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[Sony Cross-Device General] tjsooley:
I have a gsm r800. Its running ics based on the sony leak. when it was on gb I could switch to diag mode following the instructions in post 1 but now I am on ics sony leak and neither of the setprop codes work. any ideas?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mattanh:
thank s

i kno'w i need to extract, but how can it be installed from winzip , or 7z?
[Sony Cross-Device General] palmbeach05:
you install winzip or 7z in order to unzip/extract the files within
[Sony Cross-Device General] mattanh:
of course i do. but when going to device manager and trying to update drive i get that my driver is up to date.

when i uninstalled the driver rebooted computer, and hocked up the phone it immediately installed the driver again.

so how do i install the unzipped driver files to the device?
[Sony Cross-Device General] palmbeach05:
There is an option to select the driver you want to install. just pay attention to your options throughout the process. I'm not on my personal computer, so i can't necessarily give you the specific instructions.
[Sony Cross-Device General] BlackSoulxxx:
Incase then, move to French....:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

But seriously, Verizon baseband is crazy.....After latest bb update on my phone, thing start to get crazy.....
[Sony Cross-Device General] BobbySteel:
Weirdly I just reflashed my rom then added back the build prop from the GSM version and Vodafone UK is working in 4g now. Weird.
[Sony Cross-Device General] tjsooley:
The first command in this post worked for a htc one m7 gpe using lollypop

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=39879121&postcount=3

This was the exact command echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/android_usb/android0/f_diag/on

I also have full adb too and did not need modified drivers
[Sony Cross-Device General] jdmedeiros:
HTC Glacier MyTouch 4G

I am getting NV_READONLY_S when I try to write. Can't seem to figure this one out. I anyone could help I would appreciate it.

Thank you !
[Sony Cross-Device General] King p1n:
Quick question.

Would this allow LTE to be used in the UK on a Z3Compact D5833 (Asian) model?

As I've read the D5833 unlike the D5803 lacks the bands for 4G/LTE in UK.
[Sony Cross-Device General] palmbeach05:
What do you think unlocking bands means?
[Sony Cross-Device General] King p1n:
I dont know you tell me.

But hey it doesnt matter anymore.
[Sony Cross-Device General] palmbeach05:
Exactly, b/c the OP pretty much tells/shows you what it means in post #1. But congrats on getting your bands unlocked and being able to use the bands you identified as unuseable prior to unlocking.
[Sony Cross-Device General] King p1n:
I haven't got them unlocked.

I was only merely enquiring as that model was cheaper to buy than the uk version.

I noticed you needed Root as well and right now its not available without bootloader unlock, so decided it'd probably be better to just pay the extra money and get one that works straight out the box.
[Sony Cross-Device General] atulnaidu:
D6653 Xperia Z3

Hi All,

I am trying to enable AWS Band 4 on this device, which I purchased from India, I am unable to get the com ports activated on the PC, will someone be able to guide me?

Regards

Atul
[Sony Cross-Device General] atulnaidu:
New Z3 drivers required

Hi Blacksoulxxx

Please could you assist me with the frivers for Z3 D6653

Hardware IDs as follows

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&REV_0232&MI_02

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&MI_02

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&REV_0232&MI_03

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&MI_03

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&REV_0232&MI_04

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&MI_04

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&REV_0232&MI_05

USB\VID_0FCE&PID_5146&MI_05

Thanks

Atul
[Sony Cross-Device General] BlackSoulxxx:
There's no need for Z3 specific driver.....Z1, Z2, Z3 share the same driver......Just make Windows force install the driver........
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
I am beginning to suspect that adding band support will not make up for the lack of radios if not present. I think I'm SOL with the Moto G LTE and adding CDMA.

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
I don't mean to come off sounding like a jerk, but that's what I told you several pages back. But props for trying; it's better to give it a shot than to give up.
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
Yep. It should work but I'm guessing it would take flashing a new radio/modem. If that.

