My wife just bought a Verizon s5 and put in her net10 AT&T SIM card and everything seems to work perfectly fine however I have noticed instead of showing 4g or 4g LTE signal like it does on AT&T it shows H and H+ instead. I have done research and everything I read says something different. Can anyone please explain this plain and simple for me?
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The Verizon variant likely doesn't have the programming to change HSPA to "4G" like the AT&T variant does. If she was picking up LTE, it would likely indicate that it's on LTE.
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Ok, so does the H basically mean it's on HSPA then? Just being the Verizon variant it doesn't have the programming to show the 4g symbol being that it's using AT&T network and not Verizon's? If so then I guess I'm asking if it's something different then 4g and is it still AT&T's network?
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Correct, the H is for HSPA. Since it's a Verizon variant, it's most likely programmed to show 1X for 1xRTT, 3G for EDVO, and 4GLTE for LTE since those are the technologies used by Verizon. The Technologies used by AT&T (E for EDGE, H for HSPA {though an AT&T variant should indicate this with 4G}) will likely revert to how they're handled in AOSP since Verizon users wouldn't normally encounter these types of networks. However it will likely still show 4GLTE if on LTE. When Verizon launched LTE and Sprint launched WiMax, AT&T and T-Mobile didn't want their networks to sound inferior to Verizon and Sprint, so they branded HSPA as 4G even though it's more like 3.5G due to pathetic upload speeds and ping times.
If it's showing H, then it must be AT&T or T-Mobile's network because they're they only carriers with an HSPA network in the US.
If it's showing H, then it must be AT&T or T-Mobile's network because they're they only carriers with an HSPA network in the US.
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