DEAR FRIENDS:
I've just bought a HTC SENSATION XE BEATS AUDIO Z715E from e-bay. It's new and unlock. the problem is that I can't get my device to work in 3g network by no means. It only works in EDGE. My company is CLARO from Argentina and the cell has ICS 4.0.3 WITH SENSE 3.6.
IS IT A BAND PROBLEM OR A ROM PROBLEM? I tried severals APN configs but it doesn't seems to work. CAN ANY ONE HELP ME?.
raulgb710 said:
DEAR FRIENDS:
I've just bought a HTC SENSATION XE BEATS AUDIO Z715E from e-bay. It's new and unlock. the problem is that I can't get my device to work in 3g network by no means. It only works in EDGE. My company is CLARO from Argentina and the cell has ICS 4.0.3 WITH SENSE 3.6.
IS IT A BAND PROBLEM OR A ROM PROBLEM? I tried severals APN configs but it doesn't seems to work. CAN ANY ONE HELP ME?.
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It seems to be a Band problem ....
your Sensation XE , works on 3G bands 900/1700/2100
And the CLARO company from Argentina , works on bands 850/1900
So there are not compatible between them.
Before you buy a phone, you should check if the bands of the phone and your company are compatible at all.
Is there any chance to change the bands of the cellphone, so it will work on my carrier 3g network?
You can't change the phone bands
Sell it and buy another phone
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I have searched everywhere and I am not sure if I can change the baseband (or if its doable at all) of my HTC Sensation to 850/1900. My carrier use those and I am stuck with a great phone but with 900/2100.
On a defy thread I found Fix_3g_850.1900Mhz-signed.zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-944258.html) but I am not sure if it will work for a Sensation.
Thanks for your help...
As far as I know you can't change the baseband frequencies as it is dependent on hardware.
valamer said:
As far as I know you can't change the baseband frequencies as it is dependent on hardware.
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This.
You need the Bell Sensation for AT&T bands. It's hardware only.
Or the Telstra version.
Thanks for the replies. Yes, effectively, I just hang up with HTC and its Hardware based the baseband so no luck to ever fix this issue. Such a bummer, I love this phone but I'll have part away from it. Its only 3 weeks old.
Thanks again for all replies.
soapbox73 said:
Thanks for the replies. Yes, effectively, I just hang up with HTC and its Hardware based the baseband so no luck to ever fix this issue. Such a bummer, I love this phone but I'll have part away from it. Its only 3 weeks old.
Thanks again for all replies.
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Ironically I am in the exact opposite situation .. I got a Z710a from the local Thai HTC authorised reseller and AIS uses 900MHz for 3g ..
Sidewindr said:
Ironically I am in the exact opposite situation .. I got a Z710a from the local Thai HTC authorised reseller and AIS uses 900MHz for 3g ..
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ummm....do i see a trade in the works?
Doubt it logistically a bit of a pain...
thats too bad, seems much easier than trying to sell an out of region fone or hope for local trades of the same fone w/ diff bands
either way, hopefully you guys stick with the sensation in the long run
Solidus_n313 said:
thats too bad, seems much easier than trying to sell an out of region fone or hope for local trades of the same fone w/ diff bands
either way, hopefully you guys stick with the sensation in the long run
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It's not out of region actually, I purchased it from HTC Thailand .. It's just my carrier decided to use 900MHz band for their 3G
shazbot, well good luck on the flippety flop fone swap
Sidewindr said:
Ironically I am in the exact opposite situation .. I got a Z710a from the local Thai HTC authorised reseller and AIS uses 900MHz for 3g ..
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why on earth would they sell you a Z710a? i even wonder why the HTC reseller would even have one in stock!
sup with that?
Because it is the official Thai model. All the other carriers work fine with it for 3G.. just AIS uses 900MHz. I bought it from a HTC shop not a carrier.
Still better than UK where we only got 900mhz 3g in January
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Sidewindr said:
Ironically I am in the exact opposite situation .. I got a Z710a from the local Thai HTC authorised reseller and AIS uses 900MHz for 3g ..
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i have 2 htc sensation z710e from t-mobile and i need a z710a.
if you want we can swap , if you need a z710e.
i am from chile, here the 3g is 850/1900
Regards
Pablo
I know this is an old thread but I am from thailand and I have the Z715e (Sensation XE supporting 900/2100 but would have liked 850MHZ). Moving from an iphone, which is quadband, i did not know there was an issue with frequency band and now I cannot use 3g on my network and am looking for some solution.
I see that Samsung Galaxy S and S2 also had this problem earlier regarding frequency band but with some internal unlock, they were able to use all bands. So, is there no similar way with the HTC Sensation XE or is it absolutely hardware only?? Would HTC invest in making two seperate radio ship for different phones?
Sincerely,
Ravit
holypiston said:
I know this is an old thread but I am from thailand and I have the Z715e (Sensation XE supporting 900/2100 but would have liked 850MHZ). Moving from an iphone, which is quadband, i did not know there was an issue with frequency band and now I cannot use 3g on my network and am looking for some solution.
I see that Samsung Galaxy S and S2 also had this problem earlier regarding frequency band but with some internal unlock, they were able to use all bands. So, is there no similar way with the HTC Sensation XE or is it absolutely hardware only?? Would HTC invest in making two seperate radio ship for different phones?
Sincerely,
Ravit
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It's only hardware...there's no way to change it.
I have a t-mobile mytouch 4g slide my brother brought my from usa and i use it in argentina. The thing is that 3g frecuencies used by claro cel provider are 850/1900. is there a way to change my cel to cover these 2 frecuencies? It has 900/1700/2100. Please help me!!! for now i can only use 2g but it's too slow.
No way that I have ever seen.
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The frequencies are determined by the radio chipset installed in the device. There is no way available to a consumer to change the radio chipset.
Is it possible for my Sensation on TMobile..to gain access to ATT signal..My issue is this, when I'm at work I have a really terrible signal but any ATT user in my building gets great service..When I try to manually switch network it says not allowed, is there anyway around this?
thanks for any response
Sim unlock your sensation and then buy an att Sim card. But you may not get 3g or hspa as att 3g or hspa band is different from Tmobile.
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Hello Guys! I'm looking for an information, I'd like to buy an Android phone from Orlando for use it in Italy, i saw the Sensaion 4g from T-Mobile but i have a question: Does the Sensation 4g works in Italy? I think that yes but i'm no sure, and another question, Does the normal Sensation's rom works in 4g version from T-Mobile?
Thanks!
Yes you can. The 4G has ALL the European bands plus an extra band (1700 MHz) for T-Mobile USA.
You will have a lot of useless programs onboard (That you can't use because they are tied to a T-mobile subscription or network) but nothing that can't be solved with a good flashing
I m also using an sensation 4g in India without any problem,
Capychimp is also using US Sensation 4G in Sweden no problems 3G work
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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
walkinhotdog said:
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.
slvrhwk said:
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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DLittle2012 said:
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).
craven667 said:
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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