so im rooted, and used the AWS hack to get hspa (which i was actually showing 4g before i did this) anyway, i was in BJs today (supermarket lol) and i noticed i was on Edge, looked at my wifes s4 (tmo) and was on 4g. i went airplane mode and restarted, still on edge. out of the store went right back to 4g (and parts of the front of store) is there anything i can do you think? can i flash a tmo modem or will that mess things up since im using an att phone?
BTW im using straight talk tmobile - 4g is very fast here, one night i pulled 11mbps. but i average around 6-8mbps
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And how is the service? Data speed specifically...
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I'm using an unlocked i747 on T-Mobile in Miami. While on touchwiz (when I unlocked) I would get 4G(hspa+) and the speeds are better than at&t 4G (their LTE). Now I'm back to cm10.1 and when on 3G I'm still faster than at&t. I touchwiz shows 4G when really on 3G (HSpa). However, my phone constantly goes to G (GPRS) and becomes unusable.
But that's Miami. T-Mobile is in the process of updating their 3G to support at&t bands, specifically the iPhone for people with unlocked ones.
meccanikal said:
I'm using an unlocked i747 on T-Mobile in Miami. While on touchwiz (when I unlocked) I would get 4G(hspa+) and the speeds are better than at&t 4G (their LTE). Now I'm back to cm10.1 and when on 3G I'm still faster than at&t. I touchwiz shows 4G when really on 3G (HSpa). However, my phone constantly goes to G (GPRS) and becomes unusable.
But that's Miami. T-Mobile is in the process of updating their 3G to support at&t bands, specifically the iPhone for people with unlocked ones.
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lucky..
i hardly get 3G in my area.. let alone by 4G D:
in Nor Cal here btw
Well I just paid 3 etfs and am on T-Mobile now....proof in pictures! I was getting less than 300kb d/l on at&t "Lte" and non existent u/l. I also pay $55 less and get unlimited texts on all lines (only had it on one before) and true unlimited data WITH tethering (thx to xda!).
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Yesterday was the office....this is home. I couldn't even browse a simple website on "Lte" before...
Galaxy S III I747
Home and office both located in Torrance...this is west Hollywood (running an errand)
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how has the service been now? usable or not? Looking to get a phone using the 1900 band but not sure how stable it is.
Hey All,
I've placed a Tmobile sim in my Att unlocked GS3. Ive seen many posts stating that the Att version wont get 4g on tmobile but 4g works fine for me; regularly I can get 5 to 10mb downloads. My issue though is that Im sometimes dropping from 4g to 2g/Edge then back to 4g. Should my phone be dropping to 3g instead ? Im quite shocked when it happens since I usually had strong 4g not far away at all.
Is the general consensus to to simply get a Tmobile device instead of bringing something from at&t? I really dont want to root the phone or flash roms at this point since Im just testing out the service.
goon3r said:
Hey All,
I've placed a Tmobile sim in my Att unlocked GS3. Ive seen many posts stating that the Att version wont get 4g on tmobile but 4g works fine for me; regularly I can get 5 to 10mb downloads. My issue though is that Im sometimes dropping from 4g to 2g/Edge then back to 4g. Should my phone be dropping to 3g instead ? Im quite shocked when it happens since I usually had strong 4g not far away at all.
Is the general consensus to to simply get a Tmobile device instead of bringing something from at&t? I really dont want to root the phone or flash roms at this point since Im just testing out the service.
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You are in a refarmed market from the sound of it. The reason you go from 4g to EDGE is because the refarmed spectrum is most likely not through your entire coverage area.
T-Mobile uses the 1700 band, which at&t does not support, as their primary 4G deployment. This is why it is always recommended to get a T-Mobile S3.
That said, there is a firmware image for at&t's GS3 that unlocks T-Mobiles AWS band not just for 4G but for LTE as well. It is in the at&t forum - you will have to read the entire thread to get the relevant files and information on how to do it. Note that this CAN brick your phone permanently so only attempt it if you are willing to take that chance and you are familiar with download mode and ODIN.
