Does anyone know of a good place to buy this phone unlocked? I'd heard people talking about newegg before, but they seem to have the at&t version and i'd rather do without the little carrier tattoo under the earpiece.
I did on negrielectronics.com
they rock.
Fast international shipping, very efficient customer service, good price.
The bad side is that they are not largely stocked with captivate glide. I had to check their site twice a day for 2 months before i could order one. If you found one, i would suggest you not to hesitate.
Edit: I saw mostly AT&T devices. Rogers ones were mostly refurbished but you can find brand new ones as well. Just be aware that their stock is limited.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875176361 clearly shows a Glide without AT&T branding. The box in the pic even says "Galaxy S Glide" which is the Rogers name for the phone. You could email Newegg and ask.
Any particular reason you want the Rogers version? The radios are identical.
Maybe because he wants a few features the att version removes
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Maybe because he wants a few features the att version removes
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Hardware features? Like?
The rogers one can toggle data without root or custom roms, and it has no carrier branding. It also has no carrier bloatware.
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The rogers one can toggle data without root or custom roms, and it has no carrier branding. It also has no carrier bloatware.
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Not totally true. It has a boot animation, though agreed not the logo printed on the phone like at&t. Also it has a lot of bloat and I mean a lot.
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Does this phone run well enough to be a daily driver on tmo with 4g while on the road even more doesit work with Att 4g lte? How do I knitter I'm getting the compatible one for my carrier which is TMobile right now, and roll be Att in the future. Where can I also get the best warranty and overall price with product quality guarantee? Is it necessary to get the western Europe version with yakja and will the be a quality difference in other versions from school the other regions?
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I bought my Gnex from Expansys-usaafter reading that it was a pretty reliable place to get the yakju version. I also bought a Square Trade warranty for about $70 that includes accidental damage protection as well, just in case. I've had the phone for a couple of weeks now on T-mobile and it works perfect I travel with it daily and have yet to have a signal issue or anything like that.
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Does this phone run well enough to be a daily driver on tmo with 4g while on the road even more doesit work with Att 4g lte? How do I knitter I'm getting the compatible one for my carrier which is TMobile right now, and roll be Att in the future. Where can I also get the best warranty and overall price with product quality guarantee? Is it necessary to get the western Europe version with yakja and will the be a quality difference in other versions from school the other regions?
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Does this phone run well enough to be a daily driver on tmo with 4g while on the road
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The gsm version (aka not he verizon versions) will work as well as any phone. E.g. the bottlekneck will be the network, not the phone.
even more doesit work with Att 4g lte?
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No.
How do I knitter I'm getting the compatible one for my carrier which is TMobile right now, and roll be Att in the future.
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The gsm versions will work with both (but not att lte). The CDMA versions will ONLY work with verizon.
The need to make a superman phone
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Is the stock version software smoother than CM9?
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Hey I'm sorry, th banks for all the info and concern it is really helpful I appreciate the concern. Anybody know if the g nez is worth buying if it's going for 450 on new egg and Amazon? And will I be feeling different if I get a sakju alternative like from Japan or anything different from other parts of the world in Asia or East Europe which aren't directly supported from Google and end up changing out the radios and the firmware. Will the be a lead to a loss or success?
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I think its a damn steal for $450 and I'd jump on it in a second. To me this is the best phone on the market going for such a cheap price.
Are all the gnez the same with hardware specs?
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Let's say I get a different variation of sakju I should be able to turn my phone into sakju and get it working with Google like it too right?
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So what is the negative difference from the Amazon version and the yakju version, and would it matter if going to root and install custom roms?
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From what I understand yakju just means it has yakju radio and firmware for ota updates from Google, what I think is when you buy a gnez that you can mode it into yakju with flashes of radio and firmware. Just a thought.
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Is this possible because I am looking to get it on newegg and the version is a rodgers version. If it is, please tell me how.
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Is this possible because I am looking to get it on newegg and the version is a rodgers version. If it is, please tell me how.
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Well it is possible but if your on at&t you will have to unlock the phone to be able to use it on at&t
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Is this possible because I am looking to get it on newegg and the version is a rodgers version. If it is, please tell me how.
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yes. At&t and rogers use all the same wireless frequencies (afaik) so as long as you unlock, you'll be good. I've had issues before though with GPS on phones from not my carrier. My old Milestone kept trying to reach telus servers for gps info. However, I was able to mitigate that by changing some files in the root folders. However I don't think that will be an issue with this phone - I'm currently using an at&t rom on my rogers phone and everything is super.
For me sometimes the onscreen keyboard doesn't show up when I need to type up something but it occurs to me when I slide open the actual physical keyboard and close it
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Ok sweet. Thanks for the info guys.
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yea just saw the phone in newegg.ca for 250 CAD + 10 CAD shipping. its a good deal. try to convince my cousin to buy this for me.
