one plus 3 on att now?

[victoryrules8]

How's the experience been for you att users? Has it gotten better with updates or still issues with LTE?

 

[srkmagnus]

How's the experience been for you att users? Has it gotten better with updates or still issues with LTE?

It looks like people are still having issues with LTE; however, it seems to be more of an issue with AT&T not having the IMEI numbers whitelisted. Take a look at this thread here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/oneplus-3/708657-oneplus-3-t-not-able-get-lte-connection.html

 

[mchockeyvette27]

Honestly even though LTE shows that it drops out quite a bit more than any other phone I've had in my normal use and locations, I have really notice performance or connectivity issues all that much. Like when it drops to 4g, doesn't really affect the speed much. Or where it's noticeable. So actually hasn't bothered me much at all.

 

[Daiz4yota]

How did you guys activate it on your network? I have an S7Edge now. Can I just take the sim card out and put it in the OP3? I hate going to the ATT store in general, so avoiding that would be nice

 

[PAC757]

How did you guys activate it on your network? I have an S7Edge now. Can I just take the sim card out and put it in the OP3? I hate going to the ATT store in general, so avoiding that would be nice

No need to go to an AT&T Store or even call them, just take your nano sim card out of the Samsung and put it in the Oneplus 3. I thought I was going to to have to setup the AT&T APN but after I put my sim card in and turned on the phone, I went into the settings and the APN was already the correct one (nextgenphone)

 

[mchockeyvette27]

How did you guys activate it on your network? I have an S7Edge now. Can I just take the sim card out and put it in the OP3? I hate going to the ATT store in general, so avoiding that would be nice

As stated above, you SHOULD be able to just swap the sim to the OP3 with no issue. However, it may not be as clear cut as that if the correct APN settings aren't automatically input for you. In which case, you may have to manually input them. Also, you may have to update your imei with att if you have connectivity issues.

Those things might not happen, but if they do then you have a heads up.

 

[popkurn611]

How did you guys activate it on your network? I have an S7Edge now. Can I just take the sim card out and put it in the OP3? I hate going to the ATT store in general, so avoiding that would be nice

I just had to add the at&t apn manually, then I did a reboot and wallah... It worked. Very easy and never had any issues dropping LTE or service.

 

[Daiz4yota]

I just had to add the at&t apn manually, then I did a reboot and wallah... It worked. Very easy and never had any issues dropping LTE or service.

How do you add it manually?

 

[PAC757]

No need to go to an AT&T Store or even call them, just take your nano sim card out of the Samsung and put it in the Oneplus 3. I thought I was going to to have to setup the AT&T APN but after I put my sim card in and turned on the phone, I went into the settings and the APN was already the correct one (nextgenphone)

Ok I now take back what I said, after using my oneplus 3 for a week or so, it has become totally unreliable for a phone, cell signal is always poor, averaging around -120db missed calls, dropped calls, missed text messages. I put my Sim Card back in my unlocked Nexus 6 and in the same exact locations averaging around -91db. Also ran the same Sim card in my daughter's Galaxy S7 and it also ran as well as my nexus 6. I sold my Oneplus One a month after it came out because of horrible cell signal, I was really hoping that the quality of Oneplus would have improved now that they are on their 4th model phone. Missed the return period by 1 day, so I guess this is going on ebay.

 

[DamianP]

I have had no major issues since I got the OP3 back in July, always on ATT, in the US and traveling to Iceland. My biggest complaint for signal related issues has been the bars have no real correlation to actual signal quality.

When I had the Note 7, side by side, both on ATT, the OP3 usually had slightly better signal.

Ok I now take back what I said, after using my oneplus 3 for a week or so, it has become totally unreliable for a phone, cell signal is always poor, averaging around -120db missed calls, dropped calls, missed text messages. I put my Sim Card back in my unlocked Nexus 6 and in the same exact locations averaging around -91db. Also ran the same Sim card in my daughter's Galaxy S7 and it also ran as well as my nexus 6. I sold my Oneplus One a month after it came out because of horrible cell signal, I was really hoping that the quality of Oneplus would have improved now that they are on their 4th model phone. Missed the return period by 1 day, so I guess this is going on ebay.

