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Only connecting to 2G

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?

giangdude said:
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?

kreizyidiot said:
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

Ripcn said:
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...

Same Issue (No solution)
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

Need help!!!

So i bought my girl a sidekick 4g because it was $100 on craigslist and seemed like a good spare. Today she decided to use it and her data wasnt working so she called t-mobile and they said it could not be used due to fraud. So... How do we make it possible to be used?
Edit: Data works now...but no texts or calls. I really don't wanna be down the $100 I spent on this POS.
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Sounds like you bought a stolen phone, not much you can do... sept sell it for parts lol
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koitsu1010 said:
Sounds like you bought a stolen phone, not much you can do... sept sell it for parts lol
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That's what I was afraid of hearing. Funny that it took about 24 hours to kick in. What's worse is that the phone was in the box sealed so I just thought they were in need of holiday cash. The good news is that I might have found a solution but I'm gonna have to root. Man oh man... If I can just get it to work then I will not have to be down. I guess even breaking even at this point would suffice.

U got a proper sim card in it? U can still use wifi with it being sim card less
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xtrem88 said:
U got a proper sim card in it? U can still use wifi with it being sim card less
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Yes. Her other phone is a myTouch 4G and she just wanted something to change out to when her battery died (which is all the time) and was bored. She was still gonna use it as a phone.

I have never heard of tmo doing this. If you have another 4g phone. .. just use that to add 4g data to that particular line. then put that sim card into the sidekick.
Tmo uses gsm, not cdma and such like verizon and sprint. they have no way to see if phone is stolen or not, they can't block it like like esn numbers on verizon and sprint.
good luck
just have to have a 4g card with your daughters sim in it, call in, tell them you want 4g data on that account.
that's it. I did it. it works,
good luck

nchaichana said:
I have never heard of tmo doing this. If you have another 4g phone. .. just use that to add 4g data to that particular line. then put that sim card into the sidekick.
Tmo uses gsm, not cdma and such like verizon and sprint. they have no way to see if phone is stolen or not, they can't block it like like esn numbers on verizon and sprint.
good luck
just have to have a 4g card with your daughters sim in it, call in, tell them you want 4g data on that account.
that's it. I did it. it works,
good luck
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Its because its a stolen phone. I would hope if they stole your phone TMobile would make it harder to profit from that theft.

jim93 said:
Its because its a stolen phone. I would hope if they stole your phone TMobile would make it harder to profit from that theft.
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No it wasn't reported stolen from what the rep said. They said it was fraud. I asked for more details but i couldnt get more. After doing careful research, T-Mobile will block IMEI's only when it is beneficial to them. That does not mean protection for customers though.
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Damn so u shoul have returned ir pronto
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xtrem88 said:
Damn so u shoul have returned ir pronto
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When we met up with the guy she focused on trying to make the call first and since it worked i proceeded to pay. Dont ask me why the hell i never thought of waiting for data to kick in. (Which it didnt for two days at which point calling and texting became impossble on the phone.)
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[Q] Question about sim card phone switching?

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.

[Q] HTC One X can't find network on T-Mobile

Okay so I bought a AT&T htc one x. I rooted the phone. Unlocked the boot loader. Now on rebel rom. I put my tmobile SIM card in the phone and it gives me no reception. At all. And says no service. I went to the settings and mobile data, than did network operators. Did select automatically. And says "unable to connect to network at this time, please try again." So than I did search networks. All it pulls up is AT&T and US. So I got curious and tried us and it had no positive return. Now I need help as I seriously just got this phone yesterday and it sucks its just sitting here now. And no I have no phone. Any help would be appreciated.

did you SIM unlock it?
I SIM unlocked mine, and got no reception, but I didn't have a chance to change APNs and such.

mirGantrophy said:
did you SIM unlock it?
I SIM unlocked mine, and got no reception, but I didn't have a chance to change APNs and such.
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Yeah I bought the sim unlock code prior to rooting with success on stock sense but still never had reception.

Update: I disassembled the phone to check the cables to see if any were loose or damaged and to find out that ALL antenna cables are in tact in good shape, connected perfectly and everything, so I know that this is a issue within the software of the phone. I did use an unlock code on the stock os and when I didn't get reception than is when I rooted the phone with still no change. Any help is appreciated thank you!

You still haven't mentioned if you changed your APN settings.

