I just got my gsm hero, its on T-Mobile. It doesn't receive 3g. I've tried every Rom imaginable, updated the radio, I still just don't receive 3g. Help?
Edit: forgot to mention, edge and WiFi and everything else work flawlessly.
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Have you enabled the only use 2g network box?
If not, i think it is because that your coverage simply isn't good enough.
I do not have that box checked, and I know for a fact my service is good enough, my Touch Pro 2 and G1 both get like 4 bars of 3G everywhere in my house.. lol.
Could it have something to do with my APN(s)?
Do you by any chance get a "H" signal most of the time?
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I just got my gsm hero, its on T-Mobile. It doesn't receive 3g. I've tried every Rom imaginable, updated the radio, I still just don't receive 3g. Help?
Edit: forgot to mention, edge and WiFi and everything else work flawlessly.
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dude!! I had the exact same problem with o2! (a generic handset, not branded). I left o2 for tmobile and i get 3g on it.
by the way, i heard of many people having problems with the t-mobile branded hero with 3g.(dunno if yours is tmobile branded or just on tmobile). Its a hardware issue apparently, so no fixes i dont think if it is that
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Do you by any chance get a "H" signal most of the time?
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What do you mean by that? I get EDGE 100% of the time, if thats what you're asking.
and as for a t-mobile branded Hero, there isnt one of those here in the states. this guy's an import.
On the top bar what symbol do you see?
E = Edge
G = 2G
3G = 3G
H = HSPRS (or something) - this is the fastest signal level, its like 3.5G essentially
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Could it have something to do with my APN(s)?
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That's a good question. Sorry I don't have the answer.
Does anyone else know?
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I was wondering if there was something I could download, or something from the market that i could download that would make my phone say H instead of 3G? My vibrant is not rooted.
I'm wondering why... but there won't be an app to do that. The G E and 3G icons are held in drawables. So unless you make your own update.zip with replaces drawables, I don't that's going to happen.
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I was wondering if there was something I could download, or something from the market that i could download that would make my phone say H instead of 3G? My vibrant is not rooted.
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Why do you want it to display that? The H is generally displayed when you're using HSPA/HSPA+. If you're connected t 3G it will say 3G. If you're connected to Edge, you'll get an E and if you're on the barebones cell network all you get is the number of bars you have.
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Why do you want it to display that? The H is generally displayed when you're using HSPA/HSPA+. If you're connected t 3G it will say 3G. If you're connected to Edge, you'll get an E and if you're on the barebones cell network all you get is the number of bars you have.
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I think he wants his phone to be like nexus one is, or other android phones are running custom roms, specifically cyanogen mod. With cm, it will jump from 3g to h icon quite often when data is used, does it to me in my area. I get hspa speeds here, but 3g is the only icon displayed. I like it this way more, the constant jump from 3g to hspa in notifications pane is annoying. Maybe he just wants people to see that his phone is on hspa and not 3g, because the icon doesn't change to that on stock rom.
I remember the first time my g1 said h... Had to call a buddy with a g1 and had to find an i*hone to make jealous...
Its worth bragging about...
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I think he wants his phone to be like nexus one is, or other android phones are running custom roms, specifically cyanogen mod. With cm, it will jump from 3g to h icon quite often when data is used, does it to me in my area. I get hspa speeds here, but 3g is the only icon displayed. I like it this way more, the constant jump from 3g to hspa in notifications pane is annoying. Maybe he just wants people to see that his phone is on hspa and not 3g, because the icon doesn't change to that on stock rom.
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Not true. I have a stock rom on my Vibrant and it does toggle between 3g and hybrid. It just depends on whether or not you have the new radios broadcasting in your area. Some markets have a lot of hybrid running, while many others have little to none. One of my best friends is an RF tech for T-Mo.
Haha "H" doesn't stand for "Hybrid"
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Not true. I have a stock rom on my Vibrant and it does toggle between 3g and hybrid. It just depends on whether or not you have the new radios broadcasting in your area. Some markets have a lot of hybrid running, while many others have little to none. One of my best friends is an RF tech for T-Mo.
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Haha "H" doesn't stand for "Hybrid"
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No ****, Einstein! It stands for HSDPA, but ask any switch tech and he will tell you its hybrid. Right now in many markets, it is a true hybrid mix of HSDPA and 3g and not explicitly one or the other. Do some research before you criticize someone, retard!
Lol I'm cool too, see I'm posting from my vibrant!
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I downloaded the user manual to the vibrant (not the one that comes in the box) and it definitely says that there is a 'H' icon. I wonder why they don't have it displayed when actually connected to a HSDPA+ connection?
This is the text next to the 'H' Icons:
Displays when the 3G+ network connection is active.
Displays when your phone is communicating with the
3G+ network.
What does it mean when there's just a G?
