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Has AT&T Crippled Upload speed?

It sure looks like it. Why? Who knows? Help avoid network congestion? Not once have I seen above 0.5Mbs up. Forget about down. That's terrible too. I feel deceived. Nowhere in the settings will u find HSPA+. Only HSDPA. Go to settings,scroll all the way down. I think its phone info or something. System should day HSPA+ (4G) not HSDPA.
Whatever....I give up.

well first of all, 4G isn't running yet for anyone, and it is crippled, it has been already talked about thou, root ur phone and you'll be fine.

epicKA8 said:
well first of all, 4G isn't running yet for anyone, and it is crippled, it has been already talked about thou, root ur phone and you'll be fine.
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WRONG! Officially,ATT hasit out in Buffalo,Providence,Baltimore.

Fuze-A-Rama said:
WRONG! Officially,ATT hasit out in Buffalo,Providence,Baltimore.
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And I see you're in Brooklyn, so you just answered your own question as to why you're not getting 4G. As suggested earlier, Rooting your phone and flashing a new ROM should give you HSUPA (look through the forum, people are reporting between 1-3mbps up)

It is easy to fix so while it would be nice out of the box the user can fix it.

Fuze-A-Rama said:
It sure looks like it. Why? Who knows? Help avoid network congestion? Not once have I seen above 0.5Mbs up. Forget about down. That's terrible too. I feel deceived. Nowhere in the settings will u find HSPA+. Only HSDPA. Go to settings,scroll all the way down. I think its phone info or something. System should day HSPA+ (4G) not HSDPA.
Whatever....I give up.
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A quick reading on telephony protocol is in order:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_Packet_Access

Fuze-A-Rama said:
WRONG! Officially,ATT hasit out in Buffalo,Providence,Baltimore.
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I am in Baltimore and if I go closer to the city I get the better speeds. I live about 10 miles out so I do not see it at home. I plan on heading there this weekend to run a few speed tests, only problem is there is allot more network congestion there.
I posted this in the Speed thread, the 2nd shot was with my Hero in downtown Baltimore about a month ago.
Here is what I am getting after root in the Inspire, was taken halfway between Baltimore and DC. Not sure why it picked a WV server.
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Here is the best I ever got on my old Hero

homeslice976 said:
And I see you're in Brooklyn, so you just answered your own question as to why you're not getting 4G. As suggested earlier, Rooting your phone and flashing a new ROM should give you HSUPA (look through the forum, people are reporting between 1-3mbps up)
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Holdon justaminute,it says if the arrows under the 4G symbol are illuminated,u got 4G. Well..... they're litup. Most of the time. Something underhanded is goinon with At&t.
Whatzup with that?

mine is illuminated as well, that just means the network is tehre, but if they're only porting 3g speeds over the network, its all yours gonna get.

This is upsetting. Upload speeds are definitely crippled.
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AT&T hasn't launched HSPA+ yet. Upload and download speeds are going to be Shorty 'til it launches. AT&T says that HSPA+ willbe completely rolled out by March 31st.
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Crippled unless they remove the limitation with a firmware update. No prob getting 1700 up on a captivate on my home tower; never break 500 with inspire. Has NOTHING to do with any switch getting flipped with regard to upload speeds.
If you want higher upload speeds, root and flash.

Twenty4 said:
I am in Baltimore and if I go closer to the city I get the better speeds. I live about 10 miles out so I do not see it at home. I plan on heading there this weekend to run a few speed tests, only problem is there is allot more network congestion there.
I posted this in the Speed thread, the 2nd shot was with my Hero in downtown Baltimore about a month ago.
Here is what I am getting after root in the Inspire, was taken halfway between Baltimore and DC. Not sure why it picked a WV server.
Here is the best I ever got on my old Hero
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are u suggesting this is 4g speeds??? i'm getting about that here in chicago on my iphone4 up and down, and up on the inspire.
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So even though the 2 arrows are lit we're not on 4G? Thisis lame. Best I see is 3dn/.5up. WTF? Nobody mentionedtheres no 4G for your new 4G phone yet! .....U think this is something we oughtta know? Before we buy a phone?
Ya think?

im getting on average 4.5download

This is definitely false advertisement on AT&T's part. Miami does not have 4g turned on, it's not even on the AT&T map for current 4g areas, but yesterday a rep. in my friendly neighborhood AT&T store, told me that if I had the "+" next to the "H" I'm getting 4g. So, I did a speed test in front of him and I got 1.8 down and 0.3 up. He seemed baffled and walked away. I just don't want to be stuck for another 2 years for a service that it is not true 4g. Maybe T-mobile 4g or Verizon LTE are better.

