How To Guide (Updated 3/18/24) How to enable N77 C-Band | 5G UW icon (OOS 13 only) | OnePlus 9/9 Pro 5G (LE2115/LE2125) | Oxygen OS 11-14 | Verizon

[EtherealRemnant]

Yea, sorta the same thing at my house, it gets a weak N77 signal, around ~80-120 Mbps down, randomly it jumps to LTE, or 4G because of this ColorOS BS.

I hate that even turning off Smart 5G, ColorOS chooses to use LTE over 5G. Like it will show me the 5G icon even but when I check NSG, it's using LTE. Then it will switch to NSA just long enough to shuffle around the NSG screens but switch back to LTE before I can swipe to the band screen.

 

[caseyr7]

Thank you so much for this! Interestingly enough on F.20 and Verizon N77 shows the 5GUW logo for me Screenshot_2023-02-08-13-46-28-55_557a5782fe883f466f8039d40f6b3dfd.jpg

 

[rmendez011]

I hate that even turning off Smart 5G, ColorOS chooses to use LTE over 5G. Like it will show me the 5G icon even but when I check NSG, it's using LTE. Then it will switch to NSA just long enough to shuffle around the NSG screens but switch back to LTE before I can swipe to the band screen.

I've had that happen to me, in areas with poor 5G NSA, it's happening to me here at my house, sometimes it's on N77, sometimes it's on N5, most of the time it's on B66 LTE haha.

 

[rmendez011]

Thank you so much for this! Interestingly enough on F.20 and Verizon N77 shows the 5GUW logo for me Screenshot_2023-02-08-13-46-28-55_557a5782fe883f466f8039d40f6b3dfd.jpg

WHAT?!? There's no way, you sure you aren't pulling my leg with a OnePlus 10 Pro/10T?
Would you mind sharing a screen recording of your "About Device" page? lmao

 

[EtherealRemnant]

Success on my OnePlus 9!

 

[rmendez011]

Success on my OnePlus 9!

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Good ****! This mod would be 100x better if it didn't require root on OOS 12/13, but that's Oppo for you (1000x if it actually added a 5G UW icon, looking at you @caseyr7 ).

Did you notice up until the F.16 update, OOS 12-13 F.11 did not show "Orange State" aka bootloader unlocked when booting up the phone? This is because you cannot bootloader unlock Oppo phones, while you can OnePlus phones, so when OnePlus copied Oppos homework with Colo- I mean Oxygen OS 12, they forgot to add a bootloader unlocked message.

 

[Appreciative]

Good ****! This mod would be 100x better if it didn't require root on OOS 12/13, but that's Oppo for you (1000x if it actually added a 5G UW icon, looking at you @caseyr7 ).

Did you notice up until the F.16 update, OOS 12-13 F.11 did not show "Orange State" aka bootloader unlocked when booting up the phone? This is because you cannot bootloader unlock Oppo phones, while you can OnePlus phones, so when OnePlus copied Oppos homework with Colo- I mean Oxygen OS 12, they forgot to add a bootloader unlocked message.

You can also flash an older abl to remove the orange text as outlined in a thread a few posts down. Really good developments going on here guys. Happy to see it

 

[rmendez011]

You can also flash an older abl to remove the orange text as outlined in a thread a few posts down. Really good developments going on here guys. Happy to see it

Yes, I saw that, I don't really care enough to go through the trouble of removing it, just found it funny it took OnePlus this long, I wonder if Qualcomm had to intervene.

 

[caseyr7]

WHAT?!? There's no way, you sure you aren't pulling my leg with a OnePlus 10 Pro/10T?
Would you mind sharing a screen recording of your "About Device" page? lmao

I promise. Here's a screen capture from about device -> Cellular Pro. Disregard the random ad. Interestingly enough there was a brief point where it bounced from n78->n77 towards the end.

 

[caseyr7]

I promise. Here's a screen capture from about device -> Cellular Pro. Disregard the random ad. Interestingly enough there was a brief point where it bounced from n78->n77 towards the end.

 

[caseyr7]

WHAT?!? There's no way, you sure you aren't pulling my leg with a OnePlus 10 Pro/10T?
Would you mind sharing a screen recording of your "About Device" page? lmao

I also edited the carrier policy.xml from some previous guides. Maybe that has something to do with it?

 

[JWhetstone02]

I am still on the OG unlimited data plan with unlimited 4g hotspot. Speaking many times with Verizon tech and network engineers, the plan I am grandfathered into they assured me I will not get 5G at all, and if for some reason I did, I would get the very low frequency ones. Which has held true for the most part for the past few years.

