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[Q] Epic 4G Touch OTA for LTE compatibility?

Hi guys.
This is my first post and i was doing a little research and couldn't find much of an answer....
My question is.... Does the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch for Sprint have the hardware to be compatible with the new 4G LTE updates that Sprint is doing to their network? I am in Dallas and I should be one of the first to benefit from this network upgrade.
I was told "No" by some.
By others (Sprint Store, Franchise) I was told "Yes, no problem at all. We will do an OTA and you might have to come in to the store to apply some changes but its definitely possible"....
My problem is that i don't know who to trust.
I do NOT want to have to upgrade my phone again to benefit from the 4G LTE upgrade. That's just retarded.
I need someone that has the hardware specifications (and the technical background) to provide a no nonsense answer as to whether or not an OTA update will "Unlock" LTE capabilities on this phone, if the capability exists at all.
Not to be an ass, but i don't want speculations or opinions.
I need a straight-forward and logical answer.
Does this phone have the hardware in it to be 4G LTE compatible or not.
Thanks in advance!!!

1. This is the epic 4g with a keyboard forum
2. This is not possible.
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Please ask your question in Epic 4G Touch forums. If you read and payed attention you would notice this is the OG Epic 4G.

marcusant said:
1. This is the epic 4g with a keyboard forum
2. This is not possible.
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What I don't get is most of these people who ask questions about the touch are using a desktop/laptop non mobile so they see what the phone looks like on side of forum they can't be that blind, I swear they do it on purpose. But even if they missed that it still doesn't say "touch" so confusion is not an acceptable answer for an excuse IMHO.
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Well said it's very irritating to see a bunch of posts and threads from "Touch" idiots in our forums.
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Calm down man... just someone making a mistake...

Not sure if you're referring to me or not but I'm as chill as they come. I'm a little tired of seeing peeps asking questions about the Epic Touch when it has it's own forum. So sorry for sounding like an ass but it really gets old when you see the same types of posts. People really need to pay attention.
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joethpilot said:
Calm down man... just someone making a mistake...
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Funny how none of us have made that mistake, because we can read and aren't blind. Sorry to be harsh but its the truth.
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XxLostSoulxX said:
Funny how none of us have made that mistake, because we can read and aren't blind. Sorry to be harsh but its the truth.
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To be fair I think it is pretty well established that there is no shortage of og epic users with an inability to read. Luckily for the people in the touch forums there was probably only one phone called the epic 4g when our non readers started on xda so it is us who get the confused touch folks rather than them who get confused keyboard folk...
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This is what happens when iphone users switch to the epic touch.
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I'm sorry but ya'lls ability to get so frustrated so EASILY is amazing and funny to me, sometimes...
If you've noticed, i am a brand new user and that was literally my first post.
I tried to post another topic stating "Hey, my bad, this is new to me phone and I just joined the forum." but i had to wait 15 minutes to post another, because that's what happens on your first couple of posts when your a member that literally just joined.
Instead of replying to ignorance, I decided to use the post, after the 15 minute wait, on a thread that wasn't going to most likely be giving complete BS answers that have nothing to do with the subject.
BUT...
Since you would like to flame and get all red faced over a stupid "He posted in OUR section" issue.... Then obviously you've got some personal things you need to work on. How to deal with people, along with your inability to shrink your head. Because it looks to me like your suffering from "Big Headedness." And i mean every single bit as constructive criticism.
I want a world filled with peace and helpfulness. Like a fairy tale book.
You guys have a good weekend, life, or day. Whichever applies.
Thanks (for pretty much nothing.)

Un-twist your panties dude. Imo you shouldn't even be using a website based around modding your device if you can't figure out which device you've got.
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Make like your user name and exit on outta here! Good luck with "modding" your phone, aka soon to be paper weight.
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exitpr0gram said:
I'm sorry but ya'lls ability to get so frustrated so EASILY is amazing and funny to me, sometimes...
If you've noticed, i am a brand new user and that was literally my first post.
I tried to post another topic stating "Hey, my bad, this is new to me phone and I just joined the forum." but i had to wait 15 minutes to post another, because that's what happens on your first couple of posts when your a member that literally just joined.
Instead of replying to ignorance, I decided to use the post, after the 15 minute wait, on a thread that wasn't going to most likely be giving complete BS answers that have nothing to do with the subject.
BUT...
Since you would like to flame and get all red faced over a stupid "He posted in OUR section" issue.... Then obviously you've got some personal things you need to work on. How to deal with people, along with your inability to shrink your head. Because it looks to me like your suffering from "Big Headedness." And i mean every single bit as constructive criticism.
I want a world filled with peace and helpfulness. Like a fairy tale book.
You guys have a good weekend, life, or day. Whichever applies.
Thanks (for pretty much nothing.)
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When theirs a picture of our phone with a slider and you dont what possesses you to think oh thats my forum? when theirs stickies that say NON TOUCH section that should give you the hint "hey maybe this isn't for my phone".
You dont see any of us posting over there because 1st off we can read and see that thats clearly not our phone. 2nd off taking the few extra seconds to make sure would actually help just like i make sure im in the right Nexus S forum.

since the op only has 2 posts, i take it he never found the correct forum?

OP....a simple Google would have told you there is no LTE radio in there and a Galaxy S2 HD LTE is due out sometime to replace it. Google will not flame you for asking questions.
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Noob mistake, consider him an unexpected guest and stop flaming
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Why would you want to correct your idiotic mistake of posting in the wrong forum, by posting in the SAME forum, apologizing? Just ask questions in the correct forum and be done with it.
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kennyglass123 said:
OP....a simple Google would have told you there is no LTE radio in there and a Galaxy S2 HD LTE is due out sometime to replace it. Google will not flame you for asking questions.
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This topic has been discussed before, with our epic's too. Apparently sprint is saying that our 4g radio will be able to run on the lte network with a firmware update. So, even if he DID post in the wrong forum, there's no need to flame because its applicable to our devices also.
(I'm not meaning to single you out kenny lol)

ugothakd said:
This topic has been discussed before, with our epic's too. Apparently sprint is saying that our 4g radio will be able to run on the lte network with a firmware update. So, even if he DID post in the wrong forum, there's no need to flame because its applicable to our devices also.
(I'm not meaning to single you out kenny lol)
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No offense taken. Do you have any links for this. Because I googled it before I posted that and could not find anywhere that said that. I would love to learn more about it. Was that both Epics? So a "simple" google was definitely the wrong answer..lol.

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mods please close

He posted something earlier that he was leaving xda and wouldn't say the reason. But that it's deeper than we think and it has nothing to do with the users. He said to follow him on google+ but I couldn't find his account on his xda page.
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Great WTF are we going to do now!
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XDA is deleting any questions about this too... Stay classy guys
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He attacked me personally when I was trying to complement someone other than him in his thread... He then went on to delete my subsequent replies because they made him look bad... I'll miss his ROMs but certainly not him!

Rapalax said:
He attacked me personally when I was trying to complement someone other than him in his thread... He then went on to delete my subsequent replies because they made him look bad... I'll miss his ROMs but certainly not him!
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may have jumped the gun posting this....believe i had a misunderstanding myself. the threads are back, likely just some cleaning up to do.
that being said, i've never seem tdj post anything that spoke poorly of his character. i've 3 kids & i'm sure i wouldn't have his patience & temperament dealing with what gets directed at him around here. and i'll agree with you on one thing...i would miss his roms if they were no longer available
edit: mods -- feel free to close/delete this thread

Official Goodbye thread.

So as of late we have been seeing a lot of fellow members saying good bye. Then New good bye threads pop up here and there and get locked.
This thread is for farewells and what not. Let's keep thread clutter to a minimum and let us know why you moved on.
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No thanks I like it here even more than the GNexus forums. Going to the Note 2 soon but I won't be saying any goodbyes. It's like oh dear god I never said good bye to HTC evo forum... I better post a thread so they don't send a search party. :thumbup:
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Getting a Note 2 today but I may still drop by and peek in now and then.
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Uh I believe I'm the culprit for starting goodbye threads. I left the E4GT for a note 2 and thought I'd be nice to say goodbye. Boy was I wrong!
P.S. I would give this thread about 20 to 30 minutes before its locked as well. Sad to say it's a sign of the times.
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AirBruce said:
Uh I believe I'm the culprit for starting goodbye threads. I left the E4GT for a note 2 and thought I'd be nice to say goodbye. Boy was I wrong!
P.S. I would give this thread about 20 to 30 minutes before its locked as well. Sad to say it's a sign of the times.
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If a thread is locked trust me it's all for a good reason. The moderators have experience and can tell when a thread will turn bad, thus they will lock it or simply clean it if possible.

