Using Nexus 4 on AT&T

alanudi,

The AT&T reps, are correct. You may have to purchase a new phone if switching carriers.

Thanks for the reply 🙂

This is so confusing to me because if you search Google for "using Nexus 4 on AT&T" or something like that, it's a whole bunch of conversations about how to change activate LTE, and change settings and such.

So apparently it's possible somehow, how could it be possible that some people think you can use only 2G, while others are clearly using HSPA, and LTE?

Thanks again for helping to clear this up!!

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@alanudi wrote:

Thanks for the reply 🙂

 

This is so confusing to me because if you search Google for "using Nexus 4 on AT&T" or something like that, it's a whole bunch of conversations about how to change activate LTE, and change settings and such.

So apparently it's possible somehow, how could it be possible that some people think you can use only 2G, while others are clearly using HSPA, and LTE?

Thanks again for helping to clear this up!!

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@alanudi, the latest firmware for Nexus 4 disables the LTE hack you may've read about. As the ATRIXGUY says, you can get HSPA+ speeds on the Nexus 4, which is 3G, not 2G.

Thanks for the replies!!

OK, just so I'm clear, if I switch to AT&T, I can put a sim in and get HSPA+? and that's without doing any funky hacking or taking IMEI's from other phone?
If so, that would make me want to switch 🙂

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@alanudi wrote:

Thanks for the replies!!

OK, just so I'm clear, if I switch to AT&T, I can put a sim in and get HSPA+? and that's without doing any funky hacking or taking IMEI's from other phone?
If so, that would make me want to switch 🙂

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That's what it was like when Nexus 4 came out, I doubt that AT&T has changed anything since then.

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@hydrogen3 wrote:

@alanudi,

 

The AT&T reps, are correct. You may have to purchase a new phone if switching carriers.

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OK, so I've officially plugged in the AT&T sim card, reboot the phone, and I now have "H" next to my signal, which some people call 3.5G or 4G depending on which day of the week it is.

Definitely NOT limited to 2G.  I hope AT&T can update their internal information. This was way too hard to figure out such a simple thing 😛

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@alanudi wrote:

 

OK, so I've officially plugged in the AT&T sim card, reboot the phone, and I now have "H" next to my signal, which some people call 3.5G or 4G depending on which day of the week it is.

 

Definitely NOT limited to 2G.  I hope AT&T can update their internal information. This was way too hard to figure out such a simple thing 😛

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 @alanudi, thanks much for confirming HSPA+ access still doesn't require any special config.