A relative give me an LG optimus one. His friend sent it to him from China, and he unlocked it and used it on Rogers Wireless (Canada). I do not know if the phone is rooted or if it has been flashed with a new baseband or rom. On the "about phone" page, it shows the phone model as: lg P500h.
I am interested in using it with Mobilicity (Canada). I borrowed a friend's Mobilicity sim card and tried it on the phone. When I scanned for networks, it did not find the Mobilicity Network. I know Mobilicity requires AWS 1700/2100 band, while Rogers does not.
Did I need to do something different between switching the sim cards and searching for the networks? or how can I tell for certain if the phone supports the AWS 1700/2100 band? Would flashing the new baseband make the AWS bands available??
Thanks for any response.
Has anyone gotten back to you on this? I have the same prepaid phone that belongs to Telus and would like to unlock and use in WIND Mobile.... I also have an unlocked BB Torch 9800(Initially with bell) now using with Telus as well. I would like to use both phones with WIND Mobile if possible.
Thanks,
I would attempt at flashing new baseband and see if that works for you...
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Wind works on 1700, according to wind. The p500h (same phone I have...with koodo) does 2100 but not 1700. No carrier in north America does 2100. Sorry. It'll work on all the other networks, though.
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It won't work on WIND or Mobilicity. You have an Optimus One. To use a p500, you'd need an Optimus T, which was modified to work on 1700/2100. If you'd like a cheap phone to use on Mobilicity, I'd suggest looking for a T-mobile Samsung Exhibit II on ebay.
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I currently have a telus HTC HERO in black but i am selling that one and buying a white HTC HERO.
The white HERO that im looking to buy is a european model.
I looked at the HTC website to see if there was any difference between the two phones and i found this:
HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz for Europe and 850/1900 MHz for USA.
So my question is will the european HERO work on canadian networks providers (FIDO, ROGERS)....would i have any issues with getting good signal connections and optimal speeds for 3G
thanks in advance
The Canadian GSM networks & AT&T in the US use a different 3G frequency than what GSM networks use in Europe & T-Mobile in the US. Due to this an European Hero on a Canadian network will not get 3G.
thank you for the quick reply.
I guess i will have to look for another seller.
Thanks again
Further, In Canada, networks like Bell and Telus are ONLY 3G, so without the North American 3G bands, you won't get any signal. I think Rogers has 2G, though. I'm not sure exactly which networks do and don't, but I know that at least some don't.
bjg222 said:
Further, In Canada, networks like Bell and Telus are ONLY 3G, so without the North American 3G bands, you won't get any signal.
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Umm, no....
As far as I know, the Bell and Telus joint network is 3G only. I don't know if the carriers have a deal to use EDGE from Rogers or areas not covered by 3G.
To the OP: Why don't you get a Hero from Telus? It's the same one as the European version, but works on the North American 3G band.
Soaa- said:
As far as I know, the Bell and Telus joint network is 3G only. I don't know if the carriers have a deal to use EDGE from Rogers or areas not covered by 3G.
To the OP: Why don't you get a Hero from Telus? It's the same one as the European version, but works on the North American 3G band.
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I dont like going on 3 year contracts so i buy my phones from resellers on craigslist. The seller specified that his HERO was from Europe so i wanted to find out if it would work. That was the only option at the moment but now I do have a Telus HERO that I bought from some other seller.
Thanks for the help btw.
Hello,
I recently bought a HTC HD2 and gotten unlocked to work with my ATT sim card also I had someone install the 2.2 Froyo Android software using Cyanogen Mod 6. Since I had the phone I have only been using Edge network and I know for sure we have 3g coverage. How can I get my 3G network to work on my phone? Please help. I am a newb when it comes to cell phones.
Thanks
Matt
someone correct me if i am wrong but the 3g bands for att and t-mo are different so even if you have 3g coverage you would only get edge. For faster speeds youll have to use wifi.
Do you have a Telstra-branded HD2? IIRC, Telstra uses the same 3G bands as AT&T. In that case you should be able to get 3G. Otherwise, the unbranded & T-Mo branded HD2s wouldn't work with AT&T 3G.
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jaekidd1012 said:
Do you have a Telstra-branded HD2? IIRC, Telstra uses the same 3G bands as AT&T. In that case you should be able to get 3G. Otherwise, the unbranded & T-Mo branded HD2s wouldn't work with AT&T 3G.
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I don't know how to check that but this HD2 used by a previous ower having Tmobile. Still having the same problem. Any help is appreciated.
thanks
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but this isn't hd2 android section
No 3G on the TMOus HD2 on ATT
mattp_65 said:
I don't know how to check that but this HD2 used by a previous ower having Tmobile. Still having the same problem. Any help is appreciated.
thanks
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Unless you have the Telstra HD2 (there will be a T in an oval on the back bottom cover), you won't get 3G on ATT. The Telstra model is the only one with the ATT 3G band (the 850mhz UMTS band).
You will ALSO need to have 850mhz ATT coverage in the areas where you live and travel to get 3G on that model.
Hope this helps...
Hi!
