WE UNDERSTAND THAT CHINESE IS AVAILABLE FOR THE XDA. IS JAPANESE (NIHONGO) AVAILABLE AS WELL? REGARDS
Look at this thread here:
http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74282
You should be able to convert the XDA localization to Japanese.
FYI - The XDA comes in two models as it is only a dual band device - 900/1800 MHz bands or 900/1900 MHz bands
Make sure the frequency matches your area's/provider's operational frequency.
FYI,
JB
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I just stumbled across this old thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=265606
Is the possibility of this true?? Has anyone tried to do work on the Radio ROM to bring in Quad band? I would pay to have 850 available for my phone.
Comments?
Has anyone tried an Athena radio on the Universal ( I presume yes, still looking through the forums ). And what about the HTC Sable? They both use the same CPU and the Sable in particular has comparable ROM sizes.
Quote from one of the links:
QUALCOMM's MSM6250 chipset solution helps enable worldwide roaming for
WCDMA (UMTS) terminals. The MSM6250 system solution supports dual-mode, quad-
band GSM transceiver operations [GSM 850, GSM 900, Digital Cellular System
(DCS) 1800, and GSM 1900] and WCDMA (UMTS) transmit operations for 800 MHz,
1900 MHz and 2100 MHz.
Shouldn't the Universal therefore be able to do 850 with a change to the radio ROM? Do the HTC Sable and Athena use the same chipset?
Can anyone help us?
It would be great to have a 850 band for my SPVm5000. Hope anybody can answer your question. Seems that since this phone was only released for europe and not USA the quadband was not open
Hello I live in New Zealand and we have a network here called Telecom XT which uses 3G freq: 850 & 2100 mhz.
Unfortunately all Motorola Defy sold here have their freq specified as: 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100
I see in the development section there is a way to flash files to restore 3G coverage and one of the files has the 850 & 2100mhz that our Telecom XT network uses. Does this mean I can flash this file to enable those frequencies on this phone or does it mean that the Chinese versions of Defy have a different chip that supports the different frequency?
Hey,
Unless the Defy has a tri band WCDMA chip (which im pretty sure it doesn't) then you can't simply flash new radio firmware/RIL to enable frequencies.
If you want an XT compatible desire, your best bet is something from T-Mobile or more ideally Telstra Australia's NextG network, which is the same as XT. Mobicity for example sells NextG handsets which will work perfectly on XT.
If you have the 900mhz Defy i believe you are limited to Vodafone/2Degrees. Flashing these Radio/RIL fixes i think were because those with 850mhz handsets with issues running radios designed for 900mhz.
Just to confirm, Defy hardware can only do certain pairs of frequencies (e.g. as say mentioned on gsmarena.com) irrespective of what ROM is put on it ?
Is there anyway to find out (from model/serial number or other way) what hardware one has ? (for 3G frequency)
I'm pretty sure about mine, though I bought this Defy 2nd-hand and flashed it, so just wanted to be sure. (I flashed it with 900/2100 MHz ROM and it seems to work fine on T-Mobile 3G in London, UK. But wonder if there is a way to check - perhaps for another unit....)
Ok, so here's the idea:
According to the wiki page for the Universal, the phone uses the Qualcomm MSM6250 for the cellular functions. If you look at page 5 on the datasheet for the MSM6250, you'll see that the chip does indeed support quad-band GSM, as well as UMTS 1900 (1850 MHz - 1910 MHz) in addition to the UMTS 2100 band (1920 MHz - 1980 MHz). I assume these North American frequencies were disabled in the chipset's firmware to avoid extra licensing costs since the device would never be sold in North America.
Qualcomm has a program which allows for diagnostics and configuration of baseband chips in phones called QPST. If you look on page 83/84 of the program's user manual, it appears that you can specify which band classes the phone is allowed to connect to. I have no idea if this will work since my Universal hasn't arrived in the mail yet, but I just wanted to share what I found with all of you.
Being a new member, I can't post links to the pdf files, and the files themselves are apparently too large to upload. However, if you search on google for "80-v1400-3_h_qpst_ug.pdf" you can find the QPST manual, and "MSM6250 datasheet" for the chipset datasheet.
