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Epic 4G Sprint works fine, won't provision properly or update profile

Got my phone back from insurance a while ago. They sent me an entirely new or refurbished unit but didn't bother changing the sticker on the back to reflect my ESN. Luckily, I was able to remember my ESN from my original box and matched it up to what the OS is telling me. The phone works fine but I have a problem with voicemail notifications not showing up and provisioning not working properly. The phone always fails to update profile, update PRL, or update firmware. Also, the Sprint automatic setup always failed so we manually set it up. I'm thinking they changed the ESN of the phone they replaced mine with but somehow it's not working- some settings may have failed to be transferred? The ESN, MSID, MEID, and settings for data provisioning all look correct. Anything that could cause the right ESN phone not to provision on the network properly? For what it's worth, the data works but seems slower than usual, so it seems some settings may not be agreeable to the network keeping the phone from fully provisioning its connection.
I should have checked this before my insurance lapsed since they refuse to help now. Please help!

It is a problem with certain phones and sprints network in general. Show sprint and they could probably help or give you another phone.
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Are you on a custom ROM? If you are missing sprintandroidextensions.apk or Srint_app_updater.apk, that will happen.
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nope, bone stock. never rooted or custom rom installed. did a hard reset as well to factory os settings.

nauticalx said:
nope, bone stock. never rooted or custom rom installed. did a hard reset as well to factory os settings.
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Easy way out is to have them send you another replacement. Hard way would be to try an EFS clear, make sure you have good 3G signal and try it again.

Insurance refuses to help and sprint store more interested in selling me a new one than replacing it.
Will the EFS clear remove the data from the previous ESN so that the phone can provision properly? What's the best way or program for doing this? Thanks

Sounds like your new handset did not provision properly on their end. The slow data would lead me to believe that your AAA password or esn corupted when being writen to the database of the evdo radius server. I would go to sprint.com and swap to another device/esn wait 5min and swap back to my new device.
I would also go to the dial pad and enter ##72786#, enter MSL, reset. This will make sure all of those fields are clear and not corrupt on the device itself. Have seen that happen on reconditioned devices too. When the device comes back up, it should provision properly without you having to manually program anything.
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nauticalx said:
Insurance refuses to help and sprint store more interested in selling me a new one than replacing it.
Will the EFS clear remove the data from the previous ESN so that the phone can provision properly? What's the best way or program for doing this? Thanks
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It clears out all modem data and goes through hands-free activation. This screws up phones flashed to other carriers so must clear out data. Here is Noobnl's thread for it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226074&highlight=efs+clear+modem

Okay guys, thanks for all your help. I swapped to another phone and then back and it seems to work fine, still wont update profile but everything works.
Only one thing wrong, voicemail notifications going to old phone even though it has no service. Any idea what could be causing that??

Old phone has the MDN and MSID programed. That is all that's needed to verify the handset for notifications. ##msl and enter in any 10 digit number for MSID. The notifications will stop. This can also interfere when trying to update profile since that handset will also receive the notification for IOTA.
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Problem not picking up 4G - Sprint tech can't figure it out

Posting here to see if anyone has heard or had this issue with their Sprint GS4. I'm currently on my *4th* GS4. The 1st phone picked up 4G perfectly and all was great until I had to change it out due to some issues (non reception related) and was given another GS4. From that phone on I have *NOT* been able to pull 4G at all. The next 2 phones were swapped out because of the inability to connect. During the hands free system setup the phone shows that it's picking up 4G just fine but as soon as the setup is over I'm sent right back to 3G and it stays there. Sprint has done EVERYTHING to the phone that they can and it still will not pull. It's not a 4G issue as we provisioned a brand new phone at the same time my GS4 was being set back up and the new GS4 picked up 4G just fine. I'm thinking there is something wrong with my account setup but tech support says they see everything as being ok. This has been going on for over a month now and I'm at wits end with Sprint not being able to correct this issue. Does anyone have an idea of what could be wrong that the phone does not pick up 4G? I have to call Sprint engineering again tomorrow so they can try and do more troubleshooting that most likely won't fix the issue. They all start out with the same excuse about 4G towers being down etc until they check and see that everything in my area is ok. If anyone has an idea of what could be wrong please let me know.
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Rico

