I have been looking everywhere and cannot find how to enable HSUPA on my LG Quantum. I know that the phone is capable according to the specifications, but it is clearly not enabled when I can get 4Mbps down stream, but only 110Kbps up stream.
Also I have a Vodafone 3g USB and using the same sim card I can get equal up and down stream. So this verifies that it is a phone issue.
Does anybody have any suggestions, or somewhere they can direct me.
Btw, My fone is flashed with Telstra rom and fully updated with WiFi-Tethering , so it would help a lot to have HSUPA enabled.
I have tested my phone with Bell ROM and Telstra ROM on the Bell network and I can get 2+Mbps upload speeds on the device with either ROM.
When tethered via wifi, it can get 3+Mbps. Haven't tried USB tethering.
You are using an ATT Quantum ? perhaps it does not have all the frequencies your vodaphone USB stick has?
Yes, Att Quantum
Yeah my phone was originally AT&T. But it should still have the frequencies I would think. I'll do a little research and find out what frequencies the USB stick has, and what frequencies Vodafone India uses.
booo.
I found that Vodafone India 3g uses the UMTS 1900MHz / 2100MHz band just as all other carriers in India.
In my research for the Lg Quantum C900 I found that the frequency specs are:
GSM:
850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
UMTS:
850, 1900, 2100 MHz
Data:
HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s, UMTS, EDGE
But as you can see it actually doesn't seem to explicitly state a capability for HSUPA, as I had thought it did.
But you just told me you are able to get HSUPA Uplink speed. What carrier model are you using?
I am using c900b from Bell.
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My provider (Telstra AU) uses UMTS 850 Mhz for their NextG network.
I've always wondered why my coverage was garbage.
Now I realise that my Atom Life has no access to the 850mhz band - only 1900 and 2100.
Is this a hardware level restriction, or are there updated ROMs etc that will allow me to use the 850mhz network?
Anyone has the answer to that?
I too like to know if there is a way to enable the 850 band for either 3G or GSM.
I have an old duel band phone that i was able to turn in to a quad ban with just a new flash, so that makes me wonder if it is possible with this phone as well.
hybiepoo said:
My provider (Telstra AU) uses UMTS 850 Mhz for their NextG network.
I've always wondered why my coverage was garbage.
Now I realise that my Atom Life has no access to the 850mhz band - only 1900 and 2100.
Is this a hardware level restriction, or are there updated ROMs etc that will allow me to use the 850mhz network?
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Would be nice because with 850/1900 umts you would also be able to use it with AT&T and Rogers in NA.
here in canada we got a new phone provider called wind mobile that operates a 1700mhz UMTS network (not 100% sure) my td2 didn't work on it but i was wondering if its possible to flash a radio rom that would let me connect to their network. they have unlimited data plans you see, a first for us because rogers is painfully expensive.
also if someone could confirm that my td2 would work with rogers' hspa network because right now im not using 3g and have no way of knowing if ill get full speed (not edge) if i get a data plan.
hope someone here can answer me, thx in advance!
HSDPA/WCDMA:
Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
Europe/Asia: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
(Band frequency, HSUPA availability, and data speed are operator dependent.)
Straight from HTC's website.
ok so if rogers is on 850/1900 HSDPA and the TD2 supports those frequencies under GSM (not hsdpa - thats what it says): the question is will it work?
and im guessing theres no way to make it support 1700mhz even with the most intense hacking am i rite?
You're right
UMTS frequency cannot be altered by software hacks, it's hardware dependent
ok so i just got data (fido network) and im stuck on the edge network. using HTC's default 6.5 rom. is there anyway i can get hspa speeds on this thing??
I have a tmobile vibrant phone (hardware only). According to the phone specs i SHOULD be able to get 3g signal with my fido sim card since the phone seems to support all the same frequencies as the Canadian i9000.... but i only get edge.
If you guys are getting 3G with fido or rogers sim cards, did you have to set anything special in the phone settings?
Thanks!
