I'm on the unlimited metro pcs plan and recently the lte started being really slow any suggestions on what I should do? I'm on mega fire v10 by the way
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are you sure you are receiving LTE and not HSPA+?
from what i understand the international or dual sim models don't have the same LTE bands compatible with the US carrier frequencys.
Yeah lte has been running great since I bought it until yesterday it just takes a really long time to load things now
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I'm experiencing the exact same thing. I have a MetroPCS Mega (SGH -M819N) and have been on MetroPCS since I got the phone. the LTE has been very fast up until now (anywhere between 30mbps and 40mbps down). My signal still says LTE but my speed is inconsistent now. Sometimes fast and sometimes dog slow. I think it's the MetroPCS network.
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I'm going to call customer service tomorrow and I'll let you know what they say
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I changed the network mode to gsm/wcdma and I'm getting better speeds
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I called them twice and after they reset my SIM card twice I'm getting the speeds I had before this happened
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Is it even possible? If so, how would I go about doing it?
Fyi I'm running nero v3, and am familiar with odin and flashing stuff
Thanks for any answers!
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You can't.
The Vibrant has a GSM cellular modem. MetroPCS is CDMA.
It's impossible to work. You might be able to get a Fascinate working on Metro, though... but why? Metro blows horribly and T-Mobile is barely more expensive for vastly better service and coverage. I pay $65 a month for unlimited everything except calling (500 anytime minutes).
Does metro pcs has 3g?
Op: have u looked into simple mobile. They are cheaper than metro pcs. And u will be able to use ur unlocked phone on their network.
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sLiKK said:
Does metro pcs has 3g?
Op: have u looked into simple mobile. They are cheaper than metro pcs. And u will be able to use ur unlocked phone on their network.
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MetroPCS has been claiming for a while now that they have 4G LTE. They even have 4G LTE phone.
Is it their own network, or are they using Verizon?
BTW check out Simple Mobile, supposedly they use T-Mobiles network, but not too sure if this is true.
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Wow it appears the 4G LTE network is their own, they even released 4G phones before Verizon. Their 4G map is not too shabby, I guess MetroPCS is slowly becoming a serious player.
ps...I know people who have MetroPC, and they have less dead areas than I do on T-Mobile.
Thank you gents. Ill check out simple mobile, though ive never heard of them.
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Metro's LTE is almost fradulent. They have one phone capable of using the LTE network and it's a crappy Samsung featurephone (basically a Gravity T with an LTE modem and a slightly refreshed UI).
The speeds I saw while playing with the demo in the MetroPCS store were barely better than regular old HSDPA on my Vibrant. Definitely not better than HSPA+ on my friend's G2.
If you want real LTE, Verizon's going to likely be the only game in town until AT&T and T-Mobile get their act together, or Sprint tells Clearwire to jump off a bridge. And Verizon's first LTE phone is a seriously dead-sexy Android 2.3, 4.3" screen HTC superphone. It almost makes me want to jump ship and pay Verizon $90 a month for what I pay T-Mobile $65!
Well, I don't even give a crap about the 4g or anything like that as long as it works, what I'm more concerned about is paying 50 a month for unlimited everything.
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im in houston with my international SGS3...
i have tried 3 modems, and i can seem to get above 1.5mbps downloading EVER, unless on WiFi
what speeds are you guys seeing on average with international note in the US on AT&T
the2rrell said:
im in houston with my international SGS3...
i have tried 3 modems, and i can seem to get above 1.5mbps downloading EVER, unless on WiFi
what speeds are you guys seeing on average with international note in the US on AT&T
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Exynos not compatible with AT&T Network. Only HSPA+ I have the HTC One X Quad core on Straight Talk (AT&T MVNO) and get gravy HSPA+ speeds here in Charlotte
so what your saying is no matter what i will not get any better speeds than 1.5 and lower. i get 3g/4g/h+ on my SGS3 right now. unless there just false indicators in the notification bar so i dont see the incompatibility.
