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[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
Simple answer. where you are barely has the 4G signal and it's just teetering on the edge but still trying to hold on to 4G. If you wait a while eventually it will switch to 3G/H+. I had exactly this issue. Go for a drive in your car and perhaps you will find you get a stronger 4G signal. Additionally, I noticed that this back and forward action or even just sitting on either 1 bar of 4G or no bars (but still somehow taking calls) was horrible on battery. The weaker the signal, the more juice your phone constantly uses trying to find a stronger one.

In my opinion you should only use 4G if you live in a major city where the signal is always strong. even then the download speeds are not much faster than a strong H+ signal (I can always get 29.2-29.8MBps). 4G did have faster upload speeds, but who really cares about that? Most uploads are tiny emails or maybe a camera picture (<5MB) so H+ is plenty fast. As for larger files like video, most people will do this on Wi-Fi anyway to avoid burning through their data plan and then either getting speed throttle or overage charges.

LTE is a nice idea on our phones but it's advantages are marginal at best if you have a strong H+ signal.

My 2 cents.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
I think I have to agree with you. At first the idea of 4G was great (if only because Google didn't intend it on the N4, lol), but, like you, I've found that anywhere I've gone here in town H+ keeps up with 4G, at least down. And I've yet to find a real world upload using 4G that takes advantage of the extra speed it offers (including FTP to my own site). But then I suppose it's good to have options, as long as they're not counter-productive. ;)
[Nexus 4 General] AdamBlue:
I don't know if this is the same. I live on the edge of Ft Worth and drive into Dallas for work. I get no internet connection at all with everything set up correctly. If I make a call or receive a call, I'll have data for 10-30 seconds. And it works, and it's fast. Somehow, a call is initiating a temporary data connection. I did just switch from Solavei to MetroPCS, but it should be all the same.

For now obviously I'm back to preferred and the correct APN. I've tested with other roms today, and still nothing unless I make a call.

EDIT: And to reiterate, I get no data. It doesn't eventually go to 3G/H+. No data at all....except for after a call. This is unique situation I have not seen here.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
sounds more like you have a mistake in your APN setup.

but anyway, if you get over 20MB with H+ and it's absolutely widely available, then stick with it. 4G LTE is a nice idea but on our phones it's clearly a duct tape version!

Plus I'm heading more and more about folks with true LTE hating their battery life, despite all the hoorah about it supposedly being lighter on battery use.

Stick with what works my friend..... no offence to those pioneers on here who no doubt will pipe in that their 4G is awesome, but you are the minority on the N4.

cheers!
[Nexus 4 General] zerosource:
Thank you very much for making this available to noobs.
[Nexus 4 General] AdamBlue:
I understand that. I'm just a tinkerer and love getting hacks to work and stuff. As for APN, it's all good to go! Even tested with ROMs that have the APN settings built-in. I even used a ROM that has the LTE built in it as well. I'll just keep checking back here for updates.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
I have a hardware question. I read that even though G4 can be enabled, the chip doesn't have the necessary antenna. If this is true, how does this affect battery life, if at all?
[Nexus 4 General] XxLostSoulxX:
The hardware is there its bull****. Same as L9 hardware. No battery life difference
[Nexus 4 General] toews:
Hi sorry noob question, how do I reverse this?
[Nexus 4 General] jsax:
Go get the radio you want to go back to (.84?) and flash it. There is a thread containing all versions of the N4 radio here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2087227
[Nexus 4 General] RustyKungFu:
My N4 has PAC man ROM installed with Solavei service.

I flashed .33, changed settings from *#*#4636#*#* to LTE/GSM (auto PRL), adjusted my APN to fast.t-mobile.com and APN protocol to IPv4/IPv6 and can report back that no LTE but it could be my area... I am in San Diego.

Maybe I missed a step. :confused:

I bounce between H and H+, I did notice my data speeds improved though. :laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] bp328i:
I just wanted to say thank you to the OP for this. Here are the results sitting in the same spot between LTE and my FiOS wifi.

Upload speeds are faster on FiOS but whoever uses upload.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
I had to do a clean install of my ROM today (after a factory reset). I had been on the 33/84 hybrid radio. I flashed the ROM followed by the 33/84-enabler zip. After rebooting and making the necessary adjustments (new APN, changing network mode to LTE/GSM), I couldn't connect to G4 even after a reboot.

I started again with a factory reset, but this time I skipped the enabler zip and flashed the 48 ratio. I rebooted into Recovery, flashed the 33/84-enabler zip. This time 4G showed up immediately.

I have no idea if this was coincidence or not, but thought I'd pass it along if anyone else is in a similar situation.
[Nexus 4 General] n2d551:
Once you flash this zip you don't have to reflash the radio every time. Radios never change unless you change them or reset to stock. All I do after a wipe and rom flash is add the apn and flash the boot prop fix here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42652794:good :
[Nexus 4 General] funboi:
I need to uninstall this lte flash and go back to stock. Does anyone know where i can get the original radio files?
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
Not sure if you're replying to me or not... ;)

That's what I used to do, manually edit build.prop, then create the APN and do the dialer thing. But I was under the impression that the AIO enabler here did the build.prop edit for you. I just checked and that value hasn't been changed and LTE still works. But the ROM is 4.3, so I guess that's why?

Anyway, yeah, I know the radio doesn't change with a custom ROM flash, so that's why I'm a little puzzled that changing back to 48 and then to 33/48 on my second attempt seemed to work (or, as I said, maybe a coincidence).
[Nexus 4 General] LittleNICKY777:
Thanks for all the hard work, It helped a lot.
[Nexus 4 General] timon184:
I have a stupid question a question none the less. I'm on the latest 4.3 OTA, do I have to root in order to flash this ? N if so do I need a different kernel or stock should be ok ?
[Nexus 4 General] spaceman860:
No you don't need root just a custom recovery to be able to flash the zip

BLACKED OUT LTE N4
[Nexus 4 General] Insaiyan:
Thanks for sharing, much appreciated :)
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
I noticed that your previous download speeds were faster than your LTE speed.

Sure the LTE upload speeds are without a doubt faster (almost twice as fast as H+), but to be frank with you, those download speeds are not impressive at all.

I'm getting 29500-29800kbps (almost 3 times your download LTE speeds) on good old H+.

like you said, who really cares about upload speed unless you need to upload a really big file like a video? And most would do that on Wi-Fi to save data usage on their phone.

I still don't get this whole LTE excitement, when the download speeds in the majority of cases don't even approach H+?

Maybe in the future when there are more towers then it may be better, but all I'm seeing is much slower download speeds, and that's what really matters for phone use as that's what the majority of phones do - they download much more than they upload.
[Nexus 4 General] bp328i:
I'm on the edge of just receiving LTE where I live. LTE is live in the Tampa Bay area and I live in Pasco County which is about 20 miles away from Tampa. Next time I'm closer to Tampa where LTE is live for t-mobile I will run the test again.

H+ is much slower where I live then the LTE was.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
OK. got you. unusual situation you have.

I'm on the edge of Denver and whilst I'm supposed to get full LTE coverage, in lucky to get 2 bars. H+ is solid 4 bars.

plus I noticed a significant battery drain over H+ during the several days I used LTE.
[Nexus 4 General] ZULU2189:
I searched but I didn't find anything, but my phone will eventually send MMS texts but it will take hours, literally, I'm trying to figure out if it's my phone, T-Mobile or this radio. Has anyone else come across this?
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
Yeah, I went through something like that (not hours, but a good ten minutes) here at home in my little H+/4G black hole.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
I am, but in my case I'm dealing with maybe one bar. I've also noticed that, when running Speedtest, the upload portion just hangs, as if no connection is being made. Of course, as soon as I move to an area with decent reception (which is literally one block away), problem solved.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
This is much more likely a cause of the dysfunctional drivers in current Android 4.3 releases that are causing significant delays when sending emails/MMS.

We have to just wait until Google fixes it - I was hopefuly that the recent JWR66Y update would have addressed these issues (wifi connectivity.speed in particular) but alas no. I think we will need to wait for a 4.3.1 update for these fixes. Given how important connectivity is, it's almost unbelievable they haven't fixed it given the internet is flooded with people having the same issues.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
[MENTION=1039465]Globespy[/MENTION], you seem like a knowledge guy...would you happen to have any idea why, when I create a hotspot with my N4, I can Wi-Fi tether to my laptop or old HTC Vivid device at full bandwidth, but when I tether my N10, I can only get a dismal 500Mb down? I'm with T-Mobile, btw.
[Nexus 4 General] clocinnorcal:
Oh hey Globespy! Not having any GPS issues with your N4 like with that Vibrant, aye?
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
No, that's not it at all. I just switched to T-Mobile. I'm on one of their JUMP plans, so I can tether to my heart's delight. But I just realized I mis-typed -- should've said 500Kb down (speed, not data). My bad. :o

Anyway, it's gotta be something in the way the N4 and N10 are dealing with each other. Can't figure it out.
[Nexus 4 General] Smallsmx3:
I agree on the whole lte thing. I do get about the same up as I do down. I'll admit in real world usage things pop up pretty instantly when the device isn't hanging. I guess ill stick with it for awhile. I remember reading at one point that while the antenna is there there is no amplifier. Is there truth to this? Some areas I get one bar of lte where I would get full H+....shouldn't it be the same since its the same tower?
[Nexus 4 General] haiz:
hey guys, need help here. Can someone help to find Band 3 LTE? cause here in indonesia. LTE band using type 3 :(
[Nexus 4 General] FoleyRose:
You can't, only band 4 is available on Nexus 4.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
in certainly no expert, but I read a lot.

ALL nexus devices running 4.3 are having Wi-Fi issues.

I believe the new N7's release has been marred by these very same issues.

There do however seem to be a very small handful of people who don't seem to be having issues with much slower Wi-Fi performance on 2.4Ghz, and an even smaller group that are not having issues connecting to 5Ghz bands without having to do weird workarounds by changing their 5Ghz channel to a 2-digit channel.

Personally I believe that this minority are having better success because of the type of router they are using - none of the workarounds work on my Netgear router. I can't access my 5Ghz band, in 4.2.2 no problem.

To answer your question, until Google releases an update with fixed Wi-Fi drivers it's a crap shoot. But know that the majority of nexus users are having issues with Wi-Fi right now. If you want more proof just go to the Google group to see what I mean. It's the vast majority:

https://groups.google.com/a/googlep...97c-be77-57ea2b4e7d19@googleproductforums.com

The only way to have your devices working correctly right now is to downgrade to 4.2.2

I'd rather have solid connectivity than a few nice, but ultimately non-significant additions to the camera! That's what my Canon EOS is for, my phone is for communicating.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
Right, I've seen some of those complaints, too, but not sure if it applies. I mean, isn't that an issue of 4.3 connecting to a router with 5Gz capacity? Unless I'm missing something, I'm just setting the N4 as a hotspot; my N10 is still on 4.2.2. And, as I mentioned, my HTC Vivid connected at full bandwidth, and it was on 4.2.1.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
If the wifi download speeds on 4.3 are dismally slower than they were on 4.2.2 why would you think that using the very same wifi drivers to extend connection functionality to another device be any different? You are still relying on the same borked drivers.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
Sorry, I'm not being clear. I've only attempted to use the N4 as a hotspot since it's been on 4.3 (I've only had it a month). When tethered to my HTC Vivid (4.2.1) and to my laptop (XP), I can achieve the full bandwidth I get here at home (2-3Gb). When I tether my N10 tablet (4.2.2) to the N4, I only get 500Kb.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
Hmmm... that is interesting.
[Nexus 4 General] RustyKungFu:
Well I can report that after swapping my friends T-Mobile sim to my N4 and selecting the [T-Mobile US LTE] APN settings, my device reported LTE on its signal bars. Woot woot! :victory:

When I tested with SpeedTest.net I achieved about 15.5Mbps down rate and 6Mbps up rate. That was at 4bars of signal in University Heights

This has me considering a move to T-Mobile service for an extra $20 a month than what I pay now to Solavei.
[Nexus 4 General] Rod3:
According to your info, you are in Bedford Tx. I work off of Hwy 10 and using the .33/54 hybrid radio, AOKP 4.2.2 and this AIO enabler, I am getting LTE with 34 Mbps down and 16 up with 24 ms pings. Signal is very strong.

All of this is with T-Mobile.

The signal does stay on 4G until I receive a phone call, which reverts to 3G, and then back to 4G.
[Nexus 4 General] jazzman97:
Being right around the same area you are in, what are you getting on the west side of Columbus for dwn/up? Just got the Nexus 2 days ago, unlocked and rooted, but just haven't completed this 4g hack.
[Nexus 4 General] xxRAMOTHxx:
Here are results from today..Applebees in Hilliard.

Top 3 are ones I ran back to back today. Server was a Chicago based one cause the speedtest app never shows me the Columbus based ones.

EDIT: I am running the 33/84 radio.
[Nexus 4 General] TrueBrush:
Sometimes when people call me I get a warning icon in notification for a brief moment and then the call goes to a voicemail, not sure if it's related to LTE enabler.
[Nexus 4 General] donutman:
Hi, I'm on PA 3.99, tried flashing both hybrid Radios and can't seem to get LTE connection. Actually, it went full bars once for about 3 minutes and then went away. I tried changing the network modes and fast.tmo APN and nothing works. Can barley even get signal. It worked fine when I was on 4.2 but now I don't know. Anyone got any ideas?
[Nexus 4 General] AdamBlue:
Even with that setup, still nothing for me - no internet connection at all. Either I'm doing something wrong or my phone has a problem.
[Nexus 4 General] cloney:
Updated from 4.3 (old) to the new 4.3 and flashed the hybrid .27 modem. Now i am only getting Edge signal and not even HSPA+ signal anymore. Anyone have a similar problem? or know what i did wrong? I just flashed bootloader,radio and updated the zip. After gaining root, I flashed the CWM and the hybrid .27 LTE zip.
[Nexus 4 General] sukeiasa:
n00b clarification please

i've tried to follow the root thread and this thread and am just getting confused....

using the nexus 4 (purchased from google) on tmobile... want to enable lte....

1. do i need to root the phone?

2. how do i 'install' the zip files onto the phone??

just looking for a step by step... thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] TurboFool:
Unfortunately I didn't have much luck with this. I get no data at all once I flash this on stock (unrooted) and follow the instructions provided. Only way I get data is if I'm on WDCMA Preferred. Not entirely sure why.

Either way, anyone know the easiest way for me to undo this change and revert back to stock modem and remove whatever other changes? Again, I'm not rooted, so can't manually edit build.prop or delete the scripts. Anyone have a zip that handles this?
[Nexus 4 General] SpasilliumNexus:
Make sure the APN is set to t-mobile. Notice the hyphen. I had to same problem with no data until I realized the stock APN didn't have it and was named as tmobile instead.

To go back to stock radio:

1. Remove the three entries from build.prop in /system using an app like ES File Explorer. I use Root Explorer which works perfectly.

2. Undo the APN change from "fast.t-mobile.com" to "epc.tmobile.com".

3. Download desired radio from here and flash it in recovery.
[Nexus 4 General] TurboFool:
Yeah, my APN was configured just fine. Also, you missed the part where I said I'm not rooted, so no manually editing the build.prop file on this phone.

Anyway, I found this script, then flashed the latest modem from NRT. I'm back in shape now.
[Nexus 4 General] sk8erbg207:
When I go to the APNs, I only have "epic.tmobile.com". Am I supposed to click it and then edit it to "fast.t-mobile.com" or am I just unable to get it?
[Nexus 4 General] amujee:
Just create a new APN.

Name it whatever it you want, set APN as "fast.t-mobile.com".

The rest you can leave as-is. Then save it and make sure it's selected.
[Nexus 4 General] dewinky:
I am getting great lte speed near atl
[Nexus 4 General] Berrydroidcafe:
Just tried downloading the zip files and all of them failed. I'm downloading them on my phone. I have the two earlier zips but the latest says V2. Anyone else have a problem with the download? Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] kaeruil:
I just downloaded the 33 file with no problems about an hour ago.
[Nexus 4 General] Berrydroidcafe:
Can you tell me what is the file size? It's strange that no matter how I downloaded it, each way said it failed! :(:mad:

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] :
Just downloaded both radios fine.

This script didn't do enough for me though. I had to dial *#*#4636#*#* and change to LTE/GSM and then change my APN settings name from epc.tmobile.com to fast.t-mobile.com NOT fast.tmobile.com. The - is required.
[Nexus 4 General] Berrydroidcafe:
Nice seeing that 4G!:D
[Nexus 4 General] exenew:
i have LTE on rooted stock 4.3 and connected to LTE fine.

However noticed after dialing *#*#info#*#* and phone section...band changes to "LTE/GSM auto (PRL)" instead of "LTE/GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)". Even though i change it, it will take it and after reboot or sometime, it changes back to LTE/GSM auto...Any idea why?
[Nexus 4 General] xdalaw:
Spasticdroid, first, thanks for the information in the post.

Second, a question: just before the latest update to 4.3, I rooted my stock ROM/device and flashed the hybrid-radio (33/84) to get LTE working on my N4. Worked fine.

After Google came out with the update to 4.3, I un-rooted and reflashed stock to accept the update. The update went fine, and I decided to leave unrooted.

I am now trying to flash the stock radio without LTE.

In order to remove the build prop entries you listed, I to re-root and use my root explorer app (Root Browser), but when I looked for the three entries you listed, I didn't see them.

Would those have been erased when I unrooted and flashed back to stock? I still had the same radio and was getting LTE (albeit a bit less consistently than before the update and unrooting).

The "closest" I have is: telephony.lteOnCdmaDevice=0 AND

ro.telephony.call_ring.multiple=0

Am I correct is thinking that my current build.prop looks ok?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-- Andrew
[Nexus 4 General] Berrydroidcafe:
Seems correct to me, seeing that I don't think the Nexus 4 is capable of connections to a CDMA Network. I could be wrong.
[Nexus 4 General] efrant:
The N4 does not have a CDMA radio, so there is no difference between those two settings. LTE/GSM auto is the correct one.
[Nexus 4 General] SpasilliumNexus:
Stock ROM updates wipe the build.prop with a clean one. As for those two entries you asked about, they're in stock build.prop so you're fine. And for the radio, I'm pretty sure it gets wiped and flashed back to stock also.

But to be sure it's stock, follow that link to efrant's radio thread and follow the step where you extract the radio from the zip and flash via fastboot.
[Nexus 4 General] efrant:
This did work on a stock ROM when I had tried it.
[Nexus 4 General] 7TimesCursed:
Just to make sure.. I get a 4g icon instead of the H. Does that mean its connected to LTE?
[Nexus 4 General] 7TimesCursed:
Sweet! I live about 20 minutes from LA, and I get LTE. Woot!
[Nexus 4 General] lazer155:
I'm confused then since the poster below says he flashed a nightly CM build (I assume dirty flash since it's just an update) and the build prop changes stuck for him. Are you sure a dirty flash removes the changes? I just want to make sure I can easily revert (preferably without having to manually make all the changes back, a dirty flash would be perfectly fine but I want to make sure it will work).

I'd be interested in the reversal zip if you can post it either here or in a new thread.
[Nexus 4 General] scoobdude:
Quick question guys, I am seeing under the dialer settings LTE but am not getting a data connection. I added the fast T-Mobile to my APN with so no change. I still see HSDPA and 3g with a connection on both wcdma and the one with LTE.

Any ideas?
[Nexus 4 General] scoobdude:
Here is a screen shot
[Nexus 4 General] OG Maverick:
Is there any harm in doing this even if you don't have the LTE coverage? Will the phone still just go back to using HSPA+?
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
For starters you should have lte/gsm enabled rather then the lte/gsm/cdma you selected.

---------- Post added at 05:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:03 PM ----------

If you select LTE/GSM it will still have HSPA+ abilities.
[Nexus 4 General] scoobdude:
I get the same result. What is the difference? I thought we needed to deject the option with CDMA since only band 4 is supported by our radio?
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
Yeah it will work but seems pointless on a non CDMA phone. I'd verify APN settings, select only LTE and see what happens. Then switch to LTE/GSM.
[Nexus 4 General] scoobdude:
Does this look right? If so I also tried it with .com at the end also.
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
No take out everything after MMS in APN type.
[Nexus 4 General] kpjimmy:
Nope. Delete the tmobile there. The to put fast.t-mobile.com is the second from the top.
[Nexus 4 General] scoobdude:
Thanks guys that works. Getting only around 4-6mb/s outside the Austin metro area. But glad to see it works.

And of course thanks to the OP as well
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
Glad we got ya set up.
[Nexus 4 General] leeEXHIB:
thank you

Haha... hell yes.. I'm on PA 3.65/ Franko kernel M3... works flawless... Thank you so much
[Nexus 4 General] blitzzz3434:
Works like a charm with PA 3.65 on Koodo mobile.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Spankly:
Bpears96 good to see you man. Missed your work from the OneX
[Nexus 4 General] Themindbuddah:
Works! (Well got the option for LTE) But no networks use it here in the UK Lol! But nice to know that what they take away! Some guru from XDA will give us right back! Thank mate! X
[Nexus 4 General] exenew:
is there a way to check which custom radio .27 or .33 i am running right now? I tried both one by one and keep forgetting which one i currently have.
[Nexus 4 General] bruce7373:
I'm not on stock ROM, I'm using Cataclysm 4.3, but I didn't have to modify that one line or add the other two in build.prop that I did with 4.2.2. I just flashed the 33/84 hybrid/enabler zip and made sure I was on the fast.t-mobile APN.
[Nexus 4 General] amadib:
Will the fix of this bug require an update to the hybrid radios?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...rops-on-some-nexus-4-handsets-fixes-in-sight/