I had a Nexus 5 but had to return it because I could never hold or keep an LTE signal while my other phones all had no problem holding two bars of ATT LTE. Has anyone had LTE reception issues like I experienced with the Nexus 5 but on their HTC One GPE?
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I had a Nexus 5 but had to return it because I could never hold or keep an LTE signal while my other phones all had no problem holding two bars of ATT LTE. Has anyone had LTE reception issues like I experienced with the Nexus 5 but on their HTC One GPE?
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Lots of people have reported this as well, and yes, I do have issues like yours
Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
Lots of people have reported this as well, and yes, I do have issues like yours
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Are you having reception issues with the M8 GPE or Nexus 5 on AT&T?
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Are you having reception issues with the M8 GPE or Nexus 5 on AT&T?
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I have an unlocked T-Mo M8 on AT&T
I realize I am missing some bands that I need for AT&T, so i've tried the GPE conversion, and tried loading an AT&T RUU which wouldnt even launch. I've tried T-Mo, AT&T, and GPE radios trying to fix it, or add the missing bands, but I still have issues. Toggling data or switching from LTE to 3g and back will restore LTE.
I've read and read and read, and all I see is issues with reception and LTE no matter what model it is. I'm at a loss as to what is going on. I haven't tried going back to Sense, I use SlimKat.
I have had an AT&T model on AT&T and reception has been good for me. I returned twos deals because of build issues so I have been thinking about getting a GPE instead. Shockingly the S5 I have has great reception. Better than my 5s. I just get worried that buying a GPE model will have some missing bands or never receive radio updates from AT&T.
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I have had an AT&T model on AT&T and reception has been good for me. I returned twos deals because of build issues so I have been thinking about getting a GPE instead. Shockingly the S5 I have has great reception. Better than my 5s. I just get worried that buying a GPE model will have some missing bands or never receive radio updates from AT&T.
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The GPE is a full world phone, it has LTE700 (B17), LTE850 (B5), LTE1700/2100 (B4), LTE1800 (B3), LTE2600 (B7), LTE1900 (B2)
More info here:
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=5985&c=htc_one_m8_2014_lte-a_google_play_edition_htc_m8
The GPE will receive it's updates straight from Google, using the GPE radio, but you can always S-Off and try the other ones. But like I said before, I've seen plenty of people who complain of the same issue regardless of model and what it's running. Really hope someone, or HTC, or Google can figure it out. Sometimes I'll drop all the way down to G, or Edge, and toggling it will bring LTE back, and I can't find ANYTHING to help me out short of trying different radios.
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GPE radio seems to work best for me
Beautiful reception using the developer edition on AT&T.
I found a nice used GPE on swappa but I won't be able to return if their are reception issues. I am going to go through Amazon $20 cheaper than AT&T and free returns.
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Beautiful reception using the developer edition on AT&T.
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Really wish I could say the same. WiFi is janky as well, so I'm just gonna relate these issues to AOSP, and I'm missing bands. I'll try going back to Sense, or maybe the GPE conversion again.
Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
Really wish I could say the same. WiFi is janky as well, so I'm just gonna relate these issues to AOSP, and I'm missing bands. I'll try going back to Sense, or maybe the GPE conversion again.
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Nope. No problems at all. And I am very picky about reception on cell phones lol. I find the developer edition (stock) works amazingly well on AT&T.
Doesn't the GPE support all AT&T and T-Mobile's frequencies?
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Nope. No problems at all. And I am very picky about reception on cell phones lol. I find the developer edition (stock) works amazingly well on AT&T.
Doesn't the GPE support all AT&T and T-Mobile's frequencies?
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Yes, the GPE has all the bands it needs for both carriers, only the T-Mo model is missing some.
Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
Yes, the GPE has all the bands it needs for both carriers, only the T-Mo model is missing some.
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If the phone has all the bands, then something else may be causing the OP's signal to be flaky. The only T-Mobile bands that is missing would be UMTS Band 4 (AWS HSPA). They are doing away with it anyway.
MattMJB0188 said:
If the phone has all the bands, then something else may be causing the OP's signal to be flaky. The only T-Mobile bands that is missing would be UMTS Band 4 (AWS HSPA). They are doing away with it anyway.
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This is my first HTC since the Nexus One, I'm used to Samsung. Do you know if there is a dialer code like a Samsung has to check the bands I have enabled or not enabled? Or any other way to check?