The upside of using that hack is that the T-Mobile S3 doesn't support LTE at all.
Sent from my SGH-T999
Thanks for the clarification and info about the hack. Assuming I get a Tmobile device, should I expect to see a 3g icon instead or would it still say 4g?
goon3r said:
Thanks for the clarification and info about the hack. Assuming I get a Tmobile device, should I expect to see a 3g icon instead or would it still say 4g?
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It'll say 4g.. A 4g icon really means 3g/h+ and a 4g lte icon means lte
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Thanks!
Here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771021&page=25 Start reading from post #246
Hi guys,
I might be ditching vzw for at&t and want to use my vzw note 2 on cm11 for a few months before I buy another phone. I am still undecided since im on an unlimited plan, but Im tired of seeing phones I want never get to vzw (nexus to mention one). Honestly also I really am that happy with my note 2 as well and the new stuff isnt appealing enough to drop $700 on.
I see all I need to do is change apn settings but what I cant seem to find is how fast will data speeds actually be (i know area matters) and if I will be able to take full advantage of what is comparable on at&t to vzw's 4g lte. All I know is one resource said I would get an H in the signal area but dont know what that means for data speeds. I can probably live with 8-10Mbps for a few months since I dont watch a ton of youtube on the go, 80% of data use is for music streaming and web browsing.
Thanks for any input.
Does the Verizon note 2 have a gsm modem? I thought they used CDMA .
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Does the Verizon note 2 have a gsm modem? I thought they used CDMA .
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Its a world phone still, from what I have seen it gets every band at&t uses except their 4g. I have seen vzw note 2 results on t-mobile still getting 15Mbps without t-mobile 4g but curious if at&t would be the same, if so I would be ready to ditch vzw.
Ok, so to start off I currently own a Verizon Note 2 SCH-I605. I currently do not actually have a Verizon contract and have had straight talk a couple times in the past, got everything to work just fine. I recently got Walmarts 30 dollar T-Mobile sim starter kit for $30.00~ and have gotten just about everything working, except I am unable to figure out how I can improve my speed from the h+ I'm seeing.
I have been searching everywhere online and can't seem to find a clear idea if there is even a remote possibility of getting 4g lte from t-mobile on this verizon note 2. I've never rooted a phone before but I can assume that if it is even possible, then I am going to be heading down that route. Is it even possible to get t-mobiles 4g lte with this phone in any capacity or am I just out of luck?
Guess I'll just stick with this h+
I know there's loads of questions and threads about T-Mobile on a S3 but I've been dealing with this issue ever since my girlfriend gave me her old AT&T S3. I signed up on here just now because I couldn't stand trying to figure it out myself anymore.
I've also looked at all those threads and for some reason they all seem to have an opposite issue of what I have. To my understanding, areas that aren't re-farmed will give you 4g LTE and 2g (edge) but no 3g correct?
I get the opposite of that, I get only HSPA+, HSPA, rarely 2g and never LTE. The part I don't understand is why I don't get LTE. My Brother is able to get LTE with his T-Mobile LG G2 so LTE coverage should be fine in my area.
I ended up finding out that T-Mobile requires a newer sim card to work with LTE and I was using an extremely old one that I got when smartphones basically just came out. (I cut it into micro shape) Today I just received my new sim in the mail, popped it in and it showed LTE with 4 bars but I couldn't do anything because I haven't activated it yet. Once I got it activated it went back to HSPA+.
The weird part about this is that if I restart my phone sometimes it'll show LTE for a couple seconds but it'll say "no service" then proceed to go back to H+.
I'd like to at least know someone else gets the same thing because it's been driving me crazy and it seems like I'm the only one having this issue. I've literally been trying to get LTE on this phone for about a year now.
If someone can try helping that'd be cool, thanks