If i unlock my atrix 4g, can i use the $30 tmobile plan that has 4g? If not then at what speed would i receive data? What about with straight talk? I live in Chicago and straight talk uses the tmobile sim. I know this has been asked before but i heard that tmobile changed the frequency of their4g to 1900 and according to this i can get 3g in chicago http://www.airportal.de/ . I just need some help clearing this confusion Thanks
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yes, I have a atrix 4g working on tmobile. i am in schaumburg and have working 4g.
I have a Sidekick 4G and I'm thinking about getting an Atrix, with the new 1900 rollout how will the speeds compare? I've heard about some crazy speeds but my Sidekick doesnt seem to get them and if they're about on par I'm switching to the coolest phone I've seen the Atrix
bkch0 said:
yes, I have a atrix 4g working on tmobile. i am in schaumburg and have working 4g.
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Thanks for that! I'll be buying the T-Mobile $30 plan then
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If I purchase the sgs2 from Europe I know it should work with at&t and T-Mobile here in the USA. My question is will 3g or hspa + work or just 2g
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It's said to have AT&T's 3G, but that it should work with any other carrier, which pretty much means AT&T 3G(and HSPA+), T-Mobile 2G.
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It's said to have AT&T's 3G, but that it should work with any other carrier, which pretty much means AT&T 3G(and HSPA+), T-Mobile 2G.
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Is it me or has att been getting all of the high end android love coming its way ever since the the iPhone kicked rocks
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From something I read att is getting something like 11 androids this year. Again something.
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No it's not gonna work
Is it true that I can put a at&t sim card in my t-mobile amaze and get 3 and 4 g coverage?Does this phone have LTE bands in it?and I was told thY the white amaze is better than the black one why?
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Mesaman2012 said:
Is it true that I can put a at&t sim card in my t-mobile amaze and get 3 and 4 g coverage?Does this phone have LTE bands in it?and I was told thY the white amaze is better than the black one why?
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Both white and black are the same, yes you will get 3G and 4G coverage on at&t since 4G is hspa and at&t supports hspa.
No this phone doesn't have lte and just a heads up, though you will get 4G, it might not be as fast t-mobile from what I've heard, their HSPA isn't that fast but still pretty decent.
I appreciate that.
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Is this phone pentaband? If it is specific for TMO bands only, you will only get edge on AT&T as I understand it......
gagb1967 said:
Is this phone pentaband? If it is specific for TMO bands only, you will only get edge on AT&T as I understand it......
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It has the 1900 band, at&t's HSPA network runs on that band.
What about 3g?
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What about 3g?
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HSPA is 3G, HSPA+ is 4G, the iPhone has both HSPA and HSPA+, which works on the iPhone's 1900 band, get where I'm going with this?
I'm using my Amaze on at&t through straight talk and it's 4g.
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Using my amaze on straight talk at&t towers, works great with 3g/4g.
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redeyss said:
Using my amaze on straight talk at&t towers, works great with 3g/4g.
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Can you post some screenshots of your speed tests? I didn't think straight talk supported 4G.
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Can you post some screenshots of your speed tests? I didn't think straight talk supported 4G.
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Two people made this claim, doubt they would both be lying.
Dark Ellipse said:
Can you post some screenshots of your speed tests? I didn't think straight talk supported 4G.
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ST does support 4G but right now my tower is under a full noon load.
12 noon speed is awful but 12 midnight speed is great.
At&t doesn't keep up on maintenance with these towers.
Are you forced into an at&t data plan?
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Are you forced into an at&t data plan?
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Don't think they can force you into one if you bring your own device.
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Don't think they can force you into one if you bring your own device.
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Don't think they can force you into one if you bring your own device.
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I used to work for Business End User Care for AT&T. As of the time I left (november), if you placed your sim in a smartphone and used it for about a day the system would add the lowest data plan and send you a text message indicating it had been added to your account. Even if you were using someone's phone while your "feature phone" wad being replaced, it was required. I've had to read that section of the TOS to many, many angry people. I would call and confirm just to be safe.
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I used to work for Business End User Care for AT&T. As of the time I left (november), if you placed your sim in a smartphone and used it for about a day the system would add the lowest data plan and send you a text message indicating it had been added to your account. Even if you were using someone's phone while your "feature phone" wad being replaced, it was required. I've had to read that section of the TOS to many, many angry people. I would call and confirm just to be safe.
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I didnt know that, wow ATT sucks
That's hot I didn't now we could do all these things to a device. I had idea until my friend mentioned it sweet.
Biohazard0289 said:
I used to work for Business End User Care for AT&T. As of the time I left (november), if you placed your sim in a smartphone and used it for about a day the system would add the lowest data plan and send you a text message indicating it had been added to your account. Even if you were using someone's phone while your "feature phone" wad being replaced, it was required. I've had to read that section of the TOS to many, many angry people. I would call and confirm just to be safe.
