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I've not dabbled much into this, so forgive me if my ignorance is too overwhelming
In the last week or so I've had luck using friends SIM cards in my phone. Both were serviced by ATT. Then I tried it with a pre-paid SIM that belongs to my grandparents that has plenty of time on it. This however, does not work. It just says Searching constantly. I've also tried it in my unlocked G1 (actually got in touch with T-mobile and obtained an unlock code) and I get the same.
This is of particular concern to me because I will be leaving the country in about a month and I'd really like to know if it's going to work at my destination. Is there some other setup I need to be doing that differs from a regular sim to a pre-paid sim?
Was it a Boost Mobile prepaid? Those are known to not work, due to the network they use.
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YodaEXE said:
Was it a Boost Mobile prepaid? Those are known to not work, due to the network they use.
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I was told it's through Net One, which I've never actually heard of. Wonder if that's why it doesn't work.
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I was told it's through Net One, which I've never actually heard of. Wonder if that's why it doesn't work.
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Neither have I. Could be that they use a weird network as well.
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I was told it's through Net One, which I've never actually heard of. Wonder if that's why it doesn't work.
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did you mean net10 by any chance?
I tryed the same one after lots of research I found that it is a weird network and wont work on our phones.
mine never read the sim card.
firefly6240 said:
did you mean net10 by any chance?
I tryed the same one after lots of research I found that it is a weird network and wont work on our phones.
mine never read the sim card.
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It actually was. Thanks for providing that info, glad to hear it's not just me.
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It actually was. Thanks for providing that info, glad to hear it's not just me.
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if you will go on thier site, it will say somewhere that their sims are meant only for their phones, it has some connection even tho its gsm, was in your same spot
Isn't quad band gsm phones like vibrant supposed to work with all gsm carriers?
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I use prepaid sims all the time abroad... Usually have to enter the APN info manually for data to work, but calls work as soon as I activate them.
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I've been messing with mine so not sure if this is due to that or if this was on here from VZ. It doesn't work, gives me Error: no connection when using my sim from my phone.
dont see it on mines
Nope. Just checked. Did you install some phone apk?
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I moved over a mms.apk at one point, but didn't expect to get a dialer.
Nope but waiting on a sim cutter before moving apks and what not. That'd be an amazing find if it just works. We can hope
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miiike said:
I've been messing with mine so not sure if this is due to that or if this was on here from VZ. It doesn't work, gives me Error: no connection when using my sim from my phone.
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The icon looks exactly like the one for TabletTalk. You can use that to dial and place calls to your Bluetooth connected phone, kinda like a remote control.
wait Verizon 7.7 has SIM slot? well lets flash a modem and getting this thing dialing out!
chrisrotolo said:
wait Verizon 7.7 has SIM slot? well lets flash a modem and getting this thing dialing out!
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Which modem?
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
The icon looks exactly like the one for TabletTalk. You can use that to dial and place calls to your Bluetooth connected phone, kinda like a remote control.
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This. Apparently it restored from Play from me testing an earlier HC tablet about 6 months ago. Bah.
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Which modem?
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And how?
I just received my N4 in Japan. Currently I am using NTT DoCoMo for my service provider, but currently I cannot find an APN that will allow me to use data. I have tried using mopera.net and spmode.ne.jp as well as a bunch of other random APNs. Has anybody gotten one to work? Or has anyone had any luck with a different network such as kddi au or softbank?
Thank you for any help.
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Can u ask your network provider to send the settings to your phone? That might be quicker than waiting for a reply.
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Can u ask your network provider to send the settings to your phone? That might be quicker than waiting for a reply.
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I will try talking to them this week to see if they can help me. But it's usually pretty difficult to find someone that speaks English and understands what I'm trying to do. lol
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I will try talking to them this week to see if they can help me. But it's usually pretty difficult to find someone that speaks English and understands what I'm trying to do. lol
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Docomo are kinda assholes and don't let non-Docomo IMEI whitelisted phones onto their standard data plans, and they will charge you a decent sized fee for using a "Non-Docomo phone". So SPMode is out, if that's what you use. However if you add the Mopera plan to your data plan(costs about 300 yen a month), you can use the Mopera settings that are in your phone already.
To enable all this in English, just call their foreign-language customer service number. In Japan, it's toll free, 0120005250.
I got to learn all about this when I bought a Galaxy S2 in Taiwan a year or so ago. :crying:
So what do I need to do to get my nexus 4 to work in Japan? I will be there for the next few years
I'm going to my carrier today so I will let you know if I can get the data connection to work.
