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illucent17

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Hi there,

I may be beating a dead horse, buuuut still looking for some help.

I have a factory unlocked iPhone 6 that I use for traveling, which most of the time is in Ethiopia. About 8 months ago, they switched on LTE, got my sim upgraded and it worked great for about five months or so. At which point, I somewhat stupidly signed up for the public beta versions of iOS 9, which promptly shut off all LTE. Initially, I figured it might be a bug in the beta, so left it, but I've never been able to get it back and working.

A couple of other data points:

- I've tried the sim in my iPad, gets LTE fine, so doubtful it's a problem with the sim.

- I'm on Carrier 22.0

- I've put in a couple of foreign sim cards, trying to a signal here that is roaming, while connected to wireless in the hope that it would force a carrier update that would bring back LTE, but no dice.

- I have experimented with various settings under the 'LTE APN' under cellular data, you guessed it, also no luck

- Ethio Telecom is not an Apple Supported carrier, but seemed to work fine four-five months ago.

Any thoughts, ideas, knock-knock jokes or helpful suggestions welcome.
 
Yes, a few times - also no luck.

Other things tried:

- Full restore
- Wipe and clean install
- New APN settings/profile download from unlockit.co.nz
- Toggling every switch back and forth imaginable (Airplane mode, LTE vs 3G vs 2G, cellular data)
- Removing sim card and doing soft reset, then turning back on, and re-inserting sim card
- Replacing the carrier settings file in the MobileSync backup folder

Things I haven't been willing/stupid enough to try:

- Anything that is to do with terminal
 
Hmmm... Really??

I was under the impression that the carrier settings and the iOS were separate, and I do get LTE in other countries/networks with iOS 9. Also, even if I was still able to downgrade easily, I think the carrier settings would remain.
 
maybe a stupid question, but are you sure they didn't update the phone to show 4G instead of LTE in the status bar? I know quite a few of the European carriers show 4G when connected to LTE networks (and I wish the US would adopt this also), and LTE is never displayed.
 
solodogg said:
maybe a stupid question, but are you sure they didn't update the phone to show 4G instead of LTE in the status bar? I know quite a few of the European carriers show 4G when connected to LTE networks (and I wish the US would adopt this also), and LTE is never displayed.
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This was my first thought as well. You can verify what connection you're actually using by turning on field test mode. Enter the following in the dialer.

*3001#12345#*

This should open the field test app. If you're connected using LTE, it should say "connected mode LTE intra-frequency" on the second line.
 
illucent17 said:
Hi there,

I may be beating a dead horse, buuuut still looking for some help.

I have a factory unlocked iPhone 6 that I use for traveling, which most of the time is in Ethiopia. About 8 months ago, they switched on LTE, got my sim upgraded and it worked great for about five months or so. At which point, I somewhat stupidly signed up for the public beta versions of iOS 9, which promptly shut off all LTE. Initially, I figured it might be a bug in the beta, so left it, but I've never been able to get it back and working.

A couple of other data points:

- I've tried the sim in my iPad, gets LTE fine, so doubtful it's a problem with the sim.

- I'm on Carrier 22.0

- I've put in a couple of foreign sim cards, trying to a signal here that is roaming, while connected to wireless in the hope that it would force a carrier update that would bring back LTE, but no dice.

- I have experimented with various settings under the 'LTE APN' under cellular data, you guessed it, also no luck

- Ethio Telecom is not an Apple Supported carrier, but seemed to work fine four-five months ago.

Any thoughts, ideas, knock-knock jokes or helpful suggestions welcome.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think Ethio Telecom provides an iPhone-specific carrier settings file. Not all networks do, and it shouldn't prevent your phone from working properly on the network. The last time I was there (January of this year), popping in a local SIM card caused basically every cellular-related option on the phone to be visible (the carrier settings file can tell the phone which ones to display to the user), and I also had to enter my APN info manually to set up things like personal hotspot.

Also, have you confirmed that the LTE network is currently operational? Ethio Telecom is a government monopoly and can be a tad flaky at times.
 
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