anyone know of any good stickies on flashing a Samsung s3, note, or any other new Samsung, or iphone. im curious which prepaid carrier is the best to flash to. and should I try to get a phone with a sim card? just looking for some ideas. thanks
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Are you implying that you currently have a phone on a postpaid plan, and you want to use it on a prepaid plan? What are you thinking of flashing?
well ill put it this way. my friend wants a nice phone on prepaid. doesn't care about cost. he has 2 phones now. one is on straight talk other is on T-Mobile..he wants a nice phone I was curious if anyone has done it and if anyone had any suggestions on what phone to use with what prepaid. like Sprint Verizon or AT&T iphone 4/5 on tmobile or straight talk. or a Sprint galaxy s3...he'll use just about any new-ish phone.
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I guess the 1st decision is what service he wants to go with. Phones are either CDMA or GSM, and not both, with few exceptions (like the new iPhones). So, if he gets a Verizon phone, he can't use it on T-Mobile or AT&T prepaid, and vice versa.
Since cost of the device is no issue, he just has to buy one that's factory unlocked (a.k.a., SIM unlocked).
apologies, I personally have an s3 through Sprint which Ive rooted along with numerous other phones just never did anything of this nature. so I should have him buy a phone that takes a SIM card we'll say and use either straight talk SIM card or tmobile? as an example.
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where would be the best place to buy factory unlocked phones? ebay? and obviously the easiest would be to go the SIM card route
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If the phone he has/gets is unlocked, he should have no problem swapping the SIM cards, and using the phone on either provider. If you want help mulling over specifics of what particular phone to buy, post it here. You'll get shut down if you start a thread asking what phone to buy.
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where would be the best place to buy factory unlocked phones? ebay? and obviously the easiest would be to go the SIM card route
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"Best" is subjective. Some would say to buy it from the manufacturer, as then you would have warranty, return policy, & everything.
well I talked to him and he says he'd prefer to go the galaxy s2 or 3 route. would it be cheaper to buy a unlocked GSM s2? im just confused about the SIM ordeal and what carrier to go with, with what phone. I've tried changing MEID before on a epic to use it on straight talk, which it was CDMA but I couldn't get the MEID to write properly so that was a fail.
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Yeah, you don't have to deal with that stuff with GSM phones. That whole "flashing to another provider" thing is a CDMA issue. Basically, any unlocked GSM phone will work, with any GSM provider.
Another thing to consider, though, is 4G data speeds. AT&T (and their MVNOs) and T-Mobile (and their MVNOs) use different frequencies for the highest speed cellular data connections. For example, if you buy an AT&T phone and then unlock it, you won't get 4G data speed on Simple Mobile, since Simple Mobile is a T-Mobile reseller. Therefore, even when you've finally decided which phone to buy, you still need to decide which bands you want it to have, based primarily on which service provider you plaln to go with. One exception to this is the Galaxy Nexus HSPA+, which is pentaband, and can be used just about anywhere, at full speed.
nice. any suggestions for iphone? My apologies. just seems those appear to be the cheapest route via ebay for a gsm unlocked one.
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pharmacist101 said:
nice. any suggestions for iphone? My apologies. just seems those appear to be the cheapest route via ebay for a gsm unlocked one.
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I assume you live in Richmond VA. You probably have a choice between T-Mobile or AT&T 3G/4G. T-Mobile is far better than AT&T and the Monthly Prepaid stuff from T-Mobile isn't bad. I like the $30 plan personally.
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I assume you live in Richmond VA. You probably have a choice between T-Mobile or AT&T 3G/4G. T-Mobile is far better than AT&T and the Monthly Prepaid stuff from T-Mobile isn't bad. I like the $30 plan personally.
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There's two 30$ plans (the one with 100min, unl texts and 5GB data and a 1500 min/texts and a small amount of data (30MB?? I forget))
You should be specific. The 5GB data one is only available online or at Wal-Mart.
The other one is available in T-Mobile stores.
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Richmond Indiana, my apologies. I appreciate all of the suggestions. I can root phones and such no problem, very new to this prepaid & gsm(sim card) stuff, as I have had Sprint for 6 years lol
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so I can order a iphone 3g gsm unlocked for like $120 on eBay (or is there a better place to order them?) and it will work with a straight talk sim card? it's for a friend, im not a fan of either xD
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Yes it will.
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So I'm struggling a little bit here with what to do. I want to switch to straight talk but from what I've seen no matter which variant iget I wont get LTE. Is this true? Do you have any suggestions for a specific variant? Any help would be great. I'm a little lost as theres so much contradicting information out there even from straight talk.
Thanks!
I assume straight talk is from a us carrier? Sounds like you might need the us variant sections as they will probably help you more. You can only get LTE here with the i9305
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Straight talk uses AT&T's network. Any variant that works with AT&T will work with Straight talk if it is unlocked.
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Straight talk now has 4g lte. You can pick up a sim card and a service card at Walmart for about $59.
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I have been on straight talk for two months and have had no issues with Data download (3G, H+) here in the Four Corners area of the US. I have tried stock and several custom rom and as long as I enter the information for strait talk APN properly.
I am on the $30 plan from T-Mobile and is alright, however I am mowing to an area with Zero signal from T-Mobile.
Will switching to a Straight Talk Sim (At&T towers) and paying for their service give my phone their service?
Or would they 801 not work on those bands?
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I want to get a note 3 from tmobile and I want the account to go bad now with the bad imei will I be able to use it still on att towers ?
Because I can get a note 3 for 450 from tmobile and I Can't get att service but I am on prepaid aio wireless which uses att towers
thank you
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I want to get a note 3 from tmobile and I want the account to go bad now with the bad imei will I be able to use it still on att towers ?
Because I can get a note 3 for 450 from tmobile and I Can't get att service but I am on prepaid aio wireless which uses att towers
thank you
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T-Mobile will blacklist the phone if the account goes bad. - Plenty of people have reported they have bought used t-mo phones and they've been blacklisted and won't work with any other US network
You shouldn't be asking questions on how defraud
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When my VZW contract is up, can VZW unlock my phone so I can use it on GSM pre-paid carriers in US like Straight Talk?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2166542
Freedom!
Just switch to Verizon prepaid. It's almost as cheap as the others
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