Is 3G possible with At&T? or only 2g?
Not currently but the new Touch HD announced by Telstra and HTC yesterday could provide US users with a 3G option. It should have 850mhz frequency which should be compatible with some of AT&T's 3G network but not all. You would have to see if your area uses AT&T's 850 or 1900 frequency for 3G. The current touch hd won't work for 3G in the US.
As mentioned NO 3G only EDGE with the current HD. Here's the main thread discussion on the new Telstra HD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471562
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Hello everyone, im about to purchase a brand new HTC HD T8285 from Telstra, Australian carrier.
Im just worried about the 3G compability in my country (1900mhz), because they say it works with AT&T, but they operate under 850mhz and 2100mhz i thing... so i need to make myself sure if this model allows WCDMA under 1900mhz witch is the 3G band of my carrier in Chile.
Thanks in advance for any usefull information,
By the way i found this link that says at specs it does run under 1900mhz... but im not sure...
http://www.negrielectronics.com/touch-pocket-t8285-unlocked-p-2387.html
at&t uses the 850 mhz and 1900mhz bands for 3G access. the Telstra version only supports 850mhz and 2100mhz bands. as far as i know, the Telstra HD and UK HD do not support the 1900mhz 3G band. by the way, the specs on that link are WRONG! it only works on at&t's 850 3G band.
cortez.i said:
at&t uses the 850 mhz and 1900mhz bands for 3G access. the Telstra version only supports 850mhz and 2100mhz bands. as far as i know, the Telstra HD and UK HD do not support the 1900mhz 3G band. by the way, the specs on that link are WRONG! it only works on at&t's 850 3G band.
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just got ths answer from Telstra. i have seen someplaces that HTC misstyped this information in the user manual... i thing i must live without it...
Dear Rodrigo, Thank you for your email dated 26/4/09 regarding the HTC Touch HD model. We are happy to assist you. According to our records, it shows that the HTC Touch HD model has a network frequency band of 1900MHz. For further assistance regarding the HTC Touch HD model, please refer via http://www.htc.com/or you may call Customer Service Hotline at 125 111, Monday to Friday between 8:00AM to 7:00PM for clarification regarding this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact us via www.telstra.com if you require further information or assistance. Thank you for choosing Telstra. Yours sincerely,RuskyD315272Telstra Representative
rocho said:
just got ths answer from Telstra. i have seen someplaces that HTC misstyped this information in the user manual... i thing i must live without it...
Dear Rodrigo, Thank you for your email dated 26/4/09 regarding the HTC Touch HD model. We are happy to assist you. According to our records, it shows that the HTC Touch HD model has a network frequency band of 1900MHz. For further assistance regarding the HTC Touch HD model, please refer via http://www.htc.com/or you may call Customer Service Hotline at 125 111, Monday to Friday between 8:00AM to 7:00PM for clarification regarding this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact us via www.telstra.com if you require further information or assistance. Thank you for choosing Telstra. Yours sincerely,RuskyD315272Telstra Representative
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not sure what this email is confirming. the Telstra HD does include the 1900mhz EDGE band, which is slower than 3G. as you say in your post..if you bought the Telstra HD, you will have to live without 3G. life will not be too bad because you will at least have EDGE access. you should be happy tho... the HD is a good WM phone...
I just got my T8285
I get 3G and the H bar all the time in Brooklyn and Queens and Long Island I love it . When I had the T8282 there was nothing no 3G at all next time I will wait for the right bandwiith
rickytr23 said:
I get 3G and the H bar all the time in Brooklyn and Queens and Long Island I love it . When I had the T8282 there was nothing no 3G at all next time I will wait for the right bandwiith
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Which radio are you using? Stock? Or did you flash a new one? My HD is enroute and I am downloading everything I need so that my switchover from my Kaiser will be painless
I bought this HTC Aria from USA and use it at my country (Indonesia) But unfortunately the signal is capped to search only gprs or edge, cannot hooked to 3G or hsdpa network..
