[MetroPCS] Nexus 5 Thread - Nexus 5 General

Hello Everyone,
Seeing as I'm a MetroPCS user and I don't see any MetroPCS/Nexus 5 related threads yet, I decided to create one. In which we may discuss all things related to our Nexus 5's on MetroPCS's BYOD Network (T-Mobile).
Post your experiences, speed tests, ideas, questions, etc.

MetroPCS 4G Cap Speeds.
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!

JD2589 said:
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
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Are you noticing no slow down on your speeds or connection type? Whats your speedtest results? When you hit say 500mb on the $40 plan you still will stay on LTE but will have throttled speeds, They wont force you down to 3G or EDGE

hyelton said:
Are you noticing no slow down on your speeds or connection type? Whats your speedtest results? When you hit say 500mb on the $40 plan you still will stay on LTE but will have throttled speeds, They wont force you down to 3G or EDGE
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Nope, fastest speed test today on 4G was 21mbps down. I haven't been throttled yet.
I'm wondering if I do get throttled if I can force 3G after, and have unlimited 3G speeds like when I was Houdini flashed?
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JD2589 said:
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
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JD2589 said:
Nope, fastest speed test today on 4G was 21mbps down. I haven't been throttled yet.
I'm wondering if I do get throttled if I can force 3G after, and have unlimited 3G speeds like when I was Houdini flashed?
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Not sure. You mean by flashed was on the old MetroPCS network? (CDMA)? Since the new network is GSM prob wont. I`d love to try out MetroPCS they have the $60 plan but not sure if the website will let me order, As the closest Metro Market to me is Atlanta but I live 3 hours from there in a state with none of there original coverage, But T-Mobile is all around me so I`m not sure if its now based on T-Mobile covergae when ordering or there original coverage areas.
Does tethering work?

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Not sure. You mean by flashed was on the old MetroPCS network? (CDMA)? Since the new network is GSM prob wont. I`d love to try out MetroPCS they have the $60 plan but not sure if the website will let me order, As the closest Metro Market to me is Atlanta but I live 3 hours from there in a state with none of there original coverage, But T-Mobile is all around me so I`m not sure if its now based on T-Mobile covergae when ordering or there original coverage areas.
Does tethering work?
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Truthfully I haven't tried tethering yet, I've had my N5 on MetroPCS for about a week and a half only.
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Tethering will work the same as t-mobile. We're running on the t-mobile network and the throttling is down to 20kbps. I'm on the unlimited for 60 plan because it's so slow.
My first week of having my Nexus 5.
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FuMMoD said:
Tethering will work the same as t-mobile. We're running on the t-mobile network and the throttling is down to 20kbps. I'm on the unlimited for 60 plan because it's so slow.
My first week of having my Nexus 5.
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Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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JD2589 said:
Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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Not sure exactly how to do that with the Nexus 5. I don't think there is a way to do it though since it's gsm.
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FuMMoD said:
Not sure exactly how to do that with the Nexus 5. I don't think there is a way to do it though since it's gsm.
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Dialer>*#*#INFO#*#*>Phone Information. There you can mess with Network types.
Waiting to get throttled to try it. 863MB used.
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JD2589 said:
Dialer>*#*#INFO#*#*>Phone Information. There you can mess with Network types.
Waiting to get throttled to try it. 863MB used.
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Can you do a screenshot of your settings.
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FuMMoD said:
Can you do a screenshot of your settings.
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You got it:
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You got it:
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Same thing here and I get throttled to 2g speeds even though they swear it's 3g.
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FuMMoD said:
Same thing here and I get throttled to 2g speeds even though they swear it's 3g.
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:/
Do you get throttled as soon as you hit your Data limit?
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JD2589 said:
:/
Do you get throttled as soon as you hit your Data limit?
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First time I got throttled very quick. I barely got over 500 and was already throttled. This is pretty much 15kBytes per second download.
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FuMMoD said:
First time I got throttled very quick. I barely got over 500 and was already throttled. This is pretty much 15kBytes per second download.
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Well that definitely sucks, that's unusable..
Hopefully I'm privileged because I haven't been throttle. We shall see I'll keep this updated.
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JD2589 said:
Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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dont you mean WCDMA? CDMA and GSM are completely two different networks that are not compatible with each other..
GSM - T-Mobile, AT&T / MetroPCS uses T-Mobile towers on the GSM side.
CDMA - Verizon, USCELLULAR, Sprint, MetroPCS (BEFORE T-Mobile Bought them)(or for Bring your on phone)
On GSM 3G is called WCDMA which is not the same as CDMA.

hyelton said:
dont you mean WCDMA? CDMA and GSM are completely two different networks that are not compatible with each other..
GSM - T-Mobile, AT&T / MetroPCS uses T-Mobile towers on the GSM side.
CDMA - Verizon, USCELLULAR, Sprint, MetroPCS (BEFORE T-Mobile Bought them)(or for Bring your on phone)
On GSM 3G is called WCDMA which is not the same as CDMA.
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Yes indeed I meant WCDMA, but Thanks for pointing it out.
Interesting, when I put WCDMA I get 3G but whenever I try to load a webpage it goes to H..
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JD2589 said:
Yes indeed I meant WCDMA, but Thanks for pointing it out.
Interesting, when I put WCDMA I get 3G but whenever I try to load a webpage it goes to H..
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Let me explain that
3G - UMTS - original 3G up to like 7.2megs something like that. 99 of the time when using data you will be on H/H+ in the USA anyway
H - HSPA = UP to 21mbps down
H+ - HSPAP (something like that there's other variations for that one) 21mbps down or DC is 42mbps down which T-Mobile has
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hyelton said:
Let me explain that
3G - UMTS - original 3G up to like 7.2megs something like that. 99 of the time when using data you will be on H/H+ in the USA anyway
H - HSPA = UP to 21mbps down
H+ - HSPAP (something like that there's other variations for that one) 21mbps down or DC is 42mbps down which T-Mobile has
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Thanks for your explanation. :thumbup:
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U.S companies that work with the GT-N7000

What companies does the international galaxy note work with in the u.s?....
T-Mobile and Straight Talk are the main two.
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To be honest, any GSM carrier. There's really only two GSM carriers, T-Mobile and At&t. Since the GT-N7000 is unlocked for the two, almost any sim will give you service. Stick with straight talk if you wanna keep it cheap. $15 Sim, and $45 unlimited everything.
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AgentCherryColla said:
To be honest, any GSM carrier. There's really only two GSM carriers, T-Mobile and At&t. Since the GT-N7000 is unlocked for the two, almost any sim will give you service. Stick with straight talk if you wanna keep it cheap. $15 Sim, and $45 unlimited everything.
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And how is your 3g ?? I see there is some problems with 3g on T-Mobile. Please response.
I'd like to buy Note but I hate contract plan's and I like fast 3g internet.
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I'm happy with it on AT&T... noticeably faster than wifes 4s
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And how is your 3g ?? I see there is some problems with 3g on T-Mobile. Please response.
I'd like to buy Note but I hate contract plan's and I like fast 3g internet.
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as has been posted many times on here and in the 3/4g tmo dev radio thread youre not going to get 3/4g unless you live in an area that tmo is using the 1900 frequency and thats out in the northwest... n7000 = 850/1900 freq tmo = 1700/2100 (except a Very select few areas that they use the 1900
as for the quick answer for anyone still wondering what carrier... any that uses the 850/1900 freq... the 1700/2100 ones are out of luck until bedwa or another dev finds a radio to flash to make it work...
well if any one is still looking to get a gnote on t-mobile, maybe you should wait.....the word is it coming out officially on tmobile.....no more hassles on making everything work on tmobile....lol....but its weird...now that i can get it for tmobile in a couple of months.....i want it on verizon/sprint cdma network....lol...does anybody know if its coming out on a cdma network?.....ive read about it coming out on cdma as the galaxy journal but when?...or the real question is....is it coming out on cdma at all?....lol..
This is correct, but woefully incomplete.
TMO is limited to EDGE with the Note given incompatible 3G wireless bands, so while it will "work", it will be a dog on data.
