Hi All,
I bought refurbished pixel 3a on ali, but they send me japan version and I im in europe, and I realized that I have issue with LTE, based on wiki some LTE channels missing on JPN version.
Would be possible to flash EU radio firmware or device HW is different ?
Thanks,
Rastislav
So nobody nothing ? No solution ? Just return phone ?
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Hi, everyone.
Week ago received Nexus 5 from USA as a gift. Finally, discovered USA Nexus 5 variant doesn't support EU LTE band.
Is there any way to convert USA variant to EU variant.
I've tried to flash radio from EU variant, but no success.
Any chance to change LTE band?
alangrig said:
Hi, everyone.
Week ago received Nexus 5 from USA as a gift. Finnaly, discovered USA Nexus 5 variant doesn't support EU LTE band.
Is there any way to convert USA variant to EU variant.
I've tried to flash radio from EU variant, but no success.
Any chance to change LTE band?
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You would have to change the motherboard and the radio chip. Realy not worth the money it will cost and the work it takes to do it. Buy one in Europe bro and enjoy the phone.
Send it back and kindly ask the giver to return it and give you the refund money. If you explain the situation I'm sure they'd understand.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
alangrig said:
Hi, everyone.
Week ago received Nexus 5 from USA as a gift. Finally, discovered USA Nexus 5 variant doesn't support EU LTE band.
Is there any way to convert USA variant to EU variant.
I've tried to flash radio from EU variant, but no success.
Any chance to change LTE band?
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It's a hardware issue, not a software issue. No amount of flashing would solve anything. Sorry.
Have been searching the whole day, but is there any difference in supported LTE bands between the US and Europe model? I haven't found any differences... Seems there is only one unlocked model? (Differences aside from RAM).
Visiting New York in January, this looks like the ideal phone for my girlfriend… Hope to bring one home for her.
EU is HIA_AERO_UHL same as M9 ：）
The only international LTE bands that the unlocked US model supports are 3 and 7. Okay for occasional roaming in Europe but not enough in my opinion if you were going to use it there all the time.
That is because of soft or hardware? I bought US modell because of 3/32 GB, hoped there is no real difference....
working great for me in Germany
Hello all,
for me the unlocked 32GB version is working greate with LTE (tmobile network) in Germany.
MarcMarin
Where did you bought it?
What kind of cable / power supply did you get delivered with? (german or not)
Hi,
I bought my pixel 4a in the USA last month and now that I am back to europe, I noticed that carrier aggregation is not working.
I found on google that on previous pixels, carrier aggregation only works for the region on where you bough the phone... so now, I am stuck with single band connection.
Is there any way to force enable LTE+/4G+ carrier aggregation / CA2 in Europe for an USA, unlocked model?
I don't have root... but I would root it if that means enabling that feature globally.
in Germany LTE+ is working out of the box. no root
dangerhouse said:
in Germany LTE+ is working out of the box. no root
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Do you have the USA model and not the one released for EU?
And are you running Android 11?
I tried it in Portugal, UK, Spain and France on Vodafone and I couldn't get any 4G+ connectivity.
In the US I had no issues with LTE+ at all, only when I came back to europe.
eu model, android 11 stock
peixotorms said:
Hi,
I bought my pixel 4a in the USA last month and now that I am back to europe, I noticed that carrier aggregation is not working.
I found on google that on previous pixels, carrier aggregation only works for the region on where you bough the phone... so now, I am stuck with single band connection.
Is there any way to force enable LTE+/4G+ carrier aggregation / CA2 in Europe for an USA, unlocked model?
I don't have root... but I would root it if that means enabling that feature globally.
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Resting Wi_Fi, mobile & Bluetooth...............or factory reset doesn't work I assume.
Maybe try this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/how-to-enable-lte-carrier-aggregation-t4113189
dangerhouse said:
eu model, android 11 stock
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Thanks, but I am talking about using the US version in EU. The EU version will naturally work in EU.
crackerjack1957 said:
Resting Wi_Fi, mobile & Bluetooth...............or factory reset doesn't work I assume.
Maybe try this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/how-to-enable-lte-carrier-aggregation-t4113189
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I was hoping more for some mod perhaps.
I have checked that my phone is only connecting to one band, without aggregation.
It worked fine in the usa, but not in europe, so most likely, they lock it on the oem.
The bands are supported. I have B1,B3,B7,B20 available on my network, and they are all supported individually, but not aggregated.
It does look like the North American model is the G025J, and the European model is the G025N.
I do wonder if getting carrier aggregation working might require some special registration with the carrier though.
It doesn't require carrier registration. I have 3 sims and they all do 4g+ on my old galaxy note 8.
Pixel 3 had the same issue. They block carrier aggregation outside the region on where you bought the product, at the OEM level.
Maybe some dev knows how to unlock it on the software. I've see this for other brands.
Hi,
im thinking of buying the 12gb/256gb version of the 8t for EU/Germany, but in silver (dont like that green at all).
So there is no 12gb version for germany in silver.
the chinese version can be convertert to a global/eu with flashing the proper rom, but does it also open the 4G bands for EU (especially band 28, with would be more used in germany), or does the eu and chinese variants NOT have the same hardware (the modem)?
i dont find a sliver+12gb variant anywhere to buy outside of germany but in the eu...
thanks in advance for some hints.
Hello,
I bought this wonderful phone (Oneplus 8T) in Europe but it doesn't work in the USA.
According to this page https://www.kimovil.com/it/frequency-checker/US/oneplus-8t my "Global" version can't receive Band 71 (660 MHz) but the "Nord America" version can do it.
Is there a way to flash the USA firmware so to have all the needed Bands or it will be an HW problem?
Thanks in advance.
carlinux said:
Hello,
I bought this wonderful phone (Oneplus 8T) in Europe but it doesn't work in the USA.
According to this page https://www.kimovil.com/it/frequency-checker/US/oneplus-8t my "Global" version can't receive Band 71 (660 MHz) but the "Nord America" version can do it.
Is there a way to flash the USA firmware so to have all the needed Bands or it will be an HW problem?
Thanks in advance.
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I bought the European version and mine works well in America. I'm on T-Mobile. Who is your carrier?
So, you bought the EU variant or the global variant?
My carrier is T-Mobile too. And the phone works very well in some places, but not where I need.
I am waiting for a confirmation but in the house where my daughter lives the only one band is Band 71.
Murphy's law, I think.
You can convert between the different oos versions without much problem but the band support can't be changed it is configured in hw, which we can't modify.