I have a G3 Cingular 8125 w/ TNT 19213 Professional rom and I was wondering if I could buy a prepay go-phone(like from best buy), take its sim card and put into the 8125, and be able to properly make calls etc.
Input is appreciated!
Megas3300 said:
I have a G3 Cingular 8125 w/ TNT 19213 Professional rom and I was wondering if I could buy a prepay go-phone(like from best buy), take its sim card and put into the 8125, and be able to properly make calls etc.
Input is appreciated!
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Hi megas3300,
if your phone is SIM-unlock you should be able to make calls.
I brought a german QTEK 9100 into the US and just plugged a prepaid t-mobile card in it and I can initiate calls, receive calls and send and receive SMS. I have not tried if it also works for GPRS connections, so here I can 't tell you, but just for simple phone operations it should work (if phone is not SIM-Locked)..
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huibuh_1
I know it works in reverse, as my mother used to use her plan sim card in a phone from the go-phone package...and I don't see why it wouldn't work considering that. There isn't anything special about the phone, it's all in the sim card.
Thats what I did Went to wallmart bought a $19.99 Go Phone worked fine but ATT to much money for data. Now using T-Mobile month to month Unlimited data $19.99 had to buy voice service 300 min for $29.99 works great for me
Current Primary Device:
Cingular/AT&T 8125
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Hey everyone. I am considering buying the Cingular 8125, which is also the Wizard i guess, and unlocking it to use with my AT&T plan. I dont want to change plans because i have an awesome plan, etc.
My question is, what will i be able to, and not be able to use on this phone using that old network? I suppose the data features will be useless because im not on cingulars network?
What do you guys think?
Thanks!
you will be able to use is unlocked but realize that cingulars tower coverage is better then atts, ..they purposley lower the coverage capacity of att devices so that u see a difference on cingular. And the data plans for att are now none existant . So beware.
are you currently doing this?
I just got a reply from someone who is using the mmode also.
i currently have no data on my cell plan, shoot....
can i ask where you got your phone? i am about to pay 450.00 for a non-contract 8125 tomorrow.
i'm posting this from an unlocked 8125 on a cingular blue (old AT&T) plan and I absolutely love it. I see no slowdown where i'm at compared to the cingular sim chips. on dslreports.com/mspeed I average between 125 and 155 kbs.
if you still can hurry and add unlimited mmode for $25 a month before they completely freeze the at&t accounts so that any change/add would warrant a migration.
once you do, get your 8125, carrier unlock it, cid unlock it, flash with button's cooked rom, flash with radio rom 1.13, customize your extended rom to the way you want (no need to use the cingular extended rom, its just bloatware because your on at&t's settings.
to get edge working just set your connections to connect to "my work network" on both settings, then go into my work network and add a connection "cellular (gprs)",name it at&t edge (or whatever you want. now the important part is that you have to set the apn as "proxy" without the quotes. then set this connection connects to the internet under the proxy setting.
leave username and password blank and domain blank. that should do it, then connect to internet explorer and you should be surfing on edge. good luck.
I paid full retail also, $490 after tax, and it was worth every penny. I could have got it for $250 if I migrated and used my FAN buisness account, but my blue plan is sooo much better. good luck.
cingular is pretty much refusing to sell one of these to me! The local store is out of them, and told me to call cingular to try to get one, and they wont let me have it without signing a contract. now what?
KINetics, i sent you a PM about details about how you did each of those steps. Are there writeups anywhere? Any additional help would be great. Thanks.
danrw84 said:
cingular is pretty much refusing to sell one of these to me! The local store is out of them, and told me to call cingular to try to get one, and they wont let me have it without signing a contract. now what?