 

[Dubss]

Turn on AT&T with my one plus 3 with no issues on LTE

 

[ironass]

I have had no major issues since I got the OP3 back in July, always on ATT, in the US and traveling to Iceland. My biggest complaint for signal related issues has been the bars have no real correlation to actual signal quality.

When I had the Note 7, side by side, both on ATT, the OP3 usually had slightly better signal.

Signal bars on phones are meaningless across manufacturers and even models, as there is no industry standard governing them. So, therefore, a Samsung Note 7 may show 4 bars on a particular signal strength whilst another phone will only show, say, 3. To see your actual signal strength, go to... Settings > About phone > Status > SIM status > Signal strength. The lower the -dBm and the higher the ASU, the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fssZ4Q6Ts

 

[DamianP]

Signal bars on phones are meaningless across manufacturers and even models, as there is no industry standard governing them. So, therefore, a Samsung Note 7 may show 4 bars on a particular signal strength whilst another phone will only show, say, 3. To see your actual signal strength, go to... Settings > About phone > Status > SIM status > Signal strength. The lower the -dBm and the higher the ASU, the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fssZ4Q6Ts

Agreed and this is what I was referring to when comparing signal db that was viewed from the SIM status on both phones. It just seemed the OP3 tends to show full bars until the signal was very weak . I rarely saw 2 or 3 bars on the OP3. Either full or no signal were more common compared to other phones. Not a huge deal but weak signal had me go check the SIM status a number of times to see what was really going on.

 

[Laila Taylor]

I'm having no problems with AT&T and LTE so far. I'm using the AT&T sim card from Tracfone.

 

[Dubss]

Lte has good fine for me

 

[doa70]

I'm still on AT&T with a T-Mobile sim as well. I haven't run into an issue where AT&T "lost" my service in several weeks now. I have had issues where data gets turned off occasionally - infrequently - on my AT&T or T-Mobile sim, no idea why. My phone always shows "LTE" when idle but lately always drops to "4g+" when actually using data on either sim, no idea why this started. No VoLTE with AT&T, works great with T-Mobile. I'm becoming less enthused with dual sim phones though because it seems none of the carrier apps are dual sim aware. With AT&T Visual Voicemail if I swap the sim slots temporarily I have to go back and completely setup my visual voicemail again, even if I never opened it while the AT&T sim was in the second slot. T-Mobile's account app doesn't work at all in the OP3 regardless of slot, but the built in Android visual voicemail works with T-Mobile's voicemail system - unlike AT&T which requires their own vvm app. Since I last swapped sim slots TrueCaller now doesn't have a label for my AT&T sim in slot one - it's just blank in the app.

None of these issues make the phone or either system unusable, just minor annoyances. They do tend to add up, but really I'm still very happy with the OP3 on either AT&T's or T-Mobile's networks. The LTE/4g+ is my biggest annoyance now and even that isn't terrible. I did some speed tests and for me I'm actually getting 3-5x the transfer rate over T-Mobile's network vs AT&T, not sure if that matters for you. This was very consistent as well - ran the tests several times over several days on either network.

 

[speedlever]

I need to pick up a nano-sim for my OP3 which should arrive in a day or so. What settings do I need to plug in for AT&T?

 

[cbb77]

I also don't have any issues with LTE on AT&T. In fact the LTE speeds are AMAZING compared to my LG G3 that I switched from.

 

[Daiz4yota]

I also don't have any issues with LTE on AT&T. In fact the LTE speeds are AMAZING compared to my LG G3 that I switched from.

How did you get it hooked up? Did you just pop it out of old phone and pop it in OP3?

 

[speedlever]

I was unable to obtain a nano-sim from AT&T today. Or rather, I could have, but the process of getting the nano-sim card would kill the sim card in my GS4 at the same time, and I'm not yet ready to switch over to the OP3. I thought it was a simple task to switch from one phone to another by changing the IMEI on my account. But I guess it doesn't work that way. Rats.