I stay way out in the sticks, so I do not see bands 77 or 78, heck barely see 4g sometimes but I can ride 4 minutes up the road and be full service 4g (thanks trees). According to their maps, I am a good 2.5 hours away from the closest City with 77 and 78 to test. Those 4 minutes up the road, I have never seen 5g, just full service 4g.

Going through the carrier_policy.xml as well as the generic_band_restrictions.xml I have found the perfect combo for my phone. At first I did not think the generic band restriction file would yield anything on my end, but it does make a difference for me in terms of 4g and 5g. Why, I do not know. For my carrier policy, I made your change along with the following changes:

Added 5G to each of the the include and rat_capability tags (Ii did it for each section to make it uniformed even though I just needed Verizon section)

<include> G W T L C H 5G </include>
 <!-- Modify ue_mode capability for Verizon CDMAless -->
 <rat_capability base="none"> <include> L 5G </include></rat_capability>

I also added the nr5g sa and nsa bands base hardware as well for each section (again only needed Verizon, but kept it uniformed throughout)

 <!--7 america_verizon_bands-->
      <rf_band_list name="america_verizon_bands">
        <gw_bands base="hardware" />
        <lte_bands base="none">
          <include> 1 3 4 12 45 47 65 </include> <!-- the 6 LTE Band: 2/4/5/13/46/48/66 -->
        </lte_bands>
        <tds_bands base="none" />
		<nr5g_sa_bands base="hardware" />
		<nr5g_nsa_bands base="hardware" />
      </rf_band_list>

Without modifying the generic band restriction file, I do not get 5g. I wouldnt think that it would matter, but it does as I can revert that file and not see 5g at all.

I just changed the two lines to omit 76 and 77

<exclude> 39 47 </exclude>

Again, not sure why it is needed, but it is for me on A11.

Now that same 4 minutes up the road, I will get 5g and I can assure you that the speeds I get I have NEVER seen with 4g, anywhere. I can consistently pull 400-500Mbps wherever I hit 5g at now.

Now with A13 (made the jump from A11 3 times just to see if I did anything wrong the previous times), I have tried this same thing and the carrier policy has all this extra info that I added in for A11 minus removing the 76 and 77 you do... but it just does not do the same for me. Looking closely, the generic band restriction xml always gets reverted on A13 for me. None of the changes stick. Without those changes that is holding me back on A13. I can revert those on A11 and can steadily reproduce the issue with 4g only. Modify the generic band restrictions and bam, 5g like new lol

That has been my experience with it so far. I love it being able to get those speeds when available and have been staying with A11.


Here is my little 5g speeds in the country along with a screenshot of being connected to 5g but not get any service (before this mod and like the Verizon engineers told me would happen)

 

[rmendez011]

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Mmmm I do love me some pixels LOL Interesting, I got N77 on my moms iPhone 12, but no 5G UW icon, a quick Google search shows that I have to get a new SIM card for N77 to show a 5G UW icon, my SIM card says 5G on it, but I got it before N77 was launched this might be it.

I also edited the carrier policy.xml from some previous guides. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Maybe? What did you modify?

 

[rmendez011]

I am still on the OG unlimited data plan with unlimited 4g hotspot. Speaking many times with Verizon tech and network engineers, the plan I am grandfathered into they assured me I will not get 5G at all, and if for some reason I did, I would get the very low frequency ones. Which has held true for the most part for the past few years.

I stay way out in the sticks, so I do not see bands 77 or 78, heck barely see 4g sometimes but I can ride 4 minutes up the road and be full service 4g (thanks trees). According to their maps, I am a good 2.5 hours away from the closest City with 77 and 78 to test. Those 4 minutes up the road, I have never seen 5g, just full service 4g.

Going through the carrier_policy.xml as well as the generic_band_restrictions.xml I have found the perfect combo for my phone. At first I did not think the generic band restriction file would yield anything on my end, but it does make a difference for me in terms of 4g and 5g. Why, I do not know. For my carrier policy, I made your change along with the following changes:

Added 5G to each of the the include and rat_capability tags (Ii did it for each section to make it uniformed even though I just needed Verizon section)

<include> G W T L C H 5G </include>
 <!-- Modify ue_mode capability for Verizon CDMAless -->
 <rat_capability base="none"> <include> L 5G </include></rat_capability>

I also added the nr5g sa and nsa bands base hardware as well for each section (again only needed Verizon, but kept it uniformed throughout)

 <!--7 america_verizon_bands-->
      <rf_band_list name="america_verizon_bands">
        <gw_bands base="hardware" />
        <lte_bands base="none">
          <include> 1 3 4 12 45 47 65 </include> <!-- the 6 LTE Band: 2/4/5/13/46/48/66 -->
        </lte_bands>
        <tds_bands base="none" />
        <nr5g_sa_bands base="hardware" />
        <nr5g_nsa_bands base="hardware" />
      </rf_band_list>

Without modifying the generic band restriction file, I do not get 5g. I wouldnt think that it would matter, but it does as I can revert that file and not see 5g at all.

I just changed the two lines to omit 76 and 77

<exclude> 39 47 </exclude>

Again, not sure why it is needed, but it is for me on A11.

Now that same 4 minutes up the road, I will get 5g and I can assure you that the speeds I get I have NEVER seen with 4g, anywhere. I can consistently pull 400-500Mbps wherever I hit 5g at now.

Now with A13 (made the jump from A11 3 times just to see if I did anything wrong the previous times), I have tried this same thing and the carrier policy has all this extra info that I added in for A11 minus removing the 76 and 77 you do... but it just does not do the same for me. Looking closely, the generic band restriction xml always gets reverted on A13 for me. None of the changes stick. Without those changes that is holding me back on A13. I can revert those on A11 and can steadily reproduce the issue with 4g only. Modify the generic band restrictions and bam, 5g like new lol

OOS 12 and newer do not allow you to modify the generic_band_restriction.xml, for some reason, after every reboot, it reverts, and after a few hours without a reboot, it reverts it. Which is why this guide completely omits it. Meaning, if you follow this guide, the phone will ignore the generic_band_restriction.xml file, and every 5G/LTE band will be enabled, you'd only have to modify the carrier_policy.xml as you did on OOS 11.

That has been my experience with it so far. I love it being able to get those speeds when available and have been staying with A11.


Here is my little 5g speeds in the country along with a screenshot of being connected to 5g but not get any service (before this mod and like the Verizon engineers told me would happen)

That's great! Glad to hear it, Verizon themselves lie a lot, I've got 5 lines, my line with a 9 Pro is on 5G Play More, a Pixel 7 on 5G Start, 2 iPhone 12's each on 5G Start, and a OnePlus 6T on 5G Start, all 4 5G start lines can connect to N77 5G in Downtown L.A. but not here in Bakersfield, 5G Start technically does not have 5G UW, but I can connect to it, I can only assume why it happens, I think there is more than enough bandwidth available that it let's them connect to it, I don't know.

 

[Avinash aryan]

does this methode work on indian version of oneplus 9 pro running on oos11 non rooted LE2121

 

[rmendez011]

does this methode work on indian version of oneplus 9 pro running on oos11 non rooted LE2121

I mean, I don't see why not, but N77 and N78 are not disabled outside the U.S. at least it isn't according to my knowledge.

 

[Avinash aryan]

I mean, I don't see why not, but N77 and N78 are not disabled outside the U.S. at least it isn't according to my knowledge.

N77 and N78 are available in India in oxygen os13 .but I want to stay on oos 11 . But also need 5g network. Is any possible way to enable 5g in oos 11 ?

 

[Avinash aryan]

I mean, I don't see why not, but N77 and N78 are not disabled outside the U.S. at least it isn't according to my knowledge.

Tried QPST method but didn't work on mine .

 

[JWhetstone02]

So I have had the OnePlus 11 (CPH2451) for a few days now and I have finally got this to work with A13 following the A13 guide. I definitely had to add these to the rf_band_list tag in my carrier_policy.xml file for it to work.

<nr5g_sa_bands base="hardware" />
<nr5g_nsa_bands base="hardware" />

Surprisingly, I did not have to change the generic_band_restrictions.xml file.

 

[rmendez011]

So I have had the OnePlus 11 (CPH2451) for a few days now and I have finally got this to work with A13 following the A13 guide. I definitely had to add these to the rf_band_list tag in my carrier_policy.xml file for it to work.

<nr5g_sa_bands base="hardware" />
<nr5g_nsa_bands base="hardware" />

Surprisingly, I did not have to change the generic_band_restrictions.xml file.

The OnePlus 11 officially supports N77 5G UW on Verizon though? Or has OnePlus not enabled it?