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[Q] Samsung focus 3G

I brought a Samsung focus couple of days back and not sure how to turn ON 3G. Read some articles and it says Setting> Cellular> Data connections> 3G ON/OFF but i don't see 3G option there. Let me know if there is way to turn ON 3G.
If not i want to return the phone.
Thanks!

Settings -> Cellular -> Data Connection -> ON/OFF
That's the only setting, and it should be On by default.
Brad.

If you bought if from the AT&T store it should already be on.
If not and its not already updated to NODO youc an chevron unlock it and use the samsung tools to add teh 3g toggle.
Serioulsy though, it should be on and if it doesnt have the samsung tools how did it get turned off?!

Samsung focus 3G
As i told you before, Nope its not there by default. The only way to deal with it is to unlock then let me know how to unlock(what's the process).
Thanks!

3G is turned ON by default and there is no option to turn it off. What mobile operator do you use?

Samsung focus 3G
Well how come i cannot surf internet meaning i can't browse net.
I cannot go to Gmail, yahoo, NY time, ESPN or any website.
I have tried this at different locations(cities) .
It works @ places like Star bucks where Wifi is exists.

Are you on AT&T? Is Settings -> Cellular -> Data Connection ON?

Samsung focus 3G
Had to reboot couple of times to see 3G back. Not sure why it was missing.
Now 3G is back ON and i can surf net.
It's a windows phone.. so obvious that i had to reboot the phone
Thanks!

I have a Samsung Focus from AT&T. Currently flashed with ROGERS rom, but either on this and on AT&T's rom I never saw a 3G icon. Does it means it never connected to network with 3G, or it's always with 3G by default thus never showing 3G sign anymore?
My operator is available on 3G, 4G even so it's not the case of carrier problem for sure.
Edit: managed to get an "E" icon, it stands for Edge no? I followed that tut, to enable it, yet still no 3G, is it working at all at my country? I mean the phone is from the USA, maybe different bands here.

Settings, applications tab, radio
set to World instead of North America.
Also, I suggest installing Samsung Tools to make sure you enable 3G and prevent the relock.

Thanks Finaly know what the RADIO setting does Thought its for the FM RADIO :]
Unfortunately cannot install Samsung Tools on my DEV unlocked phone, dunno why, is there any other method to check my 3G?

Sierra76 said:
Thanks Finaly know what the RADIO setting does Thought its for the FM RADIO :]
Unfortunately cannot install Samsung Tools on my DEV unlocked phone, dunno why, is there any other method to check my 3G?
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From your other posts, I get that your phone got relocked. Do the Chevron unlock again, and first thing install Samsung Tools, run it, check all boxes and restart your phone. Then, you might do other stuff.

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From your other posts, I get that your phone got relocked. Do the Chevron unlock again, and first thing install Samsung Tools, run it, check all boxes and restart your phone. Then, you might do other stuff.
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I will try, is it even possible to get my phone relocked if it's chevron unlocked using a token?
Well cant test it atm, it seems there is some problems. Anyone elese getting this error too?
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Sierra76 said:
I will try, is it even possible to get my phone relocked if it's chevron unlocked using a token?
Well cant test it atm, it seems there is some problems. Anyone elese getting this error too?
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Ahhh, you unlocked via Chevron Labs, not Chevron.
You should be okay. As long as you can deploy XAPs, you're unlocked.

Well I found out that my hosts file has new entry, dunno how this happened, I never did it myself. Probably some app from XDA forums did it. I removed it and I get different message "phone ignoring us"......meh.

