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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 there im doing my rounds In LA soon and would love to buy a hero out there my main concern is, when i return to the UK will it work with one of my UK networks... any one have any insight into this.....
If it is unlocked , answer is tes.
My hero was on Orange UK ,and using with 3 network and will most certainly work with networks in US.
The answer is no!
The Sprint Hero is a CDMA device. It doesn't have a SIM card slot, because CDMA devices don't use SIM cards, so you can't give it another "identity" by inserting a different SIM like you can a GSM phone.
I believe that there are some phones that support both CDMA and GSM, and these can operate on both types of network because they have a radio that supports both and a SIM card slot.
Note that some CDMA networks have implemented what they call a UIM, which does the same job as a SIM card, but isn't compatible.
Regards.
Dave
Lord Lucan said:
My hero was on Orange UK ,and using with 3 network and will most certainly work with networks in US.
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In the US, it will work on T-Mobile and AT&T (GSM networks) but not Sprint and Verizon (CDMA networks). