My Take on the LTE Experience on Rogers

[Steve Punter]

My web page is meant to cover only southern Ontario, hence its name. Ever since I put up the site in 1998 to showcase the maps (which at the time had to be made through personal observation only) I've restricted it to just my province.

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[D Mac]

My web page is meant to cover only southern Ontario, hence its name. Ever since I put up the site in 1998 to showcase the maps (which at the time had to be made through personal observation only) I've restricted it to just my province.

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Well you did say All The Rogers Sites. ...and you have other sites outside of Ontario.

[Steve Punter]

Okay, you've got me dead-to-rights on the wording in my original post about the maps. What's interesting about the post however was that I'd only put up the sites in Toronto when I wrote it. What I should have said was "all the LTE Rogers sites in the GTA". I subsequently expanded it to include Ottawa, because my maps had long covered Ottawa.

[D Mac]

Okay, you've got me dead-to-rights on the wording in my original post about the maps. What's interesting about the post however was that I'd only put up the sites in Toronto when I wrote it. What I should have said was "all the LTE Rogers sites in the GTA". I subsequently expanded it to include Ottawa, because my maps had long covered Ottawa.

Gotcha. Anyways I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, your maps are very helpful. Hopefully someone will go through all the hard work that you've done for Ontario and do one for BC.

[Steve Punter]

I've recently encountered a very strange problem regarding a 3rd party app on my Galaxy SII LTE that MIGHT have something to do with the problems certain people have discovered with this phone. They claim they weren't able to receive calls or text messages and couldn't do so unless they switched to EDGE. This might not be the SAME problem, but it sure seems similar. I started a new thread for this issue, which you can read at:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1754106

[Supa_Fly]

I have pulled all of the Rogers LTE site locations from the Industry Canada online database and I've created a site map on my web page specifically for Rogers LTE. You can check it out at:

http://www.arcx.com/sites/RogersLTEGoogle.htm

There are just over 600 LTE cell site locations in the Toronto area and ALL of them are outdoor macro locations (not indoor repeaters or mini-sites). I didn't count them for the Ottawa area, which is also included on my new map.

I'd hoped to create one for Bell Mobility as well, but they haven't bothered to list their LTE sites on the Industry Canada database just yet. They'll probably get around to it EVENTUALLY. It took the better part of a year to get their HSPA sites online.

SWEET! Looks like the original G site Punter is back in business!!

[Vanguy]

Hi all,

I apologize if this should be in a different thread, but has anyone experienced VERY poor telephone reception with their S2 LTE?

I picked up the Galaxy S2 LTE a couple of weeks ago. Everything about the phone is great, except (ironically) the phone part.

Reception is simply terrible compared to my BB bold. I'm constantly told by people that they can't hear me and that the call is dropping in and out (not a dropped call, just brownouts).

Have any of you experienced this? Is it a design flaw, or did I just get a phone with a bad antenna?

[Wirelezz]

Hi all,

I apologize if this should be in a different thread, but has anyone experienced VERY poor telephone reception with their S2 LTE?

I picked up the Galaxy S2 LTE a couple of weeks ago. Everything about the phone is great, except (ironically) the phone part.

Reception is simply terrible compared to my BB bold. I'm constantly told by people that they can't hear me and that the call is dropping in and out (not a dropped call, just brownouts).

Have any of you experienced this? Is it a design flaw, or did I just get a phone with a bad antenna?

Get used to lte phones . Force your network in edge wait a minute or two then force in hspa and your done forget lte its only for data . That's why I went to HTC late chase its has better network settings . Auto band settings just don't work on lte

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[Steve Punter]

Hi all,

I apologize if this should be in a different thread, but has anyone experienced VERY poor telephone reception with their S2 LTE?

I picked up the Galaxy S2 LTE a couple of weeks ago. Everything about the phone is great, except (ironically) the phone part.

Reception is simply terrible compared to my BB bold. I'm constantly told by people that they can't hear me and that the call is dropping in and out (not a dropped call, just brownouts).

Have any of you experienced this? Is it a design flaw, or did I just get a phone with a bad antenna?

Despite what Wirelezz suggests, the Galaxy SII LTE has no trouble switching to HSPA for incoming and outgoing calls. There is an issue with long-running GPS apps that I recently uncovered, but the end result here is a total loss of data and voice capabilities until the GPS app is shutdown. Subsequently this is not related to your problem.

I don't have any issue with the RF performance of the SII LTE during a call. It's actually SLIGHTLY better than my old Galaxy Captivate (though neither are exactly top performers, but they aren't THAT BAD).

The big issue with the SII LTE seems to be the handling of outgoing audio. With the built-in microphone, too much damage occurs to your voice when the noise cancellation circuitry removes noisy backgrounds. It sounds okay in a quiet environment, but in a noise one you sound rather robotic. When an external microphone is connected (Bluetooth headsets included) the volume is a bit low, and so depending upon what microphone you use, this could range from marginally annoying to wow-are-you-quiet.

So the bottom line is the SII LTE is not a great phone for outgoing audio quality, but RF-wise it performs just as well as other Samsung smartphones, including the Captivate and the Galaxy Nexus (both of which I've recently reviewed). As far as reception goes, I've had no complaints compared to other Samsung models.

However, Blackberries do generally have excellent RF performance, and so if you are in the habit of using your phone in a fringe indoor area you may have experienced trouble-free reception on your BB, but problematic reception on the Samsung. This is why I have always reported on RF performance in my phone reviews.