Vibrant T-mobile 3G runs on 1700
that is why you only get EDGE (2G)
Fido, Rogers & Bell runs on 850 & 1900 for 3G
On my way to work today this is what i saw in the network box.
inside my house - EDGE
Outside my house - 3G
back country roads to work - i saw just G or no signal (normal i loose signal with my iphone and blackberry on there)
at work - back on edge
So i DO get 3g somehow! or is it just teasing me by showing 3G?
i read somewhere that the t-mo vibrant does have 1900 as one of its 3g bands, so this is why your phone has been able to pick up 3g at times. the problem for you is that rogers/fido mainly use the 850 band. i had the nokia n97 mini that had the 1900 but no 850 and while driving around most of the gta i would get 3g, but when i went into buildings, houses, etc, it would drop to edge.
Maybe your phone supports 1900 and not 850 MHz? Or the oposite? That would explain why you would get bad UMTS coverage.
@hondaguy you were faster than me
boravr6 said:
I have a tmobile vibrant phone (hardware only). According to the phone specs i SHOULD be able to get 3g signal with my fido sim card since the phone seems to support all the same frequencies as the Canadian i9000.... but i only get edge.
If you guys are getting 3G with fido or rogers sim cards, did you have to set anything special in the phone settings?
Thanks!
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To my knowledge the T-Mobile Vibrant does not support the major Canadian 3g bands. It is quad band 2g, which is why you are able to get edge but it is only 2 band 3g, at least according to this spec sheet:
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2439&c=samsung_sgh-t959_galaxy_s_vibrant
T-mobile uses the 1700 and 2100 UMTS bands for 3g, Bell/Rogers/Telus/Virgin/Fido use 850/1900 UMTS bands for 3g. Therefore the 3g radio on the Vibrant is not compatible with these networks.
However, WIND mobile uses the 1700/2100 UMTS bands for 3g and you can use unlocked T-Mobile phones to their full ability on Wind's network. Wind is only in major urban centres though so this may not help you if you're not in the city. Hopefully you are as Wind has a pretty sweet unlimited data plan!
http://shop.windmobile.ca/
On the other hand according this this article from Engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/22/confirmed-galaxy-s-unlock-codes-are-stored-in-your-phone-vibra/
If they're right that the Vibrant is somehow capable of AT&T 3g, it would mean the phone has to be tri-band UMTS: 850, 1700, 2100 (or 1700,1900,2100) as AT&T uses the 850/1900 bands like Rogers/Bell/Telus.
This doesn't make sense to me why T-Mobile would do this. The 850/1900 bands are really only used in North America on competing carriers, so it doesn't give the phone "world" capabilities, the 2100 band does that. Why they would add a feature who's only purpose is to make the phone work on competitors' networks is a mystery to me but Engadget seems to have a picture that confirms it. If this is true than an unlocked Vibrant should technically be able to work on Rogers/Bell/Telus/Fido/Virgin 3g, but only if it is unlocked. I'm pretty sure that T-Mobile sells their phones SIM locked to their network, have you unlocked yours?
~Edit if it does have 1900 as the third band the above posters are correct in that you will get minimal 3g coverage as 850 is the primary in Canada.
yeah i wanted to switch to Wind Mobile for the $35 true unlimited data plan, until i found out they don't work with normal 850/1900/2100 phones
only 1700 / 2100
hey fellas.
let me explain a bit.
i have a optus galaxy S, but i am with telstra.
as far as i know optus 3G is 900mhz ( or whatever it is, 900 something )
and telstra is 850, therefore telstra 3G wont work.
i put my mates optus card in my phone last night and it worked fine, 3G all the way.
is it somehow possible for me to get 3G on telstra? a diffrent baseband thing or something?
thanks fellas! really really hope someone can help me out here.
optus is 900/2100 and telstra is 850/2100
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optus is 900/2100 and telstra is 850/2100
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Your obviously near a 2100Mhz enabled tower, but, if you roam out of the 2100Mhz range (mainly capital cities and large regional cities) you'll only get a 2G signal on your phone with the Telstra SIM.
Your Optus phone is hardware set at 900/2100, you can not access the 850Mhz 3G band.
I don't think Optus had their own version of Galaxy S. It should be the international version.
GSMarena shows the specs as:
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Seems like there is no 3G for 850?
Telstra has their own I9000:
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/phones/phone_details.cfm?phone=galaxy s i9000t
Try this and see if it works:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893082
Edit: I highly doubt if it'll work, since I can't see any documentation of a stock SGS being able to do 850MHz and HSPA+ (which NextG runs on) at all. It seems, as in most cases, Telstra gets different phones that runs only on their network.
