[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Re: S5 SM-G900P LTE Problem - WhatsApp Playback Volume

Did you ever use your SIM on a Lte capable phone? Or on the S5 w/ stock Samsung firmware?

I'm asking because I got my S5 G900M 14 days ago and with my old SIM from my old S3 I could only get 3.5G. Went to my network provider's store yesterday, got new SIM & LTE appeared instantly on the status bar after booting it.

Confirmed the LTE band & speed with Network Cell Info Lite and the information overloaded Network Signal Guru.

Edit: [MENTION=7910837]Massedil[/MENTION]: Screenshots side-by-side of Network Cell Info Pro old SIM vs. new SIM. In both case Settings > Network & Internet >Mobile network > Advanced > Preferred network type set to GSM/WCDMA/LTE.

The LTE signal is weaker compared to GSM/WCDMA (lower the number the better). That's confirmed with the new SIM also w/ Preferred network type set to GSM/WCDMA. :(

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Now this could be because of my provider's cell tower which is located 1km away. Test was made outdoor in front of my house so I can only conclude that when @ home & connected to Wifi it would probably save some battery life w/ the GSM/WCDMA setting. This said even w/ the weaker signal the download/upload speed are much higher on LTE.

That test needs to be done on an other day & other locations to see if it's still the same type of results.

For those complaining of battery life that could be a good test to do.

Your SM-G900P model is not LTE compatible in Costa Rica w/ my provider. On this site you can cross-check device/country/provider compatibility. For your model: https://www.frequencycheck.com/models/AxDyA/samsung-sm-g900p-galaxy-s5-lte-a-samsung-pacific

You asked for other people's SM-G900P baseband but did not mention yours. ;) I checked the S5 15.1 LOS kltexxx dev haggertk's S5 Bootloader_Modem_Firmware Odin flashable files & your model is not included. :(

Normally the more recent the better which is the highest 4 last alphanumeric characters. You could check here. They call the modem "phone" in their download pages: https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=SM-G900P&rpp=15&order=date&dir=desc&exact=1

Please report back if you fixed your problem or not. :cool:

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WhatsApp Playback Volume

Finally some feedback to my questions. Thanks :good:

I just tried playing my own voice note in WhatsApp but with headset & it's louder vs. the speaker but not as loud as playing voice notes received from other people.

Did you try listening to your voice note on an other phone who received it? I did & the playback volume was normal, louder than on my phone.

For me that confirms a WhatsApp playback volume problem & not a mic problem & that's why I did not flash any mic boosting mods.

Will try to check what WhatsApp :p is doing when playing back a file vs. what other apps are doing using logcat but since it affects only my own voice notes that could hard to do. Will see if a report can be done to WhatsApp support but I'm afraid I'll grow old before getting a reply.

BTW you can trim the quote, especially if it was a long post like mine above: after hitting the Reply button of the post you want to quote, just delete some stuff between the two pair of quote brackets like [ QUOTE=DELLINSPIRON1958;77751820]...no gapps works: error code 64... delete some stuff...[/QUOTE ]

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