Fuze-A-Rama said:
So even though the 2 arrows are lit we're not on 4G? Thisis lame. Best I see is 3dn/.5up. WTF? Nobody mentionedtheres no 4G for your new 4G phone yet! .....U think this is something we oughtta know? Before we buy a phone?
Ya think?
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If the down arrow is lit it means there is downloading going on, if the up arrow is lit it means there is uploading going on, regardless of what network it's connecting to.
When you see the H+, this could mean you're connected to 3G, HSDPA, or, if available, HSPA+ (there's not multiple icons for these networks). HSPA+ (which isn't really "4G" - this is a marketing ploy developed by T-Mobile which AT&T decided to latch on to, I think they should be sued for this) is currently being rolled out, but it's not available in most areas.
calin75 said:
This is definitely false advertisement on AT&T's part. Miami does not have 4g turned on, it's not even on the AT&T map for current 4g areas, but yesterday a rep. in my friendly neighborhood AT&T store, told me that if I had the "+" next to the "H" I'm getting 4g. So, I did a speed test in front of him and I got 1.8 down and 0.3 up. He seemed baffled and walked away. I just don't want to be stuck for another 2 years for a service that it is not true 4g. Maybe T-mobile 4g or Verizon LTE are better.
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T-Mobile 4G is HSPA+ as well, but I think they've rolled it out in more areas. The LTE network is a true 4G network, but I don't know how available it is either

As per owners manual,or quickstart manual that's in the box, it says,when u see the 2 arrows litup that means u got 4G. I know 1 means up & other is down.......
Only VZ & MetroPCS have LTE. This is all just marketspeak for the gullible. Thousands of people think they're on 4G because of marginally better speeds than they were getting!........EXCEPT ON THE UPLOAD!...

homeslice976 said:
If the down arrow is lit it means there is downloading going on, if the up arrow is lit it means there is uploading going on, regardless of what network it's connecting to.
When you see the H+, this could mean you're connected to 3G, HSDPA, or, if available, HSPA+ (there's not multiple icons for these networks). HSPA+ (which isn't really "4G" - this is a marketing ploy developed by T-Mobile which AT&T decided to latch on to, I think they should be sued for this) is currently being rolled out, but it's not available in most areas.
T-Mobile 4G is HSPA+ as well, but I think they've rolled it out in more areas. The LTE network is a true 4G network, but I don't know how available it is either
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Uh, no. LTE is not 4G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

Well... I'm glad we cleared thatup. Back to the question. Why? Engadget said what I was thinking,that its to avoid congestion. So we're suffering because the system can't handle all the customers? Somebody should do something about this......

[Q] How to get LTE?

I'm confused about how I access the LTE network.
I'm on Rogers in North Vancouver. I'm using Sky ICS 6.75 stock. I haven't installed any special radios/modems.
I should have an LTE plan (was to take effect 15Apr). I have my Network Mode set to GSM/HSPA/LTE (auto mode). And I have my Access Point set to ltemobile.apn. I've gone in to *#2263# and set LTE Band preference to "LTE ALL" then back to Automatic.
After all that, how do I tell if I'm on LTE? The network graphic shows 4G but it did before I moved to LTE as well.
When I do speedtests, I don't get any better speeds than when I'm not on LTE.

Robnw said:
I'm confused about how I access the LTE network.
I'm on Rogers in North Vancouver. I'm using Sky ICS 6.75 stock. I haven't installed any special radios/modems.
I should have an LTE plan (was to take effect 15Apr). I have my Network Mode set to GSM/HSPA/LTE (auto mode). And I have my Access Point set to ltemobile.apn. I've gone in to *#2263# and set LTE Band preference to "LTE ALL" then back to Automatic.
After all that, how do I tell if I'm on LTE? The network graphic shows 4G but it did before I moved to LTE as well.
When I do speedtests, I don't get any better speeds than when I'm not on LTE.
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Seems like you're in an area that doesn't yet have LTE..

Get speedtest from play store.
see what your speed is.

You should see an lte icon beside the 4g.
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Ah, I see now what my mistake was. It was in believing the agent in late March who said she moved me to an LTE plan. I called back today, I wasn't on an LTE plan, but the agent did some magic and now, apparently, I am. We'll see in a bit.

