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I have been around the forum for many years now, but am new to Android. I purchased a GT-i9100 in India for work travel between US and there. I have rooted and upgraded to 2.3.4, and applied a new kernel to remove the exclamation point. So, with that said, here is my question:
I am in the US right now, and in an area supported by T Mobile HSPA, but the phone will only connect to Edge. I am PRETTY sure it was only connecting to Edge before I did the work, but I cannot be sure. Would there be anything I did to the phone that would prevent it from getting onto the "4G" network? Is there anything I need to do now to change so it can connect?
I am not sure if this is related either, but I have a Verizon LTE data card, and if I place that SIM in the GT-i9100, it won't recognize it at all. It seems to only see T Mobile and ATT in the US.
I have spoken to T Mobile and they confirmed the 4g availability where I am, and they also reset my network connection, so the issue does not appear to be on my account or with TMobile.
Sorry for the long post, but I have been searching around and can't seem to get my small mind around resolution.
The SGS2 does not work with T-Mobile's 4G bands here in the US. If you want 4G you'll need AT&T.
dvinnola said:
Sorry for the long post, but I have been searching around and can't seem to get my small mind around resolution.
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That's because there is no resolution. As stated in several other threads on these forums (learn to do a search, and there's even one on the main page of Q/A right now) THERE IS NO WAY to get 3G on T-Mobile. The hardware in the phone does not support their 1700MHZ band.
Your 2 options:
1. Buy a T-Mobile phone
2. Switch to AT&T
I really need help with this one. I just bought an ATT Samsung galaxy note i717 to use with simple mobile. Unfortunately, simple mobile data speed is so slow that I decided to go with Straight Talk. I got the Straight Talk sim card last night and immediately pop it in my galaxy note. Signal strength look excellent, call quality was also great.
My excitement ended when I decided to set up my data through the APN. Unfortunately, when I open the APN tab, ATT appears but when I try editing so as to make the necessary changes, the APN cannot be edited!! I have tried everything and now am at a lost! I have called ST and they say it should work since infact my phone is an ATT phone. This phone is also unlocked. When I place the simple mobile sim card in the phone, I can definitely edit T-Mobile in the APN settings. I called Samsung Customer service, and was told that Straight Talk is not part of their support network.
Please people, I really need help configuring this problem. Any help out there will be highly appreciated!!
Kormasah7410
What happens if you hit the menu button ? Do you have the option to ADD APN ?
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I really need help with this one. I just bought an ATT Samsung galaxy note i717 to use with simple mobile. Unfortunately, simple mobile data speed is so slow that I decided to go with Straight Talk. I got the Straight Talk sim card last night and immediately pop it in my galaxy note. Signal strength look excellent, call quality was also great.
My excitement ended when I decided to set up my data through the APN. Unfortunately, when I open the APN tab, ATT appears but when I try editing so as to make the necessary changes, the APN cannot be edited!! I have tried everything and now am at a lost! I have called ST and they say it should work since infact my phone is an ATT phone. This phone is also unlocked. When I place the simple mobile sim card in the phone, I can definitely edit T-Mobile in the APN settings. I called Samsung Customer service, and was told that Straight Talk is not part of their support network.
Please people, I really need help configuring this problem. Any help out there will be highly appreciated!!
Kormasah7410
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Instead of editing.....MAKE A NEW ONE...lol
Do a search for ST or Straight Talk in the Note threads. I seem to remember reading something about the proxy needs to be deleted. Anyway, I think your answer is here. Just search some. Good luck.
EDIT: Here, I found something that might help. Try the second post suggestion, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630402.
Im alsothinking about making the switch to straight talk. The speeds for SIMPLE MOBILE throttle from 6 Mbps to 120 Kbps on download speeds. Its truly not consistent. I got the SAUROM ROM with the Tmo_SGH_T989_VKL1_radio_ATTNOTE.zip tmobile modem at first. I called simple mobile and told them y the hell is my speeds to damn slow. As usual, they give the run around. So I to think it was the modem. So I change from GB to ICS and had the same result from different radio bands. I just purchase this sim card yesterday. On the 05/02/12. So I will be paying attention to this thread for answers.
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Im alsothinking about making the switch to straight talk. The speeds for SIMPLE MOBILE throttle from 6 Mbps to 120 Kbps on download speeds. Its truly not consistent. I got the SAUROM ROM with the Tmo_SGH_T989_VKL1_radio_ATTNOTE.zip tmobile modem at first. I called simple mobile and told them y the hell is my speeds to damn slow. As usual, they give the run around. So I to think it was the modem. So I change from GB to ICS and had the same result from different radio bands. I just purchase this sim card yesterday. On the 05/02/12. So I will be paying attention to this thread for answers.
