Official MetroPCS BYOD discussion thread

DirtyDee · Feb 22, 2014

Gman9831 said:
Well your area is HSPA 7.2

Gman I always Wonder how are you so knowledgeable about T-Mobile are you a tech for T-Mobile?

BRAINZ2013 · Feb 23, 2014

They wouldn't let the general public know this cause the towers to be upgraded doing this most of the customers would leave and change service. That's due to the fact that good service before upgrades. During upgrades you would lose service and calls would drop. Second reason would be that they would lose money cause everyone would get refunds for the lost on data . catch my drift.

BRAINZ2013 · Feb 23, 2014

How about asking the forums director to getting a special section to help forum members out in questions about signal lost in some areas .

BRAINZ2013 · Feb 24, 2014

I see this is becoming very interesting the users can see where the outages are and see if and when services can be fixed. I say this should be a section on this forum.

kate · Feb 24, 2014

BRAINZ2013 said:
I see this is becoming very interesting the users can see where the outages are and see if and when services can be fixed. I say this should be a section on this forum.

Are you thinking about a section in this MetroPCS forum for discussing Metro outages and tower upgrades, or a separate subforum to discuss all carrier outages/upgrades?

For Metro outages and tower upgrades I could look into making a sticky post here if there is interest.

For a separate forum discussing all carriers you can make a suggestion here:
Suggestion Box & Feedback - Android Forums

mogelijk · Feb 24, 2014

kate said:
Are you thinking about a section in this MetroPCS forum for discussing Metro outages and tower upgrades, or a separate subforum to discuss all carrier outages/upgrades?

For Metro outages and tower upgrades I could look into making a sticky post here if there is interest.

For a separate forum discussing all carriers you can make a suggestion here:
Suggestion Box & Feedback - Android Forums

I would think a joint T-Mobile/MetroPCS section would be good, particularly since many of the upgrades/outages will be to upgrade existing Metro CDMA sites to add compatibility to T-Mobile's network.

BRAINZ2013 · Feb 24, 2014

I say joint one in both sections

kate · Feb 25, 2014

mogelijk said:
I would think a joint T-Mobile/MetroPCS section would be good, particularly since many of the upgrades/outages will be to upgrade existing Metro CDMA sites to add compatibility to T-Mobile's network.

BRAINZ2013 said:
I say joint one in both sections

Request granted, and made sticky

http://androidforums.com/metro-pcs/831747-metropcs-t-mobile-outages-tower-upgrades.html

Some posts from here were moved there.

Griefstruelove · Mar 8, 2014

youngtjjones said:
To the people that are currently using byod, were you guys able to use metro's 4g Lte too?

I bought a used att s4ACTIVE and activated with metro. Had data as soon as activated (I was able to update app) but phone dropped it. I changed apn to match my metro s4. I am getting 4g LTE on the att version s4ACTIVE BYOD.

imSHAD · Mar 9, 2014

sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this but I haven't followed metropcs's BYOD at all! And i was wondering how would i go about buying a phone and making it so it would work for metro? I'm looking specifically into the Xperia Z2

DirtyDee · Mar 9, 2014

imSHAD said:
sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this but I haven't followed metropcs's BYOD at all! And i was wondering how would i go about buying a phone and making it so it would work for metro? I'm looking specifically into the Xperia Z2

Step one wait until z2 comes out then buy the model that works here in the us the Canadian model most likely step two buy a metro sim card step three put sim card into the phone. Step four dial *228 and activate or go online or pay extra 15 bucks at a metro store but considering you may have just dropped 600+ on a z2 you won't mind making them do it.

dportal2006 · Mar 9, 2014

Wait for it to be available in T-Mobile. Most T-Mobile GSM phone are available to use with Metro PCS without the need to unlock them. All you would need is a Metro PCS SIM card. That is what i did with my LG G2. At first the Metro rep told Mr the phone had to be unlocked but another user here on the forum told me it was not true. He was right, all i had to do is give them the number of the phone and get the Metro SIM. You can activate it over the phone for free. If you do it at a local store they will charge $15 which is a complete rip off.

Sent from my LG-D801 using Tapatalk

thatguy96 · Mar 10, 2014

dportal2006 said:
Wait for it to be available in T-Mobile. Most T-Mobile GSM phone are available to use with Metro PCS without the need to unlock them. All you would need is a Metro PCS SIM card. That is what i did with my LG G2. At first the Metro rep told Mr the phone had to be unlocked but another user here on the forum told me it was not true. He was right, all i had to do is give them the number of the phone and get the Metro SIM. You can activate it over the phone for free. If you do it at a local store they will charge $15 which is a complete rip off.

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T-Mobile version is boot loader locked though so buying the international version which is identical would be better and it'll have all LTE and hspa bands as well...

imSHAD · Mar 10, 2014

thatguy96 said:
T-Mobile version is boot loader locked though so buying the international version which is identical would be better and it'll have all LTE and hspa bands as well...

So would the Canadian one be the international one? Where to purchase international phones?

And I was thinking about waiting until it gets released for T mobile but Sony already announced that theyre making flagship phones every 6 months and that the z2 is their flagship phone for the first half of the year. If I was to wait until it comes out for T mobile i might as well wait for the next phone to come out in september.

DirtyDee · Mar 10, 2014

Sony is very good at selling their own phones check their site and some phone sites too that reviewers use

BRAINZ2013 · Mar 10, 2014

Also every Sony product I worked with was hard to brick. Bootloaders can be unlocked on most devices of Sony but the Sony apps on the computer such as the PC companion they make it hard to brick and easy to unbrick

DirtyDee · Mar 10, 2014

BRAINZ2013 said:
Also every Sony product I worked with was hard to brick. Bootloaders can be unlocked on most devices of Sony but the Sony apps on the computer such as the PC companion they make it hard to brick and easy to unbrick

I wish T-Mobile would not care to the point of not locking them. att lol says no never lock it in like bro Verizon make them pay for developer privileged. Maybe T-Mobile will draw in more of the dev and flashing crowd if it didn't touch the phones so hard. When my xperia to comes in after I unlock it flashing central Europe skyfall edition so I can at least be 4.3 with minimum bloat. sorry about my boot loader status would love some KitKat 😖 I will buy a moto x unlocked in like August. I needed an lte phone asap which why I picked up the tl oh well bravia a gogo

thatguy96 · Mar 10, 2014

imSHAD said:
So would the Canadian one be the international one? Where to purchase international phones?

And I was thinking about waiting until it gets released for T mobile but Sony already announced that theyre making flagship phones every 6 months and that the z2 is their flagship phone for the first half of the year. If I was to wait until it comes out for T mobile i might as well wait for the next phone to come out in september.

You can get the international version from Sony's site when it becomes available...

firenemesis7 · Mar 30, 2014

Will the s4 active SGH-I537 fully work on metropcs including lte? if so what steps would i have to go through if i bought an unlocked one.

Gman9831 · Mar 30, 2014

firenemesis7 said:
Will the s4 active SGH-I537 fully work on metropcs including lte? if so what steps would i have to go through if i bought an unlocked one.

Yes you'll get LTE and HSPA on PCS. Then since its unlocked get a BYOD SIM then put it in and activate it then if the APN doesn't auto load into it just put the metro APN in the APN menu.

Mexigga · Mar 31, 2014

Gman9831 said:
Yes you'll get LTE and HSPA on PCS. Then since its unlocked get a BYOD SIM then put it in and activate it then if the APN doesn't auto load into it just put the metro APN in the APN menu.

I put a byod sim in my note 2 (at&t) i317 and unlocked aws bands but still only get h+. Have yet to see lte. ..

Signal bounces between H, E, 3g, & even G

Gman9831 · Mar 31, 2014

Mexigga said:
I put a byod sim in my note 2 (at&t) i317 and unlocked aws bands but still only get h+. Have yet to see lte. ..

Does it show LTE for you on the BYOD map?

Mexigga · Mar 31, 2014

Gman9831 said:
Does it show LTE for you on the BYOD map?

Will check...

Edit: Yes. LTE

Best we get on our byod phones is H+ with either Metro or TMo apn's.

DirtyDee · Apr 1, 2014

Mexigga said:
Will check...

Edit: Yes. LTE

Best we get on our byod phones is H+ with either Metro or TMo apn's.

Access the hidden menus and force LTE be sure the APN is fast.metropcs.com or fast.T-Mobile. Com

Mexigga · Apr 1, 2014

DirtyDee said:
Access the hidden menus and force LTE be sure the APN is fast.metropcs.com or fast.T-Mobile. Com

Good look. Will do.

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