Part 2 (Contains missing 2G and 3G calling and texting sounds, Wi-Fi sounds, Bluetooth sounds): th-cam.com/video/dGtrVBMaRCI/w-d-xo.html Part 3 (Contains 5G sounds, VoLTE, tower side): th-cam.com/video/bD1cgeKNL7I/w-d-xo.html Edit: Making a little FAQ here for questions I get asked a lot: "How did you record 2G?/3G?": I am in Canada and Rogers still has a 2G GSM/EDGE network and 3G UMTS/HSPA+ network. 850MHz only, 1900MHz shut down in 2021. "It's GSM!/UMTS!": In Canada, we have long used the GSM EDGE standard and WCDMA standard which has been upgraded overtime to support UMTS, HSPA, and HSPA+ meaning yes, my 2G is GSM/EDGE my 3G is UMTS/HSPA+. I am on the Rogers carrier. Look up Rogers Wireless if you want exact network details. "What about 4G?": 4G is the same as LTE. To explain the history behind it, when 4G originally came out, the first few releases did not meet the standard criteria of being a "4G" network, so LTE short for "Long Term Evolution" was made to fill in the gap between 3G and the original goal of 4G. Since then the criteria has been changed to a point where 4G could be considered any network with significant performance and technical improvements over third generation networks (3G). Nowadays the terms LTE and 4G are often interchangeable and "4G" is also typically used when phones are set to a language other than English. "Can I use this in my ___?": Yes, although I did record these sounds and could say others aren't allowed to use them, I think saying I own the sounds of radio interference would be a little silly, no? "How do you record these sounds?": You will need some kind of audio equipment that is susceptible to the phone's RF interference. That can include old headphones, speakers or a single speaker, sound systems, microphones, amplifiers, TVs or radios could work depending on the age, guitar amps work too. If you are capable of building your own electronics, there are also ways to make devices that are sensitive to and can capture RF interference. Depending on the device and your knowledge, you may be able to take apart an existing speaker or audio device and remove the shielding yourself. To record the audio, you can either use some kind of audio output into another recording device if the device you are using has an audio out. If it is or is connected to a speaker, you can also just use a separate device and microphone to record it. Most modern audio equipment has shielding to protect it from radio interference though as the interference caused to the audio by cell frequencies is of course well known by now and filtered out as to make it so it doesn't bleed into your music! This means that your audio device of choice either has to be older as shielding wasn't needed as much before cellphones became widespread, or it just has to be cheaply designed as to not include the shielding. In the case of headphones and speakers, I'd recommend to use kinds that have a separate power source as the device will need to be powered in order to capture the frequency. Devices that use a 3.5mm jack for power may not work. I hope this info helps. Good luck!
It also depends on the phone/firmware. As example, a stock Xiaomi phone shows 4G, while the same phone flashed with, say, LineageOS or a Google Pixel will show LTE.
2G is probably louder because each subsequent generation uses lower transmit power because they keep making the cell size smaller. It used to be more economical to set up fewer towers that served larger areas, which needed higher transmit power on both ends to be heard by the other end. But now they're putting more towers and making the cell size smaller and smaller because there's too many devices to share the bandwidth in a larger area -- which also means it can send a lower power signal and be heard. Also, I think 2G used larger time slots, putting more of the loud on/off switching noise in the audible frequency range.
I’m very familiar with the 2G sound as 2G would often interfere with AM radios so often you would hear that sound in your radio if your phone was near it! :)
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Still happens with LTE, at least at lower modulation schemes.
@@WTC7 It’s very possible that the older smart meters that were installed between 1998 and 2006 used 2G to connect to the network to transmit their readings to your electricity company in real-time. Of course it probably also used a specialised reserved signal band and maybe end to end encryption for security.
Mexican carriers still use 2G to carry out phone calls, i recall hearing those 2G interferences in some old speakers quite recently (like only a few years ago)
The reason you hear it before the phone rings is that the phone is trying to adjust its power amplifier (which is what makes the radio signal loud enough for the tower to receive). It will start from a very low power level and raise it to a higher power level until the tower responds to your phone. It does this so the phone doesn't consume battery power unnecessarily. Once the link is established, then your phone rings.
In a way, we never truly went away from dial-up, and dial-up is basically magnetic tape drives with extra steps, I like how devices communicate through sounds, and even during these ages you can still listen to computers communicating if you have terrible speakers
@@stagergamer4172 gosh radio is so fascinating Kinda wish i dint rely on online SDR'S [Too bad i dont know how to make my own sdr neither do i have the money for it]
It's been going on since the 90s or sooner too, there used to have been this device you'd hook up to your computer where you'd stick your home phone onto. The speaker end and mic end would be placed on it, of course after calling your friend to do the same and tell him which settings to put theirs on, and you'd sync with each other through the phone just by sound and the mic of the phone. Computer to computer connection just by sound. Very primitive by today's standards, but extremely innovative for its time.
