I have a Sprint nexus and REALLY bad service in my area, and no 4g what so ever.. So i had to go and change to a verizon prl, and my service is great now but I would still like to have 4g. I've heard from a mix of users in the android development section that they had 4g with verizon prls, and most said it wasn't possible. Can anyone tell me if i can use 4g with a verizon prl or not? Thanks
Not possible. you won't pick up verizon 4g with a sprint nexus
As far as I know, it's not possible since both carrier use different frequencies for 4g lte.
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Sprint does not have 4g LTE in my area but US Cellular does, is there a way I can roam off of US Cellular towers for 4G LTE
GGerk said:
Sprint does not have 4g LTE in my area but US Cellular does, is there a way I can roam off of US Cellular towers for 4G LTE
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Im sure that might be an option once sprint launches some LTE devices but don't quote me on that.
brooksyx said:
Im sure that might be an option once sprint launches some LTE devices but don't quote me on that.
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No probably not as there are no roaming agreements on 4g sprint was talking with big red but probably will never happen as different freq and VZW don't want to anyways they would have to be forced by FCC
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I noticed att also has 4g not lte but just 4g in my area, would be awesome to hook up to it
I could be wrong but I think our phone will not have a Sim card either which will probably not allow hooking up to the att version...somewhere it said Sim less lte about our version of nexus
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Do the sprint and verizon versions share the same radio packages? Seeing as how the sprint GN shipped with 4.0.4 i would assume they would have a unique/new cdma<e radio. is this true and would these be compatible with the verizon GN as well?
Nope. They are different.
would a verizon cdma GN be able to utilize the sprint GN radios though or are they each built for their respective networks?
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would a verizon cdma GN be able to utilize the sprint GN radios though or are they each built for their respective networks?
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They MIGHT work, but the lte definitely won't... Often times when sprint is roaming, your using Verizon network
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Ok so the question is.....
Will LTE coverage only be in areas where you have gotten or get 4g coverage or will LTE expand coverage a lil further?
I've got the sprint galaxy nexus
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Are you asking if Sprint is going to expand their 4G LTE coverage? If so, yes.
miketoasty said:
Are you asking if Sprint is going to expand their 4G LTE coverage? If so, yes.
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Yes, thank you
I was just wondering if you would only be able to get lte where u would normally only get 4g coverage
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Yes, thank you
I was just wondering if you would only be able to get lte where u would normally only get 4g coverage
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Read this site they have a lot of info on the 4g roll out
http://s4gru.com/
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Sprint is strategically releasing LTE in limited markets soon. They will of course keep rolling it out over time to the best places they can. There's nothing that indicates they're going to just overlay their current WiMax network with LTE in that order. Eventually they want to cover their entire 3G network with LTE but that's so far off you can't even consider it right now.
It's going to be a very small, slow roll out.
And btw LTE is 4G. You need to refer to Sprint's legacy 4G network as "WiMax". That cuts down on the confusion...
Okay so on my wife's epic 4g running cm9 under the settings there is a 4g section and her toggle wimax works. On this phone on the same rom I don't have that option. And the wimax toggle doesn't work. Is this just temporary or does this phone really not get wimax. Cuz I don't get lte where I live and 3g is so slow.
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Yes, the Galaxy Nexus doesn't have WiMax, its not just your ROM. It has EVDO (3G) and LTE (4G). Since LTE isn't even starting to launch for a couple more months, expect to keep waiting.
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Okay so on my wife's epic 4g running cm9 under the settings there is a 4g section and her toggle wimax works. On this phone on the same rom I don't have that option. And the wimax toggle doesn't work. Is this just temporary or does this phone really not get wimax. Cuz I don't get lte where I live and 3g is so slow.
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You seriously are saying you bought the phone and didn't know it would not do wimax ? Don't think there is very much wimax in phoenix either...as I live at 75th and mcdowell....can't say that there is much 4g just a couple places that I ever connected and so spotty not really usable
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I was perusing the programming menus on my phone and happened to see one labeled LTE and it was set to disabled. What would happen if i enabled that setting? I know my msl and everything. An curious to know if it would pick up the Verizon lte network in my area
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You won't get Verizon's LTE if you have a Sprint Nexus.......
Leave it set to disabled, unless you are in one of Sprint's LTE cities. If not, your battery life could suffer.
Not even with roam
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No.
You'll never be able to connect to Verizon's LTE.
Keep it disabled until you know it's in your area.
There are no roaming agreements with lte and unless say the FCC makes them there probably never will be
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Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the Verizon LTE and the Sprint LTE are on different bandwidths... so I don't think that the phone was built to be able to roam on both LTE networks. I could be wrong though, I don't know enough about what is required for the radios to pick up the different frequencies.