Hey guys. I just got a new S20 plus and it was Sprint branded phone. After tmobile bought sprint, they rolled out an update to download all the carrier stuff to the phone to make it work on Tmobile as soon as a SIM gets inserted. That being said, every time I reboot the phone, it's still running sprints ODADM or whatever software to check the network and make sure everything is fine, so it is definetly still running some sprint stuff.
Is there a way to nuke this thing and make it think it's a tmobile phone from the get go? Like it even has a tmobile boot screen now, but it's still running all the Spring network stuff.
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So i bought this phone for cheap brand new in box from a foriegn national that purchesed it outright when they got here no contract ( they didnt like it and bought an iphone 5 days later and now i have it). hoping i could flash it over to sprint and upgrade from my e4gt so i can use the beautiful lte in the area.... yeah Rockford. but im currently struggling are there any tips that you guys have or am i screwed...
heres what ive tried. so as i got it i turned it on and it was on 4.0.4 with full signal and working 4g. i used the rooting method that is posted here for sprint gs3's as there isnt one specific for us cellular phones. flashed back to a us cellular kernel as it would boot but claimed no sim was inseterd and boom worked and had root.... then rebooted in recovery and tried to odin a sprint stock rom... failed throws errors. rebooted in to recovery cwm 6.0 and tried to flash some sprint and us cellular custom, stock, and stock modified roms fails checks every time and wont flash. i know 99% of the hardware is exactly the same so it shouldnt be impossible just looking to get this on sprint ... now i have odin the lastest stock update for us cellular just in case it really isnt worth it so i can sell it.... yes i have reset the flash counter and the device says normal device state not modified so that shouldnt be an issue.
on another note my imei number is only 14 digits... isnt it supposed to be 15. when i try and activate it. (assuming i CAN get it flashed to sprint) wont that be a problem. and btw it is the same digits on the box and ive even done the conversion from the meid-dec number and it gives me the same 14 numbers
I don't think USC uses the same LTE bands as sprint so even if you got it working it would be physically impossible for it to connect to the sprint 4G network. May be better off to look for someone to trade with you, or sell that one and buy a sprint version.
http://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/carrier.php?c=12 - according to this USC is on LTE 700/1700, while Sprint uses LTE on 1900.
Damn well it was a nice thought.... Any one want to trade.. Lol well thanks
Okay, I'm sure the information is all out there, so before I get told to search forums or google, I have. My issue is that I'm just having the hardest time putting all the scattered information together and understanding it. There's too much information to decipher whats needed, accurate andd up to date for my situation. So I was wondering if someone whose done this before could just give me the straight to guide.
I have verizon, my girlfriend has sprint. She broke her S4. I have an old verizon note 2 that is unlocked, rooted, custom recovery and on CM11.
What I need to do is get it on the sprint network and get her service switched over to it.
I know it has something to do with APN settings, but there's so many different ones whether it's for internet and MMS. I basically just want her to be able to use it to make phone calls and maybe regular texts. I got all confused when I saw things dealing with PRL and what not, so I don't actually know which things I need to make this work.
I put the sim card from her S4 into my Verizon note 2 and opened the access point settings under mobile network. There are a bunch of sprint ones in there now, I don't know which one to choose. I tried the one just labeled "Sprint" and then rebooted to get the APN settings to switch over but I still have no service to try and activate the phone.
So could someone please give me a simplified walk-through of putting in sprint's settings on a verizon note 2. I tried flashing a Sprint CM11 rom but it failed. So now i am going to try flashing a sprint touchwiz rom to see if that will make all the necessary changes for me.
Update: I Just finished flashing jellybomb touchwiz rom, it flashed but wont get into the phone setup, says there's an encryption error and the phone needs to be reset. I did that and it still does the same.
Thanks in advance guys, I've flashed a lot of roms, I've just never switched my phone to another carrier before.
You can't activate a non Sprint branded phone on the Sprint network. Period. The esn is not in the Sprint database and even if you wanted to use the phone strictly for traveling internationally, The sim card from Sprint will not work in the Verizon phone for the same reason. You'd have to "clone" the phone/esn and that is completely illegal. I would spend my time on craigslist or Facebook and try to trade your Verizon phone for a Sprint one. That's what I would do.
FYI . Verizon phones are actually in demand due to the much larger customer base so making a trade for a Sprint S4 or Note 2 should be fairly easy. But MAKE SURE you check the ESN with Sprint before making a trade because a blacklisted esn phone can NOT be activated and you will be SOL.
So only networks like at&t and T-mobile will work on my Unlocked verizon phone?
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So only networks like at&t and T-mobile will work on my Unlocked verizon phone?
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If you're referring to your Verizon phone being a "world phone" which does in fact have a sim card and gsm network capabilities, then technically yes it would perhaps be possible to get it to work on AT&T or T-Mobile onl;y but it would be very difficult and time consuming to unlock the sim portion of the Verizon phone and hack it so that it would not be rejected by either network due to the ESN. You'd have better luck trying T-Mobile because they seem to be more lax with unbranded iPhones etc on their network. But in all honesty you would be better off trading your Verizon phone especially if it has a clear esn and getting a phone that's ready to go with no headaches and fully functional on the network.
thanks for the replies
So I bought this phone the other day from a kid, and I saw it was pulling LTE with a Nano Sim from ATT - so I figured great, I threw in an Mirco SD card with unlimited data from ATT - it's only showing HSPA+ 6/4 up down which I can live with. I redid all the apn settings to make sure I'd be able to use it for text/calling etc. Reason I decided to get this phone was because I wanted to root it and then hotspot on it. I don't know why att has to be a douche bag about hot spotting. I'm okay if they gave some basic cap (even with the unlimited plan), but alias I am unable to get LTE speeds no matter how I goof around with the phones apn settings. I don't know how he got LTE speeds on the phone. However the LTE symbol popped up it wasn't rooted at the time.
