LTE symbol gone SM-W9008 - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

forgive me if this has been solved somewhere else but i have spent nearly 2 hours trying to figure this out but to no avail.
the details of my device are below.
model: SM-900W8
Build: MJ4
Carrier: Rogers
android ver: 4.3
stock rooted
now this all started a month ago i realized the LTE symbol had disappeared. i live in an area with LTE coverage and places where i go that i normally get LTE now i only see a 4G symbol. the most recent changes i have made to the device was installing wanam and xposed installer.
by no means am i suggesting that any of these mods contributed to my loss of LTE, just simply stating the most recent changes i made to the phone before this has happened.
i checked my data/property file and i dont see the persist.radio.lteon file. im not sure if i ever had because i didnt check until i started researching this problem but it would make sense if i did.
anyhow now ive only been getting 4G 3G H+ thats it, no LTE.
in my settings LTE/GSM/WCDMA is selected
anyone have any idea what may have gone wrong?
tia

covers said:
forgive me if this has been solved somewhere else but i have spent nearly 2 hours trying to figure this out but to no avail.
the details of my device are below.
model: SM-900W8
Build: MJ4
Carrier: Rogers
android ver: 4.3
stock rooted
now this all started a month ago i realized the LTE symbol had disappeared. i live in an area with LTE coverage and places where i go that i normally get LTE now i only see a 4G symbol. the most recent changes i have made to the device was installing wanam and xposed installer.
by no means am i suggesting that any of these mods contributed to my loss of LTE, just simply stating the most recent changes i made to the phone before this has happened.
i checked my data/property file and i dont see the persist.radio.lteon file. im not sure if i ever had because i didnt check until i started researching this problem but it would make sense if i did.
anyhow now ive only been getting 4G 3G H+ thats it, no LTE.
in my settings LTE/GSM/WCDMA is selected
anyone have any idea what may have gone wrong?
tia
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Have you changed roms? Different carriers have different CSC files that contain the icons that you are talking about.
My guess, is the rom you are using says 4G as your LTE. To verify, do a speedtest in an LTE area. Additionally, you can go to SETTINGS>ABOUT>STATUS and look for LTE in the Mobile network type area.
If it says lte, then I wouldn't worry about it.

No I didn't change roms, I'm still on stock rogers MJ4. I used to get the LTE, just all of a sudden for the past month I haven't. It's strange, I haven't performed any mods other than wanam, and xposed.
In settings it shows LTE/GSM/WCDMA selected.
And one thing I know with rogers network is when you're on 4G it's 4G, and LTE is LTE, they are 2 different speeds. And the LTE is not showing. I downloaded some app I think its called vaireo, something like that and it shows I was on LTE14. Not sure what went wrong here
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Did you uninstall Wanam?
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Dahdoul said:
Did you uninstall Wanam?
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Yea I uninstalled it rebooted and still the same, strange thing is that in app/property persist.radio.lteon is gone. I believe it's an xml file from what I've been reading. Tbh I can't say for certain that I had that there before but it does make sense to have had it no?
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covers said:
Yea I uninstalled it rebooted and still the same, strange thing is that in app/property persist.radio.lteon is gone. I believe it's an xml file from what I've been reading. Tbh I can't say for certain that I had that there before but it does make sense to have had it no?
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I don't know but am pretty sure that Wanam has to do something with the network.
Yesrerday I installed Wanam at 10 PM with Xposed rebooted it. So I noticed after that the time has advanced 1 hour to 11 PM (wrong time),I checked date and time settings and everything was on defualt set on automatic network time and automatic time zone but the zone is changed, werid right?
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Dahdoul said:
I don't know but am pretty sure that Wanam has to do something with the network.
Yesrerday I installed Wanam at 10 PM with Xposed rebooted it. So I noticed after that the time has advanced 1 hour to 11 PM (wrong time),I checked date and time settings and everything was on defualt set on automatic network time and automatic time zone but the zone is changed, werid right?
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Damn that is weird, I mean I was always getting the LTE before, then I started messing around with wanam and the xposed installer and since then i have never seen LTE again
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covers said:
Damn that is weird, I mean I was always getting the LTE before, then I started messing around with wanam and the xposed installer and since then i have never seen LTE again
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Try this go to Xposed >> framework >> uninstall then reboot your phone, if didn't work do a factory reset
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Would anyone actually be able to upload a copy of their persist.radio.lteon file?
Is like to try and move it into my data/property folder and see what will happen
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Dahdoul said:
Try this go to Xposed >> framework >> uninstall then reboot your phone, if didn't work do a factory reset
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yea ive tried that but still no luck

Figured it out. Had the same issue.
Go into system/csc/ and change the file name of feature.xml to "feature.xml.backup". Should solve the issue.
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I don't know this will be helpful, I was on 4.3 stock rom of my country, I was getting 4g in Notification bar, after changing to Poland kitkat I can see lte never seen 4g, up to now I was thinking 4g is lte.
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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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No data on 4.3 T-Mobile!

