Certain Phones Can?

Thanks. Just checked and my phone holds the REV 4 setting even after a power cycle

 

GREAT, Samsungs Rule!!! Right?

 

I like the Samsung better than the Moto Razr I had before.

 

Lg's all the way

 

Thank You for clarifying this in greater detail.
I'm not exactly sure if forcing REV4 may give better voice quality because there necessarily is less traffic on it. REV 4 still uses the same channels that a REV6 phone may use. When I force my phone from REV 6 to REV 4 my default channel goes from 384 to 507. My phone does, sometimes, use channel 507 in REV 6 as well, but only when there is a lot of traffic on my default channel, 384, so my guess as to why REV 4 may get better voice quality in some areas is because it defaults the phone to a channel that not many phones default to in 1x mode, but who am I...I'm not an engineer/ cell site technician.

 

That is very, very interesting. If you don't mind, would you be able to go into field test mode and see if the cell site/sector your phone idles on in REV 4 and REV 6 changes in the same location when you change it from REV 6 to REV4. All Verizon cell sites have been 1x for a long time- I wonder what is going on.

 

Now look what you have started...

 

Wirelessly posted (SAMSUNG-SGH-I607/I607FG1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; Smartphone; 320x240) UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0)

But Samsungs do, rule that is !!! Remember my Blackjack is special

 

Wirelessly posted (SAMSUNG-SGH-I607/I607FG1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; Smartphone; 320x240) UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0)

Andy, I think we both said the same thing about possible reason why forcing to Rev 4 may give better voice quality, except that you did a much better job of it by including the channel nos. Thank you very much

This has been a really interesting discussion, stemming from a basic question.

One concern that I have is that you & I are beginning to agree too much, so should I go back to my "Cingular Rules, Verizon Stinks" slogan?

 

Lol, I think we did both say the exact same thing.

Lol, maybe we should go back to our old slogans...wasn't that fun?

 

My phone defaults to CH507 in REV 4 and CH466 in REV 6.

 

AS far as my knowledge i have my EVDO off and i can use all the get it now features that ive tried. the diffrence is that Vcast is like where your music and videos are and Get It Now is where your applications are

 

While making the test call in both modes, see what the Active Pilots/PN offsets are.
All Verizon cell sites have 1x capabilities, but they are also backwards compatible with IS-95, so that is why you can force your phone down to REV 4 and it will work. The reason Data does not work while on REV 4 is simply because IS-95 technology does not allow it.

 

I am glad you are happy with the 8300.

What EV-DO does is give you much faster data transmission rate than 1X.

For all practical purposess, If there is no EV-DO in the area, what you will not be able to use is streaming of video clips and music. Navigator, ESPN etc. will all work in 1x.

Supposedly if you start a clip in an EV-DO area then leave that area, it will fall back to the slower 1x and continue playing the clip.

Hope this helps