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I have a Hermes and am on AT&T/Cingular mobile in New York and I love my phone. I have a friend in India who would like to buy one and wants to know if it will work in his country. I told him that I thought it would, since it is quad-band.
Does anyone have experience using the Hermes in India. Please let me know. Thanks in advance for any information you have to share.
-Austin
Works just fine in India. Employees from my company go there and use their 8525s all the time.
HTC Hermes in Bangladesh
Works great in Bangladesh as well. Relying on it for my sole internet access from the jungle via Grameen EDGE service (GSM 900/1800).
I plan to sell my Epic to a friend who travels and spends a lot of time in Europe (the UK) and India. I want to make sure I do everything so the phone works in those places outside the US. I have been reading mixed answers about whether the CDMA technology will work in Europe and India. Could someone with experience and knowledge about this topic comment?
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It might work. You'll have to call sprint and ask if they have service there. They'll probably refer you to this other company that sells world phones and ridiculous 2 dollar incoming and 3 dollar outgoing per minute plans. That's what they did for me when I asked about Afghanistan
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Most other countries use gsm. That's att biggest advantage over any of these other carriers. So slim possibility for cdma depending on where your going.
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I think there is CDMA in India, cuz the old miui dev lives in India and has Airtel and used our epic on that and has since gotten an Evo 3D. IDK about Europe though. If you wanna talk to him, PM ahmgsk
incisivekeith said:
I plan to sell my Epic to a friend who travels and spends a lot of time in Europe (the UK) and India. I want to make sure I do everything so the phone works in those places outside the US. I have been reading mixed answers about whether the CDMA technology will work in Europe and India. Could someone with experience and knowledge about this topic comment?
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There is plenty of cdma coverage in India. Only Eastern Europe has CDMA. However getting to work is no cakewalk and could permabrick your phone (all sorts of QPST nastiness).
Personally, I would just buy a used Captivate on craigslist for $100, then unlock it yourself and use that with a local carrier. It's less messy (phone wise, GSM only requires you to pop in a sim) and really isn't that much of an expense in the grand scheme of things.
lynyrd65 said:
There is plenty of cdma coverage in India. Only Eastern Europe has CDMA. However getting to work is no cakewalk and could permabrick your phone (all sorts of QPST nastiness).
Personally, I would just buy a used Captivate on craigslist for $100, then unlock it yourself and use that with a local carrier. It's less messy (phone wise, GSM only requires you to pop in a sim) and really isn't that much of an expense in the grand scheme of things.
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I second this. Also if your friend doesn't need data then find a friend who has a an old tm/att razor they will give him and he is good to go.
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Will work in India, not the UK
As noted, there's lots of CDMA in India. I just used my Epic there last month. But the UK is out of the question as there's no CDMA there in the frequency bands that Sprint uses.
All the other options to try and buy GSM phones are not something I can use, as I am trying to sell my friend my phone, an Epic bought and used in the US, so I can move on to another phone and use that money. The question was whether this phone can be used in India and the UK. Some of you said you have used it in India. Did data and everything work? How did you get it to work? I will also pm ahmgsk, the dev in India, but I would appreciate your input, too.
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It does not work in europe which is gsm but it does work in india on rcdma provided you know someone who can get the meid registered in their database, I am using it on rcdma.
incisivekeith said:
All the other options to try and buy GSM phones are not something I can use, as I am trying to sell my friend my phone, an Epic bought and used in the US, so I can move on to another phone and use that money. The question was whether this phone can be used in India and the UK. Some of you said you have used it in India. Did data and everything work? How did you get it to work? I will also pm ahmgsk, the dev in India, but I would appreciate your input, too.
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He or she must not be a very good friend.
Anyone who tries to do what you are describing would be tearing their hair out trying to get their phone to work.
CDMA makes it very difficult and possibly illegal to move phones from carrier to carrier.
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lynyrd65 said:
He or she must not be a very good friend.
Anyone who tries to do what you are describing would be tearing their hair out trying to get their phone to work.
CDMA makes it very difficult and possibly illegal to move phones from carrier to carrier.
