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Just lost my phone in taxi I'm rooted also have face unlock and pattern unlock secondary. Is there anything I can do to assure the finder can't use it. Or can I track it. I'm on monthly 4g so no insurance!
That sucks man. As for gps locating your phone I believe that's offered by your insurance, or if you had any type of Norton, kaspersky, trend micro etc security on it. They offer stuff like that. Otherwise you might be SOL. As for them getting in I don't know. Maybe someone else can shed some light on that answer.
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Go to the play store from your computer and download "plan b" it will be pushed to your phone and allows you to track it.
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A buddy of mine used "Lost Phone" app from Play store
I hate how easy it is for someone to look up how to wipe a phone and easily bypass all security. Usually when someone finds a phone, that person doesn't want to know your stuff.
Where's my Droid can also be pushed, and then you can get it's location
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did u ever set up Lookout on you phone? it comes w/it.. if you maybe randomly did one day, you can find it with that
2nd to the Plan B. That works amazingly. Also, check if you have a cab receipt. You might be able to use that to identify which cab specifically had the phone. You can call into their dispatch office and ask for that cab. Lookout is awesome too.
I called the cab said he saw no phone. Another passanger could have gotten it. I'm not even going to bother now what's done is done. Thanks to you and everyone for your help. I wanted a new phone anyway maybe my wife will get me one for fathers day. I'll wait and probably get a note or galaxy nexus I'm sticking with Samsung I have a windows and a iPhone at home but don't feel like it I can't go backwards .
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diamantericos said:
I called the cab said he saw no phone. Another passanger could have gotten it. I'm not even going to bother now what's done is done. Thanks to you and everyone for your help. I wanted a new phone anyway maybe my wife will get me one for fathers day. I'll wait and probably get a note or galaxy nexus I'm sticking with Samsung I have a windows and a iPhone at home but don't feel like it I can't go backwards .
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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I find that the GS3 is not much of a significant upgrade from the GSII. I would much more suggest a Galaxy Nexus since it will still be relevant for many more months to come. The GN comes with pure stock ICS not that TW crap. The GN is almost certain to receive jellybean directly from Google pretty quick while the S3 will have to suffer through what the SII just went through from GB to ICS
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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I thought about that but I'd be paying full price I have monthly no contract. And since the the note is dual core as well as the s3 I rather the larger screen
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I find that the GS3 is not much of a significant upgrade from the GSII. I would much more suggest a Galaxy Nexus since it will still be relevant for many more months to come. The GN comes with pure stock ICS not that TW crap. The GN is almost certain to receive jellybean directly from Google pretty quick while the S3 will have to suffer through what the SII just went through from GB to ICS
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I get what your saying also I hate that stupid button on the s3
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diamantericos said:
I get what your saying also I hate that stupid button on the s3
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Should've went with nexus style all screen.that was kind of the point of ics
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I would recommend setting up a pin lock on your next device, that way whenever the phone is restarted it prompts you for the pin. It doesn't matter if it's been wiped or not, it registers with your carrier. Also, as added security, I use Avast and from there I can remotely wipe my sd card and the phone, thus removing any chance of someone getting any of my personal info.
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new ion? said:
Should've went with nexus style all screen.that was kind of the point of ics
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I totally agree don't know why these manufacturers still making new ics devices with buttons. Besides the nexus the only other device I see with on screen is a new Motorola phone coming out.
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civicvx94 said:
I would recommend setting up a pin lock on your next device, that way whenever the phone is restarted it prompts you for the pin. It doesn't matter if it's been wiped or not, it registers with your carrier. Also, as added security, I use Avast and from there I can remotely wipe my sd card and the phone, thus removing any chance of someone getting any of my personal info.
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I will definitely do that especially for the SD wipe part I was more worried about that . I changed all my passwords starting with Google account and Facebook
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Oh and you should leave your gps enable all the time because i realize that all those apps does not have the capability to turn it on.
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Oh and you should leave your gps enable all the time because i realize that all those apps does not have the capability to turn it on.