Rican_S4 said:
Posting here to see if anyone has heard or had this issue with their Sprint GS4. I'm currently on my *4th* GS4. The 1st phone picked up 4G perfectly and all was great until I had to change it out due to some issues (non reception related) and was given another GS4. From that phone on I have *NOT* been able to pull 4G at all. The next 2 phones were swapped out because of the inability to connect. During the hands free system setup the phone shows that it's picking up 4G just fine but as soon as the setup is over I'm sent right back to 3G and it stays there. Sprint has done EVERYTHING to the phone that they can and it still will not pull. It's not a 4G issue as we provisioned a brand new phone at the same time my GS4 was being set back up and the new GS4 picked up 4G just fine. I'm thinking there is something wrong with my account setup but tech support says they see everything as being ok. This has been going on for over a month now and I'm at wits end with Sprint not being able to correct this issue. Does anyone have an idea of what could be wrong that the phone does not pick up 4G? I have to call Sprint engineering again tomorrow so they can try and do more troubleshooting that most likely won't fix the issue. They all start out with the same excuse about 4G towers being down etc until they check and see that everything in my area is ok. If anyone has an idea of what could be wrong please let me know.
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Rico
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It;s a problem with the SIM card not being switched over right. They didn't do the transfer correctly when switching phones. If you could get your hands on your original SIM it would work. Since the SIMs are new to Sprint the "techs" are having issues when switching phones. It is a problem they need to reactivate the SIM or correctly switch it to your new phone in thew system.
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I feel your pain and it's ridiculous that these Sprint employees aren't trained properly to deal with switching SIMs correctly in their system. But I guarantee thats your problem.

GiantJay said:
It;s a problem with the SIM card not being switched over right. They didn't do the transfer correctly when switching phones. If you could get your hands on your original SIM it would work. Since the SIMs are new to Sprint the "techs" are having issues when switching phones. It is a problem they need to reactivate the SIM or correctly switch it to your new phone in thew system.
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I feel your pain and it's ridiculous that these Sprint employees aren't trained properly to deal with switching SIMs correctly in their system. But I guarantee thats your problem.
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Just out of curiosity, is there a checklist they are supposed to follow to do this or do they just do what they think is best?

GH0 said:
Just out of curiosity, is there a checklist they are supposed to follow to do this or do they just do what they think is best?
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No idea I don't work for Sprint. But if there is a check list they don't follow it.

I'm not an employee but here's what I would suggest. Tell the tech, just to humor you and see if it corrects the problem, ask them nicely to assume all the information in their system is incorrect. Have them reprogram the phone completely and not use data they already have and assume it's correct. My thinking is that even though it looks okay to them, there could be something that is corrupted somewhere. If they do a full reprogram from square one, and the phone is still malfunctioning, then there's something wrong with the phone. By reprogramming from the very beginning, they can rule out that their data is incorrect somewhere along the line and determine it is the phone which is at fault. Process of elimination. Maybe their reprogramming can flush out the snafu and make the phone operate correctly? Have them assume the phone is totally borked with programming and needs to be redone completely. If that doesn't flush out whatever is wrong then I'd try a brand new s4 sim. If that doesn't work then I'd ask for a new virgin phone.

Now I wouldn't put it past Sprint to screw something up.. but it seems unlikely that the sim card and phone arent matched correctly. Sprint MEID and ICCID from sim card are tied together from the factory and put on a list... this is the list Sprint uses. If you asked Sprint what ICCID they have in the system that is paired with your phone MEID.. the two should match... and that would rule out the incorrect sim or improper setup. Unless they've asked you to keep the original sim card for whatever reason.. or a sim card that did not come with the phone.. I suspect that the MEID and ICCID in their system matches your info. You can confirm your ICCID by going to settings > more tab > about device > status.
another thing to confirm... you need your MSL/SPC.. go to ##DATA# hidden menu.. select "Edit".. scroll down to "more/others" then select "LTE APN Settings". How many APNs do you have listed in that menu? only 2? or 5? If you only have two.. then I'm 100% sure this is the issue and that for some reason or another the phone isnt being provisioned properly. If you have all 5... then it's not an APN issue. But if you do only have 2 apns listed... what I would do is hop on wifi... ##786# reset your device and try to activate over wifi after the phone reboots and erases itself. After the phone activates.. it will attempt to also upgrade PRL... and maybe even check for firmware. It may also even start to do another reset. Don't interrupt anything and just let it do its thing(while being on wifi the entire time).
If you can update anything I've asked about that may help.