Edit: Just got my phone working on DoCoMo. All I had to do was have them enable Mopera U for an extra 200 yen a month.
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I'm going to my carrier today so I will let you know if I can get the data connection to work.
Edit: Just got my phone working on DoCoMo. All I had to do was have them enable Mopera U for an extra 200 yen a month.
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So I'm in the navy and just picked up a nexus 4 while on leave. When I get back to Japan can I just walk into au and get a Sim card? Or is Docomo the only way to go?
I'm sorry, but I can only personally confirm that DoCoMo works. I would imagine that if you talk to someone at AU they will be able to help you out.
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So I'm in the navy and just picked up a nexus 4 while on leave. When I get back to Japan can I just walk into au and get a Sim card? Or is Docomo the only way to go?
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au won't work, so go for Docomo.
My issue is that I cannot import one of the damn things.
I used apobox.com to get mine shipped.
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I used apobox.com to get mine shipped.
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Looks pretty nifty, but I have nothing to do with armed forces... or America!
I'm still looking for a way to get one of these from either the UK or US.
I am using mine with softbank smartphone sim and iphone 4 sim. It works great. I get good H+ connection in Tokyo.
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hahuhe said:
I am using mine with softbank smartphone sim and iphone 4 sim. It works great. I get good H+ connection in Tokyo.
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Thanks, hope to get one soon. Any problems cutting the sim to fit?
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I am using mine with softbank smartphone sim and iphone 4 sim. It works great. I get good H+ connection in Tokyo.
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Did you import it yourself?
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Ok...so I just got back to Japan from a few weeks of leave in the states, where I pickedup my Nexus 4.
I went to Docomo and they said they do not sell SIM cards by themselves, and told me I would have to buy a cell phone from them and then take the SIM card out. Are they just selling me some **** or is this true?
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Looks pretty nifty, but I have nothing to do with armed forces... or America!
I'm still looking for a way to get one of these from either the UK or US.
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I have things shipped to my parents address in the US and they just rebox it and lie on the customs forms about it having a lithium battery. I've never once had a problem doing this in the year I've been here in Japan.
got mine from Australia, cut the SoftBank SIM, voice works but data doesn't. anyone else got theirs working?
dkflint723 said:
I'm going to my carrier today so I will let you know if I can get the data connection to work.
Edit: Just got my phone working on DoCoMo. All I had to do was have them enable Mopera U for an extra 200 yen a month.
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Did you tell them you have a Non-DoCoMo phone? Got my N4 today and realized the SPMode APN did not work. I called DoCoMo and he asked me if I have a Non-DoCoMo, I said yes he said the flat rate will raise from ¥5,460 to ¥8,190...it is not pro-rated so I will wait till march first. If I say I have a DoCoMo phone they will know from the IMEI that it is not? Do they even check? Thanks
sorry havent been on this forum lately.
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Thanks, hope to get one soon. Any problems cutting the sim to fit?
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no problems in cutting the sim to fit. i did it myself. if you are unsure, you can buy one of those cutting tools on amazon jp. everything works. mms also works with slight modification (GO SMS)
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i just ordered one from amazon jp. a bit expensive though. 56k yen for the 16gb.
just one small problem. although i get h+ in tokyo but I cant get h+ in my city (Sendai). I wonder weather h+ coverage for softbank does not include sendai.
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Did you tell them you have a Non-DoCoMo phone? Got my N4 today and realized the SPMode APN did not work. I called DoCoMo and he asked me if I have a Non-DoCoMo, I said yes he said the flat rate will raise from ¥5,460 to ¥8,190...it is not pro-rated so I will wait till march first. If I say I have a DoCoMo phone they will know from the IMEI that it is not? Do they even check? Thanks
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I think you can change to a Xi plan and then they don't check imei
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I switched to mopera.net APN and everything works fine. I love this phone....I'm using the Paranoid Android 3.10 ROM and it works perfect. Love the expanded desktop and pie buttons. Just wish I had the Japanese play store, I can't get the VS Pheonix dart app to install.
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I have the SPRINT version.... could someone walk me thru on how to give u guys what u need to start working on this??
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stafly17 said:
I have the SPRINT version.... could someone walk me thru on how to give u guys what u need to start working on this??
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Don't most devs start with a system dump of the stock ROM?
Yea... i figured that... but how can i provide that... ive never done that.
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stafly17 said:
Yea... i figured that... but how can i provide that... ive never done that.
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Screenshots first. The consensus is, video too...
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Video first.
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neato.. you work for sprint or did a drunk sprint employee leave one at the bar?
phones already been dumped. system dump from an actual device wouldn't be a bad idea tho.
