Basically i bought a Verizon LG G2 because i did a little research and found out it is gsm unlocked. So i received the phone and i factory reset the phone to make sure it was a fresh start. After i factory reset the phone would not get past the setup screen and got as far as where i had to insert Verizon sim for activation. I have a T-Mobile Sim card so i cannot get past the screen. i have seen people get past that screen on the G2 i just wanted to know how i can get past the setup screen too.
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Try tapping all the corners clockwise on the first screen. That's the usual method.
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Just curious why get a Verizon one?
Because it supports Verizon LTE and is unlocked for GSM out of the box.
It also has Qi Wireless Charging.
I'm not sure if it will supports other carriers LTE bands though but it should.
Great for people that use Verizon and travel so you can quickly fall back to a local prepaid SIM if need be.
Tmobile doesn't even have LTE, just GSM, so you should be good there. 4G is meh anyway. I typically get 7-8mbps on 3G, which is perfect for cell service. Is pushing 80mbps on Verizon 4g really necessary?
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I just got the verizon g2 as well. On t mobile, havnt got 4g, or 3.5G but haven't been to an area with it yet.
To get past setup, hit Up, Down, Back, Back. (thats what I found but didn't work) I tried up down back back a few times, then I think UP, DOWN, Back, Sleep did it.
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Hey guys lurker here finally registering to get some help.
I have a nexus 4 with T-Mobile. I bought it unlocked through Google and have it on the same plan I had my G2 on.
My problem is every time I get into a HSPA area my service just drops. Like completely drops. I cannot even make a call. It will come on then off then on then off. It makes the phone useless. When I'm on edge it's perfectly fine.
I went to T Mobile and got a brand new sim car and that did not help my problem.
Much appreciated any help I can get.
Factory reset first and see what happens.
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CobieS said:
Hey guys lurker here finally registering to get some help.
I have a nexus 4 with T-Mobile. I bought it unlocked through Google and have it on the same plan I had my G2 on.
My problem is every time I get into a HSPA area my service just drops. Like completely drops. I cannot even make a call. It will come on then off then on then off. It makes the phone useless. When I'm on edge it's perfectly fine.
I went to T Mobile and got a brand new sim car and that did not help my problem.
Much appreciated any help I can get.
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That happens when the radio on the N4 switches between 3G and HSPA doing a factory reset won't affect the radio. In other words its the carrier coverage in your area. Try Straight Talk with At&t
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Never had this problem with my g2
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I've got a Nexus 4 on AT&T and i've got HSPA (no +, i've checked in settings). It seems when my phone switches between towers i lose service until i go in and select AT&T from a list of available networks. On other phones in this area i always have Tmobile and AT&T, but with this one i'm getting two AT&T's. I usually select AT&T, but the last few days i've tried selecting "automatically select network." It doesnt appear to have made any changes. Just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas before i factory reset this bad boy.
Factory reset, reflash of the stock ROM using the nexus toolkit, unroot and custom Roms cm10 and paranoid android. Nothing has helped my issue. I have the LTE plan and the WAP APN gives me hspa+. Still getting a signal drop every time I move more than a mile or so.
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Doubt anyone is even watching this, but i called google and the rep says it sounds like a hardware issue. Getting a warranty replacement.
Jrob2k said:
Doubt anyone is even watching this, but i called google and the rep says it sounds like a hardware issue. Getting a warranty replacement.
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I'm having this exact setting did a replacement help you at all?
My brother and I both got S4s almost 2 weeks ago. He upgraded from an S3. Me from a Rezound. He also has a work phone that is a Verizon Note 2.
We were out at our parents' house over the weekend. Our dad has a RAZR Maxx and a 4G Verizon MiFi for his house. All 5 of these phones/devices are on Verizon.
Both of Dad's devices and my brother's Note 2 were maintaining a steady 4G LTE connection. The Note 2 only showed about 2 bars, but it held it steady and never dropped back to 3G at any time while we were there.
But, both my and my brother's S4s would not hold 4G. We played around with network settings. Changed them from CDMA/LTE to Global, and then back. They would both occasionally switch to 4G for a minute or so, then always switch back to 3G.
I called Verizon tech support and they walked us through things including turning off the phones, pulling the SIMs and letting him push a new PRL to us. Nothing helped, so he told us to go get new SIMs. I did that yesterday and went back out to my dad's and it's still the same. My dad's phone and his MiFi maintain a steady 4G LTE signal and my S4 mostly just stays on 3G.
