Hi My HTC Sensation stays on edge even though I have had 4g here for the last year. After flashing the appropriate ICS firmware this is a constant issue. Can someone please help.
which fw version did you flash, and did the screen show the radio update was successful?
which rom?
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I do not have ICS yet, but....
Check your settings.
Settings->wireless&networks->mobile networks->Network mode: select GSM/WCDMA auto.
Hope it solves your problem.
What ROM?
If it was ARHD you'll have to flash a 4G Icon Mod
sromer said:
What ROM?
If it was ARHD you'll have to flash a 4G Icon Mod
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the icons are kind of irrelevant since he said it's on EDGE.
Icons wise:
H -> 4G not E -> 4G
Edge problem.
Alright here's what happened. I had the HTC amaze and I traded it for this phone because the development page for that phone sucked. I got this phone and put my sim card in it and it was on edge. I thought because T-Mobile thought I was using the HTC Amaze it was sending out a different reception type. They changed it to the Sensation and still no 4G. I have switched my number to 3 different SIM cards and still no 4G. I reverted back to stock and S-On to see if the problem would be fixed but it wasn't. I am in a 4G covered area and I am getting edge why is this? I have had 4G on the Amaze for months and I had the sensation before the Amaze. both had 4G where I am. I don't know what to do.
Well as far as I've read, HSPA+ (branded as 4G by T-MoUS) runs on 1700MHz (AWS). If you got your device through T-Mo you would get the one branded as Sensation 4G and HSPA+ would work out of the box.
Also, if you got the non-T-MoUS version (Unbranded), z710e (Orig Sensation) and z715e (XE version) should theoretically still receive "4G" because AWS is supported by these models.
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Got HTC Sensation 4G from T-mobile.
Did S-Off, SuperCID and flashed official European ROM (RUU... 1.45) because I need Russian interface.
Unfortunately, the phone doesn't show "4G" icon anymore Only "H" or "3G" even in T-mobile USA network.
Is it built in radio, or in ROM?
How can I make sure that phone still works in 4G speeds? Or it can not with European ROM and radio?
Maybe any fix available to install?
In europe there is either 4G or LTE.
I think it is the european ROM that doesn't support 4G yet
Tried this rom and getting stuck in a buttloop. Any ideas?!
DmMc said:
Got HTC Sensation 4G from T-mobile.
Did S-Off, SuperCID and flashed official European ROM (RUU... 1.45) because I need Russian interface.
Unfortunately, the phone doesn't show "4G" icon anymore Only "H" or "3G" even in T-mobile USA network.
Is it built in radio, or in ROM?
How can I make sure that phone still works in 4G speeds? Or it can not with European ROM and radio?
Maybe any fix available to install?
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The H represents "4G"
H=4G. You're not losing any data speeds. The icon is just different. It's actually more accurate for the type of speed you're getting (HSPA+) because it's not truly 4G. That's just a marketing term American cellular companies like to use to get the masses to purchase their newer phones. I'm curious if they declare the next speed to be "5G".
FYI- this would be better posted in the Q&A forum next time
The icon is not radio linked.. It's based on what is in your SystemUI.apk file.
I get H+ here in Niagara Falls on Virgin
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Can anyone help me. I unlocked the sensation for me to use with att. Everything is fine, rooted, s-off, cwm recover works, and so does everything else. Except data and mms. I googled the apns to use and that worked, somewhat. I now can recieve mms but data only gets up to 2g but roams a lot. Is there a way to get att 3g on this phone? I heard it was unable but just want to make sure
cGrumm said:
Can anyone help me. I unlocked the sensation for me to use with att. Everything is fine, rooted, s-off, cwm recover works, and so does everything else. Except data and mms. I googled the apns to use and that worked, somewhat. I now can recieve mms but data only gets up to 2g but roams a lot. Is there a way to get att 3g on this phone? I heard it was unable but just want to make sure
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Did you get 3G before when the device was S-On and a stock image?
dr9722 said:
Did you get 3G before when the device was S-On and a stock image?
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Yea when my cousin had it stock for tmobile everything was fine with it. 3g and 4g worked for him. Then when i started using it for att i had to put in custom apn which only allows me to reach 2g. I've seen a lot of people say its not compatible unless you have a certain version, my model is the tmobile htc sensation 4g...thats what it tells me in my phone settings.
cGrumm said:
Yea when my cousin had it stock for tmobile everything was fine with it. 3g and 4g worked for him. Then when i started using it for att i had to put in custom apn which only allows me to reach 2g. I've seen a lot of people say its not compatible unless you have a certain version, my model is the tmobile htc sensation 4g...thats what it tells me in my phone settings.