@djrbliss has already patched for loki. (thank you)
@Dees_Troy has already built a sprint g2 recovery. (thank you)
I suppose IO/thecubed could update his root tool. I will ask him to do that.
What sim card does it use?
CSIM or USIM?
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neato.. you work for sprint or did a drunk sprint employee leave one at the bar?
phones already been dumped. system dump from an actual device wouldn't be a bad idea tho.
@djrbliss has already patched for loki. (thank you)
@Dees_Troy has already built a sprint g2 recovery. (thank you)
I suppose IO/thecubed could update his root tool. I will ask him to do that.
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Wow you guys are on top of this. Thanks. Looking forward to picking up the Sprint G2 when it comes out.
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I have the SPRINT version.... could someone walk me thru on how to give u guys what u need to start working on this??
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Definitely would like a system dumb. I know some people who would like to take some files from it to see if Google Wallet will work. Actually could you test this for us? Mainly looking to see if you're able to use Tap n Pay (NFC payments) on the sprint G2.
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Definitely would like a system dumb. I know some people who would like to take some files from it to see if Google Wallet will work. Actually could you test this for us? Mainly looking to see if you're able to use Tap n Pay (NFC payments) on the sprint G2.
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I work for sprint... went to an LG Launch training yesterday... they just handed me one. LOL
The launch date is 11/8/13
I have used the tap and pay at my sprint store and it worked.
I DONT KNOW HOW TO PROVIDE A Dump
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Wow you guys are on top of this. Thanks. Looking forward to picking up the Sprint G2 when it comes out.
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lilotimz said:
What sim card does it use?
CSIM or USIM?
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neato.. you work for sprint or did a drunk sprint employee leave one at the bar?
phones already been dumped. system dump from an actual device wouldn't be a bad idea tho.
@djrbliss has already patched for loki. (thank you)
@Dees_Troy has already built a sprint g2 recovery. (thank you)
I suppose IO/thecubed could update his root tool. I will ask him to do that.
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I work for sprint... went to an LG Launch training yesterday... they just handed me one. LOL
The launch date is 11/8/13
I have used the tap and pay at my sprint store and it worked.
I DONT KNOW HOW TO PROVIDE A Dump
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I wish I could help out with the dump, but I've never done one myself.
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Just check the sim card. A USIM means the Sim card does the LTE authentication while the device does the CDMA authentication. A CSIM means that both LTE and CDMA Authentication comes from the sim card and you can hot swap devices by using the sim card just like the Iphone 5s/5c which uses CSIM.
lilotimz said:
Just check the sim card. A USIM means the Sim card does the LTE authentication while the device does the CDMA authentication. A CSIM means that both LTE and CDMA Authentication comes from the sim card and you can hot swap devices by using the sim card just like the Iphone 5s/5c which uses CSIM.
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Is the look of the USIM vs. CSIM card different? How can you tell if a sim card is a USIM or CSIM?
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Is the look of the USIM vs. CSIM card different? How can you tell if a sim card is a USIM or CSIM?
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When i take the sim out it says 4g is no longer avaliable... but 3g, data, calls, and sms, all work fine with the sim card out.... if that helps?
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When i take the sim out it says 4g is no longer avaliable... but 3g, data, calls, and sms, all work fine with the sim card out.... if that helps?
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USIM .. like most current Sprint devices. So most of the provisioning is still done in the EFS.. unlike the 5s which relies entirely on the sim card.
Any idea why the launch date is still a month away?
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Any idea why the launch date is still a month away?
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No clue.... i was told because we are getting the exclusive triband for our sprint network vision.
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phone seems finished. the firmware has been out for over a month. perhaps theyre waiting for the LTE-A network to build out a bit more before launch? idk :/
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No clue.... i was told because we are getting the exclusive triband for our sprint network vision.
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Sounds like marketing speak to me, not really a legit reason.
More likely they are having tri-band hand off issues.
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No clue.... i was told because we are getting the exclusive triband for our sprint network vision.
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Sounds like marketing speak to me, not really a legit reason.
More likely they are having tri-band hand off issues.
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Sounds like maybe LTE 2600 (B41) hand off issues between the different LTE bands that is causing the delay. What does this phone being an exclusive triband have to do with it? Obviously the demo units are already available so the phone must be done. I doubt it is due to production issues since LG shouldn't need to make as many phones at launch like Verizon or ATT do. Doesn't sound like it makes any sense to me. Oct 25th would have already been pushing it.
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phone seems finished. the firmware has been out for over a month. perhaps theyre waiting for the LTE-A network to build out a bit more before launch? idk :/
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That seems to be my guess that Sprint is waiting on the LTE 2600 network to be built out a bit more before launch. But it also could be that Sprint can be having LTE 2600 TD-LTE to LTE 1900 FDD LTE hand off issues that is causing the delay.
Hello everyone.
How to enter the unlock code by imei? or how to enable frequency bands gsm and wcdma, if I have the MSL?
How I can unlock the phone?
Thanks
http://bit.ly/1b02CFU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2524771
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=2668
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bearsblack said:
http://bit.ly/1b02CFU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2524771
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=2668
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OK, maybe not explained well and I had read this post that you "suggest" ... I'm from Colombia and I bought the phone on ebay, I contacted Sprint, and the answer was that they would not give me the lock code because the phone is not on an active account since the phone is new, then I kept looking on xda and found how to get the MSL.
Now, I got the MSL, but my question is how I program or configure the phone to open the bands ... or unlock it, I don't know how and Sprint don't answer me, and in the post that you "suggest" no information... by the way, thanks for the sarcasm ...
and sorry my english ...
They have sprint service in Columbia? Ain't that about a ***** I need an airrave not to roam in Phoenix
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fatboypup said:
They have sprint service in Columbia? Ain't that about a ***** I need an airrave not to roam in Phoenix
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No, I need to activate the smartphone on Claro Colombia South America...
2 things.
1. This is developments not Q&A, there is a place for this.
2. Isn't there an international version of the LG G2?
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I know this was the wrong place to ask, but I would like to know this aswell.
jagoikki said:
Hello everyone.
How to enter the unlock code by imei? or how to enable frequency bands gsm and wcdma, if I have the MSL?
How I can unlock the phone?
Thanks
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Hathoid said:
I know this was the wrong place to ask, but I would like to know this aswell.
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Dial ##3282#
Click LTE
Click Edit
Put in your 6 digit MSL.
Click LTE Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band26 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band41 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click the back button and your phone should restart.
Enjoy!
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Dial ##3282#
Click LTE
Click Edit
Put in your 6 digit MSL.
Click LTE Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band26 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band41 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click the back button and your phone should restart.
Enjoy!
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While I appreciate the effort, I don't think this unlocks the Sprint LS 980, but just opens up new LTE bands, what we were(or at least I was) is a way to use a local SIM card internationally without having to contact sprint, which I've tried and they won't comply. From what I understand, sprint sends an OTA update to the phone enabling the international local SIM usage, meaning that the phone does it naturally, just sprint blocks something on it.
But many thanks either way
Gotcha. Sorry about that. Good luck with it.
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Gotcha. Sorry about that. Good luck with it.
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No problem buddy, I am wondering if making an official thread about unlocking the LS980, to gather all the info we can come up with, and maybe then we can find a solution.
This won't help anything... Just a placebo effect.. Spark LTE is not available so this atm is pointless.
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The unlocking the band thing yes since it's got nothing to do with unlocking it, but the original thread is about unlocking the sprint variant LS980, so best if you specify what the placebo effect is about.
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This won't help anything... Just a placebo effect.. Spark LTE is not available so this atm is pointless.
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Just a question, were you reffering to the spark LTE or the unlocking this? Because I'm not sure how they relate.
Today sprint released a ZV8 firmware update for the ls980, but still is locked for other networks.
Dammit! I've ordered few LG G2 Sprint, for use with GSM services overseas, but now I see that I'm in trouble cause of that Sprint's lock!!
Is there any solution???
Hidden gem
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Dial ##3282#
Click LTE
Click Edit
Put in your 6 digit MSL.
Click LTE Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band26 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click Band41 Enable/Disable and Select Enable.
Click the back button and your phone should restart.
Enjoy!
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Why is this so hidden in the forums? It's an incredibly useful piece of information! I haven't got to test it yet but I'm going to indonesia in a few days and will have the opportunity to try out a gsm network there. Thanks much!
severly said:
Why is this so hidden in the forums? It's an incredibly useful piece of information! I haven't got to test it yet but I'm going to indonesia in a few days and will have the opportunity to try out a gsm network there. Thanks much!
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I'm pretty sure this isn't going to help you on GSM.
It's for Sprint's new CDMA LTE bands I do believe.
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I'm pretty sure this isn't going to help you on GSM.
It's for Sprint's new CDMA LTE bands I do believe.
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Ah thank you very much. I will continue pestering Sprint to unlock it.
Hello everyone,
Can anyone tell me if there is a possibility to use this phone in Europe on GSM network? I bought it and now I have no idea how to unlock it? All of these variants in the forum do not help, is there any of you an idea please? Thanke you