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I do I just haven't install any of those apps but I'll with new phone
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Well my lovely wife surprised me when I got home early fathers day gift $400 for what ever phone I want now just to choose note or galaxy nexus. I'm getting the note now second choice eBay or Amazon I've never used eBay but got some good prices. PS hey if I loose the note I'm an ass that phablet too big to loose lol. But will definately secure it
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I've tried all day to get wimax connected to my epic 4g touch but no luck. Can anyone pm me a doner Mac id? I'm asking if its OK to ask, don't wanna get banned lol. But .3mbps? Rly? Thank u guys
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Why would someone want to give you their wimax Mac? Having a different Mac address isn't going to get you better reception.
Can someone tell me why I don't have option to set the Mac?
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Lol why would anyone give you their Mac address. If you want one that bad just go to best buy or a sprint kiosk at the mall and copy one of those Mac addresses.
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Because your MAC id is from the hardware. It's not a software setting. There is a specific software for editing things like that. You will not be able to change from within the phone.
And as others have stated, you cannot get better reception by changing this. This is just an identifying piece of information. The only reason you would need to change this, is to illegally acquire service. And, yes this is not a topic for this forum.
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And, yes this is not a topic for this forum.
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Bingo.
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Question, if I wanted to make a dinc2 connect to boost mobile, wouldn't that just be a switch of the apn info? Where as it would be connecting to Sprint towers instead of the Verizon ones?
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Question, if I wanted to make a dinc2 connect to boost mobile, wouldn't that just be a switch of the apn info? Where as it would be connecting to Sprint towers instead of the Verizon ones?
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If you mean that you want to have service with Boost they would have to add your ESN to their systems and they don't do that to my knowledge. I know Sprint won't do it.
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You would actually have to flash your phone to boost mobile. If you browse craigslist there are a lot of people who would do it for a reasonable price. Or you could try yourself.
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May not be that difficult.. I used to play around with a Moto Droid X and the only way to root the latest OTA was to flash a file that turned it into another phone and on TMobile... I don't have them in my area for service but while on the TMobile Rom I tried *228 and it connected to their activation service and not Verizon... Was weird. I belive, at least in my area Boost uses Sprint towers so... Should be easy if you can find the right software/tools to do it... Good luck!!
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May not be that difficult.. I used to play around with a Moto Droid X and the only way to root the latest OTA was to flash a file that turned it into another phone and on TMobile... I don't have them in my area for service but while on the TMobile Rom I tried *228 and it connected to their activation service and not Verizon... Was weird. I belive, at least in my area Boost uses Sprint towers so... Should be easy if you can find the right software/tools to do it... Good luck!!
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Um.... *228 doesn't work on Tmo for activation.... best case it will take you to a CSR. For most people it just tells them to call 611. Are you sure you're remembering that right?
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cstone1991 said:
Um.... *228 doesn't work on Tmo for activation.... best case it will take you to a CSR. For most people it just tells them to call 611. Are you sure you're remembering that right?
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Yeah.. did it 3 days ago.. It may not have said ACTIVATION but it was a TMobile woman and I freaked out and hung up when I dialed it..
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Yeah.. did it 3 days ago.. It may not have said ACTIVATION but it was a TMobile woman and I freaked out and hung up when I dialed it..
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Oh ok. It was just general care then. I thought you were saying there was an automated system like there is with VZW.
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Yeah the tools are available its just been challenging getting the proper drivers needed and installed, I for the life of me can not remember how to manually install drivers on windows.
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8on3s said:
Yeah the tools are available its just been challenging getting the proper drivers needed and installed, I for the life of me can not remember how to manually install drivers on windows.
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Put ubuntu on a thumb drive, boot it, rejoice, linux needs nary a driver...
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jeremytn86 said:
Put ubuntu on a thumb drive, boot it, rejoice, linux needs nary a driver...
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I suppose I could go that rout as well but I have not seen any linux natives for the programs used in windows, do you have any good alternatives? I'm hoping our little project will be ready to go by Monday
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I suppose I could go that rout as well but I have not seen any linux natives for the programs used in windows, do you have any good alternatives? I'm hoping our little project will be ready to go by Monday
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What tools are you talking about? If your just needing to push stuff to the phone you could prepare the packages in windows on the program(s) then push them in linux, I really don't know exactly what your speaking of though could you be more specific?
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jeremytn86 said:
What tools are you talking about? If your just needing to push stuff to the phone you could prepare the packages in windows on the program(s) then push them in linux, I really don't know exactly what your speaking of though could you be more specific?
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Qpst, cdma tool, and I'm forgetting the others... If I /can/ just make a flashable with them it would be fine but the first hurdle to get over is drivers. I think if I have understood the programs correctly they need to directly interact with the phone.