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Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
This is my first HTC since the Nexus One, I'm used to Samsung. Do you know if there is a dialer code like a Samsung has to check the bands I have enabled or not enabled? Or any other way to check?
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The GPE supports LTE bands 4 & 17, so it is fully compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile LTE.
MattMJB0188 said:
The GPE supports LTE bands 4 & 17, so it is fully compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile LTE.
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I have an unlocked Tmo on AT&T. I've flashed the GPE radio and looking for a way to check if I've enabled any hidden bands. Sorry to the OP for asking this in his thread.
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Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
I have an unlocked Tmo on AT&T. I've flashed the GPE radio and looking for a way to check if I've enabled any hidden bands. Sorry to the OP for asking this in his thread.
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Hello Sir-Fix-a-Lot,
could you please share the GPE radio img file for me?
And is flashing radio must be under fastboot oem rebootRUU?
thanks,
heartready said:
Hello Sir-Fix-a-Lot,
could you please share the GPE radio img file for me?
And is flashing radio must be under fastboot oem rebootRUU?
thanks,
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It's in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736921
There is a recovery flashable version and an .img version to be fastboot flashed in rebootRUU mode. Obviously the recovery flashable version would be easier.
Remember you need to be S-Off to flash a radio from a different model.
Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
It's in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736921
There is a recovery flashable version and an .img version to be fastboot flashed in rebootRUU mode. Obviously the recovery flashable version would be easier.
Remember you need to be S-Off to flash a radio from a different model.
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:good::good:
thank you for your quick answer, trying now.
I'm using a rooted stock recovery, so I have to use fastboot flash way. ha
heartready said:
:good::good:
thank you for your quick answer, trying now.
I'm using a rooted stock recovery, so I have to use fastboot flash way. ha
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Remember you need to be S-Off and SuperCID to flash a different model's radio.
Sir-Fix-a-Lot said:
Remember you need to be S-Off to flash a different model's radio.
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yeah. thanks for the reminder. it's S-Off already.
just done flashed. thank you again.
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I have an AT&T M8 which I unlocked, rooted and s-off'd while under AT&T contract. I then decided to switch to T-Mobile and give this device to my 11-year old son. What I'd like to know/understand is whether I can flash some of the T-Mobile Roms I see in this forum on the AT&T M8 and it work with T-Mobile network? Or do I still need to flash the AT&T Roms?
Thanks in advance for any help advice!
Johnny
SIM unlocked would allow you to use it on stock AT&T too if you choose to. Also everything seems to be interchangeable unless noted. I would go for Rom with T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling, which is amazing btw for those who get sorry service.
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I have an AT&T M8 which I unlocked, rooted and s-off'd while under AT&T contract. I then decided to switch to T-Mobile and give this device to my 11-year old son. What I'd like to know/understand is whether I can flash some of the T-Mobile Roms I see in this forum on the AT&T M8 and it work with T-Mobile network? Or do I still need to flash the AT&T Roms?
Thanks in advance for any help advice!
Johnny
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You should be able to flash either T-mobile or AT&T (Even roms in the international section, I would recommend InsertCoin) roms without any issues. Eleven and has a M8? Damn, i'm jealous lol.
Da Kine said:
You should be able to flash either T-mobile or AT&T (Even roms in the international section, I would recommend InsertCoin) roms without any issues. Eleven and has a M8? Damn, i'm jealous lol.
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Thanks for the information to the both ^^^^^^^^ of you! I appreciate it. Yes , he is 11 years old, but a good respectful kid and does well in school. With that I'm okay with giving him nice things. If that should change, then Daddy gets the M8 back!!! LOL
Somewhat related question... If I u were to use an AT&T model on T-Mobile, would everything work correctly, 3g/4g? Comparing the frequency bands online, the AT&T model is missing the 1700 band that the T-Mobile version has. Does that mean the phone doesn't have the hardware components to connect to it? Or is it capable of connecting, just that AT&T doesn't use that band? I'm asking because I want to pickup a used m8, but the T-Mobile version is going for around $100 more than all the other carrier's versions... Could I just SIM unlock an AT&T version and be set, or will some things not work?
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Somewhat related question... If I u were to use an AT&T model on T-Mobile, would everything work correctly, 3g/4g? Comparing the frequency bands online, the AT&T model is missing the 1700 band that the T-Mobile version has. Does that mean the phone doesn't have the hardware components to connect to it? Or is it capable of connecting, just that AT&T doesn't use that band? I'm asking because I want to pickup a used m8, but the T-Mobile version is going for around $100 more than all the other carrier's versions... Could I just SIM unlock an AT&T version and be set, or will some things not work?
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That's a good question and hoping someone will have the answer. In the meantime I was able to SIM unlock my son's ATT M8 and install a TMobile SIM using stock ATT rom. So far everything has worked and the 4G symbol does appear in the task bar, although I'm not sure if that really means he's getting 4G. I did have to manually enter the APN settings so he could get mobile data when not connected to wifi.
Tmobile apn settings
Would you mind posting the apn settings that allowed your sons phone to work on 4g and send mms? Its the main reason I'm looking into flashing a Rom and would save me a lot of trouble as I have spent quite a bit of time searching for one that works on my phone and none seem to do the trick.
Currently owns a Google Nexus 4, and already bought an M8. Apparently it has T-Mobile bands/radio by checking with the listed specification.
Some of my questions:
I have read quite a few threads here and I got an impression that when you flash different radio it opens up different bands?
To flash radio, I have to S-OFF, change CID to Super CID. Is this correct? Do I have to change my MID, too?
Thanks in advance!
richteralan said:
Currently owns a Google Nexus 4, and already bought an M8. Apparently it has T-Mobile bands/radio by checking with the listed specification.
Some of my questions:
I have read quite a few threads here and I got an impression that when you flash different radio it opens up different bands?
To flash radio, I have to S-OFF, change CID to Super CID. Is this correct? Do I have to change my MID, too?
Thanks in advance!
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Are you trying to use at&t?
an0ther said:
Are you trying to use at&t?
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Not really. But apparently AT&T radio has more bands than TMO one. Some of them I need here in Hong Kong.
richteralan said:
Not really. But apparently AT&T radio has more bands than TMO one. Some of them I need here in Hong Kong.
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I was going to say, soff, change mid and cid and run at&t ruu and it will make it a true at&t variant as long as your phone is unlocked. I don't know if this is the best route for you though. I think flashing a radio only requires soff, not even sure if it needs super cid.
Software won't enable more bands. It is hardware.
grim489 said:
Software won't enable more bands. It is hardware.
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It used to be, yes. But for the newer Qualcomm MDM I read the radio firmware controls which bands the MDM activates. So HTC doesn't have to keep more than 5 different physical PCB designs, which lowers their production costs.
And they have this S-OFF stuff anyway to protect their region lock anyway.
richteralan said:
It used to be, yes. But for the newer Qualcomm MDM I read the radio firmware controls which bands the MDM activates. So HTC doesn't have to keep more than 5 different physical PCB designs, which lowers their production costs.
And they have this S-OFF stuff anyway to protect their region lock anyway.
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Really? That's pretty cool I haven't seen anything about this. My bad.
an0ther said:
I was going to say, soff, change mid and cid and run at&t ruu and it will make it a true at&t variant as long as your phone is unlocked. I don't know if this is the best route for you though. I think flashing a radio only requires soff, not even sure if it needs super cid.
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Yeah, not sure whether I want to go full AT&T tho....:laugh:
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Really? That's pretty cool I haven't seen anything about this. My bad.
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I could be wrong, just guessing there.:silly:
OK, some further reading,
The Snapdragon 801 according to Qualcomm has a World Mode Modem.
http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/801
The RF transceiver according to the iFixit teardown is WTR1625L
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HTC+One+(M8)+Teardown/23615
The WTR1625L according to Qualcomm, is
The WTR1625L can accommodate all cellular modes and 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE frequency bands and band combinations that are either deployed or in commercial planning globally.
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http://www.qualcomm.com/chipsets/gobi/rf-solutions/rf-transceivers
So I really think it's all in radio firmware.
grim489 said:
Really? That's pretty cool I haven't seen anything about this. My bad.
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Wasn't aware of this either. That is indeed pretty cool, if true.
Just want to report back:
Bought a Developer Edition M8 from B&H Photo. Apparently it has the following LTE bands:
LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 / 2600
Band 12 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 7
No radio flashing needed for me.:good:
Which bands will this activate
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richteralan said:
Just want to report back:
Bought a Developer Edition M8 from B&H Photo. Apparently it has the following LTE bands:
LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 / 2600
Band 12 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 7
No radio flashing needed for me.:good:
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So our phones support band12? Awesome!!!!!
grim489 said:
Really? That's pretty cool I haven't seen anything about this. My bad.