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Lol I wanna see america or india try to prosecute an american in india using an american phone on indian airwaves
I doubt they would bother to go through all the diplomatic hurdles that entails just to issue a 50million rupee fine which is like a dime lololololololol
But nah seriously, there's only a handful of countries that implement a form of cdma like japan, south korea and india
Most of the world is gsm. If our phones were world phones....oh lawdy lawdy lawd
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Lol I wanna see america or india try to prosecute an american in india using an american phone on indian airwaves
I doubt they would bother to go through all the diplomatic hurdles that entails just to issue a 50million rupee fine which is like a dime lololololololol
But nah seriously, there's only a handful of countries that implement a form of cdma like japan, south korea and india
Most of the world is gsm. If our phones were world phones....oh lawdy lawdy lawd
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Either way it's tedious and requires you have an indepth knowledge of QPST.
The legal way requires the Indian Telco to accept your ESN (which they probably won't).
The only other way is either personally knowing someone who works for the telco to add your phone anyway or cloning which is even more tedious and possibly illegal.
With GSM, buy a sim, pop it in, go on with your life.
Yeah but we need ways to sell this phone.
I'm sure op is down fr some qpst time
There's a thread in here to get it flashed to metro, boost blahblahblah so try that out and instead of using mtro or boost parameters, use the indian telco info
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I am using it without cloning or anything of that sort, OP you need to PM ahmgsk or someone else who knows what to do, if you PM me can help.
Galaxy Note 3
Carrier - US Cellular (New England-USA)
Model Number: SM-N900R4
Android Version 4.3
Hardware Version: N900R4.05
IMEI: 9900.......
I want to unlock this device as i've purchased it and paid it outright. i'm not obligated under any service contracts with US Cellular but nobody anywhere around here has any clue how to unlock. I want to unlock it to use on my Verizon Wireless Account with my current SIM Card. I cant seem to get anywhere with anyone on how to do this with US Cellular. US Cellular has indicated that regardless of what I do - it'll never work on Verizon Wireless.....seems like B.S. to me as they are both CDMA... THOUGHTS?......
My apologies, i'm new to this.
Thanks, Tony.
First things first pal, remove that IMEI quick time, never ever share it!
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I'm facing the same problem, people don't really like to hassle with hardware that they know little about, for now atleast.
Some sites reefer to the n900r4 from us cellular to be the same model as the note 3 sprint is selling, and some sites also say it still has a gsm 2G antenna built in, though disabled by software ? Could use some help, and get some friends on the issue of sorting out the specific data about the device.
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US Cellular has indicated that regardless of what I do - it'll never work on Verizon Wireless.....seems like B.S. to me as they are both CDMA... THOUGHTS?......
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I think the LTE bands are different but I don't know about 3G or plain GSM, you will need to research that yourself.
For unlocking the phone the safest way would be an unlock code, if US Cellular does not want to provide one (you can tell them that you travel abroad and you want to use a foreign SIM for a month) or if they ask too much then search around and see which unlocking service supports US Cellular.
Assuming I unlock the att g2 will I be able to get data on it and call, same with the verizon g2. Id be using a local carrier whos gsm is 900. i need an answer asap
Should do.
Where are you going? As you might need to make sure the local area sim is the right frequency's. But I'm sure it will.
Im from uk and i have always thought they had non removable sim cards in verizon.
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jonezy8873 said:
Should do.
Where are you going? As you might need to make sure the local area sim is the right frequency's. But I'm sure it will.
Im from uk and i have always thought they had non removable sim cards in verizon.
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The gsm frequency there is 900, its lebanon btw. also latest verizon phones have sim cards. Im afraid if i get the att g2 then calling will work but internet ( 3g or h+ ) wont work because i checked on atts site if their lg g2 will work in lebanon and it only said that voice will work and data will not but this is on their network, not a local network so I have no idea. I know the att g2 works on a gsm 900 frequency but does voice and internet come from this frequency or does the phone use another type of frequency to get internet. Or am i good to go even if only the gsm is compatible.
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mourui313 said:
I'm from BESTBUY to buy 306SH, but not in USA activated by SPRINT has sent to China signal, I want to use 3G or 4G LTE in the China Telecom's CDMA network, but to insert the SIM card can not identify, who are willing to help me to activate the machine? Must be in the activation of SPRINT can change the card or the first activation solution network lock, to use? SPRINT to me this kind of customers, whether to provide unlocking service?
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Hi, I can confirm that even you have it UICC unlocked, it won't work with China Mobile/Unicom/Telecom.
Service status will be SEARCHING always.
