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Motorola droid 2 global outside the US?

Hello.
I want to get this phone unlock to use it on my country (Venezuela) on a gsm carrier (Movistar). Their 3g band is 1900 mhz umts.
Will this phone work with no problem down here on Venezuela? Will the 3g work with no problem?
I'm deciding between this phone and a nexus one.

You should have no problem using it, only problem is when people try to use it with US carriers, people have already used it outside the US without a problem, you just need the unlock codes I believe
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Thanks! I think I'm gonna go with this. I found a great deal for it.

ElectroManiac said:
Thanks! I think I'm gonna go with this. I found a great deal for it.
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Don't buy if not unlocked first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880973

OP, you will be fine as long as you can get it unlocked. Make sure you have way to return it if it turns out to be unlockable by normal codes. Check the thread ipgpdp linked above.

Can I simunlock i9020A for international use?

I'm about to buy a Nexus S i9020A (AT&T) on eBay, but I need to know if there's an application here to simunlock it or a good site to buy a code (if you have a website, please tell me price). I've been reading and in one thread someone replied saying It's already unlocked and that Nexus device sold has always been sim unlocked (even those sold subsidized by the carriers)... so I don't know what to think about it. In another thread the user said he bought on in Craigslist and he said it was unlocked and rooted... which got my attention the "unlocked" part... so, there's a way to simunlocked or not?
Please help me.
I'm waiting for your response to buy it.
Best regards.

It will probably be unlocked but if it isn't, the Nexus is is one of the easiest phones to unlock. Look up a tutorial somewhere here on xda, or wait for a more senior member to give you his advice here.
Good luck
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FirePoncho86 said:
It will probably be unlocked but if it isn't, the Nexus is is one of the easiest phones to unlock. Look up a tutorial somewhere here on xda, or wait for a more senior member to give you his advice here.
Good luck
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"Unlocked" wrt/Nexus S refers to bootloader unlocking. IIRC the Nexus S cannot be SIM-locked at all - the baseband doesn't support it.

It doesn't need to be Sim unlocked. They are all unlocked by default.

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It doesn't need to be Sim unlocked. They are all unlocked by default.
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See? That's what worries me. Are you sure about that dude? The thing is in this thread the author said the i9020A doesn't work with a T-Mobile SIM card... so?

alainalemany said:
See? That's what worries me. Are you sure about that dude? The thing is in this thread the author said the i9020A doesn't work with a T-Mobile SIM card... so?
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It's obvious it doesn't work with a T-Mobile SIM card.
The Nexus S GSM has 2 versions:
i9020A, working on HSDPA 850/1900/2100
i9020T, working on HSDPA 900/1700/2100
Both are GSM, but different bands. They're not "software locked" but simply unable to connect because it's a modem issue.

So if you have a T-Mobile SIM, you need a Nexus S whose model number is I9020T

FirePoncho86 said:
So if you have a T-Mobile SIM, you need a Nexus S whose model number is I9020T
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Exact.

Not exact. T mobile will work just fine. T mobile 3g data service will not
All gsm networks will work on any 9020/9023. 3g not so much

albundy2010 said:
Not exact. T mobile will work just fine. T mobile 3g data service will not
All gsm networks will work on any 9020/9023. 3g not so much
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Wrong again, in parts. Since we're not talking about the US only.
Not all operators around the world actually serve their users with 2G. Just up north, in the beautiful country called Canada, many operators only offer 3G, including mine. Thus, in the end, you end up with no service if 3G isn't supported.

polobunny said:
Wrong again, in parts. Since we're not talking about the US only.
Not all operators around the world actually serve their users with 2G. Just up north, in the beautiful country called Canada, many operators only offer 3G, including mine. Thus, in the end, you end up with no service if 3G isn't supported.
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I see we have the same location Is Bell 3G only? I'm on Rogers and I use 2G unless im out of my wifi range.
*To be safe* if you have a T-Mobile SIM, you need a Nexus S whose model number is I9020T, and it will work without a doubt

I'm using a i9020a on tmo
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messed nexus
Hey, I have a similar problem, I bought a nexus S i9020a second-hand and flashed it to JB using Nexus Root Toolkit...I am getting no service. Something must have gone wrong, the sim works in my other phone and I have tried calling my wireless provider rogers to repush the sim card anyways. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

S&H_prometheus said:
Hey, I have a similar problem, I bought a nexus S i9020a second-hand and flashed it to JB using Nexus Root Toolkit...I am getting no service. Something must have gone wrong, the sim works in my other phone and I have tried calling my wireless provider rogers to repush the sim card anyways. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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You need a i9020a for Rogers, so that's good. Check for broken pins in the SIM slot. Happens too often with the Nexus S.

polobunny said:
You need a i9020a for Rogers, so that's good. Check for broken pins in the SIM slot. Happens too often with the Nexus S.
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Change radios
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Change radios
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Any compatible radio would work however. Only if he flashed one that isn't compatible.