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on 15th Aug HTC added support for LTE band 40 in India with firmware update.
I have a T-Mobile HTC One M8 that is unable to access 4G LTE in my area because it doesn't have the proper radio band which is needed. It can connect to 1900 on 2G but not LTE. If I were to flash the GPE Radio files would I be able to get 4G LTE?
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I have a T-Mobile HTC One M8 that is unable to access 4G LTE in my area because it doesn't have the proper radio band which is needed. It can connect to 1900 on 2G but not LTE. If I were to flash the GPE Radio files would I be able to get 4G LTE?
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Not sure. But if you are currently configured on Sense, my instinct would be to stick with the Sense radio. The GPE hboot is different from Sense, so I don't know if the radios are compatible or different. Flash the AT&T or US Dev Ed radio. Both support 1900 MHz LTE.
Does the phone only need S OFF to flash radio files or do I need root as well? I was rooted and S OFF via Sunshine before but am now back on stock.
gringodad63 said:
Does the phone only need S OFF to flash radio files or do I need root as well? I was rooted and S OFF via Sunshine before but am now back on stock.
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S-off should do it. Although you may need to change your CID and MID.
I'm considering switching from ATT, but my understanding is that wifi calling is only available with TMO branded phones. Mine is the factory unlocked model (BS_US001/0P6B12000). I'm SuperCID, so was wondering if I could emulate a TMO phone by flashing their RUU. Would I have to change my MID (if that is even possible)?
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I'm considering switching from ATT, but my understanding is that wifi calling is only available with TMO branded phones. Mine is the factory unlocked model (BS_US001/0P6B12000). I'm SuperCID, so was wondering if I could emulate a TMO phone by flashing their RUU. Would I have to change my MID (if that is even possible)?
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yes change the mid then u can flash there ruu
[email protected] said:
yes change the mid then u can flash there ruu
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Did u try this yet ?
I have a vas m8 running on tmo and in the viperone threads in the general HTC one m8 section, j to the an, said if I tried something like that it would go for a hard brick easy. But my be cuz my phone is a cdma variant? Who knows. I just ask.
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There are a few custom ROMs that allow TMO WiFi calling. I know, and have tested, both Viper and Sky Dragon. While they are obviously not stock, they both work on my BS_US002.
Just flash T-MO RUU after SuperCid'ing. I have the same terminal and got around that issue following those steps!. Remember to do your backups.
rpimentel1 said:
Just flash T-MO RUU after SuperCid'ing. I have the same terminal and got around that issue following those steps!. Remember to do your backups.
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I was assuming you has a gsm varient when I said change the mid then flash their ruu. At&t and t-mobile are gsm, Verizon and Sprint varients are cdma . Never mix gsm and cdma anything,if your varient is cdma don't bother looking at gsm formums at all
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I was assuming you has a gsm varient when I said change the mid then flash their ruu. At&t and t-mobile are gsm, Verizon and Sprint varients are cdma . Never mix gsm and cdma anything,if your varient is cdma don't bother looking at gsm formums at all
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op is AT&T (GSM) wants to emulate TMO (GSM) as well. what are you talking about?
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op is AT&T (GSM) wants to emulate TMO (GSM) as well. what are you talking about?
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Taking about me. Cuz I'm vzw and AT&T is gsm. I forgot bout that, duh... But I am able to run gsm type Rom with little to no problem....I'm just looking to see how I can enable all gsm lte bands for use. I try to drive and between towers I lose signal and can't reconnect, so I either have to toggle airplane to get it back, or just use hspa. It runs ok... But I'd like to get full potential.
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Taking about me. Cuz I'm vzw and AT&T is gsm. I forgot bout that, duh... But I am able to run gsm type Rom with little to no problem....I'm just looking to see how I can enable all gsm lte bands for use. I try to drive and between towers I lose signal and can't reconnect, so I either have to toggle airplane to get it back, or just use hspa. It runs ok... But I'd like to get full potential.
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Sounds like some sort of Kernel incompatibility, have you tried reinstalling everything from scratch?
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Taking about me. Cuz I'm vzw and AT&T is gsm. I forgot bout that, duh... But I am able to run gsm type Rom with little to no problem....I'm just looking to see how I can enable all gsm lte bands for use. I try to drive and between towers I lose signal and can't reconnect, so I either have to toggle airplane to get it back, or just use hspa. It runs ok... But I'd like to get full potential.
