What do you mean by non operative? That the phone won't let you do anything? or that internet connection stuff drops? Android phones can be kinda quick switching from cellular to wifi, but aren't any better at switching from wifi to cell, wanna know why?
It's kinda hard to guess when you're about to drop out of the wi-fi signal. Sure, the phone could keep track and turn on the wifi whenever the signal gets low, but that would probably be a waste of battery life.
So here's where it gets funny: On my phones, if you turn on wifi calling as well, then the cell modem turns off entirely when you're on a wifi net.
Non-operative meaning that all apps that require cell or WiFi (texts, Safari, weather, GPS, ect) cease to work. You knew that though. I can never even put in an address into my GPS in my own driveway. I have to drive a block or 2 down the street and pull over. I guess if the iPhone had an easy way to toggle WiFi on/off this would be less of any issue.
Before anyone else writes it, I will: first-world problems.
most likely explanation is that iphone team does not use iPhone! no way power users could tolerate this and numerous other horrible flaws
So what you're saying is that when your wifi signal is bad, instead of switching over to cellular it just sits there messing around with the wifi instead? That's pretty annoying!
This is one of my biggest annoyances while walking around campus, but to be fair, Android doesn't do this either.
What gives? Why must my iPhone be completely inoperative from sitting in my driveway to driving halfway down the street? Is this a technological limitation, do other non-iPhones have the same problem?
Yeah. This does seem most likely. I'm sure Apple doesn't mind the employees rolling around the Cupertino campus with Android and Windows Mobile phones.![]()
The iOS 6.0 betas from this summer had a 'Wi-Fi + Cellular' feature that would have fixed this problem but for some reason, Apple opted to remove it in the final iOS 6 release.
It's literally for like a second or two. And the latency for 4G and LTE is so low that it picks up pretty quickly.
Frustrating? Yes. Worth a technology leap or worsened battery life? No.
It's literally for like a second or two. And the latency for 4G and LTE is so low that it picks up pretty quickly.
Frustrating? Yes. Worth a technology leap or worsened battery life? No.
It's literally for like a second or two. And the latency for 4G and LTE is so low that it picks up pretty quickly.
Frustrating? Yes. Worth a technology leap or worsened battery life? No.
Interesting. When I'm doing a download and walk out of the range of my office Wi-Fi, the download keeps going on LTE. This is on a Verizon iPhone 5.
Why are you getting into your car then using your phone? You shouldn't be using it while in your car anyways. That said, sounds like either your car is parked several hundred feet from your house, or your router sucks. My AirPort Extreme is accessible with full connection from my driveway and its 50 yards from the house. This isn't something easily fixable by apple without killing battery life because the phone would have to constantly be evaluating cellular vs wifi strength. The solution is upgrade your router for a hundred dollars.
But as someone said, it's the same on Android.
Fix this Apple ASAP
I use the router Verizon gave to me with Fios, which gives me balls to the wall speed, but strangely enough doesn't give me a strong enough signal 15 feet away in my car.
And who says that evaluating signal strength of WiFi versus LTE drains excessive battery life. I'm all open to the idea, but would appreciate a link.
I stopped reading where I have bolded above. You can't use an entry level, free, router and complain about the radius of coverage. Our 1st generation time capsule (from 2008) could reach many of our neighbors home. The problem is your router.
No one "says" evaluating the strength of signal of WiFi vs. cellular would drain battery, it's common sense. The more background action you are assigning to your mobile device, the more processing power it requires at all times. Little by little, this whittle downs battery. Essentially, the phone would CONSTANTLY have to compare the signal strength of cellular versus wifi. According to you, since you want it instantly, this would require this action to take place about every second.
Apple meant to implement something similar to this in the iOS 6 betas, dubbed "Wifi + Cellular". Essentially, if WiFi wasn't connecting properly, the connection was slow, or signal strength was weak, it would default to cellular. This feature was subsequently removed before the release of iOS 6 GM, and I would bet part of the reason is in response to poor battery life.