I also noticed that I went to the movies yesterday and when I was in the theater lobby, which is right in the middle of town, where there is strong 4G signal, my phone had dropped back to 3G there, too.
I'm still within my 14 day return period and I am seriously thinking of returning the S4 and getting a Note 2.
Does anybody have any better suggestions?
I found a thread on the AC forums where a guy reported the same issue I'm having. He took the SIM out of his Rezound, cut it down, plugged it in, and he said that fixed his 4G reception problem.
I'm going to VZW after work and trying a 3rd SIM. This time, one of the old style, that doesn't support NFC.
I went to Verizon after work yesterday and got a new non-NFC SIM. Then went back to my dad's house. The SIM does not appear to make any difference. My phone still wanted to switch to 3G and stay there.
But, I did figure out one encouraging thing. I used Battery Monitor Widget to get into the Testing screen. There, I was able to change the phone from "CDMA/LTE (Auto PRL)" to "LTE Only".
After doing that, the phone went into 4G mode and stayed there, and actually worked fine. I turned on my hotspot and connected to it with my tablet and surfed for a while, with no issues.
This tells me that the phone's LTE reception is pretty much just as good as the Note 2 and other devices I mentioned before. It's just a software issue that is switching it to 3G mode when it doesn't need to.
Hi guys I searched the forums and didn't see any mention of this besides somebody with a Sprint version of the phone talking about it. I bought an AT&T G2 D800 over the phone with them, they shipped it to me and it was fine for a day or so until AT&T rolled out the D80010o firmware then my phone started getting strange battery drains and in call volume setting keeps reverting back to 90% every time I reset the phone, so I brought it in and exchanged it for a new one. Herein lies the problem.
On this new G2, I noticed that every time I would go to make a call, the signal drops down from 4GLTE to just regular 4G. That never happened to the phone I brought in to exchange. Granted I don't remember making a call before I did the firmware update so I can't say for sure if it did it before the software update but I doubt it since the notes on AT&T's site said it was mainly making the phone ISIS capable. The reason I noticed the difference right away was because up until that point I'd never seen the 4G icon on the G2, so I saw it right away. I was still in my car testing the phone so I came back into the store to ask them if that was normal, they said it was. One guy even said it happens to his iPhone too. Since there was 3 of them saying it was normal, I walked back out. I went home and did some more research and it seems like the G2 supports "LTE (SVLTE, CSFB, CA, VoLTE, RCS, MIMO)" taken from: www lg com/global/g2/sub3 html (sorry it won't let me post outside links) and also like I said, my previous G2 didn't do that.
I need help confirming from other AT&T LG G2 D800 owners that their phone doesn't do the same thing, that when you make a voice call in an area where you're getting 4GLTE, the radio doesn't drop down to just regular 4G. The minute I hang up it goes back up to 4GLTE and I'm staying still in one spot so it's coverage, and my entire has always had LTE coverage. Please let me know before I bring it in for another exchange as the AT&T I went to the customer service was terribad, I'd like to go in there with certainty so that if push comes to shove, I'll just tell them to open a new G2 and test it on the spot to see if it does that. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.
Confirmed on the 4GLTE -> 4G on voice call -> 4GLTE.
Never paid attention b4 and don't know whether it supposed to be that way or not.
And yes, with the D80010o firmware, battery seems to drop quicker than expected
Thanks for the quick response and apparently being the only LG G2 D800 owner on this forum. Yeah I haven't updated this phone yet and battery once again runs like a champ.
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Your phone will drop to 4G until VoLTE (voice over LTE) rolls out possibly next year. It's been like this for a while, so don't think there is something wrong with the device.
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born_fisherman said:
Your phone will drop to 4G until VoLTE (voice over LTE) rolls out possibly next year. It's been like this for a while, so don't think there is something wrong with the device.
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I know this is a bit off topic but is there a separate 4G LTE icon in the notification (status) bar? All my other phones have had the 4G LTE icon there when I'm at home but this phone always says 4G
You guy the software of lg g2 if really bad your phone does not know when to change to 3g 4g or 4lte its not just att is all lg g2 the update is supposed to fix it but that wont happened as you can see. Try to update prifile and prl to see if it help.... mines its fine now after i update
And if you are using a custom rom you may have to do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569237
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diehardbattery said:
I know this is a bit off topic but is there a separate 4G LTE icon in the notification (status) bar? All my other phones have had the 4G LTE icon there when I'm at home but this phone always says 4G
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Nope, there isn't. The 4GLTE disappears the the 4G icon replaces it at the same spot or vice versa. I'd try turning off the phone for a while and then turning it back on, or swap out the SIM. The guy at my AT&T store told me sometimes it's an activation thing where it can take a day or two to be "fully" activated and get full 4GLTE.
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Nope, there isn't. The 4GLTE disappears the the 4G icon replaces it at the same spot or vice versa. I'd try turning off the phone for a while and then turning it back on, or swap out the SIM. The guy at my AT&T store told me sometimes it's an activation thing where it can take a day or two to be "fully" activated and get full 4GLTE.
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I forgot I had mentioned that problem here.. I made a thread about it lol. It was a bad SIM.
Nicamarcel1 said:
You guy the software of lg g2 if really bad your phone does not know when to change to 3g 4g or 4lte its not just att is all lg g2 the update is supposed to fix it but that wont happened as you can see. Try to update prifile and prl to see if it help.... mines its fine now after i update
And if you are using a custom rom you may have to do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569237
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Thanks... not quite sure what you're talking about with the link though but I'm on AT&T... AT&T/T-Mobile are GSM and don't have PRLs to update... that's a CDMA Verizon/Sprint thing.
Ever since I took OTA update I cannot get the LTE to stay locked on it keeps going back to 3g. My wife has the same phone and hers stays in LTE. So I know it isn't the towers. She took the OTA update also. The only difference is mine is rooted on the new KK. Anyone else have that problem? Sorry I'm on Verizon Network VS980 4gG LTE
Well I downgraded back to Jelly Bean VS98012B and stayed stock without root and still have the same problem with LTE. I switched Airplane mode off and then back on and I get LTE with 2 bars then it goes back to 3g with 2 bars. I wonder if its the phone or if I am being throttled by Verizon?
Well I seem to be answering my own questions. Turns out my sim card is bad. I tried my wife's and the phone went to LTE and stayed. I put mine in her phone and it stayed 3g. So hope this helps anyone else that would experience this. Glad its not the phone.
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dkahs23 said:
Well I seem to be answering my own questions. Turns out my sim card is bad. I tried my wife's and the phone went to LTE and stayed. I put mine in her phone and it stayed 3g. So hope this helps anyone else that would experience this. Glad its not the phone.
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I'm actually having the same thing... keeps switching to 3G randomly, after a reboot it'll go to 4G LTE and usually stay, but often if I make a call, or do something it'll switch back to 3G for some time, then maybe go back to 4G... stock KK rooted here too
Did the SIM card fix it for you permanently? I may try getting a new one if so.
I'll second this. Had the same problem. New sim card and bam, fixed. For some reason I think going to international ROMs (cloudy and optimus) caused this.... The 3g roaming thing.. which is a shame because their ROMs are freaking awesome.
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braxync said:
I'm actually having the same thing... keeps switching to 3G randomly, after a reboot it'll go to 4G LTE and usually stay, but often if I make a call, or do something it'll switch back to 3G for some time, then maybe go back to 4G... stock KK rooted here too
Did the SIM card fix it for you permanently? I may try getting a new one if so.
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Yeah I went to my local mom & pop Verizon store and the idiot behind the counter said my old LTE sim card wasn't NFC ( Near Field Communications) complaint. Why is he an idiot that's another story. But I don't know how NFC has anything to do with the sim card. Anyway I bought a new one because they weren't a official Verizon store, supposedly the official store will give you a new sim card. But now the phone works like it is suppose too.
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So my 2 year contract through Verizon finally ended thank God, and I decided to switch to Straight Talk through their BYOP Activation Kit at Walmart. I followed all the steps through the kit and found on the Web just to be safe and got it running on the T-Mobile sim. My only problem is that I cannot get 4G LTE. I get 3G but it will not let me do anything on 3G and when I try to do something involving data or messaging it switches to H+ just long enough to do these things. I have rooted the phone and ensured that Band 4 is activated through the Service Mode on my phone and still nothing. I have even tried multiple APNs. Is it maybe just that there is little to no T-Mobile 4G around here? Running Android 4.4.2 by the way.
