I'm in USA X829 currently on METRO PCS GSM carrier. I'm getting LTE fine but its not switching to 3G. I'm currently running linage ROM. This phone does support 3g band for my carrier. My question, is there a secret menu or something to setup a priority for LTE 3g? I know on some TouchWiz ROMs this is possible. I've also tried flashing Chinese, USA and the developer modem. Would only get LTE or H H+. Would not show 3G and wouldn't get any data till I'm in a LTE capable area.
Did a little more research H+ and H are faster than 3g. But I wasn't getting any data when they turned on
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I know the Jetstream was designed to be run on AT&T and Rogers, but I am curious if it is possible to flash a radio to enable usage of T-Mobile's HSPA network, much like the Samsung Galaxy Note has been enabled to, as seen here.
Can any of the amazing Devs out there shed some light on this?
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I know the Jetstream was designed to be run on AT&T and Rogers, but I am curious if it is possible to flash a radio to enable usage of T-Mobile's HSPA network, much like the Samsung Galaxy Note has been enabled to, as seen here.
Can any of the amazing Devs out there shed some light on this?
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jdavis08, Simple answer is yes. It is a standard 2G / 3G / LTE (AT&T / AWS band) phone. So you can use it on ANY 2G / 3G / LTE network with a SIM. But you may need to break the SIM Lock on any handset.
Just wanted to clarify. The Jetstream is 2G/3G/LTE /capable, 2G (GSM): 850/900/1800/1900MHz, 3G (UMTS/HSPA): 850/1900/2100, and LTE: 700mhz & AWS-1700/2100.
Currently, T-Mobile only uses the AWS for their HSPA+ network, not LTE (from what I understand, AWS will be transitioned for LTE and 1900mhz refarmed for 3G/4G early 2013) - and if I'm not mistaken, the HSPA+ is only supported by the "3G" band of this device, not the "LTE"
So - to make a long story short. I am a T-Mobile subscriber with various "4G" phones from T-Mobile. Their 4G only works if the phone has a radio with AWS for HSPA as T-Mobile (unlike AT&T) does not use the 1900mhz for their HSPA (yet). I own this tablet.. It has been SIM unlocked and it simply does not get anything above EDGE... and I live near and visit major cities in Washington State, Seattle/Bellevue/Tacoma, which definitely have TMo's 4G coverage.
I know I should just cool my jets until TMo rolls out the network upgrades, as I have no interest in joining AT&T. I was just curious if there was some way to "trick" the phone to use the AWS frequencies for HSPA, like the Galaxy Note has been made to do as the radio specs are identical.
I know that the Note was enabled to do this by flashing another radio. Support is minimal for the Jetstream these days... so I was just reaching out.
Thanks guys
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I have the international phone of the S2. I am right now running on T-Mobile's service. I can call, sms, and mms just fine. But its on the EDGE network for data. If you root the phone (which I have done before), will I be able to force the phone to go into a 4G network like HSPDA? T-Mobile is a GSM network, however T-Mobile's required bands (1700 and 2100) are not listed in the GSM bands but on the HSPDA bands.
You can force the use of WCDMA without root access by dialing *#*#4636#*#* selecting phone information and then WCDMA only from the drop down box.
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I selected WCDMA only, but for some reason, it automatically switches back to auto mode. Should I reflash the modem?
Umust have selected Preffered... Use WCDMA only
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Hello,
I have the international phone of the S2. I am right now running on T-Mobile's service. I can call, sms, and mms just fine. But its on the EDGE network for data. If you root the phone (which I have done before), will I be able to force the phone to go into a 4G network like HSPDA? T-Mobile is a GSM network, however T-Mobile's required bands (1700 and 2100) are not listed in the GSM bands but on the HSPDA bands.
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even if you force the phoone to use UMTS, or HSDPA, you probably still won't see 3G (or what t-mobile call 4G), until they refarm their 3G network to 1900 band in your market (or you could be one of the lucky few that are in those refarmed market already).
Vigz said:
Hello,
I have the international phone of the S2. I am right now running on T-Mobile's service. I can call, sms, and mms just fine. But its on the EDGE network for data. If you root the phone (which I have done before), will I be able to force the phone to go into a 4G network like HSPDA? T-Mobile is a GSM network, however T-Mobile's required bands (1700 and 2100) are not listed in the GSM bands but on the HSPDA bands.
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If you are using the international variant of Galaxy SII, ie GT I9100, on T-Mobile, don't even bother yourself as you will be stucked on EDGE.
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I recently bought an unlocked Atrix 4g off ebay to use on my tmobile plan. Everything went smooth except that I'm having issues with slow internet. I've looked all over for a solution(youtube, google, xda forums, etc.) All I've been able to come up with was that until late 2012 this phone wasn't even able to connect to tmobile except on 2g, and a bunch of useless(to me) instructions on how to change my APN.
At this point the phone tells me I'm on 3g, and I consistently have 3-5 bars. My old sidekick had 4g in 90% of the area and 3g everywhere else, so I know for a fact that there is coverage. However when I do a speed test I get an average of 25-50Kbps download and upload, occasionally I get 170Kbps. I've called tmobile and verified that there is EDGE network support in my area(apparently also HSPDA but no HSPA+). I just installed GSM Singal Monitoring app from the play store which is also telling me I'm on EDGE network type.
I've tried every combination of APN settings I can find on the internet including cingular settings and have come up with nothing. This data transfer rates don't drop, and don't get better. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sure it's not the phone, I can get 18Mbps at work on the wifi(running tests, downloads I've seen up to 4MB/s or 32Mbps). Also if there's anything I need to do on the phone to get internet speeds which requires root, I've already rooted the phone. The only thing I've installed since the root is CWM.
