T-Mobile Details HSPA+ and LTE Network Upgrade Progress
How do you know when you are using 1900 HSPA+ ?
Suppose you have an unlocked 4G Android phone that right now uses the AWS (1700/2100) bands for HSPA+ but it also has a 1900 MHz band. How would you know when your phone happened to pick up that 1900 Mhz band that T-Mo is testing? My Amaze 4G does not show what band it is using at the moment.
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My Samsung Phone has a change in the Icon at the top of the screen depending on what you are using, this may happen on your phone too.
When I'm connected to a network using 1900, It displays a 3G. Further inspection from the menu stats that the phone knows 1900 as "UMTS". When the phone is connected to 850/2100, on my phone, it displays as "H", further inspection of the menus showed this to be HSPA. My phone is a Galaxy 5 (HSPA 10.1).
Your phone might work the same way.
When I'm connected to a network using 1900, It displays a 3G. Further inspection from the menu stats that the phone knows 1900 as "UMTS". When the phone is connected to 850/2100, on my phone, it displays as "H", further inspection of the menus showed this to be HSPA. My phone is a Galaxy 5 (HSPA 10.1).
Your phone might work the same way.
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I wonder if my phone also works the same way though the manual does not mention a H code: only 2G, 3G or 4G.
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It might be phone specific, I'm not really sure. I actuially had a big problem, my phone would bounce between the 3G frequency and the HSPA frequency, which was killing my battery. The icon would change every 5 - 10 seconds from H to 3G, and then back again. When I checked in the wireless nad networks settings, thats were it showed me the UMTS for 3G and the HSPA for the H icon. I called tech support and they told me that on a prepaid account if I had mobile data turned on, and the account provided no data, it keeps trying to get a data connection on whatever frequency it could.
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Then you can only blame yourself if you had no data on your account, yet would you turn on the data. What did you expect?
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ok I should clarify - It was my girlfriend's android phone. there, I am absolved.
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dabbler said:
how would I know if T-Mo really deployed it in my area or not?
Easy just buy an unlocked iphone and see if its 3g or EDGE 🤣 short of that under netwrok settings there should be an option formobile network, you can check to see if that shows what band you're on
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this may be a stupid question, but why would you need to know if your phone is connect to 1900 as opposed to 1700/2100 especially if you're using a Tmo phone? its going to be the same hspa+ speeds you had, the 1900 is more beneficial for Tmo customers who use iPhones since they'll be free from EDGE
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I would not *NEED* to know, but wouldn't that be nice to know if your phone can really work on that new 1900 band and how well compared to the old AWS? Otherwise how would I know if T-Mo really deployed it in my area or not?
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