My phone is a Bell Galaxy note i717, I recently flashed to the OnlyOne Beta 2.
Phones work perfectly but it is displaying 4G at the signal bar. does 4G = LTE? or idoes 4G = HSPDA+ for Bell?
So basically I want it to stay away from LTE.
I have already done the *#2263# trick to lock it to WCDMA atm, does this lock it away from LTE? Thanks.
I am worried about the battery life taking a hit.
tried search but I can't really find anything.
I just found that it displays either 4G or 4Glte
4G I am guessing would mean HSPA+ right?
thanks
laserbluemini said:
I just found that it displays either 4G or 4Glte
4G I am guessing would mean HSPA+ right?
thanks
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You are correct.
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I believe the ATRIX is technically 4g but was wondering if anyone has seen 4g in the status bar ever? Im on AT&T and have seen 3g and h+ but no 4g. I know AT&T calls h+ 4g but it isn't really. I was also told that AT&T hasn't released 4g speeds yet but that was months ago. With the new ipad out that is 4g does that mean 4g speeds are available now and has anyone seen it on the ATRIX using AT&T ?
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Atrix only supports HSPA+, no LTE
You won't see LTE on the Atrix as the radio isn't capable of LTE. You will only ever see 4G come up on your Atrix if you edit the appropriate system files to show this instead of H+ or 3G. As was said, Atrix is only capable of HSPA which is what AT&T called 4G before they rolled out LTE.
i have bobzhome's metropcs version of cm 10.2 which is also for the t-mobile varriant and i cant get 4g to work i have the correct apn settings and it flashes E in the signal bar for data i dont want edge.
please someone tell me how to enable and get my 4g working back correctly.
thasilenthacker said:
i have bobzhome's metropcs version of cm 10.2 which is also for the t-mobile varriant and i cant get 4g to work i have the correct apn settings and it flashes E in the signal bar for data i dont want edge.
please someone tell me how to enable and get my 4g working back correctly.
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4g wont work on l9, on this phone you can use 3g(internet) segnal or 2g(sms and calls)
to use 4g you must have a phone that support this tecnology(HARDWARE)
thasilenthacker said:
i have bobzhome's metropcs version of cm 10.2 which is also for the t-mobile varriant and i cant get 4g to work i have the correct apn settings and it flashes E in the signal bar for data i dont want edge.
please someone tell me how to enable and get my 4g working back correctly.
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Please make sure that after unlock boot loader you flash your original kdz back by offline method. I think it a incorrect baseband problem.
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my l9 is 4g its the metropcs lg optimus l9 4g
thasilenthacker said:
my l9 is 4g its the metropcs lg optimus l9 4g
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Yea my t-mobile L9 (P769) uses 4g as well, however I do not believe they are LTE capable (correct me if im wrong). Many people think 4g and lte are the same.However they are not.
my phone is lte capable. 4g LTE
thasilenthacker said:
my phone is lte capable. 4g LTE
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That is not true. Not a single LG optimus L9 variant regardless of model or network supports LTE. However they are capable of running 4g just not 4g LTE. The 4g runs off HSPA+ not LTE. Even the LG optimus L9 II uses HSPA+ for the 4g network.
T-Mobile USA seems to define 4g their way. Something like gsm, umts, hspa & cdma, that makes four.
lecorbusier said:
T-Mobile USA seems to define 4g their way. Something like gsm, umts, hspa & cdma, that makes four.
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Thats all the radio bands the device can pick up. 4g acctually runs off the hspa. If you change your prefered network to gsm/cdma or umts only or auto it will not connect to 4 g. In order to connect to 4 g you must select hspa+ auto or wcdma+ auto. I couldnt connect to 4g when i first got my phone and its because the prefered network was set to gsm/cdma (auto). I get the best speed on wcdma+(auto). That will make it connect to the fastest radio band available. My phones a t-mobile but I unlocked it and switched to at&t because tmobiles data speed was horrible. I would average .20 mbps - 2.25 mbps (bits not bytes) with tmobiles 4g. On at&t I get 12mbps to 25 mbps and have even got as high as 40mbps right in town. Thats just in my area however, im sure tmobile has good speed in certain areas. After switching to at&t it made me miss my lg p870 I gave my girl because its LTE and she gets anywhere from 20-50mbps!?
Will an unlocked AT&T Galaxy Mega SGH-I527 work with T-Mobile's 4G LTE or just 4G? Also, outside coverage area, will it use AT&T's 4G LTE?
