[Q] Which variant of G3 should I buy on T-Mobile

[tykate]

Before you reply sarcastically and imply that I should obviously buy the T-Mobile variant, I was curious because the international G3 seems to have double the amount of ROMs than the T-Mobile (D851). Correct me if I am wrong with this assumption. Only problem is that people tell me that the international variant doesn't support the same bands as T-Mobile LTE has. Is this still true, or does the international G3 now work on T-Mobile's LTE network? My end goal is to have a good amount of ROMs and best T-Mobile LTE support, so is there a way to flash international G3 ROMs on the T-Mobile variant by reflashing the bootloader and radio or would that still lead to a brick? Thanks for reading

 

[bofiana]

Before you reply sarcastically and imply that I should obviously buy the T-Mobile variant, I was curious because the international G3 seems to have double the amount of ROMs than the T-Mobile (D851). Correct me if I am wrong with this assumption. Only problem is that people tell me that the international variant doesn't support the same bands as T-Mobile LTE has. Is this still true, or does the international G3 now work on T-Mobile's LTE network? My end goal is to have a good amount of ROMs and best T-Mobile LTE support, so is there a way to flash international G3 ROMs on the T-Mobile variant by reflashing the bootloader and radio or would that still lead to a brick? Thanks for reading

I have the T-Mobile D851 G3 and before LP came out for the international models, I was able to flash their stock KK Roms with no problems. I ran version 1.2 of Cloudy Rom for quite awhile and that was a great Rom and very stable. I didn't have to flash any kind of bootloaders or anything to run the Rom.
It is true that development for the D851 is kind of slow compared to the international ones but there are still great developers for us. Skydragon is a great modified stock Rom and we do have some choices for some AOSP LP Roms too that are updated pretty regularly. I've ran a few of them and they run great. But I'm a stock kind of guy so I always revert back to Skydragon.

 

[rogconnect]

I have the D855 32GB using T-MOBILE . And no LTE only H+ getting around 4 Mpbs to 14.4 Mbps. I'm on their MVNO Ultra Mobile pre-paid limited data plan so its ok for me. Love the D855 cos its unlocked and already on CloudyG3 LOLLIPOP. Only paid $19 a month unlimited talk, text and International talk certain countries. But 100 MB data. Well if i need more data i just top up $5 for 500MB. I always on WiFi anyway.

Sent from my LG G3 D855 CloudyG3 Lollipop

 

[tykate]

I have the T-Mobile D851 G3 and before LP came out for the international models, I was able to flash their stock KK Roms with no problems. I ran version 1.2 of Cloudy Rom for quite awhile and that was a great Rom and very stable. I didn't have to flash any kind of bootloaders or anything to run the Rom.
It is true that development for the D851 is kind of slow compared to the international ones but there are still great developers for us. Skydragon is a great modified stock Rom and we do have some choices for some AOSP LP Roms too that are updated pretty regularly. I've ran a few of them and they run great. But I'm a stock kind of guy so I always revert back to Skydragon.

Oh, did you flash the Cloudy ROM that was made for the international D855 or made for the T-Mobile D851?

 

[tykate]

I have the D855 32GB using T-MOBILE . And no LTE only H+ getting around 4 Mpbs to 14.4 Mbps. I'm on their MVNO Ultra Mobile pre-paid limited data plan so its ok for me. Love the D855 cos its unlocked and already on CloudyG3 LOLLIPOP. Only paid $19 a month unlimited talk, text and International talk certain countries. But 100 MB data. Well if i need more data i just top up $5 for 500MB. I always on WiFi anyway.

Sent from my LG G3 D855 CloudyG3 Lollipop

Hmm, since I'm in an area where it is easy to get LTE, I would prefer a model that ensures LTE. But thanks for your input!

 

[bofiana]

Oh, did you flash the Cloudy ROM that was made for the international D855 or made for the T-Mobile D851?

This is the version of Cloudy that I used that is still KK since we can't use a stock LP Rom on our phones yet. This one was for 850/851/855/LS990/VS985

http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=6315#downloads