They shouldn't have to change your plan.... You already have the hardware, it's just a matter of being in an LTE area to receive the signal.

before u go any further, please tell me u already have an LTE sim card with rogers, released in the last 6 months. Without that LTE won't work no matter what

Just got my phone less than 2 hours ago. LTE worked right out of the box.
They had to give me a new LTE SIM card though. I'm guessing you didn't get one?
They didn't have to change anything with my plan though, idk why they would tell you that.
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Robnw said:
Ah, I see now what my mistake was. It was in believing the agent in late March who said she moved me to an LTE plan. I called back today, I wasn't on an LTE plan, but the agent did some magic and now, apparently, I am. We'll see in a bit.
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Three is no magic plan, you either don't have the right Sim card or your not in an lte area
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icenight89 said:
before u go any further, please tell me u already have an LTE sim card with rogers, released in the last 6 months. Without that LTE won't work no matter what
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Well .. that turned out to be my second problem. I was sure I had an LTE SIM card when I first got the phone 5 months ago. I remember discussing it with the agent. Turns out I didn't. I have it now and I get LTE - sometimes. It seems to come and go but at least I know it's out there now.

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Three is no magic plan, you either don't have the right Sim card or your not in an lte area
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Wow - is that right? And they tried to sell me the LTE version of my plan for $15 more a month! They eventually found the same plan for the same price. I wonder what they're doing.

Robnw said:
Wow - is that right? And they tried to sell me the LTE version of my plan for $15 more a month! They eventually found the same plan for the same price. I wonder what they're doing.
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They try to get you to buy a plan with more gb's to get more money out of you. You don't need to do that though.

ATT i337 on T-Mobile's LTE

Hi guys just want to share something and as I type I See this is already well known fact but I'll do it anyway cause it's just so awesome !
For many years I had to chose very carefully what phone I get and if I have any plans to go somewhere because in 99% of the phones will not do so good unless you're on specific carrier that you phone is made for. For years now I am an ATT customer and I always had ATT phones and as always no matter what plan I had or speed I had on ATT when I insert T Mobile, Simple mobile or any other off brand companies (T-Mobile towers) I'd had EDGE. That's why SGSII i989 was for me one of the best phones because no matter what I choice I always had 3G on it, on ATT and T-Mobile carriers. And now this. I have i337 and what an amazing phone I just took my wife T-Mobile sim card with LTE service, and damn thing worked like a charm. No problem at all. I have custom rom so all APN settings even got installed and magic LTE:13 is status window. Speed tests are amazing as well 23 Mbit down and 10Mbit up. So once again I know people know about it but for those that don't you can use i337 from ATT with ANY GSM carrier in US. Because all GSM carriers are off ATT towers like H2O or Red pocket and off T-Mobile like Simple Mobile, Go Smart etc will work on good speeds. Finally I can forget about EDGE with one device.
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Let me know if there are some carriers that will not support this unit. (I don't see how if in US only 2 GSM carriers that supply towers to rest)
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BTW how do you take a screen shoot ...power + home didn't work

What rom are you using? And where do you live? I'm also use att galaxy s4 on tmobile. I did pick up lte signal two days ago, and it said lte 14. By that time, my phone was untouched, all stock. So I wonder how can that happen and does anyone know if tmobile is rolling out new band or what?
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aznable89 said:
What rom are you using? And where do you live? I'm also use att galaxy s4 on tmobile. I did pick up lte signal two days ago, and it said lte 14. By that time, my phone was untouched, all stock. So I wonder how can that happen and does anyone know if tmobile is rolling out new band or what?
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I am using Task650 AOKP rom, I live at 11235 ZIP, and phone is rooted, custom ROM and unlocked via code.

russiandivxclub said:
I am using Task650 AOKP rom, I live at 11235 ZIP, and phone is rooted, custom ROM and unlocked via code.
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the att s4 does support tmobiles lte band but it will not get 3g or 4g hspa+ unless you live in an area where tmobile has updated their towers to give off 3g or 4g hspa on att bands otherwise you will get edge. there is a method i used to unlock the tmobile aws band on the att s4 which will give you 3g or 4g hspa+ in any tmobile area no matter if they have the updated towers or not.

russiandivxclub said:
Hi guys just want to share something and as I type I See this is already well known fact but I'll do it anyway cause it's just so awesome !
For many years I had to chose very carefully what phone I get and if I have any plans to go somewhere because in 99% of the phones will not do so good unless you're on specific carrier that you phone is made for. For years now I am an ATT customer and I always had ATT phones and as always no matter what plan I had or speed I had on ATT when I insert T Mobile, Simple mobile or any other off brand companies (T-Mobile towers) I'd had EDGE. That's why SGSII i989 was for me one of the best phones because no matter what I choice I always had 3G on it, on ATT and T-Mobile carriers. And now this. I have i337 and what an amazing phone I just took my wife T-Mobile sim card with LTE service, and damn thing worked like a charm. No problem at all. I have custom rom so all APN settings even got installed and magic LTE:13 is status window. Speed tests are amazing as well 23 Mbit down and 10Mbit up. So once again I know people know about it but for those that don't you can use i337 from ATT with ANY GSM carrier in US. Because all GSM carriers are off ATT towers like H2O or Red pocket and off T-Mobile like Simple Mobile, Go Smart etc will work on good speeds. Finally I can forget about EDGE with one device.
P.S.
Let me know if there are some carriers that will not support this unit. (I don't see how if in US only 2 GSM carriers that supply towers to rest)
BTW how do you take a screen shoot ...power + home didn't work
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Its volume down+power its always been that
You fight, for the guy fighting next to you.
AT&T SGH-I337 32G