3G means 3G
E means EDGE
H means Hybrid/HSPA or whatever. I was out of town last weekend, and noticed that it was just a G.
GPRS, slooooow slooooow data speeds
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hurrpancakes said:
What does it mean when there's just a G?
3G means 3G
E means EDGE
H means Hybrid/HSPA or whatever. I was out of town last weekend, and noticed that it was just a G.
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Grps I think it is called. Basically is faster than edge, but is still slow as ****, nit even close to 3g lol.
Gprs is a step below edge.
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I read that our vibrant is not + capable, or just not supported by tmob currently.
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I will look for some white icons and make a black bar with the H symbol
They are already in the phone...
Oh I figured they just left them out... I didn't look tho.. And haven't been to any good areas since I changed my bar... So I wouldn't see anything more than 3g...
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Not true. I have a stock rom on my Vibrant and it does toggle between 3g and hybrid. It just depends on whether or not you have the new radios broadcasting in your area. Some markets have a lot of hybrid running, while many others have little to none. One of my best friends is an RF tech for T-Mo.
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Weird, because I get speeds which are way better than 3g, yet it never goes higher. My nexus with custom rom always displayed h in my area.
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Well I got the pre release msguru radio and an h spot not too far from my house... I shall try to see the h today..
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Anyone else notice the signal on the one seems a bit weak? Coming from my note 2 is a bar or two less. I assume this may be becuase of radios.
I did as well, some guy on here pointed out to me that it's kinda not accurate.
hit up your dialer and punch in *#*#4636#*#* and go to phone information. post signal strength numbers.
you can also get to this info through the settings menu in >about>network
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Anyone else notice the signal on the one seems a bit weak? Coming from my note 2 is a bar or two less. I assume this may be becuase of radios.
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I actually noticed quite the opposite... However it's only been a little over a day of owning this device. I'm also coming from a note 2.
Yup i mostly get 1-3 bars no higher than tha on LTE. on H i get 5.
This is my first phone on the At&t network and my bars are between 1&2 sometimes 3. I figured this was just normal since I have no other phone compared with. But regardless of what my signal says, I have no problems with dropped calls and my data is the fastest I've ever seen on any network so I'm not complaining.
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I compared it with an iPhone 4 and a Blackberry Bold, and the One is about 10-15 less dBm side-by-side. I wonder what the problem is.
I get full bars of 4g in my area.
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I get full bars of 4g in my area.
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any comparison with something else in numbers
I got nothing for that, sorry.
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I tried switching to GSM (EDGE) only, the signal is better. HSPA (UMTS?) and LTE seems to give weaker signal. However, even in GSM mode, it's still weaker than the other devices.
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I tried switching to GSM (EDGE) only, the signal is better. HSPA (UMTS?) and LTE seems to give weaker signal. However, even in GSM mode, it's still weaker than the other devices.
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I am curious as to how you switched from one to the other. I am still used to the HTC One X and being able to do that manually. With this new phone I can't find the right spot to do the switching. Where I live I get very poor signal on even the 4G network and would like to improve performance since there is no radios yet to flash like the HTC One X
Go to Settings/About/Network
the RSRP(dBm); is your signal strength ..the bars really are just guessing and change from rom to rom/kernel
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I am curious as to how you switched from one to the other. I am still used to the HTC One X and being able to do that manually. With this new phone I can't find the right spot to do the switching. Where I live I get very poor signal on even the 4G network and would like to improve performance since there is no radios yet to flash like the HTC One X
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In settings -> mobile data, you can change the Network mode.
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Go to Settings/About/Network
the RSRP(dBm); is your signal strength ..the bars really are just guessing and change from rom to rom/kernel
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This is how I get the numbers when comparing to other devices. You can do similar numbers in iPhone and Blackberry too.
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In settings -> mobile data, you can change the Network mode.
This is how I get the numbers when comparing to other devices. You can do similar numbers in iPhone and Blackberry too.
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Yes I know about reading the numbers and mostly of what they mean.
But this
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In settings -> mobile data, you can change the Network mode. I can't do, anything that is there is greyed out and I can't change what type of network I am on. The HTC One X I was able to , this one , no.
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In settings -> mobile data, you can change the Network mode. I can't do, anything that is there is greyed out and I can't change what type of network I am on. The HTC One X I was able to , this one , no.
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Mine is a Rogers one, not an AT&T one, probably that's why.
Hi everyone, I'm new to AT&T and HTC. I'm confused on how the networks should switch.
The area I'm in doesn't have LTE yet so lets leave this out of this
I'm having a signal issue at work. Where I sit I get 3 sometimes 2 bars (-97 to -101dBM) on the 4G network. But data doesnt work. When I use the browser it say error connecting to network and I when I run speed test it either doesnt find a tower or just sits on ping test.