They lock goodbye threads cuz they are nothing but clutter. No one wants to scroll thru a dozen or more goodbye threads just to get to the actual general section. This one will probably be stickied like the other official goodbye threads in the other device forums. I've moved on to the sgs3 but still pop over here to see what's going on, my wife will be getting my sgs2 at the end of the month but she's not a phone nerd lol. She's got a photon for now which will replace my og evo when the new digitizer gets here for the photon. Then next month ill be off to the note 2 waiting for the price to come down a bit and my upgrade isn't ready til Dec 1.
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Well if that's the case, I think they should unlock my original thread, and make that one the sticky considering that it's the OG goodbye thread.
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AirBruce said:
Well if that's the case, I think they should unlock my original thread, and make that one the sticky considering that it's the OG goodbye thread.
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Actually its not, about 15 or so were locked before yours they've been locking them since forever, along with best rom threads. If you scroll down the general list/click thru the pages you'll find a bunch of locked goodbye/best rom threads. They lock them on all device forums, and have now started creating and stickying official goodbye threads so ppl can post their peace without clogging up the whole forum, if everyone created a goodbye thread there would be so many of them no one would be able to find anything between them all.
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I have made this a sticky. All other goodbye threads will be closed from here on out. OP Please change title of thread to official goodbye thread.
Lets keep the goodbye short and sweet. No fighting at all and everyone be polite and civil. DO NOT argue about other phones, services, or any other garbage in here
OP PLEASE update your op with some of my instructions. Thanks and enjoy

Got my note 2.. But I haven't said good bye.. I love this community
-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
-Galaxy Note II Edition

Papa Smurf151 said:
I have made this a sticky. All other goodbye threads will be closed from here on out. OP Please change title of thread to official goodbye thread.
Lets keep the goodbye short and sweet. No fighting at all and everyone be polite and civil. DO NOT argue about other phones, services, or any other garbage in here
OP PLEASE update your op with some of my instructions. Thanks and enjoy
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Updated thread title
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MiguelHogue said:
Got my note 2.. But I haven't said good bye.. I love this community
-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
-Galaxy Note II Edition
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This is a pretty good community!
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I say "Don't let the door hit you on the way out". I'm personally sick of any type of goodbye thread.

Exit_Only said:
I say "Don't let the door hit you on the way out". I'm personally sick of any type of goodbye thread.
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Even if it cleans up some potential thread clutter?
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I moved to GN2 kinda miss my ET4G
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Got a Note II, bricked it, not going to replace it yet. I love my E4GT.

tuscani1821 said:
Even if it cleans up some potential thread clutter?
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It has nothing to do with that. My theory is just keep your mouth shut. Its a internet blog not your high graduation. Trust me if you leave a forum and your not a developer then NO BODY WILL MISS YOU. Just buy your new toy and be gone.

Exit_Only said:
It has nothing to do with that. My theory is just keep your mouth shut. Its a internet blog not your high graduation. Trust me if you leave a forum and your not a developer then NO BODY WILL MISS YOU. Just buy your new toy and be gone.
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How is "keep your mouth shut" a theory? If people want to say goodbye, then let them... geez.
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I don't see why anyone would bleach with development for this phone being so good! With the JB TW leaks out its a sure sign that great things are coming to this phone!
Anyway, enjoy your new phones! Whatever they may be

Got rid of my E4GT finally and got a nexus s. I'm very happy that I did. This phone has official stable cm10 with great data speeds and working update profile/prl
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What device is that??