The only practical carriers for the Note in the USA are Straightalk and ATT
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To be honest, any GSM carrier. There's really only two GSM carriers, T-Mobile and At&t. Since the GT-N7000 is unlocked for the two, almost any sim will give you service. Stick with straight talk if you wanna keep it cheap. $15 Sim, and $45 unlimited everything.
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It seems the nexus 4 is LTE Proofed for T-Mobile

Check it out don't shoot the messenger.
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/11/nexu...d-news/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Will this work on the famous $30 plan?
If u have an lte proofed phone
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ericshmerick said:
Will this work on the famous $30 plan?
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Assuming the $30 plan will support lte when launched then yes it will
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Meh, it'll take like 2-3 years for t mo lte to actually be good, so we'll probably all have new phones by then. But atm hspa is plenty fast IMO.
red12355 said:
Meh, it'll take like 2-3 years for t mo lte to actually be good, so we'll probably all have new phones by then. But atm hspa is plenty fast IMO.
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Where did you hear that?
TMobile has said time and time again it will be launched next year.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007943
I live by a 1900 MHz tower I should see if it works.
Can't wait! I knew all along that the LTE was working. They just didn't want to get in trouble with FCC but now they are tho! Lol
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Woohoo! This video here shows LTE working on the TELUS network. That's my network!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GXOY9EVZ4vA
Now to get my hands on a Nexus 4...
Please continue the discussion in one of the late threads that already exist
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Today I Watched My Nexus 4 Get Genuinely Confused

So I'm on a road trip, and I brought my N4 (on T-Mobile USA) along for the ride. I decided to stay the night in Savannah, GA. After checking into my hotel, I took my phone out of my pocket and saw something I've never seen before. It was showing a data connection as "3G" rather than the usual "H" for HSPA or "E" for EDGE. I had to do a double take. Curious, I went to Settings-About Phone-Status and checked the network type. It was "UMTS:3". Obviously that means T-Mobile's network refarming has happened here and 1900 MHz UMTS is live.
Here's the thing, though. The radio keeps switching between "3G" and "H" every few seconds, seemingly unable to figure out which one it wants to hold onto. The phone is still usable but I still find it annoying. Of course, the vast majority of T-Mobile phones would never experience this since they hardly ever have support for 1900 MHz, but I'm curious if other N4 owners living in areas where T-Mobile has lit up 1900 MHz UMTS are having this issue as well? In the end, the phone may be usable, but the constant switching is playing hell on my OCD!!
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At least the refarming is done where you're at, I'm still impatiently waiting.
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At least the refarming is done where you're at, I'm still impatiently waiting.
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Yeah but at this rate I'm hoping they either fix this in a Nexus 4 radio update (maybe make it prefer HSPA over UMTS, but I don't know if that would cause problems outside the US), or never light it up in my home market. haha
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I just came from Verizon of 12 years and a gs3. I'm on umts at my home in rural Atlanta ga. It does the same switching as you say. I just thought that was normal gsm behavior .... phone is idle then 3g is active. Phone queries the net (open browser etc...) and H kicks in.
On another note the H speeds here are almost equal to vzw lte, I'm impressed
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oldblue910 said:
Yeah but at this rate I'm hoping they either fix this in a Nexus 4 radio update (maybe make it prefer HSPA over UMTS, but I don't know if that would cause problems outside the US), or never light it up in my home market. haha
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I just noticed you're in Durham, I'm in Winston.
Has the refarm taken effect by you?
My phone does this then pulls the h on demand I am in Detroit metro area. I still pull high download speeds and don't have a problem with the change over. Honestly until I read this post I thought this was normal. Do do a speed test see if it is slower or faster then your use to.
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I Am Marino said:
I just noticed you're in Durham, I'm in Winston.
Has the refarm taken effect by you?
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No it hasn't, and hopefully it won't before there's a radio update to fix it (if they'd even bother fixing it)!
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I have had my N4 for only a couple months, but it has been doing that ever since I got it. I am in the Farmington, MO area too though. I thought it was just normal, as this is the first time I have had a decent phone and be on a plan rather than prepay.
Mine has always behaved like that. My nexus one and gnex too.