Now next question: I have twrp installed and I've flashed/wiped/reset the crap out of this phone goofing around with some of the settings. Deleting all the Verizon stuff, but Now I'm kinda wondering if I am at a stand still. I understand after reading a bit that Verizon and ATT using different bands, so I understand I may be capped because of that. But I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that when he popped in that little sim card it showed LTE and It was in fact an ATT sim.
So now on to why I made this post - I'm wanting to flash an att 910a firmware to the phone. I understand it's risky - but if I have TWRP in stalled won't I be able to get myself out of a boot loop? OR will it render the phone unable to log into twrp? I've read people using the 910t firmware on a 910v phone. I know there is kernels bits and bytes that may render the phone useless? I'm hoping by flashing the ATT firmware on there it'll allow me to get LTE speeds.
Also, when flashing the 910a is there a kernel that's preferred?
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So I bought this phone the other day from a kid, and I saw it was pulling LTE with a Nano Sim from ATT - so I figured great, I threw in an Mirco SD card with unlimited data from ATT - it's only showing HSPA+ 6/4 up down which I can live with. I redid all the apn settings to make sure I'd be able to use it for text/calling etc. Reason I decided to get this phone was because I wanted to root it and then hotspot on it. I don't know why att has to be a douche bag about hot spotting. I'm okay if they gave some basic cap (even with the unlimited plan), but alias I am unable to get LTE speeds no matter how I goof around with the phones apn settings. I don't know how he got LTE speeds on the phone. However the LTE symbol popped up it wasn't rooted at the time.
Now next question: I have twrp installed and I've flashed/wiped/reset the crap out of this phone goofing around with some of the settings. Deleting all the Verizon stuff, but Now I'm kinda wondering if I am at a stand still. I understand after reading a bit that Verizon and ATT using different bands, so I understand I may be capped because of that. But I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that when he popped in that little sim card it showed LTE and It was in fact an ATT sim.
So now on to why I made this post - I'm wanting to flash an att 910a firmware to the phone. I understand it's risky - but if I have TWRP in stalled won't I be able to get myself out of a boot loop? OR will it render the phone unable to log into twrp? I've read people using the 910t firmware on a 910v phone. I know there is kernels bits and bytes that may render the phone useless? I'm hoping by flashing the ATT firmware on there it'll allow me to get LTE speeds.
Also, when flashing the 910a is there a kernel that's preferred?
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So... Google FTW - I now Have realized after reading that ATT has very ignorant customer server reps. After posting this I was thinking I wonder if that KID got LTE because he had a nano sim or because he has an IMEI that is LTE compatiable that is registered to ATT... So I decided to pull my sim out of my note 5 make it touch all the contacts in the sim card slot and booted the phone. Registered as 4g (not hspa+) and ran a speed test and I got 55/15 not to mention it instantly connected to the att network. So I need to call att and give them either the imei to this phone or give them a dummy one. Cause it is obviously compatiable enough to get LTE type speeds... But not with the new sim card they gave me (bit of info: I had a samsung tab a tablet with unlimited data and didn't know the sim isn't swappable to phones, so I had to have a new sim programmed in it's place so I could use phone/text etc with the note 4 910v).
You know sometimes when you're talking to a rep that doesn't understand technology.
In my town ATT upgraded its cell service to 5G VOLTE HD. About that time my phone and others could not send or receive calls.
ATT also turned off 3G. Some phones cannot then work at all. ATT has a list of phones that would work, and this one was on that list.
However mine was not working, but I could send and receive texts. I heard from some others that perhaps I would need a new simm.
I went to the phone store and got one. That did not fix it. I brought it home and decided that perhaps I needed to upgrade the phone.
I had not upgraded the phone much since the bootloader is locked, and I was waiting for an exploit so that I could get root.
But not being able to use my phone convinced me to try upgrades. I just began upgrading. After each upgrade I checked to see if I could place a voice call.
Eventually I succeeded. I did another upgrade to a newer android version and then stopped. My phone now has android version 10, one UI version 2.5, baseband version a505u1ueu9ctl4, and kernel version 4.14.62-19996794. Now I don't have to buy a new phone, and this one was not that old anyways.
My phone is a samsung A50 us version with a bootloader that can't be unlocked.
My AT&T N10+ N975U is running on Pie. It transitioned seamlessly with no changes made on my end. It was already using 4G VoLTE though.
Hey guys/gals,
Cricket gave me a free phone since they kept saying my 7T won't work because it doesn't see the imei as an approved ATT/Cricket phone. Does anyone know if it works on ATT or Cricket? It's much smoother and faster than the free phone I have but I don't want to pop my sim in if it will shut me down again. It's a hassle to call and wait forever for them to reset my account.
So technically it has the bands to work on all of it (except 5g, of course), but if they can't add your IMEI to the network, there's no point. If they can, do it.
So sounds like if I pop the sim in then they'll shut me down. I was wondering if after they phased in the new system that they might stop doing that since if someone has a 3g phone it simply won't work. Do you know if you or anyone tried to use they're non approved phone and they shut it down?