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Good luck i never went over edge speeds with any of the mods hopefully is not the same for you was on simple moved to t-mobile prepay
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I have been running my i717 note on straight talk for the past month or so and am loving it. Had an Infuse before that. I am getting great speeds. All I did was add a new APN and then put the dot next to it once done.
I had tried simple mobile before though on a G2x but it was just horrid on speed. I tested the phone on the SM sim and an actual t-mobile sim. Difference in day and night. The SM one was actually faster if you forced edge speed!
Samsung Galaxy Note i717 Data Setup Problem on Straight Talk
Thanks so much guys for all of you advice. I was able add a new APN and it all workout. Infact I am currently enjoying 4G speed with clear reception on my i717 galaxy note since infact I am on ATT network. Super fast speed people! Simple mobile network was giving edge speed. ST is way better. Thanks again people.
kormasah7410 said:
Thanks so much guys for all of you advice. I was able add a new APN and it all workout. Infact I am currently enjoying 4G speed with clear reception on my i717 galaxy note since infact I am on ATT network. Super fast speed people! Simple mobile network was giving edge speed. ST is way better. Thanks again people.
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C an you please share your APN settings?
I just got my Note!
Awaiting my sim card from ST, so I am very glad to hear things are working out for you!!!
uckfay said:
C an you please share your APN settings?
I just got my Note!
Awaiting my sim card from ST, so I am very glad to hear things are working out for you!!!
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Your Sim will come with a pink card/insert with everything you need to know... My little brother just took my inspire over to straight talk and he has no complaints.
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uckfay said:
C an you please share your APN settings?
I just got my Note!
Awaiting my sim card from ST, so I am very glad to hear things are working out for you!!!
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The instructions are printed on the card the SIM comes with. You can also find it on http://www.straighttalksim.com/support.php click on the Phone Programming tab.
Hey I'm waiting on my Straight Talk Sim that I ordered on 6/7. I havent even recieved a tracking number yet. But I wanted to know if any rom would work with Straight Talk? Also has anyone in the previous post gotten kicked off yet?
kormasah7410 said:
Thanks so much guys for all of you advice. I was able add a new APN and it all workout. Infact I am currently enjoying 4G speed with clear reception on my i717 galaxy note since infact I am on ATT network. Super fast speed people! Simple mobile network was giving edge speed. ST is way better. Thanks again people.
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Can u post a speed test?
By the way, you can still use simple mobile with 4G speed, just flash a tmobile modem
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sosmooth757 said:
Hey I'm waiting on my Straight Talk Sim that I ordered on 6/7. I havent even recieved a tracking number yet. But I wanted to know if any rom would work with Straight Talk? Also has anyone in the previous post gotten kicked off yet?
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Why would you get kicked off? Do you mean for excessive data usage?
I've been on it for a couple of weeks, no problems here. But, I don't use a lot of data either. I try to stay on wifi when possible.
here are links for the modems
http://forum.androidspin.com/showthread.php/9154-MODEM-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-i717-Modems
kormasah7410 said:
Thanks so much guys for all of you advice. I was able add a new APN and it all workout. Infact I am currently enjoying 4G speed with clear reception on my i717 galaxy note since infact I am on ATT network. Super fast speed people! Simple mobile network was giving edge speed. ST is way better. Thanks again people.
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hey man i hope you can help me out here i have a unlocked samsung galaxy note 1 sgh i717 and i am having the same problem you was having my talk is great but im having issues on my data my phone is 4g LTE smart phone but i can only seem to get g or e how can i get 4g? if you can help me out i would really appreciate it..my email is [email protected]
make sure you put:
"mms2.tracfone.com"
for the MMS proxy I stopped having issues receiving MMS after doing that not sure if they put that in their documentation yet with the SIM but one of the customer service agents told me to do that and it works for me.
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Ok, just a disclaimer (I am well-aware of my n00b status here)... I spent quite a few hours already on this site and on the Android forums, and on Google searching for answers to this... Not to mention time at the AT&T store and chatting w/some other phone reps (including Samsung tech support and AT&T tech support)... And while I've made some progress, I still can't get any definitive answers here.
So... that being said, first (and big 'sigh' I'm sure to many) is that I'm using a South Korea Note - the SHV-E160S. I know this is the I717 forums, but before I get flamed and booted, let me explain...
Well, I am on AT&T. No problems with calls or texting (minus the annoying 80-character limit, but anyways)... However, I have a BIG problem with the LTE. I'm on the LTE data plan, however, I cannot access any data network other than GPRS. Yes, my pings take about 533ms. My download speeds are about 53kb/s. This sucks, quite a lot. Esp when compared to my fiance's Note, which side-by-side gets about 13mb/s on the LTE network.
