[SOLVED] Fairphone 4 bad signal. Especially Upload speeds & regular calls

[yvmuell]

@y_cho

For example at lunch there was 6 persons at the coworking in a place where signal was clearely not optimal…BUT the 5 persons could go on internet with Iphones and android phones much older than mine.
WIth fairphone I had NO internet network at all.

Have you compared the SAR values of the phones, this would most likely have influence along with the Network Provider.

The SAR of the Pixel 4a is def much higher ,however the Samsung A3 seem to be similar to the FP4.

Wondering if call quality is at least partially due to software bugs

Call quality and noise cancellation (regular calls, handsfree, Signal voice messages, Microsoft Teams video calls)

I noticed that the call quality of the other end of the connection is not great (using 4G and WiFi calling, all not great). The voice quality send by the Fairphone is a bit robotic and includes some digital noise and too much noise of the surrounding environment. It’s usable, but it’s noticeable of low quality. This is in particular a problem with (video) calls when the loudspeaker is on. When the person on the other end talks, there is a clicking sound because of an echo feedback loop. Using S…