I have used both the Atrix 4G and Atrix HD on T-Mobile. The 4G does not have the radio frequencies needed for 4G / LTE data service from T-Mobile, but the HD does. In fact the HD is a perfect match for T-Mobile frequencies. You can check out the detailed specs for these phones on GSMARENA.
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I also am on TMOUS, the best I've gotten is 5.3 Download 2.7upload on edge.
Im not sure why but I cannot use 3g.Not for a lack of trying though.(tried many apn settings,and even playing with the Dev radio settings)
I want to set the facts straight. The only T-Mobile frequencies that are compatible with the bands on our 'specific' devices are for 2G, Recently T-Mobile has refarmed their towers to support unlocked AT&T devices like ours, specifically they refarmed the towers in 'certain' areas to broadcast and receive 1900 mhz waves that our device's can use for 3G and so called "4G" If you only get 2G that's because there are no nearby towers functioning on the 1900 mhz frequencies.
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I want to set the facts straight. The only T-Mobile frequencies that are compatible with the bands on our 'specific' devices are for 2G, Recently T-Mobile has refarmed their towers to support unlocked AT&T devices like ours, specifically they refarmed the towers in 'certain' areas to broadcast and receive 1900 mhz waves that our device's can use for 3G and so called "4G" If you only get 3G that's because there are no nearby towers functioning on the 1900 mhz frequencies.
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I would like to add that I own an Atrix 4G on T-Mobile (in Chicago), and I get Edge, 3G AND HSPA+ signals. OP was correct in that the phone wasn't able to connect to the other bands except on 2G until about december 2012 (they expanded in order to entice iPhone users to switch providers).
But currently the MB860 (Atrix 4G) *does* work on HSPA+ (which is often called 4G, even though it is not true 4G LTE), which is still much faster than 3G.
post or send be a copy of your apn settings.I'm in Houston and they've reformed their towers here.
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I would love it to already get fast 3g for anything else I also have an ahd
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Hi there, i was able to get one of these from a local walmart for about $150 bucks, its a Verizon Prepaid samsung Galaxy S4 i545PP i545ppvruaoh7 is the build, and it comes with lolipop.
the reason why i bought is is because according to http://willmyphonework.net/
this phone was supposed to support 4G LTE Band4-AWS , but it does not!
it sure comes unlocked, i can put any sim card and i get signal, i get 2g, 3g, H, H+
I tried different sim cards and the best it can do is H+ on all of them.
I tried changing it to global, and also changing it to LTE GSM etc on the android menu but i have no luck.
Is there any way to enable the 4G on this phone? I live in a contry where all carriers use the same 3G and 4G that At&T uses. So here all At&T phones got 2g, 3g,and 4g out of the box. And i thought this verizon phone supported 4G Band4.
ZeldaWW said:
Hi there, i was able to get one of these from a local walmart for about $150 bucks, its a Verizon Prepaid samsung Galaxy S4 i545PP i545ppvruaoh7 is the build, and it comes with lolipop.
the reason why i bought is is because according to http://willmyphonework.net/
this phone was supposed to support 4G LTE Band4-AWS , but it does not!
it sure comes unlocked, i can put any sim card and i get signal, i get 2g, 3g, H, H+
I tried different sim cards and the best it can do is H+ on all of them.
I tried changing it to global, and also changing it to LTE GSM etc on the android menu but i have no luck.
Is there any way to enable the 4G on this phone? I live in a contry where all carriers use the same 3G and 4G that At&T uses. So here all At&T phones got 2g, 3g,and 4g out of the box. And i thought this verizon phone supported 4G Band4.
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Are you sure ATT uses band 4 (AWS - 1700/2100) in your area? ATT uses a number of different LTE bands in different areas, and the Verizon S4 (prepaid or not) only supports band 4.
im sure my carrier uses same band as At&T, 100% positive that my carrier uses Band 4.
reason is because i also bought two other phones, a moto E At&T gophone and i unlocked it and i got 4G icon at first boot with the carrier here.
but verizon galaxy S4 prepaid is different, i can´t get more than H+, i have never seen the 4G icon
and i dont think there is a hack for it to enable all bands
Got a sprint varient. After now 2 days of searches and reading trial and error.
My g5 sprint gsm unlocked. No matter how i select radios gsm gsm/cdma lte auto everything.
I'm picking up band 5 lte tower. I verified these readings with a att s6 edge.
randomly hpsa and very rarely a gsm network but g5 does connect to all same bands and netwroks as s6 side by side in lte discovery.
On all my att phones on lte discovery primary is lte band 2. G5 wants to default to band 5.
It did connect to band 2 for a few min with great signal might i add. Secondary connection is live on in lte discovery on s6 edge with gsm and network info listed.
Now again my g5 is on 1st lte band 5 most of the time and the 2nd connection is rarely picking up but has switched a few times between hspa and gsm just like att phones info in discovery. but usally sitting here with gsm and a n/s
As my g2 g3 g4 all were sprint on att no problem I didnt figure the g5 would be any diffrent
This seems like a connection and band priority issue not a compatibility issue.
Am i missing something? i cannot find band priority in any hidden menus. Or did sprint and lg take away some of the versatile sprint radios functionality?
sorry for being long winded
Its just weird. It will make calls,text.mms,internet all on 3g 4g and lte. But signal keeps dropping. While it continueously switches from lte to 3g band 2 and 5 Does not drop calls. Sometimes i have to make a call a time or 2 to get connected to the network. Texts seem to be coming through on time.
thanks in advance guys
from what i need i gotta either set band priority or find setting for lte/gsm/umts which i cant find
i am also getting too low reception