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what's up guys Lew here and I've got a quick update for you regarding this device the Nexus 4 which I've been using and loving recently now one of the major criticisms of this particular device is the fact that it doesn't feature LTE wireless connectivity but certain individuals have figured out that you can actually enable LT very easily on certain carriers if you happen to be in Canada like I am and you're on either Telus bell or Rogers you can actually enable the hidden LTE radio that's inside of this device and it's actually surprisingly simple to do so we'll get started with Telus tell us being the easiest one to jump into all you need to do is go into your dialer here and from there you want to type in a star pound let me just read a hit star pound four six three six I hope you guys can see that there I'll probably put an annotation with the full code and let it stick there one more pound another star one last pound and another star and that will kick you right into the testing menu the developer menu whatever it is that you want to call it now what you need to do from here is tap on phone information at the top like I've just done you see a bunch of information bunch of data that doesn't really matter to you if you scroll down though you'll see something here that says WCDMA preferred this little area right here you want to click there and another drop-down menu will now become available and this is where things get interesting from an LTE perspective you want to scroll down until you find LTE / GSM Auto that's what it says right here and then you want to select that now my phone is not on one of those major carriers that I mentioned earlier in this video it's not on Telus it's not unbell it's not on Rogers so in this case LTE is not going to start working but if you happen to be on one of those three carriers LTE would start working if you went through the same steps once again this is assuming you've got an LTE provisioned SIM card if you don't have a phone that supports LTE currently then your SIM card is likely not provisioned for LTE meaning you won't have success doing this but if you've got LTE on a different device and the SIM card is LTE capable and you stick it inside of the nexus 4 and you're on Telus that's literally all you need to do now if you're on Rogers or Fido which uses the Rogers Network or Bell I believe you can overcome certain issues by adding a specific APN and that's actually pretty easy to do as well I'll show you real quick how to do that you can go into your settings let me just quickly go into the settings here you can go into your settings and then from there you want to go to more where's more right there of course guys I'm trying to look at the computer as well as the monitor on the camera then from there you want to go into mobile mobile networks that what they want mobile networks and then lastly we want to go into access point names for Rogers only you can add the APN LTE Internet dot a PN so we can do it down here we can add a new APN and from here we can put in that criteria LTE internet dot APN once again I'll put an annotation so you guys can see that clearly so if you're on Rogers that's all you need to do the same should be true for Fido of course running on the same network as Rogers is so anyways a very interesting piece of information that really surprised me and I wanted to share it with you guys so there is a little bit of hidden LT functionality in the Nexus 4 some people have mentioned that since it's not an amplified signal or something along those lines you're not going to get full on LT performance you're obviously going to see an improvement though over the regular performance and there are a couple of drawbacks right now like the fact that you've got to re-enable it every time you boot up the system that's obviously no fun to do I'm sure somebody in the XDA forums is going to figure that out how to you know boot up your system with a custom ROM so it automatically enables LTE the other thing to worth talking about is getting a little bit long-winded now is the fact that t-mobile uses similar technology to the Canadian carriers for their LTE coverage so if you are if you're to use this device on team in the future once they've got full LTE rollout then chances are you're also going to get LTE LTE coverage as well on t-mobile in the u.s. at least it's a possibility at this point so anyway guys that's been a quick little update video about the Nexus 4 and the fact that people are have been able to get LTE running on the device on certain Canadian carriers which is a good sign for other people elsewhere in the world Bell Telus and Rogers tell us being the easiest one to set up hopefully this video has been helpful if you guys enjoyed my content please remember to leave a like and favorite down below as it does help out a bunch and I've got a lot more planned just wanted to share that quick little update with you guys all right thanks as always for watching I'll catch you on the next video later