Hey guys. Just a couple quick questions. I have the Optimus G Pro E-980 and I have it on the Straight Talk network. And my carrier name says "home" instead of "AT&T". I was wondering how I can get it to say AT&T instead of home. I just got my wife the Optimus G also on the ST network and her carrier says AT&T, not Home. Is this something with the phone itself or is it how ST provisions the sim card? If it is how the card is provisioned, can I have ST make it say AT&T? Both phones are AT&T branded.
I know most people would change their carrier name to something other than AT&T but to be honest, I would prefer that over it saying home. It just seems so Generic to say that....lol. By the way, this phone is not rooted or anything. I would like to root but I took the 10p update and don't feel like flashing it back and starting all over just to root it. I'll wait for a root method for the 10p. Thanks guys.
It looks like this just isn't possible. At least for this phone on the Straight Talk network anyway. I have tried everything. I tried using an xml editor, exposed, manual edits to the build.prop.....No go. I got it somehow to flash for a second with a different carrier name but it always went right back to "HOME". So unless someone else can figure this out I and other in my similar situation are stuck with this generic branding. We could always flash another Rom. But in my case, I kinda like the stock Rom.
EDIT: I talked to 3 different people at Straight Talk and they are what everyone says they are. More useless than tits on a bull!..They are telling me they cannot send me a new card even though I proved it's the sim card. I put my card in my wifes phone, you know, the one that does say AT&T? and her phone also said "HOME" with my sim card in it. So that clearly shows it's something in the sim card itself. But according to those morons my phone is working so there's nothing they can do about it. ST has pretty good service for the price. But their customer service is completely missing.
Any updates? I've tried GravityBox, G2 Exposed, and G2 Tweaksbox for this without success. The only thing either of those can do is shrink or remove, not change it like we all want...
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To state clearly at first. The new phone in question was not rooted when I purchased it, but I did root it. So the phone is rooted but not unlocked. I thought I should also add that I'm in Atlantic Canada.
As usual, I always seem to have an issue that I look and can never seem to find the answer. This leaves me asking a question that I'm hoping there isn't already an answer to because I know people hate that.
So here goes. I have 2 SGH-989D phones. One I got new 18 months to 24 months ago with my re-negotiated Telus contract. I got the second one "barely used" a couple of months ago and I'm pretty sure it was a Bell pay as you go phone as this is what the person told me. He said all of the phones they get are always Bell. He would have no reason to not be truthful especially since I had a Telus and he knew I would need to unlock it I purchased it because my existing phone was acting up and also the screen was pretty severely cracked.
What I found odd is that when I put the Telus SIM card in the phone, I didn't get any message that the phone was locked. I was immediately able to dial a number and the call went through. I could also send and receive txt's. The phone also says Telus at the bottom of the screen. What is problematic however is that 4g won't work. When go into the new phone under network mode info this appears "GSM/WCDMA(Auto Mode)" But when I look at my original phones network mode I get "GSM/HSPA(Auto Mode)" So, I'm thinking this is probably quite obviously the reason that 4g isn't working and I have no data available unless I connect to wifi. This won't do.
So, where do I go from here? I'm thinking i need to unlock the phone in order to do something about this probably? Or is there something else I can do to pick up the HSPA instead of WCDMA? I'm so irritated by this. It feels like it should be a simple fix since both of these phones are SGH-989d's but maybe it's not. Lastly, and I don't think this makes much of a difference. My old phone is 4.0.3 version and my newer one is 4.1.2.
Thanks and I'm hoping someone knows what or if I can do anything or if I should just give up. I really hate giving up so I'm hoping it's not the latter of the two options.
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To state clearly at first. The new phone in question was not rooted when I purchased it, but I did root it. So the phone is rooted but not unlocked. I thought I should also add that I'm in Atlantic Canada.
As usual, I always seem to have an issue that I look and can never seem to find the answer. This leaves me asking a question that I'm hoping there isn't already an answer to because I know people hate that.
So here goes. I have 2 SGH-989D phones. One I got new 18 months to 24 months ago with my re-negotiated Telus contract. I got the second one "barely used" a couple of months ago and I'm pretty sure it was a Bell pay as you go phone as this is what the person told me. He said all of the phones they get are always Bell. He would have no reason to not be truthful especially since I had a Telus and he knew I would need to unlock it I purchased it because my existing phone was acting up and also the screen was pretty severely cracked.