So... Did some research, and got the run-around... Less all the crap I heard from AT&T reps... It seems that the antenna for my Note is set to LTE850/LTE1800, and the actual AT&T SGH-I717's antenna is set to LTE700/LTE1700/2100. My sources for this come from PDAdb.net (I'd hyperlink, but my post count is not high enough to do that, yet).
So... Here come the questions. First... Is the antenna frequency tuning something built-into the hardware, or is it something that can be tuned via software?
-If it's in the hardware, would it be possible to buy an AT&T-spec LTE antenna? Which antenna gets replaced (from what I understand, there are two, and I can't find a legit source that tells me which is which), and where could I buy such a thing?
-If it's in the software, what would I have to do to re-tune the antenna? My phone is rooted with the latest Gingerbread Tegrak kernel.
Lastly... Though there is a difference between the LTE antennas... I still cannot access any network other than GPRS. I should at least be able to access EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA+ as well, but I can't.
If ALL else fails, I guess I could get a portable tethering device with a contract... But that'd be oh-so-annoying to have to carry around all the time, and I'd like to avoid that option as much as possible. I'm paying $30/mo for LTE service on my phone already!
Anyways... Any thoughts or advice would be very appreciated, and my apologies if anything here is out-of-place. Thanks in advance!
U have the international note. Doesn't have late chip in it. But ur note has better CPU then the att note. The international note CPU is not comparable with att lte chipset that's y Samsung use 2different CPU. Yes u should be able to get 3g. Reset your apn. And search around. To find the code to reset your apn. I forgot. Its something like *2260*
I had an international first, had to rest everything to get data. But after few days. I return it cos I prefer to have lte speed more then CPU speed. And I found out the u can just over clock att note to 1.85 instead of stock 1.5. So now I am very happy with my att note.
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Hmm I'm not sure if this method works with the International Note but it's worth a try. You need to get into ServiceMode. On your phone dialer keypad type *#2263# and choose 2 WCDMA Band Preference and select (6) WCDMA all.
Reply with your findings.
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Hmm I'm not sure if this method works with the International Note but it's worth a try. You need to get into ServiceMode. On your phone dialer keypad type *#2263# and choose 2 WCDMA Band Preference and select (6) WCDMA all.
Reply with your findings.
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Thanks for the tip, but all I get is an error: "Connection problem or invalid MMI code."
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Maybe the issue is your kernal and/or radio? Isn't the Tegrak kernal Korean? Most likely your radio is also. That is probably your issue. The way I see it you have 3 choices: Live with it, Sell it and buy an I717 variant, Take the risk and at least flash the ATT Gingerbread radio.
home screen/ menu/ system settings/ more/ mobile networks/ access point names/ AT&T
Do all your entries match these? Write down your current ones before changing or take screen shots. You must use the menu key and save changes. Also make sure that is the APN checked after rebooting.
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U have the international note. Doesn't have late chip in it. But ur note has better CPU then the att note. The international note CPU is not comparable with att lte chipset that's y Samsung use 2different CPU. Yes u should be able to get 3g. Reset your apn. And search around. To find the code to reset your apn. I forgot. Its something like *2260*
I had an international first, had to rest everything to get data. But after few days. I return it cos I prefer to have lte speed more then CPU speed. And I found out the u can just over clock att note to 1.85 instead of stock 1.5. So now I am very happy with my att note.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2
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he doesn't have the international note(n7000) he has the South Korea Note - the SHV-E160S (he says it in OP), which it has the same processor as ours but some minor diferences in other things.
To the OP, why do you have a korean Note when from your avatar you're in the US?, I'm sure there's your problem, that note is set to use bands in korea and not in US, so the data is going to be crap, and for you to attempt to swap out the antenna is risking braking the phone because you run a chance after swapping it, not working and not having a working phone anymore.
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home screen/ menu/ more/ mobile networks/ access point names/ AT&T
Do all your entries match these? Write down your current ones before changing or take screen shots. You must use the menu key and save changes. Also make sure that is the APN checked after rebooting.
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I matched the APN settings of my fiancee's LTE Note first, and that did not work... It's pretty much exactly what you have posted. However, there are a couple things of note (bad pun, sorry). I do not have a 'APN enable/disable' or 'Bearer' field... However, everything else is set the same.
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To the OP, why do you have a korean Note when from your avatar you're in the US?, I'm sure there's your problem, that note is set to use bands in korea and not in US, so the data is going to be crap, and for you to attempt to swap out the antenna is risking braking the phone because you run a chance after swapping it, not working and not having a working phone anymore.
