My girlfriends sister just bought the galaxy s3 from ATT for full price. She is planning on using it in Mexico using Telcel. They had a few questions that they wanted me to ask you guys. With the ATT version, would 4g LTE be enables for Telcel since ATT owns Telcel? Since they biught the phone for full price, is it still locked with ATT? And last, will multiwindow and all that multitasking work for it? I checked the phone and it is currently running Android 4.1.1. Once they have Telcel on it, would it be able to be upgraded to 4.1.2?
Thanks
singjai said:
My girlfriends sister just bought the galaxy s3 from ATT for full price. She is planning on using it in Mexico using Telcel. They had a few questions that they wanted me to ask you guys. With the ATT version, would 4g LTE be enables for Telcel since ATT owns Telcel? Since they biught the phone for full price, is it still locked with ATT? And last, will multiwindow and all that multitasking work for it? I checked the phone and it is currently running Android 4.1.1. Once they have Telcel on it, would it be able to be upgraded to 4.1.2?
Thanks
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A lot of questions lol
My experience: i bought a the same phone for my father, i think is LTE capable for Telcel because the frequencies but he is not getting LTE, i show him how to flash the modems/radios so he is testing now. Even if you paid full price for the phone is locked to ATT, call ATT and ask for the unlock key, i did the same for 3 different gs3, sometimes they refused, just dial again and speak with another representative. You can not upgrade to 4.1.2 because ATT has not that android version yet, but you can upgrade it using a custom rom.
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ok my question is this,
I am trading up an old iPhone 4s for a T-Mobile Galaxy Note II, is it possable to debrand or install AT&T rom on this phone to make it an AT&T phone?
or any kind of work around to get it running on AT&T LTE network
let me know
Thanks
P.S. i do not have the phone in hand yet so i am asking if it is worth the trade
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ok my question is this,
I am trading up an old iPhone 4s for a T-Mobile Galaxy Note II, is it possable to debrand or install AT&T rom on this phone to make it an AT&T phone?
or any kind of work around to get it running on AT&T LTE network
let me know
Thanks
P.S. i do not have the phone in hand yet so i am asking if it is worth the trade
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I know the tmobile note 2 is capable of lte but.it's not enabled in the default firmware, and I'm not sure if the frequencies will be the same as tmo hasn't even started rolling out their lte. My guess is it's the same hardware, but I would do as much searching as possible before doing the trade. If it's possible, I'm sure someone here at xda will get it working if it's possible, but it hasn't been out long enough for any definitive info. (At least nothing I've seen)
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rinnycoop121 said:
ok my question is this,
I am trading up an old iPhone 4s for a T-Mobile Galaxy Note II, is it possible to debrand or install AT&T rom on this phone to make it an AT&T phone?
or any kind of work around to get it running on AT&T LTE network
let me know
Thanks
P.S. i do not have the phone in hand yet so i am asking if it is worth the trade
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It should run on the AT&T HSPA+ (3.5G) network with no problems (as long as it's carrier/SIM unlocked) as the phone should have the 850/1900 GSM bands that AT&T uses. I'm not sure about LTE...but I don't think it will work.
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Hello,
I have the ability to purchase a T-Mobile Note 2 right now. The problem is my carrier is AT&T. I'm not interested in getting LTE to work only HSPA+, but will that even work? To do it, would I have to unlock it, how would I do that? Also once it is unlocked and working with AT&T, would I flash AT&T Note 2 ROMs or the T-Mobile Note 2?
Thanks,
Chughes13x
Man, how many of these TMobile on ATT posts do there have to be? Search before posting!
Yes it works, I get 8Mbps down on good days, worst I have seen is 2 Mbps. You will have to unlock your phone, SEARCH for the free unlock. I've seen it posted here, in the N7100 forums and S3 forums. You should be able to find easily. For roms, stick with the TMobile roms on a TMobile phone.
If you don't have plans on going to TMobile or LTE, I would suggest the N7100 international version. More rom development, faster firmware leaks and releases. I also got better battery life out of my N7100. I kind of wish I would not have traded my N7100 for the TMobile Note2. The TMobile version is easier to hack if you want to put it on an ATT dumb phone plan.
Hello,
I couldnt find anything on this thread before posting. I am a Verizon user and just upgraded to Galaxy s4, i have a friend thats on AT&T network. Can I switch this verizon phone to AT&T, if so please refer me to correct section to do so
lazersate said:
Hello,
I couldnt find anything on this thread before posting. I am a Verizon user and just upgraded to Galaxy s4, i have a friend thats on AT&T network. Can I switch this verizon phone to AT&T, if so please refer me to correct section to do so
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Let's see. You are on Verizon. With a S4. This is the AT&T S3 forum. Yep, I would say wrong area.
Try asking in this forum. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2258
But general guess would be no.
No i'm giving him my old Verizon Galaxy S3 to be used on AT&T
lazersate said:
Hello,
I couldnt find anything on this thread before posting. I am a Verizon user and just upgraded to Galaxy s4, i have a friend thats on AT&T network. Can I switch this verizon phone to AT&T, if so please refer me to correct section to do so
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Your Verizon or Sprint S3 can be unlocked and flashed to work with another CDMA carrier such as Cricket/boost/Metro etc.
AT&T and T-mobile use sim cards and can be unlocked to switch between GSM carriers. So unless I am mistaken, it is not possible to use a Verizon s3 on AT&T.
you have CDMA version; friend is GSM. will not work on this device. Most of the world is GSM; i travel a lot so i always use GSM carrier in USA. There are no CDMA carriers in France, Greece, Italy, (im Greek and have friends/family/work in Southern Europe) UK (i think Ireland proper has CDMA carrier) and only one in Belarus, one in Ukraine and two in Russia (GF is from that area) so we stick with GSM from carriers in USA now (used to buy intl models when WinMo5/6 was popular).
