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Hello ,
I plan to travel overseas and want to use the Sim card slot with a local carrier . Is there a method to unlock the SIM ?
Zan
Zanral said:
Hello ,
I plan to travel overseas and want to use the Sim card slot with a local carrier . Is there a method to unlock the SIM ?
Zan
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Id like to know this as well.
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It it already unlocked for overseas carriers.
brianez21 said:
It it already unlocked for overseas carriers.
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I have verified this with many support reps in the international department at sprint... you're good to go!
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There is a thread thatwas just created saying it is unlocked for voice butnot data...i didnt understand much of it and may have interpreted it wrong
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SIM card Slot can be used overseas!
I spoke to Sprint International services , they mentioned that I could use a local carrier SIM for voice and data as long as I used a 128 k sim card , also and obviously they dont guarantee quality of service of the local carrier !
Will update next week , when I hopefully will use a local SIM overseas...
128 k sim card. interesting.
yes, please keep us updated, i would like to know how it goes.
TS
i bought this phone n guy scammed me now i cant use with sprint
any idea what should i do ??
or can i go around with making it clean ??
and does it ganna work overseas or no ??
help me out guys please
symond said:
i bought this phone n guy scammed me now i cant use with sprint
any idea what should i do ??
or can i go around with making it clean ??
and does it ganna work overseas or no ??
help me out guys please
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Sell it somebody that would want to flash it too cricket etc.....there is no workaround the esn
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oh dang
is it ganna work abored ?? like out side us ?? with other sim card
do i need to unlock for that or not ??
Are you sure it is BAD?
Sometimes the phones are still attached to an old line, and they need the original account holder to call Sprint and free it up. If you are not sure, you should contact the seller and find out.
If it is really bad (i.e. someone did not pay the bills) your only option is to sell on CL or such with a "flash to cricket or Metro only" tag line.
symond said:
oh dang
is it ganna work abored ?? like out side us ?? with other sim card
do i need to unlock for that or not ??
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It should work with a Sim from over seas because it would be using sprints network.
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I will sell u a brand new photon !
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One thing you can do is wait it out the restrictions will lift on the phone once the account is in collections and sell to a third party but there's no telling how long that takes.
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Foreign sim
symond said:
oh dang
is it ganna work abored ?? like out side us ?? with other sim card
do i need to unlock for that or not ??
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I can guarantee you it will work with a foreign sim, yet it will only do so outside the country, .
I have a movistar sim from Mexico , but it only works outside the U.S
If you still have the phone try selling it I would love to buy it off you I do a lot of travel and a spare is always a must ,
zimzillakilla said:
I can guarantee you it will work with a foreign sim, yet it will only do so outside the country, .
I have a movistar sim from Mexico , but it only works outside the U.S
If you still have the phone try selling it I would love to buy it off you I do a lot of travel and a spare is always a must ,
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So......with a movistar sim the phone will not work on the US??, only Mexico???
Shouldn't it roam once in the US with the movistar sim????
I thought they where only locked for US sims.....
I was gonna do the same thing......
Cks69 said:
So......with a movistar sim the phone will not work on the US??, only Mexico???
Shouldn't it roam once in the US with the movistar sim????
I thought they where only locked for US sims.....
I was gonna do the same thing......
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Yea but foreign sims still have to connect through US domestic networks. Movistar might have a thing with AT&T and when u try to join, it registers as an at&t sim/network and wont work
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It's the is towers that are blocked not the sim card.... if you have an att or T-Mobile sim it will work fine just not in the USA. In short until the radio is fixed, no gsm in the USA
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Hi, id like to know if the Photon 4G is CDMA or GSM with a Sim Card Slot? because im about to buy one from amazon and id like to know if it is one or both and how to recognize which one is it
It is both, it uses the sim for GSM and uses CDMA without the sim. You cant use a domestic sim for GSM, for now atleast.
w0lf215 said:
It is both, it uses the sim for GSM and uses CDMA without the sim. You cant use a domestic sim for GSM, for now atleast.
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what do you mean by i cant use domestic sim?
mediavieja said:
what do you mean by i cant use domestic sim?
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Meaning you can't take a sim card from AT&T or another GSM provider within the US and plug it into Photon and expect it to work. Its locked out for GSM in the US. It works internationally though.
The 4g is Wimax !!!
guilzom said:
The 4g is Wimax !!!
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LOL I totally had that typed out ready to post before I reread and saw that he meant the phone and not specifically the 4g. Unless I just misinterpreted that completely lol, which would make it the second time
w0lf215 said:
Meaning you can't take a sim card from AT&T or another GSM provider within the US and plug it into Photon and expect it to work. Its locked out for GSM in the US. It works internationally though.
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Well that is good news for me then because im not planing to use it in the us im planing to use it in venezuela with a sim card
I am using mine in Sweden on a prepayed sim it works great you might want to try a app called apn global it set up my net for me.
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mrbeatz said:
I am using mine in Sweden on a prepayed sim it works great you might want to try a app called apn global it set up my net for me.
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I'm using my Photon here in Turkey, and using the APN helps.
coolqf said:
I'm using my Photon here in Turkey, and using the APN helps.
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I have just bought an unlocked Sprint unit from ebay, hoping to use the GSM slot for my primary pre-paid line in Nigeria, and the CDMA slot for one of the CDMA providers in Nigeria as well. I plan to take the unit to be programmed into a CDMA network in Nigeria; that will cost me about US$50. Meanwhile, I successfully rooted and flashed ParanoidROM JB, but I saw that it showed no GSM signal at all with the JB ROM, so I restored the original GB 2.3.5 Nandroid backup. There seems to be very little documentation on how the dual system works. Will I be able to use both the CDMA and GSM together, in a dual-standby fashion, in Nigeria?
I flashed the KDDI radio and cm10 and have used my MoPho on T-Mobile.
Don't forget to thank all who help!
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Could you use the photon on Verizon?
ordoxenoss said:
Could you use the photon on Verizon?
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No
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ordoxenoss said:
Could you use the photon on Verizon?
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Big Red won't activate it unless they sold it.
Does anyone know how to GSM unlock the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for use with domestic SIM cards? It's got to be possible; people have done it for the HTC One and S4. I tried dialing *#0011# and pressing menu > back, but that simply does absolutely nothing.
petarmarinov37 said:
Does anyone know how to GSM unlock the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for use with domestic SIM cards? It's got to be possible; people have done it for the HTC One and S4. I tried dialing *#0011# and pressing menu > back, but that simply does absolutely nothing.
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I was told by bestbuy sim is only for LTE...
sprint does it for u..international department
kosmo42o said:
I was told by bestbuy sim is only for LTE...
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What...? What are you talking about?
petarmarinov37 said:
What...? What are you talking about?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2480180
LMMT said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2480180
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Oh. Yes, I know this. I thought he said the BestBuy SIM, which is why I was confused. Yes, it is only for LTE while in the USA, but it connects to GSM outside the USA. The phone is most definitely fully GSM capable.
DruoGaby said:
sprint does it for u..international department
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Nope. They'll only unlock it for international use. I need to get it unlocked for use on AT&T and T-Mobile, which they will not do.
petarmarinov37 said:
Nope. They'll only unlock it for international use. I need to get it unlocked for use on AT&T and T-Mobile, which they will not do.
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why would u wanna do that tho?
petarmarinov37 said:
Nope. They'll only unlock it for international use. I need to get it unlocked for use on AT&T and T-Mobile, which they will not do.
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It's beyond unlock. Sprint's Note 3 radio is patched to ignore T-mobile and AT&T towers in US. SIM unlock will not help in that matter.
If you have it rooted and custom bootloader you might want to try and FLASH Verizon's note 3 modem.bin file to see if it helps (probably not)
i unlocked it for domestic.
leond said:
It's beyond unlock. Sprint's Note 3 radio is patched to ignore T-mobile and AT&T towers in US. SIM unlock will not help in that matter.
If you have it rooted and custom bootloader you might want to try and FLASH Verizon's note 3 modem.bin file to see if it helps (probably not)
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i already cracked it for domestic see my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49017479#post49017479
Sprint cell phones excluding the blackberry series iPhone 4s 5 5s 5c can only be used internationally
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note3 sprint UNLOCK
jejogo said:
i already cracked it for domestic see my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49017479#post49017479
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Hi , I did everything on tutorial, red X on antenna, no signal, no service,phone has clean esn , any solution.? thanks
Hi,i want will buy SCH-I545 verizon on ebay.
But i am not knowing how to unlock this phone.
It is real???
Please help me)
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I believe they are factory unlocked out of the box but I might be wrong.
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oleggtx said:
Hi,i want will buy SCH-I545 verizon on ebay.
But i am not knowing how to unlock this phone.
It is real???
Please help me)
Sorry for my English
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The verizon phones are not SIM locked... I use Verizon S4 in Europe (Bosnia&Herzegovina) with the sim from my operator...