoy 😉
Edit: great like me when I had my moments driving around to towers (best I could find with Aus Phone Towers app) trying to get the fastest download speeds, managed over 1Gbps on the Optus 5G network North West of Melbourne suburbs, funny the irony of it all, the spot is 10 minutes drive away from my place and my place I barely get good 4G speeds, lucky to have 30Mbps download speeds here, sucks badly 5G is so close to me
Check out my Speedtest result! How fast is your internet? https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/7454933490
Edit; Another similar app to Quickshortcut-maker is an app called Activity Launcher, which I find is better as has better features
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.szalkowski.…
Vodafone reception in your area sucks.
Haven't had the pleasure of trying there network fully, they seem to come across as the cheapest of the 3x big telcos but when you look closely into there deals usually Optus comes on top, then followed by Telstra and Vodafone usually always last with best phone deals,.. don't know if it's the same with their network compared to Telstra and Optus,..
Stop driving over your phones. Even if Jerry rig everything claims no damage who wonders?
SIM is the same and not cause of signal difference. Could be something else from phone to mobile tower to interference to user error.