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T-Mobile S3 with AT&T Question

Hey guys,
So I just received my mom's T-Mobile S3 because she has moved on to the Note II. I have a plan AT&T, however, so I was wondering what problems I expect to receive because of this. I know that it is easy to unlock as I have done it for others before, but how are the phone bands going to be affected? Like will I be able to get AT&T 4G speeds? 3G? or just 2G?

You will get 4G speeds. Just no lte.
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BaconStep said:
You will get 4G speeds. Just no lte.
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Oh ok. So I will be getting 4G HSPA+ or what? I thought AT&T was only 4G LTE?

destructo322 said:
Oh ok. So I will be getting 4G HSPA+ or what? I thought AT&T was only 4G LTE?
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Hspa+
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Hspa+
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I can verify this. Didn't even have to load an AT&T ROM.
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You would think putting the word "question" in the title would be a good indicator that it should go in the "question" section.
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Do moderators haunt xda threads as a full time job ? Like does the xda founder.... pay these guys ?,cause man they must have to spend there whole life on here paying attention to every thread ...wondering where they find time for family and friends,its such a lifeless way to spend every moment trafficing 100s of threads to tell people how they are wrong about this and that.
Must be little guy syndrome

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Do moderators haunt xda threads as a full time job ? Like does the xda founder.... pay these guys ?,cause man they must have to spend there whole life on here paying attention to every thread ...wondering where they find time for family and friends,its such a lifeless way to spend every moment trafficing 100s of threads to tell people how they are wrong about this and that.
Must be little guy syndrome
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You will understand when you get older.
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Some people never grow or even do a Google search or basic reasoning skills to understand that threads can be reported to moderators without them having to read each one or that there really aren't that many new threads per day for forum.

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Do moderators haunt xda threads as a full time job ? Like does the xda founder.... pay these guys ?,cause man they must have to spend there whole life on here paying attention to every thread ...wondering where they find time for family and friends,its such a lifeless way to spend every moment trafficing 100s of threads to tell people how they are wrong about this and that.
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You made me giggle.... It's call reporting
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Back to topic. AT&T's 4G is not as fast as T-Mobile just keep that in mind. While Tmobile's uses 42 download speed AT&T uses 21.
Mine d2tmo is unlocked and my friend have a d2att unlocked. We both trade sim cards to test our phones. Mine was getting 5-6mg download speed
and his was getting 10+.. You dont need a AT&T rom

Unlock the att S3 to work on Tmobile

Thinking of buying a blocked att imei phone .Will this unlock so i can use it at work on tmobile network?.
Then i can save my tmobile S3 for home

Tmobile and att share black listed phone wont work
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My friend brought an tmbile galaxy s2 that's blocked on T-Mobile nwtwork. But once I unlocked it, it worked on att.
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Will att unlock my phone?

My brother bought his phone outright from att and I want to use it on tmobile, will they unlock it since it's paid for or will they make it a hassle?
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u should ask this in the AT&T Galaxy s4 forum... you'll get a quicker and accurate response

1 should be posted in Q and A, and 2 you may have more luck posting in the ATT section. There may be someone here to help, but thr majority of us are on tmobile and have been for a while. But there is a couple of people who have jumped ship recently.
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witeboy07 said:
My brother bought his phone outright from att and I want to use it on tmobile, will they unlock it since it's paid for or will they make it a hassle?
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AT&T has a far less restrictive policy when it comes to unlocking phones verses T-Mobile, even after the "international travelers" change. When I unlocked a phone from AT&T it was all taken care of via online chat - and the phone was not paid off, still early in contract.
Read this thread over in the AT&T GS# Forum, the steps will apply to any AT&T phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962453&highlight=unlock+galaxy+s3

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Actually a 1 minute call to AT&T would probably get you the answer quickest.

Noob questions about apn

I have an ATT unlocked s3 so what are the setting i need to run it on t mobile network i talked to a sales rep and he told me it would only be 2g when i switch and they add all that to the phone when i switch over... thats little weird to me any suggestions?

Att gs3 on tmobile only works on 2g i believe
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Att gs3 on tmobile only works on 2g i believe
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You're wrong. I'm using a unlocked att s3 with s StraightTalk T-Mobile Sim and I'm getting there HSPA+ speeds.

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You're wrong. I'm using a unlocked att s3 with s StraightTalk T-Mobile Sim and I'm getting there HSPA+ speeds.
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Alright, well there you go OP
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popi09 said:
You're wrong. I'm using a unlocked att s3 with s StraightTalk T-Mobile Sim and I'm getting there HSPA+ speeds.
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Actually if you flash the new T-Mobile premium suite 4.1.2 directly on att i747
Everything works new style 4g icon
Same everything and Wifi calling works
The phones are so close in relation that its all compatible
Hspa+is displayed as 4g
Read about it the package was just released recently
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To flash you need to root it correct? and when i put in a t mobile sim card from a co worker i got 4gs speed ? so maybe the tmobile is just saying that to try and sell a phone

European Travel

Is it true that our AT&T Note 2s will work in Europe when I travel there?

I just got back from Munich. It worked fine, at least with a prepay sim from O2. I didn't try at&t service at all
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I thought this was in the "AT&T Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting". If I missed something please let me know what.

An unlocked smartphone can run on any gsm network. At least a 1,000 people every week take their unlocked phones to Europe and buy sim cards there.
Your next question might be 'how do I unkock my phone?'

It is unlocked. I thought they used different bands.
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jkitsmiller said:
It is unlocked. I thought they used different bands.
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Just buy a pay as you go sim card from the country you are going to and use as normal. I just got back from two weeks in London and had no problems what so ever.

I was also under the impression that the HSPA and LTE bands for our Note 2 is different from what they use in Europe. That's why they sell the "international" versions (7100 & 7105) there. That won't matter much if you don't get a data plan though as you could always use 2G and 3G (?) to make calls. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I'm interested in this topic as well.
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I'm using it in Lithuania right this moment with a prepaid sim card. Zero issues.
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shaolin95 said:
I'm using it in Lithuania right this moment with a prepaid sim card. Zero issues.
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Are you using data there?
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All countries in Europe use the same bands as at&t USA. Some countries also have tmobile frequencies.
The international note will only get 3G speeds but your note will get 4G when it is available.

I would like that to be true, but in reading the wikipedia summary of the Note 2 bands used, that's not what I'm seeing under "Table of Variants". There are 2 international Note 2 models: one with Lte (ie 4G) but on different bands than ours.
Intl-7105: Lte bands 3, 7, 8, 20.
Att-317: Lte bands 2, 17, + AWS (which I think uses part of band 1)
Sorry in advance if I am wrong about this - that's just the way I read the wikipedia article. If you know this to be wrong I'd appreciate an explanation. Unfortunately it's also easy to get mixed up since the European roms refer to the various cell radios differently than stock att does - as those who have flashed 7105 base roms well know, ie 4G = H+ Lte = 4G (Att = Eur)
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shaolin95 said:
I'm using it in Lithuania right this moment with a prepaid sim card. Zero issues.
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Yes I am.
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Don't worry about bands.
Its the frequencies that count.

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Yes I am.
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Shaolin,
Im using my note 2 in Egypt now and im getting very weak signal. What ROM and baseband r u using. Thxs

I was on Jedi X15 I believe or 14 TW ROM when I went to Lithuania. Modem was I317UCAMC3

Shaolin, thats what I used also but with poor reception. Thxs
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