Cellular strength and throughput

[XDA_RealLifeReview]

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the OnePlus 3T's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.

 

[weroliera]

Returning mine because of lte T-Mobile network issues

 

[Chipaton]

I've gotten better signal with my 3T than any other phone on T-Mobile. Now get service in areas where I never have in the past. Don't seem to have the issues that others are talking about, but enough people are reporting them it seems to at least consider that.

 

[bricky23]

On Cricket which is AT&T. Limited to 8mb download. And yet I got 10mb once. I check oil wells, and drive all over. There are places where you just know that you are going to loose your signal. How ever I have not had even 1 dropped call since purchasing the 3t. I usually change phones every couple of weeks. But I think I may just keep this one.

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[GiSS88]

T-Mobile is very hit or miss with the 4G+ issue--sometimes it gives me great speeds, others it's awful. However they have already addressed that it will be taken care of in a patch, so I'll give more insight when that rolls out.

 

[GiSS88]

whats the patch and what did they fix? I noticed that sometimes my call drops randomly on T-Mobile.

There's a post on the Oneplus forums in the bugs section, as well as a link in the Q&A section here referencing the bug and support. Don't think the patch is fully out yet, only to a select few.

 

[davidstech11]

OP3T on AT&T

Took this speed test indoors. If I did some speed tests out and about I'm sure I could get way better. But no issues or complaints with data speed for me.

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[agonzalez1010]

Hey There,

I was wondering if someone had an update regarding the T-Mobile experience with the new Oxygen 4.x.. I am waiting for delivery of the phone and wished I had checked here first before ordering....

 

[isamu982]

Hey There,

I was wondering if someone had an update regarding the T-Mobile experience with the new Oxygen 4.x.. I am waiting for delivery of the phone and wished I had checked here first before ordering....

I'm on T-Mobile in NY and currently on 4.0 with no issues

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[Ascertion]

The cellular experience is pretty mediocre on this device. When comparing other flagships, this device gets up to -12 dBm weaker signal on RSRP for LTE and also has worse SNR ratio thus resulting in slower speeds. Unless you're right next to a tower with a strong signal, other flagships outclass the OP3T in this area by a noticeable margin.

 

[se7ensde]

Using t mobile get great speeds for streaming almost never buffers (unless I've used all my data) downloads are fast and I love the lte aggregation to get faster speeds.

 

[jayzer01]

I'm in upstate NY on at&t and get alot better reception than my lg g3 did and surprisingly slightly better than my gs7

 

[mici01]

Haven't had any issues here with signal strength. Though often it felt like it would take to long to switch down to 3G when the LTE got weak, resulting in 10 to 20 seconds with no throughput whatsoever. But that seems to be fixed on tge latest firmware.

Otherwise I've been able to get some nice speeds with CA.
Indoors in my apartment:
http://www.speedtest.net/android/2634362920.png
(other phones get about the same)

 

[RE910177]

one question though, i just had a speedtest between the stock s7 and stock Op3T i was wondering why there's a big discrepancy between the two in terms of download speed where both of them had a full bar of signal. any thoughts about this?

 

[sai444]

one question though, i just had a speedtest between the stock s7 and stock Op3T i was wondering why there's a big discrepancy between the two in terms of download speed where both of them had a full bar of signal. any thoughts about this?

S7 has Cat9 450/50 Mbps and 3CA while OnePlus 3T is having Cat6 300/50 Mbps 2CA

 

[Romman0]

I get better TMobile signal and speed indoors with the 3t than the opo and le s3 (also band 12).. So far signal seems better overall than any other device I have had so far. Liking it.

WNY

 

[RE910177]

S7 has Cat9 450/50 Mbps and 3CA while OnePlus 3T is having Cat6 300/50 Mbps 2CA

yeah! but should it be op3t should somehow reach atleast 10-15mb rather than 4mb of LTE? because s7 has an average of 25MB

and btw theyre both on the same ISP and same APN settings

 

[sai444]

yeah! but should it be op3t should somehow reach atleast 10-15mb rather than 4mb of LTE? because s7 has an average of 25MB

and btw theyre both on the same ISP and same APN settings

i guess those two might be connecting to different frequency bands during your testing. for me my s7 edge and 3t give almost same speeds around 20mbps when on band 40 ( India )

 

[RE910177]

i guess those two might be connecting to different frequency bands during your testing. for me my s7 edge and 3t give almost same speeds around 20mbps when on band 40 ( India )

hmm.. how would i know if my op3t is connecting on the frequency band same as my s7? (excuse me for being a noob )

or do we have to unlock some sort of frequency band to make it the same as the s7 has.

 

[sai444]

hmm.. how would i know if my op3t is connecting on the frequency band same as my s7? (excuse me for being a noob )

or do we have to unlock some sort of frequency band to make it the same as the s7 has.

i dont think we can choose to be connected to a specific band on either of them.
you can use lte discovery app to check which band you are connected to.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.simplyadvanced.ltediscovery&hl=en