When I look at mobile network type it keeps flipping between HSDPA and HSPAP. I've never see the phone change to the edge or G network unless my battery is almost dead.
Does this sound right or could I have a messed up radio? It does work great when the signal is in the -70s.
Please help. Wondering if my phone is messed up. It is still stock, locked bootloader, unrooted at the moment.
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Have you done simple troubleshooting like turn phone on airplane mode, or factory reset?
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Yes I did. Still getting same results. Thanks fir the suggestion.
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Well someone else with at&t came over to my area and there phone didn't work either. Just scrappy at&t signals.
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Nemeth27 said:
Hi everyone, I'm new to AT&T and HTC. I'm confused on how the networks should switch.
The area I'm in doesn't have LTE yet so lets leave this out of this
I'm having a signal issue at work. Where I sit I get 3 sometimes 2 bars (-97 to -101dBM) on the 4G network. But data doesnt work. When I use the browser it say error connecting to network and I when I run speed test it either doesnt find a tower or just sits on ping test.
When I look at mobile network type it keeps flipping between HSDPA and HSPAP. I've never see the phone change to the edge or G network unless my battery is almost dead.
Does this sound right or could I have a messed up radio? It does work great when the signal is in the -70s.
Please help. Wondering if my phone is messed up. It is still stock, locked bootloader, unrooted at the moment.
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I have the same problem and i can't turn off the 4g LTE and battery is going away
Someone help us
twies said:
I have the same problem and i can't turn off the 4g LTE and battery is going away
Someone help us
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To turn off LTE, open dialer, type in "*#*#4636#*#*", then click "phone info", you will see "GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto" in the middle of the setting page. Switch to "WCDMA preferred" to use only 3G without LTE. You can also choose "GSM" to use only edge network.
Is there not an App or Widget that can toggle LTE and Edge networks?
So my contract is up in two days and I am looking at switching to a Net10 AT&T prepaid SIM service... Any real concerns or issues? I am on latest firmware and radios and running Infection 2.9.1 ROM.
Anybody doing this, comments or wish you had done it differently?
Probably going to pull the trigger in this today unless any red flags go up.
BTW, number porting is not an issue. I'm just going to move my VZW number to Google Voice once everything is working properly.
EDIT: ordered SIM and $50 unlimited card, should be here tomorrow. Hope all goes well...
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acejavelin said:
So my contract is up in two days and I am looking at switching to a Net10 AT&T prepaid SIM service... Any real concerns or issues? I am on latest firmware and radios and running Infection 2.9.1 ROM.
Anybody doing this, comments or wish you had done it differently?
Probably going to pull the trigger in this today unless any red flags go up.
BTW, number porting is not an issue. I'm just going to move my VZW number to Google Voice once everything is working properly.
EDIT: ordered SIM and $50 unlimited card, should be here tomorrow. Hope all goes well...
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To get 4g/3g I think your going to have to follow this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914122 Just in case you didn't know about it.
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To get 4g/3g I think your going to have to follow this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914122 Just in case you didn't know about it.
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I thought this wasn't necessary anymore with current radios and firmware?
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I think it is. I'm not 100% but I guess you'll see when you use your sim card.
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The Rezound out of the box supports the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, which are used internationally for 3G and HSPA+. In the US, AT&T uses the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands, and T-Mobile uses 1700 MHz and 1900 MHz. The Rezound is great as a global phone, but it's always been limited to EDGE data in the US. This has never changed with firmware and radio updates.
The methods in the thread referenced earlier will let you get the 850 MHz band working with a very non-optimized, weak signal. That means you'll sometimes have 3G or HSPA+ on AT&T. But unless someone figures out how to optimize the signal there, you're probably still going to be stuck with EDGE most of the time.
El Schisne said:
The Rezound out of the box supports the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, which are used internationally for 3G and HSPA+. In the US, AT&T uses the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands, and T-Mobile uses 1700 MHz and 1900 MHz. The Rezound is great as a global phone, but it's always been limited to EDGE data in the US. This has never changed with firmware and radio updates.
The methods in the thread referenced earlier will let you get the 850 MHz band working with a very non-optimized, weak signal. That means you'll sometimes have 3G or HSPA+ on AT&T. But unless someone figures out how to optimize the signal there, you're probably still going to be stuck with EDGE most of the time.
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I don't think anyone is going to find a way to optimize it for a stable connection for a while. The thread has been very quiet for a while now. Some users did get different results and I read through the thread and some people got better signal using a calibrated sensation nv file.
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Hmmm... Unfortunately it appears this isn't going to work as I hoped.
What's working: Voice and SMS out of the box... MMS, Data (2G Edge, speeds in the range of 15k to 50K) with some tweaking in the APN settings.