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Weird. mine had never done this except here in Savannah. Is anyone else here running stock?
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I'm on all stock and I've never seen the 3G label. I'm out here in Portland, OR, and SLC, UT. I just figured our phones were only capable of G, E, and H labels.
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I find it wierd that you've never seen the 3G label. Normally you camp on 3G (UMTS) and it'll flip to "H" for HSPA+ when data's transferring either up, down, or both. This has been normal over the years, until there were modifications on T-Mobile's side to display 4G all the time for devices that were HSPA+ capable.
I'm stock unrooted
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Mi|enko said:
I find it wierd that you've never seen the 3G label. Normally you camp on 3G (UMTS) and it'll flip to "H" for HSPA+ when data's transferring either up, down, or both. This has been normal over the years, until there were modifications on T-Mobile's side to display 4G all the time for devices that were HSPA+ capable.
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This never happened on my G2 nor my Nexus S. The only way that happened on the Nexus S was when running a custom ROM.
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oldblue910 said:
This never happened on my G2 nor my Nexus S. The only way that happened on the Nexus S was when running a custom ROM.
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GS2, Samsung edited to reflect 4G. Most customers would be perplexed by the constant camping on 3G, then flipping to H (HSPA+ which is branded as T-Mobile 4G), so the just modified their network bits in their OS to reflect 4G all the time. As far as the Nexus S, that's just a 3G device not capable of the HSPA+ bandwidth (it topped out at 7mbps).
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I always have a H when idle and H+ when using the Internet. Never seen 3G label on my N4 till date
Mi|enko said:
GS2, Samsung edited to reflect 4G. Most customers would be perplexed by the constant camping on 3G, then flipping to H (HSPA+ which is branded as T-Mobile 4G), so the just modified their network bits in their OS to reflect 4G all the time. As far as the Nexus S, that's just a 3G device not capable of the HSPA+ bandwidth (it topped out at 7mbps).
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Yeah on the G2, the Froyo ROM showed H all the time, never 3G. For the Gingerbread ROM, though, it was changed to show 2G and 4G.
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I have a note 2 and you probably don't care, but my phone goes from H to 3G then to 4G for some reason in the DMV area. Tmobile too
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I always have a H when idle and H+ when using the Internet. Never seen 3G label on my N4 till date
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Could redact differently based on the carrier and/or cell tower. Here's a conversation from the Galaxy Nexus forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2138601
All in all though, this is pretty well known and documented.
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I have a note 2 and you probably don't care, but my phone goes from H to 3G then to 4G for some reason in the DMV area. Tmobile too
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Sounds like you're running an AOSP rom on your N2. 3G for UMTS, H for HSPA+, and 4G for the LTE. If you were on a stock TMo ROM, it'd be 4G for UMTS and HSPA+, then 4G LTE for LTE.
Important to note is that the status bar icons ate just that. . .icons. You could actually modify these to display whatever you wanted. If I wanted it to say 8G when on LTE, I'd just have to make a custom icon and bake it in. Doesn't mean I actually have an 8G network.
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thats normal behavior, it changes to H when there is data flow. it just depends on the area and the signal/coverage in the area. on a custom rom, i see it change from a H to a H+ all the time(when data is flowing). rarely, i see a 3G.

4G is just aweful

I don't think it's the phones fault.
I live and work in eastern MA where LTE has been rolling out for the last 6 months or so.
As I drive I bounce between 4G and 3G.
When it loses 4G but still good 3G around it takes forever to switch back.
Often it gets stuck in 1x or Data is just hung or broken.
Flipping radio off and on fixes it.
My htc evo 4g lte did the exact same thing.
This behavior also chews up battery.
I have now forced the phone to cdma only and it's way mote stable.
This happens all over, not just one location.
I had to force my htc evo 4g lte to cdma too.
I had weird issues also. I would be right near a 4g tower and kit would take forever to switch over. If you were traveling through the area it may never switch (as it happened a few times). Needless to say, sold my EVO back to Best Buy on the buyback program for $280 and switched to T-Mobile. Best decision ever. Great speed and coverage.
