A friend gave me a Tmobile note 3. I know if you have to turn on all the bands and change the apn settings but i cant figure out how to make the network recognize my Verizon sim. Also can't figure out how to reprogram the phone with another 4G Verizon phone's esn so i can activate it. Does anyone have any insight?
Hello I got this new phone and I want to be able to put on custom roms and what not, I somehow installed twrp recovery but it only worked once and now it just sits there at the beggining loading i assume cause the phone is not rooted which I have tried to root it and even install the binary su through twrp and it did not work, so how do I go about this thank you so much
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Hello I got this new phone and I want to be able to put on custom roms and what not, I somehow installed twrp recovery but it only worked once and now it just sits there at the beggining loading i assume cause the phone is not rooted which I have tried to root it and even install the binary su through twrp and it did not work, so how do I go about this thank you so much
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Just flash an official firmware via odin and you´ll be alright
Sounds like a bad install of twrp it shouldn't be corrupt flash
Okay I got the phone flashed with custom recovery cwm and even installed cynogenmod on the phone which all works great, I got service last night from straight talk to find out that I cannot use this phone at all for their service for what ever reason even though their website said it would work, flashing the phone to a different service would that work on this phone or would it still be in the same boat I am in now
is your phone CDMA cricket or the new GSM?
its a gsm phone, cricket told me they are switching to cdma and this phone will no longer work with cricket at all, they also told me the phone cannot not be unlocked for other carriers, I was still hoping that it can work with straight talk, i already got the plan and sim cards but it wont take it
Umm, you have that backwards. Cricket was purchased by AT&T and is transitioning from CDMA to GSM. So your Cricket phone is more likely a CDMA model.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2455001,00.asp
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Okay if it's the cdma phone then it can be flashed over to straight talk correct, Here is what I got, I got a samsung galaxy s4 rc970c model from cricket which uses their sim card, I do not have the old sim card from them but i do have the ones from straight talk, when I put that sim card in it, it does not recogonize it at all or askes me anything at all about it, so basically what do i need to do to get this phone to work with straight talk and i still need a number for it as well
I also have a samsung exhibit from metropcs, i would rather have the s4 work with straight talk but for now I just need service with a new number some how thank you so much for all your help
also both of these phones take sim cards so idk if that means gsm or cdma and from what I've been reading this should be a gsm phone as it takes sim card not sure if that is only for internet or not, i downloaded a app sim card reader or what ever and it says it's a cdma phone
Cricket may well be like Verizon, in requiring a SIM card for its LTE service. However, CDMA phones on the Straight Talk BYOP program do not use SIM cards and instead use an activation code. The consequences of this are that if the phone is compatible, LTE will likely not be available to you.
If you purchased a SIM thinking the Straight Talk CDMA Phone Information Page covered GSM phones as well, you're out the cost of the SIM, though you could probably sell it to someone with a GSM phone. If the phone is indeed compatible as you said, you want to buy an activation code instead.
for now all I want is to get this phone that I have working with phones calling, I can care less about the lte internet stuff I do most of everything via wifi anyways from my own network and I'm usually at home and don't need the net on the go that fast, How do I get this phone to work cause their website says it's compatible but it wont take the imie says we do not offer service in that area code and I know for a fact they do I'm in metro denver colorado they have shops everywhere
If the combination of IMEI and zip code says service isn't available, then there's no way to use the phone on Straight Talk in your area. Call them and ask why that is, but I wouldn't expect a good answer. I can only speculate why Straight Talk isn't available in the area for your phone, but I believe it to be because the phone is a Cricket phone. The BYOP program is generally geared to the major carriers. Minor carriers and MVNOs aren't accounted for.
Hey guys I'm not entirely sure if this is the right section to post this but any help would be appreciated. I have a galaxy s5 that my buddy sold me and i want to unlock it, but i called for an unlock code from us cellular, and they said i have to come to a corporate store to have them connect it to their software . I don't want to do this because it's 5 hours there one way. I don't have that much time seeing as how i work 60 hours a week .... is there anything you guys know of that i can do? :/ Any help would be appreciated! If you can try to keep it easy to*understand?
