Possible to sim unlock Sprint Note 4 to work on T-mobile

[Sheylag79]

Not possible yet on metro pcs

 

[Maggie Pantsvanilla]

i have a sprint note 4 and it was not abke to be unlocked. att no problem, nothing but problems with unlocking sprint devices.

 

[kachman]

can anyone confirm that one can get a sprint GN4 unlocked for domestic use to work on t-mobile and use LTE? I'm looking to switch now that contract is up.

its possible to unlock it, but you will only get HSPA+

 

[natehoy]

Not on LTE. As to HSPA and "lesser" speeds, the answer is, "it depends".

Specs - Sprint Cell Phones SM-N910P | Samsung Cell Phones

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4988


The Sprint Note4 supports LTE on 800/900/2100. T-Mobile offers LTE on none of these bands.

The Sprint Note4 and T-Mobile share the 1900 band for GSM/UMTS only. T-Mobile also uses AWS (1700 and 2100) for HSPA. If you are in an AWS area (like, for example, where I live in south central Maine), you will not get any HSPA.

My AT&T Note 4 took some quality time in service menus turning on supposedly-unsupported LTE bands to work at all on T-Mobile, and even after all that I got LTE only about half the time (when I found AWS) and never saw HSPA/HSPA+ at all (the AT&T Note 4, like the Sprint one, cannot use AWS for HSPA/+, and that is the only frequency it is offered on around here). Most of the time I was on EDGE (128k speeds - "somewhat on the slow side").

Unfortunately, even among carriers using the same technology, using one carrier's model on another carrier's network is rarely a very rewarding experience.