I can't get data to work on any 4.3 ROM the 4g comes out but it says data error
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kepapas said:
I can't get data to work on any 4.3 ROM the 4g comes out but it says data error
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switch it to hspa+, i know in nyc they are working on the network in a few placrs, maybe they are working on lte wherever you are.
Have you checked the APN settings? From that screen tap on Mobile Networks and then Access Point Names.
raptir said:
Have you checked the APN settings? From that screen tap on Mobile Networks and then Access Point Names.
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if the apn was wrong, it wouldnt connect to lte. the same happened to me last night. i called tmobile and customer service told me there are no issues. then i called back and talked to tech support, and they told me that tmo is working on the network. several hiurs later data started fliwing through lte.
simms22 said:
if the apn was wrong, it wouldnt connect to lte. the same happened to me last night. i called tmobile and customer service told me there are no issues. then i called back and talked to tech support, and they told me that tmo is working on the network. several hiurs later data started fliwing through lte.
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Its working solid on 4.2
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kepapas said:
Its working solid on 4.2
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try it again on 4.3.. remember, youll need one of the two hybrid radios for android 4.3(.27/.84 or .33/.84) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36400943&postcount=1
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try it again on 4.3.. remember, youll need one of the two hybrid radios for android 4.3(.27/.84 or .33/.84) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36400943&postcount=1
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I did all that I have rasta 4.3 backed up I restored it and still says network error only on 4.3 its ****en weird even changed the apns to regular h+ still network error changed it back to fast.T-Mobile still network error refashed it cleared data and cache installed gapps still network error I restored back to rasta 4.2 everything is dandy. It was working fine early when driving to work .
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kepapas said:
I did all that I have rasta 4.3 backed up I restored it and still says network error only on 4.3 its ****en weird even changed the apns to regular h+ still network error changed it back to fast.T-Mobile still network error refashed it cleared data and cache installed gapps still network error I restored back to rasta 4.2 everything is dandy. It was working fine early when driving to work .
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if it was working fine when you were going to work, then its probably just a tmobile issue. as i said, last night the same happened to me. i even got my bars to turn blue(sometimes), but no data flow. it started about 9pm, and data started flowing again around 4am.

Lte icon won't go away

I don't know if I enabled something by accident but for some reason the wifi and 4G icon are always visible. Wasn't that way when I got the phone. Any ideas?
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Go to settings >> networks - check to see what you have your network set to.. if you're connected to LTE, it'll show the 4G/LTE icon (there's nothing wrong with showing it). If you don't want to be on LTE, you can change your automatic network settings. Keep in mind, networks are always dropping from 4G to 3G, so at times when you're not on 4G you won't see it.
i think what he means is wifi and lte icons showing up at the same time, none of the android phones i have used is like that, sorry cant help
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Note 3 has no lte option?

Hi guys I recently got myself a note 3 with videotron here in Canada
I know videotron does not have lte yet but on my phone I don't even have that option
All I have is
WCDMA/GSM(auto connect)
WCDMA ONLY
GSM ONLY
My friend has does same options but has also the LTE option available
My note 3 is a sm-n900w8
Thanks
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It depends if your carrier has 4G as I am on Three network UK and I too dont have the LTE option because 4G not out in my area yet but when I changed sim to O2 who already have 4G the LTE option appears.
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hon84 said:
It depends if your carrier has 4G as I am on Three network UK and I too dont have the LTE option because 4G not out in my area yet but when I changed sim to O2 who already have 4G the LTE option appears.
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Ah ok so maybe when they release lte with videotron next year, I guess the option will appear for me too
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young_makaveli said:
Hi guys I recently got myself a note 3 with videotron here in Canada
I know videotron does not have lte yet but on my phone I don't even have that option
All I have is
WCDMA/GSM(auto connect)
WCDMA ONLY
GSM ONLY
My friend has does same options but has also the LTE option available
My note 3 is a sm-n900w8
Thanks
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If you're already rooted go to data/property ,find the persist.radio.lteon.xml file. Open it in Text Editor and if the value that is written is false, change it to true. Save and exit and reboot. Thats it
lesalloum said:
If you're already rooted go to data/property ,find the persist.radio.lteon.xml file. Open it in Text Editor and if the value that is written is false, change it to true. Save and exit and reboot. Thats it
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Lol I don't even know what rooted means
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How can I tell if I'm rooted?
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young_makaveli said:
How can I tell if I'm rooted?
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If you don't know it means you're not
If bought directly from Vidéotron and no modification has been done to your device, you're not rooted
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Any benefits being rooted? Is it like being jailbroken.?
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Any benefits being rooted? Is it like being jailbroken.?
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Rooting has many benefits. The main reason I do it is to uninstall all the bloatware that Samsung saddles you with. My Note 3 came with 25+ useless apps that I can't delete. That's not even counting the 7 that T-Mobile sticks on here. Most of them don't run all the time, but a few do. Like Magazine and the also useless Samsung Siri knockoff. I just use Google voice instead. Another advantage to rooting it would be all the customization options that you would have.

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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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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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!

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