I was wondering if it is possible to enable LTE on a WIND Galaxy Note 2? I recently switched to bell, and I do not have LTE, but I know that T-Mobile has an updated Modem that enables LTE, so can I use it on my phone?
You would need LTE service to connect to. Without that it doesn't matter.
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You would need LTE service to connect to. Without that it doesn't matter.
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My Bell Plan, and my Bell Micro-Sim supports LTE.
I'm not sure a Tmobile modem would help you with that. Are your phone settings correct for LTE service on Bell? And, I guess, is it unlocked, with the right radio inside to connect to Bell LTE? I'm not familiar with Canadian carrier compatability.
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I happen to be.
The Mobicility/Wind/Videotron T889V's modem has LTE disabled just like the T-Mobile's T889's modem prior to the LTE update. There's a bug where flashing a T889, I317 or I317M modem through CWM or TWRP (Odin will fail before writing) leads to IMEI corruption and bootloops.
You've got some more searching and reading to do but enabling LTE has been done at least twice, by Rail205 and myself.
Good luck,
Darkshado
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I happen to be.
The Mobicility/Wind/Videotron T889V's modem has LTE disabled just like the T-Mobile's T889's modem prior to the LTE update. There's a bug where flashing a T889, I317 or I317M modem through CWM or TWRP (Odin will fail before writing) leads to IMEI corruption and bootloops.
You've got some more searching and reading to do but enabling LTE has been done at least twice, by Rail205 and myself.
Good luck,
Darkshado
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Can you possibly guide me on how you did it? And also, does your phone have LTE AND AWS HSPA, or one or the other?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
I do have both AWS LTE and HSPA from what little testing I've done with the latter. This makes sense given that's exactly the configuration used by T-Mobile.
Use the search engine, there's gotta be at least four or five threads about enabling LTE on the T889V.
Essentially this is an experimental and so far irreversible mod. So you're really kissing your warranty goodbye. And I will be of limited help if you (or I, by way of my instructions) screw up.
I'll send you a draft guide via PM if you're still interested. Consider getting an I317M and enabling AWS HSPA on it instead.
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I do have both AWS LTE and HSPA from what little testing I've done with the latter. This makes sense given that's exactly the configuration used by T-Mobile.
Use the search engine, there's gotta be at least four or five threads about enabling LTE on the T889V.
Essentially this is an experimental and so far irreversible mod. So you're really kissing your warranty goodbye. And I will be of limited help if you (or I, by way of my instructions) screw up.
I'll send you a draft guide via PM if you're still interested. Consider getting an I317M and enabling AWS HSPA on it instead.
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Yeah, please send me a PM, that would be great! Thanks! I am still not sure if I want to go through the mod or not..
Darkshado said:
I do have both AWS LTE and HSPA from what little testing I've done with the latter. This makes sense given that's exactly the configuration used by T-Mobile.
Use the search engine, there's gotta be at least four or five threads about enabling LTE on the T889V.
Essentially this is an experimental and so far irreversible mod. So you're really kissing your warranty goodbye. And I will be of limited help if you (or I, by way of my instructions) screw up.
I'll send you a draft guide via PM if you're still interested. Consider getting an I317M and enabling AWS HSPA on it instead.
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Can you sent me the instructions too? Please & thank you.
Could always sell it and buy another one that supports LTE right or of the box. Might be easier in the long run.
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Can you sent me the instructions too? Please & thank you.
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Check in my signature, the link is right there. If you're using the mobile app, search a little and it should come right up.
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Everything seems to work relatively well with my current unlocked device on ATT. Only problem is data seems kind of patchy (speedtests show it just spiking and dropping like mad, have to hit retry frequently when loading pages or surfing the app store, etc). I am using the ATT APN settings based around the wap.cingular stuff that seems to be the most common. I average around 1mb speeds so my question is would I benefit from finding a different radio for this setup? If so which one should I try?
Device is running the Darkside venom ICS build. Thanks.