Samsung open source .com what is that t999L tmb ???
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Not trying to start another thread about you no what but this answers some questions I think?
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Then post in there, and speculate!?? Why make a new thread if you have a hunch already? If you have a hunch Google it. Reported
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Its the LTE galaxy S3! There I said it! No go post in the damn LTE thread!
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Holy **** pipe down tough guys
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Lol reported
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bbobarino said:
Lol reported
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No one is trying to be an internet tough guy, it's just rude and disrespectful and ignorant on your part, to think you are special to have your own thread. Why do you need your own thread? A mod went through 7 threads to lock them down and point people into one thread so that way it is easier on them, only for you to make a whole new thread... This is a Forum for phones and developing with a set of rules, not a social forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2247866

Congrats on becoming a mod when did that happen ? I didnt no they locked up those threads I just new there was controversy about it. They must of got locked recently cause I was unaware and I check these forums almost everday. Maybe I skipped a day. No need to come off the way u did there is no denying that u was being rude and an internet tougj guy . I always see u in these forums and read your threads I just didnt no u was such a dousche. No need to "report" it also they are moderators for a reason they dont need u to run to them with every lil thing
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mt3g said:
No one is trying to be an internet tough guy, it's just rude and disrespectful and ignorant on your part, to think you are special to have your own thread. Why do you need your own thread? A mod went through 7 threads to lock them down and point people into one thread so that way it is easier on them, only for you to make a whole new thread... This is a Forum for phones and developing with a set of rules, not a social forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2247866
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yeah, but that one thread has also been locked. i don't think he was being rude or disrespectful. yeah he should have searched first but come on
if it's in the general section, why can't we discuss it? why is this topic so taboo? i understand not needing a thousand threads on the same subject and getting people to search first...i know its not a social forum (it is, but that's a matter of semantics) but this IS the General section which is defined as "Discussion about the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III (general chat, tips & tricks, etc)". would a discussion about LTE not fall into this category?

bbobarino said:
Congrats on becoming a mod when did that happen ? I didnt no they locked up those threads I just new there was controversy about it. They must of got locked recently cause I was unaware and I check these forums almost everday. Maybe I skipped a day. No need to come off the way u did there is no denying that u was being rude and an internet tougj guy . I always see u in these forums and read your threads I just didnt no u was such a dousche. No need to "report" it also they are moderators for a reason they dont need u to run to them with every lil thing
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You just read that way, I convey no emotion in these threads usually. I may come off as a "douche" and I apologize, but it is what it is and you are making a thread even though you knew there were plenty prior. Maybe you're just sensitive, I don't know but I wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything, this is a forum for phones, again not a social club. I'm not a mod and glad I'm not cause they have sooo much to do, I have to up keep my own stuff for the users. I report cause they ask us to, they prefer that then having so many threads open on one subject. They also don't scour the threads like some of us users, so they probably wouldn't see this. I was appointed an RC for many reasons, and one of them being I follow rules, and help them and the users. I don't not follow the rules intentionally though. Like I said, I asked if they could lock 8 threads and I provided links to all of them so that'd be easier for them. I got a thanks and that they have been meaning to do so for a while. They made a sticky on not to make any more threads about it and you persisted to do so. Just letting you know, that's it.
The mod must have accidentally locked that thread as well. Not my doing, when they come to lock that one he will read and unlock that thread I'm sure. The topic is just a beaten horse with the same stuff brought up over and over. Just read that 5 page thread and see how far people have come on making one person understand, or better yet, read the 7 that I linked and tell me if you have a better understanding on the matter at hand. I won't sit there and read through them all, I would prefer they all be on one thread and that the OP that made the thread update the 1st post with all the links that provide good info. But that would be my way of handling the matter.

Please continue speculation in the sticky thread

[ROM](5.0) predict-O-droid

I love all of the development and incredible ROMs that all the developers put out. Your hard work is much appreciated by everyone on XDA without question.
With that being said... Anyone have any predictions or any "I want to see..." For the next android os? I'm ready for the next step in droidification. Bring on change.
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Why is this in Original Development?
Why did you put [ROM] in your title, when it is not? This is misleading, this thread should be deleted.
Should have read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270982

kinjo1023 said:
Waaahhhhhh
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That's a sure fire way of getting your thread locked.
Read the rules.
"Get busy livin or get busy dyin"
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In the right context you would of got some positive discussion. Now this thread has turned to poo. If you can't respect a few basic rules then negativity usually follows. Just the way it goes around here. Members think. Hey if this person can't be bothered to post correctly... Then why should I bother giving a thoughtful reply. Instead? Point to the rule book. Maybe not too witty but it's the simple truth. Better luck next time.
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Better luck next time I guess.
Damn
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