This, I help to share it here
This seems interesting, please keep us informed on how all develops.
If anyone can help on this please post here, if not stay away of posting "I wish, I like", etc.
Will sticky for the time being
rockstar95 said:
Ok, so here's the idea:
According to the wiki page for the Universal, the phone uses the Qualcomm MSM6250 for the cellular functions. If you look at page 5 on the datasheet for the MSM6250, you'll see that the chip does indeed support quad-band GSM, as well as UMTS 1900 (1850 MHz - 1910 MHz) in addition to the UMTS 2100 band (1920 MHz - 1980 MHz). I assume these North American frequencies were disabled in the chipset's firmware to avoid extra licensing costs since the device would never be sold in North America.
Qualcomm has a program which allows for diagnostics and configuration of baseband chips in phones called QPST. If you look on page 83/84 of the program's user manual, it appears that you can specify which band classes the phone is allowed to connect to. I have no idea if this will work since my Universal hasn't arrived in the mail yet, but I just wanted to share what I found with all of you.
Being a new member, I can't post links to the pdf files, and the files themselves are apparently too large to upload. However, if you search on google for "80-v1400-3_h_qpst_ug.pdf" you can find the QPST manual, and "MSM6250 datasheet" for the chipset datasheet.
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After doing some more research, it seems like the NV_BAND_PREF_I value in the NV-ram has to be changed. From what I've read, this value "stores the band-class preference on a per NAM basis." I found a recent thread discussing this same idea, except it's going from US bands to European bands on the Motorola Atrix. As seen in post #8, a member edited the NV_BAND_PREF_I and apparently was successful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992635
You should check out the files i posted on this thread link. It has some debug tools for the modem that might help -Activesync2Qct, Activesync2WModem, BandSel, NetSel, openqct, Uni_AT,WModem, WmodemX, and xBBBL.
NetSel has options for gsm850 and umts1900, don't know if it does anything though.
Dear xda Members and / or galaxy note 2 Users,
I'm a bit confused about the various versions of the Note 2.
In a few days I'll visit Florida and intend to buy the LTE version from Walmart.
ht.tp://ww w.walmart. com/ip/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-II-Smartphone-Titanium-Gray/22374238
(I don't know if shoplinks are allowed, but you can't buy it directly here and i hope you can accept it anyway this time)
However, I need to know whether the phone works in Europe/Germany and with which communication standards.
Is there a difference between the US and European GT-N7105?
on ht.tp://e n.wikipedia. org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_II i found various versions called
AWS phone
CDMA/EV-DO phone
TD-SCDMA phone
Dual-cell HSPA phone.
and the LTE where they tell that it would be kind of an "International" phone.
"Most of the variants support GSM/GPRS/EDGE in the 850 Mhz, 900 Mhz, 1.9 Ghz, and 2.1 Ghz bands; and UMTS/HSPA+21 in 850 Mhz, 900 Mhz, 1.9 Ghz, and 2.1 Ghz"
Does the version i found on the walmart page support UMTS? there are only specifications that it can handle GSM and LTE, but not which LTE Bands.
(I think I need support for 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and/or 2600 MHz in Western Europe)
correct me if i'm wrong with any statement and enlighten the confusion for me if pssible
Thanks in advance !
PS: I'm not allowed to post outside links here, so I addet space characters before .com and .org and in the www and the "en" and dots between the ht.tp's. remove them before copying.
I see that the T-Mobile LTE version is available in the US on the play store. It is significantly cheaper than in the UK.
I bought the v1 WiFi nexus 7 in the US and had no issues. If I buy the LTE version from the US can I assume that I can use it on a UK mobile network without issue? I presume both are gsm and there is no issue?
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
aidanbree said:
If I buy the LTE version from the US can I assume that I can use it on a UK mobile network without issue? I presume both are gsm and there is no issue?
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Even GSM networks operate on different frequencies on different continents. LTE networks may have other frequencies than GSM networks.
I found a (german) comparisation list for LTE frequencies. For US, there are 700, 1700, 1900 and 2100 MHz listed; for UK there are 800, 1800 and 2600 MHz noted.
So, if you buy an US version, it will be useless in UK. Besides the useability, you may have to pay taxes on import, additional to p&p. Will it still be cheaper then?
