Turning LTE off will not necessarily give you better reception, but give you less handovers meaning more stable connection to 3G. Theres nothing wrong with the iPhone, its just how LTE works. If you turn off LTE, you are basically just turning off the High Speed data connection. Bell/Telus LTE upgrading is not complete in the LML so it is still very spotty. When you are within range of an LTE tower, the phone will give priority to that tower over any closer 3G tower, and the bars you are reading are LTE bars not 3G bars, it will only affect Data Speeds and has nothing to do with phone call reception.
LTE is Data Only (currently). 3G is Data + Voice + Emergency Services.
If you notice next time you make a voice call while the phone says LTE, it will take about 5 seconds longer for the call to go through because your phone will have to switch from the LTE network to the 3G network to make the call. There is no smooth handover for it.
Most likely the area you are in has only 1 LTE tower ~5km away from you, which is why you are only getting 1 LTE bar, but if you turn off LTE, more than likely you will connect to the 3G network and it should be a more stable data connection for you. As I was explaining before, because you are in a greyish black LTE zone for Bell/TELUS, your phone will keep switching from 3G to LTE and the handover time is at least 5 seconds, which would be the reason you are getting shitty reception.
I have a very bad handle at writing explainations and im sorry if you don't understand half of what I wrote, but feel free to PM me if you want more information on whats going on with the phone, and i'll give you my number you can call me on.
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Originally Posted by winson604
So does turning off LTE give better reception? Gf just switched over to Bell and it's been 2 days and I'm not impressed at all. Either something is wrong with the iPhone 5 or I've gone back to the 90's when reception could be quite wacky.
We live in Vancouver and have been around the City, downtown, and at home (not basement). I have for the most part only seen the phone have 1 bar of reception, the odd time I saw 1+ plus bar it will tease me and drop back down to 1 right away. 6 times in 2 days it actually went to no service for a min then back to 1 again. The data has been wonky too and half the time it won't connect. LTE is on but have pretty much not seen it show up. The longest I've seen it on is maybe 5 mins top if that. Any ideas?
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