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Anyway for the epic to roam on verizon 4 g?

Just curious if this can be done?
They recently put up a verizon 4g on in my city and was wondering if i can force the epic to roam into verizon 4g, kinda like the roamcontrol app.

markstibbyspot said:
Just curious if this can be done?
They recently put up a verizon 4g on in my city and was wondering if i can force the epic to roam into verizon 4g, kinda like the roamcontrol app.
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No. Totally different technologies.

impossible because Sprint 4g currently runs off a WiMax network which works pretty much as a country wide wifi network. Verizon's runs off of a LTE 4g network, which I THINK (not sure) runs off the same type of networking as 3g...could be wrong about LTE though

You are... but no its not possible OP
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T-Mobile's LTE Apn settings?

4G LTE is available in select cities and I was wondering if anyone has found the new APN settings to access the network.

Ace42 said:
4G LTE is available in select cities and I was wondering if anyone has found the new APN settings to access the network.
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I wasn't aware they had begun rolling out their LTE network, can you provide a link with details and/or the starting markets. Had a quick look and Google turned up nothing for me.

No link. I called customer service/611 about my data issues, then the rep forwarded me to the tech specialist. That person said they had to do something to my phone and that it had to be rebooted blah blah blah...After that I asked about the LTE rollout and he said he would check on his computer, once he checked he told me that New York, New York & Las Vegas were currently equipped with 4G LTE. I told him the N4 had a LTE chip and he said I might be able to get LTE now.

I work for T-Mobile and we don't have lte the rollout begins middle of this year. What tech might have been referring to was the switch from 1700 to 1900 for hspa+ for iPhone compatibility.
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jltyler said:
I work for T-Mobile and we don't have lte the rollout begins middle of this year. What tech might have been referring to was the switch from 1700 to 1900 for hspa+ for iPhone compatibility.
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This is likely the case. If T-Mobile has LTE anywhere right now it is solely for testing purposes.

I was in Las Vegas about two weeks ago and tried a few APN settings on T-Mob to get LTE but all i could get was H+.
Tmo doesn't have LTE yet.
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jltyler said:
I work for T-Mobile and we don't have lte the rollout begins middle of this year. What tech might have been referring to was the switch from 1700 to 1900 for hspa+ for iPhone compatibility.
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Okay thanks, for a sec I was super excited about being able to use lte.
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jackdonogy said:
I was in Las Vegas about two weeks ago and tried a few APN settings on T-Mob to get LTE but all i could get was H+.
Tmo doesn't have LTE yet.
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Whats the APN settings for H+? Would like to try it. Thanks.

rmartin0120 said:
Whats the APN settings for H+? Would like to try it. Thanks.
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there isn't anything different for APN settings to get H+. You get H+ if you are in a H+ area.

LTE in a few weeks
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mo...-benchmarks-for-2013-las-vegas-live-in-weeks/
Looks like that rep was correct. Would love to be able to try this out in Chicago when it's available.

Will the LTE settings on TMO use the same APN info or a different one?

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Will the LTE settings on TMO use the same APN info or a different one?
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I have heard that LTE APN for T-Mobile might be: fast.tmobile.com

I changed mine but unfortunately looks like no LTE in my area yet
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When my note 2 updated from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 the APN went to that fast.tmobile.com

Official LTE rollout will be tomorrow in about 6-7 select cities.
I too talked with a rep today and he said oh lte is already out in orlando, then he corrected him self by saying hspa+ is out which i can get speeds of about 24 mb down..

Charkatak said:
I have heard that LTE APN for T-Mobile might be: fast.tmobile.com
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It is, you are correct.

rekamyenom said:
It is, you are correct.
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No you aren't, it needs the hyphen "fast.t-mobile.com"

arich said:
No you aren't, it needs the hyphen "fast.t-mobile.com"
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Lol... did not see that the hyphen was missing....
fast.t-mobile.com

LTE APN settings??
I live in Salt Lake City and most likely not in an LTE area. So is it better to use the LTE apn settings or the regular epc setting?
I have a T-mobile Galaxy Note 2 and I completed the 4.1.2 update and my Note is rooted but on the stock rom. I also have the H and H+ since I did the update and have not seen the 4G symbol since and before the 4.1.2 update I rarely had anything but the 4G Symbol.
I contacted T-mobile and was advised by a tech rep that its ideal to use the epc setting since LTE is not yet available in my area.
But he did confirm that fast.t-mobile.com is the correct apn setting for LTE

I just set my Google Nexus (the one before the Nexus 4) to fast.t-mobile.com
My mobile data works, but still shows H next to the mobile signal indicator.
If I try to change my Preferred Network Type to anything other than "WCDMA Preferred" it immediately switches back to "WCDMA Preferred"
I'm in the Philly, PA suburbs.

Why is my LTE device displaying as HSPA+?

Hey guys. I Have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (SGH-I317M) and for some reason it fluctuates between HSPA+ and 3G signals rather than LTE. The device is originally locked to Rogers but I unlocked it and am now using it with MTS. I am running on jelly bean 4. 1.2 and CleanRom 4.0.5. Anybody have any ideas as to why I'm not getting LTE?

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Hey guys. I Have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (SGH-I317M) and for some reason it fluctuates between HSPA+ and 3G signals rather than LTE. The device is originally locked to Rogers but I unlocked it and am now using it with MTS. I am running on jelly bean 4. 1.2 and CleanRom 4.0.5. Anybody have any ideas as to why I'm not getting LTE?
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Are you still getting fast data speeds? All LTE is 3.9 g and hspa is like 3.6 g lol..
http://tasel.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/lte-hsdpa-dc-hsdpa-explain-this-alphbet-soup-of-4g-to-me/
Since you only mentioned your phone model and not the important notion what your carrier is, what is it?
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thlinx said:
Are you still getting fast data speeds? All LTE is 3.9 g and hspa is like 3.6 g lol..
Since you only mentioned your phone model and not the important notion what your carrier is, what is it?
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Yes I'm getting fast speeds but I can't help but wonder why this is happening. I mentioned that I'm with MTS so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for. I live in Canada so it's probably not familiar to you. They just started carrying S3's which are running on their LTE network and they show 4G at the top of them when activated rather than HSPA+.

KR3W said:
Yes I'm getting fast speeds but I can't help but wonder why this is happening. I mentioned that I'm with MTS so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for. I live in Canada so it's probably not familiar to you. They just started carrying S3's which are running on their LTE network and they show 4G at the top of them when activated rather than HSPA+.
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Nope not familiar with Mts. That's correct.. it all depends on the towers u are near .. if they haven't upgraded there towers sorry your sol lol
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It is either the towers or your phone isn't compatible with the bands of LTE (there are multiple bands like there is with UTMS).

MrObvious said:
It is either the towers or your phone isn't compatible with the bands of LTE (there are multiple bands like there is with UTMS).
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I'm pretty sure it isn't the towers cause my friends iPhone 5 is running off LTE and he live about 5 minutes away from my house. I've also been at distances one minute away from his house and did not pick up LTE then either. I don't know much about bands or frequencies but my carrier just launched the Galaxy S3's and they run off LTE and I'm assuming the Note 2 has the same hardware. S3: 700 (Band 17), 1700/2100 (AWS) MHz , Note 2: 700(band 17) 850 AWS 1,900(band 2). I'm clueless as to what those numbers mean but i'm guessing the important thing is Band 17, right?

Try going near his house then. Or have you checked the network settings? You may have to flash something.

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Try going near his house then. Or have you checked the network settings? You may have to flash something.
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I have to no avail. I had a friend try to help me out over the phone with network settings and his phone appears to have a setting that mine does not. When he goes into settings > wireless and network more settings > mobile network there is an option for him to toggle between LTE, HSPA+ etc. My phone doesn't have that for some reason. All that's listed is Mobile data, data roaming, Access point names, and network operators. Nothing to toggle between networks, which is probably what I need to enable LTE. I have no idea why that setting would be absent from my device. My friend was using an S3 on the same operating system as me btw.

From what i can tell it's the frequencies . The frequencies your device have seem to be different than the frequencies the s3 have on your carrier. If it's not that then you can check your apn settings.
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Well i didn't realize how old the thread was, but i hope yes fixed your problem.
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What model is your phone, and what model is his phone. You said you brought your phone from a competing carrier who is likely using alternate frequencies that your phone might not be picking up either due to hardware or software limitations. Without knowing the hardware, and where it came from in the first place, we can't figure out what frequencies your phone is looking for and can't answer your question effectively.

download an app that will show you what is the type of connection you are actually on.
I think that maybe its the matter of incorrect icon.

[Q] Data Issue VS980 - Verizon

Basically I have tried stock reset using LG Flashing tool i have rooted and tried numerous roms, but the problem is i boot my phone it has 4gLTE full then 5 minutes in it switches to 3g network. I have called verizon and tried everything they told me. Also i have even tried and made sure it was on the correct network which is Global or CDMA/LTE
I wanted to know if any deveopler can help me here to figure out the issue with why its not staying connected to 4g?

