I was just wondering if this phone has to be unlocked in order for it to be on MetroPCS?? Like I know it work with T-Mobile and metro and T-Mobile are like best friend atm but idk.
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If I were to purchase a fully unlocked HTC Pro 2 how would I go about getting it on the Boost Network. I currently have 2 accounts one is a IDEN account w/ (Motorola I1) and the other CDMA account w/ (Sanyo Incognito). I am new to this but the android I got needs a little more twinking before they put another one out. You can buy unlocked phones already unlocked just have to get them serviced. If I can't purchase one that is already unlocked how do I go about unlocking it.
i dont know abut IDEN but there is no such thing as an "unlocked" CDMA phone, they dont really have them locked anyway, but i doubt boost will activate one on their network, and an unlocked GSM TP2 wont work since AFAIK boost doesnt have a GSM network
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So say I can't get one aleady unlocked and I get one from lets say ebay how would i be able to use it on the boost network. I don't know how to do this all i am trying to do is get a better phone.
Hey i am just asking a quick question... I am pretty sure that any CDMA Phone cannot be flashed to a new carrier but i would like a final word form the pros I was wondering if it was possible to flash my xperia play [R800x] to something like boost mobile or tmobile? my xperia play is Currently (bootloader unlocked)
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Hey i am just asking a quick question... I am pretty sure that any CDMA Phone cannot be flashed to a new carrier but i would like a final word form the pros I was wondering if it was possible to flash my xperia play [R800x] to something like boost mobile or tmobile? my xperia play is Currently (bootloader unlocked)
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The 2 USA CDMA carriers that will accept your unlocked R800x is Cricket and Pageplus. Thats it no boost mobile (they dont accept unlocked phones on their service now I think) or tmobile (GSM). Also if your asking if you can flash it yourself for free you cant. You need purchase software and know what your doing.
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The 2 USA CDMA carriers that will accept your unlocked R800x is Cricket and Pageplus. Thats it no boost mobile (they dont accept unlocked phones on their service now I think) or tmobile (GSM). Also if your asking if you can flash it yourself for free you cant. You need purchase software and know what your doing.
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hmm very interesting.. thanks for the info.
One more thing...
i found a really good CDMA carrier that i really wish to flash to it's called US Cellular. it has the perfect plan i want. is there some way i can get this carrier?
I purchased a used S4 from Tmobile from a guy who say he broke it so just upgraded. It's a Tmobile phone but is locked to Tmobile at least it seems. If I put a Metro pcs Sim in its not saying locked lije it does with my At&t Sim. So does this mean it's locked to anything other than T mobile and metro ?
Also Swappa says the following can somone explain ?
Okay so long story short, I have a Sprint Galaxy S8+ I preordered and outright bought (for $850) directly from Samsung in April. This last month I decided to switch with my family to Verizon. Turns out the IMEI of the phone is not recognized by the Verizon network and my phone technically works but always shows I am on roaming. Is there anyway to fix this? The phone IS unlocked I got it unlocked by Sprint, and no Samsung is not budging on helping me at all. They basically just say "Go back to Sprint the phone works fine". I was just curious if I rooted the phone and flashed a Verizon ROM onto the device will it get rid of the roaming and possibly make it able to be seen by the Verizon network? I know flashing the ROM doesnt change the IMEI but honestly Im stuck with what to do because neither, Sprint, Verizon, or Samsung is trying to help me.
You could try the unlocked firmware. I don't know if it would work but doesn't hurt to try
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Okay so long story short, I have a Sprint Galaxy S8+ I preordered and outright bought (for $850) directly from Samsung in April. This last month I decided to switch with my family to Verizon. Turns out the IMEI of the phone is not recognized by the Verizon network and my phone technically works but always shows I am on roaming. Is there anyway to fix this? The phone IS unlocked I got it unlocked by Sprint, and no Samsung is not budging on helping me at all. They basically just say "Go back to Sprint the phone works fine". I was just curious if I rooted the phone and flashed a Verizon ROM onto the device will it get rid of the roaming and possibly make it able to be seen by the Verizon network? I know flashing the ROM doesnt change the IMEI but honestly Im stuck with what to do because neither, Sprint, Verizon, or Samsung is trying to help me.
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The Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile version of s8/s8+ won't work for Verizon. Verizon's dont work for Sprint either - even you flash it with unlocked firmware. Unless you change the IMEI, but it's illegal. Both Sprint and Verizon required the IMEI in their database. That's the reason I bought unlocked version from Samsung directly. My phone shows OPEN MARKET on sprint. I just ported to Sprint from Verizon to take advantage of the 1 year free service. But I can't use the internet when I'm talking on the phone.
Don't be fooled by that word UNLOCKED, it's still a carrier branded phone.
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Any luck using unlock sprint s8 plus on Verizon? I'm on the same boat but can't get it to work on Verizon.
If anyone got it to work, please advise. Thanks
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It won't work tell you change the imei its blacklisted and the only way around that is to change the imei sorry to break it to you.
Ok long story short I got the phone off fb marketplace supposed to be unlocked but of course mt att prepay sim says invalid... and does not prompt for unlock code
looking into the phone it doesn't have a sprint rom as the rom ends in JETER_NA_CUST and not sprint... plus there is no sprint bloatware or anything.
but going to UICC Unlock it does say it is locked to sprint....
and it does say sofware variant sprint and software channel sprint
anything I can do to get my att sim to work
Nope. You bought a Sprint/Boost Mobile device which uses CDMA like Verizon. AT&T, as well as T-Mobile, use GSM.
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Ok long story short I got the phone off fb marketplace supposed to be unlocked but of course mt att prepay sim says invalid... and does not prompt for unlock code
looking into the phone it doesn't have a sprint rom as the rom ends in JETER_NA_CUST and not sprint... plus there is no sprint bloatware or anything.
but going to UICC Unlock it does say it is locked to sprint....
and it does say sofware variant sprint and software channel sprint
anything I can do to get my att sim to work
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I have mine on boost and the basband still says jeter_na_cust just like yours. It's a sprint/boost rom. You definitely bought the boost/sprint variant. It won't have sprint bloatware but it should have boost Mobile bloatware. If not the person you bought it from tried to flash the retail version from Best buy onto a sprint/boost variant. I hate to say it man but the person you bought that from definitely just scammed you. Because if they did take the time to try to flash the retail firmware then they knew it wouldn't work on att to begin with. Best you can do is either flash the proper firmware on it and activate it on sprint prepay or boost ( which tbh there both better than att despite what sprint has said about there own network lately) or you got a WiFi device. actually. Do you know the device model like mine for example is the xt1922-7 which is for sprint/boost.
It is the xt1922-7. There is no bloatware from boost either
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It is the xt1922-7. There is no bloatware from boost either
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Well either way the best you can do is get it activated on Sprint and or boost Mobile. It won't work on att.
My G6 Play is disconnecting Bluetooth all the time.