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HSPA+ on GT-N7000. T-Mobile refarming?

It may be a miracle. I was using the International Samsung Galaxy Note and was only receiving edge on T-Mobile. I learned why this was and hoped it would change. About three nights ago exactly I was trying to use my data which was edge which did not work at all. I was not sure why. Then the following night I was at a dinner party in Cougar Mountain Drive which is in the Bellevue area. All of a sudden I turned on my data and guess what I saw. A big H+ staring me back in the face. I was so overjoyed I could not even begin to explain. But alas, I could not longer see the H+ when I returned home in the Seattle Area. Is T-Mobile finally refarming? We can all hope can't we? What do you guys think?

Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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KayxGee1 said:
Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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that's only with the at&t version. I believe OP was referring to T-mobile expanding their network bands to the ones used by at&t

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Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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That's awesome advice....not. Are you trying to get him to brick his phone?
This is an N7000.

T-Mobile has been working on standing up the 1900 frequency, which is the same band AT&T uses, and the band included in all international phones. They have been using AWS which is the 1700 band. This is why all new-ish T-mobile phones are pentaband. You must have been in an area that they already converted over. It is supposed to be complete sometime in 2013.

I have a similar story. While visiting in Concord, CA. Downtown where the Old Spaghetti Factory is: I was able to get HSPA+ on my Infuse i997. Looking forward to the refarm taking place all over the usual spots.

PoisonWolf said:
That's awesome advice....not. Are you trying to get him to brick his phone?
This is an N7000.
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Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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KayxGee1 said:
Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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:| You didn't bother reading the rest of the thread did you? It can only be done on the ATT note because ATT was preparing for their merge wit T-mobile. "Do some research."
Its the same reason that the Skyfire can be flashed to t-mobile.

Post it on airportal.de because it is the only way to track it besides HowardForums.
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KayxGee1 said:
Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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It's okay to be ignorant but no need for remarks like that. International note and at&t are different.
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Teo032 said:
It's okay to be ignorant but no need for remarks like that. International note and at&t are different.
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I now understand its not those models. It was my fault for not realizing. People on this forum are so quick to pounce on someone's mistake. His comment wasn't necessary and neither was mine. Simple.
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I understand that T-mobile has re-farmed 1900 MHz for 3G service in the Boston, MA area.
Is this service available to T-Mobile pre-paid PAYG customers? On the $3/day plan?
Is there any requirement for a GBA SIM? Or any newer SIM?
Are there any specialized APN settings?
Any specialized phone settings? "Force" WCDMA 1900 MHz only from the Service Menu?
I have an international un-locked Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100), and a 7 year old T-Mobile pre-paid SIM.
I have been able to use GSM data (2G: GPRS/EDGE) as recently as July, 2012.
My visits are brief so I use the $2/day plan but would like to be able to use 3G.

current reports,
no specific deals with TMO regarding network sharing,
i'd doubt AT&T will lend the networks without a fair price

San Francisco N Beach
Also found in San Francisco -- forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33096754

Browsing while on a phone call

Im not sure if it's just my phone or how this phone was made. I'm no longer able to browse the internet while on a phone call. I was able to do it on my sgs3.
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chatzvr4 said:
Im not sure if it's just my phone or how this phone was made. I'm no longer able to browse the internet while on a phone call. I was able to do it on my sgs3.
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Depends on your carrier. GSM has separate multiple radios (modem and voice). CDMA does not (exception: WIFI will allow you to browse while in a call).

Not possible in the Sprint variant unless you have LTE or WiFi available while you are making the phone call. As Sprint builds out its LTE network, this situation should become less of an issue.

So this phone isnt able but the sgs3 is. These are both from sprint. I dont have lte available in my area but was always able to multi task like that before
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Please post questions and troubleshooting in the q&a section

Sorry about that.
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chatzvr4 said:
So this phone isnt able but the sgs3 is. These are both from sprint. I dont have lte available in my area but was always able to multi task like that before
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The SGS3 is supported by svdo while the SGS4 is not supported. As someone else has said if your on Wi-Fi or LTE (which I seen you do not have yet), your good to go. But not on 3G.
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Now I know. Thank you. They should of added it to the s4
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chatzvr4 said:
Now I know. Thank you. They should of added it to the s4
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Yeah, it would have been nice. I have LTE all around me, so it hasn't been a problem for me. Sucks most of you guys haven't got it yet in your area. My GNote isn't supported either. I'm assuming (as well as someone else stated) with LTE being deployed, not having it supported wouldn't be a problem. Now the problem is customers not having LTE in their respective areas.
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They probably figured they would be up and running before this became an issue. Thanks for info
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(Q)What radio is the S4??

