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hi:
guy in att store told me that my old sim card wont fully utilize 3g ..
i have to upgrade to new card..
is this true?
thanx
it would help you to use a 3g phone. u do need a 3g sim card
jayjay8585 said:
it would help you to use a 3g phone. u do need a 3g sim card
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what does this even mean, seriously?
of course im on a 3g tilt.. why else would i ask here?
the question is 3g utilization capabilities..
i was using old card and its still waay faster than neighbor's t-mobile card..
i would like someone who knows what im talking about and what they're talking about to gimme solid opinion..
thanx
it varies from operator to operator as in some have been giving 3g cable sims to 2g suscribers for ages as having 2 types of sims is bothersome and expensive for many operators
i would ask my operator
3g to 2g phones is no prob.. thats obvious..all new phones have em whether they need it or not..
i dont believe att just cuz they say something. (that i need it)
they lie all the time-- they all do..
what youre saying is that you dont really know answer to my orig question..
AGAIN :: i ask cuz my tilt is faster w/my old card than w/t-mobile card....
thanx for the replies but i just wanna hear from someone who knows..
tahnx again
I got a 10 year old sim card that does 3g just fine...
i believe yaz..
i do wish i could find perfect answer on google or somethin.. my sim is 9y/o.
no one i know is even on att for me to compare sims..
so many on gay t-mobile
thanx
You're getting two speeds because 3G is just rolling out from T-mobile. ATT has had 3G for awhile and are evn rolling out HSDPA in some areas. Do you need a 3G sim from ATT, probably not. But thats the reason youre getting two speeds.
Well with your old sim do you see an E or a 3G for the type of signal? Tmobile no matter what will have the E for edge
wshader said:
Well with your old sim do you see an E or a 3G for the type of signal? Tmobile no matter what will have the E for edge
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the att guy said that just because i see the 3g icon, doesnt mean im getting 3g speeds.. if my sim aint 3g, im not getting 3g..
this is what i question...
I didnt get a 3G sim card until recently when i had an issue where I needed a new sim.. i got speeds on both about the same. One was a 3G sim and the other wasnt. Sounds like your ATT rep is full of S**T
Well can always check out http://http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?t=4&s=100&r=8603&w. Anything over 300k is considered 3g. Just use PIE for it though. Opera doesnt do it correctly
I had to get a new sim from o2 before i got 3g speeds
Thats correct...If you have a 2G sim, you can only connect to GPRS or EDGE platforms.
To get 3G or HSDPA, you will need a 3g SIM...
sij,, how do you know.. is it just a guess?
are you saying that : even when the 3g icon changes, it doesnt mean anything?
it might stand to reason that full utilization of the 3g network needs a new card, that doesnt mean that its absolutely necessary..
sqwhatever-- i bought one from ebay for 3.50 shipped..
for reasons not even relating to this..
if there is a difference, i will see it immediately.
thanx
Hi,
I am new user and want to get the HTC Touch Diamond 2 ( Topaz ) next week. My current provider is AT&T.
I found some decent deals on eBay, but one seller wrote back saying that this phone is 100% working with AT&T and I only have to switch my SIM card out. Except for 3G....... he said, 3G won't work.
So my question is : Why would 3G not work ? Is this a phone normally used for other providers or is the 3G just turned off ? If so, can 3G be turned on easily via a hack or something ? I don't get it.
Thanks for helping.
JCE
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the phone is 3G capable but I dont think the providers support it in your country.
If you are talking about AT&T in the USA, yeah 3G doesn't seem to work for me. I think the specific atenna range for 3G is not the one AT&T uses. I might be wrong though and just haven't seen a 3G link since its rare in my area and I don't use data that much. The best I can get is Edge.
supreme_one333 said:
If you are talking about AT&T in the USA, yeah 3G doesn't seem to work for me. I think the specific atenna range for 3G is not the one AT&T uses. I might be wrong though and just haven't seen a 3G link since its rare in my area and I don't use data that much. The best I can get is Edge.
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America doesn't use the same 3G frequencies.., Europe 900/1200. America 850/whatever else. These phones are Euro 3G frequencies only so the best you'll get is GSM, which is quad band (i.e. work everywhere).
If you're cool with that that's fine, but when my phone drops from 3G to GSM I find it pretty unbearable (think dial up days).
jce2005 said:
Hi,
I am new user and want to get the HTC Touch Diamond 2 ( Topaz ) next week. My current provider is AT&T.
I found some decent deals on eBay, but one seller wrote back saying that this phone is 100% working with AT&T and I only have to switch my SIM card out. Except for 3G....... he said, 3G won't work.
