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[Q] LTE only setting?

Is there a way to force the phone to go LTE only no 3G? I dont see an option for it in the settings. I live in a 4G area and with my thunderbolt it ALWAYS was 4G but my M bounces back and forth, but if I put it in Airplane mode and then take it out it will connect to 4G.

poeskippds said:
Is there a way to force the phone to go LTE only no 3G? I dont see an option for it in the settings. I live in a 4G area and with my thunderbolt it ALWAYS was 4G but my M bounces back and forth, but if I put it in Airplane mode and then take it out it will connect to 4G.
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Download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.notificationToggle&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImRlLmo0dmVsaW4ubm90aWZpY2F0aW9uVG9nZ2xlIl0.
go setting and add 4G to the notification bar, there you can choose the one you prefer.

You can do it without the app....open your dialer type*#*#info#*#*
A menu should come up choose phone options, there you will find the radio options. You can pick lte only.
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That app works like a charm. Thanks
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poeskippds said:
That app works like a charm. Thanks
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Well both those get to the right spot, but there is no selection for what I am trying to accomplish. On LTE only it won't make calls or send texts. I assume bc LTE is only data. What I want to eliminate is 3G while having voice service forcing the phone to only connect to LTE for data. Is that even possible?

I think if you go to the phone testing menu(*#*#info#*#* in dialer)you should be able to select lte/CDMA only.
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slogar25 said:
I think if you go to the phone testing menu(*#*#info#*#* in dialer)you should be able to select lte/CDMA only.
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That would work if "LTE/CDMA" was an option. the options are LTE/CDMA/EvDo LTE/GSM/WCDMA LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDM LTE only and LTE/WCDMA,

Sorry I see that now. I was trying to help you off my memory. Should have done my own research. It seems that should be an option to choose. There has to be a way, we will have to find it
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[Q] Cannot get T-Mobile LTE enabled at all

info about my phone:
baseband: .33 right now
ROM: this one at the moment.
also tried this one, this one, and this one
also, its the new white nexus
what I've done so far:
I've tried this on the .33 baseband.
I then found these two zips (1 and 2) to help automate the process a bit, and use those to try baseband .24 and .27 with no change.
then I tried the instructions on this site
and finally, I am now on this rom I mentioned above, which is supposed to have everything done already...
I Know for a fact my area has LTE, as my roommate gets 4G on his S3 every day.
does anyone see anything I might be doing wrong?

Is your roommate using LTE with T-Mobile?
Nexus 4 only supports LTE band 4.

Angeloftheafterlife said:
info about my phone:
baseband: .33 right now
ROM: this one at the moment.
also tried this one, this one, and this one
also, its the new white nexus
what I've done so far:
I've tried this on the .33 baseband.
I then found these two zips (1 and 2) to help automate the process a bit, and use those to try baseband .24 and .27 with no change.
then I tried the instructions on this site
and finally, I am now on this rom I mentioned above, which is supposed to have everything done already...
I Know for a fact my area has LTE, as my roommate gets 4G on his S3 every day.
does anyone see anything I might be doing wrong?
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are you sure that your roommate has an lte enabled sgs3? the tmo lte enabled sgs3 only went on sale on june 5th.

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did you update the APN to fast.t-mobile.com? I can't tell in specific so ill just give you a quick run down.
On multiple devices i've done:
1) flash broadband
2) clear caches/factor reset
3) flash AOKP (or CM 10.1)/GAPPS and clear caches
4) flash franco kernel (not necessary but i prefer it) and clear caches.
5) update APNs
6) change to LTE/GSM in phone info settings.