Thanks!
m4f1050 said:
Will an unlocked AT&T Galaxy Mega SGH-I527 work with T-Mobile's 4G LTE or just 4G? Also, outside coverage area, will it use AT&T's 4G LTE?
Thanks!
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mine does
banks2878 said:
mine does
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Nice, thanks!
Another question. I just switched to MetroPCS (uses same towers as T-Mobile) when I go roaming, will it roam in AT&T's towers? Does that mean when roaming I will also have 4G LTE instead of Edge? Or does AT&T recognize the phone it's from MetroPCS and lower it to Edge? I ask because I noticed T-Mobile doing all this reframing to use same bands as AT&T could it be possible that an unlocked AT&T phone have 4G LTE while on T-Mobile's network AND while ROAMING where a T-Mobile phone wont and that would be whack... T-Mobile charge $80 a month and not have 4G LTE while roaming while MetroPCS charges $60 a month AND have 4G LTE while roaming if using an AT&T device?
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Nice, thanks!
Another question. I just switched to MetroPCS (uses same towers as T-Mobile) when I go roaming, will it roam in AT&T's towers? Does that mean when roaming I will also have 4G LTE instead of Edge? Or does AT&T recognize the phone it's from MetroPCS and lower it to Edge? I ask because I noticed T-Mobile doing all this reframing to use same bands as AT&T could it be possible that an unlocked AT&T phone have 4G LTE while on T-Mobile's network AND while ROAMING where a T-Mobile phone wont and that would be whack... T-Mobile charge $80 a month and not have 4G LTE while roaming while MetroPCS charges $60 a month AND have 4G LTE while roaming if using an AT&T device?
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that's a good question and I wish I could answer it for you but I cant.. let me know how Metro works on this phone because I was honestly wanting to switch to Metro aswell
banks2878 said:
that's a good question and I wish I could answer it for you but I cant.. let me know how Metro works on this phone because I was honestly wanting to switch to Metro aswell
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Metro works perfect on my T-Mobile Note3. I get 4G LTE 30+ Mb d/l... only prob. is when I wany to switch handsets I have to call snd give the IMEI of phone. But I my first phone S4 from AT&T was also getting 30+ but I havent gone where I have no signal yet to test roaming.
I have two Samsung S5's on T-Mobile. One is stock but rooted (only shows 4G) & the other is pure stock and works as expected. Any thoughts? Considering flashing it back to stock and see what happens
Settings -> About -> Status
Mobile Network Type.
Does it say LTE on both?
check service menu
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Mobile Network Type =UMTS for the rooted phone, LTE for the stock. Ok I got in to service mode, what should I do from there?
On our galaxy S5 the 4G alone is really 3G, the LTE is really 4G speeds. T-mobile had the speed reporting configured this way on our devices. I did a comparison over the weekend, my phone was running CM11 and my wife was running stock. Mine would show either H+ or H (3G GSM) while hers showed 4G.
esjames said:
On our galaxy S5 the 4G alone is really 3G, the LTE is really 4G speeds. T-mobile had the speed reporting configured this way on our devices. I did a comparison over the weekend, my phone was running CM11 and my wife was running stock. Mine would show either H+ or H (3G GSM) while hers showed 4G.
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I have noticed that while in 4G the speeds were remarkably similar to 3G, I thought it was just My phone acting like that....
I've had this issues since I got my S5. TMO only gives me 4Glte and 4G, 2G. No 3G.. I only get 3G on custom ROMS like BlissPop 5.0. Any resolutions?
zachyzach4 said:
I've had this issues since I got my S5. TMO only gives me 4Glte and 4G, 2G. No 3G.. I only get 3G on custom ROMS like BlissPop 5.0. Any resolutions?
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Why would you want 3G?
Having 4GLTE or 4G is a good thing..
LolVersatile said:
Why would you want 3G?
Having 4GLTE or 4G is a good thing..
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Not when I only get 1 bar of it and full 3G bars from what i've experience on custom ROMS.
I dont think there is even icon for 3G in factory tmobile room. 3G and 4G pretty much fell under 4G. If you want to limit yourself to 3G only you may have to research some other forums with 3G tmobile phones and find older apn setting. They should work with S5 just with limited bands. I remember from my Note 2 days that for a while older apn (4G) worked much faster than newer fast.tmobile lte apn.
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Tmobile does have 3g. What happens is during inactivity the connection falls back to 3g to save battery, and transfer very small amounts of data. When demand calls the connection than hops over to Hspa. Tmobile does this transparently to the end user on most devices. This is what they call there 4g network.
If you use international roms, you'll see the indicator change between 3g and H all the time. Same with the nexus line of phones.