Hey,
Has anyone figured out how to set the band priorities on the phone, ##DATA# used to take you to LTE settings where you can choose the enable the LTE bands and set the scanning priority.
Also has anyone figured out how to shut off Band 25 but still use the other LTE bands?
Thanks
I wouldn't mind setting mine. I notice band 26 lit up yesterday it must have been from a further away tower. My phone wouldn't hold an LTE signal kept jumping on & off. Band 25 didn't have this issue with. My home tower they have been working on since last July but until everything is working correctly (it seems like it will be never) would be nice to have control of this.
I have looked in all the EPST screens I could think of and can't find it. I was actually hoping for the opposite, to disable 800 and 2600 since they don't exist here yet.
uh60james said:
I have looked in all the EPST screens I could think of and can't find it. I was actually hoping for the opposite, to disable 800 and 2600 since they don't exist here yet.
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Yes that is weird, because they existed in both the LG G2, Samsung S5, S4, Note 3, Nexus 5, maybe it is hidden somewhere else.
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I'm planning on getting a Meizu Mx4 Pro to play around with but it only supports the 1900mhz band for 3G. I am on T-mobile and only the refarmed areas use the 1900mhz band. Is there a way to test with my Nexus 6 via some app or settings whether my area is using the 1900mhz band? I also read somewhere that if you get T-mobile LTE you are in a refarmed area as the 1700mhz AWS band is being used for LTE instead of 3G and the 1900mhz has been refarmed there for 3G instead, although I am taking the statement with a grain of salt for now.
Search for app called LTE discovery
obsanity said:
Search for app called LTE discovery
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I think that will tell you what frequency you are on, but not allow you to set a specific frequency. To my knowledge there is no way to do that on the Nexus 6 yet. Could be wrong?
The data service menu is missing on this phone.
You can get into the Field Test Settings, but I highly recommend not jacking with anything....I went in there for a look see, and when I backed out I was somehow in GSM mode and could NOT get back to CDMA until I did a complete nuke and repave of the Google Factory images to get back the CDMA network.
YMMV...but be warned
crowbarman said:
I think that will tell you what frequency you are on, but not allow you to set a specific frequency. To my knowledge there is no way to do that on the Nexus 6 yet. Could be wrong?
The data service menu is missing on this phone.
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I believe op wanted to see what bands his phone/provider is using. LTE discovery shows what bands you are connected to.
obsanity said:
I believe op wanted to see what bands his phone/provider is using. LTE discovery shows what bands you are connected to.
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If multiple bands are available in an area, LTE Discovery will not show you the additional bands, only the one you are using. You'd need to use a service screen to manually set your phone to a specific band, which is not possible currently. Maybe OP can chime in with more detail.
crowbarman said:
If multiple bands are available in an area, LTE Discovery will not show you the additional bands, only the one you are using. You'd need to use a service screen to manually set your phone to a specific band, which is not possible currently. Maybe OP can chime in with more detail.
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I don't think we need further explanation from the op. It seems clear to me that he is trying to see whether his area has been re-farmed to band 2 1900mhz or has been left at the usual band 4 1700mhz.
Using LTE discovery will show him what band he is connected to on his phone. If it will be band 4, than his new phone he is trying to get will not have LTE. Although sometimes both bands are available so in that case he would have to have the ability to switch.
Switching bands is possible through phone info screen accessible using an activity launcher of some sort. Once you're in phone info , hit menu and select radio band. But I don't think that's what he initially was looking for.
obsanity said:
I don't think we need further explanation from the op. It seems clear to me that he is trying to see whether his area has been re-farmed to band 2 1900mhz or has been left at the usual band 4 1700mhz.
Using LTE discovery will show him what band he is connected to on his phone. If it will be band 4, than his new phone he is trying to get will not have LTE. Although sometimes both bands are available so in that case he would have to have the ability to switch.
Switching bands is possible through phone info screen accessible using an activity launcher of some sort. Once you're in phone info , hit menu and select radio band. But I don't think that's what he initially was looking for.
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Perhaps, but there is no known phone accessible screen found on the Nexus 6 that allows band selection. Some have used this to determine whether certain bands are starting to be rolled out in various areas.
Edit: I'll qualify that the menu exists but does not allow a selection of all LTE bands. I can only select US, 6 or 7 on my phone.
crowbarman said:
Perhaps, but there is no known phone accessible screen found on the Nexus 6 that allows band selection. Some have used this to determine whether certain bands are starting to be rolled out in various areas.