Last night i was at the movies with my girl that has a tmobile S4
And i always dont get signal with my nexus 4 at this theater but she had great signal and internet average was 5mbs
Is ther a way to flash that radio?
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No, different hardware.
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steviewevie said:
No, different hardware.
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So, i guess better hardware?
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Are you on T-Mobile also? My wife's HTC One X also does better signal wise than my N4 in certain areas. I assume it is because her phone is a LTE phone and mine is not. We are with AT&T, and being on the LTE network vs HSPA is like night and day.

fernandezhjr said:
Are you on T-Mobile also? My wife's HTC One X also does better signal wise than my N4 in certain areas. I assume it is because her phone is a LTE phone and mine is not. We are with AT&T, and being on the LTE network vs HSPA is like night and day.
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Yea we both have tmobile phones.
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No you can't flash her s4 radio. They're two different phones.
What kind of question is that? That's like saying, oh my brothers computer is faster, can I flash the bios for his motherboard?
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Raul69.atl said:
Yea we both have tmobile phones.
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So, then what you need to do is get you a true LTE phone or borrow hers.

fernandezhjr said:
So, then what you need to do is get you a true LTE phone or borrow hers.
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Theoretically speaking, the nexus 4 is a unofficial lte device and it does work on t mobile assuming that it's in the users area. He needs to check the lte thread for more information on how to use it on 4.2.2
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zephiK said:
Theoretically speaking, the nexus 4 is a unofficial lte device and it does work on t mobile assuming that it's in the users area. He needs to check the lte thread for more information on how to use it on 4.2.2
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No, you are wrong about official, which is why it is disabled by default. I know it will work in limited areas, but it doesn't have the FCC approval to be sold as an LTE phone. Officially it is not a LTE phone, even though it has some hidden limited capability.

fernandezhjr said:
No, you are wrong about official, which is why it is disabled by default. I know it will work in limited areas, but it doesn't have the FCC approval to be sold as an LTE phone. Officially it is not a LTE phone, even though it has some hidden limited capability.
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No, you`re wrong! N4 fully supports LTE on band 4- T-mobile USA, Canadian carriers! There are people that have been using it for a while! It`s not FCC approved -YES, but it works as any other LTE phone!

fernandezhjr said:
No, you are wrong about official, which is why it is disabled by default. I know it will work in limited areas, but it doesn't have the FCC approval to be sold as an LTE phone. Officially it is not a LTE phone, even though it has some hidden limited capability.
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His post says unofficial and he clearly hasn't edited it so you just misread the post, you're both saying the same thing essentially.

Nigeldg said:
His post says unofficial and he clearly hasn't edited it so you just misread the post, you're both saying the same thing essentially.
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Ahh yes, you are correct. Lol. Sorry zephiK. I did misread your post.
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No, you`re wrong! N4 fully supports LTE on band 4- T-mobile USA, Canadian carriers! There are people that have been using it for a while! It`s not FCC approved -YES, but it works as any other LTE phone!
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That's what I said.

BigDig said:
No, you`re wrong! N4 fully supports LTE on band 4- T-mobile USA, Canadian carriers!
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"Can be made to work with LTE" is a very very different thing from "fully supports LTE".
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ahandlen003 said:
Not to be redundant to other posts but in reality its not different. "fully supports" can be classified as working on networks that have lte which the nexus 4 does. Just because we have to change a few settings doesnt mean it doesnt fully support lte. I get full 4g everywhere i live. I consider that to be fully supportive.
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I guess that your definition of "fully supported" is very different to mine.
My definition wouldn't include the possibility of having to stick to old radios/ROMs to make a feature work, and it would include the possibility of ensuring Google help if there was a problem with that feature.
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Well I bought the s4, now I have signal there lol
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Nexus 4 or original nexus 4