Im sure some one else is running this on our phone.I flashed it and has given me pretty good batery life. jb stock roms we have are great but I had to try this.apn was a bit difficult to set after that all good
Ummm...... what?
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Wait what ?
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So just curious u were able to flash a Verizon rom on your tmobile s3. Didn't have to change anything besides the apn?
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That's what it appears he is saying.
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Wouldn't be too surprising really. Aside from slightly different radios, aren't all the US variants (canadian too) virtually identical hardware-wise? It would stand to reason that they would carry the same partition layouts as well.
Though I wouldn't go flashing away without verification of that!
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My thoughts at least, I flashed a few at&t roms with no issues besides build.prop stuff. I'm with you on not flashing things though lol.
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Yes the baseband stayd the same .I was pretty excited been using it for a week.battery life is good screen is on top of the list then system.so far beside using hiapn for apn settings it has been really stable one or two reeboots that I can remember from restoring youtube a delete and market install fixed that.
How did you bypass the verizon network verification?or did it not say registering on the verizon network? I have flashed many Att, Sprint, and verizon roms, but most(if not all) of the verizon roms have a built in verifyer for their specific network.
hey everyone i'm new to this so please bare with me..I have a T-Mobile Samsung galaxy s3 and I got the unlock code off eBay for a pretty cheap price, so far it looks liked it accepted it . I wanted to switch over to net10 or simple mobile. I heard about if not paying my T-Mobile bill they will block the imei number. If so will I be able to use it at all on those carriers I stated, or will I just have to use it on H2o or Att.
Also as far as the apn settings is there an application that will help? Thanks in advance
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Just means u cant use the phone back on t-mobile other company's dont care if the phone has bad record I had and s3 before I got the one I have now it could not work with tmobile because the person that sold it to me did not pay bill but u can use it on att simple mobile net 10 any (gsm) cell phone carriers
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OK thanks a lot. Also I did hear that simple mobile is run by T-Mobile so will it work on simple mobile if Imei is blocked?
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Yeah it will work. Simple mobile doesn't even ask for imei. Only if you want to put it there is the option but its not required
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Ok thanks alot for the info
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To be fair, they're going to know your IMEI even if you don't disclose it to them during the sign-up process. Just by using the phone it will send that information out when you communicate with their cell towers - so I'd imagine if T-Mobile shares its block list with Simple Mobile, it won't matter if you disclosed the IMEI at signup - they're going to know it anyway.
That, and the Big Four is actively working with the FCC on a cross-carrier database - so unless that falls through at the 11th hour, that's on the horizon in the next year or so.
Just sayin'.
What do you mean by the big four carriers is working with the fcc in the next year? Please explain, thanks
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it should work on simple mobile
I've used phones blacklisted by T-Mobile on Simple
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I wonder if it would work with Wal-Marts mobile service since it is just rebranded T-mobile...hmm
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it should work on simple mobile
I've used phones blacklisted by T-Mobile on Simple
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Yeah your right. I just called simple mobile and they said even if it is blacklisted for not paying my bill, it will still work because its an unlocked gsm phone so it wouldnt matter, just pop in my sim card and I would just honestly get edge network which is slower than 3g speed.
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It will work if they don't use T-Mobile IMEI blacklist and continue not to do so.
It seems like that's the case, at least for now.
Just saying, it doesn't have anything to do with if the phone being carrier unlocked or not - IMEI is tied to the phone's hardware, not the SIM card.
I went through something similar with T-Mobile, and most of the reps don't know what the block list is let alone how it works.
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It will work if they don't use T-Mobile IMEI blacklist and continue not to do so.
It seems like that's the case, at least for now.
Just saying, it doesn't have anything to do with if the phone being carrier unlocked or not - IMEI is tied to the phone's hardware, not the SIM card.
I went through something similar with T-Mobile, and most of the reps don't know what the block list is let alone how it works.
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Yeah i see that def now.
But wow thats crazy they have this whole imei number blocked thing going around and the workers dont even know whats going on smh. Im so confused as to how this works. Im reading like so many diff things about it.
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I wonder if it would work with Wal-Marts mobile service since it is just rebranded T-mobile...hmm
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Walmart Family Mobile use T-Mobile IMEI blacklist. I had customers that tried to used blacklisted phones on Walmart Family Mobile and they did not work.
Hey guys,
I got scammed on craigslist and the guy won't respond. So I bought a T-mobile Galaxy S3 and it worked fine for over a week until 2 days ago when it stopped connecting or registering to the T-mobile network. I found out from T-mobile it was blacklisted as stolen/lost that day. I called to confirm the phone wasn't stolen or lost when I bought it. The T-mobile store says there is nothing they can do except offer me a new phone from the store to pay full price.
Can I unlock a phone marked as stolen/lost using an unlock code and use it on AT&T?
I tried searching the forum and I found a thread about a guy who already had the phone unlocked so he was able to use it on AT&T but in my case, the phone is not unlocked yet but is blocked from T-mobile networks.
