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DEFY 3G in India with CM9

I have a defy (green lens) running cm9 (9-SKANK-defy)
:crying: I recently bought a 3g plan from Vodafone and noticed that I would get 3G at home but not at office. My colleague with an iphone 4 would get perfect 3g (also on Vodafone) at office.
I tried:
-Every baseband in both the CM9 baseband switched as well as Itzfun
-*#*#4636#*#* and setting band to WCDMA only, WCDMA preferred
- Changing between multiple CM9 ROMs
but to no avail. :crying:
:fingers-crossed: I finally ran into http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944258 by adlx.xda which had supposed 3g fixes for India (amongst other countries) attached. However the zip file did not run in CWM as it used an older amend-script format. A little xda-googling later I found how to put the files into the new script format.
However, after flashing the zip, still EDGE :-( . But then I again went into *#*#4636#*#* and changed band to WCDMA only.
:laugh: VOILA!!! 3G!! REJOICE!!! Now I don't know if this is a colossal coincidence or the fix worked. I'm posting the zip here anyway. Maybe it might help someone.
p.s. - This is my first post - kindly guide me if I've got some arcana of etiquette wrong

instead of all that u can go to settings-advanced-baseband selection
then select Asia then south east Asia and then 3.4.3-311
PS:Vodafone is too costly!(Don't know about new 3G plans...)
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SEA baseband didn't help
nogoodusername said:
instead of all that u can go to settings-advanced-baseband selection
then select Asia then south east Asia and then 3.4.3-311
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Yup, that's what I figured first. But tried that to no avail. In fact all of them.

nogoodusername said:
instead of all that u can go to settings-advanced-baseband selection
then select Asia then south east Asia and then 3.4.3-311
PS:Vodafone is too costly!(Don't know about new 3G plans...)
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Vodafone is NOT Costly Dear check there new 3G Plans.:laugh:,

adityamalik said:
Yup, that's what I figured first. But tried that to no avail. In fact all of them.
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The issue might be newer baseband switching which some times does not d anything at all!!
U should keep the older BBS v4 (baseband switcher)
Search it on xda
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Anands3 said:
Vodafone is NOT Costly Dear check there new 3G Plans.:laugh:,
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Will check...
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nogoodusername said:
instead of all that u can go to settings-advanced-baseband selection
then select Asia then south east Asia and then 3.4.3-311
PS:Vodafone is too costly!(Don't know about new 3G plans...)
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Its 3.4.3-331.. but even after using this my 3g doesn't work..
I'm using airtel :/
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Hold on... does an 'H' mean 3G?
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sixaxis94 said:
Hold on... does an 'H' mean 3G?
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H = HSDPA
HSDPA it's an update of 3G (UMTS)

I usually get H but sometimes I get '3G'.. I can't really make out a difference in speed, but which one' s faster?
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H is theoretically much faster. For a while some companies tried to call it 4G but some politics later they were forced to call it 3G+

Unlocking Q

If I unlocked my Hercules and used at&t prepaid and flashed a skyrocket radio would I be able to use their data? And also would the data be just as fast?
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Yes I think so might just have to change APN settings

How do you do that?
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I'm not for sure you may not have to. I only know how to change APN on a iPhone. You should be OK with just an unlocked t989 and radio change

I believe you could use it, but it would only be 2g because at&t uses LTE for their high speed networks. The physical radio itself in our Hercules just doesn't support it.
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But a att radio should fix that

No, not the software radio. That will give you the 2G signal, but we don't have the actual physical hardware to run full speed on at&t's network. That's part of why the Hercules has a different processor, the one in the international/att sII wouldn't work with tmo's hspa network.
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You would be able to use your Hercules on AT&T but if the fast data you're referring to is 4G LTE, then no, you won't get that because the Hercules doesn't have the hardware needed to support it. You would get HSPA+ though.
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Couldn't you turn off 4g and just pull 3g and it work that way?

zombielion said:
Couldn't you turn off 4g and just pull 3g and it work that way?
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No. You could turn off 4G and get EDGE/2G though.

On Verizon phones you can turn off 4g to only use 3g why would it not be the same

zombielion said:
On Verizon phones you can turn off 4g to only use 3g why would it not be the same
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T-Mobile's 3G/4G networks run on the same bands so you can't block something on one band and only let the other thing work. I guess Verizon has different bands for 3G/4G.
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I see got cha.. I didn't know

I hope i'm not hijacking here but I have a similar question. I'm in an at&t lte market and was considering using my t989 with at&t via straightalk. Would I be better off to sell my phone and get a "true" at&t phone that does LTE?

philo_ said:
I hope i'm not hijacking here but I have a similar question. I'm in an at&t lte market and was considering using my t989 with at&t via straightalk. Would I be better off to sell my phone and get a "true" at&t phone that does LTE?
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If you use Straight Talk, then no matter what phone you use, you won't get LTE so it doesn't matter if you use a T989 or an AT&T phone.
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Thanks for the info. I'm still looking at options. Appreciate the quick reply.

