I was wondering if anyone still on the OG EVO uses Ting? They use Sprint devices and now you can bring in your own old Sprint phone to use with their service.
I have a friend who just did his EVO and is thinking about Rooting and flashing and all that hot jazz. I wanted to make sure that it would all work the same way ROM wise while on Ting. On the website it does state that the phone needs to be stock before switching over but after that you can mod it. They don't care what is done it seems. I like to be extra cautious though.
No, but I am thinking of moving there temporarily until I figure out what phone I want next.
I currently have a Galaxy S3, running rooted stock ICS for Tmobile - and I would like to switch over to ATT and keep the same phone, just flash the ATT JB stock firmware onto it (or a custom ROM), and whatever other flashes may be needed to make it work, or something along those lines. Is this even possible?
The only reason I would think it could work is that they are both GSM phones so the tech should essentially be the same right? And since it's rooted, switching the SIM shouldn't be an issue either, as I have done so when I am travelling.
Or are there other major diffs between the 2 s3's that I am missing which make this an impossible.
I have a friend who is looking to buy a new S3 from ATT, and I would just as soon sell him mine with their stock stuff on there if they are basically the same.
Many thanks in advance to any who can help shed light on this.
U have complete wrong idea brother. You cant just flash att s 3 rom on tmobile s 3.
Find some att based rom for tmobile s3 . i think we have some.
Its almost same hardware but not same network antenna. So you cant run att 4g on it.
Simply dont flash att rom on it unless its says for tmobile.
bikrame said:
U have complete wrong idea brother. You cant just flash att s 3 rom on tmobile s 3.
Find some att based rom for tmobile s3 . i think we have some.
Its almost same hardware but not same network antenna. So you cant run att 4g on it.
Simply dont flash att rom on it unless its says for tmobile.
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I always thought that Tmo (i was actually told this by tech support once) shares antennas/repeaters with ATT... so I guess they are just piping the 4G through a diff frequency or something, and the antenna isn't tuned to pick it up. damn.
are there any carriers it WILL work with?
mikewikkid said:
I always thought that Tmo (i was actually told this by tech support once) shares antennas/repeaters with ATT... so I guess they are just piping the 4G through a diff frequency or something, and the antenna isn't tuned to pick it up. damn.
are there any carriers it WILL work with?
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The T999 supports at&t's 3G, just not their LTE (T999 doesn't support LTE period).
What was being told to you is don't flash an at&t baseband (radio), recovery, or full ROM to the phone or you risk a brick. Any of the ROMs marked *AROMA* have multi-carrier compatibility, you just choose the underlying device.
mikewikkid said:
I currently have a Galaxy S3, running rooted stock ICS for Tmobile - and I would like to switch over to ATT and keep the same phone, just flash the ATT JB stock firmware onto it (or a custom ROM), and whatever other flashes may be needed to make it work, or something along those lines. Is this even possible?
The only reason I would think it could work is that they are both GSM phones so the tech should essentially be the same right? And since it's rooted, switching the SIM shouldn't be an issue either, as I have done so when I am travelling.
Or are there other major diffs between the 2 s3's that I am missing which make this an impossible.
I have a friend who is looking to buy a new S3 from ATT, and I would just as soon sell him mine with their stock stuff on there if they are basically the same.
Many thanks in advance to any who can help shed light on this.
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Sorry to say, but you are forgetting something, a stock rooted Tmobile Galaxy S3
is not compatible with the AT&T services as well as any of the AT&T roms.
You would need to UNLOCK the phone first before doing anything else.
Good Luck!
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Misterjunky said:
Sorry to say, but you are forgetting something, a stock rooted Tmobile Galaxy S3
is not compatible with the AT&T services as well as any of the AT&T roms.
You would need to UNLOCK the phone first before doing anything else.
Good Luck!
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pardon my ignorance, but what is the diff between unlocking and rooting, and how can I go about doing it? Also, and this is an aside, the only way that i can find to change the IMEI of a T999 is by using an external box - there is no software-only method of doing this yet, correct?
re: unlocking
mikewikkid said:
pardon my ignorance, but what is the diff between unlocking and rooting, and how can I go about doing it? Also, and this is an aside, the only way that i can find to change the IMEI of a T999 is by using an external box - there is no software-only method of doing this yet, correct?
