will t-mobile S3 work on European 3g? - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Hello, im from romania, and my brother want to send me a tmobile galaxy s3 from the us! Will the phone work on 3g, here in europe?
Can't wait for an answer! Thank you guys!!

tibibond said:
Hello, im from romania, and my brother want to send me a tmobile galaxy s3 from the us! Will the phone work on 3g, here in europe?
Can't wait for an answer! Thank you guys!!
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Who will be your service carrier? We will need to know first.

I ll go with orange... i understand that it uses the 900mhz band for 3g! Sovit won t work?

You should look up their 3g bands and compare to our phone.. i think our phone is quadband so pretty high chance of having 3g
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Pretty low chance of having 3G service on a U.S. phone, if they use Band VIII (900Mhz). Neither the T999 or the i747 support that band for UMTS. You are better off with the international version.

I was able to use it with globul when i went for a trip to bulgaria.

I was able to use it with globul when i went for a trip to bulgaria.
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Does globul use Band VIII for UMTS?

kmdub said:
Does globul use Band VIII for UMTS?
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You use globul as well?

You should check which Orange you're going to be on. I see that it either uses 900 or 2100 depending where you're at.
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[R&D] my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II shows LTE bands

Hey guys i bought the Samsung Galaxy S II from T-Mobile thinking that has HSPA+ bands I, IV and V.. like the box and website says.
Here we use HSPA+ band V (850) so, i inserted my sim card but i only pick 3G bands ( HSDPA )
Checking the bands that the phone has using *#2263# i noticed that i have WCDMA, GSM but also i have LTE bands ...
I never heard that T-Mobile Galaxy S II has LTE bands..
Any ideas why it says LTE instead of HSPA+?
YES, I WAS RIGHT! Samsung was to lazy to change the modem between the skyrocket and the T-Mo SGSII, so if you flashed one of our modems, you'd technically have a functional LTE radio.
Wow, this is crazy!
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Does this mean we can put an att sim in are phone and use lte?!?! WIN!!!
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twolfekc said:
Does this mean we can put an att sim in are phone and use lte?!?! WIN!!!
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You'd have to flash a Skyrocket radio, because when I was using a T-Mobile radio, it wouldn't connect to LTE.
But that means, if I'm right, the Skyrocket and T-Mo SGS II have support for 850, 900, 1700, 1900, and 2100 HSPA+.... that's a pentaband phone.
****. YES.
Go ahead and try it folks.
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Now I'm intrigued... does the roaming agreement between the 2 carriers say anything about LTE?
Longcat14 said:
Now I'm intrigued... does the roaming agreement between the 2 carriers say anything about LTE?
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Your talking about the post merger agreement right? It just may... and those of us on T-Mobile may be able to hijack Lte once the agreements are in place lol.
Its cool how there are so many similarities between the two phones. They are almost identical which is great for developement.
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jordanishere said:
Your talking about the post merger agreement right? It just may... and those of us on T-Mobile may be able to hijack Lte once the agreements are in place lol.
Its cool how there are so many similarities between the two phones. They are almost identical which is great for developement.
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Yeah, but I don't think AT&T would allow another carrier to roam on a very new LTE network, especially when they don't even have 10% of their own customers on the network.
And it's really cool, because they are the same phone. xD
Although, I don't know why our accelerometer is flipped.
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Yeah, but I don't think AT&T would allow another carrier to roam on a very new LTE network, especially when they don't even have 10% of their own customers on the network.
And it's really cool, because they are the same phone. xD
Although, I don't know why our accelerometer is flipped.
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Maybe that is the only stipulation AT&T put out there between both phones?
Hey guys..if it helps I have T-Mobile galaxy s2 and skyrocket from att ..would like to test out and see if this may work. Not to sure if there's any lte support in Connecticut area..but this would be a niffty find...thanks op
tiguy99 said:
Maybe that is the only stipulation AT&T put out there between both phones?
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Could be, but with the short amount of time between release of the 2 phones, Samsung must have developed 2 phones, same hardware, flipped the accelerometer in one, and branded one AT&T, and the other T-Mobile.
Gotta say, that's a great way to save with development.
Longcat14 said:
Could be, but with the short amount of time between release of the 2 phones, Samsung must have developed 2 phones, same hardware, flipped the accelerometer in one, and branded one AT&T, and the other T-Mobile.
Gotta say, that's a great way to save with development.
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maybe you are right. i just bought this phone so, its probably the new version.. however.. here in peru where i am at, we use HSPA+ 850 but i cant pick that signal .. only 3G ( HSDPA ).. so means, TMO SGS II is penta 3G band but only One band HSPA+ ?
marcopolo1 said:
maybe you are right. i just bought this phone so, its probably the new version.. however.. here in peru where i am at, we use HSPA+ 850 but i cant pick that signal .. only 3G ( HSDPA ).. so means, TMO SGS II is penta 3G band but only One band HSPA+ ?
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No, try this.
Go to the skyrocket forums, find the radio thread, and flash one of those modems.
If I'm right, it should kick on the 850MHz portion of the radio
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Longcat14 said:
No, try this.
Go to the skyrocket forums, find the radio thread, and flash one of those modems.
If I'm right, it should kick on the 850MHz portion of the radio
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i cant test it.. i am in peru and we dont have LTE so far, just HSPA+ 850..
hope someone in USA will test this
Give me info on how to test and will report back...
marcopolo1 said:
maybe you are right. i just bought this phone so, its probably the new version.. however.. here in peru where i am at, we use HSPA+ 850 but i cant pick that signal .. only 3G ( HSDPA ).. so means, TMO SGS II is penta 3G band but only One band HSPA+ ?
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Even if u have hspa+ it will say 3g on this phone because ur carrier may only be supporting 21mbps and not 42. You probably are getting hspa+ speeds but ur phone just shows it as 3g
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Theoretically it should work. Lol, an ode to the original vibrant, sometimes their laziness pays off! I've noticed the sensation has LTE mentioned also. Haven't dug if it but I wonder if it actuall does support LTE ? If I'm not mistaken LTE uses AWS protocol right?
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No, try this.
Go to the skyrocket forums, find the radio thread, and flash one of those modems.
If I'm right, it should kick on the 850MHz portion of the radio
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This is sick! One day we might be able to see 100mbs download speeds
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iloveandroid16 said:
This is sick! One day we might be able to see 100mbs download speeds
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This is Rly crazy I hope we can try n get this ...yet another reason y this fone is amazin
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yeah im looking for the telus radio now. using the rogers version on bell, but bell supports 42mbps rogers doesn't.
Hoping a telus radio will help out (no LTE with bell where I live, but close)

