OK so I been using the same att sim card for atleast the past 4 years and I had switch to so many different phones and I have been messing with my vibrant so many times by removing and putting backing, now it is scratch to a point where the phone some times cannot read the sim card. So I order a new 1 and it just arrive today, what I notice on the unlock vibrant it show E only, not 3G or H. I call ATT they said it will only show 3g if it is a att phone, which they were right when I insert the new sim in to a ATT phone and it show 3g on it and E on unlock vibrant. Does anyone know a way around this or fix this? Or if I can dumb down the simcard? Any advise or opinion or anything would help alot.
your gonna find out that problems get solved on bigger phones
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Just a quick thread, i used the Dell Streak Unlocker program after being told by Att and Dell that the phone couldn't be unlocked, and after reading reviews of another program that weren't so kind, so i figured i would try this one. The program worked and i am now using another company's SIM, but i noticed that a few times since i unlocked it yesterday that it is registering "NO SIM" intermittently. So i am wondering is this is something anyone else has noticed after unlocking their Streak or if this is something occurring in Streaks in general?
Got my Streak unlocked by O2 and have never faced any such problem.
To be honest I have used the dell streak unlocker .. and my phone works great on simple mobile. . What it sounds like to me is something hardware.. this brings me back to when my iPhone use to have this problem along with a sidekick 2 I had (yess had an iPhone and sidekick 2 ) any how with the sidekick there was no hope but with the iPhone a new sim did the trick do some more research before getting a new similar or anything
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If you don't mind me asking what program did you use. I'm thinking of unlocking from att to go to tmobile. Do you know if all streaks can be unlocked and does it work on tmobiles 3G bands
I was wondering if it might be the SIM, i know ive swapped it to and from so many different phones that i was wondering if its just not making a great connection anymore. Thanks for the quick replies all. Also in regards to the t mobile bands, as far as i know the streak has the 2100 band, but is lacking the 1700 that t mobile also uses, would be a good question for t mobile as to where they default to when it comes to their band.
If the unlocking software referenced here is this one below....
http://www.unlockstreak.com/pages/d...?ref=874b1d7212afe8cc4672f2f53d9976c12a5ea0e5
then yes, I did for the first day or so get a NO SIM notice on my Streak, but that since has gone away. I was actually going to post an endorsement for this program before I looked for, and found this one. I had some trouble at the beginning that I sought support out for, and was rather speedily greeted back the proper instruction. I'm a former Rogers customer and have now switched over to Telus for $30 less than Rogers was trying to charge me. Complete success I would say.
I just called AT&T up and got an unlock code (fibbed & said I was traveling out of the country) & took all of 20 minutes with all the being put on hold. The Rep said that I needed to pop in the other company's SIM in order for my Streak to ask for the unlock code. Is there a way I can unlock with my code without having a non-AT&T SIM card? She also gave me the PUK code, so do I need to use both?
The puk code should be specific to the sim card itself(?)
It's for if you lock the card and forget the unlock code or something for it (completely unrelated to unlocking the phone itself)
There might be a "unlock" menu entry under settings -> wireless -> mobile networks
if it isnt there/doesnt work you will need to pop in a foreign sim card (any card that isnt on the locked network)
I am using the old sim from my backflip since the new one they gave me with the atrix didn't work! Does it matter what sim you are using with 4g?
i don't believe so i'm using the one from a very old lg incite to propel pro to iphone to this phone. it displays H+ on the screen and all.
Not particularly but the reason it won't work is most likely because its parked on your account waiting to be activated. If you still have it, try giving customer care a call and having them activate it. SIM cards do change and can affect your overall service.
P.s. Call from a different phone
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Gutterball said:
I am using the old sim from my backflip since the new one they gave me with the atrix didn't work! Does it matter what sim you are using with 4g?
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I've been using my 3G Sim card when I first got it. It doesn't make a difference in the speeds. AT&T has just been capping them and HSPA+ is in almost no cities.
SIM card DO make a lot more difference than most people think.. as they age they die just like all other technology, and so if you've been given a new SIM I suggest you call AT&T from a separate phone (so you don't get cut out mid conversation) and ask them to activate your new SIM.
Hey guys I need the communities help on this one so let me explain what's wrong. First off I've never had any problem with my data plan and switching the sim between phones. I just traded for a skyrocket and I stuck my sim in it to see if it was working and I wasn't getting any data. I get on AT&T chat and the lady says that I need one of the newer orange 4g Sims with the numbers 25 as the 9th and 10th digit. I have been using a blue sim for almost a year now without problems. So she changes it and I stick the new sim in the skyrocket and it still doesn't work then I stick in in my atrix and it doesn't work in it either. Its important to note that SMS and calling work fine and data works only if its on edge. Now she says I gotta go into the att store to get everything fixed and I hope someone here can help me. Btw my apn is the wep.Cingular or whatever it is lol.