[Q] What's the difference in ROM and can we flash at ROM from those 2 ?
Thank you
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im confused about this too. I just got my phone from the play store and not sure what development section to use of both?

you can flash a rom from either. here is the difference between android and original development http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219612

Bionik_kaos said:
[Q] What's the difference in ROM and can we flash at ROM from those 2
Thank you
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ROORnNUGZ said:
im confused about this too. I just got my phone from the play store and not sure what development section to use of both?
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Maybe this will help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982483

sasa_gm said:
Maybe this will help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982483
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That doesn't help but I'm just going to guess I can use both development sections and see what happens

simms22 said:
you can flash a rom from either. here is the difference between android and original development http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219612
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Thank you .... I come from xperia and gs3 and I must say in speed and graphic this phone kicks ass in a big way Lol.... But never had to deal with 2 different development thread for the same phone ..... Thank you for clarifying this
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I'm with Koodo and I have lte and 4g in my area so I guess I can use baseband .33 and get lte also then right ?
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Bionik_kaos said:
I'm with Koodo and I have lte and 4g in my area so I guess I can use baseband .33 and get lte also then right ?
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.33 yes, or .27 too, but only if they support band 4 lte. most dont support band 4, its new. tmobile supports it, a few canadian companies support it, and att in very very limitted lications support it. i have a feeling that koodo doesnt support it.

simms22 said:
.33 yes, or .27 too, but only if they support band 4 lte. most dont support band 4, its new. tmobile supports it, a few canadian companies support it, and att in very very limitted lications support it. i have a feeling that koodo doesnt support it.
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I had htc8x before and data was lte and was lte but data and vo-lte might be different ?
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Bionik_kaos said:
I had htc8x before and data was lte and was lte but data and vo-lte might be different ?
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just like any other radio, there exists many different frequencies. your htc could have been made to support your lte frequency, band 4 isnt very common. call and ask your provider if they support band 4. if they say they dont know what that is, then they dont support it.

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simms22 said:
you can flash a rom from either. here is the difference between android and original development http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219612
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Thanks man. That's exactly what I was looking for

simms22 said:
just like any other radio, there exists many different frequencies. your htc could have been made to support your lte frequency, band 4 isnt very common. call and ask your provider if they support band 4. if they say they dont know what that is, then they dont support it.
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OK Lol band 4 lte ..... Its band that is rare Lol OK got it thank you very much
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Bionik_kaos said:
OK Lol band 4 lte ..... Its band that is rare Lol OK got it thank you very much
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telus supports it i think

VZW Note 3 LTE-A

I might be picking up a Note 3 today and I was curious if it supports Big Reds upcoming LTE-A network. If I remember correctly it's LTE Band 13. Does anyone know for sure if it is supported? I'm sure this would be good to know for others too.
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W00fah said:
I might be picking up a Note 3 today and I was curious if it supports Big Reds upcoming LTE-A network. If I remember correctly it's LTE Band 13. Does anyone know for sure if it is supported? I'm sure this would be good to know for others too.
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Yes, it is.

Why does LTE-A matter over regular LTE? Just wondering how exactly that benefits us, the VZW customer.

inco9nito99 said:
Why does LTE-A matter over regular LTE? Just wondering how exactly that benefits us, the VZW customer.
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Future proofing the device, until now I think the S4 was the only device that supports LTE-A.

inco9nito99 said:
Why does LTE-A matter over regular LTE? Just wondering how exactly that benefits us, the VZW customer.
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Lte-a is just faster LTE, hence the a means advanced. Verizon hasnt turned it on yet, but luckily it shouldn't be that much longer because they dont have to modify any current towers to use it.
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@Despyse Thanks for the quick reply.
@inco9into99 LTE-A is much faster and can handle more bandwidth.
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W00fah said:
@Despyse Thanks for the quick reply.
@inco9into99 LTE-A is much faster and can handle more bandwidth.
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I read somewhere that when they hook up the LTE-A they may charge extra for it. Could use it also to force people off unlimited too.

toddnbrown said:
I read somewhere that when they hook up the LTE-A they may charge extra for it. Could use it also to force people off unlimited too.
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I personally have capped data so that wouldn't bother me, but of course that sucks hard for others. I haven't seen anywhere where it says that Verizon will do that. But I wouldn't be surprised.
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