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OK, while most people probably won't look at this I figured I'd link it anyhow.
Free Galaxy Nexus (Obviously with conditions)
Yeah i got this email, it doesnt work with a contract extension eh, or does it?
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Febby said:
Yeah i got this email, it doesnt work with a contract extension eh, or does it?
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If you call retentions, more than likely they'll take care of you. If you're out of contract retentions entire job is to keep you from leaving. The way they could handle this situation is more or less set it up in the system as if you were going to cancel, but locked into another contract... more or less, as if you had cancelled, then signed up as a new customer. In fact, that might be how they'd do it.
Give them a call and try.
Here's a direct, ZERO wait time Sprint retentions hotline number: 866-881-9571
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OK, while most people probably won't look at this I figured I'd link it anyhow.
Free Galaxy Nexus (Obviously with conditions)
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thanks just ordered mine and gonna go pick it up in 2 hours
I really would wait if I were you, signs of this means a new Nexus phone is in the making by Google. Which I would buy because GS2 has been a mess with ICS, and I am secured updates with a Nexus device!
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cob11341 said:
I really would wait if I were you, signs of this means a new Nexus phone is in the making by Google. Which I would buy because GS2 has been a mess with ICS, and I am secured updates with a Nexus device!
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Yeha I was about to do as he suggested but I figured.. i might as well wait for new inventory to come :x
Damn. I'm almost considering adding a new line to get it. Not eligible for upgrade so that's my only option. But still. May end up doing it
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cob11341 said:
I really would wait if I were you, signs of this means a new Nexus phone is in the making by Google. Which I would buy because GS2 has been a mess with ICS, and I am secured updates with a Nexus device!
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Rethink that. Sprints version of the galaxy nexus is not supported by Google. The sprint version is code named the toroplus, look it up. Good development community though
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I'm not sure that device is any better than what we have now, in fact it might be worse.
I know ICS runs better on it. Smoother In my opinion. My wife has one. I talked to Samsung this morning and according to them Sprint is hustling Epic owners about a bug fix update. The Samsung Supervisor even said it was never recommended that Sprint push the update. She said no update is in the works for this model. The funny thing about it is Samsung says there call lines are flooded with Epic owners having issues and Sprint tells me there are not any problems and I need to take out insurance. That will be a cold day in Hell!
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Wizard Knight said:
Rethink that. Sprints version of the galaxy nexus is not supported by Google. The sprint version is code named the toroplus, look it up. Good development community though
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Where did you exactly find that info?everything I saw was that the nexus was called "toroplus"as in the model name.everything I read is that it is Google powered and there roms for it..please lead me to the direction you saw what you did.
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Samsung_Galaxy_Nexus_(toroplus)
This is what I found.
Its not free. 60 bucks taxes lol
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habitformer said:
Where did you exactly find that info?everything I saw was that the nexus was called "toroplus"as in the model name.everything I read is that it is Google powered and there roms for it..please lead me to the direction you saw what you did.
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Samsung_Galaxy_Nexus_(toroplus)
This is what I found.
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Read in the galaxy nexus forums, most people say don't get the sprint or verizon versions as they don't get their updates like the ones purchased through google play.Still good phones etc, just not the same google experience.
woody296 said:
Read in the galaxy nexus forums, most people say don't get the sprint or verizon versions as they don't get their updates like the ones purchased through google play.Still good phones etc, just not the same google experience.
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Its still has stock android and the most stable aosp ROMs of any device.
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T.C.P said:
Its not free. 60 bucks taxes lol
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Modified the title since this apparently got more interest than originally expected.
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Modified the title since this apparently got more interest than originally expected.
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And you thought you went unnoticed..
(And we added one for the kid. Well, that's what i told the lil lady )
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Dam I am close to an upgrade on one of my lines would love to pick one up somehow lol
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bryce850 said:
Dam I am close to an upgrade on one of my lines would love to pick one up somehow lol
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Wait till a new Nexus phone comes out, it is a good idea to wait a few months...
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blackhand1001 said:
Its still has stock android and the most stable aosp ROMs of any device.
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Are you on verizon or sprint?
Hey guys i had one sprint nexus i never seen like this phone so f*** crupy does not have good network, radio, worset battery,
I sold on ebay anf boughy sgs2 best phone so far i got. Please i recommend for people stop buying this phone. I don't know verizon nexus sprint hell no.