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Everything seems to work relatively well with my current unlocked device on ATT. Only problem is data seems kind of patchy (speedtests show it just spiking and dropping like mad, have to hit retry frequently when loading pages or surfing the app store, etc). I am using the ATT APN settings based around the wap.cingular stuff that seems to be the most common. I average around 1mb speeds so my question is would I benefit from finding a different radio for this setup? If so which one should I try?
Device is running the Darkside venom ICS build. Thanks.
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I plan on going to a straighttalk sim. Which would be off att (that's the sim I want) and I'm going to keep the ice cream sandwich kernel on it ulve1 I believe it is. I would NOT flash an att radio. I believe that would brick it.
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elesbb said:
I plan on going to a straighttalk sim. Which would be off att (that's the sim I want) and I'm going to keep the ice cream sandwich kernel on it ulve1 I believe it is. I would NOT flash an att radio. I believe that would brick it.
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I guess i'll just keep on cruising along. It seems to work alright but if there was a way to squeeze more power out of this bad boy I'd certainly take it.
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I plan on going to a straighttalk sim. Which would be off att (that's the sim I want) and I'm going to keep the ice cream sandwich kernel on it ulve1 I believe it is. I would NOT flash an att radio. I believe that would brick it.
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False, you can interchange between SR and herc radios kernels and roms. Just don't odin anything.
Btw to op. Sell your herc and buy a SR for cheaper + using LTE = profitx2
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False, you can interchange between SR and herc radios kernels and roms. Just don't odin anything.
Btw to op. Sell your herc and buy a SR for cheaper + using LTE = profitx2
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Not according to mr vlad.. which makes sense cause of LTE. Plus for me i cant get anybodys LTE where i live.
Unless the Herc ignores the LTE frequencies using that radio?
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No the skyrocket has LTE radio, won't won't. The Galaxy S blaze does..
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False, you can interchange between SR and herc radios kernels and roms. Just don't odin anything.
Btw to op. Sell your herc and buy a SR for cheaper + using LTE = profitx2
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I didn't think the ST plans supported LTE, so SR on ST isn't any benefit over the T989?
To the OP, you might check out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676966
Folks are posting tmo and att ST speeds. There's an off chance someone from your area may have posted att speeds for you to compare to.
GL!
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I didn't think the ST plans supported LTE, so SR on ST isn't any benefit over the T989?
To the OP, you might check out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676966
Folks are posting tmo and att ST speeds. There's an off chance someone from your area may have posted att speeds for you to compare to.
GL!
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The op is on att that's why i directed it to him.
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Not according to mr vlad.. which makes sense cause of LTE. Plus for me i cant get anybodys LTE where i live.
Unless the Herc ignores the LTE frequencies using that radio?
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Got a bit confused on what you were saying but yeah herc doesn't pick up the lte freq. Our device is missing the chip for it
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Got a bit confused on what you were saying but yeah herc doesn't pick up the lte freq. Our device is missing the chip for it
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But one can still flash an att radio and the Hercules would ignore the lte? Or would flashing a sr radio brick the device?
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OK, why do folks have an interest in flashing skyrocket stuff onto the T989? Just get a carrier unlock from TMO, get an ATT or ST ATT sim, and pop it into the T989, talk away. What am I missing? What does the SR have that the T989 doesn't?
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But one can still flash an att radio and the Hercules would ignore the lte? Or would flashing a sr radio brick the device?
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SR radio does not
Brick the device, they're interchangeable. Herc does not ignore lte. They don't even pick it up.
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OK, why do folks have an interest in flashing skyrocket stuff onto the T989? Just get a carrier unlock from TMO, get an ATT or ST ATT sim, and pop it into the T989, talk away. What am I missing? What does the SR have that the T989 doesn't?
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For faster data and stronger signal you want an att radio which is design to optimize those bands.
SR has LTE. other than that they're identical
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For faster data and stronger signal you want an att radio which is design to optimize those bands.
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Anyone got any experience / data with this? The T989 seems to work just fine on ATT with stock radio, doesn't seem to need an SR radio. I thought the bands were identical.
Thanks!
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Anyone got any experience / data with this? The T989 seems to work just fine on ATT with stock radio, doesn't seem to need an SR radio. I thought the bands were identical.
Thanks!
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You can probably get HSPDA+ which is equivalent to the speeds in T-Mobile.
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Anyone got any experience / data with this? The T989 seems to work just fine on ATT with stock radio, doesn't seem to need an SR radio. I thought the bands were identical.
Thanks!
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its ymmv, the stock radio can pick up H+ on AT&T but for users who have slow data, flashing AT&T radios helps. Unless you're just trying to prove me wrong or something.
Where to Dl the AT&T radio
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its ymmv, the stock radio can pick up H+ on AT&T but for users who have slow data, flashing AT&T radios helps. Unless you're just trying to prove me wrong or something.
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Trying to find some data. Something like "on att with tmo radio I get 2 MbS download, but same phone on att with att radio I get 4mbs".
I know that different combinations of radios and roms can improve reception in some areas.
I also haven't seen anything that indicates the MAGNITUDE of the difference.
I get that sometimes, maybe, if you're having trouble with your current reception, you might be able to get better reception if you flash some other radio. (from your current carrier or a different carrier)
BUT some folks think that they should almost routinely flash their T989 to an att radio if they want to use it on ATT. I haven't seen it help at all on my phone.
So my question is two fold, what is the MAGNITUDE of the difference, and, how OFTEN does it make a difference. I was hoping someone had some data on that.
Thanks!
Because T889 & N7105 are have same Qualcomm 9215 baseband chip, is there any way to Enabling LTE Feature on My Note 2 T889?
Not yet. We're expecting a software release sometime next year to do this. Who knows, maybe a dev here will figure it out sooner.
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We can enable it, but there is no way to test it since there is no LTE on the tmo network. LTE has been present in tmo phones all the way back to the GS2 t989.
How? I have the canadian version of t_mobil unlocked using a telus sim but cant get LTE. Is it the NV data way. Was reading about it and seems a little above my knowledge.
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Yes yet...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2068041
Viceversa...
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My t-mobile gs2 doesn't have lte. I know the note 2 does as everyone already knows.
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We can enable it, but there is no way to test it since there is no LTE on the tmo network. LTE has been present in tmo phones all the way back to the GS2 t989.
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Could you teach me how can I enable it???? because i am in middle east and we have several companies provide LTE and my phone is unlock .
when you give me that I will test it with companies and I will let you know how it will become .
thank you so much
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Could you teach me how can I enable it???? because i am in middle east and we have several companies provide LTE and my phone is unlock .
when you give me that I will test it with companies and I will let you know how it will become .
thank you so much
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I'm curious about this as well. I read the thread about enabling AWS on the i317, however all the files in that discussion seemed to be related to that particular phone and not for the t889.
I surmise that we need either the .qcn file from a stock i317 or the NV parameter to enable LTE.
Thanks in advance!
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I have a T mobile galaxy S3 that I would like to upgrade to the T999L. I am looking to purchase it used and just sell my current phone, but there are slim pickings on ebay and the like. To open up my search I was considering getting the ATT variant of the Galaxy S3 LTE, but am not sure if that will work on the T-Mobile 4g bands.
Any info would be much appreciated
Thank you!
Refer to this thread for info http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352009
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The T999L was only released a month or so ago. Very few people even have new ones so I doubt youll find any used for sale.
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There's an engineering radio and firmware image that unlocks AWS on the at&t version... So you would get HSPA AND LTE (as long as the coverage is there)
Its not for the faint of heart though. People have HARD BRICKED by not following the directions properly which is why I'm not linking you to it. Its in the at&t S3 forum and search is your best friend. Best of luck!
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thank you for the reply, i think if its that complicated I might just wait until a t mobile variant pops up
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There's an engineering radio and firmware image that unlocks AWS on the at&t version... So you would get HSPA AND LTE (as long as the coverage is there)
Its not for the faint of heart though. People have HARD BRICKED by not following the directions properly which is why I'm not linking you to it. Its in the at&t S3 forum and search is your best friend. Best of luck!
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thank you for the reply, i think if its that complicated I might just wait until a t mobile variant pops up
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As long as you're familiar with ODIN and know how to read, you will be fine. My caution is because it is not your regular ODIN. It literally was used internally by T-Mobile to test LTE... Don't even get me started on the existence of the T999L and how much of a scam T-Mobile pulled.
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As long as you're familiar with ODIN and know how to read, you will be fine. My caution is because it is not your regular ODIN. It literally was used internally by T-Mobile to test LTE... Don't even get me started on the existence of the T999L and how much of a scam T-Mobile pulled.
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yeah odin and all that is fine, im normally quick to diy things myself, but i figured i can wait for the right phone this time around. and curious about the scam of the t999l? what do you mean exactly? cause its just a t999 with upgraded radio for a crazy price? or is there more i dont know about
Hi all,
Just had a quick question, as I am thinking about swapping carriers from AT&T (horrible customer service and technical support). I currently have the AT&T i747, but I am thinking about switching from AT&T to T-Mobile as they are now providing Unlimited Everything for $70 per month. My question is, if I unlock my i747 for T-Mobile, which section in XDA would I go for custom ROMS, Kernels, tools and utilities and such? Would I stay here since the hardware is AT&T or would I need to migrate to the T-Mobile forums? Thanks in advance for your assistance.
In order to enable high speed data on you i747, you'll need to enable AWS frequencies on your s3 and unlock it. You could continue to use d2att ROMs if the model # on your phone does not get changed by using the T-Mobile mod.
You can use either sections, but you need to stick with i747 modems and firmwares.. And if you want to take advantage of T-Mobile's WiFi calling then you need a T-Mobile ROM.. You may or may not have to do the AWS mod. if you live in a refarmed T-Mobile area, then you'll get 4g and 4g lte fine, if not, then you may only get lte with edge being a fall back if you don't do the mod.. I used an i747 with T-Mobile and luckily my area is refarmed so I had 4g and 4g lte with no mods needed
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OK, so I switched to T-Mobile today and my Mobile data and WiFi are picking up only one bar. Do I need to flash or change a modem setting or something?
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OK, so I switched to T-Mobile today and my Mobile data and WiFi are picking up only one bar. Do I need to flash or change a modem setting or something?
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The modem should not affect the wi-fi performance but it will affect data performance.
This thread may help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771021
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OK, so I switched to T-Mobile today and my Mobile data and WiFi are picking up only one bar. Do I need to flash or change a modem setting or something?
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Alot of people overlook the fact that T-Mobile uses which frequencies? Ones that are higher 1700+ mhz and someone like at&t uses 850+ the lower frequencies travel farther and penetrate walls and buildings. In my area if you get T-Mobile it os because you dont want to talk on the phone ever again...
Good luck
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Is the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 compatible with T-Mobile HSPA+/LTE?
It will work but you should enable aws to ensure you get fast data speeds.
What do I need to do?
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It will work but you should enable aws to ensure you get fast data speeds.
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Is there something I have to flash to enable this? If so, what is it and where can I find it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771021
Will this also work by any chance? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344627
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This will fubar his modem if he's coming from ATT 4.3 or 4.4.2 firmware. See my post on page 112 of that thread.
I am on 4.4.2. I see that the method you used was the Odin version. Do you think the way I suggested in my previous post would work?
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I am on 4.4.2. I see that the method you used was the Odin version. Do you think the way I suggested in my previous post would work?
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I looked into that method (flashing nv data via qpst). I'm not sure if it will work or not, but it requires reapplication every restart, which means staying on stock firmware and re-applying any time the phone restarts. Didn't sound like a good time to me, so I gave it a miss. I'm running LTE+Edge only for now, it's not that bad, but it does make the data service very slow in general (no LTE coverage most places, so down to Edge speeds, no HSPA+).
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I looked into that method (flashing nv data via qpst). I'm not sure if it will work or not, but it requires reapplication every restart, which means staying on stock firmware and re-applying any time the phone restarts. Didn't sound like a good time to me, so I gave it a miss. I'm running LTE+Edge only for now, it's not that bad, but it does make the data service very slow in general (no LTE coverage most places, so down to Edge speeds, no HSPA+).
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What are your average download and upload speed on 4G LTE? Is it using the 1700/2100 AWS bands?