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DO NOT CALL to ask..... as they won't know the answer, and might put a note on your account to force a data plan(well, you could call and ask on someone else's phone without giving your account number)
the primary way (so far that I've seen) that AT&T detects your smartphone is via IMEI. Secondary might be you using >100GB/month, connecting to their 4G APN settings, going to a store for help and letting the customer rep see that you have a smartphone
does AT&T have your IMEI? probably not.... AT&T has IMEI of all of their smartphones, so you can't use an AT&T smartphone. You can try using an (unlocked) t-mobile phone, but might not support the right 3G/4G bands that AT&T use. You can try international phones, canda phones(from Bell, Telus...). WARNING>>>. AT&T might have your IMEI because the manufacture gave them the IMEI(See Google Nexus phones), inference from branded phones that they carry(eg Phone is sold/branded by AT&T and t-mobile... AT&T gets a list of their phone IMEIs that might include t-mobile's IMEIs), screwups(Samsung Note overseas was misentered as a tablet on AT&T's network, white i9100 Galaxy SII is misentered as a Blackberry on AT&T's network)
The link at the end of this post gives a guide to what phones are 100% compatible(3G/4G on 850/1900) on AT&T's network.
According to this, the T-Mobile Amaze 4G is compatible with AT&T 3G/4G, but I have some confusion on the 850/1900 mhz band for the 3G/4G data, trying to sort it out(last few posts on that thread)
Guide to what phones are 100% compatible with AT&T's network
anyways, quick update
got a T-mobile Amaze 4G to play with
(with unlocked bootloader, S-Off, Super CID and SIM unlock, all available on this forum), works on AT&T 4G (HSDPA)
speeds right now ~ 1000 kbits/s up/down, hard to test because my location is spotty
Hey guys...Im doing a favor for a friend...he just got the I777 rooted ...but he wants to use it for Tmobile...what do i need to change for it to work with a custom rom...and then again can i port a rom from the tmobile S2 ...just modem?any input would be appreciated..
Edit:i have the E4GT on sprint...so i'm not really familiar with the gsm models...
While I should say use the search bar, all the information I've found is pretty outdated regarding this.
The simple answer is that you probably can't get it to work, at least not 3G/4G, if Edge is fine then you can unlock the phone with "Galaxy S Unlock" in the play store, just follow the directions listed, it's pretty simple.
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You might be able to depending on where you are. T-Mobile generally uses the 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz bands for 3G/4G, but the i777 doesn't use the 1700 MHz bands, instead it can use either 850, 1900, 2100 MHz bands for 3G/4G. However in preparation for LTE and just to increase bandwidth across 3G/4G they are starting to take some of their 1900 MHz spectrum from their edge networks and move it to 3G/4G/LTE. This has just started happening very recently and is currently in very few markets, however you may be in one of those, it is still expanding if you aren't but it may take a while. The only way you could know is if you took a T-Mobile sim card and put it in an unlocked i777 and if you get 3G/4G then you are good, otherwise you are stuck with Edge.
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The S2 for ATT doesn't support 3g for T mobile and vice versa. There could be some weird instance as mentioned above where it could work but in most cases it won't.
Thank you very much for the update guys... I'll see what I can do...
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The S2 for ATT doesn't support 3g for T mobile and vice versa. There could be some weird instance as mentioned above where it could work but in most cases it won't.
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Mostly true, T-Mobile's S2 should work with AT&T's network, you may have to flash a new radio but theoretically it should work.
You cannot port a T-Mobile ROM because T-Mobile does not have a similar gs2. The T-Mobile gs2 is the twin brother to the skyrocket
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I have i777 working on tmobile with 4g. My wife has tmobile so when I upgraded to the GS3, I unlocked the phone using the code from AT&T and I get "4g" on T-Mobile. I did a speed test and was able to get good speeds.
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You're in a good spot then
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I also have mine unlocked and using it on T-Mobile. I have have 4g everywhere I go in the Boston area. I didn't do anything special just unlocked it with galaxsimunlock I found on xda. Rooted running hellybean 4.2
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Where in DFW are you? I am downtown Dallas and thinking of using my i777 on tmobile. Do you know if the whole dfw are has been refarmed yet??
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I have i777 working on tmobile with 4g. My wife has tmobile so when I upgraded to the GS3, I unlocked the phone using the code from AT&T and I get "4g" on T-Mobile. I did a speed test and was able to get good speeds.
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I have i777 working on tmobile with 4g. My wife has tmobile so when I upgraded to the GS3, I unlocked the phone using the code from AT&T and I get "4g" on T-Mobile. I did a speed test and was able to get good speeds.
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That is awesome with mi Carrier i have 1.2mb speed at much
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jiannichan said:
I have i777 working on tmobile with 4g. My wife has tmobile so when I upgraded to the GS3, I unlocked the phone using the code from AT&T and I get "4g" on T-Mobile. I did a speed test and was able to get good speeds.
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http://www.airportal.de/
1900MHZ map where t-mobile will work with 4g on att devices
brad65807 said:
Where in DFW are you? I am downtown Dallas and thinking of using my i777 on tmobile. Do you know if the whole dfw are has been refarmed yet??
