Hello!
Thanks to a few resources online (quoted later) I have finally been able to get LTE on my Galaxy S5 and it works at towers I know are updated to LTE. If you are having issues with never seeing LTE even though you know for sure you should be, your phone may not have LTE enabled. Now, I'm not sure if mine was not because my town has not officially launched LTE or what. Online resources show that my town has active LTE sites. If you are in my situation you may want to do the following. Its not exactly hard or anything but requires a little work. Also, I am not too familiar with what everything else does within the menus so I would not mess around with anything you are not comfortable with. Nothing too bad in general though. Here we go!
1.) Before starting you must obtain your MSL number. I did this by calling Sprint directly at 866-264-1282. I just verified my info then asked for my MSL number. I told her I was just running diagnostics. You could also say you want to do a factory reset or something. Either way she gave it to me easily.
2.) Now that you have your MSL number, you need to go to the phone dialer and type in ##3282# as seen below: (Note: you will be taken to the next step when you dial the last "#")
3.) Now you will need to select Edit (change mode):
4.)Now you will need to input your MSL number you obtained (you can still view without a MSL number but you will not be able to change anything):
5.) Now that you are in the Data Programming menu, scroll to the bottom and select LTE:
6.)Now you are in the LTE portion. Click LTE Enabled:
7.) Now mine was deselected and said it was off. This all came about because I was snooping for snoop sake and found this off so I turned it on by checking it:
8.) I also checked each Band (3, 26, 41). My band 3 was off so I turned it on as well.
9.) I then backed all the way out and restarted the phone.
10.) When it came on...LTE!!!!! Keep in mind I was by a tower that was known to have the LTE upgrade.
Many thanks to Moderator lilotimz @ Community Blog List - Sprint 4G Rollout Updates for the help and the spark that started my curiosity.
Feel free to ask any questions!
Here is my first speed test with LTE on sprint! Excited!!
Thanks to a few resources online (quoted later) I have finally been able to get LTE on my Galaxy S5 and it works at towers I know are updated to LTE. If you are having issues with never seeing LTE even though you know for sure you should be, your phone may not have LTE enabled. Now, I'm not sure if mine was not because my town has not officially launched LTE or what. Online resources show that my town has active LTE sites. If you are in my situation you may want to do the following. Its not exactly hard or anything but requires a little work. Also, I am not too familiar with what everything else does within the menus so I would not mess around with anything you are not comfortable with. Nothing too bad in general though. Here we go!
1.) Before starting you must obtain your MSL number. I did this by calling Sprint directly at 866-264-1282. I just verified my info then asked for my MSL number. I told her I was just running diagnostics. You could also say you want to do a factory reset or something. Either way she gave it to me easily.
2.) Now that you have your MSL number, you need to go to the phone dialer and type in ##3282# as seen below: (Note: you will be taken to the next step when you dial the last "#")
3.) Now you will need to select Edit (change mode):
4.)Now you will need to input your MSL number you obtained (you can still view without a MSL number but you will not be able to change anything):
5.) Now that you are in the Data Programming menu, scroll to the bottom and select LTE:
6.)Now you are in the LTE portion. Click LTE Enabled:
7.) Now mine was deselected and said it was off. This all came about because I was snooping for snoop sake and found this off so I turned it on by checking it:
8.) I also checked each Band (3, 26, 41). My band 3 was off so I turned it on as well.
9.) I then backed all the way out and restarted the phone.
10.) When it came on...LTE!!!!! Keep in mind I was by a tower that was known to have the LTE upgrade.
Many thanks to Moderator lilotimz @ Community Blog List - Sprint 4G Rollout Updates for the help and the spark that started my curiosity.
Feel free to ask any questions!
Here is my first speed test with LTE on sprint! Excited!!
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