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You should be able to order off line for full retail price of $449 without the contract. Thats where I got mine but had to pay full retail as I had just upgraded my phone with the Cingular 2125. I had 30 days to return the 2125, which I did, so they should credit my account soon with the price difference once it posts. I dont see why you cant just flat out buy it for retail tho. Just my 2c.
i'd love to do that but i cannot find any option online to buy the phone without a contract. how did you do it? I go to cingular.com and I try but cant get it to the card without a plan. I am on the old AT&T so if i try to Upgrade my device, it says i cant, i need to call because i need new plan?
suggestions?. thanks
danrw84: If you go to www.imatephonestore.com you can buy an unlocked phone there. I am using a JasJar with my AT&T SIM. No problems at all. You will have to pay full retail and get a Imate K-Jam which is the same as a Cingular 8125. The phone is $749 so i'm not sure you want to pay that much but it is completely unlocked and you can use with any GSM plan
They are based outside of Chicago so you can get next day service if you wish.
danrw84: If you go to www.imatephonestore.com you can buy an unlocked phone there. I am using a JasJar with my AT&T SIM. No problems at all. You will have to pay full retail and get a Imate K-Jam which is the same as a Cingular 8125. The phone is $749 so i'm not sure you want to pay that much but it is completely unlocked and you can use with any GSM plan
They are based outside of Chicago so you can get next day service if you wish.
749 is quite a bit! Ebay has much better prices on the unlocks.
I got the phone thru cingular today for 314.00 its supposed to arrive tomorrow.
i am going to try to do it myself.
as far as the post from KINetics, anyone know where to get ahold of those ROMS hes refering to?
I did exactly what you're looking to do. I have all the settings if you get a phone. I bought one, cancelled the contract and took the fee hit, then unlocked it, etc.
PM me if you need the settings or have any questions.
Hey,
My friend's phone has (free) Internet access. I doubt it's free but I know she doesn't have a data plan, and she claims she isn't getting any usage charges for accessing the Internet. She's had Cingular for a few years now. Do they offer pay-as-you-use Internet?
Anyway, I'm wondering if I could somehow establish a connection with her phone and then access the Internet. Possibly Bluetooth? I'm using the Wing (HTC Herald).
Generally phones that have BT can function as BT modem. The paring on your side should be pretty straight forward but setting up your friends phone (not a WM device right?) depends on its model.
Yeah I posted the message because I couldn't get it working. I thought I had everything set up correctly on my phone. I probably... I just have to set hers up correctly. She has a Nokia N75 - http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n75
Anyone have any experience with this?
Cingular does have pay as you go, it is very expensive like 1.5cents per k. This ads up in an awful hurry. If this is a new account for your friend, you should check online and see if she is racking up data usage. If so add a data plan before the billing cycle ends. Can be done through cs and they will make it retroactive.
N75 should work as a modem with the HTC Wing without a problem.
I rarely come up to see a data plan in US that have unlimited data access btw
Oh also btw, theres a simpler solution to just insert your friend's sim card into your T-mobile Wing (as long as its unlocked ). Cingular and T-mobile both use GSM anywayz (not like Sprint or Verizon using CDMA).
I have two XDA Mini S phones, which I believe are fully unlocked. I am able to use a Vodaphone sim in them and everything works perfect. When I put my works Orange sim in them the phone works i.e. I can make and receive calls but the Sim Manager does not work. Which means I cannot access the contacts on the sim card or use the options menu to configure the phone. When I try to access the options menu I get the message " the phone is not ready, please wait 15 seconds and try again"
Has anyone else had this problem and gotten over or around it. I have spoken to both o2 and Orange and they are both an absolute waste of time. I would appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks.
Hi,
I am on orange too, also had the same trouble. I could make and receive calls, but could not access sim card to add contacts or send / receive texts. The XDA mini is a 2G phone, my orange sim is was a 3G. When I changed it for my wifes 2G orange sim, all worked perfectly, so we just swapped sims and phone numbers. Tried to get a 2G sim out of orange on my contratc, they were having none of it, said I would have to go PAYG. So I did the swap with the wife and extended the contract.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for your advice Mlkey.
Following your response I contacted Orange and changed my works contract 3G sim for a 2G sim on contract. This still does not work and as usual I am getting no real help from Orange.
Looks like the only solution will be to change my mobile / pda, that is, unless anyone else has any other possible fix.
Are PAYG sim's different than contract sim's ??, if they are does anyone know if I were to get a PAYG sim that worked in my XDA would I be able to get my company number transfered to that sim and convert the sim from PAYG on to my works contract account ???.