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Learn more ablut radio and frequencys. Basically u cant get 3g unless u have a bell sensation
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cGrumm said:
Yea when my cousin had it stock for tmobile everything was fine with it. 3g and 4g worked for him. Then when i started using it for att i had to put in custom apn which only allows me to reach 2g. I've seen a lot of people say its not compatible unless you have a certain version, my model is the tmobile htc sensation 4g...thats what it tells me in my phone settings.
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So from what you're saying the phone has worked fully on both 3G & 4G on the TMobile network. Looking at the AT&T website their all their phones are either 3G or 4G. So it should work.
Does your AT&T contract support 3G ? I know when I got my first 3G enabled phone they had to ship me a 3G SIM card for it to work. It might be that it's the SIM card that's the issue. I've never had to modify APNs etc. even when swapping network providers away from Vodafone. Insert the new SIM and it just works.
webstar1 said:
Learn more ablut radio and frequencys. Basically u cant get 3g unless u have a bell sensation
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Hmmmm
webstar1 said:
Learn more ablut radio and frequencys. Basically u cant get 3g unless u have a bell sensation
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Yea thats what im trying to understand. I read that there were two types of sensations, one from canada that supports att 3g, and the original which does not. But they said the model T-mobile sensation 4g, should support att 3g. Thats the thing im not understanding
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So from what you're saying the phone has worked fully on both 3G & 4G on the TMobile network. Looking at the AT&T website their all their phones are either 3G or 4G. So it should work.
Does your AT&T contract support 3G ? I know when I got my first 3G enabled phone they had to ship me a 3G SIM card for it to work. It might be that it's the SIM card that's the issue. I've never had to modify APNs etc. even when swapping network providers away from Vodafone. Insert the new SIM and it just works.
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Yea i had an Iphone 3gs with a 3g data plan. And everything ive seen posted with unlocked sensations all have the same problem with att. But ive seen that there is a version that supports att 3g which is what im trying to figure out
This post has the bands that the T-Mobile htc sensation 4g supports:
http://www.htc.com/us/products/sensation4g-tmobile#tech-specs
And this post says if it supports HSPA/UMTS/HSPA+ on 850 and 1900, it should support att 3g
http://androidforums.com/t/358106-unlocked-htc-sensation-4g-t-smart-phone-sim.html
The first post confirms that the phone supports both 850 and 1900 on HSPA+. All of this is new to me so if this is completely wrong then sorry. Just seems right to me.
It looks like the AT&T and T-Mobile networks are different, this is where I guess the issue is. The more I dug the worse it got. I have to admit that I'd assume this would be a simple answer but it looks like there are different flavours of 4G.
So apologies to the earlier poster that mentioned the frequencies.
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Can anyone help me. I unlocked the sensation for me to use with att. Everything is fine, rooted, s-off, cwm recover works, and so does everything else. Except data and mms. I googled the apns to use and that worked, somewhat. I now can recieve mms but data only gets up to 2g but roams a lot. Is there a way to get att 3g on this phone? I heard it was unable but just want to make sure
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T-Mobile US Sensation (Z710E) DOES NOT support anything higher than 2G on AT&T's networks because it doesn't operate on the proper 3G frequency. The Bell Sensation (Z710A) from Canada DOES work on AT&T 3G because its hardware uses the proper frequency.
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T-Mobile US Sensation (Z710E) DOES NOT support anything higher than 2G on AT&T's networks because it doesn't operate on the proper 3G frequency. The Bell Sensation (Z710A) from Canada DOES work on AT&T 3G because its hardware uses the proper frequency.
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I thought the Z710a is the US T-Mobile 4g version, My Z710e is a European 3G only version.
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I thought the Z710a is the US T-Mobile 4g version, My Z710e is a European 3G only version.
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See thats where im getting confused too. People said the version that CAN aquire att 3g is the t-mobile 4g model. But regardless it isnt picking up anything but edge so he is right. Is there anyway to change the hardware for it to work? I dont have money for another phone so if i can, id do that.
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See thats where im getting confused too. People said the version that CAN aquire att 3g is the t-mobile 4g model. But regardless it isnt picking up anything but edge so he is right. Is there anyway to change the hardware for it to work? I dont have money for another phone so if i can, id do that.
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Have you seen: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349755
It refers to: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation_4g-3922.php
As far as I know Bell Canada uses the same network frequencies as AT&T US.
