Live in the Netherlands myself and I am wondering if you have to enable 4G yourself before you can start using it? I am not sure if T-mobile has covered my area yet, but I am curious, if it is, would it one day just say 4g instead of 3g at the icon on the taskbar? Or do I have to enable it?
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I assume that I'll need to call AT&T and give them the IMEI number of the GSII -- do I need to request anything special so that they provision the phone on their "4G" (HSPA+) network?
Do I need to tell them what model of phone it is?
I had an Inspire 4G in the past, but returned it in favor of buying this phone outright and avoid reupping my contract for a 'meh' phone in comparison -- I'm still grandfathered into the Unlimited data plan, and in the past when I had the Inspire 4G I was on their Unlimited 4G plan -- I guess do I just ask for the same?
Would it be easier to just take the new phone into the store -- I'm terrified of them molesting this new beauty.
Just trying to think ahead and be prepared for when this beast arrives (hopefully?) next week!
The area I live in does indeed have HSPA+ service.
Dont call atnt, ever. You dont need to in order to enable 3g. If your phone shows 3g (searches) and then switches over to 2g right off the bat in an area where you know you get 3g then you can figure you are on the euro bands. Unlikely but go into settings/wireless and see if you can toggle. Most likely you will need to root and then go to the hidden menu for the bands. Instructions for both can be found here in a search. Unless of course its working. lol If you see it staying on 3g run speed test if you dont mind. Regards report back, lots of folks want to have an answer with this one.
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Dont call atnt, ever. You dont need to in order to enable 3g. If your phone shows 3g (searches) and then switches over to 2g right off the bat in an area where you know you get 3g then you can figure you are on the euro bands. Unlikely but go into settings/wireless and see if you can toggle. Most likely you will need to root and then go to the hidden menu for the bands. Instructions for both can be found here in a search. Unless of course its working. lol If you see it staying on 3g run speed test if you dont mind. Regards report back, lots of folks want to have an answer with this one.
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Gotcha. I've read lots of shenanigans that your IMEI has to be provisioned on their network for it to access HSPA+ -- I've also heard that you need a LTE capable SIM card to get on the HSPA+ network - which makes no sense, since HSPA+ is basically enhanced 3G.
You don't have to do anything, just pop in your sim card and go.
Do we have confirmation anyone using a galaxy ds2784 with att 3g yet?
Hey folks,
If you are on Rogers network with i717, please let me know what you think of the network performance.
Before switching to galaxy note, I used iphone 3g with Rogers. To be quite honest with you, I haven't noticed any speed improvement with my new device on LTE when I'm surfing the net with stock internet browser. I also tried Dolphin HD and Opera but loading times are pretty much the same with my previous experience with iphone on 3g network. (If not slower!)
I don't know what to make of it. Is Rogers LTE network not so good? Is it my Note having issues???
FYI- My area is for sure within Rogers LTE coverage. I get full bar with 4G on it...
Thanks for your input.
Did you change yor plan to LTE when you upgrade it.
If you changed, is it gonna be active next billing cycle or now. Call rogers and make sure.
Make sure Rogers LTE area again.
If yes then, check your apn settigs .
If yes then, in phone, settings. Wireless and network, mobile network, network mode, make sure its LTE.
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Loving the LTE speeds on my Note. Make sure you change your plan to support it. Only downside is the massive drain LTE is on your battery so I usually just keep it at HSPA unless I need the extra speed
One thing I found out is that those Rogers csr at the store doesn't know what they are talking about. They would tell u that LTE and 4G is the same thing. Seems like they don't understand that 4g is hspa+ and LTE is different.
Just call them on the phone and ask them to make sure u are on an LTE plan.
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So I just got the Deepshining ROM installed on my TMobile Radar 4G (USA)
Have a question about the flashed radio... is it only 3G? Before I flashed the radio and ROM I used to always get 4G (and sometimes 2G). Now, I am spending a big chunk of my time at "3G".
The phone doesn't seem to be slower, so I don't know if it is just branding, or what? Any experience on this?