We really take for granted how amazing the technology we use everyday is! But granted, the technology we see today is the result of many people’s research, innovations and discoveries over many generations of human history. No single person can truly be credited to anything we see today.
@@tristanmiller6598 I didn't grew up in the dialup age so I'm not going by experience when I wrote that, I'm just figuring most within my age range wouldn't know how it works and just relaying it based on how I understood it.
1:25 The reason upload sounds like static is because these systems are usually duplex, using different carrier frequencies for the upload and download channel, meaning the upload channel might be more out of tune for whatever circuit is picking up the radio
Analog radio is a fun topic and an even more fun rabbit hole for those that care. This is a piece of the puzzle for sure but probably not the biggest one. The static sound is because of the bitrate exceeding the frequency response of the human ear, and in this case over video, the microphone and then again youtube's compression, THEN the human ear. Walking back to 56kbps dial-up, you'll get a similar sound although you'll hear both transmit and receive at similar volumes. 56kbps, or in a good analogy, 56kHz in theory, is way beyond the typical 18-21kHz range of human hearing, 20-30kHz range of audio recording equipment, 16-18kHz range of youtube's audio compression, and 11-19kHz range of audio listening equipment. Even before scrambling (a fun google rabbit hole in its own right) we'll only be hearing the brief pops and crackles of when the signal (accidentally, because it's not a good thing) stays high or low for quite a few bits in a row (or at least averages out differently to the rest within our hearing range). This is only the transmit side, too. The speakers probably don't pick up the receive side beyond the (ack)nowledgement "hey i got that data" transmits back. Received data sounds the same if you ever go back and listen to high speed dial-up captures. There IS a relation to whether it responds to certain carrier frequencies better or worse, but the bigger difference here is hearing the radio inches away from the speaker versus probably not hearing the radio miles away that we're talking to, at all. The static sound itself, has more to do with scrambling, and just how absurdly high the data rate actually is. Rant end, hope someone learns something.
@@nosferratuthe bandwidth of even the smallest lte bands is 1mhz human hearing had a bandwidth of 20khz. it’s impossible to compress all of the data into one recording for audible playbaxk
LTE just gets angrier the more work you put on it, 3G is just like an retro game of some sort, 2G is for the reason why the old speakers would just do an rythm when you recived a phone call and also the higher and lower pitches mean downloading and uploading
That 2G sound threw me back to high school in 2005 lol One class We had, the teacher left the TV on all day every day, just usually on a black screen. If it ever made this sound, the whole class would be like "oooooh someone's got a cell phone on!" and the teacher would just give this stern look while someone sheepishly pulled the phone up over the desk and turned it off (or acted like they were entitled to having it on). Such moments
I remember when I was in first school, about six years old so 11 years ago and I heard the 2g sound on the teachers computer speakers, the school was in the country side so the phone obviously had to have quite a strong power output to overcome the impedance of the air. Heard it several times into the future but it died out with 3G coming in.
@@BluelightAmeliayou almost certainly do not have 1g service as that’s basically just fm radio and anyone could listen to those phone calls, as well as only ~50 people could access a tower
2G is very loud compared to the others. I only ever could hear the 4G noise with an old headphone amp connected directly to the phone. But 2G went into almost everything. In a very small town I noticed the provider deployed 3G when the noise was gone.
Cell radio's been getting more efficient over the years. 2G is very high power (and coincidentally both immensely more harmful than the "5G microwave your brain" meme and now banned if memory serves right for that reason (and its interference with other lower power things). 3G less so, and 4G even less so. The range isn't as good as it used to be, but it's better range for the power used regardless.
Used to run lights/sound for a small theater and the interference from the audience's cell phones was pretty irritating. I assumed they changed the frequency or something cuz it didn't happen as much after a while. Cool video, thank you.
Back when I was in high school (early 2000s), hearing the RF interference (2G/2.5G) from speakers was a dead giveaway when somebody had a cell phone turned on (we weren't allowed to use cell phones, but could carry them if turned off). Especially GSM phones (Cingular/AT&T, T-Mobile) which seemed to be super noisy compared to CDMA.
It's because GSM (and the old IS-136 D-AMPS system) used TDMA, so the transmitter was turned on in pulses. GSM had 8 time slots per channel and IS-136 had 6, so to get the same energy per bit the TX power level had to be 6 or 8 times higher than a CDMA based system like IS-95 - the average power was the same, but since the peaks are larger you get much more breakthrough with TDMA.
@@Coolshows101 I'm sure some kids did put theirs in airplane mode, although back then it was just easier to turn them off/on-- most Motorola and Nokia phones then turned on pretty fast compared to smart phones. I didn't have a cell phone in high school, but I think my friends that did either turned theirs off or put it on silent mode if they were expecting to receive an SMS or something. Really most teachers didn't care unless you were openly using them in class or it was making noise.