Looking for a rom that is setup for art USA or if I can get some help setting this phone for use on the art network.
im pretty sure they all work on at&t. if it doesnt already have the APN detected and working, you can always enter it yourself. try arhd. cant go wrong
In case u didn't see it already, be aware the tmo-us sensation can't use ATT's 3/4G (3.5G?) network. I experimented with a buddy's att sim card and only got EDGE where his inspire got full bars of H+. I hear the Canadian sensation works great with att
Thanks for the info.. how come sensation can't use Matt 4g
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oh right, your moving from tmo to att?
well if your using a tmo sensation, then you cant get 3g/4g speeds due to the phone/network different radio bands. to get 3g/4g on att you need a bell, telus, or telstra sensation i think
If I get my sensation unlocked, would I be able to get AT&T 3g/4g?
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it depends on what kind of sensation you got. only bell and telstra versions of the sensation will work with at&t 3/4g. all others you will only get 2g
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it depends on what kind of sensation you got. only bell and telstra versions of the sensation will work with at&t 3/4g. all others you will only get 2g
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Its the Sensation 4g TMO US... I tried my friends sim card and I only got edge with at&t
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Unfortunately, with the T-Mobile Sensation, you can only get EDGE working on AT&T since AT&T uses different frequency bands than T-Mobile for 3G/4G.
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Unfortunately, with the T-Mobile Sensation, you can only get EDGE working on AT&T since AT&T uses different frequency bands than T-Mobile for 3G/4G.
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I have realized that, since I tried my friend at&t sim card
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I wonder if we can unlock all the bands. I'm imagining we could at least switch over to the other bands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412618
Didn't realize the bell version had different bands until now.
ziddey said:
I wonder if we can unlock all the bands. I'm imagining we could at least switch over to the other bands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412618
Didn't realize the bell version had different bands until now.
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That's a good idea... How about you try and report back on how it works out... I would but this is my only phone at the time due to me just selling my G2x
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I was told us version is missing hardware but I don't think so don't see HTC changing just for T-Mobile
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I will only work on edge now the amaze with work on at&,T's 3,4g service.
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I will only work on edge now the amaze with work on at&,T's 3,4g service.
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Yea, I figured that out.... A guy that offered me his Amaze told that it worked with at&t 3g/4g
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milton try this on att i dont have cell service but fix the firmware from that bell post to work radio is updated to bell south hboot will work i have it on mine but no att service or cell service i use wifi cuz i am broke lol
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3r2d0hodyb8j29/PG58IMG.zip
I think you're going to need to explain what you posted
well from what i can tell nothing new lol
its bell south firm i seen someone had trouble with new hboot so i changed it to 3.32 what we have and rezipped it but i dont have a att sim to test this with
but i dont see anything different but worth a shot seeing how i am going to att or simple mobile soon
modem and the like aren't included in ruu files. you'd have to dump those partitions and flash manually
what are the supported umts frequencies for the bell sensation? if someone wants to dump a bell sensation's modem partitions, i'm sure someone would be willing to flash, possibly myself included, although any sign of it "working" would be if i lost tmobile umts (assuming it's not a quad/pentaband umts modem).
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well from what i can tell nothing new lol
its bell south firm i seen someone had trouble with new hboot so i changed it to 3.32 what we have and rezipped it but i dont have a att sim to test this with
but i dont see anything different but worth a shot seeing how i am going to att or simple mobile soon
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I'm using simple mobile now and my sensation works fine, because it runs off of Tmobile's towers... I was asking if the sensation 4g worked on at&t because I was trying to make a trade with someone for a Amaze but they had at&t
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I know this is a repost, but can someone direct me to the thread on how to fix this?
Sure
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850917
el_smurfo said:
Sure
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850917
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I felt dumb. I still have the same speeds as 4g, but it says 3g
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I felt dumb. I still have the same speeds as 4g, but it says 3g
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That's a known issue with sense 4.1 Roms. I'm.using viper one s 1.1.1 and it has a g icon for 4g.
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htc one s 4g
I have the HTC one s 4g running the newest viperone Rom and I don't see it having 4g.
I looked up the specs for the phone and it says it doesn't support 4g on tmobile but I keep seeing forums with people saying they have 4g.
What do I have to do to have 4g? I have a new micro sim that should support it.
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I have the HTC one s 4g running the newest viperone Rom and I don't see it having 4g.
I looked up the specs for the phone and it says it doesn't support 4g on tmobile but I keep seeing forums with people saying they have 4g.
What do I have to do to have 4g? I have a new micro sim that should support it.
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the rom is not the one that controls the data speeds or 3g or 4g, the radio is, our phone is quad-band and suport T mobile and att networks.
lte is not suported, beside thath all the other networks like. 4g,3g,2g,edge,g, are supoerted.
what the rom does not suport is the data icons, since the venom 2.0.0 base is not from T Mobile Us and is from some kind of rare network in Europe,, 4g icon is not suported, phone will be most of the time in 3g and h icon.
but your data speeds will be the same as 4g, since only the icon is not present in the rom.