If you enter the correct Telstra apn details you should be able to get 3g 2100MHz coverage but you will not get NextG 850MHz coverage. It is harware/radio related and flashing a 850MHz firmare like that used by the I9000T or the I9000M will not change anything.
If you need Telstra's or any other Aus provider settings you can find them here: http://ausdroid.net/apns/
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
After further reading it seems sxi200 is correct, the radio on the normal I9000 doesn't have the required hardware to connect to the 850MHz band. Earlier I was thinking the phone would all have the same radio that covers all bands but has the 850MHz band locked out.
This might interest you, but when the time comes you probably would already have a new handset then.
http://www.telstrabusiness.com/busi...productsservices/3gnetworkannouncement.310001
I need a note 3 that can:
connect to AT&T LTE here in the USA
And connect to T-Mobile NL in Holland
And unlocked bootloader
ATT:
850 MHz CLR 5 UMTS/HSPA+ 21Mbit/s 4G In service
1900 MHz PCS 2 UMTS/HSPA+ 21Mbit/s 4G In service
700 MHz Block B 17 LTE 4G In service Main LTE band providing complete coverage
1700/2100 MHz AWS 4 LTE 4G In service Additional LTE band for more bandwidth in select markets
1900 MHz PCS 2 LTE 4G Service starts by the end of 2013 Additional LTE band for more bandwidth in select markets[31]
2300 MHz WCS 30 LTE 4G Approved for deployment in Oct 2012[32]
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TMO:
This company uses GSM1800 as their main frequency band for communications. In 2010 T-Mobile Netherlands had some problems with 3G capacity, but after investing in the network modernization they have managed to deal with this problem. So now they provide 3G services using 2100MHz band
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Am I restricted to the N900-T? or is there another one you know of.
sorry for the noob question i don't know about all the bands.
Thanks!
T-Mo NL uses the 900Mhz for 2G, 2100Mhz band for 3G, and are in the process of updating to the 900Mhz band for both 2G and 3G. (Should be finished by the end of 2016.) LTE runs on the 1800Mhz band. (I can dream these numbers by now...)
You can find the bands per phone version here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2574886
Does the TMo US version even work with AT&T?
Both N900-t and N9005 work in terms of frequency for 2G.
You will probably not be able to use the N900T for 3G once the network upgrade is finished here, as we're going to be using the 900Mhz as the main frequency for 3G. The N900T can't see that one. The 2100Mhz will be serving as a bandwidth increaser, not as the main band.
There's a chance you won't get 4G everywhere on the N9005 when using it in the US, as it can't see the 700/1700/1900/2300Mhz frequency.
And you're going to have to root to get rid of the region lock either way if you want to use both SIMs.
Tmo version 4G will not work with AT&T 4G. I tried with my wife's phone
T-Mobile (US) devices support the same frequencies as AT&T devices. This is coming from experience and from the fact that I've pretty much memorized all the band numbers that carriers use and phones support.
If you want a Note 3 that supports AT&T LTE in the US and HSPA+ in NL, you can either get the AT&T model or the T-Mobile model. The T-Mobile model supports one extra band (1700 MHz HSPA+) that is only used on T-Mobile US (nowhere outside of North America), so it wouldn't make a difference. Just know that it CAN be used on AT&T. The other differences between the two:
1. The T-Mobile version supports Wifi Calling (if used on T-Mobile), AT&T model doesn't.
2. AT&T removes the "Network Mode" menu from the Settings menu (so you can't force EDGE for example).
3. AT&T version has a locked bootloader. T-Mobile version doesn't.
In many instances, although 900 MHz WCDMA/HSPA+ isn't listed, it's supported. I can't confirm it because I'm in the US, and GSM carriers use (total) 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz for WCDMA, not 900 MHz. I think it's just unlisted to discourage people from exporting the US models. The only LTE frequency that North America shares in common with Europe is 2600 MHz, which is supported by the phone. I believe that's only used in urban areas in Europe.
Overall the T-Mobile model is the most open in terms of bootloader and supported frequencies (though either model would work in your case).