I was wondering if there is a way to change that? Installing a new ROM, a software or something!! I bought the TMo HD2 and brought it to South America. Here we use the 850 MHz frequency for 3G, and I just found out the HD2 works with 3G networks in the 1700 and 2100 MHz frequencies =( Is there a way I can change that ???
technillion said:
Unless you have the Telstra HD2 (there will be a T in an oval on the back bottom cover), you won't get 3G on ATT. The Telstra model is the only one with the ATT 3G band (the 850mhz UMTS band).
You will ALSO need to have 850mhz ATT coverage in the areas where you live and travel to get 3G on that model.
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I checked and there is no T on my phone or cover. But I have cyanogen Mod 6, I was wondering if anyone else has this problem.
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I bought the unlock code for my Optimus T / v10h / P509 running rooted stock 2.2/Froyo and it worked, then I took out my T-Mobile SIM card and tried my girl friends Telus SIM, and it gets no signal. If she enters the IMEI into the thing on their website, it says the device is imcompatable. As far as I can tell, the phone is technically compatable with Telus Mobility's network, even though my T-Mobile devices roam on Roger's when using my SIM. Even checked the band on her LG Breeze and it's the same crap that spec sheets give for the radios in the Optimus One family. Like wise, Telus sells an Optimus One / P500h / v10g device running Gingerbread! Roger's and Telus even use the same bloody frequency for this hardware AFAICT!
When we load her Telus SIM, every thing works, no warnings or messages, it just reports NO SERVICE and gets no signal.
Thought that maybe /etc/apns-conf.xml was missing the info for Telus, and it was, so I copied the entry from my ASUS Transformer, and no luck on reboot. I'm not sure if that's needed for SMS or just mobile data and MMS though but know it wouldn't hurt.
She has a pre-paid texting setup with Telus and a GSM feature phone. Not sure how that impacts swapping her SIM to my old Optimus T; I've always been on contract with voice/text/data but I don't see any issue, since I've seen pre-paid versions of the Optimus One and adding data isn't worth it if it doesn't work.
I've considered trying to find the Telus firmware and have her try flashing it but I'm hesitent, her feature phone does texting fine and via WiFi the Optimus T does at least handle the "Smart" phone stuff. We do have a nandroid backup via CWM5.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to get texting to work on it?
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Optimus t is AWS phone, with 2G/Edge/GSM capability
telus network is UMTS 3G and does not have a 2G/Edge backup
telus old network is CDMA
So I take it that means the OT is expecting to find a 2G GSM/GPRS/EDGE network on the 850/1900 band and to find a 3G UMTS/HSPA+ network on the 1700/2100 band (UMTS band IV); and not smart enough to deal with finding Telus's 3G UMTS/HSPA+ network on 850/1900 instead of an EDGE network, lovely.
Any clue if something like that would normally be built into the cellular radios hardware, or implemented in the firmware?
When I looked up her Breeze, it was marked as GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 900/2100, so I assumed if that worked with Telus, so would the Optimus T. Guess I was a tad dumb there :-/.
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Hello
I have a problem with my phone.
Model number: GT-I9100
Androiud version: 4.0.4
Baseband version:I9100XXKG6
Cyanogenmod version: 9-20120523
I've bought a WIND sim card and it works fine with a nokia phone, but somehow it doesn't work with my SGS2 at all.
I mostly don't get any signal with it , just once in a while a full signal but I just can choose Roger and Mobilicity as network. There is no WIND network and I can't do any phone calls or something.
I don't know what to do because it just works fine with the Nokia phone.
I changed the Custom Rom to WIUI and stock rom but no change.
Probably because that phone doesn't have aws frequencies it only works on bell rogers telus virgin
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when I used WIUI it shows not Rogers and Mobilicity anymore but only WIND HOME and WIND AWAY, but I can't be registered on both.
It will be impossible to connect to Wind Home. Wind uses the 1700 UMTS frequency (same as T-Mobile USA) and the i9100 supports UMTS 850/1900/2100. The only SGS2 that supports the AWS frequency is Telus' SGS2X.
You now have three options if you want to use your phone:
1) Buy a new phone that's AWS compatible
2) Connect to Wind Away and enjoy roaming charges for everything
3) Switch to another Carrier that's not based on AWS
I'm sure I've got a sms from WIND after togging up saying I'm good to go.
And even when I use the Roger Network, I can't do any calls or anything.
Why is that so?
The answer above hasn't changed. Just because you can see the networks doesn't mean your phone supports the frequency required to make calls. Sim card doesn't matter either because its the network that's the problem.
I have a vodafone EU HTC ONE phone.
I have now moved to the US and am on T-Mobile.
However I can't get 4G/LTE on the phone no matter what I try (I've manually entered the fast apn)
Does anyone know if this is even possible?
Do I need to unlock the Bootloader, etc flash with the T-Mobile ROM, etc. ? Will this even work?
I do not think the Vodafone One has the T-Mobile LTE band built in. According to Wikipedia, TMo US uses the 1700MHz band for LTE. Your phone doesn't have a 1700MHz radio.