Note 7 LTE bands

[Greenmule]

I'm considering buying a Note 7 through Verizon.

Verizon claims that they do not "lock" their devices so they cannot "unlock" them.

here are the LTE bands that their Note 7 supports: LTE Band 2,4,5,13 LTE Roaming 3,7,8, 18,19,20GSM/UMTS QuadTD-SCDMA 34, 39TDD LTE 38, 39, 40, 41.

No band 12 (T-Mo), no band 17 (AT&T) no band 25 9print). same situation with AT&T, no band 13, no band 12, no band 25.

Question: is Samsung building the Note 7 specifically for the individual carrier and no matter what, if I want 4g LTE on another carrier I'll be SOL? will rooting the device solve this problem?

is this restriction controlled by software, firmware or bios? thank you in advance for any insights.

 

[Malkozaine]

I am also wondering the same thing. If I got the Sprint Note 7 would I be able to bring it over to AT&T and/or T-Mobile and use all there bands fine later on?

 

[Team420]

My GUESS (notice the all caps...) is that it is software controlled.... Pretty sure they are shipping the same hardware to every carrier in the US. That being said... it may not be easy (if possible at all) to make it do what you want... Locked bootloader and all....

Im sure root will be had at some point, but most of us may no longer own the device by then....

 

[erootaku123]

Why dont you just buy the international model which is unlocked?

 

[toastido]

It's usually controlled via qcn config which can be modified with the proper tools (QPST). I don't think this one will be any different.

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[senectus]

It's usually controlled via qcn config which can be modified with the proper tools (QPST). I don't think this one will be any different.

Sent from my LG-H901 using Tapatalk

this might be of some assistance:
http://willmyphonework.net/

** Edit, aslo this: https://www.frequencycheck.com/

 

[Greenmule]

what got me here in the first place is that frequency check lists one thing and the Verizon/AT&T/T-mo websites have something else. Frequency check thinks that the SM-N930V (VZW phone) has bands 12 and 17 in it. VZW website has other info.

I believe that the VZW and AT&T websites are correct and Samsung builds the phones carrier specific; therefore they don't have to "lock" or "unlock" them because the LTE side of the phone won't work on another carrier anyway. the more expensive the phone gets the longer I keep it and if it is carrier specific, then the more airtime I buy from that carrier.

 

[Greenmule]

Why dont you just buy the international model which is unlocked?

1) I would buy a "US unlocked" version if there was such a thing. If anything goes wrong with the actual hardware in the first 6 months, no one wants to be responsible for an international version.

2) I would like to have both GSM and CDMA on same device. i don't want to use "phone", how much actual phone calling gets done on a Note 7? it's more of a data device than a phone. I'd trade unlim calls and unlim text down to 1.500 min and 1,200 texts for 5 more Gb of data. how about you?

 

[erootaku123]

1) I would buy a "US unlocked" version if there was such a thing. If anything goes wrong with the actual hardware in the first 6 months, no one wants to be responsible for an international version.

2) I would like to have both GSM and CDMA on same device. i don't want to use "phone", how much actual phone calling gets done on a Note 7? it's more of a data device than a phone. I'd trade unlim calls and unlim text down to 1.500 min and 1,200 texts for 5 more Gb of data. how about you?

I got t-mobile so I have unlimited everything. Dual sim cause I got multi phone lines cause additional lines are so cheap (5 dollar). I dont and wont use CDMA ever so its useless to me. Most of the world I travel to has gsm anyway. For warranty sure that's bad just get square trade and you should be fine.