Root Make commando 4G see AT&T LTE

[xmguy1]

I know both Verizon and AT&T run on 700Mhz albeit several KHz away from each other. Is there a way to edit the phone to use AT&T LET band?

 

[Rukbat]

Short answer, no. Some of the long answer, aside from the illegality of it (the phone isn't licensed to transmit on AT&T's frequencies), AT&T won't recognize the phone as being registered on its network.

 

[rjglenn]

Rukbat, right answer, wrong reason, more or less...

xmguy1, you can put an AT&T SIM in your phone and it will operate on AT&T's GSM & UMTS channels as long as they are in the operating range that the phone is hard coded to operate on (850 & 1900).

When a manufacture sends a phone to the FCC for approval for use the FCC authorizes it to operate on specific frequency bands. At the very least you would need to have some very secret factory tools to change the frequency bands, more likely though the components are not capable of operating on AT&T's 700 MHz allocation. You would also need to know some proprietary information to be able to set this up.

The phone works great on AT&T, HSPA speed around here is on par with VZW's LTE. I have a grandfathered unlimited plan right now, so I'm staying with Verizon. If something happens to that then me and my Commando will be headed to AIO Wireless more than likely.

 

[xmguy1]

Rukbat, right answer, wrong reason, more or less...

xmguy1, you can put an AT&T SIM in your phone and it will operate on AT&T's GSM & UMTS channels as long as they are in the operating range that the phone is hard coded to operate on (850 & 1900).

When a manufacture sends a phone to the FCC for approval for use the FCC authorizes it to operate on specific frequency bands. At the very least you would need to have some very secret factory tools to change the frequency bands, more likely though the components are not capable of operating on AT&T's 700 MHz allocation. You would also need to know some proprietary information to be able to set this up.

The phone works great on AT&T, HSPA speed around here is on par with VZW's LTE. I have a grandfathered unlimited plan right now, so I'm staying with Verizon. If something happens to that then me and my Commando will be headed to AIO Wireless more than likely.

I didn't realize that the frequencies were hard coded to the Qualcomm chip. Not only that the phone would not register to the LTE from AT&T as the tower/network would check the IMEI. I'm using Straight Talk /AT&T and via Doctoror mod using UMTS / GSM and HSPA / HSDPA +. I get anywhere from 1Mbps to 6Mbps. With Verizon LTE I got 12-15 Mbps. Not too much of a drop but making streaming video hard. Thanks guys for explaining!