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Bump please someone help still having the issue
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I have an HTC Aria originally on ATT in the US. I currently have no sim and haven't had one for like 1 1/2 years. I recently turned it on using wifi and it intermittently will just shut down and reboot. Any idea whats going on? This happens all the time. I can't get over the air updates since it is still locked to att. I don't have a sim card in there so can't get att updates. Please help?
androidcactus said:
Hello,
I have an HTC Aria originally on ATT in the US. I currently have no sim and haven't had one for like 1 1/2 years. I recently turned it on using wifi and it intermittently will just shut down and reboot. Any idea whats going on? This happens all the time. I can't get over the air updates since it is still locked to att. I don't have a sim card in there so can't get att updates. Please help?
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It's a known problem with the phone, and no one really knows for sure why it's happening. The only proven solution is to put a SIM card in the device -- and even then, it actually needs to be a recent SIM card, too, not an older one, for reasons that aren't clear.
My suggestion is to walk into an AT&T store and ask if they can give you a non-activated SIM card to put in your phone.
You can read more about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650934
it is from us cellular if you ask me its the s3 mini anyways itsa cdma phone that has a sim slot which has a card in it for us ceullar. now im confused the phone specs say its cdma only but with a sim card that makes me t hink its gsm global(locked to any us gsm providers im sure) and cdma so I would assume it will work with say cricket wireless.
I am leaving u ceulluar and would like to use the phone with c ricket wireless and being its a cdma phone im surei could it is just that sim card confused me.
I know on phone in past cricket can take your imei i think it is and use a tool over the phone to convert it to propperly work on their network.
So basically anyone know if this phone can be used with cricket? is it locked? do I ahve to flash it. if the gsm part is locked that wont matter since i will only be ising the cdma part. here is the link to the phone on us cellular
http://www.uscellular.com/uscellula...tandard&device-category=device-category-phone
Edited: The sim card has your programing for CDMA & 4g/LTE access. Just took mine out and it has zero service without it. I would guess as long as you put it in another compatible phone you would get service.
Hoping someone will figure out a simple rooting method, but doesn't appear there is a lot of interest yet.
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Edited: The sim card has your programing for CDMA & 4g/LTE access. Just took mine out and it has zero service without it. I would guess as long as you put it in another compatible phone you would get service.
Hoping someone will figure out a simple rooting method, but doesn't appear there is a lot of interest yet.
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Thanks but nah not what I was wanting, i wanted to be able to use the phone on cricket but since they dont use sim cards since their phones are cdma was why I was confused that this one has a card since usually only GSM phones use those. so im guessing I wont be able to use it on their network if they added it..I know they can convert certain imei's over the phone with a tool they ahve with cricket support but have not tried that yet.
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Thanks but nah not what I was wanting, i wanted to be able to use the phone on cricket but since they dont use sim cards since their phones are cdma was why I was confused that this one has a card since usually only GSM phones use those. so im guessing I wont be able to use it on their network if they added it..I know they can convert certain imei's over the phone with a tool they ahve with cricket support but have not tried that yet.
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mrtwisty said:
Edited: The sim card has your programing for CDMA & 4g/LTE access. Just took mine out and it has zero service without it. I would guess as long as you put it in another compatible phone you would get service.
Hoping someone will figure out a simple rooting method, but doesn't appear there is a lot of interest yet.
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So, just wondering, would the Samsung Axiom work on T-Mobile or AT&T ?
yes and no
The R830 by U.S cellular is a CDMA phone. now ah days having a sim card slot does not symply mean its GSM ....TMobile....GSM ALL DAY. ATT GSM all day. Vzw,sprint, uscellular...CDMA. the Sim card in question is a 4glite. it controls the 4g side and basically activates the phone upon new activation. the question is: WELL THIS PHONE WORK ON CRICKET? Answer...yes...I put one on Pageplus by just activatiing the imei and then OTA...but I'm having trouble with the DAta side... cant get data or MMS (picture messaging) to work..talk and texts works fine.....Now im on to figuring out how to get this thing into DiagMode without rooting it Oh yeah.....try activating your Imei on cricket and then star code it. . if it asks you to press 1 or 2 but you dont see a keyboard,....thats okay...just let the lady run her mouth until the music starts playing....when its done the phone will restart and you'll have talk and text
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joellecool said:
So, just wondering, would the Samsung Axiom work on T-Mobile or AT&T ?
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No, your phone will not work on either. The sim slot in question is for 4glte, all 4g phones will have this sim slot. A GSM sim will not provide any functionality at all.
oleskool1970 said:
but I'm having trouble with the DAta side... cant get data or MMS (picture messaging) to work..
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Was anyone got success in enabling the data ???