One other thing I wanted to ask was, do these sensors affect when the transmission shifts gears?

I was driving today around 40mph, and the transmission would not shift up and the rev counter was around 4000 rpm, and then suddenly it shifted up 2 gears at once. Did this a couple of times actually. This was AFTER i swapped the sensors around so curious if they control the gear shifting in any way?

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2012 X5 30d