GiantJay said:
It;s a problem with the SIM card not being switched over right. They didn't do the transfer correctly when switching phones. If you could get your hands on your original SIM it would work. Since the SIMs are new to Sprint the "techs" are having issues when switching phones. It is a problem they need to reactivate the SIM or correctly switch it to your new phone in thew system.
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I feel your pain and it's ridiculous that these Sprint employees aren't trained properly to deal with switching SIMs correctly in their system. But I guarantee thats your problem.
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I've been on the phone with some higher level engineering tech support 3 times today and They had me try all sorts of new things. There was no SIM swapping on any of the phones that I've had. There is no way to get the original SIM as it was 3 phones ago and that one was swapped in a different state. I'll see what they think about it being a SIM issue though.

oscarthegrouch said:
I'm not an employee but here's what I would suggest. Tell the tech, just to humor you and see if it corrects the problem, ask them nicely to assume all the information in their system is incorrect. Have them reprogram the phone completely and not use data they already have and assume it's correct. My thinking is that even though it looks okay to them, there could be something that is corrupted somewhere. If they do a full reprogram from square one, and the phone is still malfunctioning, then there's something wrong with the phone. By reprogramming from the very beginning, they can rule out that their data is incorrect somewhere along the line and determine it is the phone which is at fault. Process of elimination. Maybe their reprogramming can flush out the snafu and make the phone operate correctly? Have them assume the phone is totally borked with programming and needs to be redone completely. If that doesn't flush out whatever is wrong then I'd try a brand new s4 sim. If that doesn't work then I'd ask for a new virgin phone.
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We've done this several times. I was at a Sprint store on Saturday for over 4 hours as we provisioned a brand new out of the box phone which is what I have right now. New phones were pulling 4G 100% and this one would only pull during the hands free provisioning then jump right back to 3G once it was all done. I know it's something in my account settings somewhere but nobody can seem to figure it out. We even tried to set me up with a non LTE phone and then swap back to the new S4 and nothing worked.

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Now I wouldn't put it past Sprint to screw something up.. but it seems unlikely that the sim card and phone arent matched correctly. Sprint MEID and ICCID from sim card are tied together from the factory and put on a list... this is the list Sprint uses. If you asked Sprint what ICCID they have in the system that is paired with your phone MEID.. the two should match... and that would rule out the incorrect sim or improper setup. Unless they've asked you to keep the original sim card for whatever reason.. or a sim card that did not come with the phone.. I suspect that the MEID and ICCID in their system matches your info. You can confirm your ICCID by going to settings > more tab > about device > status.
another thing to confirm... you need your MSL/SPC.. go to ##DATA# hidden menu.. select "Edit".. scroll down to "more/others" then select "LTE APN Settings". How many APNs do you have listed in that menu? only 2? or 5? If you only have two.. then I'm 100% sure this is the issue and that for some reason or another the phone isnt being provisioned properly. If you have all 5... then it's not an APN issue. But if you do only have 2 apns listed... what I would do is hop on wifi... ##786# reset your device and try to activate over wifi after the phone reboots and erases itself. After the phone activates.. it will attempt to also upgrade PRL... and maybe even check for firmware. It may also even start to do another reset. Don't interrupt anything and just let it do its thing(while being on wifi the entire time).
If you can update anything I've asked about that may help.
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It was confirmed today that the MEID and ICCID are 100% matched up. The 3rd person to call me and work on the issue had me check all of it and it's correct. I will have to try the ##DATA## and the rest tomorrow as I don't get service in my house (I have to use an airvana that is horrible) Once I get to work I'd be able to attempt. I will say that we've tried the entire reset and doing it on Wifi but I still only ever pull 3G after everything is said and done.

Did you pay the $10 data fee?

joe.stay said:
Did you pay the $10 data fee?
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yup! That $10 has bought me a 497ms ping, 791kbps download and a 173kbps upload. I feel like I've won the lotto
So the phone sucks ass with the 3G here and I can't access 4G. Looking at the contract to see what I can find about them breaching their commitment.