Same thing happened with me last night, but on an iPhone. Just won't get service no matter what SIM I put in.
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I did have the apns how they're suppose to be. And I put my sim back in my iPhone and it works fine. Its just every time I put my sim in this phone it will not work. Still really confused because hardware is fine.
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WTFunk said:
You still haven't mentioned if you changed your APN settings.
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What this person said....you have to change apn settings, also did you trim your tmoblie SIM card down to make it fit? Technically if apn if changed and you have a working tmobile SIM it shouldn't be possible to pick up att. Also did you try using it it case icons are saying att but signal is tmobile. You should be able to check what band you are on to verify.....good luck on your quest
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mddcflimsreal said:
I did have the apns how they're suppose to be. And I put my sim back in my iPhone and it works fine. Its just every time I put my sim in this phone it will not work. Still really confused because hardware is fine.
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Lol, I put it in my other iPhone and it works fine too. Any phone really. Must be a hardware issue.
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So apn is set for tmobile. Micro sim was got from tmobile. Still no luck.

Craigslist..? Got an att sim to check out? Maybe a quick call to at&t to verify the imei is not blacklisted if you haven't already
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Yes. It was blacklisted sadly. This is why I hate craigslist. I got ripped off. Now I understand why it was so cheap compared to the other ones. I guess it was kinda my fault. Thanks guys for all your suggestions.
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mddcflimsreal said:
Yes. It was blacklisted sadly. This is why I hate craigslist. I got ripped off. Now I understand why it was so cheap compared to the other ones. I guess it was kinda my fault. Thanks guys for all your suggestions.
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That sucks so much man. I feel for you.
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It really wasn't what I was hoping. But it sucks they do that but they do what they gotta do. I'm just sol on this phone. Taking a $200 loss. But I think I may just part the phone out considering the screen is brand new and the parts are pricey now days. Well. Not to sure what I'm gonna do with it yet actually. But hopefully something beneficial.
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ATT sends HTC One XL without LTE Sim Card

Wife just got an HTC ONE XL.... came with a sim card.
Had a hard time getting it activated... but eventually ....
After playing with it for a couple hours i found that it would not send SMS images.
Finally did a chat with ATT and was informed that the account had been changed to a Pay Data plan and that the Sim card listed was not a LTE sim card.
Hard to fathom that 2 people before never made that connection and that they actually sent an LTE phone without the proper SIM card.
Said it will take 3 days to get the LTE card when the phone was sent overnight.

krelvinaz said:
Wife just got an HTC ONE XL.... came with a sim card.
Had a hard time getting it activated... but eventually ....
After playing with it for a couple hours i found that it would not send SMS images.
Finally did a chat with ATT and was informed that the account had been changed to a Pay Data plan and that the Sim card listed was not a LTE sim card.
Hard to fathom that 2 people before never made that connection and that they actually sent an LTE phone without the proper SIM card.
Said it will take 3 days to get the LTE card when the phone was sent overnight.
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AT&T never informed me that they had no 4g in our area. Needless to say I found out the same way you did. They're really "good" for that.
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Turns out that everything was wrong...
1) it is an HTC One VX not HTC One LX
2) ATT only uses one type (different sizes) of SIM cards and they are 3g/4g and LTE compatible.
3) The person who activated the phone, put the phone on a Pay per use plan (not LTE)...
4) The rep I just got off the phone with, is fixing that... temp 200mb LTE plan until the Unlimited LTE plan is put back on, Credit to cover the cost and fixed a number of other issues (like turning me on paperless billing).
So I was in the wrong thread... sorry bout that.

Wow I read that completely wrong lol. Time for me to go to bread.
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jacobas92 said:
Wow I read that completely wrong lol. Time for me to go to bread.
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Go to bread???? Where that????

ImagioX1 said:
Go to bread???? Where that????
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Bread=Bed
Its a joke :v
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Misterowl said:
Bread=Bed
Its a joke :v
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Some bodys rely sleapii.

krelvinaz said:
Turns out that everything was wrong...
1) it is an HTC One VX not HTC One LX
2) ATT only uses one type (different sizes) of SIM cards and they are 3g/4g and LTE compatible.
3) The person who activated the phone, put the phone on a Pay per use plan (not LTE)...
4) The rep I just got off the phone with, is fixing that... temp 200mb LTE plan until the Unlimited LTE plan is put back on, Credit to cover the cost and fixed a number of other issues (like turning me on paperless billing).
So I was in the wrong thread... sorry bout that.
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As a former employee I used to get mistakes like this from all sorts if co workers. Hated it. I knew how to fix it, just couldn't tell. Also you know have an LTE sim card when the 9th and 10th number is 25 or 27
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In response to: Bread??? Wheres that???
Lmfao!!! Sorry....bored. Reading older posts/forums this seriously cracked me the f up!!!...
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Lmfao!!! Sorry....bored. Reading older posts/forums this seriously cracked me the f up!!!...
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Bread???? Wheres that????
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