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[Q] My G2 is running EDGE only...

hello, i just bought a week ago and htc g2/ vision, had it unlocked so i can have another sim card thats not tmobiles in.
i live in el salvador and my carrier is tigo and calls are perfectly fine and all but data connections are only edge! and i have no idea why??? i also have a x10 mini and i use the same apn and it connects to 3g
anyone know why and how to fix it?

nonione said:
hello, i just bought a week ago and htc g2/ vision, had it unlocked so i can have another sim card thats not tmobiles in.
i live in el salvador and my carrier is tigo and calls are perfectly fine and all but data connections are only edge! and i have no idea why??? i also have a x10 mini and i use the same apn and it connects to 3g
anyone know why and how to fix it?
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Did you check to make sure what GSM frequencies the carrier uses (sorry not familiar with El Salvador)? This sounds very similar to people trying to use G2's on AT&T / iPhones on T-mobile. Not all GSM carriers use the same frequencies for their service. If voice is working, but 3G data is not, this is very likely the issue. For example, AT&T operates both 2g and 3g on 850/1900, whereas T-mobile operates 2g on 850/1900 and 3G on 1700/2100; hence why voice and Edge can work, but 3G cannot.
Poking around a little, the X10 mini world phone version has an 850/900/1800/1900 for edge and 1900/2100 frequency radio for 3G data connection, although there are AT&T versions with slightly different bands too, which you may have I'm not sure.
The G2 runs on T-mobile in the US and has a 850/900/1800/1900 for edge and 1700/2100 radio for 3G data.
All according to Wikipedia from what I can scrounge up right now.
BTW I feel proud that I did this research lol. Enlightening.

I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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nonione said:
I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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no, you cant add more mhz bands. You should have checked this out before you bought it.

nonione said:
I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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If Tigo doesn't run 1700/2100 3g, there isn't anything you can do short of selling your G2 and buying a European Desire Z (same as G2) with the proper frequencies assuming you want the same type of phone. Shoulda checked this out lol just cuz it has a SIM slot doesn't mean it "just works" haha. sorry!

Hahah damn I'm screwed lol yeah I guess ill have to buy a european version I love this phone too much
Thanks a lot fot the help!
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Sell it, buy the canadian bell Desire Z (A7275) and you'll be fine. Its your only option if you want to keep the same phone with 3g data.
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Canadian bell that sounds easier to get ill look for it thanks
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nonione said:
Hahah damn I'm screwed lol yeah I guess ill have to buy a european version I love this phone too much
Thanks a lot fot the help!
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i didnt realize the euro version had different bands

Mog said:
i didnt realize the euro version had different bands
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Well the USA, Canada, and Euro ones all have different bands, depending on the carriers they are generally made for. The issue with the Euro ones can be that they don't come with English out of the box either

martonikaj said:
Well the USA, Canada, and Euro ones all have different bands, depending on the carriers they are generally made for. The issue with the Euro ones can be that they don't come with English out of the box either
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even the uk ones?

Mog said:
even the uk ones?
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Hm? Well yes the UK ones are made for whatever bands the UK carriers run on.

Just how hard is it to have a G2 world phone? Can you add all possible bands?

I believe that the Canadian/European Desire Z is the world phone edition which carries band support for all GSM bands. It is the USA T-Mobile G2 that carries support for the GSM bands specifically for the US market. Correct me if I am wrong.
Regards.

androidcues said:
Just how hard is it to have a G2 world phone? Can you add all possible bands?
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No, you can't just add bands to a phone.

[Q] Galaxy Note 4G LTE + NFC Release date?

i'm looking for the Galaxy Note 4G LTE + NFC Version, when will it be released ? and where first ?
thanks guys

There is no release for that. LTE version will be released in Korea later this year and no NFC for Galaxy Note.
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ooh, will there be an unlocked SGN version that i can buy online ?
any release dates will be great to know, so i can made up my mind about buying this version or wait.
plus, dose anyone know the different between the current speed and the LTE speed, download and upload i mean
thanks a lot everyone

siamchen said:
There is no release for that. LTE version will be released in Korea later this year and no NFC for Galaxy Note.
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The SGS2 is 4G. Can you explain why the US carriers wouldn't have a 4G version of the Note?
I don't see that as realistic.

