Epic 4G Touch LTE Ready???

[brianklewis1984]

Recently, I updated my Epic 4G Touch to Jelly Bean. The only issue I had was that I lost the ability to send and receive mms messages. I have a pre-paid plan on the Sprint network through Flash Wireless. I called up my carrierand they had me update the MMSC URL by entering a dialer code. While in the menu, I noticed an item 'LTE APN Settings'. Does anybody know what that is?

 

[Paul627g]

Not sure exactly what that is but its not LTE (4g).

Epic 4g Touch was designed for WiMax 4g and not LTE (4g).

I wish it was as easy as a toggle setting to switch radio frequencies for 4g usage.

 

[isidro7181]

yeah I was told when I bought my phone there is no way for the epic 4g touch to run on lte

 

[brianklewis1984]

Under Advanced, there is a section for LTE Status. So if the device doesn't have LTE capability, any clue what checking the box would do?

 

[thenameisnigel]

Under Advanced, there is a section for LTE Status. So if the device doesn't have LTE capability, any clue what checking the box would do?

Try it and report back.

 

[unixpsycho]

I tired to enable it for the hell of it... it started asking for a SIM card for certain apps or functions.

I assume Samsung is trying to make a modular firmware for most models that are compatible. Or there is an Galaxy S2 variant that has LTE in the wild somewhere.

 

[brianklewis1984]

Wish i could try it. I'm in San Diego, not an LTE area :-(

 

[thenameisnigel]

I tired to enable it for the hell of it... it started asking for a SIM card for certain apps or functions.

I assume Samsung is trying to make a modular firmware for most models that are compatible. Or there is an Galaxy S2 variant that has LTE in the wild somewhere.

I kept mines enabled but I haven't received any SIM prompts.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

 

[unixpsycho]

I kept mines enabled but I haven't received any SIM prompts.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

One place i remember was the Sprint Hotspot app. With LTE enabled it asked for a SIM card, I disabled LTE and it worked fine.

 

[thenameisnigel]

One place i remember was the Sprint Hotspot app. With LTE enabled it asked for a SIM card, I disabled LTE and it worked fine.

I always get SIM prompts with Sprint Hotspot even before I enabled LTE. I just always assumed it was a software bug that hasn't been worked out yet.

 

[unixpsycho]

I always get SIM prompts with Sprint Hotspot even before I enabled LTE. I just always assumed it was a software bug that hasn't been worked out yet.

Could be. I just never saw that prompt until that.

Besides, our S2's don't have LTE radios . Weirder things have happened, i'm sure a group of hackers have a WiMAX radio transformed into an LTE radio somewhere.

 

[deesugar]

It's possible for a variety of reasons that something was included in the software that is not included in the hardware.