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A Cdma varient never can be full potential of the gsm varient. i use to have the sprint varient and i unlocked it to tmobile, yes it worked, but it wouldnt stay connected to tmobile, i would constantly have to manually search for tmobile network, so if i never looked at my phone it would just disconnect by itself, i received calls fine but text messages would come once i connected to tmobile again.
plus the hardware is just not capable of all the gsm bands, so to get full potential, sell it and get a gsm one
I bought a new HTC 10 on ebay and it's the unlocked international version. I didn't realize there is a US unlocked and International variants, I assumed carrier unlocked was an international variant. I'm on Tmobile which aparently uses some band that I'm not able to pick up and therefore I've been relegated to hspa for my data. Quite disappointing.
Can I S-Off and change to either Super CID or the TMobile CID and flash the radio and firmware for T-Mobile and get the phone to pick up the LTE so i can get my high speed data?
I can't find anywhere that tells me if the hardware is the same and that the radio is software configurable and therefore can activate the AWS bands with the correct radio/firmware/ruu or something of the like..
Did I totally blow it buying the int'l version of the 10 unlocked, or can I hack it to run properly on Tmobile LTE?
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I bought a new HTC 10 on ebay and it's the unlocked international version. I didn't realize there is a US unlocked and International variants, I assumed carrier unlocked was an international variant. I'm on Tmobile which aparently uses some band that I'm not able to pick up and therefore I've been relegated to hspa for my data. Quite disappointing.
Can I S-Off and change to either Super CID or the TMobile CID and flash the radio and firmware for T-Mobile and get the phone to pick up the LTE so i can get my high speed data?
I can't find anywhere that tells me if the hardware is the same and that the radio is software configurable and therefore can activate the AWS bands with the correct radio/firmware/ruu or something of the like..
Did I totally blow it buying the int'l version of the 10 unlocked, or can I hack it to run properly on Tmobile LTE?
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Yes you can do that. Get S-Off, change your CID and MID and flash US Unlocked.
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Yes you can do that. Get S-Off, change your CID and MID and flash US Unlocked.
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Very good to know. Follow up. Is this easy enough to reverse if I need to use my warranty?
punkboyinsf said:
Very good to know. Follow up. Is this easy enough to reverse if I need to use my warranty?
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Yes, the same process but in reverse.
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Yes, the same process but in reverse.
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OK. so I did all that and am now running unlocked us firmware. I think I'm having the LTE reception issues I had read about. flashing the T-Mobile ruu should fix that right?
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Thanks a million for the prompt replies BTW. I've had this phone for a couple minutes and I feel good to finally get things working like they should be.
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OK. so I did all that and am now running unlocked us firmware. I think I'm having the LTE reception issues I had read about. flashing the T-Mobile ruu should fix that right?
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Thanks a million for the prompt replies BTW. I've had this phone for a couple minutes and I feel good to finally get things working like they should be.
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I can't vouch for the ruu fixing your lte issues. I've seen mixed reporting around for stuff like this. I would try it and see if it works.
punkboyinsf said:
OK. so I did all that and am now running unlocked us firmware. I think I'm having the LTE reception issues I had read about. flashing the T-Mobile ruu should fix that right?
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Thanks a million for the prompt replies BTW. I've had this phone for a couple minutes and I feel good to finally get things working like they should be.
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Well, T-mobile has been doing upgrades on the network and there has been a lot of space weather causing power outages and hiccups in other electronic devices. My home WiFi has been connecting and dropping left and right! I too have the T-mobile version of the HTC 10 but I did unlock the SIM and did the full conversion to the North American unlocked developer version and it has been absolutely issue free!! You might want to double check to see if the radios in the International version are using band 12,and band 4 for LTE... I lost my LTE after a long run doing the same thing with the original HTC One M7
I feel your pain
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I bought a new HTC 10 on ebay and it's the unlocked international version. I didn't realize there is a US unlocked and International variants, I assumed carrier unlocked was an international variant. I'm on Tmobile which aparently uses some band that I'm not able to pick up and therefore I've been relegated to hspa for my data. Quite disappointing.
Can I S-Off and change to either Super CID or the TMobile CID and flash the radio and firmware for T-Mobile and get the phone to pick up the LTE so i can get my high speed data?
