a few questions

[ariel123]

i have a few question. i just bought my sensation. i would like to know if tmobile is going to charge extra for 4g usage conserding im using a 3g sim card. i read somewhere that 4g phones have different plans.

2nd is tethering free on the sensation and if not is there a way to make free (rooting or something)

3rd is there a way to disable 4g to improve battery

 

[samnada]

i have a few question. i just bought my sensation. i would like to know if tmobile is going to charge extra for 4g usage conserding im using a 3g sim card. i read somewhere that 4g phones have different plans.

2nd is tethering free on the sensation and if not is there a way to make free (rooting or something)

3rd is there a way to disable 4g to improve battery

You should be able to stick with your current plan. That's what they did for me, and many other posters.

Are you actually seeing a 3G icon? What UL/DL speeds are you getting?

There's currently no way to disable 4G and force 3G. You can disable WCDMA, but that will force 2G only.

 

[xnifex]

Tmobile's 4G is actually just 3G plus great marketing. You can disable 3G to help your battery but then you'd be down to just EDGE.

 

[ariel123]

I am getting 4g service I was just wondering wether there was a 4g sim cand or something that would improve the spewed cause honestly its only a little faster. Also for some reason my Yahoo mail won't sync any sugggestions. And btw I'm loving this phoon coming from the hd7

 

[samnada]

Tmobile's 4G is actually just 3G plus great marketing. You can disable 3G to help your battery but then you'd be down to just EDGE.

So, to clarify, are you saying there's no protocol difference between TMO's 3G and "4G"? Is the TMO 4G just an upgrade in speed of the same 3G data connection? Since it seems there are 4G SIMs, and the IMEI needs to be registered as 4G, and the phone needs special HW and SW for 4G, I was under the impression that TMO's 4G is actually a different protocol.

I understand TMO's 4G does not meet the speed definition of true 4G, but it could still be using a separate data format and protocol than 3G.

 

[xnifex]

On my phone so I really can't provide all the links and stuff but tmobile's
4G is hspa+ which is 3G tech. You can research more about it if you want.

sent from HTC Sensation