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
Motorola cut corners as it is to keep costs down with the G. I highly, highly doubt GSM model is wired up for CDMA as well; it would require extra parts that would drive up the manufacturing costs.
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
The best I could hope is to get LTE band 13 (upper 700 MHz) added so I could use the LTE only side. Any idea of that? It's unlocked LTE. But doesn't have the bands for Verizon enabled. I'm sure this mod would work, but I never had much luck.

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] cadavar:
The wealth of information on this thread is just pure genius. I think it's possible to get my phone Motorola Razr M (XT907) CDMA/GSM for Verizon to allow LTE for T-mobile, so far I had unlocked it and it's running H+ on T-Mobile.

I know Verizon uses band 13 for LTE on 700Mhz but T-Mobile uses band 12. I am not able to see the bit for 700 Mhz on DFS or mzTool. I used QXDM to successfully add and remove different LTE bands especially band 12 in NV 6828 & 6829, but can't seem to enable the ellusive 700Mhz RF band/bit.

Please help?
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
I'm determined to get Verizon LTE on my LTE Moto G. I've added the bands but no go.... Ideas? It's not like when I was trying to add CDMA which was iffy at best. The phone already has LTE bands supports, it didn't have CDMA.

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
Yeah, but there are amplifiers and filters and antennas for specific bands though, and since only Verizon uses Band 13, I highly doubt the phone has them. Especially on a phone that's built on a budget (not just sold on a budget).

Here's a real world example. The Nexus 4 has AWS LTE support. Why? It's based off of the LG Optimus G. When making the Nexus 4, for whatever reason, LG thought it was cheaper to remove all of the amplifiers and filters for the other LTE frequencies, except for AWS. So they left them in. And that's why we have AWS LTE support in the Nexus 4.
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
Hmm.... If that were the case how would this mod work at all? Most global frequencies are different from US ones. They might have some overlap. But within 50 MHz of each other. I need upper 700 MHz. The phone already has lower for AT&T.

The phone already supports the exact same AWS frequency for T-mobile LTE and Verizon. But they don't use it in my small city.

By the way Verizon uses Band 13, 2 and 4. ;)

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
I know they use those frequencies. You can't enable Band 13 because it is physically not supported in the hardware. I worked for Verizon and Sprint and happen to know a lot about phone hardware and software.
[Sony Cross-Device General] cadavar:
So let's say a phone has both CDMA, GSM radios and has support for 700mhz LTE band 13. Is it not possible that it can be unlocked for band 12? What other hardware is needed? I was under the impression that if a particular frequency is supported (proper antenna, etc.) then it should be just a software restriction.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
No, because Band 12 needs different amplifiers and filters even though they're very close together.
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
Not saying you're not right. But what's all these mods for if the devices probably only have hardware to support the bands and spots in the frequency to support what FCC deemed?

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
You mean why are the bands disabled? There are several reasons:

- To prevent importing/exporting devices from places where they're cheaper. If your carrier needs a specific frequency (like AWS; some Canadian carriers don't have EDGE and require AWS HSPA+ or there's no signal at all), you HAVE to buy a model from that region and pay that with that region's currency/pay the local price. So you can't, for example, try and pay less by importing an Asian model because that model doesn't work in your country/on your carrier

- To reduce competition; AT&T, for example, disables AWS HSPA+ in 99% of their devices (pretty much everything except the Nexus 6 and iPhone 5 and newer). Why? Only T-Mobile uses AWS HSPA+. So if customers decide to take their unlocked AT&T phones to T-Mobile, they will experience reduced signal; they might hit areas where a T-Mobile phone would get HSPA+ ("4G"), but their AT&T phone will only get EDGE. I had an AT&T Note 2 and S4 and they both had mods to enable AWS. Furthermore, I've opened up both phones, and, including my Note 3, the parts are listed are marked as both AT&T and T-Mobile.

As far as I know, there are combination parts that can do multiple frequencies. So what happens is that manufacturers will simply disable unnecessary/unused frequencies in the software (modem firmware/"radio") and tell the phone to ignore them/not use them. What you are doing when you do this mod is directly editing the modem firmware on the phone, turning them back on. You are not adding frequencies. They're already supported in the hardware. You're simply telling the software to use them.

Some manufacturers do this minimally; Sony phones, for example, support a huge number of frequencies.
[Sony Cross-Device General] botwa2000:
Do you know if Galaxy S5 hardware generally only supports the bands that are open by default or Sammy also disables some unused ones software-wise?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
I honestly don't know. Sometimes the hardware is there and just turned off in the software. Sometimes the hardware is actually not there. What bands are you trying to find out about?
[Sony Cross-Device General] xmguy:
I know this mod was all software. It can't create radios/bands or antennas/amps that don't exist. But I thought there might be a way to enable the other LTE bands on the Moto G LTE. Any hope or should I give up?

Sent from my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy S5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
I'd give up. The only mod I'm aware of is that you can enable AWS HSPA+ on the non-US model. I saw someone do it. I'm not sure if it was for the dual-SIM version or international HSPA+ version. But I read about someone doing it in this thread.
[Sony Cross-Device General] botwa2000:
Thanks for responding. We've got a thread on S5 here, appreciate if you could respond there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2948822.

Many folks are trying to unlock various bands (so far without success), two examples: unlock B20 on a Korean version SM-G906K or unlock B4 on an international model G900F.
[Sony Cross-Device General] altitud63:
Can I ask you wich metod did you use? Thanks in advance.
[Sony Cross-Device General] pompyz:
[Q] Add/unlock extra 4G LTE bands in HTC Desire 820 (d820u) Dual Sim phone ???

Hi,

Can anyone Add/unlock all global 4G LTE bands in HTC Desire 820 (d820u) Dual Sim phone?

Currently it supports only LTE FDD 1, 3, 7, 8 and TDD 38, 39, 40, 41 bands. So this phone can work in Asia and Europe but not in USA 4G network (e.g. AT&T or T-Mobile).

To work seamlessly in USA 4G network, the phone needs atleast the following extra 4G LTE bands:-

LTE FDD : 2, 4, 12, 20, 26

LTE TDD : 42

So can anyone add these LTE FDD : 2, 4, 12, 20, 26 and LTE TDD : 42 bands to this HTC Desire 820 Dual Sim phone ????
[Sony Cross-Device General] palmbeach05:
Did you add those bands to what was useable or are you asking if anyone has had any sucess?
[Sony Cross-Device General] BobbySteel:
Sounds like a great Sunday project for you to try out!
[Sony Cross-Device General] pompyz:
Yes....wanted to know if any one has been successfull or any one can try doong that...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
Why don't you try it?
[Sony Cross-Device General] botwa2000:
Hi [MENTION=2924784]Product F(RED)[/MENTION], By any chance you have a view on my question in post #847? Cheers!

Sent from SM-G906K using XDA Premium app
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
Just a correction: For the phones that you say people enabled "AWS RF Band 25", it's actually Band 4. That's what we use here in the US. The people who enabled the band say it "got signal on T-Mobile", which uses AWS LTE, which is Band 4, not 25.

Other than that, I'm not seeing a question. Can you point me to it please?
[Sony Cross-Device General] botwa2000:
Sorry mate must have cross wired here.

My question was is the post #843 about additional bands on S5 devices and if you knew what bands can theoretically be unlocked by software mods. I realise that there are hardware restrictions just want to understand if any bands at all can be added or none at all.

Then I gave you examples that there have been unsuccessful attempts to add B20 on SM-G906K and B4 on G900F.

If you could shed any light on which LTE bands can in fact be added if at all would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks and apologies for the confusion.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
As I only own a T-Mobile Galaxy Note 3 (N900T), I wouldn't know how to test any theories without having the devices in my hand. I was seemingly able to enable HSPA+ 900 MHz on my Note 3 (showed up as checked in the program even through reboots/flashes), but no US carriers use 900 MHz. And unfortunately I was already back from Amsterdam at that point, so I couldn't test it.
[Sony Cross-Device General] BlackSoulxxx:
Hi Fred, sorry for the off-topic question: I'm now living in Lower Manhattan (study abroad) so there is any chance for me to catch some good TMo LTE signal? Now stuck with ATT with their early termination fees and TMo UnCarrier program sounds really interesting and by the way what is TMo LTE unlimited cap? 50GB?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
Your phone has to support the following:

- EDGE: 1900 MHz (Band 2)

- HSPA+: 1700/2100 MHZ or 1900 MHz (Band 4, Band 2)

- LTE: 1700/2100 MHz (Band 4)

They also use 1900 MHz (Band 2) and 700 MHz (Band 12) for LTE, though not in NYC.

I actually work in midtown Manhattan. T-Mobile LTE is probably the fastest in Manhattan because Band 4 is two different frequencies used as one.

All of their Simple Choice data plans are unlimited, though, aside from the $80 plan, you're throttled to 2G speeds (256 kbps I think) after a certain amount. But the $80 plan is fully unlimited, as in you can use 300GB if you want (random example) and not be throttled.
[Sony Cross-Device General] pompyz:
Had Anybody tried this and got success??
[Sony Cross-Device General] glennza:
Sorry if I missed it (I did search). Can I unlock LTE 700MHz (Band 28) on Xperia Z1 Compact?

Cheers mateys!! :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] adjidorporah:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION]

11. Open device manager - you will see your device model a few times. Go to details tab. Scroll down a single time on that tab. You will see MI_0x there.

12. Go through those devices until you find MI_04 under the second drop down position.

13. Select "update driver" for this device and install the htc driver from the zip.

i'm trying to unlock bands of my xperia m, but i can't find MI_04

my device listed 3 times as "Android" but the value are MI_00, MI_02 and MI_03

i can't find MI_04, what should i do?

thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] olokos:
Isn't your driver already installed? Make sure of it because from my point of view you already have this device installed, maybe with a wrong driver, but it might be installed already. Doublecheck that.
[Sony Cross-Device General] adjidorporah:
yes, i've installed my driver, i'll check it again later, but bottomline, can i unlock bands of my xperia m? if it's unlocked can i use LTE network?

sorry for my noob questions
[Sony Cross-Device General] Moose21:
This sounds basically similar to Wind Mobile in Canada. Wind offers 'unlimited' data, which means it isn't capped, but they will throttle your data after ~10Gb. I've heard it's also time-dependent too, in that they reduce the throttling at night.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
On T-Mobile, if you pay for the true unlimited plan (no caps at all), it's never throttled. For the lower-tier plans, like 3GB of full-speed data, after the cap, you're throttled until your next billing cycle. They have some nice plans though. Like one is $30 (prepaid) fr 100 minutes, unlimited text, and 5GB of full-speed LTE then throttled.

And yeah, T-Mobile is an AWS carrier like Wind, although T-Mobile has a 2G network whereas Wind and your other AWS carriers don't. T-Mobile is trying to move from AWS to PCS (1700 to 1900 MHz) for HSPA+ so they can devote AWS to LTE. So they're basically trying to become like Rogers. With T-Mobile, unless you live in or near a city, you're giving up signal, but because they use AWS, you get crazy speeds (20 - 100 Mbps on LTE). And they traded for low-level spectrum (700 MHz Band 12) from Verizon, so they're about to compete with AT&T and Verizon in terms of signal quality. Right now the Nexus 6, Galaxy Note 4, Xperia Z3, ZTE Max, and Galaxy Avant are the only phones that can use it though.

I have family in Ottawa. You guys pay a ridiculous amount to your ISPs and wireless carriers. You only recently got rid of 3 year contracts, too right? We've never had that here. My uncle has a cap on his home internet, which is unheard of here. ISPs have tried pushing it onto people in certain "test markets", but it hasn't gone widespread, and I hope it won't. The FCC lets ISPs and carriers do what they want, but I don't think even they would let them take it that far.
[Sony Cross-Device General] olokos:
propably/no idea
[Sony Cross-Device General] BlackSoulxxx:
Anyway right now I'm using TMo and happy with the LTE speed. Using Z3 TMo edition. I got atleast 40Mbps in Lower Manhattan. Suck it ATT!:laugh::laugh:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Moose21:
This is true. Rogers, Bell in eastern Canada, and Telus in western Canada are the 'legacy' cellular carriers. Rogers was a cable company in Ontario that bought the first national cellular carrier Cantel->Cantel AT&T->Rogers, Telus and Bell were the provincial wireline telco monopolies. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have their own provincial carriers still, and this forces the national carriers to offer *slightly* better rates there. But the federal government made a big deal out of the AWS spectrum auction in 2008 when Wind and Mobilicity started, claiming this would bring competition. The 3 majors were restricted from simply outspending everyone else BUT; the government still crippled the startups by not allowing them to buy national coverage, and they're forced to offer roaming on Rogers to get any coverage at all outside major cities; and of course Rogers charges them an absurd rate, higher than even international roaming customers last I heard. So they've been kneecapped and crippled ever since, and it hasn't done anything to affect Rogers, Telus and Bell's collusion on prices and service. Wind has great service and plans as long as you never leave a major city; but if you go 10 miles out of town you're screwed. Mobilicity was a failure essentially from day one- I don't believe they ever really intended to make a serious business effort; like several regional cable providers they bought up spectrum licenses with the intent to simply camp on them until the resale restriction expired so they could make a profit selling out to the big 3. :rolleyes:

Wind at least continues to make efforts to fight for a fair deal, but still couldn't take part in the 700mhz auction at all since they had no investment capital to spend.

I recently had my 7 year-old 6Gb business plan revoked by one of the big 3. They changed the TOS, raising my exiting plan rate by 50% - $35 more. But generous folks that they are, they *thoughtfully* offered me a 5Gb plan with unlimited national calling for *only* $15 more. Wow! less data, and a calling feature I functionally never use for $15/mo more than I paid for 7 years. What a deal! Unfortunately, this new plan is the same as anything the other 2 will offer as well.

Anyways- I've been looking, and asking, and waiting for information on how to edit my D852 now since October and noone who even *claims* to have worked on a D855/D850 has produced anything tangible for me in over 3 months, not even an instruction set on how to access and view the existing configuration let alone edit them. So forget it, I'm just going to buy a D851 and sell the 852. :P The 851 will have LTE bands compatible with all 3 major carriers in Canada, T-Mo and AWS compatible with Wind as well out of the box.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Product F(RED):
I applaud you guys for killing CDMA though. I know Bell and Telus were originally CDMA carriers that jumped ship to GSM (specifically HSPA+, which is why there's no 2G fallback). It's a ****ty, closed, dead-end protocol (for consumers). CDMA carriers could have use RUIM cards (SIM cards for CDMA devices), but refused to. Now they use SIM cards for LTE authentication.

Our biggest carrier, Verizon, is CDMA/LTE. They're looking to kill off CDMA and go full VoLTE (which only T-Mobile has running nationwide so far). There's a benefit of that to consumers; Verizon currently, by law, has to let any compatible LTE devices onto its LTE network because they promised the FCC they would in exchange for being able to use LTE 700 MHz Band 13. Currently, nobody produces Band 13 LTE devices (aside from Apple and the Nexus 7 2013 LTE/Nexus 6) because voice and texts still go over CDMA. But when VoLTE becomes a real standard like LTE did, it means that you will have true phone portability/compatibility between all carriers.

On my Note 3 in my neighborhood in Brooklyn:

Best part is it's unlimited with no hard or soft caps :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] Moose21:
I spoke to some friends who work for Telus a few years ago, and there was a certain very important event that drove GSM adoption. Rogers/AT&T made the change over 12 years ago, but Bell and Telus only did so very recently for one reason- The 2010 Winter Olympics.

With several million international roaming users coming to Vancouver and British Columbia over a period of months, this was a huge cash cow that would have gone entirely to Rogers if Telus (the incumbent local carrier in BC to boot) and Bell did not make the change and offer international roaming agreements with foreign carriers. They were also aware of the roadmap for LTE as well, obviously. But the Olympics was the single major driver for this conversion to be made.