SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 5G (Cosmic)
Hello everybody, this is my personally write about owning the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G Cosmic. I've ordered my Samsung phone from the Google Fi official website. The phone cost me $399.99 for being a Google Fi customer. On the website the phone is listed as a Designed For Fi phone. Now what does that truly means in lame terms for some that wont understand how it is suppose to work on the phone service? Glady you all are curious. This means that since the phone is designed for Fi, it will give me and you better coverage by intelligently switching between networks. By the phone switching between multiple cellular networks and wifi hotspots, the phone will have better and more coverage while traveling.
What are the cellular networks the phone connect to?
It connects to the T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular towers. It will also roam on the Verizon and At&t networks when the other 3 networks aren't strong enough or losing signal.
How Can You Tell If the Phone Is On a Different Network?
I've learned several ways you can find out and discover which network the phone is on at the time of use. Google Fi has a support page which details dialer codes for each of the networks to force switch to them when needed. All three codes will be shown below. There are several apps on the Google Play Store that anyone can download right now and install on their Android mobile devices to see exactly which network their phone is on. Just to name a couple of them, the most popular apps to use for identifying the networks and signals are apps called Signal Spy and the FiSwitch applications. The Signal Spy app will show you the name of the network in app, its logo or icon in the status bar of your mobile device, and shows the signal strength of the network. it also a bunch of other neat features which I will have in a list that are my favorites for using to find or switch networks on my phone. Seer the list below. FiSwitch is a simple app to use, Once you install it and open it right up, everything is displayed right on the main page of the app showing each network and allow you to switch right from the main page. I also have a video on my official youtube channel showing how to use these apps as well. The video will be down below as well.
Cellular Dialer Codes For Google Fi:
T-Mobile: *#*#34866#*#*
Sprint: *#*#34777#*#
US Cellular: *#*#34872#*#*
Signal Spy Best Features:
Network History
Data Usage
Helpful Resources
Help Center
Did Your Samsung Galaxy S20 5G Really Switch Networks?
The moment of truth is finally here. Simple answer to this question is... YES! My newly 1 week old Samsung Galaxy S20 5G phone designed for Google Fi did switch networks without me having to force switch the networks to change. Even though I did force switch the networks on purpose for fun and testing, I let my phone and Google Fi both run their course. I took a lot of screenshots as well showing the phone switched networks and this can be seen on a video as well.
Screenshot 1 Signal Spy app
Screenshot 2 Signal Spy App
Screenshot 3 Signal Spy App
Screenshot Signal Spy App LTE Band 25 (1900MHZ)
Screenshot 1 FiSwitch App
This my experience along using the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G on Google Fi phone service. It took full advantage of the Fi Network with switching of the networks and connected to the better networks or available networks. So, for those of you who own the designed for Fi Samsung Galaxy S20 5G or any of the Samsung phones on Google Fi, did your device switch networks? If not, were you aware of these network and signal apps? Leave me your thoughts in the comments below.
SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 5G GOOGLE FI - NETWORK SWITCHING
To see if your area has coverage for any of the networks, check out each coverage map.
US Cellular coverage map:
T-Mobile Coverage map:
I forgot to mention that data roaming on google fi even in the states is Free!
Screenshot of mobile networks with Data roaming option turned on.
You find this setting on your Galaxy device via the settings app and then tap on Connections tab.
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