I have the LG E980 Optimus G Pro POS phone. Had it unlocked, inserted a cricket sim card and though I can sometimes make calls when it decides to connect, I very rarely get 4G or LTE, mostly its a little "E" with one or two bars of signal. The phone will not send photos but surfs the web on wifi with no issues.
I have read through this forum and found some workarounds with StraightTalk users but can't find anything for Cricket users. I have tried creating an APN with Crickets data but the Authentication Type is restricted from any editing leading me to believe that this phone is locked to AT&T's network regardless of what unlock codes I entered successfully.
When I attempt to make outbound calls the phone usually takes 3-4 attempts as it drops the call and forces me to redial eventually after enough tries it connects but the quality of the call suks monkey nutz.
I don't really know if rooting will help. I did try a workaround straight talk users were having success with where the APN was edited with the SIM card removed but even that was fruitless as the AT&T APN kept showing up over and over again once I reinserted a SIM card.
This phone is slated for air to wall impact testing very soon if this waste of money can't be fixed and my thoughts that AT&T locked this junk down turn out to be true. So if anyone is knowledgeable with Cricket networks using this phone any guidance is appreciated and in advance I humbly bow to your expertise in these matters. THANK YOU.
I use the phone on Cricket network and have had nothing but superb service, I had service with AT&T. I ordered my sim off ebay for Cricket inserted it went through the setup and all is fine. only thing I can think of is your phone is not unlocked... Mine is carrier and boot loader unlocked and rooted, only problem I had was I couldn't send picture mess... spot where you add the APN type was blanked out, that was on stock 4.4.2 I just went with a modded version of 4.4.2 and all is fine... blows att out of the water full bars lte all the time, Hope you get it figured out.. sure glad I switched....
U really dont need a unlocked att phone to use on cricket
Locked att phones work fine too
Cricket runs on the att network and is owned by att
I switched my s4 from att to cricket without unlocking
The cricket salesman also said any att phone would work since its the same network
You must have a diferent issue
I use my att e980 on cricket at this moment
Bought it off ebay and very happy with it
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Hi Everyone,
I wanted to find out oif any LUMIA 900 users in BELL are able to see LTE.
I bought the LUMIA 900 from ROGERS Friday afternoon and Saturday I paid 16$ to unlock code.
I went to bell and change the SIM card to be LTE supported. (I had a iPhone 3GS)
I successfully unlocked the phone an put the new card in,BUT I RARELY see LTE.
I mostly (95%) see 3G and YES I looked at the BELL LTE Map in their website. Even though I am currently located (work) within the area I never see LTE.
I called BELL Canada and they havent been able to give me much information.
Setting on my phone are:
Active Network: Bell
Data Connection: ON
Data Roaming Option: Roam
Hieghest Connection Speed: 4G
Network Selection: Automatic
APN: pda.bell.ca
User Name : Left empty
PAssword: Left Empty
Proxy Server: Left Empty
Proxy Port: LEft Empty
Any other Lumia Users with Bell Canada???
Your help is much appreciated.
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Hi,
I had a similar problem with my Ipad 4G but i found the solution. You must call bell at *611 and get thru to tech support! Once you are thru tell them that you have an LTE capable phone and get them to add LTE Provisioning to your account. After they do that restart your phone and LTE should work. (It may take a while to connect to the LTE network)
LumiaBell said:
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to find out oif any LUMIA 900 users in BELL are able to see LTE.
I bought the LUMIA 900 from ROGERS Friday afternoon and Saturday I paid 16$ to unlock code.
I went to bell and change the SIM card to be LTE supported. (I had a iPhone 3GS)
I successfully unlocked the phone an put the new card in,BUT I RARELY see LTE.
I mostly (95%) see 3G and YES I looked at the BELL LTE Map in their website. Even though I am currently located (work) within the area I never see LTE.
I called BELL Canada and they havent been able to give me much information.
Setting on my phone are:
Active Network: Bell
Data Connection: ON
Data Roaming Option: Roam
Hieghest Connection Speed: 4G
Network Selection: Automatic
APN: pda.bell.ca
User Name : Left empty
PAssword: Left Empty
Proxy Server: Left Empty
Proxy Port: LEft Empty
Any other Lumia Users with Bell Canada???
Your help is much appreciated.
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Bell LTE is crap. Alot of areas marked on the coverage map for LTE dont work. Travel around the city and see if it works in other areas. For example, Keele and Steeles area in Toronto (not sure where you are) is LTE and I get my LTE signal there. If you still dont then try the above post.
Similar situation here with Telus sim. I get LTE but much more often phone sticks to 4G. In most cases i see only one bar signal. There however have been places where I get 2 or even 3 bars (woodbine and hwy7) only once I have seen 5 full bars of LTE - in the Weston Rd & HWY7 area.
I haven't called Telus about provisioning, all I did is to swap my SIM for a V3 LTE one.
What website did you use to unlock your Rogers Lumia? Thanks.
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What website did you use to unlock your Rogers Lumia? Thanks.
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Cellunlocker.net.
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They weren't able to unlock mine :/
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They weren't able to unlock mine :/
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Was yours Rogers too or AT&T?
Similiar situation here. Except I'm using the Titan 2 unlocked on Telus. They share the same networks at Bell from my understanding and same for LTE. I popped in my LTE enabled sim and so far I have yet to see LTE appear on my screen. I live 3 min Yonge/Dundas and work at Yonge/King and have never once seen LTE appear. You'd think being in the heart of the city you'd have LTE 95% of the time but so far nothing.
I tested download speeds and so far best I was able to get from Telus was about 5mb/sec. Not this 21mb/sec that LTE promises. Even on wi-fi at home with the top Rogers high speed plan I only got 9mb/sec.
Did you get the LTE provisioning?
pistol44 said:
Similiar situation here. Except I'm using the Titan 2 unlocked on Telus. They share the same networks at Bell from my understanding and same for LTE. I popped in my LTE enabled sim and so far I have yet to see LTE appear on my screen. I live 3 min Yonge/Dundas and work at Yonge/King and have never once seen LTE appear. You'd think being in the heart of the city you'd have LTE 95% of the time but so far nothing.
I tested download speeds and so far best I was able to get from Telus was about 5mb/sec. Not this 21mb/sec that LTE promises. Even on wi-fi at home with the top Rogers high speed plan I only got 9mb/sec.
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Hey Pistol44,
The same thing I said above should apply to you! In most cases just getting an LTE sim card is not enough. You must also get you carrier Bell/Telus/Rogers to add LTE provisioning. I work for a company that sells Cell Phones on all the canadian carriers and I see issues like this all the time. A quick call to tech support should fix this!
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Hey Pistol44,
The same thing I said above should apply to you! In most cases just getting an LTE sim card is not enough. You must also get you carrier Bell/Telus/Rogers to add LTE provisioning. I work for a company that sells Cell Phones on all the canadian carriers and I see issues like this all the time. A quick call to tech support should fix this!
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I haven't called them for any provisioning. I get LTE on the Lumia but seldom and almost always 1 bar only. Interestingly the same sim placed in unlocked Sierra Wireless AC754, LTE holds consistently. Still 1 bar, but stays.
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b_man95 said:
Hey Pistol44,
The same thing I said above should apply to you! In most cases just getting an LTE sim card is not enough. You must also get you carrier Bell/Telus/Rogers to add LTE provisioning. I work for a company that sells Cell Phones on all the canadian carriers and I see issues like this all the time. A quick call to tech support should fix this!
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Thanks for the info and I did follow the suggestion. I spoke to Telus support and had a lady guessing all kinds of things for me. Clearly she wasn't familiar with Windows Phones in general. She had me try adding an invalid APN, then turning data on and off. She claimed there was nothing to provision on her end. Eventually I gave up with her and tried a hard reset. But still nothing. I edited my APN last night to isp.telus.com (only added the "i"). No change.
Then by some type of black magic LTE showed up today while I was at work and it stayed on my phone for about 2-3 hours even after I left the office. Well now I'm back at the office and it's on 4G again. Funny how I can be in the same spot where it's LTE one moment then 4G the next.
She probably did something!
pistol44 said:
Thanks for the info and I did follow the suggestion. I spoke to Telus support and had a lady guessing all kinds of things for me. Clearly she wasn't familiar with Windows Phones in general. She had me try adding an invalid APN, then turning data on and off. She claimed there was nothing to provision on her end. Eventually I gave up with her and tried a hard reset. But still nothing. I edited my APN last night to isp.telus.com (only added the "i"). No change.
Then by some type of black magic LTE showed up today while I was at work and it stayed on my phone for about 2-3 hours even after I left the office. Well now I'm back at the office and it's on 4G again. Funny how I can be in the same spot where it's LTE one moment then 4G the next.
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I would not be surprised if she did something. It usually takes 16 to 25 hours for a provisioning profile to start working. Sometime they do call it something else.
I should also mention since then I've been getting LTE to show up about 75% of the time or more now. Sometimes it goes back to 4G and then I do a soft reset and it goes back to LTE in a few min. Not sure why but that fixes it.
Hello, I am new to xda so please go easy on me. I have been in the wireless industry for over 10 years. I was mostly a Blackberry guy, but recently had to make the switch to Android. I would rate my knowledge of Android as just above average. Anyway, I bought a T-mobile Galaxy S3 from a guy and when we met up the phone worked just fine. When I got back to the house, the phone would not make phone calls, text, get on the internet or anything. When you try to make calls, it says "Not registered on the network". I started to do some troubleshooting and found out that the phone will work fine when on UMTS, but not when on GSM. Examining the phone, I noticed that there was a scratch on the back housing where the GSM antenna is, so I ordered a new back housing. Even after installing the new back housing, the same problem exists. I thought maybe that the phone was possibly stolen and for some reason only blocked on GSM signal. So I called T-mobile and they said that the phone is not listed as blacklisted. Not sure what else could be the problem. The person that had the phone before me unlocked it and used it on att. Of course he says there were no problems before and will not refund. Please let me know if there is anything further I can do to try to fix this phone as I do not want an expensive paperweight. Thank you in advance for your help.
Brian Scasta
Can u check and see if you have an IMEI number showing when you dial the code *#06#? You should see a 15 digit number. I had a similar problem where I could only get 2g signal. When I checked my imei it had disappeared. Luckily I had a backup available.
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Might want to also check Settings>More>Mobile Networks>Network Mode and tick it to GSM/WCDMA Preferred.
And finally, since he was using it on AT&T, you might need to check the APNs and make sure they are on TMobile's and not AT&T. If not, then you can manually put them in there (don't forget to hit save when done).
The APN settings are correct, the network mode settings are set to gsm,wcdma,lte. If I go to network operators and search, ATT will be the only network that pops up when I am in GSM area. I have hard reset the phone several times. I don't know anyone with ATT or I would try their sim card in there. My sim card works in other phones. I have reset the APN settings as well. Is there a possibility that they messed something up when they unlocked the phone to be used on ATT? The IMEI does display when I do the *#06# thing. I do appreciate you guys helping me out.
Thank you,
Brian Scasta
same issue
I'm having the same issue with my tmobile phone. I bought an s3 a few weeks ago and it had been working fine up until a few days ago when the signal dropped entirely. The same error appears - "not registered on network." At first I thought it was a rom I had installd but after flashing several roms I know this isn't the problem. I've tried searching for network operators, etc but still get the same error.
Any suggestions?
Got my zl today excited then let down by problems with internet, so i insert sim and it picks up tmobile and auto download settings then when it start downloading google play apps it hangs. I go to chrome loop up a page get "error 502 bad request the server could not resolve your request", i have full bars and H+ but wont connect. I also notice that when i insert the sim i can just pull it out with out pressing down on it. Any help...
UPDATE: Got it working just need to tweak the APN settings, for future tmobile user the automatic download setting are not correct here is the link for Tmobile settings http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1979
Cool. I was using tue ones from the Somy app...
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I know the ZL (6506) is capable of working with T-Mobile's new LTE network, but my question concerns the IMEI number and your account with T-Mobile. On AT&T, your account has to have an IMEI number that is known and recognized by AT&T so as to enable LTE connectivity. Is this also the case with T-Mobile??
dunnsantee said:
I know the ZL (6506) is capable of working with T-Mobile's new LTE network, but my question concerns the IMEI number and your account with T-Mobile. On AT&T, your account has to have an IMEI number that is known and recognized by AT&T so as to enable LTE connectivity. Is this also the case with T-Mobile??
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The info or where you got your info is incorrect. you DONT have to have a IMEI number that is known to AT&T to have LTE. I have changed phones prob 20 times since I got my first LTE phone and NEVER had to change it again.
You can be on the LTE data plan and everything work fine on a old dumb edge phone then put the sim card back in an LTE device and it still work fine...
LTE worked fine on a Canda Note 2 and One X
Same here. TMo does not care. I just started using my ZL teo days ago, before that was Nexus 4. Just took the SIM from the N4 and inserted in the ZL. All works!
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Hey people, I'm seriously considering picking up a Sony Xperia ZL C6502 Black. I'm aware that it doesnt support LTE on either network, but the price is insanely lowwww! My question is, does anyone know what kind of speeds I can expect to see on TMO and ATT respectively? I'm currently using an ATT Gnote 2 on ST/ATT and I have a Nexus 4 as a backup which I use on the TMO $30/"unlimited" data plan. I only point this out to indicate that I don't get LTE speeds now, which sorta makes it a "You can't miss what you never had" type of deal. I roughly get about 14-17mbs down on either device. Is there any chance I'd enjoy the same with the 6502 on either of these plans??? Any help/insight or even opinions, would be greatly appreciated.