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Sorry for the late response, I haven't been on here much lately.I live out in Little Elm, slightly past Frisco close to Lewisville Lake and 380/University. I am about to upgrade my phone again and give my wife the GS3. haven't decided between the GS4 and Note 2 yet.
I am in So.Cal and got 4G out of Edge half of the time from Tmobile ofcourse. The speed is around 7-10Mb/s or so
is there a rom ported from att to T-mobile
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Hey guys...Im doing a favor for a friend...he just got the I777 rooted ...but he wants to use it for Tmobile...what do i need to change for it to work with a custom rom...and then again can i port a rom from the tmobile S2 ...just modem?any input would be appreciated..
Edit:i have the E4GT on sprint...so i'm not really familiar with the gsm models...
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I have a i777 running shock3. Im looking for a rom ported w/T-mobile modem for better signal. Any help would be appreciated. Thx dev3329a...
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Where in DFW are you? I am downtown Dallas and thinking of using my i777 on tmobile. Do you know if the whole dfw are has been refarmed yet??
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I bought an unlocked AT&T S2 i77 back in June and it runs well..
I have my rezound on the leaked Global update rom on Simple Mobile $40 plan. I am in Indianapolis, Indiana and moving soon to
Denver Colorado... I want to have speeds better then Edge. Does Indianapolis, Indiana or Denver Colorado areas have the ability to use something better then Edge speeds for data? Do I need to wait for the ATT spectrum that Tmobile got as part of the break up of the merger? Tired of edge....
I'm from Denver, hope you like it! I don't think we have simple mobile, but it'll work with straight Talk sim Idk about data for that though. All I know is Verizon 4G lte ran at about 45mbits a second
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I'm from Denver, hope you like it! I don't think we have simple mobile, but it'll work with straight Talk sim Idk about data for that though. All I know is Verizon 4G lte ran at about 45mbits a second
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I already have a denver phone number from simple mobile. In indianapolis i only get edge speeds. If i knew someone with a straight talk sim i would test it that way to see if straight talk supports 3g or better.
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I already have a denver phone number from simple mobile. In indianapolis i only get edge speeds. If i knew someone with a straight talk sim i would test it that way to see if straight talk supports 3g or better.
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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That is what i thought. I will just have to wait and see when tmobile will refarm. Anyone want to trade?
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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Might have some luck with att using this edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32331786
Don't know how much it would help with tmobile though, as no confirmed successes with tmobile yet.
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Might have some luck with att using this edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32331786
Don't know how much it would help with tmobile though, as no confirmed successes with tmobile yet.
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does anyone have simple mobile in Denver Colorado and have a rezound on it? Are you getting any 3g or better speeds. If so how did you get the better speeds? I read that Denver has been refarmed as someone with an iphone 5 has 3g service. I will be moving to Denver on March 1 so just wanting to see... I am in Indianapolis which so far i only have edge speeds... unless i need to edit something....
The only way it would work is if you could get a plan using att network through simple plan and do the radio edits described in the link above. Otherwise, gl until T-Mobile launches there new platform.
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does anyone have their rezound on tmobile's 3g or 4g? I already have mine on it but i only get EDGE.
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does anyone have their rezound on tmobile's 3g or 4g? I already have mine on it but i only get EDGE.
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Nope, only EDGE due to the radio frequencies the HTC Rezound uses. Depending on your area, T-Mobile might not have updated their towers to work for 3G. 4G, or HSPA+ on the 1900MHz frequency. You can check http://www.airportal.de/ to see where it is available..
thanks for the reply. I checked the map and it seems they haven't updated. Also if they were to update it, it would work on 3G/HSPA+?
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thanks for the reply. I checked the map and it seems they haven't updated. Also if they were to update it, it would work on 3G/HSPA+?
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It should. The HTC Rezound has the 1900Mhz radio. Almost all unlocked GSM capable phones will be able to get 3G/4G/HSPA+ with T-Mobile.
Csn anyone confirm that a rezound can fully work on t mobile? Same quality voice and SMS and lte.
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Csn anyone confirm that a rezound can fully work on t mobile? Same quality voice and SMS and lte.
Thanks
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I tested a T-Mobile SIM in my Rezound. Voice quality was outstanding, no issues with SMS/MMS. But the best data I could get was EDGE. I live in Phoenix, AZ, so if I was capable of getting better speeds, I would have gotten them here.
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Csn anyone confirm that a rezound can fully work on t mobile? Same quality voice and SMS and lte.
Thanks
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The Rezound does not have the hardware support for T-Mobile's 1700Mhz AWS frequencies, which is used for 3G and psuedo-4G (HSPA+), so the best you will ever get with the Rezound on T-Mobile is 2G/Edge... and no LTE at all on T-Mobile which uses 1700Mhz Band 4 LTE, the Rez only supports Verizon's 700Mhz Band 13 LTE. Sorry...