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'E' instead of 5G or LTE
The flip 4 was working fine until a few days ago where I see E on the signal bar and no more 5G or 5UC. The issues is that when I see the 'E' my phone network disconnects easily and I have 2G data, ...
I've seen this happen on my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (with either psim or esim card). Indeed they removed the pSIM and programmed the eSIM to try and resolve the "E" issue. It didn't help.
E stands for "Edge." What is happening is that the signal for LTE/5G gets lost and the phone backs down to Edge service to get a signal, But, once that happens, the phone does not try to switch back to LTE/5G until it completely loses the Edge signal. Airplane mode toggle might fix this or it might not, however a reboot SHOULD fix this issue.
Once the Edge network is properly and completely decommissioned, this should no longer pose a problem, but it is still active in some areas.
The reason you're not getting any data is because the Edge system is super, super slow data. Today your phone uses so much data, Edge gets overwhelmed to the point your phone won't function on it. Only legacy devices will.