So my question is : Why would 3G not work ? Is this a phone normally used for other providers or is the 3G just turned off ? If so, can 3G be turned on easily via a hack or something ? I don't get it.
Thanks for helping.
JCE
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Unfortunatley I don't think our phones support it. Here is my original post with the same question from May:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512828
I'm gonna try em out for there 20 day grace period and was wondering if there's gonna need to be anything special that needs to be done to my phone to make it work with the T-Mobile cards. Also does anyone here have a captivate on tmobile in central FL or anywhere that could tell me how their service is compared to att. Att is slow for me here in Ocala. I'm hoping T-Mobile can help me out.
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Drewskie1989 said:
I'm gonna try em out for there 20 day grace period and was wondering if there's gonna need to be anything special that needs to be done to my phone to make it work with the T-Mobile cards. Also does anyone here have a captivate on tmobile in central FL or anywhere that could tell me how their service is compared to att. Att is slow for me here in Ocala. I'm hoping T-Mobile can help me out.
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sim unlock your phone. there are numerous tutorials in these forums to do so
if you think ATT is slow, wait until you put in a TMobile sim card and all you can get is EDGE network.
^This. Most ATT phones will not get anything past edge on Tmobile. (Housemate is with Tmobile and tested with Inspire 4G, Infuse 4g and my captivate. I've find it amusing that I could use his Vibrant with 3g no prob xD.) Still don't understand why ATT uses their freq that way, makes me think its just for them to be spiteful.
so ur saying theres no way to use tmobiles '4g' network on my captivate or my gfs inspire? if this is in fact the case, i will be cancelling the order.
Drewskie1989 said:
so ur saying theres no way to use tmobiles '4g' network on my captivate or my gfs inspire? if this is in fact the case, i will be cancelling the order.
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thats absolutely what we are saying.
you will not get 3g or 4G with an ATT phone on Tmobile
Something to do how ATT uses data Only on the 1800mhz band and Tmobile uses the 850? something like that.
Hi all, will this phone work on ATT and or Cricket? Is it a GSM phone? Will it get 4G if so? Thanks!!!
i have the mix on Cricket since December, it's on H+ most of the time and some times 4g depends on your location I guess, so it works on cricket and I'm not complaining on internet speed
vvette said:
Hi all, will this phone work on ATT and or Cricket? Is it a GSM phone? Will it get 4G if so? Thanks!!!
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I use it on Straight Talk (the AT&T sim). I live in Springfield Missouri and normally get LTE everywhere I go. The only real issue I have is when I do happen to lose LTE (receive/make a phone call, lose LTE in one particular room at my work, etc) it will stay on H+/3G until I go into settings and toggle between 3G then back to LTE again. Sucks, but not that big a deal since Straight Talk basically caps speed around 7-10 megs and H+/3G pretty much handles that speed anyway. But I haven't really had that many issues.
Mine is on Cricket and running fine in the Des Moines, IA area. I have a few hiccups here and there, but nothing drastic.
I have it with Att and works great always on Lte (tucson,Az). I get the hd voice and video calling as well. Only complain is I cant wait for mix 2 lol.
Straight talk ATT sim LTE all the time I live south of Chicago
jaime4272 said:
i have the mix on Cricket since December, it's on H+ most of the time and some times 4g depends on your location I guess, so it works on cricket and I'm not complaining on internet speed
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How did you make that work ? i have a doogee mix FOB from chinaland and a cricket sim in it but it keeps saying no data at all any help please ?
spydergt said:
How did you make that work ? i have a doogee mix FOB from chinaland and a cricket sim in it but it keeps saying no data at all any help please ?
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Did you cheap apn settings?
yea
yea i even took it into a cricket store and had a csr check it , the apn settings are all correct, the sim card works , i put it into a tablet i had from a while ago with a data card , it works , the tablet has 4g data , but if i put that sim card into the doogee mix , nothing , im gonna attempt to return the phone since i cant use it
I have a cheap lg straight talk phone I got at Wal-Mart and I get great service at work. I purchased this bold n1 and at my house all bars are lit up. But at work no service at all. I talk to this guy and said what's the best service here and he said verizon.. I'm sure my cheap straight talk lg phone works on both gsm and cmda...but it said it works on 1700 and 1900 lte... Is there anything I can do to get this to work? If not it's useless at work.
I'm using straight talk sim
Sold it for a Samsung A50 couldn't happier..... With it just being gsm it was useless on straight talk..... Paid $100 more but now I get signal anywhere.
Davidmichael51 said:
I'm using straight talk sim
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Can u put ur apn settings on here my mms doesn't work ??