Hello all!
I bought the Samsung S7 phone in unlocked condition from eBay in US. Then I had to move to India for work related purposes and I was able to use the phone using an Indian sim. The phone developed charging issues and it was not charging. So I had to send it to US where Samsung changed the motherboard. Now, I received the phone which is working but it shows invalid sim if I put any Indian sim. It seems Samsung have restored the phone to original settings which is locked to Sprint network. Samsung tells me to contact Sprint. While Sprint says that they need the account details or confirmation from the person who bought the phone from Sprint. The eBay account from which I got the phone does not exist anymore.
I think I need to unlock the phone so that I can use other sim in India. Could anyone suggest what could be done here?
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Hello folks,
A while back, I managed to get AT&T to block network data on my mobile line.
Shortly thereafter, I purchased an unlocked HTC Touch in Europe and experienced no problems receiving/making calls in the U.S. Inserting my AT&T SIM was plug-and-play, for lack of better words.
During a recent trip to Europe, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S4. After inserting my AT&T SIM, I can not receive/make any calls.
I have bars, get a Voice Mail notification, as well as a 'Not registered to network' message. I am also unable to register to the AT&T networks the phone searches and finds...
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!
apn settings would not stop registration.. maybe the phone was a black listed imei that went to europe and you bought it and are trying to use it here.
what is the model number.
AlcatrazT2 said:
Hello folks,
A while back, I managed to get AT&T to block network data on my mobile line.
Shortly thereafter, I purchased an unlocked HTC Touch in Europe and experienced no problems receiving/making calls in the U.S. Inserting my AT&T SIM was plug-and-play, for lack of better words.
During a recent trip to Europe, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S4. After inserting my AT&T SIM, I can not receive/make any calls.
I have bars, get a Voice Mail notification, as well as a 'Not registered to network' message. I am also unable to register to the AT&T networks the phone searches and finds...
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!
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you got screwed dude. the phone has bad esn and they blocked the phone already. sorry to hear
Isn't this the "region Locking" that Samsung has been getting flack for lately? If you buy a phone in EU, you have to register it in EU with an EU SIM (Any EU SIM if it an unlocked phone) initially. After that, I think you can then use ATT SIM if the phone is unlocked. It doesn't always work though and people are mad
I am assuming you bought an unlocked phone in EU
Google "SAMSUNG Region lock"
Could be the radio IC blown. That's what happened to my phone, which has a perfectly-fine IMEI (not blacklisted).
See this thread. I'm about to get my phone back from the factory today.
Had my Verizon Galaxy note 3 running on the T Mobile network flawlessly until one day a week ago I woke up with no network connection. Upon contacting T Mobile I was told that the IMEI had been reported stolen so it was blocked. I contacted Verizon and they confirmed that this has (inadvertently) happened and the IMEI had been blocked. They unblocked the IMEI for me and I was able to later confirm through several online sources that the IMEI was no longer showing stolen. HOWEVER!!! My note 3 will no longer work on the T Mobile network and they are telling me that the phone is now locked...
I purchased a brand new sim card and had it activated on my line through T Mobile, still nothing. I have put a Verizon SIM from my sisters Verizon account into my phone and it immediately has 4G LTE..
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT VERIZON HAS CARRIER LOCKED MY NOTE 3????? CAN THEY DO THIS? IF SO HOW DO I UNLOCK IT SINCE NO ONE HAS CODES FOR CDMA PHONES (ESPECIALLY VICIOUS VERIZON)???
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME, I HAVE NOT HAD MY PHONE ON THE NETWORK FOR A WEEK NOW AND I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING. VERIZON IS TELLING ME THE PHONE IS NO LONGER BLOCKED.
tmtriana88 said:
Had my Verizon Galaxy note 3 running on the T Mobile network flawlessly until one day a week ago I woke up with no network connection. Upon contacting T Mobile I was told that the IMEI had been reported stolen so it was blocked. I contacted Verizon and they confirmed that this has (inadvertently) happened and the IMEI had been blocked. They unblocked the IMEI for me and I was able to later confirm through several online sources that the IMEI was no longer showing stolen. HOWEVER!!! My note 3 will no longer work on the T Mobile network and they are telling me that the phone is now locked...
I purchased a brand new sim card and had it activated on my line through T Mobile, still nothing. I have put a Verizon SIM from my sisters Verizon account into my phone and it immediately has 4G LTE..
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT VERIZON HAS CARRIER LOCKED MY NOTE 3????? CAN THEY DO THIS? IF SO HOW DO I UNLOCK IT SINCE NO ONE HAS CODES FOR CDMA PHONES (ESPECIALLY VICIOUS VERIZON)???
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME, I HAVE NOT HAD MY PHONE ON THE NETWORK FOR A WEEK NOW AND I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING. VERIZON IS TELLING ME THE PHONE IS NO LONGER BLOCKED.
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You can contact with you service provider . or you can resolve this issue if you contact with any cell pone hardware dealer.
Verizon will not replace your note 3 unless you are a Verizon customer. You would have more luck if you called while the phone was activated to your sisters account and asked for a replacement. It would most likely be a CLN device, but it will work on TMobile
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I just bought a factory unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, it has the dual sim slots and is the SM-G9350 model. Now, the person who sold it to me said it works on Verizon, and everywhere I search it says it should be compatible. But when I put my Verizon SIM card in, which is already activated, it isn't saying I have service. It recognizes there is a SIM and that it is Verizon, but it says like cellular network unavailable. Am I doing something wrong? I've never bought a factory unlocked phone, I know nothing about it, like where is it from? How does it work? It doesn't even have samsung keyboard or anything. Please help!!!
Did you search the IMEI to see if the phone is lost/stolen? I bought a S7 Edge and the same thing happened to me... I called the network (Telus) and they informed me that it was a reported phone so I can't use it. Kicker is that they can't even contact the original owner! So I had to root it and installed Xposed, now I'm stuck on how to unlock the network or change the IMEI
Thesweets918 said:
Did you search the IMEI to see if the phone is lost/stolen? I bought a S7 Edge and the same thing happened to me... I called the network (Telus) and they informed me that it was a reported phone so I can't use it. Kicker is that they can't even contact the original owner! So I had to root it and installed Xposed, now I'm stuck on how to unlock the network or change the IMEI
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I did, the imei isn't coming up anywhere because the phone is from Hong Kong or something. But the seller had it activated with tracfone.
OK, so I bought a Samsung Galaxy S5 from an friend of mine, and found out that it was from a different carrier than my phone before this one, (which I still have and could use if this can't be fixed) the S5 is from AT&T, and I usuall do Virgin Mobile. I know that when I put in my old SIM card it will ask me for a SIM key, which I do not have. My question is, is there a way to get the SIM key, or do I have to have access to my friend's AT&T account in order to get it? People say I have to call my carrier to get the key, but I'm not sure if that is how it works. Thank you in advance.
OK sounds good. But I heard that you can contact the network it came from to get it, or is it the network your SIM card is from? If it's the company the phone came from, then it would be AT&T, and would I need to have my friend's at&t account in order to get the Network Code? If that's the case, then I'll just have to use the website you gave.
So I just bought a Galaxy S7 Edge from a guy on Craigslist and already got rid of my other phone. It keeps saying that I need a Network Unlock Code. I have called Verizon (the carrier I'm trying to use it on) and T-Mobile (The carrier it used to be on) and they both keep telling me that I need to call the other carrier in order to get it and neither can help me. T-Mobile even told me to download a SIM unlock app and by the end of it it was trying to charge me $40 to send me an unlock code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Search unlock code for s7edge in Google you will get a ton of sites that sell the code. You can get one for as low as 15 bucks and it should work as it did for mine on Canada's Bell network.