Hello XDA! Longtime lurker, first post.
I've got a Korean LG G3 and T-mobile service, which means LTE and 2G bands are off limits in the United States. I'm running CM12 as of a few days ago - when installing the new OS, I flashed a new radio baseband as well. It included an HSDPA band that I'd not seen before.
As a n00b, I'm confused as to where hardware becomes firmware becomes software. I've read many a post on the forum, but confusion remains. From this post it sounds as though with some patience and method, modifying my phone's firmware to include additional bands is possible but putsy.
In the case of the G3, there is a variant for each major US carrier. The T-mobile variant is the D851.
The question: can I flash the baseband radio/modem of a D851 onto my F400L and gain access to T-mobile's entire frequency set?
If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be much appreciative. Thanks and cheers.
kipjones said:
Hello XDA! Longtime lurker, first post.
I've got a Korean LG G3 and T-mobile service, which means LTE and 2G bands are off limits in the United States. I'm running CM12 as of a few days ago - when installing the new OS, I flashed a new radio baseband as well. It included an HSDPA band that I'd not seen before.
As a n00b, I'm confused as to where hardware becomes firmware becomes software. I've read many a post on the forum, but confusion remains. From this post it sounds as though with some patience and method, modifying my phone's firmware to include additional bands is possible but putsy.
In the case of the G3, there is a variant for each major US carrier. The T-mobile variant is the D851.
The question: can I flash the baseband radio/modem of a D851 onto my F400L and gain access to T-mobile's entire frequency set?
If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be much appreciative. Thanks and cheers.
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Hi,
Looks like there is no dedicated forum for your device but you can try asking your question here http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help for better help and support.
Good luck.
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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.
Hey guys, here's some possibily stupid question. I have a brazilian P920H and my 3G carrier operates at 850MHz where I live.
That being said, there's simply no way that any P920 firmware will get 3G network on my phone, but all GB options I have available are haunted by some ghosts... I'm stuck at froyo for the time being.
It is known that the european basebands works with P920H, only lacking support for some especific frequencies (including WCDMA 850MHz), but is there a way to add this frequencies to the basebands of the GBs that are free of ghost calls? I simply don't know anything about programming, so my question can be dumb as hell, but I guess it won't hurt to ask, right? =D
Maybe there's just some stupid file saying wich frequencies the radio can try to operate, or maybe there's a whole bunch of code for each frequency. I simply don't have a clue, so I awayt for the expert's answers.
Thanks.
I've got a Chinese version of OPO. It should work with AWS WCDMA (band 4) in terms of official information. And the threads on OPO's international forum show that it does works with T-mobile or Wind. I really want to know what's the difference between Int OPO and Chn OPO. I have tried everything posted on official forum and it still cant work on Wind network. I'm so frustrated and really need help to fix this problem....
Hi guys,
I bought a Moto G LTE (XT1040) in Colombia because my old phone broke there. I thought there'd be no problem using its LTE capacities in Europe as well. Bad luck. It doesn't since in Colombia/America they use different bands. Is there a way to make my XT1040 use European bands, just like the XT1039 (European Version) would? HSDPA+ works fine.
Some facts that might help:
The phone XT1040 only takes bands 4 and 7 (at least it says so on the box).
According to my provider, I'd need bands 7 and 20. But 7 isn't in use here in Germany yet, and in cities hardly ever will.
I haven't been quite successful in the Moto G forum here. But maybe it's also a rather general question that applies for other Android Devices as well. If I posted in a wrong forum, I'd ask the mods to move that thread accordingly.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Hello,
Haven't been here for a while and saw the treads saying the G930T is flashable with the unlocked version, so I am excited to do that when I get home. I currently using Cricket, which is a subsidiary of AT&T, so I was thinking of flashing the AT&T bands. Would this cause any problems? I saw others have flashed the T-Mobile with no problems to keep wifi calling, but considering I don't need those, would I even see a performance increase for using the AT&T bands on the G930T? That is the only reason I was considering it.
Lastly, I was on the Sammobile site, but there are two versions of the 930U listed, one as USA and one as USA: T-Mobile (https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s7/SM-G930U/). Do I need to use one over the other?
Thanks for the help!