[+w w w.] ebay.ca/itm/Sony-Ericsson-Xperia-Mini-Pro-SK17i-White-SimFree-Phone-/220839273164?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item336b0be2cc
I'm looking for the Xperia Mini Pro, but to work on the Bell Mobility Network, and I'm incredibly confused now, how many versions there are of this phone on ebay.
Will the link above be able to work with Bell Mobility?
My friend has the 900/2100 version, and the sim is actively rejected, and I don't want to have that problem =)
Thanks.
afaik the phones supports every band. Could it be possible that you friend uses a simlocked device/sim?
The big amount of these phones on ebay results certainly of the strange way of naming the devices as the previos version was the xperia x10 mini pro. The current on is the same name without x10. Without pro are the devices without hardware keyboard etc.
You should search for sk17i what is the working name of the xperia mini pro and your results should be better
Greetings, Klaus
I don't think it's sim locked because she bought it in Hong Kong, and I can get a 2G signal on it with my Rogers sim card, but when she tries using her Bell sim card it actively refuses it.
I called bell and they said that the phone is not on the same band as their network.
My guess is because Bell doesn't use GSM, but uses HSPDA.
I think the Sk17 has two versions, the SK17 and the SK17i, and perhaps another one. One is quad band, one is tri band and the other is duo band.
To work on Bell or Telus in Canada requires SK17a model, SK17i will not work since as Bell rep told you, the latter is not on the correct band (requires UMTS/WCDMA/3G on 850/1900, the "i" has 900/2100).
Related question—how about T-Mobile in the US? I just bought a Mini Pro, but it seems like it drops the network every couple of minutes before picking it back up. My old G1 used to work perfectly in the same location, so it shouldn't be a reception issue...
Hey there.
I bought a sim locked SK17a from Rogers.
Went to one of those GSM stores in Vancouver, and got a carrier unlock code for $50.
Phone sim unlocked, and can use the Bell network.
Had to manually enter the APN details to access 3G, when I inserted my Bell Sim.
Todd
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Hi folks!
I have a big problem, I bought 2 weeks ago HTC Touch Pro Sprint from USA. I got it today, and now I see, that it hasn't a SIM slot.
Is it any possibilyti to use it in Hungary with a Sim card? Or is the only way to sell it in the USA? It is new, no used, with all kabels and equipment.
Please, help! Many thanks in advance.
Sorry for my poor english, a speek off course hungarian and german.
the sprint touch pro you purchased is CDMA, if your cellular provider uses SIM cards then u most likely need a GSM phone (at&t fuze).
who is the cell provider in hungary?
if you cell your phone then u can also sell it to verizon customers as they use CDMA band too and the sprint touch pro is far superior than the verizon touch pro
Yes, we have GSM here in Hungary, with 3 providers, t.e. Vodafone, and T-mobile. There is no way to flush or hack it to a GSM phone?
Sorry mate, you have to get a different mobile. CDMA & GSM phones are made of different hardware.
Yes, I know. My only hope was, maybe it is possible to change the CDMA module against a GSM module in the phone.
nope, there is no way to flash a cdma to gsm unless you want a $500 brick.
it would be like trying to flash a Panasonic Home Cordless phone into a Cellular phone, impossible
Hi,
I am currently in taiwan, and I was just wondering if I bought a gs2 here, and unlocked it, would I be able to use Rogers with it? Im scared that after I buy it, that some functions won't work. Im a total nub at this so I tried to search things up, but nothing came up. Please help .
gching
Really depends on the 3G bands it supports as different countries will have different versions of the SGS2. If it supports 3G 850mhz you're good to go.
its in chinese (which i can barely ready ) but it says something like HSPA 21 Mbps, does that represent the 3g or 4g
My phone is from the UK and i'm on fido from Canada. Everything works perfectly fine. I believe Rogers owns Fido too, so I would guess yes. Everything should work just fine.
my friend tells me because im buying it from taiwan, that it is automatically unlocked so i dont need to unlock myself, is that true?
I am using it right now with Rogers. No problem at all.
Hey guys. I just recently updated my Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for use with T-Mobile 3G Data. I originally bought my X10 locked to AT&T but I had the phone software unlocked for like $50 bucks to use it with T-Mobile. Can anyone help me out? I popped my sim card in my brother's G2X and it connected to the T-Mobile 4G tower just fine but it won't connect to the 3G towers at all on my X10. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Do a Google search for apn of tmobile.
Edit: also you have a phone that is on the wrong frequencies. Tmobile uses 1700, at&t Uses 850/something else.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
I entered the proper APN settings and it's still not working. Since it was the AT&T Xperia X10, could that be the reason why it's not working registering on the T-Mobile 3G towers?