I also have the asian market Aria, that works perfect in "wcdma only" netwotk. It don't have at&t logo on the upper right screen.
Question is how to make this at&t Aria working on my country wcdma network, bcoz I think that hardware already supported.. I just don't know how to hack it
I believe that its all about software or radio file or something like that , so I put my question here in this sub thread.. So sorry if I do a wrong post.
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I think it is more a frequency issue than a lock issue. This is a world phone and no frequencies are locked. But if your carrier doesn't use the same 3G frequencies, it will not work on 3G. The 3G frequencies for the Aria are 850mhz and 1900mhz. Your carrier is probably using 900mhz and 2100mhz for 3G. Your only fix (if this is your issue) is to either buy another phone or change carriers.
Not to threadjack, but do any US carriers use the [apparenlty] more common 900/2100mhz for 3G?
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Not to threadjack, but do any US carriers use the [apparenlty] more common 900/2100mhz for 3G?
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Nope. Neither AT&T or T-Mobile use 900/2100 for their 3G frequencies. AT&T uses 850/1900 and T-Mobile uses 1700(AWS).
The Aria should work
HSPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM; Dual Mode UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (1900/850MHZ) & GSM/GPRS/EDGE (Quad band 850/900/1800/1900MHZ); HSDPA/UMTS (3GPP Release 5 Compliant; 7.2 Mbps Enabled) EGPRS Functionality
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It's supposed to be a quad band.
No the HTC aria is not quadband for 3g or hsdpa. Basically there is a US versiont the 850/1900 . In Taiwan they released another version with the 900/2100. So if where you live doesn't have a place that uses the 850/1900 your basically stuck w/ 2g speeds.
so i got this fantastic HTC Touch HD (unlocked) to replace my beat up sidekick. anyway i want to know if there's any way to use this phone on t-mobile's 3G network? what a shame it'd be if i cant.
If you have a T8282 (BLAC100) then it's not possible, the hardware isn't there to support US 3G bands. The T8285 (BLAC120) should work fine though.
Not on T-Mobile though, 8285 is for 850/1900 3G bands (AT&T) and you need 1700 for T-Mobile
Are there any known plans to make a version of this phone that's compatible with AT&T's 3G network bands??
I have am htc surround unlocked from at&t and using it currently with t-mobile everything works fine however the 3g is not working is there any configuration for the apn our something that I need to do to make it work please somebody help me.....
No. The hardware is different.
T mobile and at&t use different frequency for 3g data.
Unfortunately surround only support at&t frequency so u can't use 3g on t mobile network.
if i not mistaken the htc surround supports lte 4g.... so you might be able to
im not sure you might have to wait for a update
MackDaddyC said:
if i not mistaken the htc surround supports lte 4g.... so you might be able to
im not sure you might have to wait for a update
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Not true. The Surround does NOT support 4G LTE.
In reply to the OP, the Surround isn't getting 3G on T-Mobile because it only supports AT&T's 3G bands. Carriers do that so you cannot use the phone elsewhere if you try to weasel out of your contract. If you bought it off-contract, you should have stuck with AT&T because there is no configuration or any setting that exists that will get the Surround to use T-Mobile's 3G.
If you need 3G, you should probably consider returning the phone if you still have the chance and go get the HD7 instead.
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The Data bands used for AT&T are different yes, but this phone is a data quad band phone, so the antenna should be able to pick up the signal for T-Mobile or AT&T. It should be no more than a configuration issue. Both the HD 7 for T-Mobile and the Surround for AT&T have the same radio for data reception (/us/products/compare/120-121?view=1-1&sort=0&filters=0-11-0). Add www and htc and dotcom to the link.
Nope.
ATT offers UMTS or 3G using 850mhz(the old TDMA band) and 1900mhz.
While T-mobile offers HSDPA (technically 3.5g part of the UMTS specification) using 1700MHz for uplink and 2100MHz downlink.
The Surround would have to be 850/1700/1900/2100 3G and 850/1900 GSM (voice) to work on T-Mo's 3G.