VZW Note 3 N900V Fully Functional on T-Mobile 4G lte (band 4)

[wpcprez]

I also have 4G LTE on AT&T without any extra work. Not sure why all the posts here say it won't work? It didn't require any special work since verizon unlocked band4 on these devices with the newer updates.

 

[Netwizzard221]

HOW???

I also have 4G LTE on AT&T without any extra work. Not sure why all the posts here say it won't work? It didn't require any special work since verizon unlocked band4 on these devices with the newer updates.

I am in the same boat. I have a Verizon Note 3 and I switched to ATT. However, I do not get 4G LTE. I have changed the APN settings and I am currently using GLOBAL setting without Rooting my phone. What did you do to get the 4G LTE?

 

[AlpineMan]

If you want to add additional LTE bands on your Verizon Note 3, have a look here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/how-to-add-rf-lte-frequency-bands-to-t2886059 (I've read a post in this thread confirming that someone got additional LTE bands to work on the Verizon Note 3)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/3g-lte-frequency-nv-items-qualcomm-t2950491


I've done it on the Verizon Note 3 (w/ kitkat 4.4.4), Note 4, Note Edge, and S5... but I'm not sure if's working. I don't know what LTE bands are available in our area. I also need to figure out how to force the phone to connect to a specific LTE band.

 

[VirusZer0]

If you want to add additional LTE bands on your Verizon Note 3, have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...ds-to-t2886059 (I've read a post in this thread confirming that someone got additional LTE bands to work on the Verizon Note 3)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/andr...lcomm-t2950491

I've done it on the Verizon Note 3 (w/ kitkat 4.4.4), Note 4, Note Edge, and S5... but I'm not sure if's working. I don't know what LTE bands are available in our area. I also need to figure out how to force the phone to connect to a specific LTE band.

Can you please fix the links, not working!

Thanks for the advice, can't wait to check it out!!

 

[AlpineMan]

Links fixed.

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[Knick Knack]

Just getting my 10 posts

 

[Chocu1a]

Just wanted to bump this with the news the Note 3 now works on AT&T LTE. I popped my wife's Straight Talk AT&T sim in my Verizon Note 3 and was pulling a stronger LTE signal than Verizon.

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[whereistony]

?

I was told, via the Tmobile website, that a stock lollipop Note 3 would not work on their network. Did something change since this info was posted?

 

[Chocu1a]

I was told, via the Tmobile website, that a stock lollipop Note 3 would not work on their network. Did something change since this info was posted?

Most csr have no idea what they are saying. Now, you won't get wifi calling on T-Mobile, but you will get data & service on their network.
Cricket said my phone would not work on their network(at&t), but it does.

 

[kcallis]

Question about Straight Talk

I know this is for T-Mobile, but since I have not found anything remotely close to what I have been looking for, I thought I would try here. I have a Verizon Note 3 and thought I would try my Straight Talk SIM. I have voice of course, but no data. I used prop build to allow me to make changes to my APN, but have not found the right entries for the LTE apn. Could someone point me to where I can get the settings for getting the APN right for Straight Talk.

Thanks

 

[alphahere]

I know this is for T-Mobile, but since I have not found anything remotely close to what I have been looking for, I thought I would try here. I have a Verizon Note 3 and thought I would try my Straight Talk SIM. I have voice of course, but no data. I used prop build to allow me to make changes to my APN, but have not found the right entries for the LTE apn. Could someone point me to where I can get the settings for getting the APN right for Straight Talk.

Thanks

Check out the straight talk website for apn settings.

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[nanosp]

OK, I'm trying to get this working on band 4 but I'm still getting the activation notification and "network not available" message every time. Anyone have a way around this? Using a metro sim and apn is properly set up

Edit: got everything working properly and set up

 

[dogblood]

OK, I'm trying to get this working on band 4 but I'm still getting the activation notification and "network not available" message every time. Anyone have a way around this? Using a metro sim and apn is properly set up

Edit: got everything working properly and set up

So would you say it's fully compatible with tmobile?

I have a note 3 verizon that I've replaced with a s6 - would love to use either the of them to replace my s4 that I use (work phone)

 

[nanosp]

So would you say it's fully compatible with tmobile?

I have a note 3 verizon that I've replaced with a s6 - would love to use either the of them to replace my s4 that I use (work phone)

It should since MetroPCS is basically T-Mobile and it even says T-Mobile on my lock screen. I get LTE with Band 4 and for voice it drops to H+ on 1700

 

[dogblood]

Cool beans I'm gonna give this a go. I don't think I can get band 4. The note I'd on android 5.0 stock .. no way around that eh?

 

[nanosp]

Cool beans I'm gonna give this a go. I don't think I can get band 4. The note I'd on android 5.0 stock .. no way around that eh?

I'm not sure but I think it may be enabled. You can always go to the service menu to see if it's enabled to be sure but I believe it should be on by default as it was enabled in 4.3/MJE.

 

[dogblood]

Yeah I can't get to service mode without root, and no root for 5.0 .. can't seem to find anyway around that to see if it is enabled.

 

[Hollieanne]

How can you root the galaxy s5 g900v?

---------- Post added at 01:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:34 AM ----------

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST.

Hi everyone,

Finally managed to do what I was trying to accomplish on my VZW Galaxy S3 for almost a year.

I'm not sure if anyone else has already accomplished this or not. If anyone has, then sorry about the duplicate post (even though I haven't found any posts specifically describing how to do it).

It took me some research to see that both t-mobile and vzw run on band 4 block f (1700mhz-f), so I thought they should both be able to tune to the same lte band. Even though I was able to get H+ from a t-mobile prepaid sim to work on the vzw note 3, I was still not completely satisfied, so I kept at it till lte finally worked too.

I do give credit to the thread about "All things service mode" which described how to enable the service mode menu and then how to turn on lte band 4.

This DOES confirm that by turning on lte band 4 under service menu, it does really turn on, no firmware update is required to enable the additional layer of the lte band.

It's almost 4 a.m. so I'll get to the details a little later, but just wanted to post this as soon as I got it working, I know it'll make lots of people happy.

I got 28 mbps down and 6 mbps up on t-mobile where I get about 8m and 2m with vzw lte, respectively.

Look at the screen shots below. I did a little research and was able to get that annoying "non-Verizon sim" warning off too, but credit for that goes to someone else here on xda, I didn't figure that out, I will just relay that here for a one stop shop on how to use a t-mobile or other GSM sims in the vzw version. I will link to that post later when I have more time. Anyway, see below and let me know of your thoughts, I will add more details later.

DIRECTIONS:

Do this at your own risk, if any anything goes wrong, don't blame me for it. Make a nandroid backup before you start. To get 4G lte to work on t-mobile, and to remove the continuous sim warning, you'll have to be rooted. Just to get 4G hspa+ to work, you don't need root, but you'll have the annoying sim reminder/warning in your notification all the time.

1. Go to settings>more settings>mobile networks>network mode and change to "Global" mode. Also turn off your mobile data at this point.
   
   
2. Turn off your phone and replace your vzw sim w/ a t-mobile sim with prepaid or postpaid 4G service. Turn the phone back on. When it has finished booting up, you should have basic gsm service on t-mobile, you'll get a warning about a non-Verizon sim, don't worry about that right now, it won't hurt anything.
   
   
3. Now if you want t-mobile 4G lte and you have root, follow the thread for All things "ServiceMode" related to turn on lte band 4 through service mode. Restart the phone after enabling lte band 4.
   
   
4. Go to "mobile networks>access point names" under more settings, click the "+" on the bottom to add an apn, call it T-Mobile LTE and type "fast.t-mobile.com" without the quotes under APN. Leave everything else blank (you can add some of the other stuff later if you want to get picture messaging to work). Click the menu button and hit save. Once you're out, make sure you click on the green radial button to select the new APN you just created.
   
   
5. Now exit settings and turn on your mobile data. Give it a minute. You should get the 4G lte symbol after a little bit. You may have to restart the phone once for it to work.

If you're not in a good t-mobile 4G lte coverage area and just want the traditional hspa+ option, follow the same steps, but DO NOT enable lte band 4, and instead use "epc.tmobile.com" for apn. This way you won't need to be rooted. If you are already rooted and did enable lte B4, just switch the phone to gsm/umts mode under network mode, that will disable lte.

Now if you want to go the extra mile and remove the sim warning, get Titanium Backup from Play Store and freeze the app "Setup Wizard", the app with the "magic wand" above the red "check mark". You'll have to be rooted to do that.

If you follow similar steps, you can also get AT&T hspa+ to work, obviously with an AT&T sim and AT&T apn settings ("pta" for the apn, but AT&T has their lte on a different band, so you can't get AT&T 4G lte to work on this phone. For their hspa+, the steps are the same as for t-mobile hspa+, except for the actual apn settings.

How do you root the galaxy s5 g900v?

 

[dragogt05]

Bumping this, I just followed this for my N900V 5.0 works perfectly; And I'm on ATT Go Phone. Will also post my APN jic someone could use it.

I will say that band 4 was turned on but for whatever reason it would not work until I turned it off and turned it back on again.








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[bigd187]

My TMO APN Setup (San Antonio) Pics only - 100% Working

Title says it all...yes I did leave MMSC field populated for both apn's (I blame possible laziness) With this setup you have a dedicated APN for MMS and a dedicated APN for everything else TMO. I hope this helps... :victory: