I read the massive post about how the Rezound can now work on a GSM network with flashing/rooting. My question is can it be done without doing either of those? Did the ICS update make it possible? I am asking these questions because my girlfriend wants the Rezound but has a contract with ATT. I'm not super tech savvy when it comes to these type of things, so if its an easy fix or the ICS update fixed it then I'd happily get her the phone. From everything I've read everybody seems to be extremely happy with it, I just switched from an iPhone to a One X and cant believe I ever picked up an iPhone.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
You might have to be rooted to get 3g to work.
Why would you get a phone for $700 from a different carrier, pay for an AT&T sim card, and go through all the trouble and issues of using a CDMA phone on a GSM network when you can get a One x for a third of the price, with LTE, and without any issues?
Yeah what he said ^
Have her get an HTC one X or wait till the One X+ hits. The one x kills the Rezound, and it's a lot of trouble to get 3G working on the Rezound
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So I've been using a Samsung flip phone for the past two years and finally decided, with the end of my contract, that it's time to buy a new, bamf phone.
I really like the HTC Hero, and I know it can be unlocked to work on Tmobile, but would I totally loose out on 3g functionality if I did this? And if so, would it only last til the phone is released state side?
Also is the Hero worth buying if it can't connect to 3g networks? Should I just get the Sapphire?
Nosotros said:
So I've been using a Samsung flip phone for the past two years and finally decided, with the end of my contract, that it's time to buy a new, bamf phone.
I really like the HTC Hero, and I know it can be unlocked to work on Tmobile, but would I totally loose out on 3g functionality if I did this? And if so, would it only last til the phone is released state side?
Also is the Hero worth buying if it can't connect to 3g networks? Should I just get the Sapphire?
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If you live in the USA then T-Mobile will only give you 2g on the Hero.
Sprint http://phandroid.com/2009/09/03/official-sprint-announces-htc-hero/ and http://phandroid.com/2009/09/03/sprint-htc-hero-oct-11-179-no-chin/ have confirmed they will carry the Hero (but not as we Europeans know it) on their 3g network.
So what would you all consider a better phone, a Sapphire on 3g or a Hero on 2g?
I have been browsing these forums for a few days now and i'm wondering, I got a thunderbolt, rooted, tried a couple different radios, and i'm banging my head against the wall trying to figure out if it can be done.
I am a little bit of a noob when it comes to cellular phones but i have learned alot in the past week about CDMA, GSM, LTE and the sim cards. I have played with the android SDK a little bit have not published anything yet but It is a hobby currently that may go a little farther than that. also i read and understand that verizon phones do not natively use sim cards.
anyways, my phone recognizes that there is a sim card in it now when the T-Mobile card is in. and as a result I am led to the conclusion that it has something to do with the radio I am using.
Other maybe useful information (which could also be another thing in need of a solution) is the T-mobile phone I am using the sim card from was from a nokia phone that cost me $50.00 for the phone and service for a month.
Does the Sim card cause an issue switching it from a non-smartphone to a smartphone?
Other useful information is I am using the Thunderstick ROM
Revolutionary Rooted
HBoot(which I am unsure of the function of hboot) 6.04.1002
Radio 1.39.00.0430r
eMMC-boot
I like this phone so far and see it as a useful tool, got it from a relative after they upgraded their own.
If you need any more information let me know or if you know my problem would be helpful. again i have learned alot since i got this thing, and i've been just using the android emulator on a 6 year old computer so this is quite the present either way!
I've seen youtube videos of people going to websites and putting in codes like *#06# but i think i need a little guidance to the right direction. i'll be checking this thread daily at least. thank you in advance for reading my small wall of text
long time reader, first time poster!
No T-Mobile is GSM thunderbolt is cdma
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it was fun banging my head against the wall the past few days, learned regardless. thank you for the speedy response!
i despise verizon wireless for their prices of their contracts, i think that the only other solution to use this phone with is MetroPCS, correct me if i am wrong (just watched the guy on the XDA TV go off about how much power the major 4 cell providers in america have so much power)
seems like they have affordable plans also.
Yes, a guy on here posted that you could flash your thunderbolt to PagePlus, but keep it mind that you will have no LTE.
Whoops, it was PagePlus not MetroPCS. Fixed in post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294179
thank you so much for that last post, i guess i didn't brows through everything because i missed that one, but i was aiming for t-mobile, but i'm thinking the transition to metropcs will be smoother based on they use LTE and CDMA, either way this is more than i thought i'd bite off, but i'm still hungry.
very interesting tutorial, again thanks so much for knowing the forums better than myself.
if this was a HD2 it would be sooo easy it seems.
while tinkering is always fun, why not just pick up a t-mobile phone on craigslist? For about 200-250, you can get most of the high end t-mobile phones, and you will have hspa+ which works great for data when you can get a signal (left t-mobile due to signal issues at work).
Today on Ebay Daily Deals, Samsung Google Nexus S GSM unlocked for 299. No Contract. 200ish left.
Also I am having signal issues where I am I figure of may be a good time to test the waters and swim to a new service provider. Tinkering is fun and educational. Found the service provider that fits the phone and think it will be fun
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Gephoria42 said:
Also I am having signal issues where I am I figure of may be a good time to test the waters and swim to a new service provider. Tinkering is fun and educational. Found the service provider that fits the phone and think it will be fun
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Especially since you'll be seeing Tmobile become ATT.
Hey guys,
I was thinking about giving my old rezound to my nephew since his old tmobile phone got messed up. I have never tried using one carrier phone on another but is there a way to get my old rezound working on tmobile? I think as long as he gets 3g he would be happy, his last phone was 3g anyways. The rezound is on neo's tron rom and is s-off so i can flash anything required,
Thanks for the help guys!
66racer said:
Hey guys,
I was thinking about giving my old rezound to my nephew since his old tmobile phone got messed up. I have never tried using one carrier phone on another but is there a way to get my old rezound working on tmobile? I think as long as he gets 3g he would be happy, his last phone was 3g anyways. The rezound is on neo's tron rom and is s-off so i can flash anything required,
Thanks for the help guys!
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You can't get 3G on T-Mobile with the Rezound. My friend gets 3G on his iPhone on T-Mobile but I only get Edge in the same area.
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You can't get 3G on T-Mobile with the Rezound. My friend gets 3G on his iPhone on T-Mobile but I only get Edge in the same area.
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Ok thanks, I tried some of the gsm patches and none worked but guess that confirms it. Thanks!
I let him know that and guess he would still be happy, turns out his mother had data off anyways on his phone and he needed to be on wifi for data, he wont be missing out on anything and have a nice upgrade from the htc mytouch he had.
I think I'm finally in the market for a new phone after 3 yrs with my HTC MyTouch.
Seems like the OG is the best value for me (other options are the Nexus 4, HTC One, Galaxy S3). I doubt anyone in this forum will point me to a different phone, but if there's a good argument for the others (or others that I don't know about), I'd certainly listen. The OG seems cheaper/better specs than the S3, and the HTC has no SD card. N4 is a consideration, and for me it seems that capacitative buttons are the only downside v. the OG.
Anyway, here are my questions:
1. Can I use the AT&T version on a T-mobile or simple mobile plan? It looks like I should be able to get 4g no problem...
1a. The "unlocking" methods in the forums--are they for complete unlocking? That is, can I buy a locked AT&T phone and unlock it myself?
nola mike said:
I think I'm finally in the market for a new phone after 3 yrs with my HTC MyTouch.
Seems like the OG is the best value for me (other options are the Nexus 4, HTC One, Galaxy S3). I doubt anyone in this forum will point me to a different phone, but if there's a good argument for the others (or others that I don't know about), I'd certainly listen. The OG seems cheaper/better specs than the S3, and the HTC has no SD card. N4 is a consideration, and for me it seems that capacitative buttons are the only downside v. the OG.
Anyway, here are my questions:
1. Can I use the AT&T version on a T-mobile or simple mobile plan? It looks like I should be able to get 4g no problem...
1a. The "unlocking" methods in the forums--are they for complete unlocking? That is, can I buy a locked AT&T phone and unlock it myself?
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1. Yes
1a. No, those are for unlocking the bootloader.
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1a. No, those are for unlocking the bootloader.
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Hmm, so there's no way to unlock it myself? Can I pay one of the online services?
nola mike said:
Hmm, so there's no way to unlock it myself? Can I pay one of the online services?
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I honestly don't know. I'm on AT&T.
Yeah its not hard to find sim unlock codes online
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nola mike said:
I think I'm finally in the market for a new phone after 3 yrs with my HTC MyTouch.
Seems like the OG is the best value for me (other options are the Nexus 4, HTC One, Galaxy S3). I doubt anyone in this forum will point me to a different phone, but if there's a good argument for the others (or others that I don't know about), I'd certainly listen. The OG seems cheaper/better specs than the S3, and the HTC has no SD card. N4 is a consideration, and for me it seems that capacitative buttons are the only downside v. the OG.
Anyway, here are my questions:
1. Can I use the AT&T version on a T-mobile or simple mobile plan? It looks like I should be able to get 4g no problem...
1a. The "unlocking" methods in the forums--are they for complete unlocking? That is, can I buy a locked AT&T phone and unlock it myself?
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Specs dont mean everything. I had an HTC Evo 3D, there are things the 3D does better than OG, at least in my case.
you can use
i have used ATT, Simple mobile, AND H20
ATT= obviously works best! lte almost everywhere...and hspa+ isnt bad when im not in 4g zone..
simple mobile -> runs from what i found on 2g and LTE and SOMETIMES3g.. (rarely)
H20= uses ATT towers so 3g all the way!
ianwardell said:
i have used ATT, Simple mobile, AND H20
ATT= obviously works best! lte almost everywhere...and hspa+ isnt bad when im not in 4g zone..
simple mobile -> runs from what i found on 2g and LTE and SOMETIMES3g.. (rarely)
H20= uses ATT towers so 3g all the way!
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Ended up going with an AT&T Galaxy S3 (many more available on ebay), awaiting arrival. Very confusing, since the earlier T-mo s3's don't support LTE, and the AT&Ts should support LTE on T-mo's network but not their hspa (I think). The newer T-mo S3's were >$100 more than the other 2 versions.