I can't find anywhere that tells me if the hardware is the same and that the radio is software configurable and therefore can activate the AWS bands with the correct radio/firmware/ruu or something of the like..
Did I totally blow it buying the int'l version of the 10 unlocked, or can I hack it to run properly on Tmobile LTE?
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Unfortunately HTC enabled/disabled certain LTE bands in the modem firmware depending on the region. The unlocked international doesn't play nice with T-mobile AWS. Flashing the RUU doesn't change the NV values in the modem, so you'll still be stuck with HSPA for the most part. I'm in AZ, and I can get band 12 and sometimes the non-AWS band 4, but neither are super fast. The snapdragon 820 does support all the necessary bands, they just need to be unlocked. We have the issue that qualcomm has put protection on the LTE firmware, so the old way of using QXDM/QPST doesn't work like it did on the 810 and earlier chipsets. There's some other threads on here that thing a custom kernel might open up the possibility of using the QXDM to edit NV values to unlock the necessary bands.
The subject says it all, really. I bought a used HTC 10 on ebay. Like many of them, it is Verizon branded, but I had read that it should support all US LTE bands? The model # on it is HTC6545L, sku HTC6545LVW and FCC ID NM82PS6500.
No dice so far. I input the APN settings from here, and that got me from voice-only to HSPA+. No LTE, though.
The sim card came right out of my HTC M8, which is always on LTE at the same location, using the same card.
Could I get it working by flashing different firmware or an RUU?
Any help greatly appreciated.
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The subject says it all, really. I bought a used HTC 10 on ebay. Like many of them, it is Verizon branded, but I had read that it should support all US LTE bands? The model # on it is HTC6545L, sku HTC6545LVW and FCC ID NM82PS6500.
No dice so far. I input the APN settings from here, and that got me from voice-only to HSPA+. No LTE, though.
The sim card came right out of my HTC M8, which is always on LTE at the same location, using the same card.
Could I get it working by flashing different firmware or an RUU?
Any help greatly appreciated.
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If you are SOFF, Convert the phone to US Unlocked
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If you are SOFF, Convert the phone to US Unlocked
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Whoops, I had assumed I could just use Sunshine but it looks like the only way to S-OFF is to physically mail the phone in to the devs!
Are you certain, that converting the phone is all I need to use the AT&T LTE bands? If so, I can do S-OFF by mail, whatever, but otherwise I might still be able to return it to the seller, dunno.
I guess there's no way to verify without S-OFF, that LTE works?
Thanks very much!
Nathan2 said:
Whoops, I had assumed I could just use Sunshine but it looks like the only way to S-OFF is to physically mail the phone in to the devs!
Are you certain, that converting the phone is all I need to use the AT&T LTE bands? If so, I can do S-OFF by mail, whatever, but otherwise I might still be able to return it to the seller, dunno.
I guess there's no way to verify without S-OFF, that LTE works?
Thanks very much!
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conversion 100% works, and is better served if your going to be using predominately GSM sims... I thought hspa+ was lte though
aer0zer0 said:
conversion 100% works, and is better served if your going to be using predominately GSM sims... I thought hspa+ was lte though
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Awesome, thanks, I hope @jcase is accepting more mail in orders right now.
Nah, HSPA and HSPA+ are kind of "3.5G." You can tell the difference when it displays an H or H+ in the status bar, instead of the usual 4G or LTE icon, and also because it's significantly slower. It does still work in some areas where LTE doesn't, though, and is still way better than 3G.
I was on Verizon when I got my HTC 10, so it's a Verizon branded phone. I unlocked it with Sunshine.
When I decided to switch to Metro PCS which is basically budget TMobile, I changed the CID to super CID, flashed the TMobile RUU and popped in the Metro PCS Sim and it's worked great, wifi calling, etc.
I'm still on Metro PCS but I am currently running the LeeDroid ROM.
Nathan2 said:
Whoops, I had assumed I could just use Sunshine but it looks like the only way to S-OFF is to physically mail the phone in to the devs!
Are you certain, that converting the phone is all I need to use the AT&T LTE bands? If so, I can do S-OFF by mail, whatever, but otherwise I might still be able to return it to the seller, dunno.
I guess there's no way to verify without S-OFF, that LTE works?
Thanks very much!
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I am certain it works because I have an unlocked htc 10 with s-off and I can use verizon if I flash the verizon radio on my phone. But right now I'm using at&t