Thanks in advance,
Buzz
Well if you unlock it before the whole illegal thing starts you can use it on AT&T.
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Well if you unlock it before the whole illegal thing starts you can use it on AT&T.
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What illegal thing?
I just found out about that today?
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buzzking00 said:
Hey guys,
I got scammed on craigslist and the guy won't respond. So I bought a T-mobile Galaxy S3 and it worked fine for over a week until 2 days ago when it stopped connecting or registering to the T-mobile network. I found out from T-mobile it was blacklisted as stolen/lost that day. I called to confirm the phone wasn't stolen or lost when I bought it. The T-mobile store says there is nothing they can do except offer me a new phone from the store to pay full price.
Can I unlock a phone marked as stolen/lost using an unlock code and use it on AT&T?
I tried searching the forum and I found a thread about a guy who already had the phone unlocked so he was able to use it on AT&T but in my case, the phone is not unlocked yet but is blocked from T-mobile networks.
Thanks in advance,
Buzz
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cellunlocker.net blaclist
Check it out
http://androidheadlines.com/2013/01...ell-phone-sign-this-white-house-petition.html
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If I unlock my T-mobile phone, can I keep the T-mobile stock rom or do I need to flash it with the AT&T stock rom?
If you are on stock, why dont you just dial *#197328640# to go to phone control menu, then network lock and turn off the network lock. If you do a google search for unlock galaxy s3 xda forum u ll see it.
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DON'T EVER FLASH AN AT&T ROM even if you switch carriers you will brick you phone, only flash rooms from these forums
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52me52 said:
DON'T EVER FLASH AN AT&T ROM even if you switch carriers you will brick you phone, only flash rooms from these forums
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No. You can flash at&t roms on the T-Mobile s3. Many including my self have done it many times. Same hardware.
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That's what I told another person before and they bricked
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No. You can flash at&t roms on the T-Mobile s3. Many including my self have done it many times. Same hardware.
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1111+ Thats correct I have tried every rom out there from att and it worked on my tmobile s3. Now for the op. looks for the thread on general there is one that shows you how to unlock your phone without a code. It was meant to be for the note2 but it worked on all us s3's I have mine unlock that way put in my friends att sim and it worked fine only thing that the speed its a little slower not 2G though. And thats because att's 4g its 20ish not 42.
Any ways. If you were called tmobile and talk to a superviser they can change the IMEI number on their system and the phone would come back to work in 48 hours.
I know because It have happened to me too. It doesnt matter if you have your tmobile sim on it for at least a day tmobile computers will register that phone onto your network.
P.S the only thing that will changed from a ATT rom is that build.prop It will show that its an att rom but you can edit it to d2tmo with root explorer
Just don't flash other modems from other carriers that will Brick you.
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buzzking00 said:
Hey guys,
I got scammed on craigslist and the guy won't respond. So I bought a T-mobile Galaxy S3 and it worked fine for over a week until 2 days ago when it stopped connecting or registering to the T-mobile network. I found out from T-mobile it was blacklisted as stolen/lost that day. I called to confirm the phone wasn't stolen or lost when I bought it. The T-mobile store says there is nothing they can do except offer me a new phone from the store to pay full price.
Can I unlock a phone marked as stolen/lost using an unlock code and use it on AT&T?
I tried searching the forum and I found a thread about a guy who already had the phone unlocked so he was able to use it on AT&T but in my case, the phone is not unlocked yet but is blocked from T-mobile networks.
Thanks in advance,
Buzz
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Search in Google how to change/fake the imei on android
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Or you could be like screw t and unlock it after.. They are not going to fly enforce it
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1111+ Thats correct I have tried every rom out there from att and it worked on my tmobile s3. Now for the op. looks for the thread on general there is one that shows you how to unlock your phone without a code. It was meant to be for the note2 but it worked on all us s3's I have mine unlock that way put in my friends att sim and it worked fine only thing that the speed its a little slower not 2G though. And thats because att's 4g its 20ish not 42.
Any ways. If you were called tmobile and talk to a superviser they can change the IMEI number on their system and the phone would come back to work in 48 hours.
I know because It have happened to me too. It doesnt matter if you have your tmobile sim on it for at least a day tmobile computers will register that phone onto your network.
P.S the only thing that will changed from a ATT rom is that build.prop It will show that its an att rom but you can edit it to d2tmo with root explorer
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Why would t-mobile change the meid if its black listed
FYI... Tmobile and att share blacklists... if its blacklisted on Tmobile it won't work on att either
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FYI... Tmobile and att share blacklists... if its blacklisted on Tmobile it won't work on att either
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Not true
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Not true
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http://www.droiddog.com/android-blo...ei-information-for-stolen-cellphone-database/
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http://www.droiddog.com/android-blo...ei-information-for-stolen-cellphone-database/
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i have a note 3 from atyt and is blacklisted i want to use it with tmobile but i wanna be sure if it will work some one have tried ?