Rican_S4 said:
yup! That $10 has bought me a 497ms ping, 791kbps download and a 173kbps upload. I feel like I've won the lotto
So the phone sucks ass with the 3G here and I can't access 4G. Looking at the contract to see what I can find about them breaching their commitment.
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Data speeds aren't guaranteed. It clearly states that in your contract, or I have a feeling Sprint would have been bankrupt by now.
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Think you could get a higher level tech on the phone maybe that could practically wipe your account completely blank and start all over? I don't remember, I might have suggested this. What if they could make a new account for you? They might have to change your number but maybe the bug is buried so deep in your settings in their computers that they can't find it.

GiantJay said:
Data speeds aren't guaranteed. It clearly states that in your contract, or I have a feeling Sprint would have been bankrupt by now.
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Not talking about a breach of contract due to speeds. More so the lack of resolving the issue for a prolonged period of time.

oscarthegrouch said:
Think you could get a higher level tech on the phone maybe that could practically wipe your account completely blank and start all over? I don't remember, I might have suggested this. What if they could make a new account for you? They might have to change your number but maybe the bug is buried so deep in your settings in their computers that they can't find it.
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I've suggested a complete wipe if the account and was told that's not possible. Changing my number is not a possibility. I have another call with tech today at 11 and hopefully someone can figure out what's going on. Wiping the phone over and over sure isn't fixing anything.

Rican_S4 said:
Not talking about a breach of contract due to speeds. More so the lack of resolving the issue for a prolonged period of time.
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Good luck.
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Reactivation dial code is ##72786#, I had the same problem the sprint tech couldnt get 4g, so I hung up on her and rebooted my phone into 3g and let it reactivate and worked, does the trick
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same
That also happend to me but it stayed like that for 2 weeks the renstalled the mf9 update then it satarted working for me it has to do with the system file

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Good luck.
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The lady in retention was really nice and 100% on my side about the issues since it was all thoroughly documented. I was given the ok to port my # away if I choose to.

gotablunt said:
Reactivation dial code is ##72786#, I had the same problem the sprint tech couldnt get 4g, so I hung up on her and rebooted my phone into 3g and let it reactivate and worked, does the trick
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Unfortunately we've tried all of that and it still will never pull up 4G.

Verizon no LTE

Got my new Nexus 6P, went to the Verizon store and got a nano LTE SIM. Ever since it's been plugged in, all features except LTE seem to work fine. Spoke to Verizon tech support and they see that everything seems to be setup correctly and the device activated in their systems.
One thing I did notice is that in the list of APN's, I have 6 of them. The one that says VZWINTERNET seems to have the right setup for what seems to be working for rest of the folks here. However, when I switch to using it, the signal is still stuck on 3G. Also after a couple of minutes when I look back at the APN list, it seems to fall back to the one that says "internet" which definitely seems to have the EvDo-rev A settings.
Has anyone experienced similar issue? Any suggestions?
I'm going to try to go back to the store again to try a different SIM card later today.

Quick update. First I tried switching the radio band first to Band 6, that's when it went to 1x and stayed that way. Then I switched it to USA Band and within a minute was able to lock onto LTE! Hoping it stays this way!

Said too soon. Side effect, no cellular connection available. Data transfer is at LTE speeds but can't make calls now

Here is the APN I'm using. Truth is I never changed a thing when I put the sim in. Factory reset it and find it a few minutes to get cellular working before messing with it. Sometimes it takes a while especially with a new sim.

Thanks static. That's the first thing I tried. Just let it be on 3G. Since nothing changed till this morning I decided to tinker a bit. For me the second to last APN keeps getting selected no matter how many times I switch it to the one you have.

Do you have another phone you can put the sim in and see if it works?

Nothing that takes a nano. I was able to get LTE to work just with data but it's pointless with no calling available. So at the moment it's like one or the other which is strange.

Attaching 2 screenshots. One with band 6 where calling works but data is 1x. Another with USA band where LTE data works but no calling. Looking closely it's set to emergency calls only.

I'm not sure if you are rooted or stock. I had a similar issue when I had an HTC M8. When I placed my Verizon sim card it would only connect at 3G speeds and not LTE. I tried to factory reset the phone through the menu multiple times but still no change. What worked for me was to go into the bootloader and then recovery mode and "wipe data/factory reset" with the Verizon sim card in the slot. After that reboot the phone and hopefully it will connect at LTE speeds. Obviously the reset will erase your phone so backup any important documents. Just a thought.

