Okay new thread with this question. My Iphone 5S is just rebooting over and over again. Any advice? I will head over to Apple store as soon as I can. I am abroad. Do you think it will work if I buy a new phone and switch my US SIM to it? Also I WANT SIGNAL BACKUP OPTION. 


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GRRR. Buying my *third* iPhone in a year.


One I kept (instead of reselling like I wanted to) because I couldn't backup Signal. Now one I lost all my Signal messages on phone two. No more Signal for me until @whispersystems figures out a way to backup *under user control*.Show this thread -
I'll give up metadata to iMessage or to WhatsApp rather than deal with the inability to backup Signal. Literally, this is the biggest issue I've had trying to convert people to Signal. Now I'm converted out. I realize there are challenges but local back up should be an option!
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Unfortunately, Androids aren't secure. I used to have Google Android phones--where I repeatedly tried to turn off Google tracking options and repeatedly found that I was unable to stop Google. There were always more buried options that were ON by default.https://twitter.com/temporalthought/status/996041746344689666 …
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At the moment, both iMessage and WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted but log metadata. Signal does not. Unfortunately, lack of Signal backup option means I will chose to let metadata be logged. No more Signal for me. It will affect how I can communicate.
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I have a new phone! If you're one of the many I said I'd only talk to you on Signal: It's now only iMessage or WhatsApp. Not installing Signal on my new phone. 1-I'd lose old Signal messages in case phone recovered. 2-No more Signal for me till iOS backups are possible. I'm done.
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Can't say what it'll be like in the U.S., but I use one in Australia and we have terrible internet (generally speaking) and it works fine
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Also I find the SE is the best fit for a smaller hand
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Per https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/ … it looks like the only LTE bands missing on A1723 versus A1662 are 13 and 29, and per https://www.phonearena.com/news/Cheat-sheet-which-4G-LTE-bands-do-AT-T-Verizon-T-Mobile-and-Sprint-use-in-the-USA_id77933 … neither AT&T nor T-Mobile uses those bands.
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My own experience is that they’re generally interchangeable unless you are missing a critical LTE band, which wouldn’t seem to be the case here.
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I think the hardware is the same: a crappy F antenna along the top and standard Qualcomm modem and RF transceiver chips. The chips support all cellular modes and 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE frequency bands and band combinations. The bands in use/excluded on a phone are software defined
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Yeah, I think I will be fine with the phone... It is ordinarily under warranty, if it weren't for Signal backup issues, I'd get a new one for free! I'm now trying to deal with whether there is any hope for it or not. :-(
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