Howto/20161028 Enable LTE for Nexus 4 running 5.1.1

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Motivation

  1. To enable LTE speeds on my Nexus 4 running 5.1.1 which is deactivated by default

Source material

My setup

  • A Nexus 4 running 5.1.1 with a default (locked) bootloader
  • Using a computer running Ubuntu 14.04

The Steps

1) Obtain necessary files (note local copies may be outdated).
2) Prepare computer
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils android-tools-adbd android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot