I am talking about the United Kingdom so please don't mix up!
I got the International S3 unlocked 2 weeks back and I just got a contract with T-Mobile. Now I heard that 4G was coming to T-Mobile/Orange network and wondering will my international S3 be compatible with the 4G network?
Afraid not, you'll need the i9305 model which has the 4G chip + 2GB RAM, you'll have to get the one from EE as yours will not work with the 4G network.
Damn, waste of money then . Thanks anyways
The 4G speeds won't be that great either, 10-12Mbps according to EE and it will be limited to cities and has poor usage allowance, much better off going with Three on one of their AYCE plans with a regular S3.
I get 8Mbps down, 3Mbps upload on average with 2 bars signal and I am semi-rural
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i ordered this phone yesterday with next day air, just waiting on UPS to show up. I am wondering if it's 4G. No spec page that i seen says 4G anywhere, however the phone seems to have the right bands?
It is however, At&t is not known for having the fastest download speeds so take it as it is...
Yes, it supports HSPA+ on AT&T which, in theory, can provide up to 21MBs down. Typical ranges for those of us using the SGS2 in the U.S. are from 3-7MBs down. It works the same on dumb-phone and smartphone data plans. Do a search, there's a lot of discussion on how to use the SGS2 on a dumb-phone unlimited data plan for $20 a month.
4G as used by the american carriers is just market bull****. What T-Mobile and AT&T markets as 4G is just what the rest of the world calls 3G.
The only current technology that is fast enough that I could agree to call 4G is LTE, which only Verizon has rolled out in the US afaik and I think AT&T is starting the LTE rollout this summer.
There is a _vast_ difference between HSPA+ and LTE.
To answer your question... SGS2 has HSPA+ with a max download speed of 21Mbps which is what AT&T has been marketing as 4G.
awesome, Thanks for info.
In France (maybe in all of Europe) we call that 3G+, which is still marketing but makes much more sense in my opinion. So yeah if you ask me SGS2 is not "4G" since it doesn't support LTE.
UMB and WiMAX is also part of 4G technologies, and then UMTS revision 8 which is LTE.
3.5g sometimes
I didn't find the $20/mo unlimited us plans tho
still not clear to me
Sorry but I am still not 100 percent clear on this one. I live in a developing country an use wimax for internet.
Is my samsung galaxy sii wimax capable? Is it a hardware or a software limitation if the answer on the first question is no.
Thanks
ok so i am currently with sprint and own a sph-d700 aka epic 4g. i am so sick of getting crappy 3g speeds and unreliable 4g speeds that are not really 4g speeds (4mb seems to be best i have seen but average just 2mb) in the north east (NY,NJ,PA. i do a lot of driving). I have fallen in love with amoled displays and would like to get an unlocked gs2 so that i wont be tied down to either carrier for 2 years if things dont work out.
So is there a model of this phone that works on both att and t-mobiles network with hspa+ speeds? does att and t mobile have the same speeds on hspa+ when in a good coverage area?
thanks in advance for the help.
As I understand it, the T-Mobile version of the SGS2 (SGH-T989) will work on both T-Mo and AT&T networks. You might get better information in the T-Mobile SGS2 forums.
3waygeek said:
As I understand it, the T-Mobile version of the SGS2 (SGH-T989) will work on both T-Mo and AT&T networks. You might get better information in the T-Mobile SGS2 forums.
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thank you, for your input.
Howdy everyone and thanks for helping.
Last year I had an S2 with a 70$ Pre-paid T-mobile SIM and while connectivity was OK, max. data carrier was EDGE, which was OK, given that it was reliable and had no caps that could be reached with EDGE.
This year in June I would like to have best mobile coverage, travelling between Boston and Chicago, both through upstate NY and PA.
Please suggest the best deal to have a) a good, fast network, b) high data volume and c) usable with a European Galaxy S3.
Your input is greatly appreciated!
AT&T
I'm on at&t, works flawlessly on the i9300 on h+, usually get ~3Mb/s but sometimes raises to 8Mb/s during the night
The i9300 doesn't have the 1700 band for t-mobile 3g so you'll be on edge
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I also have the i9300 here in the states. I use tmobile on the phone. If those areas that you travel have been refarmed for the 1900mhz frequencies you will get h+. I currently live in such an area, so the speeds are faster than when I was with att. But if you want the most reliable speeds as possible with out issues then you need to have att coverage.
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[I'm cross-posting this in the Sprint HTC One forum as well]
My situation:
1. I've been with Sprint since the OG Evo, but after getting the One, I was really frustrated with the slow LTE speeds especially after years of Network Vision promises and paying an extra $10 a month (per phone) for "high speed data" that was anything but. I was also irked at all the crap I had to go through to get the SIM unlocked.
2. The area I live in has refarmed HSPA+ to the 1900Mhz band.
3. The area I live in has AWS LTE.
4. I currently have a Sprint, T-Mobile, and Developer Edition One.
My original plan was to use the DE to test the TMO network to see if it was faster than Sprint and available in all the places I frequent. If so, then I'd sell my (now SIM unlocked) Sprint model and keep the DE, otherwise, I'd return the DE for a refund.
But over the last week and a half I've noticed that, while LTE speeds were frequently pretty high (15-20Mbps) there were still plenty of times when I was only seeing an H or an E. I couldn't even tell if the H was HSPA or HSPA+. So then I began to wonder if I was missing out because of the lack of the 1700Mhz band, thus I bought the TMO version to see if I was missing anything.
Turns out, I wasn't. The H I've been seeing is indeed HSPA+ but nowhere near the advertised 42Mbps. Granted, I wasn't naive enough to think I would pull 42Mbps even with the TMO version, but I expected to get at least in the 20-30Mbps range, instead I've been seeing 5-9Mbps. (Thanks to the Sensorly app, I can now tell which H I'm seeing).
