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Official MetroPCS BYOD discussion thread

BRAINZ2013 said:
That's true but someone told me T-Mobile has it set up like atandt where all u need to do is put the card in the phone and text a code and u get a number and power off for ten minutes and bam you got service . I know it works with atand t anyone can confirm this with T-Mobile yet . o metro pcs wont do that yet .
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you do not even need to text anything.

just put a good t mobile sim in, and by good I mean with service, change apn, if required and some phones reboot and they are ready to go.
 
Agreed. With T-Mobile, just swap the SIM card and, if necessary, reboot. Typically the correct APN will be loaded automatically, though on a few phones you may need to manually enter it.
 
new optimus said:
you do not even need to text anything.

just put a good t mobile sim in, and by good I mean with service, change apn, if required and some phones reboot and they are ready to go.
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Hey NO, help me understand this please.


Could you be activated on Metro, get say a AT&Sleeze Sim card from Aio to test them out, keep your same number and put the AT&S Sim in, test it out and go back to the Metro card *at will* or would you have to activate with the carrier each time?


Thanks in advance,


Bruce in Ocala, Fl
 
Not with the same number, but you could have both cards active if you allow a new number on the aio card. This is why many people who carrier hop frequently utilize google voice.
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
Hey NO, help me understand this please.


Could you be activated on Metro, get say a AT&Sleeze Sim card from Aio to test them out, keep your same number and put the AT&S Sim in, test it out and go back to the Metro card *at will* or would you have to activate with the carrier each time?


Thanks in advance,


Bruce in Ocala, Fl
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As jhawk says both sim cards can not have the same number, however if you get an aio card activate it for a month(with a number) you can pull the metro sim put in the aio and use att network, then pull that sim put metro back in and have metro working again. You do not need to call metro to lock that sim to that phone again, you would only need to call them if you planned on taking that metro sim and putting in a new phone. Because in metro's system your imei is already locked into that sim, that does not apply for any other gsm network. because they do not require sim to be locked to phone
 
Try to go info the hidden menu and change the settings to lte -cdma -GSM. Or you can pay for the toggle in the play store
 
Based on this info can anyone tell me if this htc one unlocked will be able to get 4g LTE in Los Angeles?

Network
2G/2.5G - GSM/GPRS/EDGE:


  • 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
3G - UMTS/ HSPA:


  • Europe/ Middle East/ Africa: 900/1900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 42 Mbps
  • Asia: 850/900/1900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 42 Mbps
  • Canada/ Latin America: 850/1900/2100 MHz up to HSPA+ 42 Mbps
  • T-Mobile (US): 850/ AWS/1900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 42 Mbps
  • AT&T: 850/1900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 21 Mbps
  • Sprint: 1900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 14.4 Mbps
3G - CDMA:


  • 800/1900 MHz for Sprint
4G - CDMA:


  • Verizon: 800/1900MHZ, UMTS/HSPA 1900/2100MHz,GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz, LTE 700MHz (Band 13)
4G - LTE:


  • Europe/ Middle East/ Africa: 800/1800/2600 MHz
  • Asia: 1800/2600 MHz
  • T-Mobile (US)/ AT&T/ Canada/ Latin America: 700 MHz and AWS band
  • Sprint: 1900 MHz
 
I have a Verizon note 3 on metropcs. I rooted and enabled band 4. The 4G connection is not very good. I have to keep it on the global setting to get 4g and the 4G comes and goes. If I switch to the GSM setting I get the H network. Does anyone know how to get 4g working good on this device? I asked all over and know one seems to know. What I had a metro phone my 4g was blazing hot most of the time. I am starting to think that this BYOD is not worth the hassle. I might sell it and get the mega. It's big a doofy But At Least I will have good 4g connection.

Thanks
 
Lawkev said:
I have a Verizon note 3 on metropcs. I rooted and enabled band 4. The 4G connection is not very good. I have to keep it on the global setting to get 4g and the 4G comes and goes. If I switch to the GSM setting I get the H network. Does anyone know how to get 4g working good on this device? I asked all over and know one seems to know. What I had a metro phone my 4g was blazing hot most of the time. I am starting to think that this BYOD is not worth the hassle. I might sell it and get the mega. It's big a doofy But At Least I will have good 4g connection.

Thanks
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You sure it will work better? It might just be your area. H is a form of 4g . I would like for you to put the phone on LTE only and do a speed test signal may not be strong but you may pull great speeds
 
Dee, is it a) just possible, or b) likely, that you could have a poor H+ signal but have a GOOD Lte signal on T-Metro?

Bruce in Ocala, Fl
 
DirtyDee said:
You sure it will work better? It might just be your area. H is a form of 4g . I would like for you to put the phone on LTE only and do a speed test signal may not be strong but you may pull great speeds
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I was under the impression that H was a super fast 3G.
 
morgankslade said:
So Moto G (with MPCS) has 4G technology???
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Since 2010, HSPA has been under the 4G standard but I guess Moto didn't want to go with H+21 under the "4G" marketing lingo.
4G was supposed to be initially where there's a minimum of 100mbps but after the revision it basically all just turned for marketing.
 
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