Oh, and it doesn't look like freemyblackberry.com is offering free codes anymore.
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Ended up going with an AT&T Galaxy S3 (many more available on ebay), awaiting arrival. Very confusing, since the earlier T-mo s3's don't support LTE, and the AT&Ts should support LTE on T-mo's network but not their hspa (I think). The newer T-mo S3's were >$100 more than the other 2 versions.
Oh, and it doesn't look like freemyblackberry.com is offering free codes anymore.
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i guess, it cost me $5 on ebay for a code....for my LGOG... so anyway, i guess its a good choice. good dev section anyway
Hey all,
So I've done some searching here, but I cannot find a concise, definitive answer to my questions. I'm buying a first phone for my daughter for Christmas, mainly for use as an MP3 and video player, but also for emergencies. She's still young, so when I say emergency we were leaning towards ONLY FOR A 911 TYPE EMERGENCY, as I believe those are placed even if the phone isn't activated. Anyway, her mom and I are on a GSM carrier so if we did activate it, we'd likely do it there, or a very cheap CDMA provider like Page Plus. So if I buy a phone off eBay or Craigslist today, regardless of whatever HBOOT/BOOTLOADER or ROM it has on it, can I still root it, use HTC Dev to unlock the bootloader, the toolkit to S-OFF, and then flash a 4.X ROM and use GSM if I desire?
Thanks for any help! If this will work then I'll go this route and she'll be very excited!!
vettejock99 said:
Hey all,
So I've done some searching here, but I cannot find a concise, definitive answer to my questions. I'm buying a first phone for my daughter for Christmas, mainly for use as an MP3 and video player, but also for emergencies. She's still young, so when I say emergency we were leaning towards ONLY FOR A 911 TYPE EMERGENCY, as I believe those are placed even if the phone isn't activated. Anyway, her mom and I are on a GSM carrier so if we did activate it, we'd likely do it there, or a very cheap CDMA provider like Page Plus. So if I buy a phone off eBay or Craigslist today, regardless of whatever HBOOT/BOOTLOADER or ROM it has on it, can I still root it, use HTC Dev to unlock the bootloader, the toolkit to S-OFF, and then flash a 4.X ROM and use GSM if I desire?
Thanks for any help! If this will work then I'll go this route and she'll be very excited!!
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The answer is yes, you can do that... the phone will work for E911 calls without being activated. You can also unlock, S-OFF, root, ROM and everything else like you said, although the Rezound is a little more complicated than to S-OFF than just using a toolkit it is doable with some homework and a little Linux knowledge, but to be honest, GSM works fine (Edge data only, 3G/4G higher possible with significant tweaking on some GSM carriers) on the stock 4.5.605.14 ROM.
If you know you will likely be activating this on a GSM carrier, why not get a phone designed for that right off the bat? Several unlocked GSM phones can be purchased for around the same price as the Rez, like the Galaxy Nexus, Sony Xperia S, HTC Sensation, Samsung GS2 GT-I9100 or similar phones. Don't get me wrong, I love the Rezound, but for ease of use on a GSM carrier with full 3G data you migh be better off looking at a phone suited to that purpose.
Yes, it's doable, just know what you are in for...
Thanks you.SO much! I've done wire tricks on some phones before and I think I'm learning that is the challenge here, but I should be good. I appreciate the other thoughts as well. To your question, well, we have poor GSM coverage in a number of spots around here, even we my wife and I using it, and CDMA seems like a good emergency precaution.
Thanks again so much!!
vettejock99 said:
Thanks you.SO much! I've done wire tricks on some phones before and I think I'm learning that is the challenge here, but I should be good. I appreciate the other thoughts as well. To your question, well, we have poor GSM coverage in a number of spots around here, even we my wife and I using it, and CDMA seems like a good emergency precaution.
Thanks again so much!!
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Cool... Note that activating the Rezound on PagePlus requires significant "tweaking" and a donor PagePlus phone to clone the ESN/MEID, PagePlus will not activate the Rezound as it is, neither will any other CDMA carrier but Verizon, and even then they won't do it on a prepaid plan. People have mentioned before that Cricket will do it, but the results have been mixed.
As long as you are aware of the issues and what you might need to do, go for it. Although for use as a video player, I would recommend an extended battery, the screen time on a standard battery is >2 hours. :/
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Cool... Note that activating the Rezound on PagePlus requires significant "tweaking" and a donor PagePlus phone to clone the ESN/MEID, PagePlus will not activate the Rezound as it is, neither will any other CDMA carrier but Verizon, and even then they won't do it on a prepaid plan. People have mentioned before that Cricket will do it, but the results have been mixed.
As long as you are aware of the issues and what you might need to do, go for it. Although for use as a video player, I would recommend an extended battery, the screen time on a standard battery is >2 hours. :/
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Excellent points. Yeah, I had a S3 on PP for a while and it was a pain - actually CDMA overall is a pain to me so I probably won't do it. Per your advice - looking for an extended battery right now!