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Meanwhile my lte is great. I think it kinda depends on your market at this point. Also the lte scan value is set to 300 on this phone. I think the evo was set lower, can't remember.
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how did you switch to CDMA?
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how did you switch to CDMA?
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Settings then mobile data and switch LTE/Cdma to Cdma
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It takes my phone a few a little bit to switch when i go into NYC. Long Island does not have 4g yet but every time i go into the city once its switches over it seems stay steady. Just recently switched to Sprint, i had been a Tmobile customer for the last 6 year. As for there "4g" or data in general i never had good data indoors. It didn't really matter if i was in long island or visiting family in Chicopee ma. With sprint I am not running into this issue nearly as often.
Yep, I'm about to return mine and go back to tmobile. With 4 bars of 4g it still cycles between 4g and 3g, horrible. Because 3g is so bad that no internet radio would buffer, so I'd be working out at the gym and after about 2 songs it switches to 3g and no more music till I either cycle the phone, or airplane mode. And even if 4g is connected, rarely is it faster than 4mbps anywhere.
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broken record here. BARS MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in terms of lte strength. The only exception is with an iphone. The bars you see are for 1x/voice not LTE...
It is pretty frusterating with regards to signal, especially compared to the iPhone
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LTE is all over where I live and amazing...
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Lte is still brand new to sprint. And is growing very fast. Here in western Washington they set a schedule of 50 sites for 90 days ending in just about a week and we are right on schedule. My aie just reported that sprint set another schedule for 250 sites in 90 days. More sites means less crowded on the few sites they have now. Faster lte speeds, more stable/reliable and faster connection speeds when traveling. Sprint is converting every site to lte and when that happens, you can all stop your complaining. Currently lte is just a baby to sprint. Tmobile is a joke as a carrier. Sure their hspa+ is fast but don't expect to be ahead of the game once sprint and att finishes their lte rollout this year. And it's good for when you can actually use it lol. I travle all over the states and I've always had the best phones offered by each carrier and I wouldn't wish tmobile on my worst enemy.
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Lte is still brand new to sprint. And is growing very fast. Here in western Washington they set a schedule of 50 sites for 90 days ending in just about a week and we are right on schedule. My aie just reported that sprint set another schedule for 250 sites in 90 days. More sites means less crowded on the few sites they have now. Faster lte speeds, more stable/reliable and faster connection speeds when traveling. Sprint is converting every site to lte and when that happens, you can all stop your complaining. Currently lte is just a baby to sprint. Tmobile is a joke as a carrier. Sure their hspa+ is fast but don't expect to be ahead of the game once sprint and att finishes their lte rollout this year. And it's good for when you can actually use it lol. I travle all over the states and I've always had the best phones offered by each carrier and I wouldn't wish tmobile on my worst enemy.
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Right... Specially when in many cities tmobile tests much better than sprint in just about everything? Sure, their device lineup wasn't the best, but with all the latest devices and the improvements tbeyve made, not to mention metro pcs acquisition...
Point is, go into any crowded city and you have dialup on sprint, even locations that they've already converted to lte are still deeply, T-Mobile will give you Better performance in most cases. Oh, and look st their lte rollout vs sprint, they are doing it way faster and more efficient.
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My area is fine
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My area is fine
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Where you at?
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Suburb of Chicago
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It's good here in the Atlanta area too. :thumbup:
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It's good here in the Atlanta area too. :thumbup:
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Could you post what you get in Atlanta ans where please? I'm moving there in early June and I only have a week to either keep sprint or go back to T-Mobile, I know that tmo works well in the Atlanta area.
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Right... Specially when in many cities tmobile tests much better than sprint in just about everything? Sure, their device lineup wasn't the best, but with all the latest devices and the improvements tbeyve made, not to mention metro pcs acquisition...
Point is, go into any crowded city and you have dialup on sprint, even locations that they've already converted to lte are still deeply, T-Mobile will give you Better performance in most cases. Oh, and look st their lte rollout vs sprint, they are doing it way faster and more efficient.
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Look I'm pissed at Sprint right now but you can not compare the kind of roll out T-mobile is doing to anything of the magnitude that Sprint is doing. The amount of work being done versus the 2 of them are night and day..
