Adelaide has a 2100MHz network and a 850MHz network covering the entire city. The 850MHz network is the newer out of the 2 networks by about 4 years and has a lot less users. Is there any way I can force the phone to not use the 2100MHz band? Thanks!
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Can anyone confirm if the Band Selection menu is available. It's critical for me being on Bell's swiss cheese network to be able to manually select a band to get service in a particular area. Otherwise I'll need to wait an extra month and go with Rogers.
I don't understand what you mean. The phone's compatible only with Bell's 850/1900 HSPA bands. What other bands can you switch to?
Through the band selection menu you can choose to only use 850 and not have it search for 1900 constantly. In an area where 1900 doesn't penetrate very well it will intermittently fall back to 850 but will always continue to search for 1900 which leads to a lack of signal most of the time.
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The phone's compatible only with Bell's 850/1900 HSPA bands.
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who said so?
The phone comes with a penta-band 3G chip which allows it to connect to any 3g network around the world.
Hi All,
I got LG G3 D855 international version from eBay last week, I'm wondering if I can get LTE, or H+ network on the phone. On "Network Mode I can see "GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto" listed , when I choose it the signal bars on the notification area start looping, after that it switch back to "GSM/WCDMA" option !
I added a new APN for LTE , but still not working on LTE.
According to T-Mobile coverage map , my area is support 4G /LTE network . The phone is rooted , software version: V10b-GLOBAL-COM (For Hong Kong)
I can get 10-12MB download speed on H, I guessing it will be a way faster on H+ , or LTE.
Any idea about how to get LTE to work?
Thank you,
I'm surprised HSPA is even working, you must be in an area where they moved it to 1900 (Band 2). The D855 model doesn't support the AWS band, also known as Band 4 or the 1700 frequency (so says GSM Arena anyway) . This band is where T-Mobile has their primary network deployments these days. That means no HSPA+ (that's only on Band 4, not Band 2), and no LTE at all.
Bottom line is I don't think you want to be using the Euro D855 model on T-Mobile USA network. Not the right tool for the job.
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I think it should still work. Frequencies tmo supports (straight from website):
4G LTE : Band 2 (1900 MHz), Band 4 (1700/2100 MHz), Band 12 (700 MHz)
4G HSPA+: Band 2 (1900 MHz), Band 4 (1700/2100 MHz)
3G HSPA: Band 4 (1700/2100 MHz)
The phone supports 2100MHz and 700MHz, and not 1900 or 1700. I just did a speed test and get 4Mbps reporting it used HSPA+. If that works, I'm not sure why LTE wouldn't unless it *has* to have the 1700 to get LTE.
Edit: here's some info on the 700MHz band http://www.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700a-spectrum. I'll try it when I'm on vacation. I live in NC unfortunately.
Hi, I use LG G3 D855 and looking for solution to get LTE on T-Mobile USA. After some research inside the forum, I decided to try to use CyanogenMod (CM 12.1) on my system.
It works well and now I can enjoy LTE on T-Mobile network, even though not pretty stable yet, but I am good with that since the OS still ongoing development.
You can try to download the OS on Cyanogen official website, and use the latest update available.
In order to confirm if you get LTE signal, beside check on your LTE sign, you can use LTE Discovery apps whenever you lost LTE connection and try to reconnect on an LTE signal.
Oh, forgot to mention, I am located in College Station, TX.
Beware: LTE Band 4 (1700/2100 combo) it's not the same LTE Band 1 (2100 only) that LG G3 D855 supports. Better talk using band numbers not frequencies.
Hi,
I have a Verizon Note 4.
I want to know its LTE Frequencies.
I'm searching and I found out Different Carriers LTE Frequency ranges.
