Rogers LTE? - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Now I am not keeping as up to date as i should on all this new network technology, but I heard on the radio that Rogers is launching its LTE network in Toronto in a week or so.
Now will my carrier unlocked Atrix on the Rogers network be able to take advantage of this upgrade? Would I see an improvement in download speeds? Or will it be in a radio frequency completely unsupported by the Atrix?
Any info on this would be great. Thanks.

Unfortunately atrix lacks hardware to use lte
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freshbakd said:
Unfortunately atrix lacks hardware to use lte
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DAMN! Thank you.

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Can i use an ATT atrix on sprint

I can get a new in box Atrix for free, but i'm on sprint network.
it there any way at all i can unlock and use it ?
i do know some older windows HTC phones sprint had, used sim cards.
i would love to use this phone but what all will be involved if it can be done.
No different network types sprint is cdma att gsm
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well that really sucks and thanks for the help
U can the evo pretty cheap now if u have one already they give great trade value towards upgrading as well. HTC makes great phones too
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i just read specs on this atrix and it says multi networks
wcdma and gsm so is there a chance
No chance at all actually.
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tattoo jaco said:
i just read specs on this atrix and it says multi networks
wcdma and gsm so is there a chance
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WCDMA != CDMA. WCDMA is 3G GSM. CDMA is well CDMA.
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tattoo jaco said:
i just read specs on this atrix and it says multi networks
wcdma and gsm so is there a chance
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WCDMA is not the same as CDMA. Its basically the standard for GSM 3G, and while similar to CDMA, there are enough differences that they are incompatible. Even if it did work, you wouldn't be able to call or text anyone and as a GSM phone there's no ESN so the network wouldnt recognize it anyway.
Actually worth, thinking about it....if you can find the firmware for sprint for Motorola Atrix 4G w
Atrix --> *#*#4636#*#*, go into phone info and see Atrix support for WCDMA, GSM, CDMA and EvDo
anangphatak said:
Actually worth, thinking about it....if you can find the firmware for sprint for Motorola Atrix 4G w
Atrix --> *#*#4636#*#*, go into phone info and see Atrix support for WCDMA, GSM, CDMA and EvDo
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There is no firmware as the HARDWARE does not support CDMA. The only thing you could get working with a firmware update that does not work is T-Mobile 3G since the qualcomm mdm6200 modem chip in our phone supports petaband WCDMA. Now finding firmware to do this has proven impossible for me since there are other things included in the firmware that are different between phones and there is no T-Mobile Motorola equivalent to the atrix.
To sum up. Inorder for firmware support you need HARDWARE supper also.
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bottom line op, get the motorola photon.

Anyone using Atrix 4G unlocked on T-Mobile?

Is anyone here using their Atrix 4G unlocked on T-Mobile or anyone other carrier which is not AT&T?
I unlocked it with a tmob sim last night. Noticed I did not get bars with it though
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im using mines and works great
I have used mine with three different carriers and no problems (US, UK, SP).
I use Simple Mobile. Does anyone know of another carrier in the U.S that could provide 4g speeds with AT&T bands?
I just gave away my spare atrix to my wife's friend. She's on T-Mobile and hasn't had any problems yet. I did warn her she's on 2g forever and ever.
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Yea I use T-Mobile... I got more bars with the Atrix than I got with my last T-Mobile phone lmao... I use prepaid so 2g-4g doesn't affect me...
how can I get it to run 4G on T-mobile?
raa320 said:
im using mines and works great
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Mine it's running slow internet..... can you help me verifying the settings?
lomelir said:
Mine it's running slow internet..... can you help me verifying the settings?
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It will always be slow since its on 2g, nothing you can do.
Why aren't there laws that make it so cell phones are all interchangeable? Something like consumer freedom so you can buy any phone you want and use it on the carrier of your choice.
Use straight talk. Hspa compatible.
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uisgdlyast said:
It will always be slow since its on 2g, nothing you can do.
Why aren't there laws that make it so cell phones are all interchangeable? Something like consumer freedom so you can buy any phone you want and use it on the carrier of your choice.
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Actually, T-Mobile has said they're going to start adopting AT&T's 3G bands with the hope that Apple will let them sell subsidized iPhones. So depending on where you live, you may get 3G on the Atrix. I agree though, more interoperability is needed. This GSM/CDMA split we have is ridiculous.
I'm not using T-Mobile right now, but in a year (when my contract expires) I'm switching to one of their value plans and will unlocking my Atrix to use with them if I'm still happy with it. Given that so far the only spec I see improving on newer phones is the screen resolution, I think it'll still be plenty usable when that happens.
how
how do you unlock the atrix 4g to work with tmo
harv65 said:
how do you unlock the atrix 4g to work with tmo
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SIM unlock?
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Carrier name issues on T-Mobile