I would appreciate all the help / advice I can get, before this drives me mad !!!
XDa wizard and Orange sim only
Hi,
I'm having exactly the same problem! O2 to Orange sim only and completely no SMS. Orange support is argueably the worst. Interseting to here that it's version. ie G4/G4..Have read somwhere that VOip SMS maybe the solution? ...If i can find the thread again I'll post a link.
Cheers
Eamonn
Fixed this problem by using the t-mobile 2.26 rom as described in "Definitive Guide to unblocking and rom upgrading g3 wizards
I am having exactly the same problem. My phone is a G4 and I believe it to be fully unlocked from o2. According to orange my sim is a G2 sim because the 7th number of the sim card begins with a 2 and not a 3. I cant even try a different rom because I can't connect to my computer with active sync through usb or bluetooth this has been for about a year now.I usually transfer files through a card reader. Can anybody help me because the deal with orange is really good but the phone is useless without sms or mms and I really dont want to change the phone.
My IPL 2.21.001
SPL 2.21.001
GSM 02.07.10
OS 2.21.4.1
Cheers Gord
Hi,
I am new to this forum. I have exactly the same problem . Has anyone found any solution to this/ Please help!
The solution is to upgrade the radio rom
I will be traveling with the wifes family to Greece in June to visit her relatives and I am wondering:
1. Can my 8525 work over there?
2. Do I need to do anything to get it working over there?
3. Does it cost my arm and half my leg to use it over there?
4. Any other tips or things I need to know with my phone?
This will be my first time leaving the US and I have no experience traveling abroad, so figured I would ask before I started calling AT&T up asking them or bothering my wifes family with a bunch of questions.
Thanks,
Nick
What you can do is buy a new prepaid plan + simcard in greece, and use the phone in greece, etc, and buy a calling card to call to the USA. Otherwise, I would assume you would get charged international roaming if you don't have something setup with at&t.
What I am wondering is if you would get charged international text message $ if you communicate with text messages using your at&t simcard with someone in the USA. Does anyone know this answer?
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What you can do is buy a new prepaid plan + simcard in greece, and use the phone in greece, etc, and buy a calling card to call to the USA. Otherwise, I would assume you would get charged international roaming if you don't have something setup with at&t.
What I am wondering is if you would get charged international text message $ if you communicate with text messages using your at&t simcard with someone in the USA. Does anyone know this answer?
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Better idea! Install hardSPL V7 on your device so it assumes it is superCID, buy a prepaid greek sim card, install voip or skype (its cheeper this way) to call USA and have a nice vacation.
Cheers
ibeqa said:
Better idea! Install hardSPL V7 on your device so it assumes it is superCID, buy a prepaid greek sim card, install voip or skype (its cheeper this way) to call USA and have a nice vacation.
Cheers
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Nice. I have HardSPL (I'm thinking version 7, someone remind me how to check that again). I was worried VOIP would cost me more just because I am using data in another country. I have the Unlimited PDA plan here, but figured I wouldn't dare use any of it over there.
you need to sim unlock you phone, hardspl is not the same thing as sim unlock, supercid only allows you to flash other roms, not put in a different sim
international sms is i think like $1 per sms, dont remember i forgot
Hi,
I have a really old phone (well maybe not REALLY old - 2years?) It is the Cingular 8525 and was my phone under contract with Cingular prior to getting a phone upgrade. It has been sitting around collecting dust for 2 years? And I think I finally have a use for it!
I am travelling to Greece, and I would like to pick up a prepaid 3G sim card upon arrival. I just want to make sure I unlock my current phone before I depart so that the phone works when I get the sim card in Greece!
ALSO --- My goal is to turn the phone into a WiFi router so that I can hookup my Laptop to it for checking emails etc... While I am travelling about. Are there any cooked roms that unlock and provide such WiFi functionality I am looking for?
Thanks!
I got my HTC unlocked
I have a unlocked HTC 8525 it is locked to AT&T and I use tmobile and others in it. What I have is a little chip that fits under the sim card.
I have also used it in a Nokia N95 8GB from the UK with
and USA At&t, Tmobile and others.
ww.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.unlock
It comes from china and took 3 weeks to the USA.