Hey All,
So I have my SM-925T S6 Edge unlocked. I have a AT&T sim card from a iPhone. My employer pays for the iPhone's service on AT&T.
I took the sim from the iPhone and put it in my S6. The data speeds are very slow compared to the iPhone. I'll get some Speed Test screenshot's here in a minute.
Living Room
S6: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1504946364
iPhone: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1403460720
Bedroom
S6: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1504947341
Bedroom: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1403461473
So my main question is is there any reason this happening? Is there a special sim they use for iPhone's or what?
Thanks!
Are your APN's set properly??
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I'm on a iPhone 4S now. I have a micro SIM adapter but I heard that I can't use this sim in the i9100 but its provisioned for the iPhone only. The AT&T local rep said he would give me a new SIM.
1. Can I just pop this SIM into the unlocked galaxy s2 and be good to go?
2. If it needs to be activated I don't know how I'm going to do this because the only phone I have is the iPhone and a regular sim won't fit inside that.
3. If I tell the AT&T that my iPhone broke and my friend is letting me borrow his galaxy S2 and I get the SIM can they activate it without the phone?
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Popped the iPhone 4S sim in with the adapter and getting HSPA+ with no change to APN.
As I know (because I owened an iPhone 4 before I moved to Galaxy) you don't have to activate the phone as you had done with your iPhone, when you would have to connect it to iTunes to give you full access to the phone.
cristi_8ic said:
As I know (because I owened an iPhone 4 before I moved to Galaxy) you don't have to activate the phone as you had done with your iPhone, when you would have to connect it to iTunes to give you full access to the phone.
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Ok. My main question is...will I get HSPA+ speeds off my iPhone 4S SIM? Or do I need to get another SIM from AT&T?
as long as the sim is working, you should get HSPA+.
but you may have to call in and get some items changed on your account as not all the features that are used for an iphone are available on the sgs and visa versa.
Cosmic Blue said:
as long as the sim is working, you should get HSPA+.
but you may have to call in and get some items changed on your account as not all the features that are used for an iphone are available on the sgs and visa versa.
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What would I say to them not to get flagged by AT&T for using an unlocked phone? Could I tell them that I switched from my iPhone to a friends SGS2?
Anyway to activate 3G? Phone won't work on AT&T's 4G LTE. Only works on 3G !
AT&T says they have an LTE problem. My phone is the only one out of 4 on the
same acct. (all LTE) that doesn't work. Crazy!
Already had a Galaxy S3 I747 that did the same thing. No VM or rec'd a few hours
later & no Texts (but if I have texts out there not rec'd., I can send myself a text & everything
comes in) all of this on 4g & sporadic receipt of calls. AT&T says its a system problem not the phone.
AT&T put the phone on 3G it works, but their system keeps tossing it back to 4g LTE! AT&T no fix for it yet.
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Do you have an LTE sim card?
Check your APN setting. It should be "pta" for access point name.
At&t LTE isn't a complete network. There's only one tower in my area that is LTE. And they do have system problems that can last for days.
Good question on the SIM Card. It has no identifying markings on it, as in the old cards used to have 3G on them. It looks like the old AT&T SIM CARD. If the LTE is the smaller SIM card, the answer is no.
My Galaxy S3 had the smaller card & still had the same problems. Right now (in settings... Mobile Network type) the phone jumps from UMTS
to HSPA:11 yet my wife's S2 reads LTE & no problems. Any phones out there that have the option of turning off 4G LTE besides the IPHONE?
APN is pta & problems since NOV. but just found out end of March it is an LTE problem after I began to contact the ppl at the top of the ladder at AT&T. Techs that I spoke with don't have a clue!
What I can't figure out is why out of 4 phones on the plan, I'm the only one with problems. If it were "just" a system problem it would logically affect all phones. Yet AT&T says it's an anomally with my line.
Wondering if another phone & new number would rectify it? lol
Try sim card swapping with a phone that reaches LTE network.
Ok, I have have a galaxy s4 and my sis sent me her Verizon Note 4. I put my tmobile sim card in and got the this is not verizon notification. I've read some of of the forums here about changing the apn and changed each field like users here said to, changed to global network restarted and I still get no signal. There's still an inactive verizon sim, I've heard factory reset with verizon sim then change apn then put tmobile sim in but that doesn't work either. Please help, this phone is so much better tan my tiny s4 I don't want to ditch it or switch to verizon.
I have a Galaxy S6 Edge from US Cellular that I just got and trying to switch it over to straight talk with no luck. The phone is unlocked, I took the sim card from my Droid Maxx and it works in the Galaxy for calls, and textremely. It will only get 3G service and constantly roaming, MMS won't work. Straight talk tech support told me it needed a new sI'm for AT&T. So after spending $70 on Activation kit, they tell me sorry ATT won't work due to lack of towers in my area. I need to use Verizon towers. So how do I factory unlock the phone to use on that network? I've tried changing access points, no luck. I have nano Sims from straight talk. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cmust402 said:
I have a Galaxy S6 Edge from US Cellular that I just got and trying to switch it over to straight talk with no luck. The phone is unlocked, I took the sim card from my Droid Maxx and it works in the Galaxy for calls, and textremely. It will only get 3G service and constantly roaming, MMS won't work. Straight talk tech support told me it needed a new sI'm for AT&T. So after spending $70 on Activation kit, they tell me sorry ATT won't work due to lack of towers in my area. I need to use Verizon towers. So how do I factory unlock the phone to use on that network? I've tried changing access points, no luck. I have nano Sims from straight talk. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Put the sim in you want to use, go to settings, backup and reset, and reset network settings. Then reboot. Then go to settings, mobile networks, set network mode to LTE/3G/2G. Then reboot again. Try that
Still just 3g and roaming. I'm on access point I made for straight talk (tfdata) I also don't show LTE/3/2 I have global, Lte/CDMA and lte/GSM/umts
Hi all, I just bought a new Samsung S9 plus 256gb US version unlocked from Samsung's website and I have TMobiles unlimited one plan. The Sim card I got was in my old ZTE Blade V8 Pro unlocked (you can probably guess why I bought a new phone). After putting the SIM card in the new phone for about a few hours it was a night and day difference where places I tested my LTE speed was 30mbs verses 6-8 on the old phone and the internet loaded quicker.
However, later in the day I started getting no connection or slow speeds and sometimes got edge+ connections in places where even my crappy V8 Pro would get connections. I called TMobile and gave them my phone's emei number and the Sim number that I used. At first it worked better but I still get less bars of reception and there are times when it takes a while for a LTE connection when there is no wifi. I even get LTE+ and it will still load some things like twitch streaming slow.
Someone suggested flashing TMobile firmware to the phone to try help connecting to their network like their branded phone's, but I have no idea what file to download for TMobile firmware for Odin to flash. Also, would it help to get updates from TMobile faster? People who have a TMobile sold S9+ are getting the new delayed update but my unlocked phone isn't. Thanks for your time.
I can say with a great deal of confidence that flipping firmware will not resolve this problem. It sounds like a hardware issue to me.