SCH-R530 from US Cellular - why no worky?

Hey ladies and gets,
I am new here and I do not have much experience. I have been on an android binge for a week now and I have read a lot of threads, and flashed my phone so many times already.
Here is the info:
Samsung Galaxy SIII (LTE I guess)
SCH-R530, and in some places it shows SCH-R530U
Currently running on the latest nightly cyo..10.2
IMEI starts with 99000... and I have checked its not stolen or anything - there is also a sticker behind the bat that confirms it.
Originally a US Cellular Phone, I want to get it working with T-Mobile.
Things I have tried:
-I got the Samsung Tool Kit (donated), received all the updates - and the phone still does not unlock the network operators.
-Used a method from youtube - CDMA Workshop - connect to the serial port - security - samsung defaults - screen on pc says unlocked but phone is not although it is answering to the program.
- No option for the network lock as known in the 530
-Used three different online services - but they said no can do.
- Called tmobile - and placed a request and they said - that IME does not correspond to the model of the phone(???)
I am a student, I can't afford to get anything else - so please help or point me in the right direction. Thank you

I don't think you can do it.

I don't believe it will work because Us cellular is cdma and T-Mobile is gsm.
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GottaProblemBro said:
I don't believe it will work because Us cellular is cdma and T-Mobile is gsm.
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There seem to be different opinions on the net. Phone like mine have the added abillity to receive CDMA radios i guess, but they do not lack any of the hardware for gsm.
I am not sure about any of this however, thats why I came here.

Bsqueeze44 said:
There seem to be different opinions on the net. Phone like mine have the added abillity to receive CDMA radios i guess, but they do not lack any of the hardware for gsm.
I am not sure about any of this however, thats why I came here.
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in my experience with all the cdma gs3 varian, only the verizon one that have gsm capability.

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Just a little update:
I have not been able to make any progress at all.
I have updated my 4.3 on the regular basis - however when I did the nightly 6, and 7 both locked up on the boot menu.
Anyways, today i reinserted my tmobile sim card and when I try to make a call - I get Verizon Wireless automated services that say that i can be transferred to complete the call with a credit card and stuff.
Why verizon? this is a us cellular phone?
Also when i switch to gsm mode - it still does not locate any tmobile operators?
US Cell phone is a dead end. This thread might as well be deleted.

Bsqueeze44 said:
Just a little update:
I have not been able to make any progress at all.
I have updated my 4.3 on the regular basis - however when I did the nightly 6, and 7 both locked up on the boot menu.
Anyways, today i reinserted my tmobile sim card and when I try to make a call - I get Verizon Wireless automated services that say that i can be transferred to complete the call with a credit card and stuff.
Why verizon? this is a us cellular phone?
Also when i switch to gsm mode - it still does not locate any tmobile operators?
US Cell phone is a dead end. This thread might as well be deleted.
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Vzw bought out USC... in some areas I believe? Any how now no the USC will not work on T-Mobile. At least not stock....yet. It may be possible to get voice working but that would be about it. If you could vet data the most it would possibly be is edge as far as I know.... If you want to try something I would try flashing a sch-i535 ROM of 4.0.x-4.1.1 Odin would be best but do not flash the radio/modem. I am not Of 100% on this but Odin might skip over the modem if flashing i535 ROM to the r530. If not mobile Odin is able to only flash selected partitions of choice. Make sure you use a pre rooted ROM. After that and it is successful you may be able to follow the guide posted some where in here on how to use the i535 globally. It will require APN pro I believe. And another app to be able to select gsm global (don't recall for sure) if you find the guide it will tell you. . good luck and let me know if that helps.

Bonkurei said:
in my experience with all the cdma gs3 varian, only the verizon one that have gsm capability.
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I agree with
that verizon is (gsm+cdma)
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Rooted phone, trying to unlock 4g/LTE

Hey guys. This should be a relatively easy one for some of the people here I think.
I recently bought a Verizon GS3, the i535. I'm in Canada, and was unaware this phone did not access the 3g/4g/lte bands here.
Quick question: I have my phone rooted and I'm looking at installing custom roms. I've been lead to believe some roms can unlock the bands that I need on this phone. Is this true?
I have obviously tried searching but the results always come up with EVERYTHING lol. I would just like a clear decisive answer, from someone who has possibly done it?