ZenInsight said:
The SGS2 is 4G. Can you explain why the US carriers wouldn't have a 4G version of the Note?
I don't see that as realistic.
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Let's put it this way. There has not been a LTE Galaxy note pass through the FCC. The only one that has, comes with hspa on ATT frequencies with no LTE. This means that it will be a minimum of a couple months if ever, that there is a LTE version of the Galaxy note that will work on the US LTE (Verizon or ATT) frequencies. It will have to pass through the FCC and then the cats out of the bag.

mircury said:
Let's put it this way. There has not been a LTE Galaxy note pass through the FCC. The only one that has, comes with hspa on ATT frequencies with no LTE. This means that it will be a minimum of a couple months if ever, that there is a LTE version of the Galaxy note that will work on the US LTE (Verizon or ATT) frequencies. It will have to pass through the FCC and then the cats out of the bag.
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Good point. I hear that Att's HSPA+ is really fast though.

ZenInsight said:
Good point. I hear that Att's HSPA+ is really fast though.
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Well, it depends where you are. In Louisville, ATT is the slowest of the major carriers at around 3.5 mbps down and Verizon is the fastest with LTE pushing 12 mbps down.
I would go into an ATT store where you are and run the speedtest app on a phone labeled 4g (hspa+) and see what you get.

On 3rd Nov Samsung Galaxy Note London show they said there will be two version of Galaxy Note: LET and HSPA+. So, you have to choose one from them and there is no combination of LET/HSPA+ on a single phone. And, they never talk about NFC anywhere.

siamchen,
About your comment; I think it was a bit confusing comment on the London launch. It was stated that it was either a HSPA+ or LTE - but will both version have HSPA (the slow 3g)? I can't find that information anywhere. Anyone know?

drelle said:
siamchen,
About your comment; I think it was a bit confusing comment on the London launch. It was stated that it was either a HSPA+ or LTE - but will both version have HSPA (the slow 3g)? I can't find that information anywhere. Anyone know?
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I think both versions will have HSPA and what distinguish one from the other is the LTE
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Verizon 7.7 will work with at&t 3g network?

The verizons new ipad lte is said to work with at&t's 3g as they use same 3g bands. Now my question is will the verizon's 7.7 tab will work with at&t network ?
Can anyone confirm this?
Source:
http://www.cultofmac.com/154006/the-new-verizon-ipad-will-work-on-atts-3g-network/

mywingtophone said:
The verizons new ipad lte is said to work with at&t's 3g as they use same 3g bands. Now my question is will the verizon's 7.7 tab will work with at&t network ?
Can anyone confirm this?
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http://www.cultofmac.com/154006/the-new-verizon-ipad-will-work-on-atts-3g-network/
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I'm going to say highly doubtful.
The reason I say this is due to the different chipsets involved. The reason that the iPad works on both networks is that essentially both versions use the same chipset (kinda like in the iP4S). It's much easier and cheaper to manufacture a chipset compatible with both networks, which can behave a certain way based on the activation credentials, than to make two completely different pieces of hardware.
In the case of the VZW 7.7, it is completely different internal hardware, commissioned by and built specifically for the Verizon network, and its own CDMA (not UMTS) 3G fallback network.

Theoretically, I think if you could unlock it, the Verizon version would also work on the part of AT&T's network that is LTE. However, it would definitely NOT be able to work on the vast majority of the rest of AT&T's network, including all the 3G parts. The Verizon version is CDMA/LTE, whereas AT&T is HSPA/LTE.

AdamaDBrown said:
Theoretically, I think if you could unlock it, the Verizon version would also work on the part of AT&T's network that is LTE. However, it would definitely NOT be able to work on the vast majority of the rest of AT&T's network, including all the 3G parts. The Verizon version is CDMA/LTE, whereas AT&T is HSPA/LTE.
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The other factor to consider is that, while AT&T and Verizon both operate LTE on the 700mhz band, they are using different frequency blocks within that channel...

So much wrong information here. The iPad is made as a world device and the Verizon Galaxy Tab 7.7 is not. As such you can take the iPad to Europe, buy a local sim and use it on a European carrier on their 3G network. You can not do the same with the Verizon GT7.7 as it is made only to work on Verizon's network of 3G/LTE. If you want a Galaxy Tab 7.7 you can use on networks around the world, you need the P6800.

Qualcomm's 3g chip supports both EVDO and HSPA hence the cross compatibility

ph00ny said:
Qualcomm's 3g chip supports both EVDO and HSPA hence the cross compatibility
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That really depends on which Qualcomm chipset though. That statement is not universally true in and of itself.
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Paten said:
So much wrong information here.
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What wrong information, and given by whom?

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
What wrong information, and given by whom?
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Verizon does not use the same 3G bands as AT&T and their LTE bands are also not compatible. Nothing that you said was wrong but the implication from the other posts might make people think you can use the Verizon GT7.7 in ways that you can't or that the two different networks were compatible in some way.