But then again Sprint put themselves in the position they are in by being behind the curve..
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Look I'm pissed at Sprint right now but you can not compare the kind of roll out T-mobile is doing to anything of the magnitude that Sprint is doing. The amount of work being done versus the 2 of them are night and day..
But then again Sprint put themselves in the position they are in by being behind the curve..
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At some point, people willstop buying into what sprint says. When wimax was rolling out every rep was told to sell $10 premium data fee as 4g fee, then, they start charging it for even a 3g device. Is the fee unreasonable? No, but the approach sprint took is messed up. Then, they scrap wimax, and I do get why, they had to, it wasn't really good to begin with. So wimax coverage gets smaller and markets end up relying more on already taxed backhaul, equalling in terrible data performance.
I can't tell you how many times they've had towers down with no eta on repairs in Colorado last year, was insane. Network vision does look good in theory, but those upgrades were planned years ago, before every tower was this massively overloaded.
And I agree, sprint is doing a lot to fix their issues, the fact that they plan to have lte on every tower is pretty awesome, definitely better than what T-Mobile will have with only hspa+ areas upgraded. So, if you go to rural areas a lot, then sprint may be the way to go. My problem is the timeline, you can't really have a network that barely gets 200kbps in a major downtown area during the day at this time and age. Their planned upgrades, are way behind schedule, check s4guru is pretty much shows how delayed it is becoming. Yet sprint keeps selling it as ahead of schedule... How?
Even Softbank says that sprint won't have the money to finish network vision unless their deal goes through, not s good sign.
T-Mobile isn't the best by any means, I do like their hspa network, it is fast! Even in dense areas I still maintain consistently high download speeds, regardless of the time of day. And I'm talking downtown Washington, Arlington, Denver, Atlanta, New York, Chicago. Their initial lte launch is covering up areas rather fast, even here in dc they already have s pretty substantial coverage, and it isn't even live yet.
Sprint called their cities live with 15% of sites upgraded, how misleading is that? When a consumer sees that sprint has lte coverage, what is their expectation? To have that service available most of the time... But if only 15-30% of sites are upgraded, is that going to happen? Unlikely
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Could you post what you get in Atlanta ans where please? I'm moving there in early June and I only have a week to either keep sprint or go back to T-Mobile, I know that tmo works well in the Atlanta area.
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Not too shabby. My phone runs 4G about 90% of the time. Speeds vary from about 5mb to about 25mb downloads depending on location. This is all in the Marietta/Kennesaw area.
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Volte For Nexus 6

Is it possible to use volte on jio network in india?
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farhan ansari said:
Is it possible to use volte on jio network in india?
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You have to use the app from the carrier. VOLTE is only for India. No where else uses it. Also it doesnt seem to work on custom roms at all.
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You have to use the app from the carrier. VOLTE is only for India. No where else uses it. Also it doesnt seem to work on custom roms at all.
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I think VoLTE is all over the globe but the bands that the network uses are 3,5,40. which the band 40 is not supported by Nexus 6. Bands supported by Nexus 6 are : 3,5 and 41.
So, VoLTE from the network JIO doesn't seem to work.
Please correct me if i'm wrong. As far as i researched on this, its the reason why jio doesn't work in Nexus 6.
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kvk026 said:
I think VoLTE is all over the globe but the bands that the network uses are 3,5,40. which the band 40 is not supported by Nexus 6. Bands supported by Nexus 6 are : 3,5 and 41.
So, VoLTE from the network JIO doesn't seem to work.
Please correct me if i'm wrong. As far as i researched on this, its the reason why jio doesn't work in Nexus 6.
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No volte is not really. At least not in the states. Lte is still a data only connection and calls still use hsdpa. Mostly due I think to data costs. Which are crazy in the states as to where everything else in unlimited and cheap.
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No volte is not really. At least not in the states. Lte is still a data only connection and calls still use hsdpa. Mostly due I think to data costs. Which are crazy in the states as to where everything else in unlimited and cheap.
