Teléfonos desbloqueados

Well from Alcatel's website the Pixi4 (5) doesn't actually support any of T-Mobile's LTE frequencies; (2, 4, & 12)

GSM quadband 850/900/1800/1900. UMTS 850/900/1900/2100. HSPA+ (42M bit/s DL. 11Mbit/s UL) LTE B1/3/7/8/20/28A

Also it doesn't support T-Mobile's primary HSPDA+ network which runs on the 1700/2100 Band 4.  Also T-Mobile really doesn't have a 3G network per se.  Their HSPDA+42 network (4G non LTE) is just backward compatible to HSPDA+21, HSPDA+ or HSPDA (3G) but is all the same network and radios on the tower.

Here is a list of the T-Mobile frequencies used;

Redes T-Mobile compatibles

You are looking at the specs for the global model.   I don't have that.

5045I

GSM 850/900/1800/1900

3G: B2/4/5; LTE: B2/4/5/7/12/17

VoLTE B12

Ok, even with those specs it doesn't support T-Mobile's HSPDA+ primary

frequency (3G, 4G non LTE) which is Band 4 1700/2100 so if it drops off LTE

it will drop all the way to 2G. If it can't maintain or complete a VoLTE

call T-Mobile branded devices will roll back to 4G non LTE, maybe because

it can't go find anything there it gets hung??

Okay I was under the understating that G3 B4 is 1700/2100.

So then why does the BLU R1 HD have the same fault?

Hola mausmang

I wanted to check and see if it was possible for you to try your SIM card in your buddies phone that let you barrow his SIM card. If his is a T-Mobile branded phone and the issue persists with your SIM in his phone, we can safely say that the issue with the network rather than the phone. If the issue is with the network, our tech support team can open an engineering ticket for you to have this looked at.

Been there done that.  Ticket 13895274 was opened on Oct 28.  They don't take problems with unlocked phones seriously.  I can tell you that I just picked up a LeEco S3 and it works flawlessly.   Also I can report that all of the phones that are problematic have Mediatek chips.   Phones with Qualcomm chips have no problems.

So with non-T-Mobile phones is is hard to say if they are going to work properly with all aspects of our network as they were not designed with the purpose of being used on our network. We ask that you test the sim in a known working T-Mobile phone so that we can see if the network is at fault as there are to many variables with non-T-Mobile phones.

Yes I have done this.  My SIM works fine in a T-Mobile branded phone.   But you know as well as I, that this SIM should work in ANY unlocked GSM phone provided that it supports US/T-Mobile frequencies.   Obviously this is not the case.   Doesn't matter now anyway....I have switched to another carrier and now all is well.

Understood, but we bought 3 LG V10's two years ago, and NONE of them lasted the two years of the contract without giving us black screens of death or, worse, green screen with hardware diagnostics.  These phones were not abused, my phone looks absolutely perfect, no scratches.  I did not drop it.  I was using it one minute, set it on the coffee table, got up a little while later and pushed the button to turn on the display, and nothing.

The point is not to whine and complain about the V10's, but I will never buy an LG phone again, and once you eliminate LG from T-Mobile's line up, there's really only Samsung and some other scraps.  IOW, not a great selection.  So my cheap unlocked phone I got on Amazon will not send pictures in text messages, I cannot access my voice mail without typing in my whole 10 digit number and code, I cannot create a mobile hot-spot.

Unlike most consumers, I love my phone company - I hate the phones they are offering.  So what am I supposed to do?  Hardware-wise, I'm really happy with my HTC one M8 I got as a replacement.  Unfortunately, I will have to get a phone I'm wary of getting (Samsung - too many complaints about the screen - and the fourth phone I bought two years was an S5 and it's screen broke, so no phones lasted two years).

Yeah the LG fiasco with the boot loop on the G4 (and the V10 although they still hem and haw about that one) was handled very poor by LG and it will hurt them for some time.  T-Mobile (and Verizon) tried a few years ago to give Sony a chance to re-enter the US market and both got s******d for doing it as it didn't go as well as Sony had hoped so they just pulled the plug on support and everything and pulled out leaving just the TMO and VZW versions of the Z3 without the OS update that year. So then you have Google and the Pixel but VZW keeps paying to be exclusive on it and while it works on TMO you have to go to Google or VZW to get one so you can't EIP it or JUMP to it. TMO used to be one of HTC's biggest customers but now HTC is barely treading water so no US carrier sells their phones directly anymore.  After that you have some smaller 3rd party players but nothing that any of the US carriers will carry and my guess is the individual tailoring that they want or in the case of TMO need so the device can take advantage of all the "features" the TMO network supports.  So yeah pretty much leaves Samsung at that point;  I have had every S since the 2 and have had 2 Notes one being the Edge and the only 2 screens I have broken (well 1 for me 1 for my ex-wife) were clearly our issue.  Mine S6 came out of my shirt pocket when I bent over and it went face first with no case onto the pavement, it didn't even shatter since the GG4 it had doesn't shatter it just got a crack which I couldn't even feel on the surface.  The other was an S5 also but that one my wife (at the time) was using my phone and trying to walk and talk then tripped and rather than let the phone go used it to break her fall and shattered the screen. I have the S8 now and love it other than since I preordered and it showed as larger than my S7+ I got the regular S8 when actually getting to look at both phones physically would have gotten the 8+ since the new dimensions make the + not seem so big even though the screen size is actually larger.

The picture message issue there is a way to get that to work it is just a matter of tweaking the settings and APN.  I am surprised with a TMO SIM card in it and on TMO network you should be able to dial the short code number for VM (123 I believe) and have never had anyone try to install the visual voicemail app on a non branded phone. I don't even use regular VM, I just use the app since it is so much easier.  The hotspot yeah that one sucks but it's more for security and or abusers that it's locked out and requires coding in the OS for security so that folks that don't have hotspot or a small amount can't use 3rd party software to get around it, so as usually the handful of cheats/abusers screw it up for everyone.