What I found odd is that when I put the Telus SIM card in the phone, I didn't get any message that the phone was locked. I was immediately able to dial a number and the call went through. I could also send and receive txt's. The phone also says Telus at the bottom of the screen. What is problematic however is that 4g won't work. When go into the new phone under network mode info this appears "GSM/WCDMA(Auto Mode)" But when I look at my original phones network mode I get "GSM/HSPA(Auto Mode)" So, I'm thinking this is probably quite obviously the reason that 4g isn't working and I have no data available unless I connect to wifi. This won't do.
So, where do I go from here? I'm thinking i need to unlock the phone in order to do something about this probably? Or is there something else I can do to pick up the HSPA instead of WCDMA? I'm so irritated by this. It feels like it should be a simple fix since both of these phones are SGH-989d's but maybe it's not. Lastly, and I don't think this makes much of a difference. My old phone is 4.0.3 version and my newer one is 4.1.2.
Thanks and I'm hoping someone knows what or if I can do anything or if I should just give up. I really hate giving up so I'm hoping it's not the latter of the two options.
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The phone is unlocked or you wouldn't of been able to make calls etc with your sim.
My guess as to the problem is that your Bell phone is not a SGH-T989D, it's actually a SGH-i757M or GT-I9100M, they are called Samsung Galaxy S2's but there are a few models of the S2 out there. To verify your model either go to Settings > About phone and check Model number, or pull battery and look under it for the model number. To my knowledge, Bell has never sold the SGH-T989D model of the S2.
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The phone is unlocked or you wouldn't of been able to make calls etc with your sim.
My guess as to the problem is that your Bell phone is not a SGH-T989D, it's actually a SGH-i757M or GT-I9100M, they are called Samsung Galaxy S2's but there are a few models of the S2 out there. To verify your model either go to Settings > About phone and check Model number, or pull battery and look under it for the model number. To my knowledge, Bell has never sold the SGH-T989D model of the S2.
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Thanks for your reply Almite. Unfortunately the phone is the SGH-T989D.. I know it's a weird problem I've got here.
I used to play around with satellites back in the day. One of the things we used to do with the boxes was to jtag the box, erase the memory from the primary chip and then flash it with a different STB's info. This would enable us to do some wonderful things.
Rooting and then unlocking seems like a similar process however I just don't want to flash the phone with something that is going to brick it. I guess I'm going to need to do something. This phone is no good to me this way. If I brick it, I brick it. What I would like from someone in the community would be to direct me to the easiest process to flash my phone with a telus ROM.
I have read A LOT and there are many opinions out there, but I'm thinking that there is probably a consensus on what is the best and easiest way.
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I have successfully installed Jedi Mind Trick using TWRP as it appeared to be the best stable one out there. Used Darksides superwipe and then installed JMT. Still have issue of GSM/HSPA on original phone vs GSM/WCMDA on the phone that now has JMT installed on. I must say, I'm pretty impressed with how easily it installed and the ROM itself however sadly it did not help my conundrum.
I'm thinking that there is probably a developer here up for a challenge that could probably assist me with my problem. I really would like to be able to pick up 4g on this phone, or It's pretty much useless to me. What I need to figure out is how I can change this phone to recognize the HSPA network instead of the WCMDA network as GSM does not appear to be relative to data. Not with Telus anyway it would seem.
Maybe this isn't even possible because it's hard coded into the phone or something. Anyone have any ideas?
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Xmariner said:
I have successfully installed Jedi Mind Trick using TWRP as it appeared to be the best stable one out there. Used Darksides superwipe and then installed JMT. Still have issue of GSM/HSPA on original phone vs GSM/WCMDA on the phone that now has JMT installed on. I must say, I'm pretty impressed with how easily it installed and the ROM itself however sadly it did not help my conundrum.
I'm thinking that there is probably a developer here up for a challenge that could probably assist me with my problem. I really would like to be able to pick up 4g on this phone, or It's pretty much useless to me. What I need to figure out is how I can change this phone to recognize the HSPA network instead of the WCMDA network as GSM does not appear to be relative to data. Not with Telus anyway it would seem.
Maybe this isn't even possible because it's hard coded into the phone or something. Anyone have any ideas?
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Spent almost an hour on phone with Telus tech support. he explained that WCMDA should work fine as that and HSPA are essentially the same thing. Went through several settings changes and edits with him. In the end, he was stumped. The changes we made should have worked but did not. Therefore I supposed I have no choice but to give up. Guess I'll give the phone to my daughter as i don't want her to go online without wifi anyway.
Same issue
My wife recently cracked the screen on her Rugby Pro so I picked up a slightly used Koodo T989D and plugged in the SIM card. I had the same thing happen. Phone booted, made calls, all seemed well. The next day she realized she had no data connection. I rooted the phone, flashed Telus radio, tried different ROMs, even purchased the unlock code for it hoping for a fix. I can't seem to find anything that will allow this phone data connection of any type other than Wi-Fi. I would really appreciate any ideas or information that anyone has on this topic as I'm running out of ideas and buying another replacement isn't an option.
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To state clearly at first. The new phone in question was not rooted when I purchased it, but I did root it. So the phone is rooted but not unlocked. I thought I should also add that I'm in Atlantic Canada.
As usual, I always seem to have an issue that I look and can never seem to find the answer. This leaves me asking a question that I'm hoping there isn't already an answer to because I know people hate that.
So here goes. I have 2 SGH-989D phones. One I got new 18 months to 24 months ago with my re-negotiated Telus contract. I got the second one "barely used" a couple of months ago and I'm pretty sure it was a Bell pay as you go phone as this is what the person told me. He said all of the phones they get are always Bell. He would have no reason to not be truthful especially since I had a Telus and he knew I would need to unlock it I purchased it because my existing phone was acting up and also the screen was pretty severely cracked.
What I found odd is that when I put the Telus SIM card in the phone, I didn't get any message that the phone was locked. I was immediately able to dial a number and the call went through. I could also send and receive txt's. The phone also says Telus at the bottom of the screen. What is problematic however is that 4g won't work. When go into the new phone under network mode info this appears "GSM/WCDMA(Auto Mode)" But when I look at my original phones network mode I get "GSM/HSPA(Auto Mode)" So, I'm thinking this is probably quite obviously the reason that 4g isn't working and I have no data available unless I connect to wifi. This won't do.
So, where do I go from here? I'm thinking i need to unlock the phone in order to do something about this probably? Or is there something else I can do to pick up the HSPA instead of WCDMA? I'm so irritated by this. It feels like it should be a simple fix since both of these phones are SGH-989d's but maybe it's not. Lastly, and I don't think this makes much of a difference. My old phone is 4.0.3 version and my newer one is 4.1.2.
Thanks and I'm hoping someone knows what or if I can do anything or if I should just give up. I really hate giving up so I'm hoping it's not the latter of the two options.
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So I hunted and finally answered this question we both had. Go to Settings:Wireless and Networks:Mobile Networks:Access Point Names.
Since my phone was a Koodo phone it lists Koodo SP. Click the menu button then New APN. Name it whatever you want. I called it Telus. APN is sp.telus.com. Scroll down to MMSC and type http: // aliasredirect. net/proxy/mmsc (without the spaces. They won't let me post a 'link'). Under MMSC proxy type 74.49.0.18. MMS port is 80. MCC is 302. MNC is 220. APN type should be Internet + mms. Click the menu button and save. Click the circle behind your newly created APN and wait. In under 30 seconds I had 4G connection.
Hope this helps you.
Okay, so I found a found at a gas station a couple weeks ago and I wanna get straight talk on it. The package I got, however, didn't have a SIM card that would work with the phone... The ATT ones were too small for the sim slot and it's an ATT locked phone, so the t mobile ones that came with it won't work...
Now, on with the part where I try to unlock the phone. I was originally going to root it but I don't have any experience and heard that it could kill the phone and I just need it unlocked right now. I've looked all around the net and here's what I found.
*#0011# - can't use menu back
*#197328640# - Takes me to the debug menu but the phone control option (in some walkthroughs it's 6, in others it's 8) simply isn't there.
Any number I've entered to get me into the system control menu won't let me go back from the menu it enters me in. I'm not paying 30$ to unlock it via ebay or one of these unlock code sites considering there's got to be a way to unlock it using the system controls. Can anyone help me? I've come close a couple of times on random forums, I see people asking the question however the conversation then gets side tract and moves on to something else.