Go to Settings/Wireless & Networks/Mobile Networks/Preferred Network mode/Click GSM/WCDMA preferred.Then go to Network Operators/Wait to connect if not go to Search mode/Select Automatically/Search Networks. It should connect to three networks
(house icon) 3g an be Checked/(house icon) 2g DR/ (no icon) 2g that's your sms/mms.
Although you may only have two Networks (icons) with the primary one checked or you well be roaming. Also X10a an X10i have differences in bands so you may have to change your Firmware/Baseband/Rom.
Also you can check your friends Access Point Names and try that.
Settings/Wireless & Networks/Mobile Networks/Access Point Name/Menu/Add APN.
And put in the Exact settings/Menu/Save/Reboot Phone.
You may have to what a few to connect a minute or two.
I'm bummed out, no matter what I do, my phone simply won't connect to the T-Mobile 3G towers in my area. Since this was the AT&T Xperia X10, it doesn't support the same 3G bands as T-Mobile's. Could I be wrong? I've tried everything. I flashed the stock 2.1 rom on it and it still couldn't read. It kept registering me on T-Mobile 2G with E on the status bar. Are there actual Sony Ericsson Xperia X10s that support T-Mobile 3G US?
There are 3 different types of x10's;
the x10i, x10a, and that Japanese one (s0-01b?).
They all use different frequencies (can't recall them off the top of my head).
Afaik, AT&T uses x10a's because they work with the frequencies that at&t broadcast 3g on. T-Mobile uses x10i's because they work on the frequencies that T-Mobile broadcast 3g on. Because you got the x10 from at&t, its very likely that you have an x10a, which will not work with T-Mobile.
Flashing roms, kernels, basebands, whatever CAN NOT change this. The frequencies are set in the actual chip on the motherboard. The only way to change this is to buy an x10i unfortunately.
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i recently won a auction on ebay ,i got blackberry 8530 sprint ,anyway i live in europe ,so i wanna to get my sim card and looking were to put the card .Anyway
i'm going to sell that blackberry to sombody probobly to a pawn guy or something
Now i'm looking to samsung fascinate ,but i dont want to have the same problem as i did .
what samsungs ,or htc has a sim card slot ?
and another question ,i live in europe and in usa ,so i've got a samsung behold 2
t-mobile and it works fine in europe ,are htc or samsung fascinate would work europe ?
thanks mike
No it does. US carriers don't use sim cards. To make it worse, this is a Verizon phone so it is a cdma phone. I think international carriers are GSM.
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well some of the us carriers does not take sim cards i now ,but is there any chances to replace something that would work in europe ,and what htc androids for about 100$ takes sim cards ?
The GSM US carriers would be AT&T and T-Mobile. They would have some phones with sim cards.
I know there is at least one CDMA carrier in England, it might be Vodafone. Not sure about other countries; you didn't say where you were.
VERIZON Fascinate = CDMA no sim card
TELUS Fascinate = GSM and a sim card. I have no idea if the radio operates on the proper frequency for your provider however.
American (and Canadian too I think) GSM phones are simlocked to the issuing carrier. I'd recommend you buy a phone from your country. Unless the phone says "Unlocked" in the description, do not buy it. If you don't know what to buy, look it up on Phonescoop.com you want a 4 band GSM phone. However most 3G will not work in Europe because HSPA and HSDPA are running on different frequencies here than what you guys use.
Hi guys,
I rooted the phone, installed audio and viper mod... but the only reason I even got that far was trying to root the phone to get additional bands added to the modem. Seems like I am not getting far lol.
The ulefone power 3s I got does not work in canada for bell... as it lacks 3g apparently and only has 2g and 4g? 4g data works, calling phone with 2g works. So data works for bell mobility and rogers, but voice and sms does not work with bell mobility... only with rogers/fido/koodo.
I am going to switch to rogers from bell due to better cost (45 a month plan with data) vs 80+ with bell... so ill get voice working but im worried then how much this phone will work when roaming in the states and what have you....
I seem to be only able to find how to edit bands with qualcom based phones but ours is a p23 or mtk 6763 processor phone.
Did you figure this out?
Just wondering if you were ever able to unlock the bands. I am having a similar issue
Fault of the smartphone made in mediatek：
The japan domestic carrier company where iPhone is set to use all of carrier bands in Japan merely hangs SIM lock and sells a terminal, but even which carrier is available if I cancel it.
However, there is no human being who wants to use this even if the phone which is how much which is the phone which is usable only in Japanese Tokyo where only a measure band of 3G and the LTE is usable because it is sold domestically without most of the carrier bands in Japan being available is bargain as for the smartphone made in mediatek
Even if the person buying it appears if baseband sets it freely and can add it, such an application does not exist.
Because I get the root right, in z3c of sony where band addition is possible freely by QPST and QXDM if it is a phone of snapdragon, there are still many users
The smartphone made in mediatek is a really useless (not smart) phone in Japan