After running around with TMO version, I'm seeing the exact same speeds in the same places. So, I'm not missing anything by not having 1700Mhz. In the meantime, TMO is still refarming more areas so the 1700Mhz is becoming less and less important.
So what about Sprint? At their lowest, the TMO speeds are equal to or a little above the Sprint speeds I've been seeing (my wife inherited the Sprint version during this trial run), and at their highest, Sprint can't touch them (in this area--I've gotten up to 20Mbps in PA).
So T-Mobile it is. When the wife's contract is up at the end of the month, the Sprint model is going up on Swappa. Meanwhile, the TMO version is going back to the store tomorrow.
What about AT&T you ask? Way faster, but way more expensive. Truth is, I spend most of my time on wifi anyway, so I'm not willing to pay AT&T prices for cable internet speeds for the times in between.
Hope this helps anyone else facing the same dilemma.
What are your apns for t-mobile. The LTE apn settings are slower than the HSPA apn. Unless you're in a LTE T-Mobile area.
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What are your apns for t-mobile. The LTE apn settings are slower than the HSPA apn. Unless you're in a LTE T-Mobile area.
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My area is actually pretty saturated with LTE, but I still I tried both fast and epc. The speeds were the same.
Dang thats crazy.
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My area is actually pretty saturated with LTE, but I still I tried both fast and epc. The speeds were the same.
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I have different result with comparing a Dev edtion and T-Mobile edition One. NY is a refarmed market but there would be times I would still get EDGE in some spots. In the same area the T-Mo One would have a constant 4G/LTE connection while the Dev One would fluctuate between 2G/4G/LTE. I would recommend stick with the T-Mo One just in case you go into area that is not refarmed. I had faster 4G speed on the T-Mo one as well. (Single digits with PCS 4G compared to double digit AWS 4G)
Just popping in to say congrats on leaving Sprint.
I had them for about 8 months and could not stand them anymore. Paid $350 ETF and been happy ever since.
I'm currently with sprint and switching to Tmobile. I have my heart set on the Mega. I have read people having mixed results with getting tmobile lte working is that correct? hell, i've never been able to use lte since sprint blows in my area but supossedly i have lte with tmobile here.
anyways, i can buy an unlocked international mega on ebay for like $400 and i've seen some used At&t mega's for around $300 as well.
which of these two models would be best for tmobile and why? thanks.
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I'm currently with sprint and switching to Tmobile. I have my heart set on the Mega. I have read people having mixed results with getting tmobile lte working is that correct? hell, i've never been able to use lte since sprint blows in my area but supossedly i have lte with tmobile here.
anyways, i can buy an unlocked international mega on ebay for like $400 and i've seen some used At&t mega's for around $300 as well.
which of these two models would be best for tmobile and why? thanks.
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I527!
My i9205 works fine with with tmo
2SHAYNE
2shayne..... are you getting USA T-Mobile true LTE Speeds with your 9205??
Can we see a screen shot of the LTE icon in the task bar if so??
Thanks..
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2shayne..... are you getting USA T-Mobile true LTE Speeds with your 9205??
Can we see a screen shot of the LTE icon in the task bar if so??
Thanks..
Sent from my GT-I9205 using xda app-developers app
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I dont think you can get lte with the i9205 as that has been my goal since I got this phone. This is the european version and runs on different frequencies from what i understand. The most i get is hspa+ which is great but the signal is very inconsistent. Get the i527 so you can enjoy lte.
Post above I think is correct... I get h+... And so forth but haven't seen LTE... I don't really have LTE around me either I don't believe but I'm happy with it at least.. I use wifi a lot too though
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Get the i527 so you can enjoy lte.
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I second this.
I just got my AT&T unlocked Mega i527 today, and I get 16-18 Mbps download speed on T-mobile. The upload speed I get is around 3-6 Mbps.
It is definitely the one you wanna get if you want fast data on T-mobile.
I have the i9200 and get hspa+ speed of about 11-12mbps download and about 2.5mbps upload on t-mobile in nyc. I also have an at&t galaxy note lte unlocked that I use on t-mobile and get about 20mbps down and 10mbps up. I tested the internet speeds on both devices in my everyday usage (live streaming, internet surfing, email, etc.). Seems like whatever streamed smoothly on the galaxy note while on lte also streamed smoothly on the galaxy mega on hspa+. When something buffered on the mega while on hspa+ it also buffered on the note while on lte. They basically performed about the same in my everyday usage. My goal was to see the difference between lte and hspa+ on t-mobile.
I was seriously considering getting the i527 (unlocked so i could use it on t-mobile) just for the lte but I'm not sure it will be worth me spending the money. The only time I really saw a difference between hspa+ and lte on t-mobile is with Speedtest (which isn't real life usage but just the app i used to test the internet speed on both devices) and downloading very large files. Downloading large files took noticeably less time on lte. I don't download or upload large files on a regular basis so that's not an issue for me.
Fyi...I went to an AT&T store to try out their i527 on their lte network. The internet speed seemed slower than my i9200 on t-mobile's hspa+ network (both Speedtest and surfing/streaming). I thought it would have blown my phone out the water. I was NOT impressed. Also their locked, unrooted and bloated i527 seemed laggy compared to my unlocked, rooted and unbloated i9200. I haven't had the opportunity to test a rooted unbloated i527.
I got my phone when it first came out a few months ago and have not ran across 1 person yet with any version of the mega. Strange since different carriers have versions of this phone plus the unbranded versions that have been out for a few months already.
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how do I go about unlocking the at&t mega to use on tmobile?