Nexus 4 T-mobile LTE

[PWC Realtor]

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]

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

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[Mellimel22]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I get these pretty consistently in California:
It's no 42mb or LTE, but absolutely not complaining.

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[Darrkman]

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]

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]

@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]

Lte penetrates buildings real well

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[josegb2011]

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]

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

 

[PWC Realtor]

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

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6356/wifivshspa01.png

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]

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]

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



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[CoMoNexus]

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]

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

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False.

 

[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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[ryanr509]

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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