Im in the same situation. I have a US Cellular Galaxy S5 that i purchased online to unlock but i havent found an unlocking website or its only for international GSM unlock. I want a domestic unlock and I live in the middle of Arizona with no US Cellular stores.
Most unlock codes don't work on CDMA-locked devices/carriers (Verizon, US Cellular, Sprint) due to how differently CDMA phones ID themselves on a network - the SIM card is essentially only used for LTE, so a SIM unlock is useless. I haven't been able to find much hard information on it, but the process (as I understand it, someone else please correct me if wrong) involves the carrier a phone is locked to unlocking the phone, removing any codes which that carrier uses to ID the phone on the network, and handing it off to you. Think of it as a reverse provisioning.
For that reason, you're pretty much got to take the phone in. USCC doesn't want you to jump on the unlock fad and accidentally hose your phone for use on their network should you just be experimenting, so actually going in and talking to them provides a nice chance to make sure you know what you're doing and want to go through with it. I also don't think they've got the auto-unlock infrastracture in place (as opposed to auto provision).
Also, keep in mind - the CDMA S5s don't use full frequency bands like the GSM ones do. This will show you which ones the USCC one uses - http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_cdma-6338.php - look for G900R4. You should be ok on AT&T/Cricket or T-Mobile but it looks like you'd be pretty well hosed on another CDMA carrier.
I was wondering if there is a way to get VoLTE working on a factory unlocked S8 that is using a AT&T Straight Talk SIM card. Right now when I make a call, the data goes to 'H'.
Anybody?
I'm not sure if it's possible but have you tried carrier switch your unlocked S8 to AT&T firmware. That's the only way I could get it to work on my unlocked S8 but I do have AT&T though as a carrier
How did you get it to work on att? I am on att as well and it does not appear to be working after carrier switching my unlocked S8 to att branded also wi-fi calling does not work.
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How did you get it to work on att? I am on att as well and it does not appear to be working after carrier switching my unlocked S8 to att branded also wi-fi calling does not work.
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It worked for me the first time but then the second time I went back to the Oreo beta they went back to AT&T I was only getting H after that when I was calling so I had to borrow my wife's phone IMEI and they provisioned it and it worked again
so how exactly do i go about doing that? I assume this involves calling att or going into a store and giving them the imei from another phone? Does the imei you use have to NOT be already used or can it be in use by 2 phones at the same time? Also so far we have not even told att about this phone we have just moved the sim card so wouldn't they still have the imei of the old phone or do they pull that automatically OTA? If they do pull it automatically then whats preventing it from getting updated again?
Hi I was wondering if anyone had tried to activate a T-Mobile S4 variant on Sprint networks . I read where one will need a valid ESn Number . I realize that Sprint uses different bands for their voice text and LTE data then T-Mobile does . Would I need to install a Sprint variant S4 rom to solve this issue with the cellular modem radio . Any help appreciated
Late reply here. You have issues that will make it very difficult for you to accomplish what you're trying to do.
1. You can't install a Sprint ROM on a T-Mobile device. Odin will check to determine whether the ROM is correct for the device, and if it isn't, will refuse to install it.
2. Installing a Sprint baseband on a T-Mobile device, if it were possible, would render the wireless capabilities of the device useless until the T-Mobile baseband were restored.
3. You'd need to convert the IMEI to an ESN. This is perhaps the easiest thing to do since the ESN is the IMEI, but ignoring the very last digit in the IMEI (the check digit).
4. Sprint is extremely reluctant to activate non-Sprint phones on their network, to the point of outright refusal in some cases.
I personally recommend switching from Sprint to T-Mobile or an MVNO using T-Mobile if you really want to use this device. Not only is the service better than Sprint, you don't have any hoops to jump through in order to get the S4 working on the network. If you insist upon using Sprint, find a different device.