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I'm not sure if you are rooted or stock. I had a similar issue when I had an HTC M8. When I placed my Verizon sim card it would only connect at 3G speeds and not LTE. I tried to factory reset the phone through the menu multiple times but still no change. What worked for me was to go into the bootloader and then recovery mode and "wipe data/factory reset" with the Verizon sim card in the slot. After that reboot the phone and hopefully it will connect at LTE speeds. Obviously the reset will erase your phone so backup any important documents. Just a thought.
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Just tried the hard reset. No change. I'm on stock.

mymac80 said:
Just tried the hard reset. No change. I'm on stock.
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Were you able to get another sim card from Verizon? Wondering if that is the issue. Otherwise I'm not sure what would help. Sorry.

They allowed you to activate it on the phone itself? I brought in a borrowed iPhone 6 plus (because I was coming from a Galaxy S5) and activated it on that, then put it into the Nexus 6P. As far as I know, changing the APN doesn't fix anything except some MMS not properly transferring and has nothing to do with getting LTE itself.
If you have another phone that can be used on Verizon, test it out on that. Or try a new sim card.

I had the same issue, I tried my Sim in a different phone and LTE worked so then I decided to try my project Fi Sim in the 6p and that one had LTE. Then I put my Verizon Sim back and LTE worked. Maybe it needed a different Sim card to reset it or something.
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I had this same issue after letting my wife borrow my phone one day. Come to find out she did a *228 to update the roaming for some retarded reason and it pretty much fried my SIM. A quick visit to Verizon and a new SIM solved it for me. Hope this helps.

Is mobile data set to Global or LTE/CDMA?
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Both are working for me, but switching could make a change.
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Spartan117H3 said:
They allowed you to activate it on the phone itself? I brought in a borrowed iPhone 6 plus (because I was coming from a Galaxy S5) and activated it on that, then put it into the Nexus 6P. As far as I know, changing the APN doesn't fix anything except some MMS not properly transferring and has nothing to do with getting LTE itself.
If you have another phone that can be used on Verizon, test it out on that. Or try a new sim card.
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You can activate a Verizon sim with a 6P.

staticx57 said:
You can activate a Verizon sim with a 6P.
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Ah I see, I wasn't aware that they already added the IMEI's to their whitelist. But I got my phone on 10/29 and activated it then, so I had to use another phone.

Spartan117H3 said:
Ah I see, I wasn't aware that they already added the IMEI's to their whitelist. But I got my phone on 10/29 and activated it then, so I had to use another phone.
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Strange, I got mine the same day and had no trouble activating on my 6P.

staticx57 said:
Strange, I got mine the same day and had no trouble activating on my 6P.
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Hmm, I didn't even try because I read the stories about it, I guess people were saying it because the previous gen 6 was not whitelisted until a few months after release. I also didn't want them looking too deep into my account because I had upgraded and stayed on UDP through the loophole, so I didn't want to get booted off that.

So I got a replacement Nexus 6P, plugged the same SIM card in and voila, LTE and voice works. Thanks all for your suggestions. Seems like it was a defective device.

Visual voicemail issue

Is anyone having issues getting the visual voicemail set up? Att is telling me they are having connection time outs with the voicemail. I've had everything reset a few times and it's still not working. Just curious

Haven't had an issue. Worked right out of the box.

@OP,
Yes I can't get mine VVM to work either. I actually just used my sim from my iPhone and yet when i try to setup VVM it tells me I don't have that on my plan. I swear AT&T can really be a PIA. So I will probably need to contact CS.

Mine doesn't work but I didn't have it on my plan before ordering this phone.

I did the same thing with my iPhone Sim. Maybe that's the problem.

I have the S7 (trying to get it exchanged for the Edge but no Best Buy's have them in my area right now); picked it up Tuesday at Best Buy and used the SIM card that came with it. Called Tech Support and worked with the girl for almost an hour before she sent an escalated ticket to the next level of tech support. She thought maybe because the official launch was today (3/11) that might be why it wasn't working Tuesday. I have a text message to call AT&T just haven't had the time but after just checking now, it still won't set up. I even had my voice mail profile blown out and had to recreate it from scratch with tech support on the phone and it still made not difference. Going to give it a few more days and then I might be taking it back to Best Buy for el-refund-o. Love the phone other than that. Just my two cents, take it for what it's worth. Have a great evening everyone.