[Q] Australian Vodafone GN2 LTE settings disabled

Hi everyone I have a 2 week old SGN2 N7105T from Vodafone Australia.
As Voda in Australia doesn't have 4g yet it seems Voda/Samsung has disabled 4g LTE on the phone.
Which means I cannot use another sim from another carrier to reap the benefits of 4g.
In the settings I only have options for wcdm/gsm auto, wcdma only & gsm only.
Does anyone know if and how I can enable 4g?
I have thought about rooting and putting a different rom from a different country or one from another carrier in Oz (such as Optus 1800mhz) that has the 4g option.
Not sure if that will allow me to get 4g? (By using an Optus sim)
Thanks

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Option [1] UMTS
[1]Debug screen
[8]Phone control
[7]Network control
[2]Band selection
Select [1]Automatic
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Thanks I tried that but nothing happens.
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In settings look under mobile network, access point network, Internet. At the bottom of APN settings what option do you see in Bearer?
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Hi
Bearer says UNSPECIFIED
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I just tried changing it to LTE but I lose internet connection all together.
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Sorry the options are:
Unspecified
eHRPD
Lte
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Vodafone Australia doesn't have 4g network just yet. They are planning to upgrade by June/ july 2013. Thats why they disabled lte option on note 2 7105t for now. even if you are able to get lte option by flashing different rom you won't be able to get 4g network.
This is seriously against the consumer right as we pay premium price for 7105 only for lte reason. But we get the phone same as 7100
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blitzu said:
Hi
Bearer says UNSPECIFIED
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Your current provider has no bearings on the menu options, so the option will not change.
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mregmi121 said:
Vodafone Australia doesn't have 4g network just yet. They are planning to upgrade by June/ july 2013. Thats why they disabled lte option on note 2 7105t for now. even if you are able to get lte option by flashing different rom you won't be able to get 4g network.
This is seriously against the consumer right as we pay premium price for 7105 only for lte reason. But we get the phone same as 7100
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I think this is not correct. 4g connection is not disabled on the phone. Because the carrier does not support 4g at the moment, the LTE option in the menu will not be visible. That is the impression that I have got from a Vodafone NZ engineer.
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@ansariiqbal
Have you tried other carer sim which has 4g network??
I flashed new firmware and its now visible.
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@mregmi121 No. I have not tried other sim, what firmware did you flash?
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ansariiqbal said:
@mregmi121 No. I have not tried other sim, what firmware did you flash?
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I flashed N7105XXDLL7 Singapore,
Network quality is not good, maybe modem issue
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try apn setting
http://ausdroid.net/apns/

Sorry for the late reply guys.
I installed a German Vodafone 4.1.2 rom from samfirmware which gave me the option to choose LTE, GSM, WCDMA then I put my mates Telstra 4g sim and 4g worked great. When. I was in 4g areas the 4g symbol showed on top and speeds were awesome. Now all we need is Vodafone to hurry up.
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mregmi121 said:
Vodafone Australia doesn't have 4g network just yet. They are planning to upgrade by June/ july 2013. Thats why they disabled lte option on note 2 7105t for now. even if you are able to get lte option by flashing different rom you won't be able to get 4g network.
This is seriously against the consumer right as we pay premium price for 7105 only for lte reason. But we get the phone same as 7100
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Sorry man you're flat wrong.
I flashed a rom I found on here for the N7100 that was confirmed compatible with my N7105-t From Voda and put in my telstra sim and 4G'ed my brains out.
It was getting crazy numbers for up and down speed in speed test so I know it was legit. That and the 4G logo up the top....

insanemal said:
Sorry man you're flat wrong.
I flashed a rom I found on here for the N7100 that was confirmed compatible with my N7105-t From Voda and put in my telstra sim and 4G'ed my brains out.
It was getting crazy numbers for up and down speed in speed test so I know it was legit. That and the 4G logo up the top....
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You used telstra sim and got 4g, because telstea have 4g networks. Nothing wrong with that. So how I am wrong here? I said getting 4g compatible rom doesn't mean you get 4g from VODAFONE because they don't have 4g. tell me if I am still wrong. Thankx
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Difference between h+ and 4g? :/

Ok firstly I'm from the UK where 4g connection is something very new and only major citied have it, now when I use a normal Rom statusbar it says h+ but using omega statusbar it will 4g, can somebody kindly explain the difference? Sorry for the noob question just always wondered this.
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sensation lover said:
Ok firstly I'm from the UK where 4g connection is something very new and only major citied have it, now when I use a normal Rom statusbar it says h+ but using omega statusbar it will 4g, can somebody kindly explain the difference? Sorry for the noob question just always wondered this.
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h+ stands for HSPA+, or "3,5G". It is an evolved version of 3G, offering higher speeds. But not close to 4G, of course. See wikipedia for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM

Unless you got a carrier-locked CDMA model from the US, AFAIK, you have a international GSM device, only capable of connecting to GSM/UMTS networks, and using any of their data protocols (EDGE, 3G, HSxPA). Any ROM that tells you that you're on 4G, they're lying to you, purely an appearance tweak.
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XAS with LTE SIM?

Hello folks..
Im just wondering if anyone of you TRIED to insert an LTE SIM to Xperia Acro S? Im wondering about the mobile internet speed if possible. If you have LTE sim with data, can you go try to insert it to your Acro S and do a speedtest?
THank you and hoping to hear from you :laugh:

If it supports it i see why it shouldent work
try inserting the sim and going to settings to see if lte has shown up
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LTE requires a proper LTE frequencies built into the phone. Something that XAS doesn't have. The SIM is only part of the process
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Envious_Data said:
If it supports it i see why it shouldent work
try inserting the sim and going to settings to see if lte has shown up
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Felimenta97 said:
LTE requires a proper LTE frequencies built into the phone. Something that XAS doesn't have. The SIM is only part of the process
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Thanks for the response.. you know, im outdoor most of the times with my laptop so USB tethering is vital for me. Now, Im considering to buy another LTE phone, can you guys suggest some which costs just right?
Im thinking this Xperia SP but color saturation are poor like Z and V is an older model so I guess i dont want it. Plus the 8gb internal storage is annoying.. if you have any other phones to recommend within the same price range will be appreciated a lot