My friend and I use the SS4 att on tmobile network. But he has Lte 4g and I am only have 4g lol. Have no idea!
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mpttrung said:
My friend and I use the SS4 att on tmobile network. But he has Lte 4g and I am only have 4g lol. Have no idea!
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Try to switch APN to fast.tmobile.com instead of epc.tmobile.com. I just tried, and it worked beautifully.

aznable89 said:
Try to switch APN to fast.tmobile.com instead of epc.tmobile.com. I just tried, and it worked beautifully.
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I tried but still 4g. Thanks anyway
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lilbigdude1 said:
Its volume down+power its always been that
You fight, for the guy fighting next to you.
AT&T SGH-I337 32G
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Definitely power plus home button at same time...power plus volume down is older devices...
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mg2195 said:
Definitely power plus home button at same time...power plus volume down is older devices...
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I don't have an older device. On my S4 its still volume down+power. It maybe ROM related, because I've always run aokp, that's what my SS combo has been.
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AT&T SGH-I337 32G

lilbigdude1 said:
I don't have an older device. On my S4 its still volume down+power. It maybe ROM related, because I've always run aokp, that's what my SS combo has been.
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Ahhh that explains it...yeah an aosp its volume plus down...so id assume the same for aokp
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I get lte also im in Tennessee only half the town im supports the other half will be finnished this year and yes tmobile is rolling out a new band to support the of unlocked att device's because of iphone popularity prior to them getting there own iphone
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If u r using task's ROM, go to setting, toggles, then in toggles there is an option to have screen shot button be in the notification area. Pull down the notif.area and u'll see screenshot button.

mpttrung said:
I tried but still 4g. Thanks anyway
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I believe the correct APN is fast.T-mobile.com not fast.tmobile.com. Try that.

i get LTE on my i337 on T-Mobile as well but I disabled it and prefer HSPA+ most of the time.. HSPA+ is fast enough and gets me much better battery life

bendotson said:
I believe the correct APN is fast.T-mobile.com not fast.tmobile.com. Try that.
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Still 4g
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Definitely power plus home button at same time...power plus volume down is older devices...
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I have i337 on UppWireless, which uses Red pocket intermediate provider,
which, in turn, uses T-Mobile or AT&T services. I subscribed for 4G, but
I have only EDGE. Is there anything I can download to get my 4G?

T-Mobile apn settings
Apn: fast.T-Mobile.com
Mmsc: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
Apn type : default, mms, supl, dun
Leave the rest untouched, keep in mind that some roms LTE wont work, im running Phoenix rom and havent had any issues so far.

dve1218 said:
I have i337 on UppWireless, which uses Red pocket intermediate provider,
which, in turn, uses T-Mobile or AT&T services. I subscribed for 4G, but
I have only EDGE. Is there anything I can download to get my 4G?
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were you able to hijack the dialer if you were can you tell me how you did it and for the 4g thing you might have to configure the apn setting and uppwireless has that on their website

AT&T slow LTE download but high upload

I just got a nexus 5 on at&t and I am getting some weird speed test results. My download speed on LTE is getting around 3-4 mb but my upload speed is around 15-17. How can this be? My APN settings seem correct. Could it be anything with the simcard or just network issues? I am in the Cleveland Ohio area so its full blown LTE . I have been expecting at least around the 17-20 LTE speed at minimum. Any advice?
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i have seen this kind of behavior on my network when i am throttled for speed. but it could be different for you.

Does this time to time for me on s4. After a while it clears up. I think it's something on the att network end.
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So just as a followup to my original post... i chatted with an online AT&T support rep about my situation and it appears they are saying that my Nexus 5 is not shown to be connected to their LTE network..even though my phone shows I am connect to LTE. They show it is registered for LTE on their end but it is not actually connected to LTE at all... its only connected to their GSM network (4g HSPA / 4g HSPA+). They are opening a ticket for it and i should hopefully hear back from them in the next few days. Has anybody ever heard of this happening? The phone actually showing its connected to LTE but actually on the networks end, it really is not? If this really is the case, there would be no way to actually know this. Only from my feeling that my speed tests did not seem right to what i was expecting from LTE.

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So just as a followup to my original post... i chatted with an online AT&T support rep about my situation and it appears they are saying that my Nexus 5 is not shown to be connected to their LTE network..even though my phone shows I am connect to LTE. They show it is registered for LTE on their end but it is not actually connected to LTE at all... its only connected to their GSM network (4g HSPA / 4g HSPA+). They are opening a ticket for it and i should hopefully hear back from them in the next few days. Has anybody ever heard of this happening? The phone actually showing its connected to LTE but actually on the networks end, it really is not? If this really is the case, there would be no way to actually know this. Only from my feeling that my speed tests did not seem right to what i was expecting from LTE.
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Im interested in hearing what you find out.
Thanks for going through the steps.

I will let you guys know what the outcome is... i just did a few more speed tests through download Cleveland, OH (which is LTE) and my results are still very strange... about 3-4 mbps down while 12-14 mbps upload.... it just almost seems like my download speeds are that of HSPA where my upload speeds are more on the line of LTE speeds. Very strange.

i made a very interesting discovery when playing with my apn settings... my two default apns after putting my att sim card in were ATT Phone and ATT WAP.... if i were to run speed test after speed test using these default apn settings.. i would notice my download speed start up around 5-7 mbps but the quickly drop down to around 3.... and it has been consistently doing that.. while my upload speed would be higher.... now if I just change the ATT Phone APN to pta instead of phone and then run the speed test, it get around 10-12 download speed with a similar upload speed to the first.... it almost seems like the phone apn is throttling or capping my download speed but the change to pta seems normal.. with upload speeds being uneffected.... anybody have any clue what could be happening? i mentioned this to a rep about am i being throttled speedwise and they said no of course... i am still waiting to hear back regarding my ticket but i will be sure to mention this to them.... just hoping somebody knows whats going on out there and can help out in the meantime.... very strange..................... and it has to be something with the phone apn because my wife has an att moto x and i matched her apn settings to a tee and she gets 17 mb down while mine is still around 3... but the change to pta gets it much closer to her speeds with her att branded moto x. will be curious to hear your thoughts out there in xda land!!!

I have AT&T as well. I used the default APN. I get anywhere from 20mbit to 30mbit on LTE around here both upload and download.
I would be *VERY* careful when you call AT&T. Their system does not recognize the Nexus 5 since they don't sell it, and when giving the IMEI to set the provisions in their system for data and services it sometimes gives it a "dumb phone" data plan which only lets it connect to 3G. (It would show HSPA or HSPA+ or 3G on status bar though). Some people were forced to grab friends IMEI's and tell them they had some phone AT&T supports like a Galaxy S4 or something that uses LTE to get reprovisioned for LTE support.
Sounds to me like you're just on a bad set of towers. I used to get 30-50mbit with my Galaxy S4 when they first turned LTE on in my area back in June 2012. Right before I sold my S4 I was only getting 20-30mbit, and I get the same with my Nexus 5 now as more and more users in the area started getting and using the LTE service, it bogged the towers down. Perhaps channels they reserve for upstream/upload only aren't affected as much as downstream/download channels?

WoodburyMan said:
I have AT&T as well. I used the default APN. I get anywhere from 20mbit to 30mbit on LTE around here both upload and download.
I would be *VERY* careful when you call AT&T. Their system does not recognize the Nexus 5 since they don't sell it, and when giving the IMEI to set the provisions in their system for data and services it sometimes gives it a "dumb phone" data plan which only lets it connect to 3G. (It would show HSPA or HSPA+ or 3G on status bar though). Some people were forced to grab friends IMEI's and tell them they had some phone AT&T supports like a Galaxy S4 or something that uses LTE to get reprovisioned for LTE support.
Sounds to me like you're just on a bad set of towers. I used to get 30-50mbit with my Galaxy S4 when they first turned LTE on in my area back in June 2012. Right before I sold my S4 I was only getting 20-30mbit, and I get the same with my Nexus 5 now as more and more users in the area started getting and using the LTE service, it bogged the towers down. Perhaps channels they reserve for upstream/upload only aren't affected as much as downstream/download channels?
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Yeah Im for sure not on a dumb phone data plan... I do show I am connected to LTE. Would you mind sharing what your APN settings are and also how did you activate your Nexus 5? Did you just previously have another AT&T LTE and just swapped sim cards? I just find it very strange that be just changing my APN from phone to pta, I get different results with download speeds..... because from what I was reading from other forums, pta and phone are basically the same now.

thafngame24 said:
Yeah Im for sure not on a dumb phone data plan... I do show I am connected to LTE. Would you mind sharing what your APN settings are and also how did you activate your Nexus 5? Did you just previously have another AT&T LTE and just swapped sim cards? I just find it very strange that be just changing my APN from phone to pta, I get different results with download speeds..... because from what I was reading from other forums, pta and phone are basically the same now.
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I had another AT&T LTE phone and I just swapped the Sim. As far as AT&T knows I still have my Galaxy S4. This is the apn it used automatically and the settings for it that work for me.
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I had another AT&T LTE phone and I just swapped the Sim. As far as AT&T knows I still have my Galaxy S4. This is the apn it used automatically and the settings for it that work for me.
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So If you log into your online at&t account, does it still show the S4 as the phone on your line"