So, I tried calling att and getting them to give me an unlock code and they said because I don't have a number. I've officially reached a dead end on unlocking the phone. I'm thinking instead I'll root the phone so I can use it (I think that works). But I know that it can be dangerous and come with side effects, so what I'm wondering is if anyone can give me any information on unlocking or rooting.
I'm not sure if I included what I'm trying to do in my original post.
I found a Samsung Galaxy S4 a while ago, I kept it around for a bit and no one came to claim it after two weeks so I took it home and used it on my wireless net and downloaded some games and movies for my daughter. Now, ATT is trying to screw me over on my iphone so I'm cancelling that contract and trying to get straight talk on this this phone. I bought the pack, put in the SIM card that fit and the phone read, and it came up that I need to unlock it to use this one because it was a t-mobile sim card (The att ones in the pack didn't fit).
All I want to do is use this phone with straight talk. The super small SIM cards won't fit in it and the larger Tmobile sim cards are Tmobile on an ATT galaxy and won't work.
Please help.
Try this method, worked for me to unlock. I used method 2. Some are reporting that this doesn't work for them. You will lose sound and WiFi on MDL modem but will fix when you flash back. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2597973
I am getting the update your phone every 4 hours spam message and would like to get rid of it, either by relocking the bootloader and upgrading it OTA. Something else, this phone has dual sim slots and I am stuck with VM because even though the bootloader is unlocked whenever I put another sim card in the phone it gives me "please insert sim card for service" message. I tried putting a ATT sim card in it, I have tried just different ones to see if I could get anything to come in but its not working. VM said that they would not unlock it on their side until October which is the 1 year date. IF there are 2 sim slots, why can't I use the second one for different service?
Basically what I am trying to figure out is how to get rid of the update message since its rooted and unlocked, I read that OTA updates will mess up because of the root. Also, can I use this phone on a different carrier with the second sim slot? We live in a area that just doesnt get good Sprint service and their coverage maps are nothing but lies LOL. I don't care if its just 3G, I really don't mind because I am not downloading that much over the phone anyways. I just browse the 'Net and play Hearthstone (LOVE BTW). I wouldn't mind to update to 5.1 Android , we have it on our Nexus and its awful but I hear its better on newer technologies. I really want to roll that sucker back but that is another post entirely. Any help is appreciated, thought I would ask the pros around here before I went off Google searching...Thanks!!
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I am getting the update your phone every 4 hours spam message and would like to get rid of it, either by relocking the bootloader and upgrading it OTA. Something else, this phone has dual sim slots and I am stuck with VM because even though the bootloader is unlocked whenever I put another sim card in the phone it gives me "please insert sim card for service" message. I tried putting a ATT sim card in it, I have tried just different ones to see if I could get anything to come in but its not working. VM said that they would not unlock it on their side until October which is the 1 year date. IF there are 2 sim slots, why can't I use the second one for different service?
Basically what I am trying to figure out is how to get rid of the update message since its rooted and unlocked, I read that OTA updates will mess up because of the root. Also, can I use this phone on a different carrier with the second sim slot? We live in a area that just doesnt get good Sprint service and their coverage maps are nothing but lies LOL. I don't care if its just 3G, I really don't mind because I am not downloading that much over the phone anyways. I just browse the 'Net and play Hearthstone (LOVE BTW). I wouldn't mind to update to 5.1 Android , we have it on our Nexus and its awful but I hear its better on newer technologies. I really want to roll that sucker back but that is another post entirely. Any help is appreciated, thought I would ask the pros around here before I went off Google searching...Thanks!!
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The virgin mobile version only has one SIM slot plus the internal cdma radio. The second slot has a peice of plastic in it. As for blocking update messages, a while back when I had a Samsung galaxy victory I was able to stop the notifications by editing a file, but I forget Which. Have you tried looking on Google?
Best of luck,
The_Victorian
Ok so the second slot is nothing? I pulled that piece of plastic off of it, I could have swore it was a sim slot. Oh well, you learn something new everyday. I wouldn't mind to update to 5.1 so much. Something else, how would I go about stopping the HTC apps from reinstalling after I uninstall them. Would I have to flash back like when I first unlocked and rooted? I am not sure how to go about doing the command line stuff. I done fine with it when I was unlocking bootloader and so forth but I am just a bit worried that I might brick it. Thanks so much for the information.