Ok so maybe it's not an easy one? ...
btw there are way too many image verifications on this forum, holy moly lol

2KXJ said:
Ok so maybe it's not an easy one? ...
btw there are way too many image verifications on this forum, holy moly lol
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A rom will not change any of those settings, the best you're going to get is probably edge data, but 3g is possible under some circumstances.
Are you on Verizon's network? If not you're going to have to change the apn to get it to work on your carrier.
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No I'm not with Verizon. I'm not even in the US lol.
I bought a phone stupidly and believe I am now paying for it. The phone technically has all the bands and settings. You can do the #*2263# thing and get into options to select / "force" them...but they just dont take or something?
I only have edge connectivity right now, you are correct.
This whole APN thing is very confusing or I'm very stupid. I"ve entered my carrier, Fido's APN settings and it does nothing because the phone isnt using the correct bands.

The Verizon phone is technically an international, or global phone whatever you wanna call it. in the hidden menus of the phone there is a place where you can manually select the CMDA, GSM and LTE frequencies.
Does this not mean that the phone -has- these frequencies and that its just something Verizon has done to keep the phone on THEIR network?

2KXJ said:
The Verizon phone is technically an international, or global phone whatever you wanna call it. in the hidden menus of the phone there is a place where you can manually select the CMDA, GSM and LTE frequencies.
Does this not mean that the phone -has- these frequencies and that its just something Verizon has done to keep the phone on THEIR network?
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Theoretically it should be able to work, but the development for that feature never took off and all the bands weren't unlocked for all carriers. But changing your apn might enable a band you need for your specific carrier to give you 3g data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809314
This might work, and the simplified method might open a band that you need.
Edit: and yes, locking down other bands is Verizon's way of keeping it on their carrier. You can pay them a hefty fee to unlock the band you need if you're traveling, but this isn't really an option for you. There's a bounty thread trying to unlock these bands in the general section, but it's pretty much dead nowadays because most of the devs capable of figuring it out are on newer phones.
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I have found both of these threads mentioned. The bounty thread was very interesting, but unfortunately came to an end.
Every other option I've read is installing 16 apps, 1000 people saying "how do i do this??", and one guy saying "i did it"
I think i'm just going to sell this thing...
BadUsername said:
Theoretically it should be able to work, but the development for that feature never took off and all the bands weren't unlocked for all carriers. But changing your apn might enable a band you need for your specific carrier to give you 3g data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809314
This might work, and the simplified method might open a band that you need.
Edit: and yes, locking down other bands is Verizon's way of keeping it on their carrier. You can pay them a hefty fee to unlock the band you need if you're traveling, but this isn't really an option for you. There's a bounty thread trying to unlock these bands in the general section, but it's pretty much dead nowadays because most of the devs capable of figuring it out are on newer phones.
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2KXJ said:
I have found both of these threads mentioned. The bounty thread was very interesting, but unfortunately came to an end.
Every other option I've read is installing 16 apps, 1000 people saying "how do i do this??", and one guy saying "i did it"
I think i'm just going to sell this thing...
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Haha, yes basically that's what that entire thread says, but the basis of it is converting an apn manager to a system app. That will allow you to make an apn stick, which should force enable the bands you weren't able to get working in the first place.
Selling the phone isn't a bad idea either, then you can do a little more research and find something that might give you 4G signal. There's no way you're getting anything that good with this phone.
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Well when you say that you make it seem so easy LOL. I've had the same blackberry for four years and just 3 days ago bought this S3. I had no idea companies would still be doing this locking bands nonsense. If I do sell the phone, anyone I sell it to will just be in the same boat I am right now... and theres no way I can sell this things to an American for what I paid for it.
Sigh
BadUsername said:
Haha, yes basically that's what that entire thread says, but the basis of it is converting an apn manager to a system app. That will allow you to make an apn stick, which should force enable the bands you weren't able to get working in the first place.
Selling the phone isn't a bad idea either, then you can do a little more research and find something that might give you 4G signal. There's no way you're getting anything that good with this phone.
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Another thing that is very confusing to me is a lot of people are posting that they need APN manager to be able to edit APN settings. My phone allowed me to do that out of the box, and like I mentioned, I was able to add my carriers APN stuff, but only get 2G speed.

2KXJ said:
Another thing that is very confusing to me is a lot of people are posting that they need APN manager to be able to edit APN settings. My phone allowed me to do that out of the box, and like I mentioned, I was able to add my carriers APN stuff, but only get 2G speed.
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Somebody will take it, if it's brand new then $400 isn't unreasonable. You'd do better with the i9300 model.
Any phone tied into a carrier is going to have issues like that, but I'd look into either getting the international versions of phones, or possibly a nexus 5 if it works on your carrier. That phone looks pretty amazing.
Again, trying those settings wouldn't hurt anything and might give you what you're looking for, post 108 has the simplified procedure in only like 5 steps.
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BadUsername said:
Somebody will take it, if it's brand new then $400 isn't unreasonable. You'd do better with the i9300 model.
Any phone tied into a carrier is going to have issues like that, but I'd look into either getting the international versions of phones, or possibly a nexus 5 if it works on your carrier. That phone looks pretty amazing.
Again, trying those settings wouldn't hurt anything and might give you what you're looking for, post 108 has the simplified procedure in only like 5 steps.
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I found that post, and read a few following pages and there didnt seem to be any input. Its almost like no one saw his post. I did go into my phone, and all of those settings are there. The GS3 they dole out up here is the i747.
This things could go for upwards of $400 in the states? I only paid 315 up here, and it had all the protective stickers and nothings been opened lol.

Well I bricked the phone playing around with it...
Installed CWM for some reason, cant remember why. First thing I click was backup current rom, phone rebooted and now says software not authorized by verizon. I hope some of you more mentally capable folk out there find some comedy in my errors, because I have no clue what im doing

Sprint G Flex 2 LS996 on Tmobile?

As title, can I unlock a G Flex 2 from Sprint and use it with Tmobile?
since I checked the LTE band:
LTE band 2(1900), 4(1700/2100), 12(700), 25(1900), 26(850), 41(2500) - LS996 (Sprint)
In fact AT&T version H950:
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 17(700) - H950 (AT&T)
Do not have band 12(700) for Tmobile, so should I buy the ATT or Sprint version to use it on Tmobile?
Please help, thank you!

Any input on this? Just bought a sprint flex 2 to use on T-Mobile.

Blackhalo said:
Any input on this? Just bought a sprint flex 2 to use on T-Mobile.
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You should root and try the instructions of opening other bands with shortcutmaster (lite).

Alex_XV6700 said:
You should root and try the instructions of opening other bands with shortcutmaster (lite).
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Here is the phone http://m.ebay.com/itm/LG-G-Flex2-LS...roid-Phone-Red-Silver-/221950977883?nav=DEALS
Seller is showing its GSM unlocked, do I need root to open the other bands with shortcutmaster? Thanks.

Blackhalo said:
Here is the phone http://m.ebay.com/itm/LG-G-Flex2-LS...roid-Phone-Red-Silver-/221950977883?nav=DEALS
Seller is showing its GSM unlocked, do I need root to open the other bands with shortcutmaster? Thanks.
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If you look at the description under the phone it says this ¨3G on T-Mobile, AT&T & Other GSM¨
So I guess yes you´d have to root and try to enable band 12 to see if it gets TMO LTE.

Alex_XV6700 said:
If you look at the description under the phone it says this ¨3G on T-Mobile, AT&T & Other GSM¨
So I guess yes you´d have to root and try to enable band 12 to see if it gets TMO LTE.
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Hey guys, I just bought the exact phone from Ebay too Blackhalo. I am going to try out the tutorial Alex has given but I am using a MetroPCS SIM card. I grabbed LTE Discovery and it let me know that MetroPCS is Band 4 for LTE. I am hoping I can swap the SIM over to this phone from my Nexus 5 and get it to work. I've rooted a few different Android phones so I don't think it should be too hard. I'll report back on my findings once I get the phone and try things out.

Alex_XV6700 said:
You should root and try the instructions of opening other bands with shortcutmaster (lite).
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tdorid44 said:
Hey guys, I just bought the exact phone from Ebay too Blackhalo. I am going to try out the tutorial Alex has given but I am using a MetroPCS SIM card. I grabbed LTE Discovery and it let me know that MetroPCS is Band 4 for LTE. I am hoping I can swap the SIM over to this phone from my Nexus 5 and get it to work. I've rooted a few different Android phones so I don't think it should be too hard. I'll report back on my findings once I get the phone and try things out.
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Sounds good, yeah I'm sure lots of people will be trying this on GSM networks. Can you not just access the menu from the dialer?

Blackhalo said:
Sounds good, yeah I'm sure lots of people will be trying this on GSM networks. Can you not just access the menu from the dialer?
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No, you cant access this menu cause sprint hides that normal menu with their own.
But its easy to root theres a tutorial on the Development section you should check it out and follow instructions.
Good luck, report back!

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Sounds good, yeah I'm sure lots of people will be trying this on GSM networks. Can you not just access the menu from the dialer?
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The band selection menu? No, as far as I have read, the phone needs to be rooted to open up additional bands for other networks. This was the video I was watching not to long ago:
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Alex_XV6700 said:
No, you cant access this menu cause sprint hides that normal menu with their own.
But its easy to root theres a tutorial on the Development section you should check it out and follow instructions.
Good luck, report back!
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The band selection menu? No, as far as I have read, the phone needs to be rooted to open up additional bands for other networks. This was the video I was watching not to long ago:
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Ok thanks. I was thinking the hidden menu was what was needed to enable the other bands as seen here http://forum.xda-developers.com/g-flex2/help/hidden-menu-flex2-t3087725
Yeah, I've rooted phones in the past but I haven't looked into how user friendly the LG's were to root. Guess i'll be taking that route, be a nice phone at this price if it'll work.

Alex_XV6700 said:
If you look at the description under the phone it says this ¨3G on T-Mobile, AT&T & Other GSM¨
So I guess yes you´d have to root and try to enable band 12 to see if it gets TMO LTE.
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Also, I've looked a little into the development sub-forum, but any clear cut best root method? I've seen someone one click root methods listed on google that say they will work for the Sprint LS996?

Blackhalo said:
Also, I've looked a little into the development sub-forum, but any clear cut best root method? I've seen someone one click root methods listed on google that say they will work for the Sprint LS996?
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Use the root method in development I cant assure you that any other guide you follow wont lead you into bricking your phone. Theres a guide with the ls996 and h955 i think and h950 there in development follow the guide step by step. I suggest you OTA update to ZV9 if its not yet there and then root.

Wouldn't the phone work by itself on t mobile as the sprint version of the phone has band 12 already enabled and the phone is unlocked by the seller?

scorpsteals said:
Wouldn't the phone work by itself on t mobile as the sprint version of the phone has band 12 already enabled and the phone is unlocked by the seller?
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Read the ebay listing! Only GSM is unlocked! And you don't even have 1700 for 3G!

techware7 said:
Read the ebay listing! Only GSM is unlocked! And you don't even have 1700 for 3G!
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Oh ok. Got it. Looks like this phone doesn't support VoLTE so I guess no phone calls on band 12 just data.

scorpsteals said:
Oh ok. Got it. Looks like this phone doesn't support VoLTE so I guess no phone calls on band 12 just data.
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See I use MetroPCS which is essentially T-Mobile for their 4G LTE. When using the LTE Discovery App, it shows my LTE being on Band 4. Thus, I wonder if Band 4 needs to be enabled for T-Mobile users? Or maybe not and the Band 4 is because I'm on Metropcs? Just some thoughts I had on the matter.

Alex_XV6700 said:
If you look at the description under the phone it says this ¨3G on T-Mobile, AT&T & Other GSM¨
So I guess yes you´d have to root and try to enable band 12 to see if it gets TMO LTE.
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Alex_XV6700 said:
Use the root method in development I cant assure you that any other guide you follow wont lead you into bricking your phone. Theres a guide with the ls996 and h955 i think and h950 there in development follow the guide step by step. I suggest you OTA update to ZV9 if its not yet there and then root.
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I saw your post in the root thread about having issues with the ZV9 update, and activating LTE. Would you still recommend OTA'ing to ZV9 before rooting?
Thanks for the help.

Yes. Randrew posted a fix on that same forum. So we can have that fixed immediately after rooting. Though it takes some ability to extract build.prop and edit it. Dunno how u doing with those skills.

I ended up grabbing Tmo G3 for around the same price, this is a phone for my wife so didn't want to go through to much hassle to get LTE to work, hopefully an easier fix will come along before I return the Flex 2 and I'll just keep it for myself.

Blackhalo said:
I ended up grabbing Tmo G3 for around the same price, this is a phone for my wife so didn't want to go through to much hassle to get LTE to work, hopefully an easier fix will come along before I return the Flex 2 and I'll just keep it for myself.
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i have the gflex 2 on tmobile running LTE Band 12enabled.....everything works fine.....