Network unavailable on Rooted & romed Sprint GS4

Ok, so hopefully the right person(s) will read this one and be able to help a guy out...
I just came back from honeymoon with my wife, a cruise in the Caribbean. While out there, We kept an eye out on our phones, she has metro pcs and I have a Sprint GS4 running AOKP...
We got signal when we got to St. Thomas and were able to communicate with family and friends, but as we sailed away, we lost signal and I got a crazy idea...
I went to the network settings on my phone and switched the phone to "Global" mode and tried to see if I could get a signal... Got nothing, so I figured ill just switch back...
Got to Puerto Rico, where Sprint is Sprint, but my phone wouldn't connect automatically... I went to the settings and found a different menu altogether and tried to find the "get me the hell back to sprint" setting... No luck, but i did find the "network operator" menu, searched and found sprint. Selected it, but was greeted with a "no service: Selected network (sprint) is unavailable)...
Strangely enough, LTE would connect a full blast, but no 3g, 2g, 1x or cell service...
I've been trying to get it back, but it just doesn't work... Now, I'm back home and still, nothing. My phone is basically a big music player that only connects on wifi...
Anyone ever encounter this? Is my only hope to restore it to stock??? I hope not =/...
Anyone willing to help out a just married guy with a weird acting Sprint Galaxy s4???
Thanks in advance... (screenshots attached...)
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eliw236 said:
Ok, so hopefully the right person(s) will read this one and be able to help a guy out...
I just came back from honeymoon with my wife, a cruise in the Caribbean. While out there, We kept an eye out on our phones, she has metro pcs and I have a Sprint GS4 running AOKP...
We got signal when we got to St. Thomas and were able to communicate with family and friends, but as we sailed away, we lost signal and I got a crazy idea...
I went to the network settings on my phone and switched the phone to "Global" mode and tried to see if I could get a signal... Got nothing, so I figured ill just switch back...
Got to Puerto Rico, where Sprint is Sprint, but my phone wouldn't connect automatically... I went to the settings and found a different menu altogether and tried to find the "get me the hell back to sprint" setting... No luck, but i did find the "network operator" menu, searched and found sprint. Selected it, but was greeted with a "no service: Selected network (sprint) is unavailable)...
Strangely enough, LTE would connect a full blast, but no 3g, 2g, 1x or cell service...
I've been trying to get it back, but it just doesn't work... Now, I'm back home and still, nothing. My phone is basically a big music player that only connects on wifi...
Anyone ever encounter this? Is my only hope to restore it to stock??? I hope not =/...
Anyone willing to help out a just married guy with a weird acting Sprint Galaxy s4???
Thanks in advance... (screenshots attached...)
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I have never encountered this but try creating a back up of your current rom then go back to a TW rom and update your profile / prl (if that dont work try ##72786# on your dialpad). Once you have network connection flash your back up. Let me know how it goes

Have unlocked Sprint note5(sm-n920p) want LTE on ATT

The Sprint Note 5 (sm-n920p) doesn't officially support band 17 but for some reason I can get it working-sort of.....If I have it in gsm/utms mode I will get 3g all day long. If I put it in automatic mode it just allows calls no data until I initiate a call and then lte will pop up and I can cruise the web at lte speeds. Only problem is it is very unstable and sometimes kicks me off data. Now if I go into APNs the phone shows some sprint APNs and won't allow me to add any att APNs to the list. When I go back to gsm/utms mode I can then see my att APN that was originally in there for 3g. Is there any way to get this to work with ATT LTE smoothly.?

any solutions yet ? same problem here

same here.

Would be nice if somebody has an answer. It seems some people from Vietnam have a method to unlock N920P Note 5. Any input will be welcomed!

Man, it's been a real tough one. Though mine working fine now. Supposedly you can go into the root directory"etc" and change the APN xml file. Just modify one of Sprint's that's already there in the lte list. Personally, I did that plus if you make the bearer in the APN, LTE and put it on CDMA/LTE mode that worked for me too, but like you said it wasn't Perfectly stable. Now though, I've got mine on GSM/UMTS mode and it actually show 4G every now and again, but it's super annoying not being able to send MMS on wifi... anyway I use "idoneapps.apk" to force LTE and that's pretty much it. It's kind of a dangerous app though because I pressed a button on the front page and it actually undid my software unlock and wiped everything.
Goodluck team N920PonATT

Mine works...... sams SM-N920P Sprint on Tmob
Mine works...... sams SM-920P Sprint on Tmob
It was harder than att..... just finished sprint to tmob using metropcs
The lte on itvis impressive speedtests at 42.4 dnl 16.4 upl
And i gotta down to a science no clatter.... LTE AND VOICE MMS COINCIDE and concurrent.
Just cant talk and surf. Real V6 LTE 4G IVP 6 though. The more i thought about using data phone the more i had to get right lol.

