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Here is my plan. Buy a t-mobile note 2. Unlock it and use it on AT&T until i can come up with the money to cancel my contract with them then switch my plan to T-Mobile.
My question is, can i flash the t-mobile note 2 with a AT&T rom to enable 4g while i use it on AT&T still?
I searched and found these 2 threads. showthread.php?t=2096495 & showthread.php?t=2026571, but they didnt answer my question in full and they seem rather old and before it was discovered that the T-Mobile and AT&T note 2 have the same radio frequencies.
There is an issue with gps from what I've read. For me, it that's a deal breaker. I don't know for sure, but I'm 99% I was reading about it a couple of days ago.
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Warrior1975 said:
There is an issue with gps from what I've read. For me, it that's a deal breaker. I don't know for sure, but I'm 99% I was reading about it a couple of days ago.
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hmm yeah that would be a deal breaker for me ass well. thank you for the reply. i know the phone will work on att using a tmobile rom i just might not get full 4g speeds.
Everything works 100%
Im running straight talk att mvno on my note and I get 4g speeds. GPS is fine. Go for It
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You won't have lte until we get it pushed to our notes. However there is a way to enable hspa+ on at&t.
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Ermmmmm im assuming you are planning on buying used? I was just thinking if not,the money to buy a new one would pretty much equal buying out your contact and getting the discount as a new tmo customer.
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yes everything works! besides LTE
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I'm thinking about purchasing a note 2 from att from a friend. I understand the phones unlocked already from factory. Just needs to be rooted.
Now I know Clean rom is an international rom and when you flash it asks what carrier like Verizon etc. If I got a att phone and used Clean rom and flashed it for Verizon on att is this how it would work for me?
Anyone with experience know?
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The general rule of thumb is no.
Verizon is cdma but maybe this will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2068041
Cdma phones generally canot be used on gsm networks.
Some truly "world" phones have sim cards but again the bandsare different . I remember being on the d2g forums and there was a way to send I your d2g to one of the devs and they hacked it to work.
But more than likely you will never get the full benefit of the lhone thats made specifically for the carrier.
Read the link .
Imo these kind of things are fruitless and a waste of time.
But hey go for it.
Fully? No. It won't work at ALL. incompatible technologies, and Verizon will only activate Verizon phones on their network.
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Fully? No. It won't work at ALL. incompatible technologies, and Verizon will only activate Verizon phones on their network.
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Absolutely and my bad about my previous post, i missread what you wrote.
Sorry if there was any confusion from it. You can flash phones from verizon to other carriers like cricket who share the same type of bw, and possibly hack them to other networks but as entropism said , what you were asking is not possible. Even if you could, the later of entropism's post is what kills it.
Always hated that about big red.
And I stand by what I said.
Imo complete waste of time.
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Hello everybody, I am currently planning on coming to Tmobile from Att and I have a unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT. I know it will work in terms of service, but my question is when I come to flash roms, would I flash them from the Tmobile section of XDA? Or the ATT section of XDA?
The phone originally being ATT with Tmobile Sim card was really throwing me off and I didn't want to do any thing stupid.
Thank you so much for your time.
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Hello everybody, I am currently planning on coming to Tmobile from Att and I have a unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT. I know it will work in terms of service, but my question is when I come to flash roms, would I flash them from the Tmobile section of XDA? Or the ATT section of XDA?
The phone originally being ATT with Tmobile Sim card was really throwing me off and I didn't want to do any thing stupid.
Thank you so much for your time.
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T-Mobile phone - > T-Mobile threads
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T-Mobile phone - > T-Mobile threads
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Ok got it, thank you.
So it doesn't matter that my carrier will be Tmobile, I should still use Att threads and not have a problem?:good:
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Ok got it, thank you.
So it doesn't matter that my carrier will be Tmobile, I should still use Att threads and not have a problem?:good:
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Correct.
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Ok got it, thank you.
So it doesn't matter that my carrier will be Tmobile, I should still use Att threads and not have a problem?:good:
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You got it bro. You are absolutely correct.
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Hello everybody, I am currently planning on coming to Tmobile from Att and I have a unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT. I know it will work in terms of service, but my question is when I come to flash roms, would I flash them from the Tmobile section of XDA? Or the ATT section of XDA?
The phone originally being ATT with Tmobile Sim card was really throwing me off and I didn't want to do any thing stupid.
Thank you so much for your time.
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After inserting a Tmobile sim card into your UNLOCKED phone you will be able to flash
any of the roms here in the Tmobile thread as well as in the AT&T thread.
If you flash a AT&T rom the only thing you need to do to make it work properly is to
change the APN (Access Point settings) in the phone to be "T-Mobile US".
The phone can do that automatically by going into:
Settings>more settings>mobile networks>Network operators>Select automatically and select "select automatically"
and it will find that you have a Tmobile sim and it will change the apn to reflect that.
The phone will work just fine either way, however there is one main difference between
the roms found in the AT&T thread and this Tmobile thread.
The difference is when using Tmobile roms which are not ported from other carriers you
will have built-in wifi calling as an option when using the Tmobile roms.
Other than that you will not notice much of any difference at all.
Good Luck!
I bought a new SS S3 and ordered it for Tmobil network, but instead recieved a ATT phone...
SGH-I747
Everything works fine, and its not unlocked that I know of, but the whole reason I bought the phone was to use the wifi calling option of T-mobil, this att phone doesnt have that option.
