I have here a 5 that's been carried by MetroPCS for like 2-years now. Before that, I I believe it was with AT&T. Within the carrier listing in settings I show both & have it set on Auto. It shows "metropcs E" in the signal. Here is where my dilemma begins: it always had "metropcs LTE" up until Nov 1.
Short backstory: I was getting text from metro stating the network is being upgraded & that I would need a new phone. "No way," I thought. So after getting these text for 6-mo the upgrade must have went thru wknd Nov1 & starting that Mon had trouble sending/recv text, getting safari to pull the pages up and lost the ability to stream vids. It's just super slow like having the worst signal ever. Fast-forward about 1-month of my web searches and a complete overhaul at the metropcs store (forget the term used when the carrier goes into your phone and does a reset of their service) but that didn't help. Finally, I went to a dif store and a tech there tells me that if this isn't a "metropcs iphone," then it would have been affected by the system update Nov1. He said regardless it being an old 5s, the fact it's from a dif carrier makes it incapable of connecting high speed like it always did before.
I think that is BS and any software guru for this OS should have a fix or workaround, I just don't know how many peeps know the circumstances behind this. So I'm looking for help. This phone does everything that I need & I have no desire to buy a dif't phone. I just want to make this 1 compatible with metro's shady plan of making half the population c/p obsolete.
AFAIK, this cell hasn't been tampered with: my MIL owned it orig and gave it to us. Just took it to metro 1 day and hooked it up there. I haven't seen any evidence of jailbreak, etc. not anything obvious, at least. If somebody could help me out of refer me to a person that can get this thing back online LTE/4g, you would be doing a great service. I will reply with whatever info needed to proceed.
Short backstory: I was getting text from metro stating the network is being upgraded & that I would need a new phone. "No way," I thought. So after getting these text for 6-mo the upgrade must have went thru wknd Nov1 & starting that Mon had trouble sending/recv text, getting safari to pull the pages up and lost the ability to stream vids. It's just super slow like having the worst signal ever. Fast-forward about 1-month of my web searches and a complete overhaul at the metropcs store (forget the term used when the carrier goes into your phone and does a reset of their service) but that didn't help. Finally, I went to a dif store and a tech there tells me that if this isn't a "metropcs iphone," then it would have been affected by the system update Nov1. He said regardless it being an old 5s, the fact it's from a dif carrier makes it incapable of connecting high speed like it always did before.
I think that is BS and any software guru for this OS should have a fix or workaround, I just don't know how many peeps know the circumstances behind this. So I'm looking for help. This phone does everything that I need & I have no desire to buy a dif't phone. I just want to make this 1 compatible with metro's shady plan of making half the population c/p obsolete.
AFAIK, this cell hasn't been tampered with: my MIL owned it orig and gave it to us. Just took it to metro 1 day and hooked it up there. I haven't seen any evidence of jailbreak, etc. not anything obvious, at least. If somebody could help me out of refer me to a person that can get this thing back online LTE/4g, you would be doing a great service. I will reply with whatever info needed to proceed.