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Bukimari said:
So my 2 year contract through Verizon finally ended thank God, and I decided to switch to Straight Talk through their BYOP Activation Kit at Walmart. I followed all the steps through the kit and found on the Web just to be safe and got it running on the T-Mobile sim. My only problem is that I cannot get 4G LTE. I get 3G but it will not let me do anything on 3G and when I try to do something involving data or messaging it switches to H+ just long enough to do these things. I have rooted the phone and ensured that Band 4 is activated through the Service Mode on my phone and still nothing. I have even tried multiple APNs. Is it maybe just that there is little to no T-Mobile 4G around here? Running Android 4.4.2 by the way.
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Try this Apn setting :
Switch to Global
Name : TmobileMMs
Apn. : fast.t-mobile.com
And leave everything else empty had a friend said it worked for him.
Just tried this, nothing works at all. Had to switch back to the Straight Talk APN. Oh I guess posting my APN might help.
Name: STRAIGHT_TALK
APN: wap.tracfone
MMSC: (http)://mms(.)tracfone(.)com
**remove the parentheses, being a new user I cannot post links.**
MMC: 310
MNC: 260
APN Type: default,mms,supl,hipri
*All other fields are blank or default.
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I am having a similar issue. It's the Verizon Note 3 on Straight Talk AT&T sim. I get H+ but no LTE. I am running stock 4.4.2 not rooted. I really like this phone but if I can't get my 4G LTE working on it I will sell or trade for a AT&T branded note 3 unlocked. I know what part of the problem is. It's the way Verizon sets up their phones. They are LTE capable yes, but Vzw makes sure those capable bands are with their sim cards and frequencies.
I'll have to do some searching on XDA but I think I remember seeing something about rooting the phone, getting into the hidden menu, and changing the bands to the st att sim will get 4G LTE. If someone could chime in here to verify this and point me in that direction it would be great.
On mine with root access I can get into Service mode and apparently by default since one of the latest updates from Verizon their Note 3 has Band 4 enabled. I know if you have AT&T you can select different bands through service mode as well however with my T-Mobile sim changing this simply makes it not work. Could that be what you're referring to?
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Yes but it's not working for me. I found out the ONLY way to get the Verizon note 3 to work on Straight Talk AND get LTE is to use the cmda part of the phone, I:E call ST, give them a cdma activation code, and have them switch your service over to the cdma part of the phone.
Well it looks like that's what I'll be doing then because H+ just isn't cutting it. Although it is better than Verizon 3G, considering I hardly got 4G through Verizon anyway.
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yeah I hear ya. H+ is ok, but 4G LTE it is NOT!....lol. Keep in mind Straight Talk still doesn't "Guaranty" 4G LTE service. Like most people, I have found that Straight Talk LOVES to quid pro quo themselves out of any responsibility for their service faults. They will blame it on your phone, your area, heck, they will even blame your lack of signal on you when they can saying you did something to your phone to make it not work.
Their customer service is their biggest downfall. But like most companies that have truck loads of money they can afford to not really care.
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Bukimari said:
So my 2 year contract through Verizon finally ended thank God, and I decided to switch to Straight Talk through their BYOP Activation Kit at Walmart. I followed all the steps through the kit and found on the Web just to be safe and got it running on the T-Mobile sim. My only problem is that I cannot get 4G LTE. I get 3G but it will not let me do anything on 3G and when I try to do something involving data or messaging it switches to H+ just long enough to do these things. I have rooted the phone and ensured that Band 4 is activated through the Service Mode on my phone and still nothing. I have even tried multiple APNs. Is it maybe just that there is little to no T-Mobile 4G around here? Running Android 4.4.2 by the way.
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Straight talk now has Verizon LTE Sim cards. Switch to the Straight Talk Verizon network and purchase their LTE Sim card and you will get a better Verizon coverage and get LTE working.
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Straight talk now has Verizon LTE Sim cards. Switch to the Straight Talk Verizon network and purchase their LTE Sim card and you will get a better Verizon coverage and get LTE working.
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Well that's good to know. I ended up calling ST after making this thread and when I told them it was a Verizon phone they acted like it was impossible to activate 4G even after I explained it was a world phone. Once I requested to speak to a supervisor they told me they would "work on it and give me a call back". A few days later my phone mysteriously started getting 4G LTE haha.
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