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got mine working

JonJonB.... can you point me in the right direction... also need it for MetroPCS

RickinDallas said:
JonJonB.... can you point me in the right direction... also need it for MetroPCS
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Its not hard ..... note 5s are realy dual band all to most freq. and wcdma fones are gsm unlocked to begin with. most of it is just playing withe the bearer setings and apns of the 5.1.+ and 6.0 versions and most time your crusin as a ROAMER on lte waves on the default any way. buy metro pcs even take to store CONTROL YOUR PHONE never let arrogant phoney saalesman hold but young girl will zip it on in system change boot animation.
questions?
oh stick a gsm card in da.mn thiing
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JonJonB said:
Its not hard ..... note 5s are realy dual band all to most freq. and wcdma fones are gsm unlocked to begin with. most of it is just playing withe the bearer setings and apns of the 5.1.+ and 6.0 versions and most time your crusin as a ROAMER on lte waves on the default any way. buy metro pcs even take to store CONTROL YOUR PHONE never let arrogant phoney saalesman hold but young girl will zip it on in system change boot animation.
questions?
oh stick a gsm card in da.mn thiing
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if need we can do copy paste apns and settings
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hi does anyone know anything about the gs5 because im trying to get sprint gs5 to work with a AT&T sim card. but it doesnt go pass the hands free activation and then fail in like 3 sec. i have MOAR v7.0 OA6 for the ROM and ive tried downgrading to kitkat but everytime i try it fails idk why anyway if someone could help it would be much appreciated.
- thanks

Factory reset. Then wipe the phone. Should now be back on stock os. Then get in touch with [email protected] or idoneapps. I used both. Unlocked stock 6.0.1 with an update ready to install.
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HI
I'm having trouble to phone n920p
Not 4g
help me

in N920PVPU3DQC5 any way to unlock lte?

hello all dear
im from iran and have n920p in 7 noghat
when i put network mode in lte/cmda my network is no service but automatic show 3g
i have z3x pro and msl code
any body help me for back 4g?

Note 4 showing sim signals without sim

Hi everyone,
I just bought a used Note 4 N910C variant from market today. Phone is from Saudi Arabia.
I have noticed I can see a sim card icon or sim signals in notification bar while Sim card is not inserted. On left side in notification bar it says No sim card Emergency calls only.
The phone is on lollipop 5.0.1 stock rom. Phone is not rooted status is 0x0. I have checked the phone by phone info Samsung app it says phone is original.
When I insert sim card calls and 3g work fine signals drop and get stable just like in normal situations. And text No sim card Emergency calls only, get disappear.
Should not I see a round white circle when no sim card is inserted?
This is my first Samsung Android phone. Is it normal or I should be worried?
Im attaching snapshots. Pls reply fast as I have only 2 days warranty by shop keeper.
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I guess it's present in all Lollipop build. I'm on 5.1.1 and also experiencing your problem although in a different way.
When I'm at my work area, it's in a building basement with no network signal (at least from my telco), I still get full bar signal but can only use for emergency calls because there is no actual network connection. My phone is getting the signal from another telco.
My temporary solution is to select manually my telco in Settings/Mobile Networks instead of automatic selection.
I still get full bars signal notification, but at the same time gets a warning on the notification bar that my manually selected telco is unavailable.
Sent from my SM-N910G

Its not a problem. Its emergency service. There is some EMERGENCY number that didnt need u to use any SIM. Like maybe Police or Fire department.

