I've had this issues since I got my S5. TMO only gives me 4Glte and 4G, 2G. No 3G.. I only get 3G on custom ROMS like BlissPop 5.0. Any resolutions?
zachyzach4 said:
I've had this issues since I got my S5. TMO only gives me 4Glte and 4G, 2G. No 3G.. I only get 3G on custom ROMS like BlissPop 5.0. Any resolutions?
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Why would you want 3G?
Having 4GLTE or 4G is a good thing..
LolVersatile said:
Why would you want 3G?
Having 4GLTE or 4G is a good thing..
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Not when I only get 1 bar of it and full 3G bars from what i've experience on custom ROMS.
I dont think there is even icon for 3G in factory tmobile room. 3G and 4G pretty much fell under 4G. If you want to limit yourself to 3G only you may have to research some other forums with 3G tmobile phones and find older apn setting. They should work with S5 just with limited bands. I remember from my Note 2 days that for a while older apn (4G) worked much faster than newer fast.tmobile lte apn.
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Tmobile does have 3g. What happens is during inactivity the connection falls back to 3g to save battery, and transfer very small amounts of data. When demand calls the connection than hops over to Hspa. Tmobile does this transparently to the end user on most devices. This is what they call there 4g network.
If you use international roms, you'll see the indicator change between 3g and H all the time. Same with the nexus line of phones.
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i am traveling through Europe right now with a roaming data plan, but i am only getting 2g edge or even worse GPRS whenever 4g is unavailable (which is most of the time). I never get 3g. If I put my SIM in my old AT&T Tilt 2 I get on 3g just fine. Does the Amaze support 3g and how do I enable that?
The 4g is technically just really fast 3g.
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you have to see what kind of towers are where you are, the Amaze supports the 3G 850,1900,AWS and 2100 bands IIRC, could be missing the one band that your tilt has and that the nearest tower puts out
On the energy rom 3g is shown with a 4G symbol. I don't know if it's the same way with other roms. A good way to check this out is to head to the icon changer in rom toolbox and see what your 3g symbol is.
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i am using the bulletproof ROM.. how do i change the band so i can get the proper 3g signals?
I'm going to switch to Tmo monthly 4G plan...
I know I9300 has no 4G but I would like to know whether it will be working?
Is it gonna automatically change to H+ or HSPA+ (something like that) or recieve no signals at all?
Thanks a lot.
It will move to HSPA when you do so if selected in settings. Most operators allow 4g users to switch back to 3g or 2g networks. Internet speed will be according to 3g coverage. But you should confirm that by calling the customer service.
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Nah just kidding your speed will drop down to H+ nothing more.
yimzz said:
I'm going to switch to Tmo monthly 4G plan...
I know I9300 has no 4G but I would like to know whether it will be working?
Is it gonna automatically change to H+ or HSPA+ (something like that) or recieve no signals at all?
Thanks a lot.
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Are you talking T-Mobile USA or in Europe? If you mean T-Mobile USA, you will only get EDGE (2G) data service.
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u just wont get the LTE speeds, but it should work
This is my first time having a 4G T-Mobile device. I managed to turn off the 4g, but is there an option to use 3G on these phones? Are 2G and HSPA+(besides wifi)the only options we have?
Juanito216 said:
This is my first time having a 4G T-Mobile device. I managed to turn off the 4g, but is there an option to use 3G on these phones? Are 2G and HSPA+(besides wifi) are the only options we have?
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L9 is not 4G (LTE) device. It seems T-Mobile is giving marginally faster 3G (HSDPA) and calling it as 4G (LTE). L9 does not have LTE hardware at all. Check manual by LG, they never call it 4G device. Seems T-Mobile is trolling with its customers since long time with this term though their speed is good.
I never thought it had LTE. From trying a speed test, the speed was comparable to Sprint wimax. I still call it 4G even if it's not "true 4g". Thanks for the clarification, that's understandable.
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The sad truth is Sprint's wimax and the currently deployed LTE iterations aren't 4G either. T-Mobile's LTE rel. 10 will be 4G.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G
Ok, so I am a little new to this because I am coming from Sprint, where I was able to choose 2g, 3G, and 4g but since I have just switched to AT&T the only options I am finding in the network settings are GSM which gives me what appears to be 2g. When I choose wcdma but that gives me 4g, and then LTE. Is there something I am missing when it comes to the network choice that will give me 3G?
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Ok, so I am a little new to this because I am coming from Sprint, where I was able to choose 2g, 3G, and 4g but since I have just switched to AT&T the only options I am finding in the network settings are GSM which gives me what appears to be 2g. When I choose wcdma but that gives me 4g, and then LTE. Is there something I am missing when it comes to the network choice that will give me 3G?
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4G = 3G for AT&T. AT&T (as do other carriers) consider their HSPA+ network to be "4G" when in fact really it is still 3G
nest75068 said:
4G = 3G for AT&T. AT&T (as do other carriers) consider their HSPA+ network to be "4G" when in fact really it is still 3G
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Oh wow, thank you so much! That clears things up for me. Thanks!
I have two Samsung S5's on T-Mobile. One is stock but rooted (only shows 4G) & the other is pure stock and works as expected. Any thoughts? Considering flashing it back to stock and see what happens
Settings -> About -> Status
Mobile Network Type.
Does it say LTE on both?
check service menu
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Mobile Network Type =UMTS for the rooted phone, LTE for the stock. Ok I got in to service mode, what should I do from there?
On our galaxy S5 the 4G alone is really 3G, the LTE is really 4G speeds. T-mobile had the speed reporting configured this way on our devices. I did a comparison over the weekend, my phone was running CM11 and my wife was running stock. Mine would show either H+ or H (3G GSM) while hers showed 4G.
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On our galaxy S5 the 4G alone is really 3G, the LTE is really 4G speeds. T-mobile had the speed reporting configured this way on our devices. I did a comparison over the weekend, my phone was running CM11 and my wife was running stock. Mine would show either H+ or H (3G GSM) while hers showed 4G.
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I have noticed that while in 4G the speeds were remarkably similar to 3G, I thought it was just My phone acting like that....