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So If you log into your online at&t account, does it still show the S4 as the phone on your line"
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Yea exactly. I also kept my IMEI on file from that phone in case I ever need to call support so they still think I have the phone since the Nexus phones are totally unsupported on their end. They refuse to give the least amount of support even to any phone that has a unlocked or unlockable bootloader on their network.
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Issue with tmobile prepaid and LTE

Anyone here using the tmobile $30 dollar prepaid plan and have issue getting LTE? I got my phone a bit over a week ago and love it but there is the issue of no lte. Somehow I can only get up to hspa+ on ym oneplus and this is the newest respond from tforce.
Thanks for checking back, our engineers said at this time it is not a feature we can push to a prepaid account and in order to achieve LTE on that device you would need to change to a no credit check account.
Any advise?

xellos2099 said:
Anyone here using the tmobile $30 dollar prepaid plan and have issue getting LTE? I got my phone a bit over a week ago and love it but there is the issue of no lte. Somehow I can only get up to hspa+ on ym oneplus and this is the newest respond from tforce.
Thanks for checking back, our engineers said at this time it is not a feature we can push to a prepaid account and in order to achieve LTE on that device you would need to change to a no credit check account.
Any advise?
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The only thing I know that will work is if you have another LTE phone. Is to activate it on that sim by giving them the IMEI number from that phone. Then put the sim back in your One Plus and make sure you have the right APN and you should be good to go.
If not your extra phone maybe a friends LTE phones IMEI number.
Good luck..

Few questions,
1. Are you on the right APN? fast.t-mobile.com on IPv6?
2. How old is your SIM card? Was the SIM card used in another device that is LTE enabled?
3. What OnePlus One do you have? International or Chinese version? (International has Cyanogen logo in the back)
4. Just FYI... "4G" on the OPO is LTE.
5. I believe I've known others who are using the $30 plan who are on LTE. I believe that the T Force member provided you with false information and wanted you to pay more. @jarjar124 is on the $30 plan so maybe he can provide some insight? I'm pretty sure $30 plan can get LTE. And I don't believe you need to provide them with your IMEI to be LTE provisioned. Thats what AT&T does, not T-Mobile.
If your phone is the Chinese version, then I don't think it can get LTE bands as T-mobile uses bands LTE 4/2

zephiK said:
Few questions,
1. Are you on the right APN? fast.t-mobile.com on IPv6?
2. How old is your SIM card? Was the SIM card used in another device that is LTE enabled?
3. What OnePlus One do you have? International or Chinese version? (International has Cyanogen logo in the back)
4. Just FYI... "4G" on the OPO is LTE.
5. I believe I've known others who are using the $30 plan who are on LTE. I believe that the T Force member provided you with false information and wanted you to pay more. @jarjar124 is on the $30 plan so maybe he can provide some insight? I'm pretty sure $30 plan can get LTE. And I don't believe you need to provide them with your IMEI to be LTE provisioned. Thats what AT&T does, not T-Mobile.
If your phone is the Chinese version, then I don't think it can get LTE bands as T-mobile uses bands LTE 4/2
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They played that game with the nexus 4 but it wasn't LTE but as you know with the modem hack most of use used it. But I had to give them my S3 IMEI. Then all was good. So maybe he is a new customer like I was at the time and they don't show the One as an LTE phone on there network as of yet.
But Yeah @jarjar124 is a great guy and he may be able to give more in site to this.

For me it says 4G, but I'm on LTE speeds. You can check using the speedtest app. Just don't do it quite often because it uses data like crazy lol. It worked out of the box for me. No needed to change APN or anything.
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They played that game with the nexus 4 but it wasn't LTE but as you know with the modem hack most of use used it. But I had to give them my S3 IMEI. Then all was good. So maybe he is a new customer like I was at the time and they don't show the One as an LTE phone on there network as of yet.
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Yup.. used the Hybrid Radios to activate LTE. The last T-Mobile on contract phone I got from T-Mobile was the Galaxy S1 and didn't have any problems. The main thing I needed to do was to update my SIM card because it was a very old one that wasn't able to get LTE signals.
If the OP did get the Chinese version then I'm sure that he won't be able to get LTE I believe. I could be wrong though. I'll have to look this up but I think the highest signal they can get on TMo is HSPA
Edit: Yup I was right. https://forums.oneplus.net/attachments/untitled_1-jpeg.27662/
Chinese OPO LTE FDD: 1800/2100/2600MHz
TD-LTE....... (only used in China)
If you search on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks
T-Mobile supports LTE Band 12 (limited markets, 700), 4(1700d,e,f), 2(1900)
So it is possible OP has the Chinese OPO which causes a conflict.
For me it says 4G, but I'm on LTE speeds. You can check using the speedtest app. Just don't do it quite often because it uses data like crazy lol. It worked out of the box for me. No needed to change APN or anything.
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Same here, it worked out of the box. Speedtest doesn't count towards your data now
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mob...data-no-longer-counts-against-data-allowances

