Do you have the 5G Auto / 5G On option in Mobile Data -> Voice & Data, allowing you to choose 5G Audio, 5G On, or 4G ? You might want to set it to 5G On for field test checks if you are in a 5G area.

With an NVNO its most likely you would be rate limited rather than protocol (CA / not CA) limited, as the main network sells data rate limited services (as does Vodafone).

Until Standalone Architecture (SA) rolls out, all 5G capable devices are connected to both NR and LTE, and so Field Test is extremely complicated. The 5G menus seem to appear even when you have no NR signal in town, as long as the right signalling block says to the phone “check for 5G”. Signalling blocks needs a rooted Android with expensive NSG tool, and then a lot of knowledge, used to be posted on Digital Spy’s forum, but most of those with knowledge have left. (Or left uni and got full time jobs).

Edited by jchamier (Mon 20-May-24 20:44:05)

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Do you have 24 hour clock enabled?

I do not, let me change it to check, I change it to 12 hour as I work across multiple time zones with some countries being 12 hours either way so it makes it easier to calculate when on the Phone to customers.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Do you have the 5G Auto / 5G On option in Mobile Data -> Voice & Data, allowing you to choose 5G Audio, 5G On, or 4G ? You might want to set it to 5G On for field test checks if you are in a 5G area.

In my case 5G is always on, I do not believe in turning it off, I only have RAT Serving Cell Info available to me.
Screenshot

Please let me know what you think based off the screenshot, that is the only menu in field test mode after changing to 24 hours.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Changes noted:

Since 3G switch off, it started automatically acquiring the EE carrier profile. Prior it would not get a carrier profile. This means that it no longer shows as LTE but 4G. Prior it would show as LTE and 5G. The carrier profile (EE 58.0) also brings with it the option of WiFi calling, enabling this however doesn’t actually do anything. Strangely it doesn’t bring any error in the UI the switch just remains on and it never displays WiFi calling.

A positive of the carrier profile now being issued is that band 20 works.

Does this marry up with your experience?

I agree that this has occurred after the 3rd round of switch off, I was in an area that was turned off first then three more parts of the UK were switched off, it seems to be a recent issue and the same for the Profile

I have noticed a decrease in performance as I keep getting kicked off my mast outside my Window to one some way away down the A1 on 5MHZ Band 3, it is rather annoying as i keep getting flicked between two masts, its predictable as its normally as trains pass so you can guess about when it will be.

For some reason it doesn’t work unless it’s 24 hour. It’s been a bug since like iso 6 so I doubt it’ll be fixed.

I totally relate, working in consulting & retained a bunch of clients from when I lived in the US. Hence I'm aware of the issue given their standard is 12hr time.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

For some reason it doesn’t work unless it’s 24 hour. It’s been a bug since like iso 6 so I doubt it’ll be fixed.

I totally relate, working in consulting & retained a bunch of clients from when I lived in the US. Hence I'm aware of the issue given their standard is 12hr time.

That's fair, I never knew why it never worked, I thought it was an MVNO thing.

LycaMobile have issued a statement today

Thank you for contacting Lycamobile.

We are sorry to know that you are unable to access the 5G network.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the lack of 5G signal in your area.

Further to your email, we are facing some 5G issue in Lycamobile network. Our technical team is actively investigating this matter to ensure that any potential network issues are addressed promptly. While we work on resolving this, please be assured that our team is committed to restoring the 5G coverage at the earliest.

Seems they did a blind change again

Saw this after an ispreview post.

2 Lyca eSims here in a good EE 5G coverage area, Pixel 7 Pro and Px4a5g, neither have 5G on Lyca.

Happy to confirm as of yesterday the issue has been resolved, can anyone else confirm this to be the case for them?

I also noticed that IPv6 has been introduced at the same time.