At the cruising altitude of most airlines there is no cell tower so this could be reasonable during takeoff but I’m not entirely shure it’s also for after takeoff
@@JdjdjdjdhfjbgdgjdPerhaps radio interference is the reason then? Not 100% positive on this, but the phone probably still puts out radio waves even without a tower.
@@rockettaco the Chanel’s used for cellular data is preset and so yes it would interfere if the pilot or a component in the plane uses the range used for cellular but this would be unlikely as the ranges for radio voice communication is also preset and doesn’t overlap with the cellular signal by a long shot also most 2G networks have been shutdown
@@Jdjdjdjdhfjbgdgjd Yeah, you're right. The airband is VHF and most cell frequencies are UHF if I remember correctly. Still, I guess the airlines want to be absolutely sure.
Dude god it's so weird to think about what's in each signal. First it's looking for a tower and so it's basically just pinging until it gets a pong. Then it starts out with carrier information from the SIM, information about the phone, then it goes into your internet protocol info (i.e your IP and MAC address), and then finally does a request to the website and then starts downloading or uploading any data related to that web activity. And yet, because each evolution had to cram more bandwidth into a narrower frequency band, they all sound so completely different because they follow such different protocols, even though they often share many elements (GSM is GSM is GSM)
LTE sounds will always remind me of being at the cabin. There's a radio there that I would put on to sleep. And usually, I'd have LTE on and it would interfere. It would get REALLY loud close up.
You don't really need a "powerful" guitar amp. It works just fine with my little Valeton Rushead Max. I think only the pickups play a role here, as they are essentially electromagnets.
Never thought I would be able to listen to wifi and that. Pretty cool stuff. Reminds me of picking up DMR, P25, NXDN, (digital radio communications) in my community
I once had a 3g dongle near a soundboard I was passing my Computer's audio through to my headphones and I was wondering why I kept hearing strange noises through my headphones. Then I noticed how close the 3g dongle was to it and realised it was interfearence from that
I'm planning to record the 5G sounds in the future, but do you know if there's any difference in the sound between low band and mid band 5G? Cause I have 3500MHz in my area now but I'd also be interested in recording 600MHz, 2100MHz and so on and so forth.
@@raiacad0564 I can tell you for sure there is a difference, but i don't know what mid band sounds like. Mid band is a completely different frequency range, so it would have to be different. Low band sounds a lot like 4G LTE. I wish i got mid band, but I don't (or my phone lacks that antenna, thanks samsung). This is what my speakers pick up for 5G (if links aren't disabled): th-cam.com/users/shortsORO5LSxhL5E?feature=share Its incredible how easy it is to hear mobile data. Just grab some old computer speakers and put your phone next to them. This trick also works with some other radio devices, such as handheld radios.
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It is very similar because both 4G and 5G are QPSK to 256QAM although 5G additionally brought back BPSK.
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@@raiacad0564there likely is, 600 MHz is FDD while 3500 MHz is TDD meaning it will sound different when uploading. Though it would be similar on TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE.
If your carrier uses NR-NSA for 5g then it will sound very similar to 4g as it piggybacks off of the existing LTE infrastructure to get 5g deployed quicker
Recently fired up an old 3G cellular modem in my work laptop, but failed to notice that I had a pair of PC desktop speakers nearby. As they picked up the radio noise, I found them hidden behind my monitor. In most part of Europe, 3G is no longer available, but UMTS is left behind. They make the same sound pattern as 2G.
The 2G sounds take me back. You could tell if someone was on a Vodafone cell phone just from the galloping sounds it made in amplified speakers etc. Telecom (called Spark here now) phones didn’t seem to interfere much though
3:05 ahh that brings me back to my early teens when i got an AIM message on my sidekick 2 in front of my VAIO computer speakers playing a Linkin park mp3 rip with a misspelled title
When using my old iPhone 8 and some cheap crappy earbuds I could sometimes hear LTE interference, and it sounded like a bunch of angry pixels moving away
That might be your phone, because I just changed mine to 2G and it worked. Will say though, sometimes you may need to wait for a bit longer because it's taken a bit of time to connect for me before.
@@NIMKAOriginal Didn't see this comment but yes, I figured that out later though and told this person somewhere else. For the record though, I am on a Rogers subsidiary and Rogers is the final carrier to have a 2G network in Canada. Rogers also shut down 1900MHz for 2G and 3G in 2021, so only 850MHz is still available.
I don’t understand why switch off 2G? Should be kept as an ultimate backup incase of an emergency. Old and reliable, 2g signals at lower frequencies travel further and penetrate buildings more. If a storm takes out your local 5G tower you’d wish you had 2G to make an emergency call pinged from a tower that could be much further away than a 4g/5g tower
I had a headphone amplifier and was about 300m away on a hill from a millitary radar situated also on another hill. It had a short burst every 6 or was it 10 seconds, it is because they send in pulses just like our semi-duplex phones sends data. I could hide behind a rock and not get hit. And during decend it wasnt many degrees lower than its horizon I could hear it.
