Will the US Unlocked HTC 10 model work on Verizon?

[Kieran Coghlan]

Another interesting thing about the CDMA and LTE bands for Verizon, is that Verizon's CDMA voice network is now exclusively on 850MHz (according to wikipedia.) Yet both HTC's site and Verizon's HTC10 page show that the HTC10 does not support CDMA on 850MHz. Rather the specs show it supports CDMA on 800 and 1900 MHz. So I wonder, is the HTC10 on Verizon only going to work on the LTE bands? Will we see essentially what amounts to a loss of coverage (especially in rural areas) with the HTC10 (if it indeed doesn't work for CDMA voice)?

 

[udazavlanje]

History lesson: HTC tried to make the unlocked A9 work with Verizon. No CDMA fallback, just LTE and VoLTE. That support was canceled.

Posted via the Android Central App on the Moto X Pure Edition

No clue what happened to A9 but I assume that when you say "enabled" - means given permission to work or turn it on. so, the radio has to be already there , right?
In that case HTC would have it disabled only if Verizon requested it , not by default.

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

 

[radgatt]

I tried by myself, with a chat rep, and in the store to get my unlocked phone to activate on Verizon but it didn't work. I wanted the phone bad enough so I just bought the phone full price at Verizon. I managed to get it at the $548 price as well.

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[radgatt]

I will be returning my unlocked phone back to HTC so I can get a refund.

Posted via the X '15

 

[Ry]

No clue what happened to A9 but I assume that when you say "enabled" - means given permission to work or turn it on. so, the radio has to be already there , right?
In that case HTC would have it disabled only if Verizon requested it , not by default.

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

HTC wanted to be the first phone that would work on Verizon as LTE-only. The A9 has no CDMA enabled.

Posted via the Android Central App on the Moto X Pure Edition

 

[udazavlanje]

I tried by myself, with a chat rep, and in the store to get my unlocked phone to activate on Verizon but it didn't work. I wanted the phone bad enough so I just bought the phone full price at Verizon. I managed to get it at the $548 price as well.

Posted via the X '15

Enjoy your phone ! I didn't even go to check it in person yet. I'm afraid that I would make an irrational decision and walk out w one lol
The reason I don't want the unlocked is that HTC promised timely security patches and OS updates and besides that I always had a bad experience (something would break) whenever Verizon decided to update.
Plus i want headache free tethering off my phone , not to pay verizon 30$ a month extra. The bloat that people worry about is not affecting the performance at all.

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

 

[udazavlanje]

HTC wanted to be the first phone that would work on Verizon as LTE-only. The A9 has no CDMA enabled.

Posted via the Android Central App on the Moto X Pure Edition

Well, that was dumb idea from HTC for sure. Why would the carrier worry about customer complaints when it comes to network coverage.
The case w the 10 seems to be different, since everybody reported presence of CDMA radios.

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

 

[udazavlanje]

I tried by myself, with a chat rep, and in the store to get my unlocked phone to activate on Verizon but it didn't work. I wanted the phone bad enough so I just bought the phone full price at Verizon. I managed to get it at the $548 price as well.

Posted via the X '15

Just a "thought" - wouldn't be nice that if paid in full Verizon allows you to remove all of their bloat and keep the hands off the update process.
"At full price , we will ship the phone as HTC intended ... " lol

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

 

[radgatt]

Just a "thought" - wouldn't be nice that if paid in full Verizon allows you to remove all of their bloat and keep the hands off the update process.
"At full price , we will ship the phone as HTC intended ... " lol

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

That would be nice.

 

[awareunlikeu]

Now if this is the case, then I would completely understand why the Unlocked would not work on Verizon. I would no longer be upset about it if this is how 3G is managed now by VZW.

 

[Kieran Coghlan]

Plus i want headache free tethering off my phone , not to pay verizon 30$ a month extra. The bloat that people worry about is not affecting the performance at all.

You really ought to consider switching to a modern verizon plan (I'm assuming you are on a grandfathered UDP). Have you tracked how much data you actually use? 14GB/mo + 1 phone is currently $100/mo and tethering is totally allowed now.

 

[awareunlikeu]

I did 60GB last month. Usually average anywhere between 40-60GB a month. They will have to pry my Grandfathered UDp out of my cold dead hands (Which I am sure they will find a way to do eveantually)

 

[radgatt]

I did 60GB last month. Usually average anywhere between 40-60GB a month. They will have to pry my Grandfathered UDp out of my cold dead hands (Which I am sure they will find a way to do eveantually)

You must watch a lot of movies or stream a lot of music. I'm curious, what do you do to use that much data each month?

 

[Almeuit]

You must watch a lot of movies or stream a lot of music. I'm curious, what do you do to use that much data each month?

I am in the same boat. I used to use 100+ GB a month but now average around 30-50 GB a month. I can stream things while at work so sometimes I will have Twitch tournaments and stuff going on.

 

[Almeuit]

So then, since the *unlocked* HTC10 works on band 13, isn't Verizon legally compelled to allow it on their network?

They cannot block an already active SIM from working in a device as long as it has the radios. Technically Verizon isn't obligated to activate a brand new SIM / Plan on a device they don't want to... that is the "loophole" for them.

 

[radgatt]

I am in the same boat. I used to use 100+ GB a month but now average around 30-50 GB a month. I can stream things while at work so sometimes I will have Twitch tournaments and stuff going on.

So you use tether then? You're using the phone as your Internet as well?

 

[Almeuit]

So you use tether then? You're using the phone as your Internet as well?

Nope. All phone data. I only get 7 GB of tether a month (per line) from T-Mobile.

Edit - Below is my usage this month so far.

 

[udazavlanje]

You really ought to consider switching to a modern verizon plan (I'm assuming you are on a grandfathered UDP). Have you tracked how much data you actually use? 14GB/mo + 1 phone is currently $100/mo and tethering is totally allowed now.

20gb + on average so it wouldn't work for me. YT alone is 15+ , gmaps 3+ , netflix, hbo, etc

Moto XPE/VZW Moto X DE/N7

 

[radgatt]

Nope. All phone data. I only get 7 GB of tether a month (per line) from T-Mobile.

Edit - Below is my usage this month so far.

I see.

 

[Almeuit]

I see.

Now there is ONE time I attempted something crazy. I used 1 TB (all phone data since I can't do more than 7 GB tether) .. Nothing happened. (Link: http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon/388159-terabyte-club-3.html#post3669274)

One of our mods on Verizon (dpham) with the unlimited hotspot add-on pushed the limits of Verizon and used 5 TB .. nothing happened to him either. (Link: http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon/388159-terabyte-club-3.html#post3700577)

We did it mainly for the purpose of seeing if they punched us in the face lol .