Im still in my "iphone" plan and get about 6mb down
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Im still in my "iphone" plan and get about 6mb down
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i would take a consistent half of that....lol
i really didnt think it would be this slow. i mean the phone is blazing----but let me try to download an app. or start up netflix on the go, i even see it in web browsing it just seems slow. and my infuse was not LTE and it ran h+ and got the same 5-6 on at&t
I'm averaging around 3.5 down and 1.5 up on at&t in central pa...ps we don't have lte here...yet
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I'm averaging around 3.5 down and 1.5 up on at&t in central pa...ps we don't have lte here...yet
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what modem are you using?
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what modem are you using?
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Baseband i9300xxle8
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Baseband i9300xxle8
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mine is 3.4 down/ 1.2 up north OC, CA. baseband I9300XXLEF
There is definitely something going on with the SGS3. Right next to my unbranded SGS2/GT-I9100, I'm getting much lower speeds on the exact same network. I'm talking 7.5Mbps vs 3Mbps on AT&T.
Not sure if the modem's just not optimized for the US AT&T networks (yet).
Thank for the test, i really didnt think this was normal. i hoping to find a modem that works well enough to get me the 3-4 mbps......
right now, all yesterday......i could NEVER even get above 300kbps
i love the phone less this aspect of it right now.
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Exynos not compatible with AT&T Network. Only HSPA+ I have the HTC One X Quad core on Straight Talk (AT&T MVNO) and get gravy HSPA+ speeds here in Charlotte
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You're thinking of T-Mobile.
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Does the international galaxy s3 work on t-mobile hspa+?
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Does the international galaxy s3 work on t-mobile hspa+?
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to the OP and anyone experiencing slow network speeds, check you apn settings on the phone make sure you have the ATT phone apn selected (apn name phone) instead of the default Cingular apn...Phone is the HSPA+ apn but on unlocked international phones it defaults to the APN provided by your sim which is the Cingular one...case in point on my nexus i have to always manually input the phone APN after flashing a rom...
also even though 2 phones running on the same network maybe in the same physical location, they may not be connected to the same Cell Site Tower, as such each phone maybe communicating with different towers with varying degrees of network congestion, thereby affecting your speeds...it could also just be the area you're in...as another ATT user with an international s3 has posted screens of him gettin 8mb down
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to the OP and anyone experiencing slow network speeds, check you apn settings on the phone make sure you have the ATT phone apn selected (apn name phone) instead of the default Cingular apn...Phone is the HSPA+ apn but on unlocked international phones it defaults to the APN provided by your sim which is the Cingular one...case in point on my nexus i have to always manually input the phone APN after flashing a rom...
also even though 2 phones running on the same network maybe in the same physical location, they may not be connected to the same Cell Site Tower, as such each phone maybe communicating with different towers with varying degrees of network congestion, thereby affecting your speeds...it could also just be the area you're in...as another ATT user with an international s3 has posted screens of him gettin 8mb down
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I'm don't think you can switch to the phone APN on the $10/$15 medianet plan... has this changed?
I understand cell towers, but you have to realize you're really reaching with that explanation... especially when I am able to get consistent 6-7.5Mbps ALL DAY on the GT-I9100 when I have not been able to hit 3.5Mbps downloads sitting in my office all morning. I'm talking well over 10 tests at various times throughout the day, SOMETHING is up.
CONFIRMED: phone APN does NOT work on the medianet plan, so let's not muddy the water and confuse the issue at hand.
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I'm don't think you can switch to the phone APN on the $10/$15 medianet plan... has this changed?
I understand cell towers, but you have to realize you're really reaching with that explanation... especially when I am able to get consistent 6-7.5Mbps ALL DAY on the GT-I9100 when I have not been able to hit 3.5Mbps downloads sitting in my office all morning. I'm talking well over 10 tests at various times throughout the day, SOMETHING is up.
CONFIRMED: phone APN does NOT work on the medianet plan, so let's not muddy the water and confuse the issue at hand.
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Well if you can't change the APN..you can either complain to ATT or try another S3...for me when I first got my GNex I got crap slow speeds on HSPA+ till changing the APN...but I am not on a medianet plan..
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Well if you can't change the APN..you can either complain to ATT or try another S3...for me when I first got my GNex I got crap slow speeds on HSPA+ till changing the APN...but I am not on a medianet plan..
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That's the point, I'm talking about the medianet plan, and getting much faster speeds on a phone sitting right next to it. Repeatable results too.
Again, has nothing to do with APN in this case.
Cmd512, are you saying that the s3 will not work with medianet data plan?
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Cmd512, are you saying that the s3 will not work with medianet data plan?
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NO, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying I'm seeing significantly slower speeds than my UK GT-I9100 when running the same exact speed tests at various times during the day. Could just be a modem issue as these phones were launched for the UK region, who knows.
Okay thanks, looking to purchase a galaxy s3 and justifying the savings from the 5gb data vs medianet plan to my wife. BTW what color is yours?
Interesting thing is happening to me right now.
You see i flashed the tmobile ics blaze modem on to my device in order to test a sim on it. After a few tries i got tmobile signals and all was working fine. Since the tmobile booth i went to didn't have the boyd prepaid offer i decide to go home and have them send it to via mail. This is were is gets interesting.
I leave the mall with my att service still in tack and the ics blaze modem on it. I am grandfathered in to my unlimited plan on lte and am a data hog( netflix grooveshark and the lot) and to my amazement not only was my service still working on hspa+ , it was not being throttled I'm getting around 6mb down and 2 up.
I shut the down the phone and all and it still works.
Luky me . Or maybe since hspa+ is limited to 3gb of data maybe thats the reason
Anyone else seen or heard this?
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Hello, I am asking if anyone could possibly give me any insight as to why my data speeds are very very slow for supposedly being 4g? Upon doing the speedtest I got a ping of 67, download score of 3.728 mps and upload score of 1.119 mps. This is the best I have been able to achieve and I am literally a couple hundred yards from a newly built att antenna. At my house about 1 mile and a half away I usually get download and upload scores well under 2.0 and .5.. I am running The Collective's AoCP version 5.7 with the I717UCMD3 modem. By the way on my network mode when I try to select LTE/WCDMA or LTE/GSM/WCDMA it does not stick and goes back to GSM/WCDMA preferred. I have about 5 different APN's and the ATT wap.cingular is the one that sticks and seems to work the best. I am on the straight talk 25$/ mo plan with the additional 1gb of data. Any help would be tremendous!
Are you sure your on at&t straight talk and not tmobile?
What color is your SIM card?
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Are you sure your on at&t straight talk and not tmobile?
What color is your SIM card?
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Yes I am sure.. I have the att white, orange, and blue sim card that I bought from the att store and I pay my bill on the att website.
Update!
After being on the phone with ATT for over an hour and a half I switched to the 60$ per month prepaid plan which gives unlimited calling, texting, and 2gb of data... Only to still have slow internet speeds (around 2mbps max). They tried to send me text messages that would install the internet settings, which did not make it to my phone. Then they scheduled me for an appointment tomorrow morning to get the ATT 4g LTE sim card. They said that it is better for my phone to use that sim instead of the standard sim card and that it is usually 30$ to upgrade but that they would give it to me for free! Then after the call it seems right as the clock stroke 9 pm LTE showed up on the top of my notification bar! The speed test showed as follows in the attachment. I am looking forward to seeing what this new sim card can do for me and I am very pleased at my new speeds!
It sounds like you are in an area that is receiving the LTE upgrade. We are without it still.
Yeah we installed a new tower here on campus last year and I think it really helped. Today I went in to get my new sim card and while I was there it was stuck back on HSDPA+ but when I got home it had gone back to LTE. They said that the custom ROM on my phone may not support LTE and that I may need to get it reset. I just made sure to write down the APN settings in case I lose them on a reboot I can just fix it again myself. So happy with the LTE though as my home internet is only 3mbps!
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HSPA+ = 4G LTE. Some roms have mixed up icons. Its your phone experience that matters, not the icon.