t989BeLikeItDo said:
Is your roommate using LTE with T-Mobile?
Nexus 4 only supports LTE band 4.
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Yes he is
simms22 said:
are you sure that your roommate has an lte enabled sgs3? the tmo lte enabled sgs3 only went on sale on june 5th.
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I might be wrong on the phone model, but I know he is on tmobile LTE
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did you update the APN to fast.t-mobile.com? I can't tell in specific so ill just give you a quick run down.
On multiple devices i've done:
1) flash broadband
2) clear caches/factor reset
3) flash AOKP (or CM 10.1)/GAPPS and clear caches
4) flash franco kernel (not necessary but i prefer it) and clear caches.
5) update APNs
6) change to LTE/GSM in phone info settings.
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I have done all of this. I have the T-Mobile lte APN with IPv4/IPv6. I have also tried just IPv4 or IPv6.
O have also tried creating a new APN with the correct settings
Edit: the settings in the *#*#INFO#*#* menu is LTE/GSM auto (PRL)
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Angeloftheafterlife said:
Yes he is
I might be wrong on the phone model, but I know he is on tmobile
I have done all of this. I have the T-Mobile lte APN with IPv4/IPv6. I have also tried just IPv4 or IPv6.
O have also tried creating a new APN with the correct settings
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where are you located?

South Houston
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Angeloftheafterlife said:
South Houston
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well, most of houston has lte http://ltemap.org/tmobile . did you change the phone info to lte/gsm by dialing *#*#4636#*#* in the phone app? select phone info, change the wcdma preferred to lte only. if you see the 4G icon show up, change the lte only to lte/gsm.

simms22 said:
well, most of houston has lte http://ltemap.org/tmobile . did you change the phone info to lte/gsm by dialing *#*#4636#*#* in the phone app? select phone info, change the wcdma preferred to lte only. if you see the 4G icon show up, change the lte only to lte/gsm.
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Yeah, I tried that. I just lose signal until I change it back to lte/gsm
Edit: ohsh*t look at that. I just started getting 4g. Whadduknow
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Angeloftheafterlife said:
Yeah, I tried that. I just lose signal until I change it back to let/gsm
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if you did everything right, then you just dont have lte in the area youre in. id try to check for lte around other parts of houston

Yeah, I seem to be getting 4g, but its weak. It switches back to hspa and 3g as soon as I take it off of late only
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Angeloftheafterlife said:
Yeah, I seem to be getting 4g, but its weak. It switches back to hspa and 3g as soon as I take it off of late only
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sounds like youre on the very edge of lte coverage at this point

Alright, that's kinda what I figured. Thanks for all your help
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Having network issue with octa version, any help?

My provider only uses HSPA +/LTE, the phone always downgrades to hspa (non +) and sometimes 3g which my provider doesn't support so I loose my data connection and it sometimes takes a really long time for it to go back to the proper hspa+ that I need it to use all the time. Anybody knows if I can somehow force the phone to use hspa+ 100% of the time?
Thanks
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Switch to HSPA+ only mode. Probably wont work with phone calls unless you VOIP.

How??
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nakedtime said:
Switch to HSPA+ only mode. Probably wont work with phone calls unless you VOIP.
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You must be mixing up HSPA+ with LTE. I don't think there's a way to choose between HSPA/HSPA+/UMTS, they're all considered 3G or WCDMA (unless you're in Canada.. carriers lie here, those networks shown as 4G are actually 3G)
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Well when my phone shows 3g or hspa I cant get anything to load online, it will stay on this mode for a while sometimes and then as soon as the phone shows hspa+ everything loads perfect. Every othere phone I have bought from Bell mobility in canada show hspa+ all the time.
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I also had an unlocked Note 2 with exynos processor that did the same thing.
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Gunner86 said:
Well when my phone shows 3g or hspa I cant get anything to load online, it will stay on this mode for a while sometimes and then as soon as the phone shows hspa+ everything loads perfect. Every othere phone I have bought from Bell mobility in canada show hspa+ all the time.
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I just tried making a call with my Note 3 (S800) and it was able to make a call on HSPA+ on TELUS. I think either your location doesn't have good HSPA+ signal / it's overloaded or there's a problem with the phone, does it support all the 3G frequencies Bell uses?
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yulet said:
You must be mixing up HSPA+ with LTE. I don't think there's a way to choose between HSPA/HSPA+/UMTS, they're all considered 3G or WCDMA (unless you're in Canada.. carriers lie here, those networks shown as 4G are actually 3G)
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The N9000 doesnt have any LTE radios.

nakedtime said:
The N9000 doesnt have any LTE radios.
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I know, you said "switch to HSPA+ only but you may not be able to make calls." You can switch to LTE only and you will not be able to make calls. You can make calls on HSPA+.
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Gunner86 said:
How??
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call #9090#.
Will bring up configuration menu.
Should be tons of radio mode options. One should be HSPA+ only.

