Hey guys could my sim card affect my speeds on att's data network? I have a sim i got about a year ago on a 3g phone, should i go get a new one?
And also, if i pop my sim into an old phone such as a razr and start a basic phone data unlimited pla., and then pop it back into my inapire, would it work at the same speed?
Please help, and please ask if you dobt understand anything!
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invalidefexx187 said:
Hey guys could my sim card affect my speeds on att's data network? I have a sim i got about a year ago on a 3g phone, should i go get a new one?
And also, if i pop my sim into an old phone such as a razr and start a basic phone data unlimited pla., and then pop it back into my inapire, would it work at the same speed?
Please help, and please ask if you dobt understand anything!
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At&t told me I needed a new sims 4g sims
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yokozuna82 said:
At&t told me I needed a new sims 4g sims
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AT&T lied.
I hear that there are 4g sims, but speeds don't seem to be effected by swapping.
The 4G sim card is only for LTE wince HSPA still uses 3G or 3.5G a new sim card will make no difference.
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you dont really need a new sim. i am using my sim card from 2006 and i get 3-4Mbps download and 2Mbps upload on the ATT network. sim card really doesnt play into it from what i can tell.
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you dont really need a new sim. i am using my sim card from 2006 and i get 3-4Mbps download and 2Mbps upload on the ATT network. sim card really doesnt play into it from what i can tell.
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agreed, teh rep on teh phone told me it was completely pointless to activate the new sim...
Just got the new sim and did not change my speeds.
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Okay, well what about the plans guys!?
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I was looking to buy the inspire unlocked from bestbuy. I already have the old data plan 15$ unlimited (grandfathered) + unlimited family messaging. If I pop my sim into the phone will ATT charge me for using an inspire? Even if my rom is changed and my sim card is the old 3g one not the 4g? Thanks
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Really? I am using an unlocked european Desire hd right now and they haven't said anything. But it only gets edge. Does that matter?
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Really? I am using an unlocked european Desire hd right now and they haven't said anything. But it only gets edge. Does that matter?
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If you can get ahold of an unlocked Telus DHD you can get away with the data plan you currently have.
If you use the Inspire you will get caught since they have record of the IMEI numbers.
They didn't give me a 4g sim card,its still the same 3g card.
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leemoss84 said:
They didn't give me a 4g sim card,its still the same 3g card.
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The 4G SIM is for the upcoming LTE, all current phones use the standard 3G SIM.
I bought mine off contract and I got to keep my 20$ unlimited plan they just had to switch me to the hspa unlimited. At the worst you should only have to pay five dollars more a month.
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been using my phone for a few months now...but suddently this evening... I lost my 4g and only connects to my t-mobile via 2g. I try going to the settings....and when I select the WCDMA/GSM auto mode...I lose service (no bars)...but when I set to GSM only (2g), then I get good 2g signal....
Any thoughts?
I tried hard reset...nothing working
I have the same issue. True calling T-Mobile, they sent me a new sum card for free.
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gtny930 said:
I have the same issue. True calling T-Mobile, they sent me a new sum card for free.
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is the sim the problem?
Maybe you went over your data cap and got throttled down to 2G?
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Maybe you went over your data cap and got throttled down to 2G?
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I check my usage.. I'm only at 105mb...my cap is 2GB with 2g after the 2gb
Tmobile is most likely having network issues where u are. Try doing a battery pull and sim card pull. Wait 2 mins then put both back in. if that fails its a network issue.
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Yeah, I had that happen when I first got the phone. It turned out to be something funky going on with my account on the corporate level. So that makes me think it's not the phone and you're due for a call with Big Magenta.
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I thought it was big pink.
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So I called T-moblie
They said they will send someone out by wednesday to take a look at what's wrong with the signal...i'm like????
no internet for 5 days?
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So I called T-moblie
They said they will send someone out by wednesday to take a look at what's wrong with the signal...i'm like????
no internet for 5 days?
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That's BS. Bring it to a T-Mobile store.
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Just have the store put a sim card in and see if that clears up the problem.
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its a good idea to just have an extra SIM in your desk in case you need to swap it out.
Update radios?
A sales rep at Tmobile told me something about updating the radios
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A sales rep at Tmobile told me something about updating the radios
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Try a different T-Mo SIM first to be sure. There are RUU's out there, just easier to work out the easy solutions first...
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Hey guys im having the same issue as OP and just wanted to piggy back ride for this thread. I recently bought the mytouch 4g slide for a wopping $25 by the person that i am and rooting i quickly rooted the mytouch and installed cyanogenmod. To my dismay i only receive Edge network before and after rooting i was wondering is it the phone it self as in APN settings or is it just plan old phone ?
Death818 said:
Hey guys im having the same issue as OP and just wanted to piggy back ride for this thread. I recently bought the mytouch 4g slide for a wopping $25 by the person that i am and rooting i quickly rooted the mytouch and installed cyanogenmod. To my dismay i only receive Edge network before and after rooting i was wondering is it the phone it self as in APN settings or is it just plan old phone ?
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Maybe T-Mobile finally moved on from the 3G bands designed for that phone.
Unless you are not getting data at all, then you have some APN's to set. Or... some older CM (IIRC) didn't have 3G.
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Face this issue with the HTC Glacier months back. They have removed the 3G & 4G basebands from their towers. The only way possible is by unlocking the other bands with the "Qualcomm band unlock" mod/hack here on XDA
Can I put in skyrocket for example and utilize LTE?
