hi guys MOTz here and welcome to another video in this video I'll show
you guys how you can go from 3G to 4G on your Android device so the first thing
will be to determine if you are connected to a 3G or 4G connection if
you guys see the signal bar right here it doesn't really tell me if it's
connected to 3G or 4G and in case you guys do have data connection what you
can do is disable your Wi-Fi and connect you data and in case you see an H plus
sign it means that you're connected to a 3G network now in case it was 4G or LTE
instead of edge or edge plus it would mean that you're connected to a 4G
network
another alternative option that you guys have is to install an app called net
monster from the Play Store and what this app does is that it shows you what
network you're connected to the type of connection the type of technology and
the signal band as well there are some interesting values as well using this
app and I'm not aware what they exactly mean but the RSCP refers to the signal
strength so as you guys see right now I'm connected to Telus mobility 3G and
the technology is HSPA+ and my frequency for the connection is 1900 megahertz and
it can change from time to time depending on which cell tower I'm
connected to the app does have some additional features as well like graphs
and you can actually see what additional bands you are connected to and it looks
like it's switched from one to another and you can see that in real time
there's also a map functionality which can show towers in your location it's
not working in my area but it's supposed to and then there is logging as well
like what networks I was connected to yesterday and today now that we know
that we are currently connected to a 3G connection what we will do is we will go
in settings and from settings will go to SIM cards and mobile networks and
inserting phones you will have a setting called as dual 4G you will need to
enable that you might you can keep it disabled if you know that the SIM card
you have is in the 4G slot but in some phones especially if they're dual SIM
only one slot is 4G and the other one is 3G if you're not sure which slot you put
in on a dual 4G phone then you'll need to enable it so I just did it and then
you'll go into your SIM card settings go in prefer network types and from
prefer 3G you will select preferred 4G let's make sure that it was selected
not ok and now it's yeah you have to give it like a few seconds before the
network connects to the other one and now in case I go to the app again and as
you guys can see now it's connected to the 4G LTE a850
band and it's plus aws and then it tells me the signal strength as well so
the other option that you guys have is like just enable your data and and now
on the top of my phone I see it's 4G in case you did not see
the option to change LTE under your SIM card settings what do you you can do is
you can actually go into your dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
and that will take you to a phone info option and
let's say if you have a dual SIM then you'll have to select which slot you
want to be on 4G let's say if I have phone one and in my case I've set it to
LTE already and you have like multiple options you can choose from in
case you do not know which network you your phone connects to you can select it
to global auto but otherwise just keep it on LTE UMTS or LTE GSM and see if it
works for you you may even try some other options out here as well like LTE
/ WCDMA and it all just depends on which network you are on in case you have
doubt you can always do a search on what network your service works on or you can
even contact customer support regarding that
one thing to make sure is that once you change your network from 3G to 4G you
should enable data and do a ping test to see if your data works or not or you can
actually open up your browser as well and just go and let's say some website
and see if everything is good since you don't want your data to get disabled out
another thing is inserting phones you have to enable both as well and I
recommend you guys to enable it because then you can talk and use data at the
same time otherwise whenever you receive a phone call it will switch from 4G to
3G or it will try to do that or in certain cases only one of them will work
so I recommend you guys to enable volte especially if you want data and calling
at the same time so when you do *#*#4636#*#*
you have to enable VOLTE Provisioned in case you cannot select
that option it's because your network does not supported and that's fine but
in case your network supports it you can turn it to on
thank you for watching this video and if you guys have any kind of issues
changing from 3G to 4G just let me know through comments and I'll be able to
help you don't forget to mention which phone you have because sometimes these
settings are different and things work out differently thank you for watching
and goodbye