Comments on: Nexus 4 Android 4.2.2 Update Removes Unofficial LTE Support, Sorry Canadians

By: Faulty

Faulty — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:32:00 +0000

Yeah, that’s what makes no sense with this. Who cares if they changed the radio to remove this – the old radio images have been floating around on the ‘net since the phone came out, so you can just use fastboot and flash the old radio back.

Also, ever since I upgraded to 4.2.2, my cell service has gone to hell. I get 1 bar, maybe 2 bars tops in places where I used to get 3-4 bars.

By: David Geiger

David Geiger — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:19:00 +0000

So let me get this straight as I have not followed the Nexus 4 at all. So it has no official LTE??? I only ask because my phone bit the dust and I was debating this as a replacement but I can’t go back to 3g. If it does not come with LTE “officially” were they taking notes from the 4s playbook?

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:31:00 +0000

Since when does the U.S. FCC have authority in Canada?

By: flosserelli

flosserelli — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:12:00 +0000

No LTE for Canadians, eh?

By: Stewie

Stewie — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:07:00 +0000

I disagree on that point – hardware/firmware upgrades are great for bug fixes, but whether it is a computer or smartphone, etc. – if it works as you want it, there is no need to upgrade the driver’s/firmware … so that said if they wanted to keep the LTE bypass and are not experiencing other bugs that interfere with their device enjoyment … I say go for it! You are right about as we move to 5.0 and forwards that there might be a HW/FW requirement, but I haven’t seen that occur yet, more often it is a matter of the OS just not able to run on said hardware, or it would run terribly because of processor/memory limitations. By then anyways, those users may have ditched to upgrade to the next device. Just sayin …

By: BangIShotYou

BangIShotYou — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:32:00 +0000

Already done. Just re-flash the previous radio/modem ending in .33.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227

Already confirmed as working.

By: zepfloyd

zepfloyd — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:17:00 +0000

I don’t know about no downside…That works for now, but as Android progresses forward, continually relying on old hardware drivers becomes a net negative, or may not work at all at some point. There’s a reason every Android release gets new binaries for the hardware on all devices.

By: J. Gilbertson

J. Gilbertson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:47:00 +0000

I give til tonight for someone to figure it out and submit a patch to any of the aosp rom communities.

By: Tim Miller

Tim Miller — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:41:00 +0000

Really easy to re-enable it. Only the new radio has the be replaced. You can update to 4.2.2 and then just re-flash the old radio and problem solved. I have yet to see any change to the radio EXCEPT for blocking LTE, so there’s really no downside.

By: Jroc869, Nexus-Life

Jroc869, Nexus-Life — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:39:00 +0000

Maybe the Harlem Shake video was meant as a distraction hoping people wouldnt notice.

By: JetBlue

JetBlue — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000

Developers will probably figure out how to re-enable LTE