One of two things. There is issues with the towers around u which would be a Verizon problem. Or its hardware related
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Esteway.619 said:
One of two things. There is issues with the towers around u which would be a Verizon problem. Or its hardware related
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its sounding like its hardware related before i upgraded to the LG g2 i had .. i even dialed *228 to locate towers my area is all red on 4glte and im right next to the tower

can someone please help me with this issue it is irritating me very much because i pay for 4glte not 3g ****

so no update on this no one having the same issues as me loosing 4glte and connecting to 3g

Have you tried a new SIM card? On some LTE devices dialing *228 can actually screw up the SIM data. You should try a new card.
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Have you tried any of the different radios / modems? Might be worth a shot.

richielasalsa said:
so no update on this no one having the same issues as me loosing 4glte and connecting to 3g
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Just got my G2 a couple days ago and I can confirm that I am having the same issue. I haven't found any fixes yet. It does seem that as long as I am actively using the data network, I keep 4g. Once I quit using data or go to wi-fi though, I switch back to 3g after a short period. Quick toggle of airplane mode and almost instantly connects back to 4g again, with the same results of dropping shortly thereafter.

I'm in a spotty area, 4G sticks on one bar and rarely reverts to 3G. Signal loss very rarely. Always comes back auto. Faulty modem sw, SIM, hardware, or towers.

I called lg about the issue they say it was Verizon's fault and there radios .. So they sent me the international version works perfect now I would recommend anyone here to drop Verizon they are **** and highly overpriced

Pixel has poor network handling, switch to LTE only mode.

I have T-Mobile and I've noticed the Pixel has issues finding the best network to use. For example my school has excellent LTE coverage ("full bars") yet for some reason the Pixel would use HSPA+ or 3g instead which is extremely slow compared to the 12+ MB I get on LTE
So I switched the Pixel to LTE only mode, and I've yet to have any issues with reception, I always have LTE. Where before the Pixel would often switch to 3g when LTE was available.
This is obviously an issue with the Pixel, Google has struggled with this in the past w/ Nexus devices. They love 3G.
I recommend everyone try this little hack, LTE coverage is good enough these days I feel 3G is not needed (in most areas).
To switch the Pixel to LTE only mode enter --
*#*#4636#*#*
-- Into the dialer, then go to "Phone Information", and under "Set Preferred Network Type" select "LTE only".
When I did this my Pixel immediately switched from HSPA+ to "full bars" LTE (ya network handling on this phone is that bad).

This issue may not affect Verizon or CDMA networks, I just know for T-Mobile, it's pretty bad.

Android5ever said:
This issue may not affect Verizon or CDMA networks, I just know for T-Mobile, it's pretty bad.
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What is

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Read the post?

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The Pixel uses 3g instead of LTE even though there is strong LTE signal available.

Android5ever said:
The Pixel uses 3g instead of LTE even though there is strong LTE signal available.
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Yup happens to me

Yeah but how good is reception after it switches over to LTE? Same amount of bars or less?

This is great for people who have carriers who support the Pixel on their VOLTE.. Which is only like 3 (ish) carriers worldwide, everyone else wont be able to make or receive phone calls if they do this. Just FYI.

My carrier Jio is 4G LTE + VoLTE only. They do not have any legacy 2G/3G network.
I felt that Pixel is excellent in switching to the 4G band which has strongest singal.

This wouldn't work with the AT&T and Verizon MVNOs I've used, but I'd want my phone to automatically switch for better coverage if I was doing this sort of thing. For example using Tasker you may be able to have the phone switch the radio depending on condition, such as being near a certain cell tower. The following app works on a rooted Pixel to change the network modes, so it's at least possible to change the network mode automatically with a rooted phone.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/widget-toggle-network-type-5-0-xda-t2945406

sanke1 said:
My carrier Jio is 4G LTE + VoLTE only. They do not have any legacy 2G/3G network.
I felt that Pixel is excellent in switching to the 4G band which has strongest singal.
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If you go to Settings > More > Cellular network > Preferred network type, what options do you see there? I'm curious because if Jio only has LTE, LTE-only option might be available in that menu.
Personally I'm on Verizon and also use LTE-only mode. It really improves experience in low signal areas where the phone often switches to weak CDMA, which is good for nothing (no data and 50/50 probability for a call to work). In LTE-only mode it stays on weak LTE that is still usable.
The only problem with it is if I open Cellular network settings or restart the phone, it reverts back to LTE/CDMA mode, so I need to change it back to LTE-only again. At least I found an app called 4G LTE Switch that works like a shortcut to the hidden menu, so I don't have to type *#*#4636#*#* every time.

Weird, I have no issues with the Pixel on T-Mobile. It loves to stick on LTE as long as possible. Even if it drops to 3G/2G in weak areas, it switches back to LTE very quickly.

geoff5093 said:
Weird, I have no issues with the Pixel on T-Mobile. It loves to stick on LTE as long as possible. Even if it drops to 3G/2G in weak areas, it switches back to LTE very quickly.
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Same here. No issues at all with TMobile.
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I seem to have this problem too. Can't seem to fix it with AT&T.

dynamikd said:
Same here. No issues at all with TMobile.
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A third to the no issues at all on T-Mobile. I've also used my Pixel on att and vzw with no premature fallback issues.
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