Because the U.S./Canadian versions have to use different hardware than what is seen in the International variants of Samsung's Galaxy S line, we always get the watered down hardware and worse of all, worse developer support. Does anyone think or HOPE that this will finally end with the Galaxy S IV when Samsung hopefully starts including LTE radios in their Exynos processors which have only been seen in the International Galaxy S devices? Maybe that will mark the end of the major fragmentation between the LTE markets and the rest of Europe.
I'd hope so, time will tell. All in all though I'd take this model over the international. There dev support is awesome though, but ours isn't far behind.
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Hi,
I've bought the Chinese version which lacks some bands, but it seems that I'm more dependent on the 800 MHz/band 20 than first imagined.
I've seen that there has been some success in unlocking "hidden" bands on the 1/2. Would this be possible for the oneplus 3?
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aunmar said:
Hi,
I've bought the Chinese version which lacks some bands, but it seems that I'm more dependent on the 800 MHz/band 20 than first imagined.
I've seen that there has been some success in unlocking "hidden" bands on the 1/2. Would this be possible for the oneplus 3?
Regards,
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I thought it was hardware based this time?
Will be interesting to see.
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aunmar said:
Hi,
I've bought the Chinese version which lacks some bands, but it seems that I'm more dependent on the 800 MHz/band 20 than first imagined.
I've seen that there has been some success in unlocking "hidden" bands on the 1/2. Would this be possible for the oneplus 3?
Regards,
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Did you try flashing a different rom like FreedomOS or a international stock rom(if there are differences )?
I have no idea. Not tried flashing. Anyone know if this is hardware or software-related?
The specs specifically list the Chinese version as not including the 20-band, so I guess it might be difficult.
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I did a little research in the german OP forum. There it is confirmed for the OPO that it's hardware related and not unlockable. Nothing yet about the OP3. I would not expect much...
Guess I'll use my ebay free return and pick up the European version then. Still don't sending to Norway officially, so I'll need to use some forwarding. Or I could buy a slightly used S7 Edge, which is the same price when I add VAT to the oneplus.
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Hi,
Can anyone provide me a QCN of an european OP3 ? You can strip down the IMEI of it, as IMEI is the last thing I am looking for.
I am trying to unlock mi5 bands using this post as a guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/radio-enable-lte-band-3-nexus-5-d820-t2928561
and I think I am very close.
Basically what they do is to add the necessary paramaters to the NVRAM so as the phone can use other bands.
OP3 and mi5 are very close hardware speaking and I think I can use the NVItems of the OP3 that are missing in the mi5 so as to make it work with the b20 band and others.
I am pretty sure this technique can be used to activate bands in the OP3 if the hardware permits. Specially, transplanting bands from CN OP3 to EU OP3.
cheers
Hi there,
Looking at Google Pixels page one can see that there is two versions of the product: NA and RoW.
Question is: is there any chance of buying a RoW version in US? Has anyone ever managed to buy the past Nexus International Versions in US before?
Thanks all and regards
Took me a few seconds to figure out what RoW means. I'd like to know this too.
In regards to the N6p I tried to buy an Intl version from the US but it wasn't available.
Had to be bought from Intl market like EU or the Middle East..
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mazroui said:
In regards to the N6p I tried to buy an Intl version from the US but it wasn't available.
Had to be bought from Intl market like EU or the Middle East..
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Is there any difference in the UAE? Both versions support LTE Band 3 and UMTS Band 1. Should work fine in the UAE.
I'm using US 6P which also supports LTE B3 and have not had any issues at all.
Abra_Cadabra said:
Is there any difference in the UAE? Both versions support LTE Band 3 and UMTS Band 1. Should work fine in the UAE.
I'm using US 6P which also supports LTE B3 and have not had any issues at all.
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To my understanding of supported LTE, UMTS, and GSM frequencies both Pixel Variants will work in UAE but Carrier Aggregation will probably not work. Not sure if the operators in the UAE support CA (yet) but if/ when they do this will probably something that wouldn't work on the NA variant. The only combination supported by the device for UAE bands is B7+B7, which may or may not work.
Whether this is a deal breaker or not is up to you to decide.
Won't work. There are two different version. One that supports international LTE bands and one that supports the bands in the USA. Just like the Nexus 6, 5x and 6P. If you buy the Pixel in the USA you'd only be able to use 3g speeds in Europe, band 7 (1800mhz) being the only exception.
In short, should you buy the pixel phone in the USA you won't have 4G in Europe and other countries that use the same bands.
mazroui said:
In regards to the N6p I tried to buy an Intl version from the US but it wasn't available.
Had to be bought from Intl market like EU or the Middle East..
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Same with me. Worse than that, Google does not sell then in my country. So, unfortunately, I may have to buy outside US as well again.
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pauleandro said:
Same with me. Worse than that, Google does not sell then in my country. So, unfortunately, I may have to buy outside US as well again.
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Now that the pixel is out i can't seem to find anything online (N6p H1512 64/128gb) that comes with a warranty, if you do come across one that includes warranty please dm me.
I found out the warranty over here is handled by the retailers and is not international (covered by Google/Huawei).
