Is your battery being sucked dry using 5G?
Are you struggling to get signal in places where 4G could reach easily?
Have you noticed lately your phone no longer provides the option to turn off 5G?
Does this post seem like a cheesy TV ad?
Ahem... Sorry about that. So yeah, 5G uses more power and has shorter range than 4G, so it can be helpful to turn it off. But after a recent Android update, the option to turn off 5G was removed from a lot of phones.
So here's how you turn it off anyway:
In your phone app, dial
*#*#4636#*#*
This will bring up a hidden menu called "Hidden Menu." No, really. That's what the name of the menu is. The first item in Hidden Menu is 5G/LTE debugging. In 5G/LTE debugging, tap the options button in the top right to bring up the option to toggle turning on and off NR and LTE. LTE is 4G and NR is 5G. So if you turn off NR, your phone will only use 4G LTE.
And just like that, my phone started using LTE and saving battery again. Yay!
Are you struggling to get signal in places where 4G could reach easily?
Have you noticed lately your phone no longer provides the option to turn off 5G?
Does this post seem like a cheesy TV ad?
Ahem... Sorry about that. So yeah, 5G uses more power and has shorter range than 4G, so it can be helpful to turn it off. But after a recent Android update, the option to turn off 5G was removed from a lot of phones.
So here's how you turn it off anyway:
In your phone app, dial
*#*#4636#*#*
This will bring up a hidden menu called "Hidden Menu." No, really. That's what the name of the menu is. The first item in Hidden Menu is 5G/LTE debugging. In 5G/LTE debugging, tap the options button in the top right to bring up the option to toggle turning on and off NR and LTE. LTE is 4G and NR is 5G. So if you turn off NR, your phone will only use 4G LTE.
And just like that, my phone started using LTE and saving battery again. Yay!
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