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[Non-root] Stock Verizon Note 5 APN Settings Editing

Hello Verizon Note 5 XDA members, I myself am a owner of the Verizon Note 5, eagerly awaiting, and looking for ways to gain root on this phone.
Unfortunately we do not have it fully as of yet. So in the mean time I have been messing around, looking for things I can do without rooting.
I am unsure if anyone else has found this method, or posted it to any other websites, however I have not noticed this posted on XDA nor have I found any accurate
posts on how to change APN settings, unless the phone is from a different carrier other than Verizon.
TL;DR - Here's a method I believe I found for changing APN Settings without root.
My phone specs is the first screenshot in the steps.
I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO ANY AND ALL DAMAGES TO YOUR PHONE THAT THIS MAY CAUSE. DOING THIS YOU ACCEPT AND USE THIS METHOD AT YOUR OWN RISK WITHOUT HOLDING ME LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES.
First things first, I am unsure if this will work for lower versions, or any other model. Or if any other phone may contain this. My model and version is this:
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Also note, my APN Settings are greyed out, blocked, be whatever you want to call it.
Step 1. Clear all recent apps, or just make sure you do not have settings opened in the background processes. As this will stop you from reaching the bypass in step 6 and it will show the usual greyed out/blocked add button.
Step 2. Download Activity Launcher, or use any software that allows launching of app activities. I suggest Activity Launcher only due to this is the app I was using at the time I found this.
Step 3. Open Activity Launcher, and make sure All Activities is selected in the top left corner. It could take a few seconds, to a minute to load them all depending on how many apps you have installed.
Step 4. Locate the activity called "com.test.LTEfunctionality" without quotation marks. It should be near the bottom of the list in Activity Launcher. Expand the drop down by clicking on the activity once so it looks like the screenshot.
Step 5. Click on LTE Test to launch this activity. What launches should look like this screenshot below.
Step 6. Scroll down until you see LTE APN Setting as in the screenshot below. Then click it.
Step 7. Profit from changing your APN Settings to however you please.
To enable the APN, you must select it from the screen on Step 7, it will not show up in your usual Settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names. It will also appear as you have no APN selected in the usual APN screen. To modify your APN's again, you will have to go through all of the above steps again starting from Step 3.

Sorry, if I'm not in the know but why would I want this?
Thanks

pbman1953 said:
Sorry, if I'm not in the know but why would I want this?
Thanks
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You don't.. There's no need to change your APN (Access Point Name) when your phone is already set up to properly receive calls, texts and data. This will not do anything towards helping to root at all.. You would need this if you were trying to get a phone that you already paid for onto Verizon or some other carriers network. Other than that there's not much use of this.

I'm using a verizon version on Cricket/AT&T. When I inserted my sim card I had to manually enter my APN info and all i had to do was scroll through settings till i found the mobile networks. Then once inside that menu I hit APN. It automatically let me enter my info without having to go through all of what you were explaining...

I am currently deployed and brought my Verizon Note 5. I purchased a prepaid data SIM and had to edit the APN settings for it to work. I didn't have to go through all these crazy steps either, I don't know what this person is talking about.
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I have a Verizon note 5 and I want to change to a free APN in my area. This didn't work for me but I'm going to try some variations . My APN is locked out like yours. Thanx

I finally got my APN to change
I tried this method and they must have patched it on the Dec 2017 software version because it did not open the APN Test at step 6..
What I did was put in am ATT sim card, went in to APN settings, Added an APN with the "TRACFONE.VZWENTP" APN settings and saved it. (the saved APN disappeared from the list after saving) Pulled out the ATT sim card, Reinserted my PagePlus sim card and restarted. It worked, I Now Have DATA!
The APN settings are still greyed out now and I can not change them but phone is using the APN i set while I had the other sim card in the phone so its working great for me!

I was excited, but unfortunately this did not work for me. I'm on Straight Talk and I updated to Nougat with Smart Switch, but now my data doesn't work. Would be super nice if I could change my APN setting and get it to work again. Verizon claims they don't lock their 4G LTE devices, but this definitely seems like a way of locking it.

Hey I just loaded a FreedomPop SIM card with no real problem. I swapped out the Sim card and then did a factory reset. It still tried to connect to Verizon but FP ran a setup program that allowed me to add a new APN. I them loaded Samsung package disabler 11.5 and killed the setup wizzard from Verizon. No more error messages.

About unlock additional LTE bands on all lg v20 model

Any body care about unlock all lte banda( 1 to 44 ) on all lg v20 all unlocker bootlooder model? that make you get full network on all eu or usa as i test
Or make full rom with unlock 2g and 3g and 4gb bands to work on every where in world with root without kcal and fix cpu decrease speed and screen burn with new thame?
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how did you do it?

Reprogram the modem simply

The modem firmware is signed with an RSA cert and is checked by the XBL on boot. If there are any modifications, it will not load it.
Code:
hexdump -C modem | grep -i rootca
0001b770 4c 47 45 20 72 6f 6f 74 63 61 31 0c 30 0a 06 03 |[B]LGE rootca1.0...[/B]|
So, are you asking if it can be done, or are you saying that you figured out how to modify signed firmware? I am confused....
Also, while the radios may be cable of the bands, all models don't have all have the antennas needed.
If you managed to modify signed firmware, I would be real interested in the exploit.
-- Brian

ya, this correct it signed and checked every signal booting but we speak on unlooking boot model so every thing is possible
i can not modify signed but i can stop checking it so it possible and i do (can see the pic)
all bands from 1 to 44
before that i was not have network in my pleass ,mobile for usa and i live in eu but now i get 3g and 4g after unlock all those bands

If I remember correct, unlocking the bootloader only disables the RSA cert checking of system, boot and recovery partitions and nothing more. This check is embedded in aboot and any modification of it would result in a 9008 mode which is big trouble. I find this information suspicious unless you can provide real proof like video or something else.

In end i do it when i have time i will be everything clearly
Also i will make video when i back to Home
Now i only sure about lte bands only 15-16 not work with me because there are not have antina for this bands

Hisham alshaeer said:
In end i do it when i have time i will be everything clearly
Also i will make video when i back to Home
Now i only sure about lte bands only 15-16 not work with me because there are not have antina for this bands
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Back home yet?
Sent from my LG-H918 using Tapatalk

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/aL-yMGx5zpE/[YOUTUBE]
I was busy

Hisham alshaeer said:
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/aL-yMGx5zpE/[YOUTUBE]
I was busy
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Could you please write how you did the unlock, like a guide?

can you support also LG G5?

Not really sure what the purpose for this thread is?
I don't see anything to download, no steps to do manually or any type of guide for the mod.
Only thing I really see besides the screenshots of whatever is a link to paypal for donations....
Also, I can't speak for other devices/carriers, but my H918 with Tmo only has 3 bands that work.
My fullscreen caller ID mod has an option in the app for various hidden settings, one of which is band selections.
IDK... If OP had something useful that users could works with, then I could see the point of this thread, but posting pics of stuff that isn't available or in the works to be shared is kindof useless.
If OP supplies guide or instruction for mod, great, thank you, otherwise I suggest people simply move on. No point posting here

stangdriver44 said:
Not really sure what the purpose for this thread is?
I don't see anything to download, no steps to do manually or any type of guide for the mod.
Only thing I really see besides the screenshots of whatever is a link to paypal for donations....
Also, I can't speak for other devices/carriers, but my H918 with Tmo only has 3 bands that work.
My fullscreen caller ID mod has an option in the app for various hidden settings, one of which is band selections.
IDK... If OP had something useful that users could works with, then I could see the point of this thread, but posting pics of stuff that isn't available or in the works to be shared is kindof useless.
If OP supplies guide or instruction for mod, great, thank you, otherwise I suggest people simply move on. No point posting here
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Can you please give me the link to your mod? Thanks

hello, im interested in this!
im running an unlocked vs995
i tried putting my ATT sim and all i got was 3g and HSPA
then i rooted and installed i have the WETA 5.0.7 rom using the US996 firmware
i now get 4G and sometimes 4G LTE
the problem with that is some of the bands dont work
and either in global network or the GSM/LTE the signal drops
My question is, will this be able to fix that???

Please can u tell us how to do this? I need to switch to another network on band 28 but H910 does not support it.

Hey guys you can get "network signal guru" from Google play store.

ViLTE

Any way to activate carrier video calling (ViLTE) on pixel 3. It's available in android one devices.

Yes
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perfoliate said:
Yes
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Which is your model??
It's not available for Pixel 3 in India.

I believe the poster was using the magisk VoEnabler to get the settings (or edit to build.prop). For any of that to actually work it needs carrier support. It is enabled in my settings, but I know no other person who uses it so cannot test it.

wangdaning said:
I believe the poster was using the magisk VoEnabler to get the settings (or edit to build.prop). For any of that to actually work it needs carrier support. It is enabled in my settings, but I know no other person who uses it so cannot test it.
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I was enable to activate carrier video calling with VoEnabler, thanks. But when I try to make video calls it take me to Google duo. And carrier support is not require in India. We have all unlocked phones here.

Cherser said:
I was enable to activate carrier video calling with VoEnabler, thanks. But when I try to make video calls it take me to Google duo. And carrier support is not require in India. We have all unlocked phones here.
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It is not about carrier unlock. It is if they have the service.

wangdaning said:
It is not about carrier unlock. It is if they have the service.
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They have service. I have used it in OnePlus phones, all Xiaomi phones and Samsung phones. It is Google that not allowing this to promote their Google Duo app which requires data on ( if anybody is wondering why I am not using that).
When Google introduced Pixel 1 in India VoLTE was not available. After 2 months they activated it by an update ( codeaurora.ims) .

Cherser said:
They have service. I have used it in OnePlus phones, all Xiaomi phones and Samsung phones. It is Google that not allowing this to promote their Google Duo app which requires data on ( if anybody is wondering why I am not using that).
When Google introduced Pixel 1 in India VoLTE was not available. After 2 months they activated it by an update ( codeaurora.ims) .
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Sorry for any misunderstanding, I am not in India so cannot really get the situation. Here in China all google service is blocked. My phone can only use such service if the carrier allows it.

Cherser said:
I was enable to activate carrier video calling with VoEnabler, thanks. But when I try to make video calls it take me to Google duo. And carrier support is not require in India. We have all unlocked phones here.
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Has to be offered and enabled by carrier unless you somehow used qpst a d flashed different mbn files. As of now, impossible on pixel 3 to do what I mentioned.

Xdevillived666 said:
Has to be offered and enabled by carrier unless you somehow used qpst a d flashed different mbn files. As of now, impossible on pixel 3 to do what I mentioned.
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Please don't say carrier. Huawei pushed ViLTE in Feb 2019 to Honor View 20 via EMUI update. Back in 2017 Google pushed VoLTE to Pixel XL via 7.1.1 update in India.
Google really want to use Duo for Video calling like Facetime

On dialling *#*#4636#*#*
I used old Google contacts app

Cherser said:
Please don't say carrier. Huawei pushed ViLTE in Feb 2019 to Honor View 20 via EMUI update. Back in 2017 Google pushed VoLTE to Pixel XL via 7.1.1 update in India.
Google really want to use Duo for Video calling like Facetime
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It still has to be an approved device by the carrier whther or not the oem allows for it with their device. If this wasnt the case then there wouldnt be tons of forums with people using the forementioned qpst and other such methods to get the options working despite their carrier not allowing it.

Xdevillived666 said:
It still has to be an approved device by the carrier whther or not the oem allows for it with their device. If this wasnt the case then there wouldnt be tons of forums with people using the forementioned qpst and other such methods to get the options working despite their carrier not allowing it.
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Carrier which is Jio already supports video calling.

Cherser said:
Carrier which is Jio already supports video calling.
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Have they activated it on your particular sim card. I use China Telecom and could not get VoLTE until I contacted them and they activated it on my sim card.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to/guide-qxdm-port-activation-pixel-2-xl-t3884967
Something like this is required.

My carrier China Telecom has enabled it at it works with the google phone app.

My thread here https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3/help/china-telecom-t3891520 might be related. The mbn files for Chinese carriers were not correctly put into the file, had to be manually added. I just looked and cannot locate any mbn files for Indian providers in that location.
Maybe you just need to get the mbn from another device and add it to the /generic folder and the sw_mbn.txt file. It requires you to disable verity to change the vendor partition, you can use magisk. After changing re-enable verity and do a twrp factory reset.

Cherser said:
Carrier which is Jio already supports video calling.
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Ims registration is done by the carrier . Any basic sim engineer knows this. Some carriers are more liberal about it while others, like att are not. Glad it's working for you!

Question ROG PHONE 5 VOLTE...Need Help!!!

There is no option to activate VOLTE in my phone.So i asked the Asus about this matter and they said VOLTE does not support to my country. But VOLTE perfectly works on my xiaomi and samsung devices..Any method to activate VOLTE on ROG 5????
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Tharaka devinda said:
There is no option to activate VOLTE in my phone.So i asked the Asus about this matter and they said VOLTE does not support to my country. But VOLTE perfectly works on my xiaomi and samsung devices..Any method to activate VOLTE on ROG 5????View attachment 5301121
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Which country you from ? I have same issue and I'm in UK . If I put my SIM in my Huawei volte works perfectly, on my Rog 5 it doesn't. Asus are getting very Shi*

Thanos88 said:
Which country you from ? I have same issue and I'm in UK . If I put my SIM in my Huawei volte works perfectly, on my Rog 5 it doesn't. Asus are getting very Shi*
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Im from srilanka

Can you look under phone and click the 3 dots in the corner and select settings then call and check under others? Do you see an option for Wi-Fi calling or video calling options?

No..there are no such options..

Tharaka devinda said:
No..there are no such options..
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I've used this code change the region of the phone to US. Try using this and see if you can tweak something there. Please be very careful of what you do as I can't be responsible for any damage happens to your device. The code is *#*#4636#*#*

I have set the radio bands to USA..Still no luck...thanks anyway..

Tharaka devinda said:
I have set the radio bands to USA..Still no luck...thanks anyway..
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I'm sorry I wish I could be of more help. Asus sure knows how to lose customers like this. There is one more thing you can try. There is a code that will force Wi-Fi calling for Asus phones but I can't say it will work for your country this code will not stick if you reboot your device as well. *#*#3642623344#*#* enter that and go to the same location I asked you to look into in my first post and check if the options appeared this time. Good luck.

Here is what i get when i enter *#*#3642623344#*#* ..

Tharaka devinda said:
Here is what i get when i enter *#*#3642623344#*#* ..
View attachment 5302057
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After I entered the code above I went to phone icon and under settings then select call I found an option for wifi calling.

Yeah..i got those options too..but VOLTE does not seem to be working..

UK user here. Entered the code too. Option appears for 4g calling (volte) but doesn't work even when switched on.
Guys I must stress, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to Zentalk and open a thread on there with all your rog 5 issues. Volte, WiFi calling, battery life, any issues with rog 5 please post on Zentalk forum under the Rog 5 thread. Asus will take notice then the more people that post on zentalk the better!!

Yes.we should do that...And Also please report these issues to the ASUS CEO using this link..
CEO Office | ASUS India
How to escalate to asus,asus escalation matrix,asus india complain(t) address,how to complain(t) to asus,asus service,asus support,contact asus
indiacsc.asus.com
(I got it from their support service)

Tharaka devinda said:
Yes.we should do that...And Also please report these issues to the ASUS CEO using this link..
CEO Office | ASUS India
How to escalate to asus,asus escalation matrix,asus india complain(t) address,how to complain(t) to asus,asus service,asus support,contact asus
indiacsc.asus.com
(I got it from their support service)
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All done ! Fingers crossed

if your network supports it then it should work out the box.

jutley said:
if your network supports it then it should work out the box.
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Yes..My network supports VOLTE..it perfectly works on my other devices..

jutley said:
if your network supports it then it should work out the box.
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My network supports it too. Works on my Huawei, but not on Rog , useless

You might want to call your provider to provision VoLTE

Tharaka devinda said:
There is no option to activate VOLTE in my phone.So i asked the Asus about this matter and they said VOLTE does not support to my country. But VOLTE perfectly works on my xiaomi and samsung devices..Any method to activate VOLTE on ROG 5????View attachment 5301121
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Not sure about you all, but i found my volte option under mobile network.

Use *#*#3642623344#*#* code mentioned up and check settings again, it works for me in CZ

Themes / Apps / Mods *Guide* Moto G Stylus 2021 XT2115 Boost Mobile LTE Data fix

Have you noticed that your data doesnt always work in areas that you get almost perfect signal? Well this guide will help.
Get your dialer open. were gonna us a ussd code!
dial *#*#3282#*#*
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next you want to tap on LTE button and the next screen will occur
first we will tap on VIEW
make sure you know your MSL code for a later step
(BOOST Mobile normally has aa code of 000000 for their device for easy programming)
(View Screen)
the next step you tap on "Bands Priority" and get ready to change some values.
your values for each band should look like this below (tested on 2 devices and no issues so far)
thats it for that part of our journey. now we have to enable other band functions in the LTE Edit menu.
close that window and start another instance of the ussd code we used earlier and this time when we tap on LTE also tap on Edit (not view).
the next screen should look just like this
now type in your msl code
*again if you have boost mobile it will more than likely be 000000*
000000
the next screen you want to have has a bunch of Upload and Download enablers. Next 2 pictures.
you will want everything enabled that i have above. (pretty much all but 2)
the 2 left not enabled are
CA DL 26A-41A Enabled = off
and
CA DL 38C Enabled = off
they do not stay on for long if you turn them on.
Finally use this USSD dialer code
*#*#4636#*#*
then tap on Phone Information
next you will get the screen below and we aer going to change 1 thing
tap on "Set Preferred Network Type"
you will want to change the type to LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA(PRL)
afte that your finale step is to restart your device. and Voila you should have better data speed by up to 100mbps+/- a second.
Enjoy
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Why does this work, and would it also work the same for the boost 5g model?
EDIT: I also want to add, it's probably a good idea to take a screenshot of your existing values before changing them if you need to switch them back.

It works because it puts that natural bands for boost mobile in the order to receive and send data first. They are off with a 0 by default. Which I thought was weird . I only added bands 25,26 and 41 to the queue operating first to capture packets from a native source tower. The UL and DL options enable those frequencies to use the signal sent and received. I enabled all I could by default so I can capture more packets over the network with more possible instances.
As for if it will work on the 5g. I am going to test that tonight and will post in the 5g forum. I do not know because I haven't had much experience besides reading at the moment.

I did the changes on my 5G, service still works, however no noticeable difference in coverage or speed, I did have to set a few to 0 that were enabled before

ShayBox said:
I did the changes on my 5G, service still works, however no noticeable difference in coverage or speed, I did have to set a few to 0 that were enabled before
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I probably wouldn't have done that because they're are 5g bands that were enabled like 71 and 12. Try adding the missing bands into the queue gradually and watching for cell tower switchover in phone information. So I would suggest a revert and slowly test each feature/band that you change. Don't go full out because it may cause a conflict with 5g capabilities.
Here is the original band queue for the 5g variant boost mobile. (So you got em in case)
Band 1 is marked as 0.
If you do decide to run with this then let me know how your testing goes and get over to the moto g stylus 5g forum and post there. Wouldn't mind the help testing on 5g as I only have 1 right now. DM/PM me with updates if you can.