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I have a Korean Note because I was living in Korea for a while, and I just got back to the US last week.
As in my OP, I found that the LTE bands are different; however, I can't even get on any other data networks other than GPRS. I've tried some APNs for HSPA+, and the results are the same.
Swapping the antennas shouldn't be THAT big of a deal if I had to... I'm pretty mechanically inclined. Obviously, I need to know if it would provide the intended results or not first.
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I have a Korean Note because I was living in Korea for a while, and I just got back to the US last week.
As in my OP, I found that the LTE bands are different; however, I can't even get on any other data networks other than GPRS. I've tried some APNs for HSPA+, and the results are the same.
Swapping the antennas shouldn't be THAT big of a deal if I had to... I'm pretty mechanically inclined. Obviously, I need to know if it would provide the intended results or not first.
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Thanks for the reply, was just wondering where you got a Korean note. hope you can figure it out and good luck.
Sent from my CM9 Note.
Hey everyone, I got a art galaxy note last week, try to root it and flash the tmo from to work on tmo 4g.
The first I got the phone, its its already up to pics, so I root it and flashed the ics modems, blaze, kid, and last one(forgot the name)
I can able to get online but the speed is around 500k up, I'm quite upset at the moment. So I try few roms like onlyone beta 4, saurom rc 7.1, also cm9 h0tw1r3 r5 patch 1, tried *#2263# to stay at 1700hz and run hiapn to do wcdma preferred. each rom with all 3modems and still around 500k down. I'm so sad and don't know what should I try next
The best one is under saurom with kid almost reach 1m down.....
Is some had the same problem what im suffering? Please I really need some help....do I need to flash kernel in this circumstances?now is 3.0.8-perf-I717UCLE3-CL577875
PS: I'm in new York area
Please I need some assistance here guys....
there may not be any more help we can provide...
Based on the fact that you have tried all available roms, and modems. and the combinations of both.
I'm not one to give up, but based on the information you have given us, we have nothing else to offer as a suggestion.
It may very well be that your area is a particularly poor one for reception, or network.
Did you have a good speed with the stock rom and modem ?
If so, you may want to revert.......g
Agreed. You tried all the usual suspects. I quit fighting the wrong phone for the network long ago and now buy the phones for the carrier.
20% of the threads around here are about people unsuccessfully using equipment on the network it wasn't designed for.
Since your phone is unlocked, why not get an at&t month-to-month or Straightalk plan.
If you're set on t-mobile, sell or trade the phone on craigslist and get the t-mobile version.
There's no sense in being upset at this.
Thank you ranger and greg for the reply, the only reason I want to make this phone to work on tmo cause I want white other than the dark blue or black....
I know using a phone that not regularly release by the provider doesn't make sense, but just wondering is anyone having the same problem and figure out a best rom/radio or method to get it done.
actually I'm satisfy with 3g speed if it able to. ...
I think I might just give it up and sell it...=[
I have at&t but I rarely get 3g speeds even though that lying network icon is telling me 4g LTE. I don't see much improvement in their network since 3g. Can't you enjoy the phone and forget the network icon? I mean, what are you being prevented from doing?
Bought a refurb SCH-I545 Verizon to run on Tmobile network. Created a new APN and have things working but signal is rather poor. Seems to hunt around a LOT from no signal to full signal and data 2G to 4GLTE. Not consistent at all. Many calls being missed and sometimes trying to call out, I have no signal. Tmobile is out of ideas. I think I have most settings right but something is either wrong with the phone or a setting is off.
Can anyone confirm?
I am considering rooting the phone to delete all the bloatware? I am not sure if the boot loader will be opened? I would not mind losing the Verizon boot screen and the "sim is not verizon" BS....
At first, tmobile thought the phone did not support 1,9ghz but all documents I can find say it is fully supported. Do I need some radio apps?
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Bought a refurb SCH-I545 Verizon to run on Tmobile network. Created a new APN and have things working but signal is rather poor. Seems to hunt around a LOT from no signal to full signal and data 2G to 4GLTE. Not consistent at all. Many calls being missed and sometimes trying to call out, I have no signal. Tmobile is out of ideas. I think I have most settings right but something is either wrong with the phone or a setting is off.
Can anyone confirm?
I am considering rooting the phone to delete all the bloatware? I am not sure if the boot loader will be opened? I would not mind losing the Verizon boot screen and the "sim is not verizon" BS....
At first, tmobile thought the phone did not support 1,9ghz but all documents I can find say it is fully supported. Do I need some radio apps?
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Have you tried asking in the T-Mobile S4 help forum?
If not, try posting your question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324421
You'll probably get better results.
Good luck!