Is it possible to flash a different radio/baseband to enable frequencies meant for a different market?
I own two OnePlus 8's. One from North America, and one from China. I would like to be able and flash the North American radio/baseband to the Chinese model in an effort to improve usability in the North American market and other countries that I visit.
Essentially, are the frequencies controlled by hardware or software limitations? Thank you for the discussion...
Side by side comparison of frequencies from the OnePlus websites attached in the image
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I just wanted to check what the actual difference is between UK Spec, Euro Spec and America spec phones. The only thing i can think of is the frequencies, which is made pretty redundant with quad band. That is especially true in relation to UK to USA, but what about UK v Europe? They do they use the same or slightly different frequencies?
NB i've looked on wiki and there is too much UTMS etc talk for me to understand.
Thanks in advance!
lord_melchett said:
I just wanted to check what the actual difference is between UK Spec, Euro Spec and America spec phones. The only thing i can think of is the frequencies, which is made pretty redundant with quad band. That is especially true in relation to UK to USA, but what about UK v Europe? They do they use the same or slightly different frequencies?
NB i've looked on wiki and there is too much UTMS etc talk for me to understand.
Thanks in advance!
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Frequency and the kind of services that you may get from your provider. For example, mos devices that come to the US are crippled one way or another depending on the carrier that they are going for. The Raphael (Touch Pro) is supposed to have a front camera for video calling. I cannot think of a single phone in the whole US market with this feature...
Having said that, this is US vs rest of the world (pretty much). Now, UK vs Europe... there shouldn't be too many fundamental differences (IMHO). Hope this helps...
If LTE bands are dependent on the physical chips that comes with it, doesn't it means that Nexus 5 should technically supports all LTE bands regardless of which region they are sold from? I highly doubt that there's any hardware difference that ships from google US, UK, JP, AU, etc etc. They must have come from the same factory but why the differences in the LTE band supported? Will software hack be able to enable those unsupported LTE bands in the future? Any guess?
I'm going to buy a North American Nexus 5 and use it in Europe. As far as I know, the LTE frequency bands are different in America and Europe.
My question is, would it be possible to change the radio (or modem? or whatever it's called there) to make the LTE work in Europe? Or is it hardware locked?
No, it's hardware.
I'm fully aware that Z3s come in different variants with support for different LTE and UMTS bands. So, is it possible to flash a D6603 firmware to my D6653 so I get North American LTE bands?
This is from my rather limited research that you can simply flash a different firmware to "unlock" these bands which are supported by the hardware.
Dear all:
As you know, many phones has different sub-type that designed to support different LTE band of varioius geographical regions. As an example, the phone I use has three different variant of dual-SIM phone that differ only in different LTE band supported (Moto X Pure): Chinese variant, Latin America variant, Southeast Asian variant. Aside from different LTE band supported, everything else (hardware wise) is identical.
Can I simply burn Latin American variant ROM (which is also a dual-SIM) to a Chinese phone, assuming that despite differences in LTE band supported, the radio hardware is the same thus the radio*ROM is interchangable.
I hope my question make sense. thanks in advance.
Harv