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dinosaur1 said:
I read this article and was wondering if anyone tried it, does it work, etc...
AnandTech - Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4 (AWS)

it shows how to get into Phone Info and change the preferred network type to LTE.

I live in an LTE area, would it work? My iPhone 5 that I used to have always had LTE on, but I hate the iPhone 5 so....=)
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Been spoken about quite a bit here!
In actuality, no the phone doesn't have all the necessary parts, amplifiers, etc to really run on LTE, just the chip!

However some folks in Canada have been able to minimally grab some LTE signals with some tweaking. And there's been rumblings that T-Mobile will be using these frequencies when they roll out they're LTE NETWORK later in 2013. at&t uses completely different frequencies as well.

But for now the short answer is no...
 
sean76 said:
Been spoken about quite a bit here!
In actuality, no the phone doesn't have all the necessary parts, amplifiers, etc to really run on LTE, just the chip!

However some folks in Canada have been able to minimally grab some LTE signals with some tweaking. And there's been rumblings that T-Mobile will be using these frequencies when they roll out they're LTE NETWORK later in 2013. at&t uses completely different frequencies as well.

But for now the short answer is no...
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thanks, if anything it was a very interesting article.
 
It does seem as if the amps for the AWS band are on board, however no US carrier is currently using this band for LTE. Also the FCC hasn't type approved the phone for operation on this band so I would expect that they'll require it to be disabled in a future update.
 
OverByter said:
It does seem as if the amps for the AWS band are on board, however no US carrier is currently using this band for LTE. Also the FCC hasn't type approved the phone for operation on this band so I would expect that they'll require it to be disabled in a future update.
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Ouch
 
i'm just wondering since the bands already are approved does it really matter if it says lte because1700mhz is 1700mhz don't know to much about this so just wondering.
 
spriteboost said:
i'm just wondering since the bands already are approved does it really matter if it says lte because1700mhz is 1700mhz don't know to much about this so just wondering.
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I gotta say, if tmo turns on LTE and it works on this phone ...

That will just ensure that I will be using this phone probably longer then any other in the last few years
 
I am going to go out on a limb knowing how the industry works...

What is probably already in the works is a patch to disable the LTE radio.
I know that's not what people want to hear but the LTE patent holders want their royalties and LG/Google are not going to want to pay up when this was not intended to have LTE.

On the flip side... they could decide to pay the bill and support it at a later date because this device is proving to be popular.

A third scenario here is that T-mobile has been more or less future proofing their newer devices so it's possible this could be enabled especially since it's being sold by T-Mobile.

Last but not least.... I have been told T-Mobile DOES indeed have LTE up and running at specific sites and that testing is being performed.
The power levels at these sites is cranked way down for obvious reasons and they are only online when testing is taking place anyhow.
That's all I can really say about that since I know people installing the gear who would like to keep their jobs :)

Look for it next year.. I bet they start to turn it up. :D
 
I just simply can't get past the fact of why LTE 100% isn't on board with the Nexus 4?

If I had to narrow it down to one thing I'd say it was originally slated to be on board, and after Testing it for a short time, Google decided to maybe pull the plug because of battery issues. This phone isn't that good on battery with HSPA+, imagine how bad it would be with LTE?
 
sean76 said:
I just simply can't get past the fact of why LTE 100% isn't on board with the Nexus 4?

If I had to narrow it down to one thing I'd say it was originally slated to be on board, and after Testing it for a short time, Google decided to maybe pull the plug because of battery issues. This phone isn't that good on battery with HSPA+, imagine how bad it would be with LTE?
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Never had any battery issues... actually for me it's better than the Galaxy Nexus.
For me... could care less about LTE.
In this area all the LTE networks are not even half the speed of T-Mobile's DC-HSPA network so staying put I get the best of both worlds.
I am content with 2-4 down on a phone... I am not trying to race to my data cap. :D

Adding LTE to a device is simply all about money right now.
It's a heavily patented tech and those holders require coin.
 
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