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Jajajja u wont even get signal
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you will get signal. but you won't get LTE
I put my infuse sim into my htc tilt2 and it works fine but no 4g
Yes you can and it will work. I took the SIM card from my old iPhone 3GS and it worked fine with LTE in my Skyrocket. I got download speeds of up to 52Mbps and upload speeds of 23Mbps.
Some older SIMs are not LTE compatible, specifically, the 9th and 10th digit of the ICCID (sim card number) has to be 2 and 5 for it to be compatible with LTE. That being said, you can use an LTE-compatible SIM in any GSM handset...
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Some older SIMs are not LTE compatible, specifically, the 9th and 10th digit of the ICCID (sim card number) has to be 2 and 5 for it to be compatible with LTE. That being said, you can use an LTE-compatible SIM in any GSM handset...
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Exactly correct. Finally someone else who knows what they r talking about. Thought i was the only one
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Jajajja u wont even get signal
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This dude has no idea what he is talking about. My sim in my skyrocket is from my infuse and was also in my inspire. Works perfect.
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You may. It might work. It might explode. AT&T might get after you for crashing their towers.
kmalinich said:
Some older SIMs are not LTE compatible, specifically, the 9th and 10th digit of the ICCID (sim card number) has to be 2 and 5 for it to be compatible with LTE. That being said, you can use an LTE-compatible SIM in any GSM handset...
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Where do u find this information? I have a tmo sim with digits 7 & 2 and its working fine on LTE.........
You will get signal, but its highly unlikely that you will get LTE. I had an atrix 2 then switched to the atrix HD and I had to go to the ATT store to get my sim changed. It cost me nothing.
My best friend has a crappy Pantech phone and is thinking of buying HTC Inspire 4G for $50 from a guy I work with. Yes he has at&t, but with switching sim card to a non-4G phone to a 4G phone would that be a issue or would that work just fine??
My friend had switched from an iPhone 3g to a Sony xperia play 4g without updating the similar card. It works he just wont reach the speeds for 4g(3.5g) even though it will say he is on it.
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toxicpaulution said:
My friend had switched from an iPhone 3g to a Sony xperia play 4g without updating the similar card. It works he just wont reach the speeds for 4g(3.5g) even though it will say he is on it.
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Not necessarily true, I know there are some out there using 2+ year sim cards who are claiming they are getting 4G speeds. I think even Ze has stated that he uses an old sim card and still gets 4G speeds..
There's a difference between the old sim cards and the 3G cards but no difference after since its not really "4G"
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It could have just been his phone(my friends) we don't live in a 4g area but we go to the capital and they have 4g there so I'm unsure and I apologize for any inconvenience
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toxicpaulution said:
It could have just been his phone(my friends) we don't live in a 4g area but we go to the capital and they have 4g there so I'm unsure and I apologize for any inconvenience
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no need to apologize to anyone man! just saying that I don't think the SIM card plays a huge role, if any, on how the data speeds for the phone are. It's typically based upon the network you can connect to which in turn is dependent on the radio, build.prop and all that stuff and not soo much the sim card.
I am using a cingular card. I had it for a few years before ATT more or less took back control and it became ATT again. I don't even have a 4G plan. Picking certain servers on speedtest.net and I have achieved 6000kbps at times.
Your friends concern should be whether he has a smartphone plan or not with that pantech or ATT will make him upgrade his plan to a 4G plan when he uses that inspire.
Okay guys, on the day I got my Infuse I thought I give it a try and put it on the Simple Mobile 3G network. So what ticks me is that I'm always stuck on a 2G network with a big "E" on my status bar. I even called Simple Mobile customer service and they said they can't fix that. Dammit, there has got to be some way to bypass AT&T. Help me out guys. Thanks.
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Okay guys, on the day I got my Infuse I thought I give it a try and put it on the Simple Mobile 3G network. So what ticks me is that I'm always stuck on a 2G network with a big "E" on my status bar. I even called Simple Mobile customer service and they said they can't fix that. Dammit, there has got to be some way to bypass AT&T. Help me out guys. Thanks.
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that's just a prepay plan on t-mobile. the infuse will need an att or similar sim card. t-mobile has unique frequencies and features on there network. it is not att's fault. edge only is typical with att phones. try strait talk, they sell sims now and you can specify att compatible.
Yeah...nothing you can do except switch carriers...go to straight talk, its $45 a month for unlimited everything, just go to there website and order an att compatible sim.
Your pretty much guaranteed to get edge when using an att phone on t mobile, simply because they run in differnt cell frequencies or whatever you wanna call it
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mg2195 said:
Yeah...nothing you can do except switch carriers...go to straight talk, its $45 a month for unlimited everything, just go to there website and order an att compatible sim.
Your pretty much guaranteed to get edge when using an att phone on t mobile, simply because they run in differnt cell frequencies or whatever you wanna call it
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Hey thanks guys, I appreciate the info. Now that I know, yeah I guess that sounds like a best solution is to just switch carriers. Then again I feel that I made a mistake by buying an Infuse. Dammit, should of gotten the Galax Epic 4G and flashed it to Cricket. But yup thanks guys.
I've been told you cant get 3g because the Infuse is a 4g phone. That could also be an issue as well. I ran into that problem when att had to replace my captivate with my infuse. This is what they told me.
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I've been told you cant get 3g because the Infuse is a 4g phone. That could also be an issue as well.
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That's not the issue at all...for one thing, the infuse isn't even real 4g...it runs on hspa+, hspa is 3g...so when you have "H+" you have 4g...when you have "H" you have 3g...when you have "E" you have edge/2g
These phones are backwards compatible...if they wernt then you would constantly lose data signal
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