The speeds to expect will be the same as you have now.......
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cheapshot789 said:
Got my zl today excited then let down by problems with internet, so i insert sim and it picks up tmobile and auto download settings then when it start downloading google play apps it hangs. I go to chrome loop up a page get "error 502 bad request the server could not resolve your request", i have full bars and H+ but wont connect. I also notice that when i insert the sim i can just pull it out with out pressing down on it. Any help...
UPDATE: Got it working just need to tweak the APN settings, for future tmobile user the automatic download setting are not correct here is the link for Tmobile settings
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i just received my ZL C6502 today and noticed that the data connection does not work at all. i followed the APN settings on the t-mobile link you gave and still no dice (it does show full bars and H+ as you mentioned and when i switch the SIM to my old G2X its on full HSPA+ speed). i left the house and it was running ok suddenly and streamed netflix, etc. but when i went home it lost the connection again. I'm suspecting that this phone does not really work on t-mo's 1700 AWS even though the box says so and that i only got online outside the house because that area is on the 1900mhz refarm. is there any difference to t-mo's AWS 1700 and regular HSPA 1700mhz?! any insight or help is appreciated!!
I have a 6506 on TMo so I am limited in help. However, someone in my office has a 6502 on TMo and it is working fine. He had trouble until he manually set it. Same case as mine.
Perhaps you have a defective unit? Try removing and reinserting the SIM card. Perhaps a factory reset.
I had mine for almost a month and has been flawless in LTE when in DC and HSPA in Dallas.
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The 6502 is the same as 6506 but without lte it should work I don't have 1900 coverage and I'm always on hspa and there's no lte were I'm at either. U need to make sure the apn is set exactly there should not be any values under proxy and port also under apn type have it blank that was the issue with mine those three things had values and was messing up internet. Also there's three different apn you have use. 1. Fast.tmobile.com (Lte), 2. Epc.tmobile.com, 3. Internet2.voicestream.com. Give it a try.
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thanks for the help guys. ive gathered all that info earlier and did try the three APNs different combinations / proxy - no proxy, etc to no avail. i'm leaning on faulty hardware or messed up radio. i'll just sleep over it but so far its been disappointing :crying: great phone though...
As a quick update I did literally sleep over it and I'm happily up and running with hspa.. I literally left the phone alone overnight lol. Rooted the fone and all I need is to figure out how to get to recovery to put CWM since pressing vol up at boot is not working and flashboot isnt going either (that's for another post). Moody bastard this ZL is.. Anyway Thanks again!
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I have a 6506 on TMo without any issues. I live in LA without TMo LTE, but speeds have been as high as 18Mbps in West LA. I only have the issues of bad coverage at my house, but that's just TMo and not the phone.
hyelton said:
The info or where you got your info is incorrect. you DONT have to have a IMEI number that is known to AT&T to have LTE. I have changed phones prob 20 times since I got my first LTE phone and NEVER had to change it again.
You can be on the LTE data plan and everything work fine on a old dumb edge phone then put the sim card back in an LTE device and it still work fine...
LTE worked fine on a Canda Note 2 and One X
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That's the thing you had an LTE phone AT&T had in their system when your account was provisioned for LTE so you never had a problem after that. For those people that have the ZL as their first LTE phone on AT&T they will have to first get the account setup for LTE using a phone AT&T recognizes on their network.
So basically put the SIM in an AT&T LTE phone, have AT&T provision it for LTE then once that's done you can put it in any other LTE phone and it will work fine
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Hey so I am having an issue where the Supplementary Services on my N975F/DS are not working with AT&T but seems to work fine with a T-Mobile SIM. Whenever I try to open Supplementary Services with my AT&T SIM inserted it gives me an error "Failed to read data. Something went wrong. Check your SIM card or network connection, then try again."
I have already tried the following:
Replaced my AT&T SIM card twice
Reset Network settings
Spoke with multiple AT&T representatives who allegedly changed some stuff on the "backend" to fix it but in reality it did nothing.
I am on Android 10 running Dr.Ketan rom Q07. Only have 1 SIM card inserted, the other slot has my MicroSD card.
So any ideas on what I could try to get this fixed?
Thanks!
This isn't the answer you want but change carriers. I have the same device and AT&T didn't play nicely with it. Slow data and no wifi calling. I switched to TMobile (and mint for a cheap second line) and it works perfectly.
sansnil said:
This isn't the answer you want but change carriers. I have the same device and AT&T didn't play nicely with it. Slow data and no wifi calling. I switched to TMobile (and mint for a cheap second line) and it works perfectly.