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Now that the pixel is out i can't seem to find anything online (N6p H1512 64/128gb) that comes with a warranty, if you do come across one that includes warranty please dm me.
I found out the warranty over here is handled by the retailers and is not international (covered by Google/Huawei).
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Of course, no problem. I'll let you know if I find anything.
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I am also looking at this and cannot understand the CA limitations on the US device. Unless I am mistaken the Snapdragon X12 modem supports all combinations of supported frequencies. Yet the phones have different combinations for some reason. I do not know if Google is limiting this via software. Any thoughts?
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Won't work. There are two different version. One that supports international LTE bands and one that supports the bands in the USA. Just like the Nexus 6, 5x and 6P. If you buy the Pixel in the USA you'd only be able to use 3g speeds in Europe, band 7 (1800mhz) being the only exception.
In short, should you buy the pixel phone in the USA you won't have 4G in Europe and other countries that use the same bands.
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How comes? Both NA & RoW Pixel's tech specs show bands 3 and 20 (beside the band 7 & others) which are the most common bands used in Europe for LTE, so I can't see why the NA model won't have 4G in Europe... Can you please explain?
Lots of overlap
There appears to be quite significant overlap, with the NA version supporting all or almost all LTE bands in most European countries and in many non-European countries as well (including all LTE bands in UAE):
NA version: frequencycheck.com/compatibility/GPQkJ/google-pixel-xl-phone-nexus-m1-td-lte-na-128gb-htc-marlin/countries
RoW version: frequencycheck.com/compatibility/vWPw8/google-pixel-xl-phone-nexus-m1-global-td-lte-128gb-htc-marlin/countries
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Hmm... just noticed that a few European countries that FrequencyCheck lists the NA version as having only partial LTE coverage for are because the site considers the NA version not to support band 8. But, according to Google's own spec page (madeby.google.com/phone/specs/ > Telephony), both the NA and RoW versions support B8. No idea if FrequencyCheck is a generally reliable source of info, as I just discovered the site a few minutes ago. I hope Google's listing for their own phone is correct, but the fact that B8 isn't included anywhere in the LTE 2xCA and 3xCA breakdowns for the NA version as it is for the RoW version makes me wonder...
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Won't work. There are two different version. One that supports international LTE bands and one that supports the bands in the USA. Just like the Nexus 6, 5x and 6P. If you buy the Pixel in the USA you'd only be able to use 3g speeds in Europe, band 7 (1800mhz) being the only exception.
In short, should you buy the pixel phone in the USA you won't have 4G in Europe and other countries that use the same bands.
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sirda said:
How comes? Both NA & RoW Pixel's tech specs show bands 3 and 20 (beside the band 7 & others) which are the most common bands used in Europe for LTE, so I can't see why the NA model won't have 4G in Europe... Can you please explain?
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Yes, the main European LTE bands are 3, 7 and 20, so it doesn't matter which version you have as both support all these bands. scandalousk is wrong.
Partially, it'll support 4G. But it won't support LTE-Advanced (4g+)
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Partially, it'll support 4G. But it won't support LTE-Advanced (4g+)
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It'll support LTE, but won't support LTE Carrier Aggregation. LTE-Advanced is more than just Carrier Aggregation.
Just checked this droid life article about Pixel/XL bands http://www.droid-life.com/2016/10/04/google-pixel-and-pixel-xl-supported-networks-lte-bands/ , and according to it, i'll be able to use 4g in Europe(my carrier use 800MHz (Band 20)) on a unit bought from Google in USA. I know that Nexus 6p had usa and internation variants, i hope they won't do the same with Pixel/xl.
It looks like there are international and US variants for the Pixel as well
http://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_leaks_new_chipset_revision_android_71_us_version-news-20571.php
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It looks like there are international and US variants for the Pixel as well
http://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_leaks_new_chipset_revision_android_71_us_version-news-20571.php
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Looks like list with cdma(usa verizon/sprint) still supports band20 ^^
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I'm planning to buy the international version of the Nexus 5X from Amazon in the US. The model number is stated to be LG Nexus 5X LG-H791. Does this version work with carriers in India such as Airtel?
Can someone verify the model number used in the Indian market so that I can ensure that my purchase will not be a waste.
Thanks!
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litetaker said:
I'm planning to buy the international version of the Nexus 5X from Amazon in the US. The model number is stated to be LG Nexus 5X LG-H791. Does this version work with carriers in India such as Airtel?
Can someone verify the model number used in the Indian market so that I can ensure that my purchase will not be a waste.
Thanks!
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I found this site (http://willmyphonework.net/) that show compatibility with carriers for a selected country, but I'm not sure if it is right. I bet that it will work just fine but the best thing you should do is call your carrier's support and make a question to them for this matter. They will know if nexus 5X can work with their network or they at least will tell you which bands they use for their network, so you can see if the phone supports that band from nexus 5x specification (http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_nexus_5x-7556.php) .
https://www.frequencycheck.com/compatibility/Kl7CWp/google-nexus-5x-lg-h791/india
Thanks for the suggestions folks. Looks like this model is compatible but I will double check.
Thanks again!