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My wife lost her phone about a month ago and got a new one through insurence.while we wer moving we found her old note 2.i started using it and tmobile locked the phone.ive rooted it and romed it and cant seem to get it unlocked.i took a shoot at getting one of the unlock codes from a web site but it was a scam just like i thought it would be.what do i need to do to get it unlocked.ive also tried by inputing the *#---------- but from what ive seen everbody has a 4th option and i cant ever get it to come up.any thoughts on how to get this done
I think u have to downgrade to another version...but thats all I know...
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will not for T-Mobile again unless they unblock it u can unlock it for another GSM. Carrier but will not work for T-Mobile not matter what as it is THE IMEI WHICH IS BLOCKED NOT YOUR PHONE BEING LOCKED.
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Both are correct. Downgrade then unlock then get aprepaid company
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Both are correct. Downgrade then unlock then get aprepaid company
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Won't work if it's blacklisted. All gsm carriers in the u.s share blacklists now.
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GN2Rabbit said:
Won't work if it's blacklisted. All gsm carriers in the u.s share blacklists now.
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Can you link this. My understanding is att and t mobile will be with others soon. I see people all the time do this
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kintwofan said:
Can you link this. My understanding is att and t mobile will be with others soon. I see people all the time do this
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http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/2220
Here is the member list. Also these blacklists will soon apply to resellers. I had a rep from at&t and t-mobile confirm that.
http://www.ctia.org/membership/ctia_members/
Soon blacklisted phones will be paperweights.
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my suggestion is to change the imei its illegal but **** it you having a beast device
if anything message me i cant talk about that in thread
GN2Rabbit said:
http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/2220
Here is the member list. Also these blacklists will soon apply to resellers. I had a rep from at&t and t-mobile confirm that.
http://www.ctia.org/membership/ctia_members/
Soon blacklisted phones will be paperweights.
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This confirms exactly what I was saying. I know is coming, but it's not here yet. So for the time being the op can use the phone on prepay. For how long who knows.
To the guy above me. Please delete your comment. You can't discuss our recommend illegal activity on xda. That kind of thing can get xda in trouble and get this thread locked quickly.
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This confirms exactly what I was saying. I know is coming, but it's not here yet. So for the time being the op can use the phone on prepay. For how long who knows.
To the guy above me. Please delete your comment. You can't discuss our recommend illegal activity on xda. That kind of thing can get xda in trouble and get this thread locked quickly.
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+1
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+1
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Deeznutz you're every where my man
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Deeznutz you're every where my man
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And you kind sir
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This confirms exactly what I was saying. I know is coming, but it's not here yet. So for the time being the op can use the phone on prepay. For how long who knows.
To the guy above me. Please delete your comment. You can't discuss our recommend illegal activity on xda. That kind of thing can get xda in trouble and get this thread locked quickly.
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I called simplemobile and they said that soon they'll be checking phones against the black list. They'll do it on activation of service. They'll be doing it within 6 months. So enjoy it while it lasts.
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I called simplemobile and they said that soon they'll be checking phones against the black list. They'll do it on activation of service. They'll be doing it within 6 months. So enjoy it while it lasts.
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Sure....I called too and they said as compensation if your phone ends up blocked they'll give you a new note 4 in place of it.
By the way my point still stands, for this minute he can use it on prepaid. Oh and based on what you just said
"They'll do it on activation of service."
If is activated now he'll be good when they make the switch. I'm not sure where you're trying to go with the besides start a fight you're losing and looking stupid doing at the same time.
And for the record I have at mobile account with an active note I was just trying to help the OP my start a fight not sure why you even jumped in
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Sure....I called too and they said as compensation if your phone ends up blocked they'll give you a new note 4 in place of it.
By the way my point still stands, for this minute he can use it on prepaid. Oh and based on what you just said
"They'll do it on activation of service."
If is activated now he'll be good when they make the switch. I'm not sure where you're trying to go with the besides start a fight you're losing and looking stupid doing at the same time.
And for the record I have at mobile account with an active note I was just trying to help the OP my start a fight not sure why you even jumped in
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Don't know. But it won't be an option for long. That is why I chimed in. We all knew it wouldn't last. For now yes it'll work. But after they enforce the black list who knows.
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