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For US, there are 700, 1700, 1900 and 2100 MHz listed; for UK there are 800, 1800 and 2600 MHz noted.
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For France, same frequencies than UK.
We will use someday 700 MHz also.
Some of us are waitin 4 an Euro LTE Nexus 7.
I found something about the Nexus 7 ... on http://www.google.com/nexus/7/ .
Scroll down until you see a link "Tech Specs". Open it and scroll a bit down; all GSM, UMTS and LTE frequencies are listed for different world areas.
The US and the EU version share most LTE frequency cpabilities, but the US version can operate on 700 and 750 MHz (which the EU device can't use) while the EU one can operate on 800 and 2600 MHz (which the US device can't use).
So it depends on your carrier's frequencies if you can operate an US device in UK or not.
HSishi said:
I found something about the Nexus 7 ... on http://www.google.com/nexus/7/ .
Scroll down until you see a link "Tech Specs". Open it and scroll a bit down; all GSM, UMTS and LTE frequencies are listed for different world areas.
The US and the EU version share most LTE frequency cpabilities, but the US version can operate on 700 and 750 MHz (which the EU device can't use) while the EU one can operate on 800 and 2600 MHz (which the US device can't use).
So it depends on your carrier's frequencies if you can operate an US device in UK or not.
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My brother is over in the US next week and could therefore bring it back without P&P and most likely other charges.
In the UK the price is 320 GBP so the saving is around 100GBP with the currency conversion.
Currently I have my mobile with T-Mobile and a sim that I use in a mifi on Three. I am looking to move the Three mifi sim into the Nexus but I don't think that looks like it would work as it states they will use 800 and 1800. I presume that both frequencies are used?
The US device can't use the 800 MHz band, but the 1800. Maybe your carrier operates LTE at 1800, maybe not. Can't say that from here (Germany).
Going to take a chance. The US price for the LTE is cheaper than the WiFi only in the UK. Will advise how I get on
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Same here Czech rep, 32 gb lte is the same price than 16 gb wifi here. But i need the 3G/4G internet can't risk it i must know
Aidenbree: this is exactly what i was thinking of doing too, so thanks for asking the question! I'm also on Three and would be really interested to hear how you get on. £100 saving is worth thinking about!
are they have different hardware ?
North America:
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
HSPA+: 850/900/1900/1700/2100 (AWS) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)
LTE: 700/750/850/1700/1800/1900/2100 MHZ (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/13/17)
Europe:
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
HSPA+: 850/900/1900/1700/2100 (AWS) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)
LTE: 800/850/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600 MHz (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/7/20)
or only radio software different?
if they just use different radio, it may work by change radio
ygvuhb said:
are they have different hardware ?
North America:
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
HSPA+: 850/900/1900/1700/2100 (AWS) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)
LTE: 700/750/850/1700/1800/1900/2100 MHZ (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/13/17)
Europe:
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
HSPA+: 850/900/1900/1700/2100 (AWS) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)
LTE: 800/850/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600 MHz (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/7/20)
or only radio software different?
if they just use different radio, it may work by change radio
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Surprisingly, the radio software is the same, in fact everything software wise is identical between both devices, there is but a single firmware for both devices. I am not even sure if the US version can't technically use band 7 and vice/versa, has anyone tried to connect to a LTE network in the EU using a US LTE Nexus 7 ? Maybe those specs are just "limited" to comply with FCC/EU regulations/certifications (Paying for the CE certification for a specific frequency can be expensive)
If there is a difference then some flag must be set hardware wise to tell the radio what frequencies it can tune to.
mathieulh said:
Surprisingly, the radio software is the same, in fact everything software wise is identical between both devices, there is but a single firmware for both devices. I am not even sure if the US version can't technically use band 7 and vice/versa, has anyone tried to connect to a LTE network in the EU using a US LTE Nexus 7 ? Maybe those specs are just "limited" to comply with FCC/EU regulations/certifications (Paying for the CE certification for a specific frequency can be expensive)
If there is a difference then some flag must be set hardware wise to tell the radio what frequencies it can tune to.
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omg
the radio is the same
seem they fix the band though hardware
any chance the software detect the mobile services provider to decide using which band