Paten said:
Verizon does not use the same 3G bands as AT&T and their LTE bands are also not compatible. Nothing that you said was wrong but the implication from the other posts might make people think you can use the Verizon GT7.7 in ways that you can't or that the two different networks were compatible in some way.
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Um Verizon doesn't use the same 3g tech as at&t regardless of the band used
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Jade Eyed Wolf said:
That really depends on which Qualcomm chipset though. That statement is not universally true in and of itself.
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What wrong information, and given by whom?
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It does apply to the ipad
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ph00ny said:
It does apply to the ipad
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I know it does. But that's neither here nor there; we're talking about two completely different devices here. The iPad has qualcomm's Gobi chipset, which was designed from ground up to work on multiple networks with completely different technologies. The VZW 7.7 doesn't even use a Qualcomm chipset at all afaik.

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
I know it does. But that's neither here nor there; we're talking about two completely different devices here. The iPad has qualcomm's Gobi chipset, which was designed from ground up to work on multiple networks with completely different technologies. The VZW 7.7 doesn't even use a Qualcomm chipset at all afaik.
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Samsung uses Qualcomm LTE chipset. Not sure about the 3G portion
They were supposed to be switching over to their own chipset starting with the new exynos

is it possible to change the antenna?

is it possible to change the antenna on the sgs3 to make it compatible with tmo's lte?

Are the antenas in the back coverpiece? If so, I'd imagine it's possible.

Pretty sure it has more to do with what bandwidth the radio chip will support. TMO decided to go with an LTE deployment that the S3 can't/won't broadcast & receive on.

stevesprivateaccount said:
Pretty sure it has more to do with what bandwidth the radio chip will support. TMO decided to go with an LTE deployment that the S3 can't/won't broadcast & receive on.
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i got 2 questions...
1 - do you think that you can change the antenna on the s3 for tmo's LTE compatibility?
2 - do you think that samsung will sell nother version of the s3 to make it compatible for tmo's LTE?

ussucks said:
i got 2 questions...
1 - do you think that you can change the antenna on the s3 for tmo's LTE compatibility?
2 - do you think that samsung will sell nother version of the s3 to make it compatible for tmo's LTE?
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1. no
2. no
neither has even the slightest possibility of happening.
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tekhna said:
Are the antenas in the back coverpiece? If so, I'd imagine it's possible.
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Lmao
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haha they say there are no dumb questions but...

The AT&T version has support for LTE in the AWS band, technically making it compatible with T-Mobile's future LTE. However, AWS HSPA+ support is either disabled or impossible, so you'd be stuck on 2G for the time being, except in the areas where PCS refarming has already begun. I'm also not sure that the LTE radio is unlocked for anything but AT&T, even with another SIM, but who knows.

420SYN said:
haha they say there are no dumb questions but...
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haha they say there are no dumb people but...

Is the I9500 Octa 4g in the States?

I want to buy the I9500 Galaxsy s4 with the Exynos 5 Octa 5410 Chipset, does anyone know if it will work in the States? Specifically in T-mobile's 3G/4G network?

The Octa-core version is LTE only from my understanding. Since T-Mobile's network is not LTE, but HSPA+ it would not be compatible.

PurpleSh4rk said:
The Octa-core version is LTE only from my understanding. Since T-Mobile's network is not LTE, but HSPA+ it would not be compatible.
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This is incorrect. The i9500 has support for all 20 LTE bands but no modem for them, so no LTE. As far as support on T-Mobile; it has UTMS/DC-HSPA+42, which is what the GS2, GS3, and Note 2 all had. T-Mobile does support LTE in a handful of markets and is adding 10-20 in the next few months. Please do some research before commenting on something you know nothing about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_SIV

Could we import a south korean gs4?
exynos + lte
however due to the different model, it would be harder to develop right?

spazzy1912 said:
Could we import a south korean gs4?
exynos + lte
however due to the different model, it would be harder to develop right?
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ROMs should work from the i9500, the modem would need to be left out to avoid a brick/baseband unknown.

KillaHurtz said:
This is incorrect. The i9500 has support for all 20 LTE bands but no modem for them, so no LTE. As far as support on T-Mobile; it has UTMS/DC-HSPA+42, which is what the GS2, GS3, and Note 2 all had. T-Mobile does support LTE in a handful of markets and is adding 10-20 in the next few months. Please do some research before commenting on something you know nothing about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_SIV
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Okay so that means it does work?
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Treikens said:
Okay so that means it does work?
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You need to get in the habit of doing research my friend. I provided all the necessary info, all you need to do is read it. Anyone can come on here and tell you BS like the 1st responder did. I have provided the info you need. Good luck.

"Thanks for nothing.", would be the appropriate response to that. Well the PG one anyway.

Treikens said:
"Thanks for nothing.", would be the appropriate response to that. Well the PG one anyway.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_SIV