I just purchased a unlocked my touch 3g ( I believe Magic) no slide.
At times my phone asks me to do a update.
When I look at what the update is it shows "Android System Update 1.2...The system is required to install Android version 2.2.1 on your device."
My phone states my firmware version is 1.6
So my questions are:
Do I need to perform this update?
Will this update lock my phone again ?
This is my 1st android phone and truthfully I'm not real technical. I have been going around googling different thing to make mysel more familar with the phone and Android.
Any help woul sure be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Ok so 81 views and nobody knows.
Anybody have any idea what other sites out there may deal with this type of thing that they may be able to direct me to?
Thanks
Could you please provide the info on your fastboot? You can get to fastboot by turning the phone off, then turning it on while holding down the volume down button.
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Ok, I think this is what your looking for?
Saphire Put 32a Ship S- ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013(SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
Radio-2.22.23.02
Oct 21 2009,22:33:27
I hope this helps and what you were asking for
Thanks
First off, you do not need to update if you don't want to. Second, I think the update will relock the phone, so I recommend not updating at all, unless you have a reliable method of unlocking again.
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I appreciate the info
Ok there are two things:
1) Sim Lock.. if your phone is sim unlocked it will remain sim unlocked.. actually I don't think there is any documented way to re-sim lock the phone.
2) Root.. if your phone is rooted i recommend installing a rooted version of the upgrade if you desire to upgrade.. otherwise the upgrade will either unroot the phone or fail because the phone is currently rooted (possibly causing it not to boot into android until you restore a good firmware)
Remember the sim lock is different from root.. and you can be rooted but sim-locked... or sim-unlocked but not rooted.. the simlock is just the tie in to the carrier and part of the Radio.. not part of the android firmware. Further its in a special radio settings region that is not flashed when you change the phone's radio.
So if you have the stock un-rooted/un-modified firmware and wish to update feel free.. just note you may want to back up what you can first.. some people have had problems with the update going slow until they factory reset after the update..
ezterry,
Thanks for the info.
Truthfully I'm unsure about many things on this phone.
I purchased this phone off Ebay as a unlocked only phone.
When I received the phone I just popped in my sim-set up the phone and was done.
At this point though I'm not even sure its unlocked because it is a T=Mobile phone and my service is myfamily mobile,which is just T-Mobile sold at Walmart.
I put in a sim card from my neighbors AT &T and it asked me for a pin #.
I skipped putting in a pin and the phone opened up but said no service. With that I am just assuming it is truly unlocked.
Am I correct?
Um.. if it asked for an unlock code its locked.. if it was sold unlocked and showing the code you ought to have been provided the code by the seller.
Pin usually just means the owner of the sim locked put a pin on the sim to prevent it from its data/service being accessed by others. (The sims owner ought to know the pin) This pin needs to be entered into any phone the sim is put in.
As soon as I find another person with a different sim card I am going to try it again.
I do think it was a pin # that was asked.
Unfortunately the owner did not provide any sort of code when I purchased.
Its my understanding,and I may be wrong,that you can purchase unlocked phones new,and if so I'm not sure weather or not codes are provided for new phones.
This is all very new to me so I am not sure.
exautomgr said:
Its my understanding,and I may be wrong,that you can purchase unlocked phones new,and if so I'm not sure weather or not codes are provided for new phones..
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If a HTC Dream/Sapphire was sim locked at the factory you must put in a sim card from another carrier and unlock the phone.. If it was never locked (such as the Google versions of the phones) this is not needed.
Once Sim Unlocked it will remain so regardless.
Yes, this is a My touch 3g google version phone
exautomgr said:
Yes, this is a My touch 3g google version phone
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MT3G = T-Mobile = locked to T-Mobile US but running the Google firmware
ION = Google Development Phone = factory sim unlocked
ezterry said:
MT3G = T-Mobile = locked to T-Mobile US but running the Google firmware
ION = Google Development Phone = factory sim unlocked
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So does this mean the phone is not unlocked and can only be used on T-Mobile?
or
Is it possible someone paid a 3rd party for a code to un-lock it?
I guess I really need to try like a AAT & T sim and see if I could service,as that was my undrstanding. I was under the impression that any gsm service provider uising a sim card would be operable.
You have gone in a circle now.. I told you if its sim locked when you put in a sim of a diffrent provider it will ask for an unlock code.. once sim unlocked it will *never* be locked again.
You will of course need a non tmo-us sim to be sure.
All I know is the MT3G will have been shipped from the factory locked.. I will not know the current state since the seller prob made sure it was unlocked if it wasn't already so if the phone was sold unlocked ..
The only other way I know to test is harder to do and possible risky with the firmware changes to do it w/o special htc serial wires.
And FYI a pin protected sim will ask for the sims pin before the sims carrier can be read (thus you need to provide the sims pin before it will ask for the unlock code if the phone is sim locked)
Ok,gotcha.
Sorry,told you not to savy
So I'll test another sim again and see what happens.
Thanks again for all the support
ezterry said:
You have gone in a circle now.. I told you if its sim locked when you put in a sim of a diffrent provider it will ask for an unlock code.. once sim unlocked it will *never* be locked again.
You will of course need a non tmo-us sim to be sure.
All I know is the MT3G will have been shipped from the factory locked.. I will not know the current state since the seller prob made sure it was unlocked if it wasn't already so if the phone was sold unlocked ..
The only other way I know to test is harder to do and possible risky with the firmware changes to do it w/o special htc serial wires.
And FYI a pin protected sim will ask for the sims pin before the sims carrier can be read (thus you need to provide the sims pin before it will ask for the unlock code if the phone is sim locked)
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Ok.
So I pulled the sim card from my neighbors AT &T phone and when the phone booted up it asked me for :
"sim network unlock pin"
unlock
dismiss
My neighbor told me he didn't have a sim pin,but he used the code he has to lock his phone.
I received the same message when I tried someone elses sim who also states they have no pin number.
Message being: "Network Unlock Request Un succussful"
So am I correct in my thinking that this phone is not unlocked? and or it is sim locked?
I just e-mailed the seller asking him if he had the unlock code for the phone,so I can now only wait for his response. In the past he was not very responsive to past e-mails
I have problems with a Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-I337M that I bought. It only detects certain SIMs.
It works with a Fido SIM. But I want to use it with Rogers. When I insert a Rogers SIM it just doesn't detect the SIM card. I have tried a few different Rogers SIM cards with the same result. All I get on the status bar is "No SIM card | Emergency calls only".
Besides the Rogers SIMs, I tried an MTS and a Telcel (Mexico) SIM with the same results and none of them prompted me for an Unlock Code request. Then I inserted a MoviStar (Mexico) and it prompted me for an Unlock Code. So I bought an Unlock Code on ebay and entered it. It gave me a message stating that the phone was successfully unlocked.
So after unlocking it, the phone works with the MoviStar SIM and with the Fido SIM but it does not detect the Rogers or MTS SIM. Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be? Rogers and Fido are the same company and use the same network, yet only Fido's SIM works.
I have done a couple of factory resets and keep getting the same results.
Forgot to mention, I am running stock firmware, Android 5.0.
I have been trying for the last few hours to get my UK Moto X Force to accept a dual sim configuration to no avail. I have listed the different methods I have tried below hoping that someone can identify a solution.
1st Method:
Rooted my phone and used the instructions for the Moto X Play variant to enable dual sim functionality as listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-play/help/enabling-dual-sim-single-sim-devices-t3225546
I followed this method through by adding the several lines of code to a local.prop file and rebooted. The phone now had access to the Dual Sim settings and identified my 1st SIM within the phone but not the 2nd. Where it said 2nd SIM 'No Sim Inserted'. I tried with multiple SIM cards and the same error popped up, there were no issues with the sim card touching the connector plates for the 2nd sim as they had scratched the card, a visible connection had been made.
2nd Method:
I installed a Mexican Dual Sim variant of the OS and inserted both cards. Bluetooth, WiFi and Mobile connection were not working however the Dual sim menu was available. I then flashed the UK modem onto the phone which fixed the WiFi and Bluetooth not working as well as the mobile connection. However once again only one of the sims worked and slot 2 was labelled as being empty.
Any suggestions on what to try next would be appreciated to get the dual sim functionality, functional!
Thanks
I think that UK edition doesn't really have hardware required for dual SIM. Tray is just generic for all Force variant.
Actually both of your attempts proved that. I would like to be wrong in this case
Any ideas?
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[GUIDE] to enable DualSim on SingleSim: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/guide-to-enable-dualsim-singlesim-t3570601
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[GUIDE] to enable DualSim on SingleSim: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/guide-to-enable-dualsim-singlesim-t3570601
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work this on xt1580 ?
jegrha said:
work this on xt1580 ?
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Need to try. The files in the fsg folder are different. I did not succeed, but it should work, if someone seriously takes up this issue.
Has anyone got the modem files to flash?
I've mistakenly flashed the Brazilian rom on mime and lost wifi
After flashing some roms and custom kernels my S7 edge which was unlocked couldn't identify my SIM card. It detects it but it doesn't show the service provider name and there's a notification which asks me about an unlock code. It's the first time I've come across a problem like this where an SIM unlocked phone seems to have turned into a locked one. I've already done factory resets, flashing the latest bootloader and modem, switching to another SIM card (same result) but nothing works. Is it one of the files being modified or related to hardware?
Currently I'm using Phoenix ROM v3.0 and VoLTaqe 4.2 kernel (best one i have). Also, other roms i flashed also had the same issue.
same here. Eve figure it out?
Was it originally unlocked or was it unlocked with a pin? Some pin unlocks are dubious and only last until updated/flashed.
Hi Everyone,
I just bought a brand new s10+ from marketplace. I ran a full imei report and everything is clean & not blacklisted. It was a sprint phone however the provider I use is consumer cellular (uses ATT towers). When I put my sim card in it obviously said invalid sim and request it get unlocked. I wasnt concerned because I was going to convert it to unlocked anyways via odin like I did my note 9. I reflashed it via odin with the u1 firmware. However the same thing is happening it keeps saying invalid sim and the button for mobile operators is not showing. I have a tmobile sim card and if I put that in it works fine. Being though tmobile and sprint are the same thats why it works fine. I also have a ATT sim card, If i put that in I get the same invalid sim message. So it still appears to be locked somehow. Only sprint / t mobile sim works. I thought by reflashing to unlocked it would unlock the phone sim.
Just to be clear the phone is brand new and never was attached to any account.
Any ideas? I dont know what to do here.
Thanks!!
As I understand, phones that are locked to a network are not just software branded... also the phones hardware ID. So flashing a generic firmware is not enough. You need to get the phone unlocked from the phone's original operator
I found out what I had to do. I had to use a remote unlock service to remove the software lock on the phone. Its fine now. Thanks