zephiK said:
Yup.. used the Hybrid Radios to activate LTE. The last T-Mobile on contract phone I got from T-Mobile was the Galaxy S1 and didn't have any problems. The main thing I needed to do was to update my SIM card because it was a very old one that wasn't able to get LTE signals.
If the OP did get the Chinese version then I'm sure that he won't be able to get LTE I believe. I could be wrong though. I'll have to look this up but I think the highest signal they can get on TMo is HSPA
Edit: Yup I was right. https://forums.oneplus.net/attachments/untitled_1-jpeg.27662/
Chinese OPO LTE FDD: 1800/2100/2600MHz
TD-LTE....... (only used in China)
If you search on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks
T-Mobile supports LTE Band 12 (limited markets, 700), 4(1700d,e,f), 2(1900)
So it is possible OP has the Chinese OPO which causes a conflict.
Same here, it worked out of the box. Speedtest doesn't count towards your data now
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mob...data-no-longer-counts-against-data-allowances
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Really? Or is that just for simple choice plans? The prepaids don't have any of the advantages of the simple choice (free international texts/data, music streaming not counting etc). On my nexus 5, LTE worked out of the box too. Just needed the right APN.

zephiK said:
Yup.. used the Hybrid Radios to activate LTE. The last T-Mobile on contract phone I got from T-Mobile was the Galaxy S1 and didn't have any problems. The main thing I needed to do was to update my SIM card because it was a very old one that wasn't able to get LTE signals.
If the OP did get the Chinese version then I'm sure that he won't be able to get LTE I believe. I could be wrong though. I'll have to look this up but I think the highest signal they can get on TMo is HSPA
Edit: Yup I was right. https://forums.oneplus.net/attachments/untitled_1-jpeg.27662/
Chinese OPO LTE FDD: 1800/2100/2600MHz
TD-LTE....... (only used in China)
If you search on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks
T-Mobile supports LTE Band 12 (limited markets, 700), 4(1700d,e,f), 2(1900)
So it is possible OP has the Chinese OPO which causes a conflict.
Same here, it worked out of the box. Speedtest doesn't count towards your data now
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mob...data-no-longer-counts-against-data-allowances
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I am on the right apn
New sim card
I got the international one direct from oneplus invite XD
I put in my friend's sim card and it got 4g, my card show hspa+

xellos2099 said:
I am on the right apn
New sim card
I got the international one direct from oneplus invite XD
I put in my friend's sim card and it got 4g, my card show hspa+
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It can also be the sim. Some sims can affect the cellular reception which can lead to your phone not reading LTE. How long did u leave your sim in? It can take time for it to switch from hspa to LTE. Where I live, it switches from hspa to LTE and vice versa constantly due to the buildings and coverage. I'm not a big person on cellular reception etc so someone please correct me if I'm wrong lol.

jarjar124 said:
Really? Or is that just for simple choice plans? The prepaids don't have any of the advantages of the simple choice (free international texts/data, music streaming not counting etc). On my nexus 5, LTE worked out of the box too. Just needed the right APN.
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Good question, I have no idea. I'll have to go and take a look. Just applying common sense, I think it'd be everybody regardless of their plans since when you do a speedtest you do submit information to speedtest servers so it would only help t mobile to have the best results.
I am on the right apn
New sim card
I got the international one direct from oneplus invite XD
I put in my friend's sim card and it got 4g, my card show hspa+
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Can you show us your APN just so we can double check?
Where did you get your SIM card? From T-Mobile directly? Some sellers sell SIM cards but they don't have LTE support. Try putting your SIM card into your friend's phone and see if you get LTE on his phone.

zephiK said:
Good question, I have no idea. I'll have to go and take a look. Just applying common sense, I think it'd be everybody regardless of their plans since when you do a speedtest you do submit information to speedtest servers so it would only help t mobile to have the best results.
Can you show us your APN just so we can double check?
Where did you get your SIM card? From T-Mobile directly? Some sellers sell SIM cards but they don't have LTE support. Try putting your SIM card into your friend's phone and see if you get LTE on his phone.
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I'll check and let you guys know on the speed test.
Edit: It seems like it still uses, but it uses very little compared to before. Or its just using data for me to check how much I used lol

jarjar124 said:
I'll check and let you guys know on the speed test.
Edit: It seems like it still uses, but it uses very little compared to before. Or its just using data for me to check how much I used lol
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Maybe the second one lol. The only way to really know is, well... surpass your 5GB monthly data allowance and then be throttled down then run a speedtest. See if the results return LTE speeds or your throttled speed.