I remember Nextel phones making a very strange and unmistakable sound when something near it would be affected by those phone's radios. I could definitely identify that sound out of a "lineup" like these LOL
I have an old set of creative speakers that make noise when I put my phone near them. The 4g LTE sounds are what I hear but mine sounded different because I played a TH-cam video when I did the test.
@@NIMKAOriginal When it comes to packet-switched data, it's GPRS. E is EDGE, improved GPRS. And before, circuit switchied data (CSD) was commonly used, we can call it a dial-up for cellular networks.
Part 2 (Contains missing 2G and 3G calling and texting sounds, Wi-Fi sounds, Bluetooth sounds): th-cam.com/video/dGtrVBMaRCI/w-d-xo.html
Part 3 (Contains 5G sounds, VoLTE, tower side): th-cam.com/video/bD1cgeKNL7I/w-d-xo.html
Edit: Making a little FAQ here for questions I get asked a lot:
"How did you record 2G?/3G?": I am in Canada and Rogers still has a 2G GSM/EDGE network and 3G UMTS/HSPA+ network. 850MHz only, 1900MHz shut down in 2021.
"It's GSM!/UMTS!": In Canada, we have long used the GSM EDGE standard and WCDMA standard which has been upgraded overtime to support UMTS, HSPA, and HSPA+ meaning yes, my 2G is GSM/EDGE my 3G is UMTS/HSPA+. I am on the Rogers carrier. Look up Rogers Wireless if you want exact network details.
"What about 4G?": 4G is the same as LTE. To explain the history behind it, when 4G originally came out, the first few releases did not meet the standard criteria of being a "4G" network, so LTE short for "Long Term Evolution" was made to fill in the gap between 3G and the original goal of 4G. Since then the criteria has been changed to a point where 4G could be considered any network with significant performance and technical improvements over third generation networks (3G). Nowadays the terms LTE and 4G are often interchangeable and "4G" is also typically used when phones are set to a language other than English.
"Can I use this in my ___?": Yes, although I did record these sounds and could say others aren't allowed to use them, I think saying I own the sounds of radio interference would be a little silly, no?
"How do you record these sounds?":
You will need some kind of audio equipment that is susceptible to the phone's RF interference. That can include old headphones, speakers or a single speaker, sound systems, microphones, amplifiers, TVs or radios could work depending on the age, guitar amps work too. If you are capable of building your own electronics, there are also ways to make devices that are sensitive to and can capture RF interference. Depending on the device and your knowledge, you may be able to take apart an existing speaker or audio device and remove the shielding yourself.
To record the audio, you can either use some kind of audio output into another recording device if the device you are using has an audio out. If it is or is connected to a speaker, you can also just use a separate device and microphone to record it.
Most modern audio equipment has shielding to protect it from radio interference though as the interference caused to the audio by cell frequencies is of course well known by now and filtered out as to make it so it doesn't bleed into your music! This means that your audio device of choice either has to be older as shielding wasn't needed as much before cellphones became widespread, or it just has to be cheaply designed as to not include the shielding.
In the case of headphones and speakers, I'd recommend to use kinds that have a separate power source as the device will need to be powered in order to capture the frequency. Devices that use a 3.5mm jack for power may not work.
I hope this info helps. Good luck!
But what about 5G?
@@MK8MasterJunjie You could hear the 5G low band and mid band, but I'm not sure about the high band or mmWave.
wow thanks for explaining, i always wondered if i had 4g or just "lte" lol
It also depends on the phone/firmware.
As example, a stock Xiaomi phone shows 4G, while the same phone flashed with, say, LineageOS or a Google Pixel will show LTE.
@@ghostnoise1711iOS will also show LTE as well but only if you're in the US or eastern Europe
LTE: Efficient, does the noise he thinks he needs to
3G: Seems like a shy version of LTE, way quieter
2G: AÆÅƏÆÆĀĀĖĖÆ
LTE and 3G are like the behaved kids, but 2G is like the screaming baby in a store.
2G is probably louder because each subsequent generation uses lower transmit power because they keep making the cell size smaller. It used to be more economical to set up fewer towers that served larger areas, which needed higher transmit power on both ends to be heard by the other end. But now they're putting more towers and making the cell size smaller and smaller because there's too many devices to share the bandwidth in a larger area -- which also means it can send a lower power signal and be heard.
Also, I think 2G used larger time slots, putting more of the loud on/off switching noise in the audible frequency range.
AT&T 5G sounds the same as AT&T 4G using speakers to get the interference
real
the cool thing is that GTA IV features this, when you're in a car and you are abou to receive a call the car speaker receives interference
gta 4 and 5 both have
I remember that! Very nice detail
And/or its a neat way to cut out the radio so it doesnt just hardcut to the phonecall
what really?
I actually thought that was a leftover audio glitch, that's cool how it was intended!
I’m very familiar with the 2G sound as 2G would often interfere with AM radios so often you would hear that sound in your radio if your phone was near it! :)
Still happens with LTE, at least at lower modulation schemes.