Must be the wrong code, *9090* doesn't do anything and *#9090# brings me to a service menu which has no radio settings
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Bell mobility uses "UMTS/HSPA compatible on 850 and 1900 MHz bands" which is supported by the note 3, I just dont get why both my unlocked exynos note 2 (got rid of it 1 month after I bought it because of this problem) and also the exynos note 3 have this problem on bell mobility in canada.....
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Gunner86 said:
Must be the wrong code, *9090* doesn't do anything and *#9090# brings me to a service menu which has no radio settings
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You can always edit data retry to a smaller number in your build.prop.
"ro.telephony.default_network" is the build.prop entry for which default network you're on. You could figure out which one of those corresponds to HSPA+ (probably through trial and error).
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Oh, you may just have to flash a new modem then O.0
My N9005 is missing quite a few radios at the moment as well.

Wish I could do all of that lol
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Any other idea's?
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Maybe there is sime kind of problem with your sim and/or phone...
I'm with Virgin (owned by Bell and same network). My device is switching between 3G and HSPA+... And it's working perfectly fine.
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see if this works:
Settings > More Networks (under connections) > Mobile Networks > Network Mode = choose the option which you like and see if it works.
heads up, even with settings forced from here my network sometimes fluctuates.

Lg g2 d802 asian virsion no 4g

I got d08 and i bought it from hongkong .software virsion is D80210B-SEA-XX
im using it in uk with EE sim but no getting 4G only 3g or h plus
infact in the network menu only WCDMA AND GSM OPTION and no 4g option
can i convert it to EURXX
and will 4g work in it after flashing with euro virsion ?
please help me to sort this
thanks

silverbox750 said:
I got d08 and i bought it from hongkong .software virsion is D80210B-SEA-XX
im using it in uk with EE sim but no getting 4G only 3g or h plus
infact in the network menu only WCDMA AND GSM OPTION and no 4g option
can i convert it to EURXX
and will 4g work in it after flashing with euro virsion ?
please help me to sort this
thanks
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Type in dialer:
3845#*802#,then the secret menu will come up...Then:
1. Go to LTE-Only
2. Modem Settings
3. RAT Selection
4. Select GSM / WCDMA / LTE auto
Job done...

stefan063 said:
Type in dialer:
3845#*802#,then the secret menu will come up...Then:
1. Go to LTE-Only
2. Modem Settings
3. RAT Selection
4. Select GSM / WCDMA / LTE auto
Job done...
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great man..thank you very much u are a star..
fixed it working great
thanks

silverbox750 said:
great man..thank you very much u are a star..
fixed it working great
thanks
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:good: Glad I could help !!! May speed be with you

You may also turn on/off lte thru Settings -> Networks -> Tethering & networks -> Mobile networks -> Network mode.

stefan063 said:
Type in dialer:
3845#*802#,then the secret menu will come up...Then:
1. Go to LTE-Only
2. Modem Settings
3. RAT Selection
4. Select GSM / WCDMA / LTE auto
Job done...
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how bout for LG G2 Korean version, but I am using this handset here in Canada (FIDO network)
mine's not working too with the 4G and LTE, only 3G alone.

stefan063 said:
Type in dialer:
3845#*802#,then the secret menu will come up...Then:
1. Go to LTE-Only
2. Modem Settings
3. RAT Selection
4. Select GSM / WCDMA / LTE auto
Job done...
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But this will revert to default after rebooting,is there a way to keep it always like this?

gm007 said:
But this will revert to default after rebooting,is there a way to keep it always like this?
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I have the same problem. I tried several Roms, no luck yet,

LGHardcore said:
how bout for LG G2 Korean version, but I am using this handset here in Canada (FIDO network)
mine's not working too with the 4G and LTE, only 3G alone.
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5457#*320# select Global and LTE...not LTE only cause voice calls wont work.
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I never get the 4G icon just LTE
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youngpic48 said:
5457#*320# select Global and LTE...not LTE only cause voice calls wont work.
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it doesn't have 'Global' menu there. just Automatic, LTE, WCDMA and GSM only.
but whenever I choose Automatic, it returns to 3G data speeds or WCDMA.

anyways I got into this 4G Data speed but like you have said, I can't accept any calls at all.