Hey guys,
I'm kind of new to android stuff, so bear with me .
About a week back I bought this Motorola Photon 4g for Sprint off craigslist and used the kddi radii trick to make it work on GSM networks, namely T-Mobile. Right now imeon the hybrid 2.3.5 rom, but even when I was in the stock sprint rom, the carrier name randomly shows up as T-Mobil instead of T-Mobile. Is there any way to fix this other than spoofing the carrier name? Thanks for the help!
From what I know, the name is stored in SIM card, try to replace it with carrier.
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm actually planning on doing that soon anyway . The strange thing is it sometimes shows the full name T-Mobile, I'm still trying to figure that out haha
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Where is the trick?
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My phone does this too, I'm not sure why. To me it seems like it says 'T-Mobil' when signal is pretty weak, but i have overall weak signal in my apartment so it could just be me making a bad guess.
same thing
i also have the same thing, but i haven't noticed it till you have mention it.
i guess it belongs to 2G/3G. coz when you are having connected to 2G it tells you T-mobil
while when you are connected to 3G it tells you T-mobile.
pleas tell me if i'm right
Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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Tmobiles 4g is HSPA+ which is technically 3g
Jellybean Poppin MoPho
You guys must be in the refarm area cause the 3g frequencies are the same as the iPhone's. I'm still waiting on that . Btw I got a new SIM and it hasn't said T-mobil yet so maybe it's just a certain kind of sim that does it?
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[Q] Flashing radio

Hi guys,
I'm new to all this so bear with me...
Is it possible to flash the radio on the dna to make the LTE capability work for the Rogers network?
I bought one a while ago, and I ended up selling it because LTE didn't work, and so some people are saying that it might be possible, is this true? I really love the phone so I hope so...
I'm pretty sure we can't even flash radios without s off
But even if we could, it is a hardware thing, not software. The phones hardware only supports Verizon's LTE bands, no way to change that.
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Bigandrewgold said:
I'm pretty sure we can't even flash radios without s off
But even if we could, it is a hardware thing, not software. The phones hardware only supports Verizon's LTE bands, no way to change that.
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Hey,
As far as i know, verizon and rogers use the same 700 mhz network band, but i believe verizon is using CDMA and rogers SIM, So i guess there is no way to do it?

Will the HTC Droid DNA work in UK

Hi,
A quick question, would the HTC Droid DNA work on a GSM signal network such as O2 - UK? I just want to know if I would be able to send/recieve texts and calls. Also what internet speed would I get? would I get 2G/3G/HSPDA or none?
I have searched around and many sources say stuff about using it on ATT GSM network and when I live chatted with Verizon they said specifically CDMA network only.
Thank you
Taylor_Swift
Whoever you talked to is wrong about it being cdma only. It's a global phone, and as such has gsm bands and is SIM unlocked.
What bands does o2 use, that determine what data works.
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Bigandrewgold said:
Whoever you talked to is wrong about it being cdma only. It's a global phone, and as such has gsm bands and is SIM unlocked.
What bands does o2 use, that determine what data works.
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GSM 850/900/1800/1900. - O2-UK
Phew your a life saver. the Verizon guys were really scaring mesaying it is sim locked and all
Taylor_Swift
Yea, it'll work with atleast 3g, if not hsdpa also
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Bigandrewgold said:
Yea, it'll work with atleast 3g, if not hsdpa also
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Thanks. Ill hit the button. Phew my Droid DNA is in transit with USPS from the 3rd of May. Not sure how long that will take to UK
Take in account you talked about GSM bands so phone at least is going to work 2G. What about O2 UMTS band? This will determine whether or not your phone gonna work 3G.
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I used mine on Three's network last month in London, It worked fine.
Yup. It worked
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