Name Frequency Band Notes
700MHz LTE (lower band) 710-716MHz 740-746MHz AT&T current 4G/LTE
700MHz LTE (higher band) 746-757MHz 776-787MHz Verizon current 4G/LTE
800MHz SMR/iDEN 806-866/869MHz 'Old' Nextel *Soon to be 1XRtt and LTE 4G
800MHz/850MHz Cellular 824-896MHz Traditional Cellular
GSM 900 (Europe/Asia) 890-960MHz Euro/Asian GSM
900 MHz SMR/iDEN 896-940MHz 'New' Nextel (but must have both Old and new units)
AWS (UMTS Band 4) 1700/2100 1710-1755, 2110-2155MHz New AWS Band (T-Mobile 3G/4G)
DCS 1800 (Europe/Asia) 1710-1785, 1805-1880MHz Euro/Asian DCS
1900MHz PCS 1850-1990MHz Traditional PCS
1900MHZ LTE 1850-1990MHz 'New' Sprint 4G/LTE
UMTS Band 1 1920-1980, 2110-2170MHz Euro/Asian
Xohm/WiMAX 2.5-2.7GHz Sprint/Clear 4G WiMAX * Sprint soon to launch LTE data on this spectrum
No I want to know, what band Radios Verizon Note 4 has, so that I can plan accordingly.
any help is highly appreciated.
P.S Verizon LTE Phones are Unlocked. I used SGS3 with a Lyca SIM. So I know it works, but I'm looking for LTE Band ranges in Note-4.
Thank You.
Hello,
I have a D851 T-Mobile with Lollipop (D85120B) and I am unable to connect to WCDMA 850 or 1900Mhz bands. GPRS, EDGE and LTE work. If I select WCDMA only on the Mobile network screen, I lose signal and if I use the engineering menu ( 3845#*851#) to select WCDMA 850 I lose signal as well. GSM 850 (EDGE) and GSM 1900 (GPRS) on my provider (Fido/Rogers Wireless) works, however.
After I noticed this, I used QPST NV Editor to set the NV_RF_BC_CONFIG_I option to include all mobile bands. Unfortunately, I am still unable to get signal with HSPA. The phone support GSM 850 / GSM 1900 according to the box. Is this a firmware issue? Does T-Mobile firmware just not support HSPA?
Has anyone encountered this problem or come up with a solution?
Thanks in advance.
On band 2 or 4 hspa?
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On band 2 or 4 hspa?
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Here is 1 way https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.simplyadvanced.ltediscovery
There are ways by dialing some codes but don't know them.
G4 here but that doesn't show band 2 or 4hspa
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G4 here but that doesn't show band 2 or 4hspa
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I'm on T-mobile. Here it clearly shows Band 4 whenever I have LTE connection.
Edit: Also on HSPA
GUGUITOMTG4 said:
I'm on T-mobile. Here it clearly shows Band 4 whenever I have LTE connection.
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I'm asking about hspa
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I'm asking about hspa
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If you use T-mobile Hspa/hspa+ (4G) and LTE run on band 4 now days.
So, whenever you are on either HSPA or LTE, you be using band 4 as of now.
Here's the T-Mobile bands:
LTE Frequencies:
1700 MHz & 2100 MHz AWS band 4
1900 MHz MetroPCS band 2 (in refarmed areas)
Lower 700 MHz band 12 (in development) / in service in selected areas
3G/4G Frequencies (WCDMA):
1700 MHz & 2100 MHz AWS band 4
1900 MHz PCS band 2 (in refarmed areas)
2G Frequencies (GSM/GPRS/EDGE):
1900 MHz PCS band 2
Should have been clearer
I know all that but I don't know if my phone is on 1900 or aws hspa
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Should have been clearer
I know all that but I don't know if my phone is on 1900 or aws hspa
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You should be able to tell by looking the the signal bars. if you have 3g/4g or LTE, you're on 1700/2100 (b4) I gave all info. T-mobile no longer uses their old 1900Mhz. (MetroPCS) does or did.. Maybe if you set your phone to "GSM Only" on the network setting it may use their old 1900.
Approximately 90% of our network traffic is on our 3G and 4G bands (1700 MHz and 2100 MHz), which is leaving our 2G bands (850 MHz and 1900 MHz) underused. To help make best use of our 2G bands, we will be re-farming the excess 1900 MHz spectrum from EDGE technology to HSPA+. This will not eliminate 2G 1900 coverage in an area, but will free up some of that spectrum for 4G services. This reallocation will result in increased 4G capacity, smoother connections, and fewer dropped calls.
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Man, you didn't even get ONE thanks for any of those replies? That will change now even though I have a Verizon LG-G4 and this thread doesn't matter to me
Lol why thank when not answering the question
Question was
How do I find out which hspa band my phone is one?
And yes T-Mobile uses hspa 1900 now. Actually runs both 1700 and 1900 similtaneously in most of CA
Before with the gs6 I'd merely set 1900hspa to see if its here lol