BYOBret said:
Your Verizon or Sprint S3 can be unlocked and flashed to work with another CDMA carrier such as Cricket/boost/Metro etc.
AT&T and T-mobile use sim cards and can be unlocked to switch between GSM carriers. So unless I am mistaken, it is not possible to use a Verizon s3 on AT&T.
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technically, i believe the verizon s3 takes a sim card for LTE....... but even with that said, a verizon s3 isn't going to work on ATT because of it having a cdma radio instead of a gsm.
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I have a T-Mo Galaxy S4 that was SIM unlocked through unlockerDotnet.
I've heard that the T-Mo S4 is better than AT&T for a variety of reasons, but more importantly that it picks up all of T-Mobiles HSPA+ along with AT&T's network. So in theory, having it sim unlocked, I could fully utilize t-mobile's service and at&t's service to their full potential. Can anyone confirm this?
Reason I ask was I was speaking with a TMO rep once and he said the international unlocked version wouldn't pick up on the full spectrum of TMO frequencies, but it should be fine with AT&T. Ideally I want to get into a situation where I have the option to jump between the two through their full spectrum, or any mvno's that use their towers as well.
Thanks for the clarification! :laugh:
Details and specifics appreciated!
You can enable tmo AWS bands on AT&T S4. 2 phones are the same, basically the tmo version has the extra bands enable out of the box.
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You can enable tmo AWS bands on AT&T S4. 2 phones are the same, basically the tmo version has the extra bands enable out of the box.
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Thanks for the heads up :good:
So there wouldn't be any disadvantage to running the sim unlocked TMO S4 on ATT? I'd still pick up on all their 3g/4g/lte frequencies?
Much appreciated my friend
It will work its full potential on AT&T network if that what you want it to do.
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It will work its full potential on AT&T network if that what you want it to do.
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Wait a minute... The ATT version has the tmobile bands too? I thought it was missing two of them.
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http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-t...aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sgh-i337m/
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http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-t...aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sgh-i337m/
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I got another reply on a different forum that said
"T-Mobile's phone will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile however im not sure if the 4g LTE will work on AT&T's Network but either way you will only be able to use one or the other at any one time."
So, just to clarify, or rephrase rather, will 4G LTE work on ATT's network with the sim-unlocked TMO S4, or would it be beneficial to go with the ATT S4 and open up the TMO bands?
Sorry to beat the dead horse, just want to try and verify HSPA+ and both Tmo LTE and Att LTE will work with my setup, or if I should switch to ATT or International Unlocked version.
Again, many thanks for clearing this up!
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K. Can anyone help me out with that last question that knows LTE tech fairly well? I read a bit about frequencies here and from what I can tell it seems like the LTE frequencies are 1.4MHz, 3MHz, 5MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz, and 20MHz pending which geographic market you are in, but I'm not sure if there's anything else hidden in regards to carriers have specific LTE frequencies, and if so if any that a TMO sim unlocked S4 doesn't have.
In the end, i'm 90% going to be on TMO or a MVNO, but on the slight chance (or if i'm working around the country in a very rural area) I may want to switch to ATT and possibly their new prepaid service they're going to announce. Anyways, thanks again
My unlocked TMO S4 works perfectly on ATT LTE, doing it right now and have been for the last few weeks. That's why I bought it also was to hop between carriers.
While you can get the ATT S4 to work with TMO it's more difficult and not ready to go out of the box. I tried that and ended up just returning the ATT one.
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In the end, i'm 90% going to be on TMO or a MVNO, but on the slight chance (or if i'm working around the country in a very rural area) I may want to switch to ATT and possibly their new prepaid service they're going to announce. Anyways, thanks again
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T-mobile just dropped the price of their S4. There's no reason to get the ATT one but in case you get one and want an easy way to unlock the extra bands, follow this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324667
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My unlocked TMO S4 works perfectly on ATT LTE, doing it right now and have been for the last few weeks. That's why I bought it also was to hop between carriers.
While you can get the ATT S4 to work with TMO it's more difficult and not ready to go out of the box. I tried that and ended up just returning the ATT one.
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I have a T-Mobile variant s4 unlocked using it on AT&T network and just did my first speed test and......was very disappointed!
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I have a quick question for you guys, what is if there is any difference between the T-Mo and the AT&T variants of the Note II? I currently own an unlocked AT&T version of it, but soon I will also own the T-Mobile version of it. I know T-Mobile's does not have KitKat and is stuck back at Jellybean 4.3. After that, is all I can think of a difference. I currently do have T-Mobile. Will I be making a huge mistake by going to that variant?
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I have a quick question for you guys, what is if there is any difference between the T-Mo and the AT&T variants of the Note II? I currently own an unlocked AT&T version of it, but soon I will also own the T-Mobile version of it. I know T-Mobile's does not have KitKat and is stuck back at Jellybean 4.3. After that, is all I can think of a difference. I currently do have T-Mobile. Will I be making a huge mistake by going to that variant?
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If you're asking if it's a mistake to use the T-Mobile Note on the T-Mobile network just because the official firmware is JellyBean, no, don't worry about that. There are tons of KitKat and Lollipop ROMs in the T889 forum because of some extraordinary developers. You'll be upgraded in no time. Plus, with an actual T-Mobile Note, you'll have Wi-Fi calling, and it'll be better for overall network compatibility, anyway. Some users of unlocked phones on different networks report data drops or unreceived photo texts, for example.
Hope this helps!