Edit: I'll qualify that the menu exists but does not allow a selection of all LTE bands. I can only select US, 6 or 7 on my phone.
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Thats interesting, on mine under the Filed Test Menu's I had Base 10 and maybe others I dont recall.
cmh714 said:
Thats interesting, on mine under the Filed Test Menu's I had Base 10 and maybe others I dont recall.
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Any detail steps to go into field test menu?
Azlun said:
Any detail steps to go into field test menu?
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*#*#4636#*#*
cmh714 said:
*#*#4636#*#*
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thank you for your reply, but I think 4636 is not for field test, info inside is too less.
cmh714 said:
You can get into the Field Test Settings, but I highly recommend not jacking with anything....I went in there for a look see, and when I backed out I was somehow in GSM mode and could NOT get back to CDMA until I did a complete nuke and repave of the Google Factory images to get back the CDMA network.
YMMV...but be warned
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please all not this warning，never use 4636 three dots options menu to select anything it is dangerous to make you lost all signals... Can can search my post in other thread how to write nv6828 value to control LTE bands.
Another side, for OP, to view LTE bands, LTE discovery 3.19 support the real hidden field test menu in as LTE Engineering beta menu. Keyword in below post: @201504
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59132197
I use RIngPlus for service which is a Sprint MNVO. Im running into a problem where I cant get 4g / LTE working on my One M7 I bought used. Ive had an LG Volt, S3, and a Sharp Aquos phone and all had no issue connecting and had decent speeds. In areas where I got full LTE speeds with the other phones, this one seems to be stuck on 3g. The one exception is driving down the interstate the phone will switch to one bar of 4g briefly but quickly drops back down to 3g.
Ive been tinkering around with the phone changing roms around and went into the ##DATA# menu and found that LTE band 25 is enabled and 26 and 41 are disabled. Would this be whats causing my issue? I tried editing it by entering my MSL, but for some reason theres no option to edit those lines and enable them.
Anyone know if I can enable those bands and if thats what the issue may be?
Thanks!
Is there anyway to force LTE band change between bands 13 and 4? At home, I have one bar on band 4, but get 60 dl, and 30 up. However, on band 13 I'll get full bars and get 30 dl, 15 up. I don't use my data at home as I am always on wifi, so this cell standby battery drain is murder. If I reset my data connection it will connect to band 13 initially, but it will then change to band 4. Switching my carrier is not an option as T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T get equally crap reception and I'm still under contract with Verizon which ends in October. Maybe then I might think about switching to project fi.
I've seen other threads on disabling certain bands, but those bands are only used by T-Mobile and Sprint, so they are of no use to me. Any ideas?
There is a thread about 4G/LTE.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55635555/
Further search the play store for 4g switching apps.
NLBeev said:
There is a thread about 4G/LTE.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55635555/
Further search the play store for 4g switching apps.
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I've seen that thread but it doesn't say anything about removing or blocking certain bands. As for the 4g switcher apps they only have he ability to change LTE modes via CDMA or GSM
The last idea, in case you use a Nexus 6.
There is thread with flashable radio's.
Maybe you can find an older radio that doesn't have the bands you don't want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59728002/
NLBeev said:
The last idea, in case you use a Nexus 6.
There is thread with flashable radio's.
Maybe you can find an older radio that doesn't have the bands you don't want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59728002/
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Yeah, i tried flashing the oldest radio listed and it's still a no go, band 4 still seems to be enabled. :/
aroy97 said:
Yeah, i tried flashing the oldest radio listed and it's still a no go, band 4 still seems to be enabled. :/
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No more ideas; think it is not possible to disable band 4, without hacking/patching the radio image.
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No more ideas; think it is not possible to disable band 4, without hacking/patching the radio image.
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For now I have my connection as 2g whenever I'm on wifi so that should fix the cell standby for now.
aroy97 said:
For now I have my connection as 2g whenever I'm on wifi so that should fix the cell standby for now.
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I have the same because here in the Netherlands we have the so called 4G. But when I am home (inside) there is bad connection. Phone calls are disconnected frequently.
With 2G very good reception at home.
On the road I switch to 4G when I need internet.
I use an app to quickly switch 2G-4G.
It's a rather old app of CurveFish and is in the play store - 2G 3G -
I have exact same problem but problem of speed.
There are 3 lte bands 850mhz,1800mhz and 2300 mhz.
