I have a pixel 6 on Google Fi. The cell coverage at my new home is not great. If I have my preferred network type set to 5G I have no Internet connectivity. If I manually change it to LTE I get connectivity (albeit slow).
Shouldn’t the phone try this on its own? If not, is there a legitimate app that will do this for me transparently and effectively?
You could try to contact your carrier, there might be some misconfiguration in the network.
Thanks, I’ll reach out to Google Fi support to see if they can help.
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Hmmm maybe. Google Fi and Mint both use T-Mobile towers.
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As an American, same question for OP.
I do, but we have had several extended power outages this year and I often have to rely on cellular data in those times.
The phone should do this by itself. Other brands of phones do. I don’t have that model to check, but sometimes there is an auto or preferred setting that will encourage it to do that. May require you doing some research.
Typical T-Mobile. I have to do the same in certain cities.
If the “preferred network type” setting is “5g/4g/3g/2g” then yeah, the phone should try all of them in that order.
Well, I wish it would. It just stays on the non-working 5G unless I change the preference setting.
Then it means you have a 5g signal, it’s just that the data connection that comes with it is very bad / non-existent. Unfortunately, if the signal exists, many phones won’t bother to also check for working data.
I know some phones can do that in order to toggle between cellular and wifi data, but not sure if they apply it to cellular modes too. See if there’s any setting about “smart” connectivity. On my Sony it claims to also switch 5g / 4g as needed.
If all else fails I guess you can use a tool like Tasker to periodically ping an external service and toggle cellular mode when you have no data, but that’s pretty crude.