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To put it into simple terms,
Rooting a phone allows YOU to make changes to the phone which includes flashing roms as well as
allowing apps which require root access to work on your phone which are available at the play store.
But rooting has nothing to do with AT&T or any other carriers.
Unlocking a phone allows the phone to communicate with different carriers like AT&T and others.
Your phone does not need to be rooted to work with different carriers, it only needs to be Unlocked.
Also once the phone is unlocked you would need a AT&T Sim card for it to work.
Even an Unlocked Galaxy S3 will not work on AT&T unless you have a AT&T sim card.
There is absolutely no reason to change IMEI.
If you want to find out more about Unlocking, here is a link: https://www.google.com/search?q=unl...96,d.cGE&fp=db8d96ed93be75f0&biw=1017&bih=490
Check out the videos and articles.
Good Luck with the phone.
mikewikkid said:
pardon my ignorance, but what is the diff between unlocking and rooting, and how can I go about doing it? Also, and this is an aside, the only way that i can find to change the IMEI of a T999 is by using an external box - there is no software-only method of doing this yet, correct?
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This is what you need, a SIM Unlock - and it happens to be rather easy on the S3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023709 :good:
they are right. you need to unlock your phone. if you go into a store or call customer care they should be able to help you out with unlocking it. i used to work for tmobile and i remember unlocking a few peoples phones.
So I recently switched from tmobile to at&t and I am able to use my new sim in the phone but I was wondering, do i still use the ROMs specific to this device or use the at&t ones? I figured I continue to use the tmobile ones becasue the device itself obviously didnt change but I just want to make sure something hardware wise doesnt mess up.
thanks
You can run both types of roms. You always could:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
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naandrade said:
So I recently switched from tmobile to at&t and I am able to use my new sim in the phone but I was wondering, do i still use the ROMs specific to this device or use the at&t ones? I figured I continue to use the tmobile ones becasue the device itself obviously didnt change but I just want to make sure something hardware wise doesnt mess up.
thanks
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It seems you understand what I'm gonna say, but it's still worth mentioning again. Remember that in the end, the device is still a T-Mobile M919. What I mean by that is that when it comes to kernels and most importantly - Odin-flashable firmwares and modems, you must use files specifically for the T-Mobile S4.
so i have a galaxy s3 l710 sprint flashed to verizon prepaid and i have never had a flashed phone before. the person i baut it from told me i couldent do factory reset or i would lose flash...
im a little nervous on what things will cause me to loose my flash if anyone could tell me what not to do please i would greatly appreciate it
also i keep reading different things about txting not working and having to download verizon messages or something called 8sms along with myverizon and more... im not shure what apps i will be needing for my phone if anyone can list the apps i will need please let me know
i hear i needa download a texting app, myverizon, buisybox idk what that is.. and someothers..
also is there anyway for me to backup my phone so if i loose flash i can back it up and get flash back im guessing flash can not be backed up cause its part of the hardware and not OS anyway my last question is about rooting and roms
i have rooted alot of devices and its been awhile since i have done any rooting like 2010 or so anyway i hear about a program called towelroot, is that ok to use and will it work?? if not what should i use and also i have never used a custom rom cause i dont really understand the benifits of them and im nervous about messing up my flash/bricking phone. Is a rom worth it.
ps: sorry about grammer im about to loose internet and am in a hurry to get this posted lol. thank you for your help!
Do you need a SIM card in order to use Verizon?. The Verizon S3 I sold had a SIM slot in the battery compartment.
I don't have the phone i wunt tp buy it from ebay and flash to prepaid verizon... i don't know anything abput sim cards i have never ever had one..
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I will get this phone soon, but I live in europe and the phone is unlocked. my friend who will sell it to me says you cant use its lte so I was thinking is there any way to make it work ? Not really a big deal tho.
kico94 said:
I will get this phone soon, but I live in europe and the phone is unlocked. my friend who will sell it to me says you cant use its lte so I was thinking is there any way to make it work ? Not really a big deal tho.
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If you know your way around flashing you can pull a radio.img from another firmware for this device and get the lte to work. Before you do anything crazy make sure the one that came with the phone doesn't work with lte first tho and back it up just in case.