Also, I did change the settings to make the radio, "North America".
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So I just got the Deepshining ROM installed on my TMobile Radar 4G (USA)
Have a question about the flashed radio... is it only 3G? Before I flashed the radio and ROM I used to always get 4G (and sometimes 2G). Now, I am spending a big chunk of my time at "3G".
The phone doesn't seem to be slower, so I don't know if it is just branding, or what? Any experience on this?
Also, I did change the settings to make the radio, "North America".
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Haven't experienced it. I have an H on my status bar right now and also on Deep Shining.
Did you mess with any other settings after installing?
It's just branding. T-Mobile changed both the 3G and H indicators to 4G. The custom ROM you installed probably has the standard 3G/H ones instead.
I changed another setting on the phone somewhere to display 3G+ as 4G. Now, I am occasionally seeing a "4G" status.
But, it really doesn't matter. Speeds seem good, and seems to be all branding anyway.
Awesome, awesome ROM!!
just to give some extra info Radar got an 3G antenna and Radar 4G got an 4G antenna and that thingy next to your connection bar doesnt show the actual antenna but just a string from the registry or somewhere in the rom i got an radar and a radar 4g rom and it show 4G but I still got 3G connection
This may be a lame question, but if 4G becomes active in my area, is there anything i need to do? or will the 4G notification just turn on when a signal is detected?
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This may be a lame question, but if 4G becomes active in my area, is there anything i need to do? or will the 4G notification just turn on when a signal is detected?
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Its not lame, its how you learn. In theory, no.
There are settings for CDMA and LTE under the mobile networks area so assuming you are set to CDMA / LTE, running stock and you are close enough to a LTE tower you should switch to LTE automatically. If you search there are a number of tweaks and additional settings also available in case you aren't successful.
If you never change your mobile network mode from cdma/lte in your settings then it should automatically connect if you ever get lte in your city.
The above posters answered the question, but if you would like to know more about when LTE might be available in your area head on over to www.s4gru.com
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The above posters answered the question, but if you would like to know more about when LTE might be available in your area head on over to www.s4gru.com
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so i don't really know alot about the CDMA/LTE stuff... but on the original Evo the 4G was on the CDMA network correct? The New EVO just has 4G on the LTE network? Meaning if i was able to pick up 4G in my area with the original EVO i won't be able to get 4G with my new EVO LTE until they add LTE in the area?
am I understanding this correct?
Correct, 4g was on the wimax network, now 4g is lte. Wimax is still available, it will eventually be phased out.
That sucks... I live in bumf so doubt I'll have LTE anytime soon... But at least this phone is still awesome
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My town just got 4g and I've noticed that my phone will choose more bars of 3g over less bars of 4g. But id rather have 2 bars of 4g than 4 bars of 3g if you know what I mean. Is there any way to help this? Any apps I can download?
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It doesn't really work that way. 3g and 4g are independent connections that are maintained simultaneously. You're still connected to 3g even when 4g is connected. If you aren't getting 4g, then it simply isn't connecting to it and there really isn't much you can do about it.
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My town just got 4g and I've noticed that my phone will choose more bars of 3g over less bars of 4g. But id rather have 2 bars of 4g than 4 bars of 3g if you know what I mean. Is there any way to help this? Any apps I can download?
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Since I am on the latest ICS global firmware and a custom ROM, I not sure if if this location is still accurate, but go to settings-call-preferred network. When you get to this you should see a number of options. One is LTE only (4G setting) if that is what you want to do. However, if you do this, then you may not get a data connection if 4G is not available. Also, if you have a weak 4G signal, if will eat up your battery time.
You might try downloading a 4G Toggle program from Play Store. It will take you directly to phone settings. Even though I live in a 4G area, I actually leave my phone in 3G CDMA only mode unless I really need the 4G speed to download something. I get much better battery life.
You could try getting into the hidden phone settings and changing your prefered connection to CDMA, LTE which should disable 3g if i understand it right. That option should also save you a bit of battery life as well if it works.
You should be able to choose lte only from the hidden menu
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