Here's some added pictures..
I don't know but i dont see any LTE OR 4G settings at Settings.
?
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LGHardcore said:
Here's some added pictures..
I don't know but i dont see any LTE OR 4G settings at Settings.
?
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like i said, I managed to turn my data speed into 4G but its impossible for me to get any phone calls. The Black photos were came from the '5457#*320#' step procedures. I don't know what to do its korean version phone

resolving LTE issue
ejerez said:
I have the same problem. I tried several Roms, no luck yet,
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I had the same issue, i was using the d80210b-SEA, until i flashed the EUR after following the guide and downloading the stock image from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
i was able to then enable LTE from prefered networks. which stays after reboot.

have you tried using *#*#4636#*#* ->phone information ->LTE/GSM auto (PRL)?

LGHardcore said:
like i said, I managed to turn my data speed into 4G but its impossible for me to get any phone calls. The Black photos were came from the '5457#*320#' step procedures. I don't know what to do its korean version phone
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This is the Service Menu for the F320L when I dial 5457#*320#
I select Global+LTE
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LGHardcore said:
anyways I got into this 4G Data speed but like you have said, I can't accept any calls at all.
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Scroll to preferred network label above the APN settings.
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LGHardcore said:
like i said, I managed to turn my data speed into 4G but its impossible for me to get any phone calls. The Black photos were came from the '5457#*320#' step procedures. I don't know what to do its korean version phone
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Do you see the dropdown arrow? Click that and select SERVICE MENU
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youngpic48 said:
Do you see the dropdown arrow? Click that and select SERVICE MENU
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The menus were different from yours. thanks thou
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have you tried using *#*#4636#*#* ->phone information ->LTE/GSM auto (PRL)?
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didn't worked. thanks man..

4.4 and Non-VZW carriers

These issues apply to T-Mobile users installing the current build of 4.4 (and possibly other GSM carriers but I don't have an ATT SIM to test). Motorola is aware of the issue. I read these forums pretty thoroughly and I've been answering these questions all over so I figured I'd just put them all one place. Issues as follows:
- Devices with the LTE radio active cannot send SMS
- Devices with the LTE radio active cannot send MMS (Carrier/Settings dependent)
- Devices with the LTE radio active cannot make phone calls and instantly disconnects on call attempt.
Urban Legends:
- Stock tethering does not work - I have personally tested on TMO and know it does work. Yer doin' it wrong.
Fixes
Easiest fix for now if you're on a device running 4.4 and want to... you know... be able to use your phone... is to use phone information and switch the radio mode over to GSM Only (not the auto one). This fix is a little finicky because if the phone realizes it's not running in the mode selected on your mobile networks screen it will override and turn LTE back on if you haven't selected UMTS only.
Full steps are:
Mobile network settings - Change network mode to LTE/GSM/UMTS
Mobile network settings - Select network UMTS Only
Install app linked below
Open Phone Info and select GSM Only
Phone info apk for sideload - http://www.mediafire.com/download/284l17ry2ok1yuk/Phone_info_1.3.apk
I'll update this thread as I discover more issues or as people post issues that can be replicated below.

Thank you. Finally I got the LTE turn off.
I gotta switch the mobile mode to LTE/UMTS/ gsm and select network as UMTS only. Then use phone info choose gsm only.
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vuphongkkk said:
Thank you. Finally I got the LTE turn off.
I gotta switch the mobile mode to LTE/UMTS/ gsm and select network as UMTS only. Then use phone info choose gsm only.
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when I use those settings, I only get Edge. I mean, its better than nothing, but still....