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You'd better do some research before your purchase
mourui313 said:
I'm from BESTBUY to buy 306SH, but not in USA activated by SPRINT has sent to China signal, I want to use 3G or 4G LTE in the China Telecom's CDMA network, but to insert the SIM card can not identify, who are willing to help me to activate the machine? Must be in the activation of SPRINT can change the card or the first activation solution network lock, to use? SPRINT to me this kind of customers, whether to provide unlocking service?
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Sprint could unlock the phone for oversea use only for their customer and the phone need to be activated with Sprint at least 30 days. I am afraid we couldn't help you.
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wuyiL said:
Sprint could unlock the phone for oversea use only for their customer and the phone need to be activated with Sprint at least 30 days. I am afraid we couldn't help you.
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I tried to contact sprint customer service, They told even their phone is unlocked, they still can not use other carrier's sim card. BUT as we can see sprint iphone 6 and 6+ are oversea unlocked in China, and supporting China Mobile TD-LTE bands( Band 38 ,41).
Let's see this phone, when I got into the hidden menu, I figured out that 306sh is support TD-LTE band 41, That's means if it is oversea unlocked (like iPhone 6 example). It is possible that 306sh also is oversea unlocked, the best carrier for support 306sh is China Mobile (TD-LTE), China Telecom (CDMA 1X, CDMA ev-do REV A, TDD-LTE, FDD -LTE), Softbank (Japan FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE, HSPA+).
I ll try take it to have a oversea test. Let's wait.
According to your saying, technically we could unlock it to use in China and Japan.
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wuyiL said:
According to your saying, technically we could unlock it to use in China and Japan.
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In theory, I have to say it could be oversea unlocked. However, if we want to use the phone oversea. We have to concern about two issues.
First, the phone had better be unactivated. I am not sure we can use a CDMA phone burned some carriers information on abroad. So an unactivated aquos is more likely can be used oversea.
Second, If we use china mobile's network, I don't think the phone can make a call. that because, china mobile is a gsm carriers, they do not support CDMA phone. Only thing we can use from china mobile is their TD-LTE network. So if we insert CMCC sim card, the phone will become a web only phone that is unable to make a call. Or if China Mobile has VoLTE technology. On the other hand, China Telecom's network will be a best choice for 306sh. Cauz China Telecom's 2g 3g 4g network is exactly same with Sprint network. Let's see, softbank. the situation is a little bit similar with China Mobile. Softbank also is a GSM carrier, but Softbank they do not have 2G network, about 10 year ago, Japan closed all their 2G network, that's means, Softbank do not have GSM GPRS and EDGE. for replacement, they have WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+, FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE, so aquos also is very suitable to Softbank in Japan.
Let's waiting for the test.
看完我只想说楼主傻逼
尼玛是不是末宝店主 还是什么脑残用google翻译
淘宝店主倒也有心可原
不过这英语真是有点坑了啊
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Alien Kingson said:
不过这英语真是有点坑了啊
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This is a an English forum, I do not understand why you guys type Chinese at here.
I am joining in the discussion is to try to help people who have this kinda phones in China. On the other hand, I dont think it is a good place for us to critical whose English is better than others. If you guys have some good ideas why dont you post them in English not Chinese on the forum to let people from all over world to know thus we can root the phone earlier. Anyway I can get high speed 4G LTE internet service in states, I dont care how it works in China. The reason why I join the discussion is try to help you guys. Our goal is to root the phone, let do it, we can made it.
Dave E said:
This is a an English forum, I do not understand why you guys type Chinese at here.
I am joining in the discussion is to try to help people who have this kinda phones in China. On the other hand, I dont think it is a good place for us to critical whose English is better than others. If you guys have some good ideas why dont you post them in English not Chinese on the forum to let people from all over world to know thus we can root the phone earlier. Anyway I can get high speed 4G LTE internet service in states, I dont care how it works in China. The reason why I join the discussion is try to help you guys. Our goal is to root the phone, let do it, we can made it.
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i have tried to write a unlock SIM card. but it dont work on China-Unicom(a GSM/WCDMA/LTE network Operator) ,i can make phonecalls to others, but cant receive phonecalls. i want to make 305sh use GSM ONLY,i tried *#*#4636#*#* it cant set GSM ONLY. can any other way to set GSM ＯＮＬＹ？ ｔｈａｎｋｓ