Hi guys,
I got a new moto g 3rd gen in India model XT1550, the phone is awsm and works great in India. There was no issue while using it on 4G or other operating networks in India.
But now I am in USA and I have a sim from a company called CampusSIMS. It offers some decent plans at a reasonable price. The problem is I am stuck on 2G network, whatever I do I cannot get 4G or 3G working on my phone. Later I read that mobile operating frequency for USA is different. Can anyone please tell me if any of the US carriers will support 4G on my phone. (Like does any US carrier has a operating frequency fully supported by my phone on 4g/3g)
I am planing to buy a family/group T-mobile plan with my room mates, so does anyone have any idea on how to add T-Mobile operating frequency on my phone. Is it even possible on moto g, cos i saw some post where people have success adding more operating frequency on their unlocked phone eg. samsung, zte etc. I like the phone and don't want to change it or buy a new one.
Any help regarding this is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I am fairly new to this site and i am not sure whether it has been asked already, but i was wondering if it is possible to flash a ROM that would grant access to Telstra's Next G Network.
I live in Australia and have a HTC Touch Pro and my carrier is Telstra. It is a GSM touch pro. In the 'network' and 'bands' tabs of my phone settings, i can only choose gsm on 900/1800/2100. Telstra's Next G network runs on 850.
Is there any way i can mod the phone to make use of the Next G network?
Any help appreciated
Thx!
What flavor is your phone (US or EU)? If I'm not mistaken US (AT&T) phones can use the 850 mhz band while European phones cannot. This is a hardware restriction and no ROM will be able to change that.
Hey thx for the reply!
I wasn't sure what flavour it is, so i went into the phone settings and went to the "About" section and it says something about the copyright being under U.S. copyright laws. So i can only assume it would be US. is there another way to tell?
Where did you buy it from?
I bought it through a Harvey Norman store in NSW. They had a telstra shop section there.
Not to worry!
i just found all my answers here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420865&page=39
thanks for your help.
Hello, Am trying to get a phone to a relative that lives in the Dominican Republic, i live in Puerto Rico where we get all the US phones(we are a common wealth of the US) so basically i got access to all US version of the phones, the problem is that on the Dominican the company that am trying to get the phone on is Orange and they use HSPA(3g) in the 900mhz. Is there any US branded phone that works on that frequency? as of right now none us cellphone company uses those, nor At&t or Tmobile or even Claro PR(all gsm).
I know that even though the company doesnt use certain frequency the phone could still support it. Have any one here know of a US android phone working on Orange Dominicana 3g network??
[Specs am looking for]
Front Facing Camera
Led Flash for the back camera
Decent size screen 4.0"+
You'd probably be best off sourcing an International Asian or European model from eBay. Most APAC/EU networks use 900/2100 for 3G.
Good luck!
I decided to go into the webpage of the company am trying to get a phone to work on, i just went trough the phones they sell, found the LG 3D which is sold here locally around my budget, and it uses the 900mhz band . My issue is somewhat resolved.
...there should be an accurate way to find information of the radios/freq. our phones hardware comes with....
phonearena.com not reliable
gsmarena.com not reliable
I have just moved in UK from US, and I have moto g 3G, 6 GB US GSM from amazon. I got a sim card of EE mobile and I am able to use only 2G data and to make and receive calls, texts as well. The service I bought is "pay as you go" and offers 2 GB of 4G data, I was told if my phone doesn't support 4G will run 3G but I have only 2G, on the connection bar it stays just E which is edge.
Is it possible to flash or root the phone to be able to use the 3G at least? Any ideas would high appreciable.
I think the us moto g uses different frequencies for 3g. It's not possible to make it work as the modem doesn't support the right frequency.
dethrat said:
I think the us moto g uses different frequencies for 3g. It's not possible to make it work as the modem doesn't support the right frequency.
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You must be right there is a modem inside and won't be compatible with the Europe frequencies band.
Thank you very much. Cheers.
There are two models sold in US. XT1032 Global GSM and XT1034 AWS. The latter will probably not work in UK. If you have the former, make sure you have correct APN settings. Tweakker may be of assistance.
I have a retail.US (XT1032) and i live in Ireland and i have no problem with data,calls or messaging whatsoever (I'm on tesco mobile) . It should work in UK i suppose.
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Hey everyone,
My friend is currently in the US and wants to purchase a phone that can be used both in the US and in Europe (more specifically in Hungary) as he's probably going to be travelling between the two continents. If he were to buy the phone through Moto Maker in the US, would everything (phone calls, 2g, 3g, 4g) work as it should? Or 4g wouldn't work? I'm confused by these band-related things.
Thanks in advance for the answers!
Pipusz said:
Hey everyone,
My friend is currently in the US and wants to purchase a phone that can be used both in the US and in Europe (more specifically in Hungary) as he's probably going to be travelling between the two continents. If he were to buy the phone through Moto Maker in the US, would everything (phone calls, 2g, 3g, 4g) work as it should? Or 4g wouldn't work? I'm confused by these band-related things.
Thanks in advance for the answers!
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2G and 3G would work... 4G/LTE is a different matter entirely.
The "LTE Bands" refer to specific frequency space in the wireless spectrum licensed to carriers in various parts of the world. Your device must have support for the LTE band(s) used by your carrier in order to connect to their LTE service.
US Version supports LTE Bands 2, 4, 5, 7, and 17, these are commonly used LTE Bands in North America... In the European version LTE Bands 1, 3, 7, 8, and 20 are supported and are the most commonly used across the EU. Only 7 overlaps (note that 7 is not in widespread deployment in Europe, only certain carriers in specific areas use it), whether this is good enough would depend on the carrier that would be used in Europe.
You can check what carrier uses what bands here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks
Hi all.!
I have a Moto G (3rd Gen) bought unlocked in Canada but am now living in the UK. I'm unable to pick up LTE coverage here and from reading online it seems to be that the LTE coverage here is sent out on different bands from that in Canada/USA.
Just wondering does anyone know of anyway I could resolve this?? I was thinking I would have to replace the radio or motherboard of the phone but I don't really know all too much about the topic!
Any info would be much appreciated!
Nope... band support is locked deep in the device, it's not just a flash modem X instead of Y... To date, no one has been able to even get close to unlocking other bands in one of these devices.
Honestly, you are just better off buying a new (or used) device locally.