2300 mhz has highest speed which i want my redmi note 3 to run on only but in my home it only switches between 850 mhz and 1800 mhz.
Searched a lot but not able to find any guide which allows to lock the frequency to 2300 mhz band only. The signal bar is also 3-4 on 2300 mhz still it connects to 850 and 1800 mhz most of the time unless i am in open area outside house then it switches to 2300mhz band.
Use QXDM
aroy97 said:
Is there anyway to force LTE band change between bands 13 and 4? At home, I have one bar on band 4, but get 60 dl, and 30 up. However, on band 13 I'll get full bars and get 30 dl, 15 up. I don't use my data at home as I am always on wifi, so this cell standby battery drain is murder. If I reset my data connection it will connect to band 13 initially, but it will then change to band 4. Switching my carrier is not an option as T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T get equally crap reception and I'm still under contract with Verizon which ends in October. Maybe then I might think about switching to project fi.
I've seen other threads on disabling certain bands, but those bands are only used by T-Mobile and Sprint, so they are of no use to me. Any ideas?
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Hi - not sure if this is still a topic of interest, but you can use QXDM software to achieve this - you just need to change NV line 6828 to be "4096" decimal value. On the Nexus 6, this is a fairly easy process as you just need to boot to bootloader and select "BP Tools" as your boot-up option and then the phone will be in diagnostic mode to connect to a PC. There's info out there on XDA with more detail, but as long as you can successfully install the Motorola/Qualcomm drivers you can fairly easily restrict LTE bands to whatever combination you'd like.
Be aware - some say this is a risky operation but I've not found that to be the case. But there is a chance of messing up your device if you're not careful.
Take a look at the "NV Calculator" app in the Play Store for additional info on determining decimal values for the LTE bands (you might want to keep band 2, for instance, as Verizon uses that sometimes as well).
Here's more info on this on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/how-to-add-rf-lte-frequency-bands-to-t2886059
Good luck!
I have a Verizon S8 that I flashed with the XAC firmware and so I'm at XAA/VZW/VZW after enabling all bands. However, even though the entire bay area should be blanketed under band 12, I have not once connected to band 12. I'm always on band 4. Has anyone with a original Tmo S8 ever connected to band 12 in the SF bay area? You can check using LTE Discovery or SignalCheck apps from the Play store. The whole reason for me to go through the trouble of flashing the non-VZW firmware was to ensure I would be able to access band 12 but doesn't seem like that worked.
I'm sitting at home on my T-Mo S8 in the SF Bay Area and I'm on Band 4. I'll check at work tomorrow morning and let you know.
If you don't have connectivity issues, it shouldn't go to band 12. As band 12 is a lower frequency and cannot carry as much bandwidth. From what I've researched previously, the phone will only take a band 12 signal if there are no other bands with a stable signal in the area as tmobile got it for the sole purpose of distance and wall penetration achieved at 700mhz to say they have a larger LTE coverage map.
. Also this from experience as my house only gets band 2 outside and when I come inside it switches to band 12. And with the lte booster connected, it uses the outside band 2.
Unless you are saying that your phone goes to no service instead of to band 12, then i have no answer
Dail *#0011# in your phone to see if band 12 is being aggregated with band 4.
If you want to see if band 12 works you could dial *#2263# and select only band 12 to work.
esjames said:
Dail *#0011# in your phone to see if band 12 is being aggregated with band 4.
If you want to see if band 12 works you could dial *#2263# and select only band 12 to work.
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after we select band 12 only or any other band of our choices, how do u apply the new setting ? i click on back and entered 0011 and noticed im still on band 4 ? then i went back to 2263 and noticed all the lte band are still selected with *
oohoy said:
after we select band 12 only or any other band of our choices, how do u apply the new setting ? i click on back and entered 0011 and noticed im still on band 4 ? then i went back to 2263 and noticed all the lte band are still selected with *
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You have to select "Apply band configuration" after you selected the ones you want or they wont take effect.
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You have to select "Apply band configuration" after you selected the ones you want or they wont take effect.
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got cha. gotta hit back to previous screen where i previous selected lte band, but press option 7 to apply setting. lol. still new at this but it works. although band 12 is just as slow as band 4 at home. i get faster speed with band 2, however, lte discover still shows band 4 even though im actually on band 2.
tks again
oohoy said:
got cha. gotta hit back to previous screen where i previous selected lte band, but press option 7 to apply setting. lol. still new at this but it works. although band 12 is just as slow as band 4 at home. i get faster speed with band 2, however, lte discover still shows band 4 even though im actually on band 2.
tks again
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No prob!
I used LTE discovery before and it always told me i was on band 4 when it wasn't in my area, only 2/12.
esjames said:
No prob!
I used LTE discovery before and it always told me i was on band 4 when it wasn't in my area, only 2/12.
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never got to try the service modes since i been using verizon brand phones on tmobile , lol. it makes so much sense to use tmobile brand samsung phone on tmobile network.
anyway now i can wait patiently on the root. no need to get network signal guru now to change lte bands since that app requires root
Thanks all. I bought the Verizon version cuz it's unlocked and it was the cheapest at Best buy. Plus it would be a hand me down for my bro who's on Verizon service when I upgrade lol I always thought band 12 was the godsend for Tmo. I did not know it was just a fall back band. I did notice today at work I was occasionally connected to band 12 but would almost immediately reconnect to 4 whenever I checked. Either signalcheck app was wrong or it really only uses 12 for a back up if nothing else is available.
Just a question. I had the S8+ S9+ and the Note 9 and seems like all the Samsung phones have terrible capabilities of keeping a signal in bad areas. We own property use mainly for long range shooting in FL and it's hit or miss getting a signal. Wonder if the S10 is any better? I don't think so but wanted to ask.
We switch to the Moto's Hers Z3 MIne Z4... and Motorola is the best same area up at property no issues at all. So proof that sammy radios suck.
FYI we are on Verizon.
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I have 3 towers, all 2 miles each away from my house, and I sit on 1 bar, if I'm lucky....it sucks.also on Verizon. Have an s10.
Just want to share how I solved this or similar problem in Malaysia. I find S10 sucks at band switching, I can literally see my 4G bars jumping from 1 bar to 4 bars then 1 bar and so ford , you get what i mean. This phenomenon is more significant when the phone is hold landscape or some of us called it "the death grip". Basically what the bars jumping means is the S10 is trying to switch to a "what it thinks more reliable band".
well, here come the good after all the bads, you can fix the problem by fixing the band, preventing it from keep switching like crazy. Luckily for me, my carrier provider use band 3,7,8 for 4G. i believe band 3 is 1800 MHz, 7 is 2500 MHz, 8 is 900 MHz. if you know physics, lower frequency can penetrate walls better, so I fixed my s10 to band 8. Oh ya, 900 MHz may benefits gaming latency as well, although lower down link.
Now my S10 have constant 4 bars in my living area. But beware, not all places have the same strength for all band, you need to find out your self for your carrier. This is how you can do this trick:
Go to Phone App -> Dial *#2263# -> Stack 1/2 (number of SIM) -> Band Selection -> LTE -> Band of your choice.
One nice thing about S10 is you can fix 4G band without disabling 2G/3G, which is super nice when you go to non-4G area. You can always revert to default by selecting Band Selection -> Automatic -> Preferred bands
Hope this helps.
JoFury said:
Just want to share how I solved this or similar problem in Malaysia. I find S10 sucks at band switching, I can literally see my 4G bars jumping from 1 bar to 4 bars then 1 bar and so ford , you get what i mean. This phenomenon is more significant when the phone is hold landscape or some of us called it "the death grip". Basically what the bars jumping means is the S10 is trying to switch to a "what it thinks more reliable band".
well, here come the good after all the bads, you can fix the problem by fixing the band, preventing it from keep switching like crazy. Luckily for me, my carrier provider use band 3,7,8 for 4G. i believe band 3 is 1800 MHz, 7 is 2500 MHz, 8 is 900 MHz. if you know physics, lower frequency can penetrate walls better, so I fixed my s10 to band 8. Oh ya, 900 MHz may benefits gaming latency as well, although lower down link.
Now my S10 have constant 4 bars in my living area. But beware, not all places have the same strength for all band, you need to find out your self for your carrier. This is how you can do this trick:
Go to Phone App -> Dial *#2263# -> Stack 1/2 (number of SIM) -> Band Selection -> LTE -> Band of your choice.
One nice thing about S10 is you can fix 4G band without disabling 2G/3G, which is super nice when you go to non-4G area. You can always revert to default by selecting Band Selection -> Automatic -> Preferred bands
Hope this helps.
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That service code isn't supported on many phones.
Tel864 said:
That service code isn't supported on many phones.
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I see, for what I can tell My model number is SM-G973F/DS