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I've thought about it for a while now, just didn't want to pull the trigger since I have everything with AT&T (been with them since they were CIngular/Pac-Bell). How's the coverage and signal strength compared to AT&T? Any downsides/issues after switching?
eL_MeXiCaNo said:
I've thought about it for a while now, just didn't want to pull the trigger since I have everything with AT&T (been with them since they were CIngular/Pac-Bell). How's the coverage and signal strength compared to AT&T? Any downsides/issues after switching?
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That's a good question. I was an AT&T customer for 10+ years before bailing and I had some concerns about T-Mobile's coverage and network but I was pleasantly surprised their coverage was right there with AT&T and the Verizon phone I use for work. Coverage probably varies for everyone based on where they live but I've been using T-Mobile for almost a year and no regrets. It's a nice perk getting Netflix for $2 a month and they support RCS for text and Wifi calling. Btw, I don't work for T-Mobile or even own stock, just sharing my experience with them.
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This isn't the answer you want but change carriers. I have the same device and AT&T didn't play nicely with it. Slow data and no wifi calling. I switched to TMobile (and mint for a cheap second line) and it works perfectly.
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That's a good question. I was an AT&T customer for 10+ years before bailing and I had some concerns about T-Mobile's coverage and network but I was pleasantly surprised their coverage was right there with AT&T and the Verizon phone I use for work. Coverage probably varies for everyone based on where they live but I've been using T-Mobile for almost a year and no regrets. It's a nice perk getting Netflix for $2 a month and they support RCS for text and Wifi calling. Btw, I don't work for T-Mobile or even own stock, just sharing my experience with them.
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You don't own stock? Well too bad, I'm sure my extra $50 a month would of made you a billionaire :laugh: xD
But yeah after extensive troubleshooting with multiple AT&T reps, replacing my SIM card multiple times and even trying my sisters AT&T SIM with the same error it is official that AT&T does not like non-AT&T phones. I got a prepaid T-Mobile SIM and popped it in to try it our for a month and boom Supplementary services works like a charm with it. So looks like I have to live with it until I decide to pull the trigger and switch to T-Mobile.
For everyone else who stumbles into this thread via google, you will get nowhere really with AT&T reps, nothing they do will fix this as it is an issue with AT&T itself and not the phone. So if you want to use call forwarding you will need to reach out to AT&T directly and have them set it up as not even MMI codes work... or just switch to T-Mobile. Hopefully AT&T does some backend changes to fix this and get it working but not holding my breath.
eL_MeXiCaNo said:
You don't own stock? Well too bad, I'm sure my extra $50 a month would of made you a billionaire :laugh: xD
But yeah after extensive troubleshooting with multiple AT&T reps, replacing my SIM card multiple times and even trying my sisters AT&T SIM with the same error it is official that AT&T does not like non-AT&T phones. I got a prepaid T-Mobile SIM and popped it in to try it our for a month and boom Supplementary services works like a charm with it. So looks like I have to live with it until I decide to pull the trigger and switch to T-Mobile.
For everyone else who stumbles into this thread via google, you will get nowhere really with AT&T reps, nothing they do will fix this as it is an issue with AT&T itself and not the phone. So if you want to use call forwarding you will need to reach out to AT&T directly and have them set it up as not even MMI codes work... or just switch to T-Mobile. Hopefully AT&T does some backend changes to fix this and get it working but not holding my breath.
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can you get ATT VoLTE working with N975F? If yes, how?
So I came into possession of a Verizon Moto Z2 Play into which I put my AT&T sim. I was pleased to find that once it switched to Global Mode I could make and receive calls but even after manually inputting the old wap.cingular APN info that I've done a million times on many other phones I still cannot connect to mobile data (my sim only has a 3g package). Am I hitting a hardware limitation of the device or should I take the time to flash it to one of the firmwares here in the ROM section?
Okay I put my sim back into the device I took it out of and now mobile data is no longer working on it either so it looks like AT&T disabled something on their side. I'll go through and check all the other access point settings in this device (and there's a lot since it has a good rom from this site on it) but I think this is probably going to be the straw that breaks the camels back with AT&T and I'll be taking my number to a prepaid service on Verizon's network.
I talked to AT&T and they told me that their computer automatically disabled my data because the Z2 Play's IMEI was flagged as a 3G device. I told them that's simply not true and thanks for nothing but is the radio in it only capable of LTE on Verizon's network? That doesn't seem likely?