Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We switched off 3G this year in the UK and my brothers phone stopped being able to make calls. He was using a 6 year old high-end Android phone, but it was from just before the cutoff where you could turn on VoLTE (calls over 4G).
Thankfully, I had a spare phone from the next year after that to hand him, and that one could work with some hidden menu (the type you type into your dialer) hacking.
madis@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Why couldn’t you turn off 3G on that old phone via that same hidden menu? Or how come the phone didn’t even recognize that it can fall back to 2G…
Zanz@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Due to marketing b*******, most things labeled as 3G are actually 2G.So networks don’t support both two and three g. Then things that are actually 3G like hspda and L.T.E are marketed as four g , so it’s just very confusing between all of it. They want to shut down the 2G.Networks that are edge and gsm.And they want to shut down the one g network that’s cdma. Depending on your service that could be marketed as 123 or even four g.
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
2G is also gone.
www.ofcom.org.uk/…/3g-switch-off/
The old phone was a couple years into 4G existing but before we started to send voice over it.
I assume it just wasn’t in the OS-level code. It only went up to Android 11. We could have tried LineageOS but that would have required a bunch of work including wiping the phone.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 days ago
Were they / are they on the 3 network?
If so, that’s why because 3 has never had a 2G network at all ;)
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That must be it!
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing