Nexus 4 T-mobile LTE

**PWC Realtor** · 02-28-2013, 09:04 AM

WIth all the blog post set his morning saying that Tmo has said LTE is ready in Las Vegas and Kansas City, has anyone gotten LTE on their Nexus 4 yet via T-mobile USA?

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**ZachA** · 02-28-2013, 09:21 AM

The Nexus 4 is not a LTE phone. The highest it will go is HDSPA+.

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**Mellimel22** · 02-28-2013, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by mwilkins

WIth all the blog post set his morning saying that Tmo has said LTE is ready in Las Vegas and Kansas City, has anyone gotten LTE on their Nexus 4 yet via T-mobile USA?

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U have to activate it through the dailer menu. But if u upgraded to 4.2.2 u have to change the baseband to the old version to activate lte.

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**PWC Realtor** · 02-28-2013, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Mellimel22

U have to activate it through the dailer menu. But if u upgraded to 4.2.2 u have to change the baseband to the old version to activate lte.

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Yup and you can also edit one line in the build.prop file to enable LTE from the mobile networks menu

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**thebryceee** · 02-28-2013, 01:05 PM

I've connected to T-Mobile's LTE when I was on their $30 prepaid. I'm on Straight Talk T-Mobile sim and I'm currently trying to see if I can get it to connect to LTE.

Screenshot is from 2/13. I live in Vegas but the closest server it would let me connect to was Kansas.

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**greydarrah** · 02-28-2013, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by thebryceee

I've connected to T-Mobile's LTE when I was on their $30 prepaid. I'm on Straight Talk T-Mobile sim and I'm currently trying to see if I can get it to connect to LTE.

Screenshot is from 2/13. I live in Vegas but the closest server it would let me connect to was Kansas.

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That's no better than my H+ speeds. For anyone that feels like you really need LTE, why don't you just get a phone that has it?

**Lanhoj** · 02-28-2013, 06:31 PM

I get these pretty consistently in California:

Nexus 4 T-mobile LTE-uploadfromtaptalk1362097875448.jpg

It's no 42mb or LTE, but absolutely not complaining.

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**Darrkman** · 02-28-2013, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by greydarrah

That's no better than my H+ speeds. For anyone that feels like you really need LTE, why don't you just get a phone that has it?

Well......with H+ you can do better with your download speeds but the LTE upload speeds blow H+ away.

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**PWC Realtor** · 02-28-2013, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Darrkman

Well......with H+ you can do better with your download speeds but the LTE upload speeds blow H+ away.

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We're also assuming that is maximum LTE speeds which isn't true. I know with H+ speeds in my area it varies sometimes widely tower to tower.

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**jimmiekain** · 02-28-2013, 08:22 PM

@thebryceee

Did you have to turn LTE on in the dialer menu or did it just work? Also how was the coverage? Was it ok indoors or only outside?

**Mellimel22** · 02-28-2013, 09:19 PM

Lte penetrates buildings real well

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**josegb2011** · 02-28-2013, 10:49 PM

H+ = less battery usage, great download speeds,ok upload speeds, and low building penetration.(i can live with this)
LTE = hungry for your battery, great download speeds, exceptional upload speeds, and great building penetration.(i had it with verizon but its not a game changer for me)

**Tall Mike 2145** · 03-01-2013, 12:54 AM

Here's my results, basically Comcast vs. T-Mobile:

**PWC Realtor** · 03-01-2013, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by Tall Mike 2145

Here's my results, basically Comcast vs. T-Mobile:

Yeah I've said that H+ is similar to a cable modem connection but I'm also spoiled by having FiOS which has symmetrical download and upload speeds.

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**illiniah** · 03-01-2013, 08:24 AM

Long Term Evolution is a standard - the air interface has nothing to do with electromagnetic wave length and building penetration. The choice of frequency is what impacts urban propagation characteristics. There are a lot of good IEEE sources with the Communications Society and/or Antennas and Propagation Society if you want to learn more about propagation characteristics and specifically absorbtion losses.

**PWC Realtor** · 03-01-2013, 07:03 PM

Looks like even Cyanogenmod realizes that LTE on the Nexus 4 in the states is eminent

Nexus 4 T-mobile LTE-uploadfromtaptalk1362186159213.jpg

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**CoMoNexus** · 03-01-2013, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by illiniEE

Long Term Evolution is a standard - the air interface has nothing to do with electromagnetic wave length and building penetration. The choice of frequency is what impacts urban propagation characteristics.

You're right that the band is a key factor for in-building penetration. But the air interface requires antenna diversity, which also is important.

**TheLibertarian** · 03-02-2013, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by ZachA

The Nexus 4 is not a LTE phone. The highest it will go is HDSPA+.

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False.

**moosc** · 03-02-2013, 04:55 AM

I love my speeds on tmo so glad I still have vzw to tether to. How do you bare these speeds

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**ryanr509** · 03-02-2013, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by moosc

I love my speeds on tmo so glad I still have vzw to tether to. How do you bare these speeds

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Your on Edge which I think is like 250kbps max download. U don't have any HSDPA+ or 3g where u live?

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**moosc** · 03-02-2013, 03:45 PM

I'm a transportation specialist I'm all over the united States. I rarely H+ or G. E is so slow can't believe they have it.

Originally Posted by ryanr509

Your on Edge which I think is like 250kbps max download. U don't have any HSDPA+ or 3g where u live?

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**ryanr509** · 03-03-2013, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by moosc

I'm a transportation specialist I'm all over the united States. I rarely H+ or G. E is so slow can't believe they have it.

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Yep all company's have something like that to fall back on when outside of their 3g/4g networks. If u travel all over the united stated why wouldn't u get verizon/sprint/or att which would have better overall coverage?

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**moosc** · 03-03-2013, 11:51 PM

I have my Verizon galaxy nexus with Verizon unlimited data still. Every one was raging how good T-Mobile was so I bought the nexus 4 but dam tmo just sucks.

Originally Posted by ryanr509

Yep all company's have something like that to fall back on when outside of their 3g/4g networks. If u travel all over the united stated why wouldn't u get verizon/sprint/or att which would have better overall coverage?

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**ryanr509** · 03-04-2013, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by moosc

I have my Verizon galaxy nexus with Verizon unlimited data still. Every one was raging how good T-Mobile was so I bought the nexus 4 but dam tmo just sucks.

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Ya if u are in a good hspa+ T-Mobile area it is excellent. I get up to 19mbps and usually around 10mbps. But I prefer att on straighttalk because of the better coverage.

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**UnlockedOnly** · 03-04-2013, 08:36 AM

Looks like TMO is ready roll out LTE nationwide..You think Google will put out an update to automatically switch to LTE service if you happen to be in that area ? Is that even possible from a software point of view considering our Nexus 4's have the E band ?

TMO LTE link for the HTC One