Hi I've been looking to xda for quite some time now for advice and help when I get stuck. First wanna say thank you! But I'm a new member so please correct me if I am posting in the wrong place or reposting. I'm aware that this is not a new problem, however, I have read till my eyes are bleeding and can't seem to find a fix. I have an sgh i747 AT&T gs3. I feel that this topic is unique in the fact that I have not rooted, flashed, altered or in any other way attempted to change this device. My fiance got the phone from her mom and I was going to try to use it with a straighttalk byop SIM kit. After activating the proper SIM with st the device would not recognize the SIM. I am now using that SIM in another phone. I get a constant ongoing notification in the notifications bar that says No SIM Insert SIM card. The device status is official and I have (as far as I know) stock ota updated 4.3 jellybean. When I insert a SIM into the device it doesn't prompt me to enter an unlock code. The only other SIM I tried to use is a sprint SIM card out of my freedompop lg volt. Don't know if that's compatible or not but I tried it and still the i747 acts as though it doesn't realize I've inserted a SIM. I called AT&T and emailed them. All I was able to give them was the imei as the phone number in my settings is unknown. The imei under my battery matches the imei in my device settings. They emailed me back within a few hours with my network unlock code and instructions for unlock. I haven't been able to use the code as my phone never prompts for the input of the code... I called them back later (this all happened earlier today) and spoke with a gentleman in tech support. I told him what was going on and asked him some questions. After doing a lot of research I started thinking that maybe my phone was already unlocked. Asked him to run the imei and said that it DID show unlocked on his end. That's one of my questions, if I still have an imei in my settings is this device still locked? The tech from AT&T told me it was probably the phone that was broke and I need a new SIM reader installed, to call Samsung. I tried to slide a little piece of paper in on top of the SIM that didn't work. I tried the dial code *#197328640# method, even though most posts say you must be 4.1.1 there are some who claim that it works on other versions. I tried a couple variations of this to no avail. I'm not sure what I'm overlooking here. If I'm leaving out any info that is needed to answer this post I'd be happy to include it just let me know. I need some fresh eyes on this thing it's driving me crazy I wanna get it fixed. I'm under the impression that I shouldn't attempt to downgrade this android version or I'll brick it... what the hecks goin on with this phone?! And again, sorry if I'm reposting but I can't find anyone who has posted yet that hasn't altered their device software in one way or another. I believe this s3 is completely official at this point. Thanks for any help you can offer
Is an sdcard recognized?
Was the phone ever used with a sim adapter? Sometimes, inserting and removing the sim adapter can damage the sim reader. Cheapest solution may be to purchase a new sim reader from eBay.
Sdcard works fine... and I'm pretty sure it's never been used with a SIM adapter
It's possible the sim reader has failed. Don't think you'll kn for sure until you are change the sim reader.
Yeeeah... I think I'm gonna attempt to change it right now and see what happens. I'll post back with the results. Thanks guys!
Fixed! Replaced sim port with spare one from an s3 sch I535 I had laying in the junk drawer with a broken LCD display. Posting this from my i747 on straight talk 4g. Sweet!
Glad it worked for you.
Yes and thank you again for responding to my post. This s3 is now rooted and titanium backed! Now excited to attempt to flash cyanogen mod later this evening. Thanks again and take care!
So, the main issue is that I need to get it away from Tracfone T-Mobile because their service is terrible in my area. I can't seem to get either a Tracfone AT&T or Tracfone Verizon SIM to work yet the phone is compatible (according to the websites respectively) with Cricket wireless (AT&T) and US Cellular (cdma). I don't understand... That is why I brought this question to all of you. I live and work in a rural area and it may sound crazy but all I want to do is make stinking phone calls. Oh and I checked the IMEI and it is not locked by any carrier.
You guys suck...
I know most of you on here probably don't care about my problem cause I'm not looking to root or flash or whatever cause I'm not into that. I JUST WANT A PHONE THAT HAS SERVICE. From what I've read it was probably one of you on these forums that "sim unlocked" this phone in the first place back before you really knew the right way and then when you moved on you sold it as "new in box" to a sucker like me. And now for some reason it will only work with a Tracfone Tmobile sim in it which according to them isn't going to work at all come 01/2021 because they are upgrading the network. Well I also know from wasting endless hours trying to figure out how to [email protected]$ck this phone that it is capable of everything I need it to do, like simply switch it to a different "brand" of sim so I can get better service or operate on VoLTE because apparently that's what most carriers are going to switch to and convince most of the general public to buy a new phone based on the misguided notion that their phone has somehow become obsolete when in fact it isn't.
So if you all would stop passing over my post because my technology knowledge level is down there with an 75-year-old and help me I would appreciate it.
I will pay to send this to someone to "fix" or whatever but I refuse to replace a perfectly good phone because some yutz who didn't know what they were doing when they sim unlocked this phone messed it up and somehow turned a US Cellular version (VMX) into a who knows what that only works on Tmobile, and maybe Cricket (we'll see, the sim is in the mail).
No nead to start two threds about the same thing.
NO your phone will mot stop working... Just chill
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I know most of you on here probably don't care about my problem cause I'm not looking to root or flash or whatever cause I'm not into that. I JUST WANT A PHONE THAT HAS SERVICE. From what I've read it was probably one of you on these forums that "sim unlocked" this phone in the first place back before you really knew the right way and then when you moved on you sold it as "new in box" to a sucker like me. And now for some reason it will only work with a Tracfone Tmobile sim in it which according to them isn't going to work at all come 01/2021 because they are upgrading the network. Well I also know from wasting endless hours trying to figure out how to [email protected]$ck this phone that it is capable of everything I need it to do, like simply switch it to a different "brand" of sim so I can get better service or operate on VoLTE because apparently that's what most carriers are going to switch to and convince most of the general public to buy a new phone based on the misguided notion that their phone has somehow become obsolete when in fact it isn't.
So if you all would stop passing over my post because my technology knowledge level is down there with an 75-year-old and help me I would appreciate it.
I will pay to send this to someone to "fix" or whatever but I refuse to replace a perfectly good phone because some yutz who didn't know what they were doing when they sim unlocked this phone messed it up and somehow turned a US Cellular version (VMX) into a who knows what that only works on Tmobile, and maybe Cricket (we'll see, the sim is in the mail).
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No nead to start two threds about the same thing.
NO your phone will mot stop working... Just chill
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This is correct. Read my post I wrote in the other thread about the VOLTE issue.
If the phone supports VOLTE, you need a SIM that is compatible with it!
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I have some information that might make all of you guys happy.
I was told by Safelink Wireless that VOTLE is a function of BOTH the phone *AND* the sim card.
Basically, if the phone itself is VOLTE compatible but the sim card is not, then the phone will be reported on their system as not compatible, and will ask you to upgrade your phone.
However if a VOLTE compatible SIM is inserted, if the phone does in fact support VOLTE, it will then work. That's because it's provisioned on the carrier via the sim card itself.
If you purchased a sim via the "Buy your own sim" package, e.g. online or from Best Buy, etc, awhile ago, then that sim is not compatible. You simply need to call Tracphone/Safelink and ask to buy a VOLTE compatible SIM (which costs 99 cents). Then when you get it, call their tech department to have them transfer the phone service and phone number to the new SIM.
You can dial the phone's service menu and go to the VOLTE/GPRI menu and if the options are there, then the phone supports it.
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I know most of you on here probably don't care about my problem cause I'm not looking to root or flash or whatever cause I'm not into that. I JUST WANT A PHONE THAT HAS SERVICE. From what I've read it was probably one of you on these forums that "sim unlocked" this phone in the first place back before you really knew the right way and then when you moved on you sold it as "new in box" to a sucker like me. And now for some reason it will only work with a Tracfone Tmobile sim in it which according to them isn't going to work at all come 01/2021 because they are upgrading the network. Well I also know from wasting endless hours trying to figure out how to [email protected]$ck this phone that it is capable of everything I need it to do, like simply switch it to a different "brand" of sim so I can get better service or operate on VoLTE because apparently that's what most carriers are going to switch to and convince most of the general public to buy a new phone based on the misguided notion that their phone has somehow become obsolete when in fact it isn't.
So if you all would stop passing over my post because my technology knowledge level is down there with an 75-year-old and help me I would appreciate it.
I will pay to send this to someone to "fix" or whatever but I refuse to replace a perfectly good phone because some yutz who didn't know what they were doing when they sim unlocked this phone messed it up and somehow turned a US Cellular version (VMX) into a who knows what that only works on Tmobile, and maybe Cricket (we'll see, the sim is in the mail).
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Hey buddy, xda forum does not allow unlocking sims related stuff. You are complaining in the wrong forum.... There are other forums that do that.