Use the t989 in Germany?

hey guys want to get the T989 i googled a bit but found nothing... the frequency that is not supported id the 900mhz one. And eplus is my network operator they use this band only in tiny citys or little place´s in the country... i live near Cologne so i dont think this band is used so much.
sorry for my english:fingers-crossed:
would be nice if someone can help.
rikusuicide said:
hey guys want to get the T989 i googled a bit but found nothing... the frequency that is not supported id the 900mhz one. And eplus is my network operator they use this band only in tiny citys or little place´s in the country... i live near Cologne so i dont think this band is used so much.
sorry for my english:fingers-crossed:
would be nice if someone can help.
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You want to see which band is your 3g hspda or whatever and hope it's not the 900 band.
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Teo032 said:
You want to see which band is your 3g hspda or whatever and hope it's not the 900 band.
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so i think at my parents home i just wil get edge and near cologne it will be 3g. or hope so :silly:
my network operator uses 2100 band in big citys and near them. have an tmobile hd2 i get 3g here and at my parents home just edge.
rikusuicide said:
so i think at my parents home i just wil get edge and near cologne it will be 3g. or hope so :silly:
my network operator uses 2100 band in big citys and near them. have an tmobile hd2 i get 3g here and at my parents home just edge.
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Yeah it'll be the same. Sounds like your company uses the same bands as Tmobile.
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great thank you for your help
Had to issues with my T989 in Europe.
cipsaz said:
Had to issues with my T989 in Europe.
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You had issues? Did you unlock it?
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[Q] Buying Advice, LTE vs HSPA+ ?

Hi guys,
I'm wondering should i go for the HSPA+ on the galaxy note 2, since i hear it's more battery friendly ?
Dose the Galaxy note 2 international version support HSPA+ 1700 ? and LTE ? i really tried to figure out the differences but i couldn't.
I'm using my simple mobile in Austin, TX and they are pretty cheap and offer HSPA+ 1700, which i'm willing to go for and trade LTE for battery. is this a good idea?
Your thoughts about the white vs gray ? ,, gray looks cool
im in the us, which is a good site to order from? ,, should i buy or is it wiser to wait?
Thank you guys in advance and please help
Fellow Austinite here also excited for the Note II! I'm gonna wait for the T-Mobile version. It's going to have support for their HSPA+ network and is future proofed with LTE when T-Mobile starts deploying that, so you should be able to choose which radio you want on.
From an article I read several weeks back when the TMobile Note2 was first leaked, the TMobile version will only support HSPA+. It won't even support TMobile's LTE, when the get around to building it. So I'm waiting to see if the ATT version will cover TMobile's frequencies or how modem flashing works out.
gedster314 said:
From an article I read several weeks back when the TMobile Note2 was first leaked, the TMobile version will only support HSPA+. It won't even support TMobile's LTE, when the get around to building it. So I'm waiting to see if the ATT version will cover TMobile's frequencies or how modem flashing works out.
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According to FCC
The note II on t-mobile WILL support their LTE and it will be future proof.
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/09/t-mo...s-through-the-fcc-is-future-proofed-with-lte/
T-Mo seems to be the version to get!! love their use of DC-HSPA
Thanks guys! You're the best,
definitely waiting for T Mo's and getting the best of both worlds
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Get the HSPA+. It is more battery friendly like you said, and HSPA+ is actually comparable to LTE.
LTE has its MAJOR benefits. I love LTE but right now, I'm gonna jump on the HSPA int'l version first.
Guess I'm waiting for the TMobile one. Also curious how flashable the modem is. It would be nice is the differences between all the phones was only a flash.
theandroidrooter88 said:
Get the HSPA+. It is more battery friendly like you said, and HSPA+ is actually comparable to LTE.
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Is the International version currently out compatible with HSPA+ 1700 that t mobile and simple mobile are currently providing??
If yes, where can I get it from?
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D.Ookami said:
Is the International version currently out compatible with HSPA+ 1700 that t mobile and simple mobile are currently providing??
If yes, where can I get it from?
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No, but remember that T-Mo is changing their 1900 Edge band to HSPA+. If you wait a couple of years than it will be compatible with T-Mo H+.
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Can N7105 use Canada LTE?

Hi All,
I am using a N7105 on Bell Canada network. Seem my phone only max. on HSPA+ not LTE. Base on I am reading some information from internet. Bell is using 1700/2100/2600 Mhz for LTE. My phone only able pick up LTE 800/1800/2600 Mhz. My question is shouldn't my phone work on Bell LTE network on 2600 Mhz?? Also does anyone out there use N7105 and able to use LTE on Rogers/Bell/Telus???
Thanks
PC
wow really no one use N7105 in Canada???
It will work but generally performance would be poor inside buildings or in areas of interference, due to having only one compatible band instead of two.
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Viper2005 said:
It will work but generally performance would be poor inside buildings or in areas of interference, due to having only one compatible band instead of two.
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I have tried even outside on the street still not getting LTE:crying:
7105 is international, international usually mean European, Australia etc, ie NOT north American region. They will have carrier specific versions for bell, telus, robbers, wind etc
kebabs said:
7105 is international, international usually mean European, Australia etc, ie NOT north American region. They will have carrier specific versions for bell, telus, robbers, wind etc
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This is stupid they don't follow the other country
So which model name/number is the Canadian Bell one? I'm thinking of buying one in Calgary, but I wanted to monitor ROM development before I got one, so which forum should I follow for the Canadian one? I just guessed it was an N7105, but apparently it's not!
Edit: Nevermind, found it on Wikipedia. It's SGH-i317M and seems roughly same as AT&T, I guess I'll go to that forum!
Although I don't know anyone that has a N7105 on LTE in Canada, I've seen people use LTE with a I9305 (with the same LTE bands as the N7105) in Vancouver at least, so technically your phone should work. It may be that your area doesn't have the 2600Mhz spectrum.
radeonboy said:
Although I don't know anyone that has a N7105 on LTE in Canada, I've seen people use LTE with a I9305 (with the same LTE bands as the N7105) in Vancouver at least, so technically your phone should work. It may be that your area doesn't have the 2600Mhz spectrum.
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Ah so i called Bell they told me they have 2600 Mhz but you never know. Cause Bell tech. support sucks
N7105 supports 2600 mhz radio frequency, but a respective modem file need to be flashed for it to work on LTE network.
I had Note LTE i717 which supported 1700mhz lte of Rogers, and yes it worked with wind and T-mobile network using 1700 mhz frequency only after flashing tmobile modem.
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gotshoaib said:
N7105 supports 2600 mhz radio frequency, but a respective modem file need to be flashed for it to work on LTE network.
I had Note LTE i717 which supported 1700mhz lte of Rogers, and yes it worked with wind and T-mobile network using 1700 mhz frequency only after flashing tmobile modem.
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Hi quick question on this one. My phone is international version and it is unlocked. And i have contact Samsung and they said i don't need anything as long as the SP giving out 2600Mhz. The phone will auto use 2600Mhz
Hey OP are you using an LTE compatible sim card?
hey_dude1643 said:
Hey OP are you using an LTE compatible sim card?
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Ya i am using the Bell LTE SIM
Lte will not work out of box, unless some developer gets you modem file which can make your N7105 to recognize 2600mhz as Bell LTE.
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gotshoaib said:
Lte will not work out of box, unless some developer gets you modem file which can make your N7105 to recognize 2600mhz as Bell LTE.
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Hate North American SP never use the same standard as other ........
phil_chan86 said:
Hate North American SP never use the same standard as other ........
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Yeah me too hate .....I was in long dilemma to buy N7105 , but when I found this then i just bought it outright from Rogers.
Also to let you know that even after flashing 2600mhz to work as lte radio, you will only get lte in 2600mhz lte available areas only, bcoz lte in NA fluctuates many frequencies from 700/1700/1900/2100/2600.
Good luck and enjoy your Note2.
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I just bought a N7105 international version from Hong Kong and yes it work on Rogers here in Vancouver. Make sure you get a LTE compatible SIM card. My old SIM card did not compatible with LTE so I only got H+ or 3G. Now I changed and I am on 4G.
The reception is only 2 bars most of the time though. Sometime I got 4 bars. I tried data speed using Speedtest.net and still got at max 52Mbps DOWN and 34Mbps UP even I am at 2 bars so I guess it isn't too bad.
rcyh said:
I just bought a N7105 international version from Hong Kong and yes it work on Rogers here in Vancouver. Make sure you get a LTE compatible SIM card. My old SIM card did not compatible with LTE so I only got H+ or 3G. Now I changed and I am on 4G.
The reception is only 2 bars most of the time though. Sometime I got 4 bars. I tried data speed using Speedtest.net and still got at max 52Mbps UP and 34Mbps DOWN even I am at 2 bars so I guess it isn't too bad.
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Hey rcyh same here i got my phone in HK..... I heard a lot people able to use 2600 Mhz on Rogers only ... Do you have any friend is using Bell and you can give it a try and see u are getting LTE there?
Woooooo comfirmed N7105 does work great with Rogers :fingers-crossed: I am getting 47Mbps down and 10Mbps up with 2 bar signal :angel:...... I think Bell just locked the LTE 2600Mhz band to public
phil_chan86 said:
Woooooo comfirmed N7105 does work great with Rogers :fingers-crossed: I am getting 47Mbps down and 10Mbps up with 2 bar signal :angel:...... I think Bell just locked the LTE 2600Mhz band to public
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you go the N7105 from where? Wind's SGH-T889V? Did you do anything (unlock/root/flash radio/other) to get LTE on Rogers?

[Q] Frequency Bands

Hello friends my samsung galaxy s3 att is unlocked but not connect with 3g only edge :S my carrier is orange dominicana
many people tell me it is the frequency band any solution ???
any comment to know why not connect with 3g
How to enable 3G samsung galaxy s3 att on orange dominicana
stein3d said:
Hello friends my samsung galaxy s3 att is unlocked but not connect with 3g only edge :S my carrier is orange dominicana
many people tell me it is the frequency band any solution ???
any comment to know why not connect with 3g
How to enable 3G samsung galaxy s3 att on orange dominicana
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Sorry, but it's not going to work with this phone.
Orange Dominicana uses the 900 band frequency for 3g (WCDMA). On this phone that band is locked for being used with 2g (GSM). That's why you're getting Edge.
Unfortunately, the T-Mobile version of this phone also locked the 900 band for GSM. That means the NV data hack won't work for you either.
Sorry. Hope that explains it, and I hope they at least launch LTE service on a compatible band for you.
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upncoming said:
Sorry, but it's not going to work with this phone.
Orange Dominicana uses the 900 band frequency for 3g (WCDMA). On this phone that band is locked for being used with 2g (GSM). That's why you're getting Edge.
Unfortunately, the T-Mobile version of this phone also locked the 900 band for GSM. That means the NV data hack won't work for you either.
Sorry. Hope that explains it, and I hope they at least launch LTE service on a compatible band for you.
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thanks but samsung galaxy s3 i9300 (international) working with 3g ????
stein3d said:
thanks but samsung galaxy s3 i9300 (international) working with 3g ????
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Looks like it would work.
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upncoming said:
Looks like it would work.
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ok vry thanks :good::good:
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