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I bought a note 5 from a friend of my dad's. The phone was originally from T mobile. I am with virgin mobile in Canada.
I get service when I am at home, but not if I leave the city and go to my boyfriend's, for example.
His Sim card with Rogers does not work in my phone.
I have had service before at his house with my s7.
Virgin thinks the phone wasn't unlocked properly. A Samsung service center thinks the phone, being American, is not picking up the frequency correctly when I leave the city due to the towers near my boyfriends place being outdated.
Any ideas?
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Hi all - I plan to use an unlocked bell i9000m on the att network. so i chatted with att tech support to make sure that my account was set up in a way to handle an unlocked phone.
We got into the following exchange about '3G markers'
Joe Goodson: Also, as that's an unlocked phone it won't get the 3G markers either. *Only AT&T 3G phones get those.
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me : what does it mean 'does not get 3g markers'
Joe Goodson: The system provisions every 3G phone with certain flags. And that basically means if things get busy on the local towers the system will only allow AT&T phones to access 3G. Unlocked phones will be pushed down to 2G only.
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me: is there any way to getthe markers on unlocked phones ?
Joe Goodson: Only if you have an AT&T 3G phone. *Once we update the device type the system adds the markers in.
So my question is: is anybody using imported bell samsung galaxy in VERY BUSY att coverage (ie San Francisco) and can report about this 'get dropped down to 2G if you do not have the att 3g markers' business? is this somehitng that i should worry about if i plan on using the phone in commonly considered crowded markets?
thanks and cheers!
there are several guys here in XDA using the Bell model on AT&T
but i do not know if they are in a busy area or not, perhaps they can comment on this
I do know they all like the fact that the 3G on the Bell model works great and they don't get tracked, as the model can not be identified on the network.
basically they will never get over the monthly quota if they had a small data plan
thanks allgamer!
anyone with a bell i9000M on at&t wants to chime in ?
dont know what a busy area is.. works fine in boston... or along the i93 corridor.
thanks for the update on boston. can anyone from the bay area (san francisco in particular) with an unlocked phone on at&t comment? i would really like to use the bell version on at&t but am afraid that i would be constantly dropped to 2g speeds (see comments of att tech rep) in notoriously overwhelmed att sf market...
anyone can confirm or refute the story of the att tech guy?
Is there anyway for me to disable all connections unless its with att? Like eventhough there's roger near by for my cell to never connect not even voice. Would rather have the faintest att signal as I'm going to Niagara
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Odd's are the phone will grab a canadian cell tower, turn on airplane mode and only use wifi.
It will eventually grab a canadian tower, even if you are on the US side. It has happened to me along the canadian and mexican border, although still in the US. What's worse, is that AT&T will not want to take those charges off. If you are gonna be there long, get a canadian pre paid sim, unlock your phone and use that.
Alright. Airplane mode it is then
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I work along the Mexico border as a Border Patrol Agent and can't get my Note 3 (nor my Note 2 when I had it) to stop picking up the mexico roaming, although I do have decent or great Verizon service in the area. I can only disable the data roaming, not the voice roaming. Is there a way with my rooted phone to force it to not be able to pick up Mexico roaming at all? I'd rather have no service at all than Mexico roaming. PLEASE HELP!!!! I'm about to sell my unlimited data plan with Verizon to go to t-mobile so I don't have this damn problem anymore.
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I work along the Mexico border as a Border Patrol Agent and can't get my Note 3 (nor my Note 2 when I had it) to stop picking up the mexico roaming, although I do have decent or great Verizon service in the area. I can only disable the data roaming, not the voice roaming. Is there a way with my rooted phone to force it to not be able to pick up Mexico roaming at all? I'd rather have no service at all than Mexico roaming. PLEASE HELP!!!! I'm about to sell my unlimited data plan with Verizon to go to t-mobile so I don't have this damn problem anymore.
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That's something you gotta see with your carrier. I'd suggest you give them a call.
Now on to the region lock madness, kind of. If a NegriElectronics T-Mobile variant is purchased it's supposed to be SIM unlocked already. Lets assume I or someone gets it and it is not. The easy fix for this is to use cellunlocker.net as others have to unlock the device. Does the N3 still have to use a North American SIM first before using another country's SIM? I ask because I've been contemplating on buying the device from Negri but I'm working in Afghanistan and using a local SIM for cellular and data services at my hip on my unlocked N2. When I'm home I stick my ATT SIM in with no problems but I only get HSPA + since I have the Exynos processor GT-N7100, which I have been more than satisfied with, only until I used my wife's S3 from ATT on LTE, then I was blown away. I've also contemplated getting the GT-N9005 International variant but then I would only get HSPA+ just as I do with my N2 now when I'm home. I don't like that US carriers change the interface which leans me towards the N9005 because it won't have any of the carrier bloat ware but the almost downside is that I would get only HSPA+ speeds, which aren't that bad compared to the connectivity I'm used to getting here Afghanistan on the local carrier known as AWCC which is getting EDGE.
Does the N3 still have to use a North American SIM first before using another country's SIM?
Is anyone using the GT-N9005 International on ATT? If so, how are your speeds, any issues?
-Typically it shouldn't be any issues as I've used my N2 with ATT for the last year from time to time by plugging in the APN correctly. Last time I was home I had to get a new SIM card and the APN settings were automatically set through the SIM card so even easier, just plug n play.
Thanks in advance for any assistance. I just want to make sure I get the right device. I'm so anxious to get my hands on this thing!!!!
Hello everyone!
I just bought an att samsung galaxy s6 and had it unlocked. I currently have straight talk service and it is completely horrible! The coverage map shows excellent service in my area. My friends have straight talk service and their phones have awesome service and blazing fast 4g lte speeds. My friends have branded straight talk phones (like galaxy s3 etc). My att S6 is horrible though.
Im sitting beside my friend right now. He has straight talk branded galaxy s3. Both his phone and my phone are both GSM sim phones using the same band and towers. We both installed speedtest app and used the exact same test server. He would go first and I would go when his speed test was finished. My friend got like 35 mbits down and 17 mbits up. I got 1 mbit down and 0.76 mbit up.
I have called tech support about 20 times trying to figure out why my phone is so slow but nobody can figure it out. I have heard ever excuse from my phone needs factory data reset to my phone uses different towers than my friends phones (which one has an unlocked att s4 phone).
Does anyone know why my phone is so slow and my friends phones are blazing fast? Any help is appreciated.
Oh, btw... my phone and my friends phones have exact same apn setting etc.
StraighTalk have 2 different Sim Card, one for the T-Mobile phone and one for the AT&T version, make sure you got the AT&T version, cause if you have the T-Mobile one, the reception is horrible. That happed to me and I order a new AT&T version Sim card from them and that solve the problem.
I do have the att sim card in my phone. I bought the byop kit and it has the tmobile sum still in the package. Tech support also says I have the correct sim and everything is provisioned correctly on their end. I've verified my sim card number with about 4 different techs.
I bought a really nice N920T off Craigslist. I check the IMEI to make sure it passed and I brought it home, "rom'd" it up with khongloi and inserted my Ting Mobile Sim. When I got to Ting they told me my phone wasn't compatible with their network. I couldn't understand this since they re-sale TMobile. The guy told me the frequency wasn't a TMobile frequency ..or anyones known frequency for that matter. There has GOT to be a way I can fix this, just short of buying another main board. HELP.