Do electric meters use 2g to connect? Because I can hear them when I park near the meter at home and have the am radio on
@@WTC7 usually 2G, 3G, 4G and NB-IoT.
@@WTC7
It’s very possible that the older smart meters that were installed between 1998 and 2006 used 2G to connect to the network to transmit their readings to your electricity company in real-time. Of course it probably also used a specialised reserved signal band and maybe end to end encryption for security.
not just AM, A LOT of things that have a speaker and some type of amplifier circuit
Oh man that 2G sound brings back memories. You'd hear it 1-2 seconds before you got a text message or a phone call.
I used to use my desktop speakers as my surrogate ringtone
So I wasn't crazy
*brb* *brb* *brb*
Mexican carriers still use 2G to carry out phone calls, i recall hearing those 2G interferences in some old speakers quite recently (like only a few years ago)
The reason you hear it before the phone rings is that the phone is trying to adjust its power amplifier (which is what makes the radio signal loud enough for the tower to receive). It will start from a very low power level and raise it to a higher power level until the tower responds to your phone. It does this so the phone doesn't consume battery power unnecessarily. Once the link is established, then your phone rings.
This is like a wireless "dialup" and I love it.
In a way, we never truly went away from dial-up, and dial-up is basically magnetic tape drives with extra steps, I like how devices communicate through sounds, and even during these ages you can still listen to computers communicating if you have terrible speakers
I love how with GSM (2g) you can hear what's basically a metronome in the background too for timing
This is almost exactly what's going on.
@@stagergamer4172 gosh radio is so fascinating
Kinda wish i dint rely on online SDR'S
[Too bad i dont know how to make my own sdr neither do i have the money for it]
Yea its basically dial up but faster
I love how lte gets progressively angrier when the speed test started.
It's crazy how we can just take radio waves and turn it into data, pictures, audio, and videos for us to use. I could never figure this out on my own
It's been going on since the 90s or sooner too, there used to have been this device you'd hook up to your computer where you'd stick your home phone onto.
The speaker end and mic end would be placed on it, of course after calling your friend to do the same and tell him which settings to put theirs on, and you'd sync with each other through the phone just by sound and the mic of the phone. Computer to computer connection just by sound.
Very primitive by today's standards, but extremely innovative for its time.
@@Im-BAD-at-satireare we at a point where we have to explain what dialup was to each other
@@tristanmiller6598 yes
We really take for granted how amazing the technology we use everyday is!
But granted, the technology we see today is the result of many people’s research, innovations and discoveries over many generations of human history. No single person can truly be credited to anything we see today.
@@tristanmiller6598 I didn't grew up in the dialup age so I'm not going by experience when I wrote that, I'm just figuring most within my age range wouldn't know how it works and just relaying it based on how I understood it.
3:05 DAYYUM
This is the sound effect I've been looking for for AGES!!!!!!
try the modem dialup sound too
1:25 The reason upload sounds like static is because these systems are usually duplex, using different carrier frequencies for the upload and download channel, meaning the upload channel might be more out of tune for whatever circuit is picking up the radio
Analog radio is a fun topic and an even more fun rabbit hole for those that care.
This is a piece of the puzzle for sure but probably not the biggest one. The static sound is because of the bitrate exceeding the frequency response of the human ear, and in this case over video, the microphone and then again youtube's compression, THEN the human ear. Walking back to 56kbps dial-up, you'll get a similar sound although you'll hear both transmit and receive at similar volumes.
56kbps, or in a good analogy, 56kHz in theory, is way beyond the typical 18-21kHz range of human hearing, 20-30kHz range of audio recording equipment, 16-18kHz range of youtube's audio compression, and 11-19kHz range of audio listening equipment.
Even before scrambling (a fun google rabbit hole in its own right) we'll only be hearing the brief pops and crackles of when the signal (accidentally, because it's not a good thing) stays high or low for quite a few bits in a row (or at least averages out differently to the rest within our hearing range).
This is only the transmit side, too. The speakers probably don't pick up the receive side beyond the (ack)nowledgement "hey i got that data" transmits back. Received data sounds the same if you ever go back and listen to high speed dial-up captures.
There IS a relation to whether it responds to certain carrier frequencies better or worse, but the bigger difference here is hearing the radio inches away from the speaker versus probably not hearing the radio miles away that we're talking to, at all. The static sound itself, has more to do with scrambling, and just how absurdly high the data rate actually is.
Rant end, hope someone learns something.
Also so that U/D-load doesnt interfere with eachother right?
@@nosferratuthe bandwidth of even the smallest lte bands is 1mhz human hearing had a bandwidth of 20khz. it’s impossible to compress all of the data into one recording for audible playbaxk
LTE just gets angrier the more work you put on it, 3G is just like an retro game of some sort, 2G is for the reason why the old speakers would just do an rythm when you recived a phone call and also the higher and lower pitches mean downloading and uploading
It's the Atari 2600 back to kill us all over again.
