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Ok go turn off VoLTE.... unless your carrier did the following * “Google Pixel devices received software updates in 2021 that automatically enabled VoLTE and
by alyandon 4y ago
Ok go turn off VoLTE.... unless your carrier did the following
* “Google Pixel devices received software updates in 2021 that automatically enabled VoLTE and removed the toggle.”
- ars 4y agoLTE is data only, if you want to make a call you need to have VoLTE (voice over LTE). So it's pretty reasonable to prevent disabling this. I wonder if you can disable LTE entirely and use an older standard.
- jsheard 4y agoMany carriers have already retired 3G, so there's nothing left to fall back on if you were to disable 4G/LTE.
- FeistySkink 4y ago2G is still there and isn't going anywhere.
- jsheard 4y agoIs it? Wikipedia says that AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have already killed it, with only T-Mobile still going until next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks YMMV in other countries of course, but many networks worldwide have already phased it out or are going to soon.
- Narkov 4y agoYou do realise that there are countries outside of the USA? Australia has no 2G networks and 3G is approaching EOL.
- hackmiester 4y agohaha, all but one 2G network in the USA is gone, so I suspect they are not from the USA, actually.
- IntelMiner 4y agoI bought a Motorola RAZR 3G for $0.50 while farting around inside a Cashies a while back Turns out it was still locked to Telstra, they demanded *$100* to unlock the damn thing, even though they were turning off their 3G network anyway! Unfortunately all the resources on hacking them has long since succumbed to linkrot, plus getting it hooked up over USB to an XP VM to try and unlock it that way seemed risky
- coolg54321 4y agoIn Germany you move farther out of cities, you are stuck with 2G [0] https://www.nperf.com/en/map/DE/-/187895.Telekom/signal/?ll=47.55255094562145&lg=10.611838353797795&zoom=10 https://www.nperf.com/en/map/DE/-/187895.Telekom/signal/?ll=...
- piva00 4y agoGermany and internet connection, I can't comprehend how one of the richest countries in the world, in such a small land mass can have such bad connectivity. It's really baffling going here from Sweden where I'm starting to get 5G signal outside of core city areas, get 4G almost across the whole country with speeds of 50-100+Mbps, into the city centre of Berlin and there I fallback to 3G networks every 3rd/4th block walking. Friends living there having terrible experiences with Telekom, almost no fiber available, etc. Germany should enact something like this policy from here: https://pts.se/sv/bransch/internet/bredbandsstrategin/ https://pts.se/sv/bransch/internet/bredbandsstrategin/
- mschuster91 4y ago> Germany and internet connection, I can't comprehend how one of the richest countries in the world, in such a small land mass can have such bad connectivity. A combination of toxic financial mindset (back in the early '00s, finance minister Hans Eichel wanted a "balanced" budget and auctioned off the frequency licenses for dozens of billions of euros, saddling the carriers with the debt instead of the government), thoroughly incompetent politicians (Merkel's "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland" is just the tip of the iceberg), NIMBYs (sadly, projects for tower construction routinely end up in death threats, and since 5G conspiracies also in actual terrorist attacks), and a populace that to a large degree just doesn't give enough of a fuck.
- wlesieutre 4y agoAt least in the US the 2G networks have already gone. It made news for long-lived devices like cars and ebook readers that had 2G modems built-in. Nissan Leafs used AT&T and it was shut down at the end of 2016. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102612_nissan-leaf-connectivity-update-will-replace-vanishing-2g-network https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102612_nissan-leaf-con...
- joecool1029 4y agoIt's around for a little more than a year more on T-Mobile: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network-evolution https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network-e... Some areas were never built out with 2G but for the footprint that was always there they have not turned it off since it doesn't impact their spectrum very much. AT&T had poor spectrum planning so had to kill it off sooner to refarm the spectrum.
- reaperducer 4y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I was on an EDGE connection in Mexico just last month.
- kube-system 4y agoBecause 2G has already been sunset or has date set for sunset by most carriers around the world.
- bestham 4y agoThe Swedish regulator PTS intends to re-assign frequencies in the 900 MHz-, 2.1 GHz- and 2.6 GHz bands during 2023. This will most definitely sunset 2G and 3G in Sweden. With 1800 MHz already being re-assigned in 2017.
- mistyvales 4y agoI thought 2G was still being supported for emergency services in the USA?
- randyrand 4y ago2G is still common
- wil421 4y agoNo you can’t. 3G SIMs were flagged a while back and the account holders were notified of the retirement. At one point they started blacklisting SIMs that connected to 3G because customers didn’t upgrade. Careful if you put your SIM in a 3G only phone it may get blacklisted and you’ll need a new one. Source: work at a carrier.
- JeremyNT 4y agoUnneeded on pixel devices per the project zero announcement [0]: > affected Pixel devices have already received a fix for CVE-2023-24033 in the March 2023 security update [0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html?m=1 https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...
- bqmjjx0kac 4y agoI am still running the February update on my Pixel 6. When I check for updates, I don't see one.
- dhdhhdd 4y ago+1, no March update on pixel 6a yet
- LilBytes 4y ago+1 too.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoChiming in to say the same thing.
- josephcsible 4y agoBut some Pixel phones haven't gotten the March 2023 security update yet, per the article.