I have been on an escapade with Google and have received mixed results, so I will turn to my last resort!
My question is, what does it take to use the HTC Aria with a GoPhone SIM card? I have read it will not work, it will work with no issues, and it will work after a SIM unlock. My cousin currently has an HTC Surround and it works fine with his prepay account. He desperately wanted to move back to Android and seems to adore the Aria so I picked up a broken one for cheap with intentions to replace the digitizer next week. Long story short he popped his SIM card in the phone and it does not work.
Both the Surround and the Aria are smartphones from AT&T, different OS or not they should both work if one does. I know he wanted my old Inspire before the rain took it and we encountered the same problem, his SIM wouldnt work. Could it be as simple as carrier unlocking the device or are all the people just getting lucky and their device works with the GoPhone card?
The Aria is currently running CM7, it is of course rooted but is carrier locked if that could be the culprit.
Any help is appreciated, thanks guys and gals! :good:
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Hey ppl,
Just got my htc hero today, locked to tmobile.
So i get my sim (virgin) and stick it in the phone. All i get is the message 'out of serviceable area' on the screen and i can slide that down to reveal the tmobile screen, that is all!
It works fine with my friends orange sim card (which i had to put in to even unlock the phone!)
Thanks
'service' sorry for the typo
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1270703.html
the last post on here seems a little more enlightening? but i still don't know what to do..
I had that problem. My sim card was old and was not able use the data services for that phone, easily solved by a new sim
I want to get the HTC Hero from Telus (im in canada), unlock it...and use my Rogers SIM card with it. I asked two rogers CS people today, one said "yes it should work" and the other said "no, it wont". So internet...you are my last hope...lol. Please do let me know if this has worked for you.
From a Rogers user, with an Telus Hero, I can tell you, it's flawless. the only downside, I still could not root it. But soon, mate, we will be able to.
3G, Thetering, Gmail, Market, Voicemail, etc everything works as expected.
Same thing for all my HTC phones, tho. But android is getting me from my sentiments. Viva Montreal, tabarnak!
I have a telus hero and and i had no problem in rooting it. I think alot of others as well on this forums.
yup i've got a telus hero on rogers rooted with the MoDaCo custom ROM on it
Did you guys all buy these phones outright and put in a rigers sim card first, or was there once a telus sim card in them? I'm thinking of picking up a used one and unlocking it, but i'm wondering if i will have to change any of the apn setting or hvae any issues getting everything to work. Could someone post their apn setting that you have on your rogers hero, thanks.
Hi everyone, if these seem like simple questions please excuse my ignorance, im a bit of a noob in a lot of ways.
I have a Telus HTC Hero which is rooted with custom rom on it. I am going to Australia for a couple of months and would like to be able to just chuck a pre paid sim card in it to use while I am there.
2 Questions, 1st will the phone actually work over there? With the frequencies and what not. and secondly do I need to unlock it and if so how do I go about that.
Thanks in advance for your help
It should work for voice calls and texts. I don't think 3G will work though.
You'll need to go to an unlock shop or buy an unlock code of an eBay seller to use an Australian SIM Card I think.
Thanks!! Can anyone confirm this? Also does that mean data will not work at all?
Ok, I know we all hate the tools that post something in the wrong place or something that has been covered in several other threads, but I have exhausted all searches and can't post in the Dev threads...sorry
Here is the issue (assuming you're still there)...
MT4G has been rooted and unlocked with gfree (did my research about gfree issues) because I'm looking to be able to pop the AT&T sim in and rock some crappy service on my awesome phone. Tmob is good in the city, but not so good (zero service) elsewhere.
I'm in the city now working on this and there are no issues with the sim cards themselves, and I have brought the MT4G back to stock several times now only to re-root and try again. I'm leaving the froyo rom for the time being because gfree won't do ginger.
I'll do my best to provide any info requested, but I need another thought on why the phone isn't picking up AT&T svc. NOTE: APN will not save with AT&T card in, but won't be there if I save with Tmob sim and swap.
Open to suggestions, and again sorry if this is ill placed or someone knows there is an answer out there that I couldn't find.
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sorry, bumping because my post is on page 3........anyone?
Problem solved.....
AT&T has created new smaller chip SIM cards which will NOT work in a non AT&T phone. I did some digging online and found some of the older SIM cards with the full size chip on Amazon. Low and behold the unlock via gfree truely unlocks the MT4G unlike some threads had stated that it wouldn't.
The AT&T SIM MUST BE ACTIVATED ON AN AT&T PHONE! When I called to transfer to the new "old" SIM they asked for the IMEI of the AT&T phone and then called to make sure it was in the phone. Once done with customer service I put the AT&T card in the MT4G and it asked me to choose my carrier since the SIM had changed.
Hope this helps anyone who is trying to use AT&T on the MT4G.
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?
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