Help Not getting LTE

[TheAmazingDave]

First off, this thing is amazing! In total love, it's unnatural.

But I'm having an issue already, and it's probably because I set up the phone without the SIM inserted. It's working, making/receiving calls and texts, but I'm stuck on 3G data. I assume this is because I don't have the correct APN settings, but when I compare them to my Nexus 7, their nearly identical.

On my tablet, the APN in use is "T-Mobile US LTE" connecting to fast.t-mobile.com

On my phone, the APN is "T-Mobile GPRS", also connecting to fast.t-mobile.com

Inside the APN settings, everything is identical except:

There's a field for Password. On my tablet, there's 4 asterisks, but on the phone, this is empty.
There's a field for Server. Again, on my tablet, there's a single asterisk, but this is empty on the phone as well.
The final difference is that the tablet is set for IPv4 and the phone on IPv6.

I tried changing the phone to IPv4, and it did not help anything. I don't know what to put in the server and password fields.

Does anyone have an idea?

 

[lunatic59]

Found this on XDA ...

Name :T-MobileLTE
APN: fast.tmobile.com
MMSC:http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Protocol: WAP 2.0
MCC: 310
MNC: 260
APN Type: default,supl,admin,dun,mms

It looks like the APN they suggest is without hyphen. Not sure if that's the problem, or just a typo.

 

[TheAmazingDave]

I tweaked some settings based on what you posted. I still wasn't getting LTE in my house, so I decided to take a quick walk.

Lo and behold, I received LTE signal outside. I can't say now whether it was the settings change, or just bad signal in here all along.

My tablet sometimes drops to HSPA in here, so I guess I'm not too surprised.

 

[lunatic59]

I don't get LTE in my house either. Pretty much everywhere else, i do. Oh, and oddly, my Wife's S3 shows an LTE connection in the house.

 

[marctronixx]

Setting on "global", I have had lte everywhere I go here in Los Angeles. Sprint stock not rooted, purchased through Google...

 

[mikedt]

I sometimes don't get LTE actually in the apartment, it drops back to EDGE, but then it's on WiFi anyway at home and so not using cellular data at all. Still make and receive phone calls ok, so not really a problem.