I disabled that as soon as I opened the box. Google voice works like a charm.
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I cant get google voice to work either lol

If you used an iPhone SIM it will soft-brick Visual Voicemail, or at least it did for me. I had to go to AT&T and swap my SIM card out with a newly provisioned one. Then I had to call tech support and have them wipe my voicemail settings. After all that I was then able to setup VVM as expected. It works great now.

Guess I need to call again. I went to the store and got a new Sim card and the guy there reset my password only I suppose. So now it doesn't say my account doesn't have vvm it just says unable to set up

cubedwell3r said:
If you used an iPhone SIM it will soft-brick Visual Voicemail, or at least it did for me. I had to go to AT&T and swap my SIM card out with a newly provisioned one. Then I had to call tech support and have them wipe my voicemail settings. After all that I was then able to setup VVM as expected. It works great now.
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Darn Skippy. Iphones have the WiFi calling enabled and it's not compatible with the Samsungs and that was the issue after Sim change. Or so 611 lady said!

Litebulbcw said:
Guess I need to call again. I went to the store and got a new Sim card and the guy there reset my password only I suppose. So now it doesn't say my account doesn't have vvm it just says unable to set up
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Same happened to me. I had to have them wipe all my VM settings, including any custom greetings that I had. Once the VM system was wiped it let me setup VVM without any hiccups. Good luck!

No problems here. Coming from other androids though, using same sim.

Anyone successfully activate device in US

I received my launch day one plus 8 pro, model IN2025. I am currently with sprint but they refuse to activate the device. They insist it is carrier locked and they can't activate it. I have put my sim in there and it works for a few minutes until I get a sim locked error, then it doesn't work. I wanted to switch to tmobile but, for whatever reason, my BYOD order was flagged as potential fraud and I am required to go into a store to complete my order - which isn't really possible as there are only 3 stores in my state that are still open, none of which are near where I live. I have checked AT&T and Verizon and their sites both say the phone isn't compatible. I have a google fi sim on the way but I am curious if anyone in the states has successfully activated an 8 pro and if so, what carrier they have.
Thanks!

CA, T Mobile, no error at all

samyuan9826 said:
CA, T Mobile, no error at all
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Well that gives me some hope. This is why I wanted to move back to tmoblie but there is literally nothing I can do. I have spent hours upon hours on the phone, chat, and even on DM with their twitter support. The only way for me to activate service is to go into a store which is impossible. There are no stores open in a 75 mile radius of me and I don't think it is wise to be driving all over for what is definitely not an essential service. I guess I will hold out hope for Google Fi because Sprint is just awful.

Tmobile here too no issues. Works perfect

berdo said:
Well that gives me some hope. This is why I wanted to move back to tmoblie but there is literally nothing I can do. I have spent hours upon hours on the phone, chat, and even on DM with their twitter support. The only way for me to activate service is to go into a store which is impossible. There are no stores open in a 75 mile radius of me and I don't think it is wise to be driving all over for what is definitely not an essential service. I guess I will hold out hope for Google Fi because Sprint is just awful.
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Could it be they are merging at the moment?

samyuan9826 said:
Could it be they are merging at the moment?
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If it is, then you would have thought one of the 8 or so people I spoke with would have said something. I do know that Sprint told me they could not activate the phone because it was carrier locked and even after I had a chat with One Plus support per Sprint's request and copied and pasted one plus's response that the phone was not carrier locked and compatible with sprint, the sprint rep from the advanced support team still insisted the phone was carrier locked and that I should return the phone.
I have no idea what the issue is with T-Mobile. They ran my credit, took my payment, setup my order and then a bot automatically canceled my order and booted me off the chat. The canned message said I couldn't complete the order over chat or the phone, that I would have to go to store. After 3+ hours on chat and phone last night I finally gave up. The rep on twitter event sent me a DM basically saying that my best option was to use screen shots of our conversation and dispute my credit and try again once I can actually go to a store.
It is just one giant cluster F.

berdo said:
If it is, then you would have thought one of the 8 or so people I spoke with would have said something. I do know that Sprint told me they could not activate the phone because it was carrier locked and even after I had a chat with One Plus support per Sprint's request and copied and pasted one plus's response that the phone was not carrier locked and compatible with sprint, the sprint rep from the advanced support team still insisted the phone was carrier locked and that I should return the phone.
I have no idea what the issue is with T-Mobile. They ran my credit, took my payment, setup my order and then a bot automatically canceled my order and booted me off the chat. The canned message said I couldn't complete the order over chat or the phone, that I would have to go to store. After 3+ hours on chat and phone last night I finally gave up. The rep on twitter event sent me a DM basically saying that my best option was to use screen shots of our conversation and dispute my credit and try again once I can actually go to a store.
It is just one giant cluster F.
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RIP - my order was from OnePlus.com back to the launch day - I really don't think they have any kind of carrier locks. I would say returning/exchange the phone is the best option

Mine Activated fine on T-Mobile

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/04/oneplus-8-5g-networks-compatibility
"Sprint users are basically completely out of luck. As the OnePlus 8 doesn't support its 5G network, nor its 4G LTE or its voice (CDMA) network."

I just got mine today and works perfect with Tmobile prepaid, wifi calling and everything works

T-Mobile Ohio with no issues here.
Sent from my IN2025 using Tapatalk

I grabbed a Google Fi card today and so far so good. I'm connected to LTE with speeds that were comparable when I had TMobile. Pretty pumped to be living that 120hz life and not using Samsung's garbage skin.
It's funny, there is a mod to turn on WiFi and VoLTE which 100% works fine on Sprint. I can normal service for about 5 minutes and then Sprint shuts it down. I could reboot and work again, and then they'd shut me down again. So yeah, no CDMA but VoLTE worked just fine.

I'm on T Mobleand it was a snap. No issues at sll

anyone activate on verizon in us?
TIA

bkrickles said:
anyone activate on verizon in us?
TIA
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Yes i activated mine on verizon and had no issues at all. The one problem im running into is we dont have an option for wifi calling. Benn on chat with verizon and oneplus, verizon tried to get it to work for 2 hours where oneplus said its something wrong on verizon end because wifi calling is a default feature....

berdo said:
I received my launch day one plus 8 pro, model IN2025. I am currently with sprint but they refuse to activate the device. They insist it is carrier locked and they can't activate it. I have put my sim in there and it works for a few minutes until I get a sim locked error, then it doesn't work. I wanted to switch to tmobile but, for whatever reason, my BYOD order was flagged as potential fraud and I am required to go into a store to complete my order - which isn't really possible as there are only 3 stores in my state that are still open, none of which are near where I live. I have checked AT&T and Verizon and their sites both say the phone isn't compatible. I have a google fi sim on the way but I am curious if anyone in the states has successfully activated an 8 pro and if so, what carrier they have.
Thanks!
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Sprint is a PITA with unlocked devices. They have different SIM cards for different unlocked devices and you can’t use one SIM in every device normally. I had that issue as well and they always sent me SIMs based on the phone. I have T-Mobile now and use my SIM in Pixels, iPhones, and my OnePlus with no issues. Always had to call sprint to switch between my devices as well it was terrible. T-Mobile you just switch the SIM and it’s good.

The OnePlus model sold by OnePlus should have worked good on US TMo.
However, has anyone over here gotten a global model from banggood to work on TMo ? Their posted frequencies look like 41 and 71 are missing, and possibly some others.

kng60ft said:
Yes i activated mine on verizon and had no issues at all. The one problem im running into is we dont have an option for wifi calling. Benn on chat with verizon and oneplus, verizon tried to get it to work for 2 hours where oneplus said its something wrong on verizon end because wifi calling is a default feature....
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Have you tried enabling the switch via logkit?
1. Dial *#800#
2. Go to Oneplus logkit
3. Go to function switch
4. Check on Vowifi switch
5. Reboot your phone
6. go to settings -- wifi & internet -- sim & network
7. Turn on WIFI Calling
8. Reboot your phone

berdo said:
Have you tried enabling the switch via logkit?
1. Dial *#800#
2. Go to Oneplus logkit
3. Go to function switch
4. Check on Vowifi switch
5. Reboot your phone
6. go to settings -- wifi & internet -- sim & network
7. Turn on WIFI Calling
8. Reboot your phone
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Yes. I followed those steps and when I select function switch, there is nothing on the screen that says VoWIFI.

Has anyone got it working with AT&T? Mine arrives tomorrow, hoping to just switch my sim card from my Pixel 3 XL into 8 Pro seemlessly.