Using imported phone with Vodafone NZ?

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RyanDre

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#1323802 13-Jun-2015 08:18

Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

johnr

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#1323803 13-Jun-2015 08:20

You could try a hard reset of the handset (this is not a power off and back on) but you would need to setup the handset again

nakedmolerat

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#1323805 13-Jun-2015 08:24

RyanDre: Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

Your phone support GSM 900 mhz NOT WCDMA 900.

johnr

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#1323806 13-Jun-2015 08:25

nakedmolerat:
RyanDre: Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

Your phone support GSM 900 mhz NOT WCDMA 900.

No way! Time to check Google

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#1323807 13-Jun-2015 08:28

And it's from China are you sure it's not a fake?

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#1323808 13-Jun-2015 08:30

johnr:
nakedmolerat:
RyanDre: Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

Your phone support GSM 900 mhz NOT WCDMA 900.

No way! Time to check Google

Ok I did. It looks line the international version does support 900 umts. I do however found a few thread talking about issues with this phone with 3G/4G connectivity.

BTW john, it's 430 in Japan. Jetlag?

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#1323810 13-Jun-2015 08:31

nakedmolerat:
johnr:
nakedmolerat:
RyanDre: Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

Your phone support GSM 900 mhz NOT WCDMA 900.

No way! Time to check Google

Ok I did. It looks line the international version does support 900 umts. I do however found a few thread talking about issues with this phone with 3G/4G connectivity.

BTW john, it's 430 in Japan. Jetlag?

Nope it's 5:30am and the sun is out like it's 10am

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#1323811 13-Jun-2015 08:35

johnr:
nakedmolerat:
johnr:
nakedmolerat:
RyanDre: Ok thanks. The phone does support 900mhz as well as every other frequency around but as you say it does sound likely is an issue with connecting to 900mhz. I guess 2degrees here is running on 2100 which is why it connects

Your phone support GSM 900 mhz NOT WCDMA 900.

No way! Time to check Google

Ok I did. It looks line the international version does support 900 umts. I do however found a few thread talking about issues with this phone with 3G/4G connectivity.

BTW john, it's 430 in Japan. Jetlag?

Nope it's 5:30am and the sun is out like it's 10am

Oh ya forgot - 3 hours without daylight saving.

BTW, I suspect op phone is a fake or having weird 3g/4g issues as described by others.

RyanDre

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#1323815 13-Jun-2015 08:47

Thanks guys I'll keep looking into this frequency problem rather than locked phone problem

quickymart

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#1323845 13-Jun-2015 09:54

Can you not buy it in NZ? Would save all this hassle.

RyanDre

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#1323928 13-Jun-2015 11:48

the model is couple years old now, used to be able to buy from Harvey Norman from memory,it was replaced with G3 and soon to be G4, and only cost me like $350nz, people where asking something like $500 for there used ones. they do still sell them at the parallel import type shops i think. it an awesome phone, replaced my broken S3 and I think it is even better than an S4 when I looked into it. people are using this same imported international model here with no issues. cheers

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