I bought a Verizon Note 8 and when I put my T-Mobile SIM in it it booted up with T-Mobile boot screen and had T-Mobile bloatware on it, I bought it from Craigslist, is this normal or did previous owner flash T-Mobile firmware on it?
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From what I was told if your sim is unlocked whatever sim card you put in there the bootloader will come as its carrier and have the bloatware.
I think this happens with Oreo. I bought mine from Verizon. It originally came with Verizon bloated and logo. When I put in at t soon, it changed to att logo and bloated. When I inserted Verizon Sim again, it changed back.
it means the phone is unlocked. that is all. i have a verizon one as well on tmobile. got all the verizon bloatware
so if i were to root my phone, what kinda roms can i throw on it? there are none in the verizon section it seems like...
do i go to the tmobile note 8 and flash those roms?
ckrummi said:
it means the phone is unlocked. that is all. i have a verizon one as well on tmobile. got all the verizon bloatware
so if i were to root my phone, what kinda roms can i throw on it? there are none in the verizon section it seems like...
do i go to the tmobile note 8 and flash those roms?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...-n8-allcarriersstockdeodexedrootedsm-t3689846
This will give you anything you want. Stock, tmobile, debloated, ect.
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I had my phone unlocked through tmobile. I ended up leaving tmobile and they aren't working with me to pay off the phone. I currently have it working on att but I'm worried that in a couple months it's going to lose service bc they blacklisted it. I'm on att prepaid. Does anyone have a personal experiance with a bad imei tmobile phone working on att prepaid or even another prepaid service like straight talk or even verizon?
I had an issue with Verizon once with a note 3. It was a Verizon phone and I flashed a Beanstown rom and this tool called Casual by Adam Outler and it removed the lock bootloader and installed a patch to stop the update from we very coming through its been a couple of years ago but search like that. But in most cases if they unlocked it your fine. I'm still with them and have been for 6 years.
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.
Did you get the Verizon model from Samsung? can you use it on other networks? is it unlocked?
I am buying the note 8 and Samsung is saying it will be locked to Verizon. I called Verizon to find out how to unlock the phone and they said they dont lock any phones.
So did you get a Verizon phone from Samsung and was it locked, if so were you able to unlock it?
I ordered my phone from Samsung. Powered it on, activated it, then popped an active T-Mobile SIM into it and it worked. Therefore, you should be getting an unlocked Note 8 from Samsung if you order the Verizon model.
Edit: I have the S8+
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Did you get the Verizon model from Samsung? can you use it on other networks? is it unlocked?
I am buying the note 8 and Samsung is saying it will be locked to Verizon. I called Verizon to find out how to unlock the phone and they said they dont lock any phones.
So did you get a Verizon phone from Samsung and was it locked, if so were you able to unlock it?
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I bought a Verizon Galaxy S8 + from Samsung and it is unlocked. I am using it on AT&T at this time with no problems. The good thing is that I can still get Verizon updates.
you should buy the unlocked version thats not carrier specific and not loaded with bloat and you'll find it discounted more often than not
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.
Guys,
I got a Sprint Note 10+ from one of my friend who was leaving for good to a diferent country. He is on Sprint. I am on AT&T. What's the process to flash this to make it work like a Note 10+ on AT&T?
kingfisher1111 said:
Guys,
I got a Sprint Note 10+ from one of my friend who was leaving for good to a diferent country. He is on Sprint. I am on AT&T. What's the process to flash this to make it work like a Note 10+ on AT&T?
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Sure hope he got Sprint to unlock it for you before he left. Because if not, you'll have fun getting it to accept your att sim card.
If the unlock is done already you should be able to factory reset and insert your sim card and it should detect and customize for att settings.
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Sure hope he got Sprint to unlock it for you before he left. Because if not, you'll have fun getting it to accept your att sim card.
If the unlock is done already you should be able to factory reset and insert your sim card and it should detect and customize for att settings.
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He didn't. Any one that can provide unlock codes for a reasonable price?
kingfisher1111 said:
Guys,
I got a Sprint Note 10+ from one of my friend who was leaving for good to a diferent country. He is on Sprint. I am on AT&T. What's the process to flash this to make it work like a Note 10+ on AT&T?
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Moving across the globe won't prevent your friend from getting a hold of Sprint and requesting the device to be unlocked.
Try getting in touch with him and ask him to take care of it. As long as the device qualifies for unlocking with Sprint then this shouldn't be an issue.
Do i have to flash ATT firmware ?
kingfisher1111 said:
Do i have to flash ATT firmware ?
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Is the phone network/sim unlocked? If it is then the process on how to do this has been covered indepth already. Be aware though that some features will only be provisioned to phone's that AT&T sells (they determine this by an IMEI whitelist). This also has been discussed extensively on the forum.
If your phone is not sim/network unlocked then you will be wasting your time as it will only work on the Sprint network. At this point get a hold of your friend who gave you the phone and ask him to get a hold of Sprint. Your friend will need to ask Sprint to unlock the phone, provided the phone qualifies to be network/sim unlocked by Sprint.