Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.
madis@lemm.ee 2 days agoWhy 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…
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.
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing
Were they / are they on the 3 network?
If so, that’s why because 3 has never had a 2G network at all ;)
That must be it!
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing
Zanz@lemmy.ml 1 day 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.