Just put it in flight mode
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Thanks everyone for the feedback.

Same problem.
I am also getting the same prob, my android is 5.0.1, my note 4 is in warrenty. Its very difficult to tell when there is real range and when it is not, is there a solution for this, or is it the way it works?

rushikesh.k25 said:
I am also getting the same prob, my android is 5.0.1, my note 4 is in warrenty. Its very difficult to tell when there is real range and when it is not, is there a solution for this, or is it the way it works?
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white7561 said:
Its not a problem. Its emergency service. There is some EMERGENCY number that didnt need u to use any SIM. Like maybe Police or Fire department.
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Nxt-L29 4g but no 3g or h+?

Finally got the mate 8 and its awesome. My only problem is when the phone falls out of 4g range. The phone will switch over to h+ or 3g with more bars but I cannot go online. Im on metro pcs which is tmobile and I have tried multiple apn settings with no luck. Has anyone encountered this problem?

Deephou5 said:
Finally got the mate 8 and its awesome. My only problem is when the phone falls out of 4g range. The phone will switch over to h+ or 3g with more bars but I cannot go online. Im on metro pcs which is tmobile and I have tried multiple apn settings with no luck. Has anyone encountered this problem?
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Someone posted a similar problem a while back. Give it a quick search to see if he resolved it.

UPDATE:
So ive been going through these forums trying to find a solution to the problem with no luck.
However I believe I narrowed the problem down a bit. I went to MetroPCS which is T-mobile and bought a new sim to make sure mine wasnt bad and had the associate confirm the apn settings which they did and still no 3g, h+. Then I called up a couple friends who have Cricket and At&t and asked if I could put their sim in my phone. Tried both sim cards and they worked! Wooo all three connections good 4g,h,3g.
Weird thing is there are a couple other people on here with my problem but there are others on tmobiles network with no problem. Maybe its a firmware issue? Nevertheless I like this phone too much to risk trying to root and bricking it so im leaving tmobiles network.

Deephou5 said:
UPDATE:
So ive been going through these forums trying to find a solution to the problem with no luck.
However I believe I narrowed the problem down a bit. I went to MetroPCS which is T-mobile and bought a new sim to make sure mine wasnt bad and had the associate confirm the apn settings which they did and still no 3g, h+. Then I called up a couple friends who have Cricket and At&t and asked if I could put their sim in my phone. Tried both sim cards and they worked! Wooo all three connections good 4g,h,3g.
Weird thing is there are a couple other people on here with my problem but there are others on tmobiles network with no problem. Maybe its a firmware issue? Nevertheless I like this phone too much to risk trying to root and bricking it so im leaving tmobiles network.
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Just tested this out since I'm also with T-Mobile, seems to be a problem with LTE CAT6 CA. Turn it off and you should be fine.

FINALLY!
OK so I unlocked the boot loader and rooted it even though I said I didn't want to lol . I was on c185b162 firmware and I flashed a couple of different firmwares that didn't work. But someone posted a full update c185b320 and it worked woooo!!!. I already had twrp installed and just did the wipe and installed c185b320 from twrp. I don't know if installing from twrp is different from the DL folder method but the phone is working so yeah.

Ephemera said:
Just tested this out since I'm also with T-Mobile, seems to be a problem with LTE CAT6 CA. Turn it off and you should be fine.
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I wasn't able to try and turn off LTE CAT6 CA because I don't know how lol

Deephou5 said:
I wasn't able to try and turn off LTE CAT6 CA because I don't know how lol
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Settings>More>Mobile Networks

Ephemera said:
Settings>More>Mobile Networks
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That option does not seem to be there
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Deephou5 said:
That option does not seem to be there
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CA stands for carrier aggregation

Oh, well that's good to know. However with this new firmware I can leave it enabled and still get 3g and h+. Hopefully disabling carrier aggregation will be an easy fix for someone else with the same problem.