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**JoshMcMadMac** · 2014-09-18, 01:26

I have been using the DG550 for a few days. So far, so good. 5.5" is huge, but strangely comfortable. I am running the AOSP rom and having pretty good luck with it at this point. There were a few growing pains, and I had to make a new APN to get the best results, but overall it is working out to be an amazing bargain.

WuddaWaste · 2014-09-18, 02:20

SCORE! Thanks for the update, @JoshMcMadMac !

Glad to hear you're digging the new phone.
Is the 850 MHz WCDMA getting you 3G on ATT USA?

**JoshMcMadMac** · 2014-09-18, 02:25

(2014-09-18, 02:20)WuddaWaste Wrote: SCORE! Thanks for the update, @JoshMcMadMac !

Glad to hear you're digging the new phone.
Is the 850 MHz WCDMA getting you 3G on ATT USA?

Yes, 850MHz seems to be doing great in my area (North East USA). I did have to update the APN settings from the older Cingular network, but that could just be the specific rom I am using. Of course it is not as fast as LTE, but it is still plenty fast and for me personally not an issue. I am always H or H+.

WuddaWaste · 2014-09-18, 13:29

How old was the SIM card you used? I'm not super super technically savvy, but I thought most phones pulled the APN settings from the SIM. Was yours originally from that Cingular network?

**JoshMcMadMac** · 2014-09-18, 20:13

(2014-09-18, 13:29)WuddaWaste Wrote: How old was the SIM card you used? I'm not super super technically savvy, but I thought most phones pulled the APN settings from the SIM. Was yours originally from that Cingular network?

No, it is a nano-sim from an iPhone 5. The APN worked perfectly on CM11 on a Galaxy S3 with the same pin.

WuddaWaste · 2014-09-19, 00:45

(2014-09-18, 20:13)JoshMcMadMac Wrote:
(2014-09-18, 13:29)WuddaWaste Wrote: How old was the SIM card you used? I'm not super super technically savvy, but I thought most phones pulled the APN settings from the SIM. Was yours originally from that Cingular network?

No, it is a nano-sim from an iPhone 5. The APN worked perfectly on CM11 on a Galaxy S3 with the same pin.

Well, poo. Just when I thought I was starting to understand how things worked, this humbled me back. Thanks for the heads-up on this one. You may very well have saved me hours of frustration on a future phone! Now I know. Big Grin

**JoshMcMadMac** · 2014-09-19, 01:13

(2014-09-19, 00:45)WuddaWaste Wrote: You may very well have saved me hours of frustration on a future phone! Now I know.

I hope so, that is why I try to follow up on threads like this...you never know when there might be something useful to come out of it. The APN settings that were available on the rom worked, sort of. I noticed when I would try to download from the Play Store that the download would go very slowly, and almost always fail after awhile. I would recommend always googling for your carriers current best APN when getting a new phone, as even little differences that you think would not matter can really improve performance.

**edcoolio** · 2014-09-21, 07:13

(2014-09-19, 01:13)JoshMcMadMac Wrote:
(2014-09-19, 00:45)WuddaWaste Wrote: You may very well have saved me hours of frustration on a future phone! Now I know.

I hope so, that is why I try to follow up on threads like this...you never know when there might be something useful to come out of it. The APN settings that were available on the rom worked, sort of. I noticed when I would try to download from the Play Store that the download would go very slowly, and almost always fail after awhile. I would recommend always googling for your carriers current best APN when getting a new phone, as even little differences that you think would not matter can really improve performance.

Good advice here.

The 850 3G band is GTG for for most areas if you are using an ATT MVNO. Straight Talk, for example, has an excellent app which will walk you through the exact correct settings for creating a new APN so that MMS and your 3G will work perfectly, based on your cell location.

It has worked perfectly on every phone I have ever setup.

**drewski** · 2014-09-21, 08:09

Came across this forum recently, and have actually been looking at China phones for years and only being able to drool at it from a distance since they never work in Canada/US. I've found this site to be full of super friendly and helpful people, so a big Thank You to all. Recently, I've been looking at getting a smartphone for a friend as well, and have compiled a list to help me make heads or tails of the specs, approximate prices and features.

It took me a while to trawl through reviews and sites online to find the information I needed, and as I had asked in another thread, sometimes the information provided aren't consistent either. For what it's worth, this is the list I had compiled -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9jPizm...sp=sharing
Highlighted phones are the ones with both WCDMA: 850/1900/2100. Hope this can help someone coming into the scene and give them some options (aka purchasing dilemma!)

Right now, I've pretty much settled on getting the T11, strictly based on specs, and looks. The V8 is newer-specced (KitKat vs JellyBean), but I don't know, I just can't get past that rotating camera lol. I keep thinking it'll get loose one day :-)

Incidentally, I tried using the chinaphonearena code on gearbest as well as the PhoneArena5 code on merimobiles (doing some comparative shopping Big Grin

) but neither seemed to work. Do these codes have expiration dates?

**Athos** · 2014-09-21, 09:39

(2014-09-21, 08:09)drewski Wrote: Incidentally, I tried using the chinaphonearena code on gearbest as well as the PhoneArena5 code on merimobiles (doing some comparative shopping ) but neither seemed to work. Do these codes have expiration dates?

For Merimobiles, the coupon code for the forum discount is "arena". For Gearbest, it seems "chinaphonearena" coupon expired last August. But I think it should have continued. Let me ask about this.
Although, for the THL T11, they have this offer http://www.chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thr...or-THL-T11 coupon code: GBT11

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