How to Activate 4G/LTE on Your Smartphone

At a time when Warid has been equipping a lot of its customers with 4G LTE SIMs, ProPakistani is here with a complete procedure for activating 4G LTE services on your smartphone for Warid network.

It merits mentioning here that Warid is offering free 4G Trials for its prepaid and postpaid users in following six cities:

Karachi
Lahore
Islamabad
Gujranwala
Peshawar

So if you are in 4G network covered area, then you can go to Warid Business Centre to get your 4G enabled SIM.

Please note that usually 4G settings on handsets are automatically configured, but if for some reason, your 4G isn’t working then here is the manual way of configuring 4G LTE on your handset.

Considering that you have 4G enabled SIM, a 4G compatible handset and you live in 4G covered area, here’s how you can activate your Warid 4G on your handset:

Configuring 4G LTE on Android

Enable LTE Option:

Go to Menu –> Wireless & Network –> Mobile Networks -> Network Mode

Select option(s) with LTE enlisted

APN Settings:

Go to Menu –> Wireless & Network –> Mobile Networks
Tap on Mobile Networks
Tap on Access Point Names
Type in these settings:

Name: Warid
APN: warid
Leave all other settings to default

Press options button and click save
Restart your handset

Configuring 4G LTE on iOS / iPhone

Enable LTE Option:

Go to Settings –> Cellular –> Turn ON “Enable LTE”

APN Settings:

Go to Settings –> Cellular –> Cellular Data Network
Type in these settings
1. Under “Cellular Data”

APN: warid

Under “LTE SETUP”

APN: warid

Press Home button
Restart your handset

Configuring 4G LTE on Blackberry

Enable LTE Option:

Go to Settings –> Network and Connections –> Mobile Network-> Select network mode

APN Settings:

Go to Settings –> Network and Connections –> Mobile Network-> Select network mode
Tap on Setting icon at the bottom of the screen
Type the following under APN: warid
Press Save
Restart your handset

Please note that APN for all handsets is: warid (not case sensitive, but norm is to write APN in small caps).

Configuring Smartphone Binaries for LTE Activation

Above mentioned method should enable your phone’s 4G LTE network for majority of users. However, if your phone’s firmware hasn’t been updated then you might have to manually configure your phone to enable 4G LTE on it.

Please note that Samsung and Apple has updated firmware for majority of its 4G LTE model, but if your phone came through grey channels, or if its rooted with custom ROM then you have to carry out below configuration to enable your phone to use 4G LTE.

We have compiled a list of most used 4G LTE handset and complete tutorials for enabling 4G LTE on these handsets.

Before you go ahead, please note that these tutorials are unofficial ways for configuring your device which fiddles with the handset’s OS at the root level and should be performed very carefully. Precaution should be taken at all times and do not proceed if unsure of any step(s).

Click on your Phone Model to download tutorial