Well, my APN settings were wrong, so it was constantly searching for a network. I blame my carrier for that and got the settings right (trial and error, no help from my carrier). It still only shows 4G, but when I run a speed test I get around 20 Mpbs, so I'm sure it's LTE.
Thanks for this feedback!
I have a XL LTE Dual Sim (purchased from Amazon France) and I also had similar symptoms of the phone hunting for a connection and frequently dropping both data and phone connection.
I'm in Sweden and my phone plan is with the company Comviq (part of the Tele2 group) the APN setting on the Comviq website is given as 4g.tele2.se (however the phone picked up an auto setting of internet.tele2.se which gave me no data whatsoever) but using the 4g APN setting gave me the problems with hunting for a signal.
So after seeing your post I googled for alternative APN settings and found one surf.comviq.se that now gives me a stable connection.
But then I had more weirdness the phone would only give me a data connection if I manually input this APN setting whilst my sim card was in the Sim 2 slot. However if I then swap the sim card back to Sim 1 the phone automatically picked up the surf.comviq.se setting and gave me a stable data connection. All seems really bizarre...
I have also had the problem that someone else reported of the screen turning black and the phone being totally unresponsive, I was just about to pull the battery when it recovered to work perfectly again. It has only happened once (I have the phone about 10 days now) and hope it won't be a repeating occurrence, has anyone had this happen more than once?
Is there lumia 640 xl lte single sim in the market ?
Where are you located?
In Europe there are 4 XL models available as I understand it, 3G single sim, 3G dual sim, 4G single sim & 4G dual sim but all are not available in every country. Here in Sweden only the 3G single sim & 4G single sim are available locally although the local Microsoft store only lists the 4G single sim model.
Of course the way to get the model of your choice is to purchase from one of the regional Amazon stores. I think the cheapest for the 4G LTE single sim model is Amazon Italy and for the dual sim LTE is Amazon France.
Can anyone recommend the best browser to use with the 640 XL?
Internet explorer gives me a number of problems. Hitting the back arrow most often results in jumping back to the previous website browsed rather than the previous page and the screen is way over sensitive, scrolling down some forum pages results in inadvertent button presses on quote buttons resulting in the page jumping down to the reply box, it is really irritating. That's one big downside of WP that we don't have Chrome browser but I doubt if that is ever going to change.