Yeah well with the H+ icon it was around 2mbps and with the LTE icon its around 10-16 Mbps hah and its the same rom. But I think when I turn my phone off it takes a while for my LTE to restore so I'll just try keeping it on at all times!
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In the old days we used to reboot every day, but I probably don't reboot this phone unless I'm swapping sim cards as I leave the USA. I think your reception will improve over time as the network improves. I wonder why it takes the phone a while to "warm up"?
I honestly have no idea. I would say maybe the rom aettings have it set to wmcda preferred and you can't manually change it but after the phone tries using the apn it changes to the lte/gsm/wdcma network mode and it sticks. Oh well no big deal hah I tried the speed test last night at work about 200 yards from the att tower and received 24.5 mbps. Very happy with that!
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I honestly have no idea. I would say maybe the rom aettings have it set to wmcda preferred and you can't manually change it but after the phone tries using the apn it changes to the lte/gsm/wdcma network mode and it sticks. Oh well no big deal hah I got these speeds last night when I was about 200 yards from our att tower.
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Hey! I have had a rough winter with money and Sprint kind of dumped me after 7yrs of service with no issues with me paying the bill! Anyway I just got this phone recently and hate for it to be a paper weight or media player only so I wanted to know if I have any options other than the Sprint network? I am not a complete rookie I have it rooted and running Barepop at the moment so any advice, help, or info would be greatly appreciated! I hope I don't make anyone angry by posting here. Thanks!
Well it depends if you are ok with like 3G-4G i use t-mobile prepaid some times I went to walmart and got a sim kit for $35 I got unlimted call text and like 5GB's of LTE. Sadly though you cannot get LTE because the phone does not support the LTE but I get like 15 mps 4G and like 10 mb 3G witch is still faster then sprint's LTE and 3G combined. You will have to flash a GSM rom from the android develoment thread right now there is no GSM unlock on for ZV8. You could also try simple mobile I just recomend you go to walmart and look around the celluar area they have a couple sim kits.
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Well it depends if you are ok with like 3G-4G i use t-mobile prepaid some times I went to walmart and got a sim kit for $35 I got unlimted call text and like 5GB's of LTE. Sadly though you cannot get LTE because the phone does not support the LTE but I get like 15 mps 4G and like 10 mb 3G witch is still faster then sprint's LTE and 3G combined. You will have to flash a GSM rom from the android develoment thread right now there is no GSM unlock on for ZV8. You could also try simple mobile I just recomend you go to walmart and look around the celluar area they have a couple sim kits.
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lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
Wow guess your lucky most people complain about getting only like 10 mbps (sprintsucks facebook page)
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lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
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that's the fastest I've ever seen a Sprint!! around here the fastest sprints I've seen are about 10mbps
Thanks for the info!
I am pretty sure I was getting about 25mbs DL speeds on Sprint here in Savannah but I can live with anything over 2-3mbs. I already have a Cricket account and Sim card but I am trying to figure out the best method to get it working on my G3. Cricket is now on the Att network so signal quality is decent and LTE speeds. Anyone who can give me a little guide to get it working on the Sprint G3 I would be VERY GRATEFUL!
my Galaxy Mega on T Mobile got near 40mbps here
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lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
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He does have his facts straight what you are showing is Sprint's "Spark" LTE network. Their normal LTE network doesn't go above 12 Mbps even with full bars. You are lucky enough to be in an area where spark is enabled, most places don't have spark network enabled although sprint is rolling it out as fast as possible. Their overall speeds are very dismal (with exception of spark LTE).
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He does have his facts straight what you are showing is Sprint's "Spark" LTE network. Their normal LTE network doesn't go above 12 Mbps even with full bars. You are lucky enough to be in an area where spark is enabled, most places don't have spark network enabled although sprint is rolling it out as fast as possible. Their overall speeds are very dismal (with exception of spark LTE).
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Sorry I was unaware that there was a normal LTE. i thought Sprint LTE was all SPARK.
Guess i didn't have MY facts straight. :cyclops: