[R&D] my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II shows LTE bands

minhajmsd · Dec 29, 2011

Really informative
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/12/edit...ld-and-will-deploy-lte-the-technical-edition/

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iloveandroid16 · Dec 29, 2011

minhajmsd said:
Really informative
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/12/edit...ld-and-will-deploy-lte-the-technical-edition/

Very, hmm I give them one year.

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Longcat14 · Dec 29, 2011

Guys, neither the Telus or T-Mobile radios will work, if you wanted to even test LTE, you'd need to find someone who has an LTE phone on one of those bands, and flash a skyrocket radio.

SGS2X · Dec 29, 2011

I mentioned this before but didn't get a reply

but in that thread where i posted, someone before me said that they were just there but had no function.. but if we can flash a rogers/at&t modem to check, that would be crazy

y2whisper · Dec 30, 2011

For me I'm looking for the telus radio for 42mbps capability. No late in my immediate area with bell.

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RuizGT · Dec 30, 2011

Hmm, I'll have to call to get my sim unlocked and start on this tomorrow, I guess I just need to Odin the modem from a skyrocket onto my phone and pop my att sim in, correct? That and turn off auto rotation ASAP, heh.

AznDud333 · Dec 30, 2011

flashing incorrect modem may or may not result in bricked phone
be warned.

mikeyinid · Dec 30, 2011

AznDud333 said:
flashing incorrect modem may or may not result in bricked phone
be warned.

Yup, and itll never work on att lte anyway. IF it is lte capable it would have to be on the tmobile network. Were probably a year or two from tmobile deploying lte.

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Longcat14 · Dec 30, 2011

AznDud333 said:
flashing incorrect modem may or may not result in bricked phone
be warned.

Not nessecarily, I've flashed T-Mo modems before, and nothing.

mikeyinid said:
Yup, and itll never work on att lte anyway. IF it is lte capable it would have to be on the tmobile network. Were probably a year or two from tmobile deploying lte.

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Actually, it has Band 4 and Band 17, which is what AT&T uses for LTE, so it should work with a Skyrocket modem unless it's locked somewhere in the hardware.

mikeyinid · Dec 30, 2011

Longcat14 said:
Not nessecarily, I've flashed T-Mo modems before, and nothing.

Actually, it has Band 4 and Band 17, which is what AT&T uses for LTE, so it should work with a Skyrocket modem unless it's locked somewhere in the hardware.

I'll be waiting for someone to try and see if it works. Let's place some bets. I say no

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AznDud333 · Dec 30, 2011

Longcat14 said:
Not nessecarily, I've flashed T-Mo modems before, and nothing.

Actually, it has Band 4 and Band 17, which is what AT&T uses for LTE, so it should work with a Skyrocket modem unless it's locked somewhere in the hardware.

you obviously didn't read my post

RuizGT · Dec 30, 2011

AznDud333 said:
flashing incorrect modem may or may not result in bricked phone
be warned.

It's fine, I work for tmo, I'll just warranty exchange it if it does.

Longcat14 · Dec 30, 2011

AznDud333 said:
you obviously didn't read my post

Yes I did, and Samsung phones aren't like HTC phones.

Flashing a bad or wrong radio won't brick your phone, since it doesn't touch the SBL (where download mode).

All that would happened is that you would have no radio access, which is easily fixed by flashing back a T-Mobile radio.

And our 2 phones are literally exactly alike, if I can flash a T-Mobile radio, you should have no problem flashing a Skyrocket radio.

kikiodead · Dec 30, 2011

I'm really excited to see if this works. I tipped of android central to see if we cant get some spotlight on this. Good find man (;

513263337 · Dec 30, 2011

OMFG I so wish our phone does have LTE hardware. That would make our phone AWESOME!!

RuizGT · Dec 30, 2011

Called in to get the unlock code, I'll post up when I get it and get the phone unlocked. Hopefully I don't have an issue getting the screen to enter the unlock code to pull up like some people were having.

-Mr. X- · Dec 30, 2011

I flashed the Rogers Skyrocket modem since it not RAT locked to my Telus T989D, seems to work fine. Just throwing it out there for people who think this will brick, it will not.

Longcat14 · Dec 30, 2011

kikiodead said:
I'm really excited to see if this works. I tipped of android central to see if we cant get some spotlight on this. Good find man (;

Yeah, we need them to shed some light on this.

513263337 said:
OMFG I so wish our phone does have LTE hardware. That would make our phone AWESOME!!

Long as it's the same radio as the Skyrocket, then it's software locked, which flashing a Skyrocket radio would fix.

Only way to lock the LTE radio would be for Samsung to ask Qualcomm to lock it in the hardware, which I doubt they did.

RuizGT said:
Called in to get the unlock code, I'll post up when I get it and get the phone unlocked. Hopefully I don't have an issue getting the screen to enter the unlock code to pull up like some people were having.

Just put a different SIM (not the carrier SIM) in the phone, and it should pull up, I don't see why it wouldn't.

-Mr. X- said:
I flashed the Rogers Skyrocket modem since it not RAT locked to my Telus T989D, seems to work fine. Just throwing it out there for people who think this will brick, it will not.

I think the people who think it'll brick used to be HTC users, because flashing a bad radio onto a HTC phone will **** your phone up.

Thankfully, Samsung doesn't associate the radio with anything in the bootloader, so we are fine.

-Mr. X- · Dec 30, 2011

Longcat14 said:
I think the people who think it'll brick used to be HTC users, because flashing a bad radio onto a HTC phone will **** your phone up.

Thankfully, Samsung doesn't associate the radio with anything in the bootloader, so we are fine.

Yah, Radios made me wary as well since i used to be htc.

Anyways, flashing the rogers radio, i can now select LTE bands and it sticks. instead of flopping back to automatic.

So i assume its seeing the lte firmware included in the modem flashed to the modem partitions.

Rogers doesn't have LTE in my hick ass town though, which is why i am Telus in the first place since they do have HSPA+ here

jordanishere · Dec 30, 2011

-Mr. X- said:
Yah, Radios made me wary as well since i used to be htc.

Anyways, flashing the rogers radio, i can now select LTE bands and it sticks. instead of flopping back to automatic.

So i assume its seeing the lte firmware included in the modem flashed to the modem partitions.

Rogers doesn't have LTE in my hick ass town though, which is why i am Telus in the first place since they do have HSPA+ here

So curious to hear if this works. I'd try it myself but T-Mobile wont unlock my phone until 90 days have passed as I am not on a contract with them.

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