Also, as shown in 0:57 LTE goes crazy with Speedtest
That 2G sound threw me back to high school in 2005 lol
One class We had, the teacher left the TV on all day every day, just usually on a black screen.
If it ever made this sound, the whole class would be like "oooooh someone's got a cell phone on!" and the teacher would just give this stern look while someone sheepishly pulled the phone up over the desk and turned it off (or acted like they were entitled to having it on).
Such moments
Lol imagine she used it as a phone detector😂❤
@Annielogue_YT she did buddy
I remember when I was in first school, about six years old so 11 years ago and I heard the 2g sound on the teachers computer speakers, the school was in the country side so the phone obviously had to have quite a strong power output to overcome the impedance of the air. Heard it several times into the future but it died out with 3G coming in.
Here in Mexico we still have all the way down to 1G and sometimes I can hear the 2G interference at random if I left some cheap PC speakers powered on
@@BluelightAmeliayou almost certainly do not have 1g service as that’s basically just fm radio and anyone could listen to those phone calls, as well as only ~50 people could access a tower
@@snowwsquireYou just murdered this dude
@@snowwsquire1g was around for longer than people like to admit to, many networks eventually only died in 2010s
Yup, when 2G stepped in the ring, even thought I knew it's the video, but I still had that mini heart attack when I get a call, lol.
2G is very loud compared to the others. I only ever could hear the 4G noise with an old headphone amp connected directly to the phone. But 2G went into almost everything. In a very small town I noticed the provider deployed 3G when the noise was gone.
When i am with the phone if i put my ear to my speaker with no sound i can hear some noise sound, is that 4g?
Cell radio's been getting more efficient over the years. 2G is very high power (and coincidentally both immensely more harmful than the "5G microwave your brain" meme and now banned if memory serves right for that reason (and its interference with other lower power things). 3G less so, and 4G even less so. The range isn't as good as it used to be, but it's better range for the power used regardless.
Used to run lights/sound for a small theater and the interference from the audience's cell phones was pretty irritating. I assumed they changed the frequency or something cuz it didn't happen as much after a while. Cool video, thank you.
Which were you hearing, 2G, 3G, or LTE more?
The 2G sound brings back childhood memories of dance class when our instructor was setting up the music 😌
Back when I was in high school (early 2000s), hearing the RF interference (2G/2.5G) from speakers was a dead giveaway when somebody had a cell phone turned on (we weren't allowed to use cell phones, but could carry them if turned off). Especially GSM phones (Cingular/AT&T, T-Mobile) which seemed to be super noisy compared to CDMA.
What about airplane mode?
It's because GSM (and the old IS-136 D-AMPS system) used TDMA, so the transmitter was turned on in pulses. GSM had 8 time slots per channel and IS-136 had 6, so to get the same energy per bit the TX power level had to be 6 or 8 times higher than a CDMA based system like IS-95 - the average power was the same, but since the peaks are larger you get much more breakthrough with TDMA.
@@Coolshows101 I'm sure some kids did put theirs in airplane mode, although back then it was just easier to turn them off/on-- most Motorola and Nokia phones then turned on pretty fast compared to smart phones. I didn't have a cell phone in high school, but I think my friends that did either turned theirs off or put it on silent mode if they were expecting to receive an SMS or something. Really most teachers didn't care unless you were openly using them in class or it was making noise.
I’ve heard 2G is the main reason for airplane mode because it does cause a quiet audible sound with headphones.
At the cruising altitude of most airlines there is no cell tower so this could be reasonable during takeoff but I’m not entirely shure it’s also for after takeoff
@@Jdjdjdjdhfjbgdgjdit's because takeoff and landing are the two most crucial times in air traveling they don't want to leave anything to chance
@@JdjdjdjdhfjbgdgjdPerhaps radio interference is the reason then? Not 100% positive on this, but the phone probably still puts out radio waves even without a tower.
@@rockettaco the Chanel’s used for cellular data is preset and so yes it would interfere if the pilot or a component in the plane uses the range used for cellular but this would be unlikely as the ranges for radio voice communication is also preset and doesn’t overlap with the cellular signal by a long shot also most 2G networks have been shutdown
@@Jdjdjdjdhfjbgdgjd Yeah, you're right. The airband is VHF and most cell frequencies are UHF if I remember correctly. Still, I guess the airlines want to be absolutely sure.
2g sounds like a swarm of pissed off hornets
Dude god it's so weird to think about what's in each signal. First it's looking for a tower and so it's basically just pinging until it gets a pong. Then it starts out with carrier information from the SIM, information about the phone, then it goes into your internet protocol info (i.e your IP and MAC address), and then finally does a request to the website and then starts downloading or uploading any data related to that web activity. And yet, because each evolution had to cram more bandwidth into a narrower frequency band, they all sound so completely different because they follow such different protocols, even though they often share many elements (GSM is GSM is GSM)
Wait, so old dial-up modem sound effects never went way? They just hid them?? 😂😂😂
Ahh the 2G sound. That auditory snitch that told the teacher that someone was on their phone
I love the sound of mobile phone interference, 2G is just so nostalgic...
Man, I remember when I was sitting in my dad's truck, then hear the 2G interference from his speakers, then he would answer the call like: "Hello?"😂
LTE: the more work the more screaming 3G: “ calm “🏕️ 2G: PANIC 🗿
0:15 LTE sound
1:30 3G sound
3:01 2G sound (Turn down your volume, its loud)
I love how they go crazy when it says Speedtest
As a kid when I heard the 2G interferrence I thought it was aliens trying to connect with my pc
ah, old radio sets.... you always knew you get a call before even the phone rang :'D
0:57 when you turn on a old mega watchman with no fm radio:
LTE sounds will always remind me of being at the cabin. There's a radio there that I would put on to sleep. And usually, I'd have LTE on and it would interfere. It would get REALLY loud close up.
3G is infinite horror game potential
The way that end of packet sounds on LTE
damn, so my speakers aren't broken, it was just LTE interference for these past few years lmao
It’s funny to hear the speed difference , but I surely miss the 2G interference sound. It’s like nostalgic to a lot of us I guess.
You can also do this with a powerful guitar amp and putting you phone next to the guitar pickups
You don't really need a "powerful" guitar amp. It works just fine with my little Valeton Rushead Max. I think only the pickups play a role here, as they are essentially electromagnets.
Never thought I would be able to listen to wifi and that. Pretty cool stuff. Reminds me of picking up DMR, P25, NXDN, (digital radio communications) in my community
This sounds like the old desktop speakers my grandma used to have
I love the old sound of an incoming SMS or call back in the good old days. Nothing like destortion
2G sound brings back memories
2g is the sound my baby monitor would make on road trips even when it wasn’t turned on
The best asmr I’ve heard so far.
I hear the LTE all the time because of my old radios I have. Nice to hear 3G and 2G, though!
I once had a 3g dongle near a soundboard I was passing my Computer's audio through to my headphones and I was wondering why I kept hearing strange noises through my headphones. Then I noticed how close the 3g dongle was to it and realised it was interfearence from that
youtube recommended me this video 2 years later, WAIT WHAT THERE IS A PART 3
this playlist is a bop
2g sounds like a character having a stroke in undertale
i've actually done this
dropped my phone by a set of speakers and heard sounds. 5G sounds a lot like 4G.
I'm planning to record the 5G sounds in the future, but do you know if there's any difference in the sound between low band and mid band 5G? Cause I have 3500MHz in my area now but I'd also be interested in recording 600MHz, 2100MHz and so on and so forth.
@@raiacad0564 I can tell you for sure there is a difference, but i don't know what mid band sounds like. Mid band is a completely different frequency range, so it would have to be different. Low band sounds a lot like 4G LTE. I wish i got mid band, but I don't (or my phone lacks that antenna, thanks samsung).
This is what my speakers pick up for 5G (if links aren't disabled):
th-cam.com/users/shortsORO5LSxhL5E?feature=share
Its incredible how easy it is to hear mobile data. Just grab some old computer speakers and put your phone next to them. This trick also works with some other radio devices, such as handheld radios.
It is very similar because both 4G and 5G are QPSK to 256QAM although 5G additionally brought back BPSK.
@@raiacad0564there likely is, 600 MHz is FDD while 3500 MHz is TDD meaning it will sound different when uploading. Though it would be similar on TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE.
If your carrier uses NR-NSA for 5g then it will sound very similar to 4g as it piggybacks off of the existing LTE infrastructure to get 5g deployed quicker
I remember hearing 2G sounds in my childhood. I didn't know they were 2G back then, but damn, those memories!
As a kid i never realised. So this was why my computer speakers made that sound whenever a call came or something else.
Recently fired up an old 3G cellular modem in my work laptop, but failed to notice that I had a pair of PC desktop speakers nearby. As they picked up the radio noise, I found them hidden behind my monitor. In most part of Europe, 3G is no longer available, but UMTS is left behind. They make the same sound pattern as 2G.
Lte doing speedtest downloading be like: "intense microwave sounds"
As a kid, I wondered what the heck these sounds were our computer made. I now know what.
2G sounds like a blast beat.
Weird...I've heard these sounds randomly before through audio equipment. Now I know what it's from.
Please make a 10 hour version of this banger
The sound of 2G takes me back to the mid-2000s, pre-iPhone.
I've never been so fascinated by random signal sounds...
until recently there was 2g in my area and i had wired earphones. whenever i was going online while wearing them, i was hearing that 2g sound
I could honestly fall asleep to this
i like this. if i ever get into making music im gonna use these sounds in songs
The 2G sounds take me back. You could tell if someone was on a Vodafone cell phone just from the galloping sounds it made in amplified speakers etc. Telecom (called Spark here now) phones didn’t seem to interfere much though
everyone just loves the periodic 2g pings and then there's the pre call tut tut tut tut tut tut tutuuuuuut riiiing
fun what tdma does
It Sounds Like The Radiation Ringtone
shoulda had this run through an oscilloscope to SEE what it sounds like too
3G sounds a bit like retro noise..