I tried the tweaks in the other thread and changing the NV settings, it would say it connected at HSPA+ and pull an IP address, but even with the AT&T tower less than a 1/2 mile in direct line of sight from my office window it would never open a web page or work with any app that required a network connection and signal strength was in the nether regions according to Network Signal Info.
Oh well... guess it was worth a shot.
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Hmmm... Unfortunately it appears this isn't going to work as I hoped.
What's working: Voice and SMS out of the box... MMS, Data (2G Edge, speeds in the range of 15k to 50K) with some tweaking in the APN settings.
I tried the tweaks in the other thread and changing the NV settings, it would say it connected at HSPA+ and pull an IP address, but even with the AT&T tower less than a 1/2 mile in direct line of sight from my office window it would never open a web page or work with any app that required a network connection and signal strength was in the nether regions according to Network Signal Info.
Oh well... guess it was worth a shot.
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Dang. You sure you didn't miss anything? Edge sucks reaaally bad. I know cause I have T-Mobile. Takes me 2 minutes to send a mms . Lol.
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Dang. You sure you didn't miss anything? Edge sucks reaaally bad. I know cause I have T-Mobile. Takes me 2 minutes to send a mms . Lol.
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Pretty sure I got everything right. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get everything to work on 2g , and I was able to pull an IP address when it said HSPA, I just couldn't stay connected or get any data through. Spent about 2 or 3 hours working on it this afternoon and finally gave up.
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That sucks man. Thanks for trying and posting your results though. I've been curious about doing this myself.
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I am now in search of an AT&T or other unlocked HSPA-capable Android smartphone, willing to trade my mint condition Rezound for it... Anyone can message me if interested in swapping a similar unit like SGS2 Skyrocket or HTC Vivid... Or perhaps I should just grab a 16GB Nexus 4 from Google?
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I am now in search of an AT&T or other unlocked HSPA-capable Android smartphone, willing to trade my mint condition Rezound for it... Anyone can message me if interested in swapping a similar unit like SGS2 Skyrocket or HTC Vivid... Or perhaps I should just grab a 16GB Nexus 4 from Google?
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I've been saving up for the nexus 4 but they might release a new nexus device . If you're eager to get a device , I would get the nexus 4 plus you can do some stuff to enable the lte radio. hecks yeah.
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I switched carriers to cut costs and I live in central Seattle, so with the Tmobile Headquarters next door, I knew coverage wouldn't be an issue. I hear that Seattle is a "refarmed" area and that even non-tmobile phones can get "decent" speeds (obviously not the LTE, but some sort of 3G/4G)
Can someone knowledgeable on the subject tell me what I need to get my phone off of E and onto H?
EDIT: I think I may have got the right APN settings by changing from fast.tmobile to epc.tmobile. the speed seems faster, but it still shows E (which may just be a limitation of the handset not being able to distinguish the 1900 MHtz 2G and 3G. Or out could just be a placebo effect.
but now I found a different issue. I can't call/data simultaneously. if it's not one thing it's another. x_x
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I switched carriers to cut costs and I live in central Seattle, so with the Tmobile Headquarters next door, I knew coverage wouldn't be an issue. I hear that Seattle is a "refarmed" area and that even non-tmobile phones can get "decent" speeds (obviously not the LTE, but some sort of 3G/4G)
Can someone knowledgeable on the subject tell me what I need to get my phone off of E and onto H?
EDIT: I think I may have got the right APN settings by changing from fast.tmobile to epc.tmobile. the speed seems faster, but it still shows E (which may just be a limitation of the handset not being able to distinguish the 1900 MHtz 2G and 3G. Or out could just be a placebo effect.
but now I found a different issue. I can't call/data simultaneously. if it's not one thing it's another. x_x
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Any responses on this one? I dont know if there is a radio.zip to be flashed on Verizon HTC ONE to work at better speeds than E(dge) which is only like 200KBPS download
Any DEVs, Senior Members who have toyed around?
Thanks in advance!!!!
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Any responses on this one? I dont know if there is a radio.zip to be flashed on Verizon HTC ONE to work at better speeds than E(dge) which is only like 200KBPS download
Any DEVs, Senior Members who have toyed around?
Thanks in advance!!!!
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Pretty much edge is all you can hope to get. the Verizon model does not transfer over to T Mobile really. T Mobile is GSM, Verizon is a CDMA world phone. Verizon simply does not support the bands that T Mobile uses for 3G with one exception, the only way you will get a 3G connection is if you live in an area where T Mobile has a refarmed its 1900 megahertz edge network.
Hello new to the HTC one here unlocked and rooted. I'm currently on the $30 plan with T-Mobile and applied the most current apn for LTE everything works except mms...if anyone know of a solution that'd be awesome I cannot get it to work.. This is the att One unlocked could that have any conflict?
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Got it working had to flash custom ROM. I'm assuming the stock at&t had something to do with MMS failure
If using T-Mobile...
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