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I’m considering jail breaking to be able to force my phone to stay on 4G. It’s a stupid omission by Apple to not have a “4G only” toggle. 3G connectivity reall

I’m considering jail breaking to be able to force my phone to stay on 4G. It’s a stupid omission by Apple to not have a “4G only” toggle. 3G connectivity really sucks and it’s annoying to randomly be downgraded when you have perfectly fine 4G coverage.

mthoms 7y ago
Yeah thats really annoying. Why does that even happen?
steveharman 7y ago
What do you propose a "stay on 4G" option would do when the device loses 4G coverage? Drop signal altogether? iirc falling back to 3G from 4, or 2G from 3 is to cover temporary coverage blackspots and allow data / voice communication to continue. Albeit less optimally.
- breakmeout 7y ago
  Firstly, losing 4G coverage isn’t an issue where I use my phone. I don’t live in a third world country like the US. Despite this my iPhone will randomly decide to downgrade to 3G. As to what the phone should do when going outside an 4G coverage area when being in “4G only” mode is nothing. It should just aggressively try to reconnect. A discrete icon about 3G network availability should be shown. A press on the 3G icon would enable temporary 3G roaming. The underlying problem is that Apple handles roaming between 2G/3G/4G networks poorly. I could wish Apple would do it better, but that’s like wishing for an unicorn. Hence my strong leanings toward jailbreaing.
- apostacy 7y ago
  I have had similar problems. The algorithm they use is not perfect. My Nexus One used to fall back to 2G whenever my 3G got below like two bars, it was so annoying. And also there would be a temporary outage while it switched. I eventually learned how to hard disable 2G, and service improved greatly, because even one bar of 3G was better than 2G.
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Do confirm there's actually software to do this before you Jailbreak (unless you plan to code it yourself). I'm not personally aware of anything.
- breakmeout 7y ago
  There was last time I checked.

mthoms 7y ago

Yeah thats really annoying. Why does that even happen?

steveharman 7y ago

What do you propose a "stay on 4G" option would do when the device loses 4G coverage? Drop signal altogether? iirc falling back to 3G from 4, or 2G from 3 is to cover temporary coverage blackspots and allow data / voice communication to continue. Albeit less optimally.

breakmeout 7y ago
Firstly, losing 4G coverage isn’t an issue where I use my phone. I don’t live in a third world country like the US. Despite this my iPhone will randomly decide to downgrade to 3G. As to what the phone should do when going outside an 4G coverage area when being in “4G only” mode is nothing. It should just aggressively try to reconnect. A discrete icon about 3G network availability should be shown. A press on the 3G icon would enable temporary 3G roaming. The underlying problem is that Apple handles roaming between 2G/3G/4G networks poorly. I could wish Apple would do it better, but that’s like wishing for an unicorn. Hence my strong leanings toward jailbreaing.
apostacy 7y ago
I have had similar problems. The algorithm they use is not perfect. My Nexus One used to fall back to 2G whenever my 3G got below like two bars, it was so annoying. And also there would be a temporary outage while it switched. I eventually learned how to hard disable 2G, and service improved greatly, because even one bar of 3G was better than 2G.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

Do confirm there's actually software to do this before you Jailbreak (unless you plan to code it yourself). I'm not personally aware of anything.

breakmeout 7y ago
There was last time I checked.