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As far as i get the information from googling, T-Mobile and AT&T have VoLTE. I didn't live in United States. Atleast i havent visited yet. More over every LTE connection in india are costly too. Where LTE for data and 3G/hsdpa for voice.
Please let me know if volte isn't available.
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There have been multiple threads regarding Jio and the Nexus 6. The Nexus 6 is not compatible with Jio as shown on their website. This is because neither model has band 40, which is required due to its wider bandwidth. If you just got your Nexus 6, you got the wrong device. Get a Nexus 5X, 6P, Pixel, or Pixel XL, as all of those have band 40.
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As far as i get the information from googling, T-Mobile and AT&T have VoLTE. I didn't live in United States. Atleast i havent visited yet. More over every LTE connection in india are costly too. Where LTE for data and 3G/hsdpa for voice.
Please let me know if volte isn't available.
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It's not. For they they tell you to use any one of the VOIP apps like Skype or something. Which we all know will eat your data limit alive.
Right now I pay $45 a month for unlimited calls, text and 10gb of 4g data and throttled to less then 2g after that.
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It's not. For they they tell you to use any one of the VOIP apps like Skype or something. Which we all know will eat your data limit alive.
Right now I pay $45 a month for unlimited calls, text and 10gb of 4g data and throttled to less then 2g after that.
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That's really high for 10gb and unlimited voice calls.
In india, i pay nearly 600₹(<10$) for unlimited calls and 3Gb of 4G data, 100sms per day, wynk (music) subscription and wynk movies subscription.
ISP: Airtel
Plan : 549 unlimited
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The US has some of the highest rates in the world. Arguably, Canada is worse.
kvk026 said:
That's really high for 10gb and unlimited voice calls.
In india, i pay nearly 600₹(<10$) for unlimited calls and 3Gb of 4G data, 100sms per day, wynk (music) subscription and wynk movies subscription.
ISP: Airtel
Plan : 549 unlimited
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Kinda but not really. I work 2 hours a month and that pays for it. I seldom go over.
I keep all my movies and music on device or on a 128gb otg drive
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That's really high for 10gb and unlimited voice calls.
In india, i pay nearly 600₹(<10$) for unlimited calls and 3Gb of 4G data, 100sms per day, wynk (music) subscription and wynk movies subscription.
ISP: Airtel
Plan : 549 unlimited
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600Rs for 3gb 4G data for just a month?
How much it lasts? A day?
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600Rs for 3gb 4G data for just a month?
How much it lasts? A day?
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I actually use my WiFi at home and work which is 50mbps. So i don't need mobile data that much
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If it's not unlimited,it's not for me.
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If it's not unlimited,it's not for me.
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Ofcourse you will get 2G as unlimited after the quota of 3GB
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I actually use my WiFi at home and work which is 50mbps. So i don't need mobile data that much
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Why don't you use jio? Doesn't it work with i-****s(oops sorry,iPhones) ?
As you don't use data much, the upcoming 303 plan of jio would clearly be a better choice over airtel.
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Ofcourse you will get 2G as unlimited after the quota of 3GB
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Lol...even tapatalk doesn't work perfectly on a 2G network.Hell even the 2G of idea is better than Airtel.
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Why don't you use jio? Doesn't it work with i-****s(oops sorry,iPhones) ?
As you don't use data much, the upcoming 303 plan of jio would clearly be a better choice over airtel.
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I'm currently using Jio as well as Airtel.
Jio works perfectly with iPhone as i tested with my iPhone 7 plus.
Since its not a dual sim and i use jio with a bunch of smart phones i have. Please note that jio signals are very weak in my area and the data speeds are really low and there is no chance for incomming calls.
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I'm currently using Jio as well as Airtel.
Jio works perfectly with iPhone as i tested with my iPhone 7 plus.
Since its not a dual sim and i use jio with a bunch of smart phones i have. Please note that jio signals are very weak in my area and the data speeds are really low and there is no chance for incomming calls.View attachment 4061516
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Which device is this?
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Mr.Ak said:
Which device is this?
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Its OnePlus 3
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Its OnePlus 3
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Kewl! Oneplus3 and iPhone.. You must be rich.
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