eCSFB battery life improvement on older phones?

[DaQue]

Will older none tri-band phones like my Note 2 be able to get the battery life improvement by turning off the CDMA radio when you are connected to LTE?

 

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[Mondays In Flames]

Will older none tri-band phones like my Note 2 be able to get the battery life improvement by turning off the CDMA radio when you are connected to LTE?

 

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It's not a software thing, it's a design of the radios. The way the radio is constructed will impact whether or not your phone will have only one radio on at a time. If this was possible, you would have been seeing it already in single band LTE phone in eCSFB markets already.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

-Luis

[DaQue]

Thank's

 

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[koiulpoi]

Will older none tri-band phones like my Note 2 be able to get the battery life improvement by turning off the CDMA radio when you are connected to LTE?

 

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Sure, you can turn off your CDMA radio by switching the device to LTE only mode. You will then be unable to send or receive calls and texts

[DaQue]

Sure, you can turn off your CDMA radio by switching the device to LTE only mode. You will then be unable to send or receive calls and texts

That's where the Ecsfb would come in, signal on LTE would turn the CDMA back on... I guess it can't do that without a reboot or something. I don't remember a lte only option on settings.

 

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[hescominsoon]

That's where the Ecsfb would come in, signal on LTE would turn the CDMA back on... I guess it can't do that without a reboot or something. I don't remember a lte only option on settings.

 

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The phone has to be designed to use ecsfb.  Only the triband devices can use this.

[DaQue]

Got it. Umm well don't get it I mean... Anyway... No Ecsfb for me.

 

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[LoneSnark]

Will older none tri-band phones like my Note 2 be able to get the battery life improvement by turning off the CDMA radio when you are connected to LTE?

 

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They could, but it would require rewriting the radio firmware. Sprint could certainly do this if they wanted to, but I believe they would never choose to do so. First, it would hamper a feature of the phone they advertised (simultaneous voice and data). Second, it would be a bunch of work recertifying phones on their network which are older and they don't really care much about.