3:05 ahh that brings me back to my early teens when i got an AIM message on my sidekick 2 in front of my VAIO computer speakers playing a Linkin park mp3 rip with a misspelled title
When using my old iPhone 8 and some cheap crappy earbuds I could sometimes hear LTE interference, and it sounded like a bunch of angry pixels moving away
i usually hear 2g when i get a phone call since my headphones broke so i gotta use old speakrs
This is really interesting! How did you get 2G to work? My phone would never connect properly if I changed the settings.
That might be your phone, because I just changed mine to 2G and it worked. Will say though, sometimes you may need to wait for a bit longer because it's taken a bit of time to connect for me before.
Pretty sure that your carrier doesn't support 2G and lower anymore
@@NIMKAOriginal Didn't see this comment but yes, I figured that out later though and told this person somewhere else. For the record though, I am on a Rogers subsidiary and Rogers is the final carrier to have a 2G network in Canada. Rogers also shut down 1900MHz for 2G and 3G in 2021, so only 850MHz is still available.
@@raiacad0564O2 is very old and Giffgaff runs on o2 so my carrier still supports 2g
I don’t understand why switch off 2G? Should be kept as an ultimate backup incase of an emergency. Old and reliable, 2g signals at lower frequencies travel further and penetrate buildings more. If a storm takes out your local 5G tower you’d wish you had 2G to make an emergency call pinged from a tower that could be much further away than a 4g/5g tower
@ 01:18 - “Love how this is just static”
But it isn’t. Were it static, no data would be transferred.
2G sounds like that one simulacra 2 game where the girl becomes possessed
As a 200's kid, I can confirm that I like the dial up sounds more than these.
A fly in your room when you're trying to sleep be like...
I used to hear the 2G go off, While I was calling someone.
Thought it was just some noise in their end.
3:05 I'd hear this all the time on my old CRT television.
i heard those LTE sounds when i put my phone in my top loading cassette tape player, pretty cool!! :D
damn I accidentally started this video on a background tab and was convinced my headphones just suddenly broke for 5 minutes
I had a headphone amplifier and was about 300m away on a hill from a millitary radar situated also on another hill. It had a short burst every 6 or was it 10 seconds, it is because they send in pulses just like our semi-duplex phones sends data.
I could hide behind a rock and not get hit. And during decend it wasnt many degrees lower than its horizon I could hear it.
you knew you were going to get a call when the 2G started sounding in your pc speakers lol
I remember Nextel phones making a very strange and unmistakable sound when something near it would be affected by those phone's radios. I could definitely identify that sound out of a "lineup" like these LOL
the speedtest download is some nightmare fuel level shit
3G is what my headphones sound like when they are plugged into a headphone jack.
1:42 „3G loading sounds to relax/study to“
Reminds me of those printing paper from those old small printer on every cashier.
I remember when old speakers made the 2G sound, my dad has a digital alarm clock and at night I can hear the same interference sometimes lmao
1:00 LTE just sounds like A-50 from Rooms here.
dont you mean a-60?
@@TRIFECTA-FACTORY A-50 is the original
nope, its not, a-60 is the correct one, it spawns after a-50 because nicorocks labeled the numbers weird
woah I never thought about this before!? this is so cool
The sound in our cities if you could hear all this would be insane.... Makes me wonder if all the noise has an effect on certain animals or plants.
I love how the sound sounds more spatial and fuller (fequency modulation to QAM instead of PSK) compare 2G to more advance trasmit standard
1:09 Imagine hearing that at 3am
I have an old set of creative speakers that make noise when I put my phone near them. The 4g LTE sounds are what I hear but mine sounded different because I played a TH-cam video when I did the test.
THAT explains the faint computer sounds!
3:13 It's The Registration To The Network
THE FUCK THAT'S WHAT MY OLD HEADPHONES WERE PICKING UP?!!
I swear we all heard 2G connecting from that one crappy Bluetooth speaker we all had.
why did the LTE static sound like asmr lol
...so that's why my casio keyboard kept making staticky noises everytime i put my phone ontop of it...huh.
explains the noises I sometimes hear in the earpiece of my phone, ig it just kicks back to 2G/EDGE sometimes in a call
3G: I'm UMTS Idiot!!!!🗿🗿🗿🗿🚨🚨🚨
2G: YOU SHITTY I'M GSM WHYY----!!!!💀💀💀💀💀🚨🚨🚨🚨
If GSM is E so what is G?
@@NIMKAOriginal
G = GSM
E = EDGE
@@dustuxE in 2g is EDGE
@@NIMKAOriginal When it comes to packet-switched data, it's GPRS. E is EDGE, improved GPRS. And before, circuit switchied data (CSD) was commonly used, we can call it a dial-up for cellular networks.