How can we unlock for a different carrier - Motorola Photon 4G

I have looked all over for the past few months, and maybe i missed it, but how can we do a carrier unlock to put the photon on a different carrier? I just want to unlock it to try it out with Verizon on my friends contract to see how much better it is on Verizon.
Anybody know how to do this?
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Get roam control. Roam on verizon. Then you will know how it works. You need to change your PRL for 3G data. There is a thread about this.
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How can i use a Verizon droid razr on At&t

was wondering if this could be possible cause i was reading the forums and found someone that did it by flashing the ap to the verizon razr if you could help me out that would be great thanks
It's not possible. Verizon uses CDMA, EVDO and LTE. AT&T uses GSM and UMTS. Completely different technologies. However, if you can get an XT910, a GSM version of the RAZR, you can use it on AT&T (this is what I have).
Ginzls1 said:
was wondering if this could be possible cause i was reading the forums and found someone that did it by flashing the ap to the verizon razr if you could help me out that would be great thanks
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im actually looking into this because my cousin has just left Verizon for att and it is possible they use sim cards and people have reported it working im not sure on many details of it yet but its out there just google "verizon droid razr on at&t"
look here http://blog.laptopmag.com/ics-world-phone-capabilities-come-to-verizons-droid-razr-and-razr-maxx
You cannot do that after the ICS update. With ICS, you can roam onto global GSM networks but many people have reported that you cannot change the default network from Verizon.
From everything I've heard the xt912 has the appropriate radios to connect with at&t cell towers but the usage of this feature is being blocked by vzw. Now I don't know if a custom rom like cm9 would allow for this or not.
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Try going to the dial pad. *#*#4636#*#* you should be able to set your radio to gsm
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glantern620 said:
Try going to the dial pad. *#*#4636#*#* you should be able to set your radio to gsm
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I believe the open is talking about using an at&t sim card on an at&t plan, not just roaming on their bandwidth
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619563
There are people working on it but it's not yet possible.
RAZR on AT&T network
Yes it is possible. I did it. The only thing is that I only use the phone for calls and texts and WiFi for data. In the bionic forum, they tell you to download Radiocomm. I did not do that. AlI did was just change the setting to gsm/utms network and placed the AT&T sim card and waited for 15-30 minutes for the phone to connect
Btw, I'm on ics.
Well,I tried to attach pic but admin won't let me
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Here's the pic
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Pic with data on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804388
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Carrier name issues on T-Mobile

Hey guys,
I'm kind of new to android stuff, so bear with me .
About a week back I bought this Motorola Photon 4g for Sprint off craigslist and used the kddi radii trick to make it work on GSM networks, namely T-Mobile. Right now imeon the hybrid 2.3.5 rom, but even when I was in the stock sprint rom, the carrier name randomly shows up as T-Mobil instead of T-Mobile. Is there any way to fix this other than spoofing the carrier name? Thanks for the help!
From what I know, the name is stored in SIM card, try to replace it with carrier.
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm actually planning on doing that soon anyway . The strange thing is it sometimes shows the full name T-Mobile, I'm still trying to figure that out haha
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Where is the trick?
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My phone does this too, I'm not sure why. To me it seems like it says 'T-Mobil' when signal is pretty weak, but i have overall weak signal in my apartment so it could just be me making a bad guess.
same thing
i also have the same thing, but i haven't noticed it till you have mention it.
i guess it belongs to 2G/3G. coz when you are having connected to 2G it tells you T-mobil
while when you are connected to 3G it tells you T-mobile.
pleas tell me if i'm right
Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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MeanJellyBean said:
Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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Tmobiles 4g is HSPA+ which is technically 3g
Jellybean Poppin MoPho
You guys must be in the refarm area cause the 3g frequencies are the same as the iPhone's. I'm still waiting on that . Btw I got a new SIM and it hasn't said T-mobil yet so maybe it's just a certain kind of sim that does it?
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Using a different carrier sim without unlocking

Has anyone tried to use a different carriers sim in the amaze without unlocking it?
I came to Mexico for vacation and bought a phone here to use while I was here..
I didn't unlock my amaze to work with differents sim cards so I thought it wouldn't work.. well one day I got curious and switched out the t-mobile sim for a telcel ( name of the cell company in Mexico ).
Waited for it to boot and to my surprise it works, it has 4g and all.
I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else?..
The phone is S-off btw..
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I just bought one today, it's supposed to be unlocked, tried my tmobile sim but nothing,the Mobile Network box is greyed out, what to do?
Did you s-off your device it did you buy UT lie that? If you bought it lie that chances are it was unlocked by that person. If not you at 1 in a million
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Spastic909 said:
Did you s-off your device it did you buy UT lie that? If you bought it lie that chances are it was unlocked by that person. If not you at 1 in a million
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I'm the one and only owner, I s-off the phone myself, but never unlocked it due to that I don't travel much outside of the U.S.
Yea sms and mms work... Plus 4g speeds here are crazy fast...
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Little question
I have an HTC amaze from T-mobile and put in a telcel sim card, i can make and receive calls but i still dont have any luck with the data, APN's already set up and nothing, are you sure that you didnt unlock and only are S-Off?
If you're unbranded, your unlocked! If you're T-mobile branded, you weren't supposed to be unlocked, unless the precious person unloxked it for you.
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I am branded, calls working, just missing data....

[Q] Motorola Photon 4G Bad ESN

Hi i have this motorola photon 4G and I was plan on getting it connect with sprint but I was told that it has a blocked esn. what does this exactly mean and is there a way I could unblock and will I still be able to us it with sprint
Thank You
Means it's a lost/stolen phone. No legal way to get around that and use it on Sprint
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w0lf215 said:
Means it's a lost/stolen phone. No legal way to get around that and use it on Sprint
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This^^^
Basically it's a parts device now. Once they are reported as lost or stolen the carrier puts the ESN on a blacklist. Once this happens pretty much no one will activate it.
Might be able to do the GMS mod and use tmoble or ATT.
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coolkidz said:
Hi i have this motorola photon 4G and I was plan on getting it connect with sprint but I was told that it has a blocked esn. what does this exactly mean and is there a way I could unblock and will I still be able to us it with sprint
Thank You
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What's the Android version? 2.3.4 or 2.3.5 ???
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PRL Question

Is there a way to flash an ATT prl so I can roam off their tower?
Thanks
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No, there is not. To use an AT&T tower, first someone would need to find a way to unlock the SIM for domestic use (which hasn't been done so far) and then you would also need to have a valid AT&T SIM card.

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