Am I screwed? Should I send it back for a t-mobil phone or is there a simple way to update this phone to T-mobil and get the option of wifi calling from T-mobil.?
robomas1 said:
I bought a new SS S3 and ordered it for Tmobil network, but instead recieved a ATT phone...
SGH-I747
Everything works fine, and its not unlocked that I know of, but the whole reason I bought the phone was to use the wifi calling option of T-mobil, this att phone doesnt have that option.
Am I screwed? Should I send it back for a t-mobil phone or is there a simple way to update this phone to T-mobil and get the option of wifi calling from T-mobil.?
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Hey robomas1. Would you be interested in trading your AT&T s3 for a brand new T-Mobile s3? I have a similar situation as yourself and got a T-Mobile version galaxy s3 but I wanted an AT&T phone as that's what carrier I use.
Let me know. Thanks.
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Hello everybody, I am currently planning on coming to Tmobile from Att and I have a unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT. I know it will work in terms of service, but my question is when I come to flash roms, would I flash them from the Tmobile section of XDA? Or the ATT section of XDA?
The phone originally being ATT with Tmobile Sim card was really throwing me off and I didn't want to do any thing stupid.
Thank you so much for your time.
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When you are flashing any custom roms after you get your Tmobile sim chip you should flash the
Tmobile Touchwiz Jellybean 4.1.2 custom roms for the very best results.
If you do flash an AT&T cwm/twrp flashable custom rom you will find that even though the phone will
work fine you will loose the free Wifi calling feature in the phone if it's not flashed with a tmobile rom.
Flashing the official Odin flash Tmobile firmware on an AT&T phone even if it's unlocked and rooted will
cause the phone not to be able to make or receive any phone calls.
The reason for this is that all the official Tmobile Samsung Odin flash firmware contain a modem/radio image which
is not compatible with an AT&T phone even if it's unlocked and rooted but none of the Tmobile or AT&T CWM/TWRP
flashable stock or custom roms contain the modem/radio image file which means you can flash them without any issues.
Good luck!
Trade ATT
hbkalel said:
Hey robomas1. Would you be interested in trading your AT&T s3 for a brand new T-Mobile s3? I have a similar situation as yourself and got a T-Mobile version galaxy s3 but I wanted an AT&T phone as that's what carrier I use.
Let me know. Thanks.
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I have a brand new in the box Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT and I am willing to trade for a T-Mobile.
li2le said:
I have a brand new in the box Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT and I am willing to trade for a T-Mobile.
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Pm sent
I will trade
li2le said:
I have a brand new in the box Samsung Galaxy S3 from ATT and I am willing to trade for a T-Mobile.
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I still trade phones
It should go without saying but be very wary of someone who registered an account just to try to trade phones... There's a reason there's a big Swappa logo up above the site navigation bar...
hbkalel said:
Hey robomas1. Would you be interested in trading your AT&T s3 for a brand new T-Mobile s3? I have a similar situation as yourself and got a T-Mobile version galaxy s3 but I wanted an AT&T phone as that's what carrier I use.
Let me know. Thanks.
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Hi, I have a brand new AT&T S3 and need a T-Mobile S3.
So you still have the T-Mobile Phone?
If Interested, let me know.
thanks
mustang123 said:
Hi, I have a brand new AT&T S3 and need a T-Mobile S3.
So you still have the T-Mobile Phone?
If Interested, let me know.
thanks
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I sent you a pm.
As far as just joining to trade phones, I am genuine. I read the forums regularly and finally joined. This forum helped me to unlock my T-Mobile galaxy s3. However, using the tmobile phone, I can't run the update, as the unlock does not hold after and my AT&T sim no longer works.
That's my reasoning for wanting to trade for an AT&T galaxy s3.
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I sent you a pm.
As far as just joining to trade phones, I am genuine. I read the forums regularly and finally joined. This forum helped me to unlock my T-Mobile galaxy s3. However, using the tmobile phone, I can't run the update, as the unlock does not hold after and my AT&T sim no longer works.
That's my reasoning for wanting to trade for an AT&T galaxy s3.
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Just curious, what do you mean the unlock doesn't hold? Once unlocked it should remain so whether you flash a rom, firmware, mod, etc.
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Just curious, what do you mean the unlock doesn't hold? Once unlocked it should remain so whether you flash a rom, firmware, mod, etc.
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Well I had to flash back to stock rom to unlock the phone. I have avoided running the network update, guess was afraid that it wouldn't work. I really didn't want to have to flash it again and have to unlock it and be back where I started. So it should be fine to update, should cause no issues amd run fine with AT&T sim still?
Thats what you're saying right?
Thanks for info.
As I understand it, that is correct. Once its unlocked, you can Odin flash firmware, recovery flash roms, flash modems, etc.
If it helps, Ive never seen a single thread or question where someone was relocked.
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DocHoliday77 said:
As I understand it, that is correct. Once its unlocked, you can Odin flash firmware, recovery flash roms, flash modems, etc.
If it helps, Ive never seen a single thread or question where someone was relocked.
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Alright. I will go ahead and run the network update then. The notification doesn't go away. It is annoying!
Haha. I'll post back. I'd rather not have to trade if it works fine. Other than the annoying notification, the phone operates wonderfully.
If i flash the tmobile s3 rom on my att s3 will i get the 1700mhz band? I thought an att s3 on tmobile will only get 2g/edge service. Please let me know if someone knows.
Thanks A Lot,
Yasir Faheem
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.
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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Alright, well there you go OP
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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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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
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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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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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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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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