xellos2099 said:
Anyone here using the tmobile $30 dollar prepaid plan and have issue getting LTE? I got my phone a bit over a week ago and love it but there is the issue of no lte. Somehow I can only get up to hspa+ on ym oneplus and this is the newest respond from tforce.
Thanks for checking back, our engineers said at this time it is not a feature we can push to a prepaid account and in order to achieve LTE on that device you would need to change to a no credit check account.
Any advise?
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After reading a the responses and seeing you talked to them and have a new sim. I would think it is what I was talking about that phone dose not show up in there system as an LTE device as of yet.
Does your friend have T-Mobile if so I would think that is the case. If you used his sim and got LTE. I had it happen as I stated with my nexus 4 as a new customer. But using me S3 IMEI it worked when I put the sim back in my N4.

zephiK said:
Good question, I have no idea. I'll have to go and take a look. Just applying common sense, I think it'd be everybody regardless of their plans since when you do a speedtest you do submit information to speedtest servers so it would only help t mobile to have the best results.
Can you show us your APN just so we can double check?
Where did you get your SIM card? From T-Mobile directly? Some sellers sell SIM cards but they don't have LTE support. Try putting your SIM card into your friend's phone and see if you get LTE on his phone.
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http://imgur.com/gfna4hB
I used to have old sim, I went to t mobile store and they give me a new one and activate it there so I know it is new.

Vortex1969 said:
After reading a the responses and seeing you talked to them and have a new sim. I would think it is what I was talking about that phone dose not show up in there system as an LTE device as of yet.
Does your friend have T-Mobile if so I would think that is the case. I had it happen as I stated with my nexus 4 as a new customer. But using me S3 IMEI it worked when I put the sim back in my N4.
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The problem is that I don't think T-Mobile has OnePlus One IMEIs in their database. I've read that on a Reddit AMA with OnePlus employees. You'd have to give them a IMEI for a 4G compatible phone... or call them and hopefully you can find a good service representative who will help you out and provise you accordingly if everything else checks out (APN, SIM card,etc)

zephiK said:
Maybe the second one lol. The only way to really know is, well... surpass your 5GB monthly data allowance and then be throttled down then run a speedtest. See if the results return LTE speeds or your throttled speed.
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Funny thing I rarely surpass the 5gb
Only did it twice. Once was live streaming Google io 2013 and when downloading a rom kept going wrong lol.

jarjar124 said:
Funny thing I rarely surpass the 5gb
Only did it twice. Once was live streaming Google io 2013 and when downloading a rom kept going wrong lol.
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Hmm, well before your monthly cycle ends.... leave Netflix on over night or something so you can pass your limit and then you'll know if it counts for everybody lol. I usually run a speed test if im in a new area and then if its not high enough compared to my peak i just kill the app so it doesnt finish the speed test

zephiK said:
The problem is that I don't think T-Mobile has OnePlus One IMEIs in their database. I've read that on a Reddit AMA with OnePlus employees. You'd have to give them a IMEI for a 4G compatible phone... or call them and hopefully you can find a good service representative who will help you out and provise you accordingly if everything else checks out (APN, SIM card,etc)
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Yeap that is what I am saying I have seen it happen to many others even with a new accounts when the nexus 5 came out. Just reading that he talked to a rep tells me that its not in the system yet. And if he is a new to T that could be it. Give an old or other 4g IMEI will work.
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jarjar124 said:
For me it says 4G, but I'm on LTE speeds. You can check using the speedtest app. Just don't do it quite often because it uses data like crazy lol. It worked out of the box for me. No needed to change APN or anything.
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Light weight that's slow..j/k[emoji12]

Vortex1969 said:
Yeap that is what I am saying I have seen it happen to many others even with a new accounts when the nexus 5 came out.
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Light weight that's slow..j/k[emoji12]
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jarjar gave me a idea and i started a speedtest thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/oneplus-one-speed-test-result-thread-t2844144 lets get it populated

zephiK said:
jarjar gave me a idea and i started a speedtest thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/oneplus-one-speed-test-result-thread-t2844144 lets get it populated
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Well, I am not new to mobile, but the last device I got was a Galaxy Nexus which might be the problem since it was a hspa+ device. So what are my choices? Can I borrow a friend lte device and just give them the imei?