DaemonAshra said:
when I use those settings, I only get Edge. I mean, its better than nothing, but still....
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Not all areas are refarmed for hspa+
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arcanexvi said:
Not all areas are refarmed for hspa+
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It was selecting GSM Only in Phone Info. Switched it to GSM auto (PRL) and I got HSPA+ back.
but Seriously dude. thanks for this info. I was tired of using my Moto G while my MAXX was just collecting Dust.

Edited the OP for a more clear fix. Thank you to vuphongkkk for pointing out the UMTS only.

I'm on T-Mobile and live in an HSPA+ refarmed area (NYC), but there are places I go on a regular basis that aren't refarmed. I set it on "WCDMA preferred" and voila, I have both 2 & 3G connectivity, with preference given to 3G.
I can't post links, but this XDA thread explains it in more detail I think: ... showthread.php?t=688492

Vodafone confirmed for anyone wondering.
H+ for UMTS only,
Edge for global.
No Sim adjusting at all

Just popped a sim in today. Getting LTE but really hating the call fail bug. Gotta place the call twice repeatedly to get it through
Maxx'd out Kit Kat

Update: Having major glitches when running LTE, pretty deal breaking for a full switch to tmo right now. Eagerly awaiting the new OTA to see if it fixes it. Seems to have major issues on the HSPA/LTE handoff. How did it function prior to 4.4?
Maxx'd out Kit Kat

On 4.2.2 was working fine, the phone just switch from LTE to 3g itself when you need to make phone call. But I had problem on 4.2.2 that if I connect to WiFi then it'll take awhile to get the LTE back. Normally an hour after out of WiFi range
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vuphongkkk said:
On 4.2.2 was working fine, the phone just switch from LTE to 3g itself when you need to make phone call. But I had problem on 4.2.2 that if I connect to WiFi then it'll take awhile to get the LTE back. Normally an hour after out of WiFi range
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Maybe thats the problem I was having? I just ended up with a 4.2.2 phone after my 4.4 got destroyed. LTE wouldnt work for me but I was in the house after switching off wifi...hmmm

Arcanexvi what's the best APN to use for 4.2.2? And do I have to have phone info installed or can I uninstall it? Since I changed all the settings to get hspa+ I forgot what the default settings were. =\ whoops and thanks for all your help so far
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vlcano57 said:
Arcanexvi what's the best APN to use for 4.2.2? And do I have to have phone info installed or can I uninstall it? Since I changed all the settings to get hspa+ I forgot what the default settings were. =\ whoops and thanks for all your help so far
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APN: fast.t-mobile.com
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
You can uninstall it if you want. It's extremely small though so no reason to do so unless you just don't want to see the icon. Uninstalling will NOT reset your settings.
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Thanks! I messed myself all up though.
In android mobile network settings should I have network mode as global, LTE/CDMA or LTE/gsm/umts?
If its LTE/gsm/umts do I still use gsm only under select network?
And if I leave phone info installed do I have to change anything on there for LTE to work? Phone info seems to change the network selection in the app on its own so I just stopped messing with it. Thanks and sorry to be a pain
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If you on 4.4 you don't have to change anything to have LTE work on your phone. Follow step by step from the beginning of the thread to turn off LTE
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I'm on 4.2.2 and already changed settings. So was curious on what the original settings on 4.2.2 are to get LTE working with APN settings
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4.2.2 rarely get LTE data. Choose network mode as LTE/gsm/UMTS . select network as automatic. Don't use the phone info. If you already use the phone info app in this thread then use it again to switch back to LTE/gsm.. Or the option that has evething.
Remember to add APN fast.t-mobile.com
But as I mentioned, 4.2.2 has some problem with the radio , so it rarely pick up LTE
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Oh well in that case I might as well leave it lol. Thanks for the info
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Just to add another data point, I have a Droid Mini on stock 4.2.2. I'm connecting to t-mobile with the listed apn info, global and auto. I have LTE the vast majority of the time.
Cheers!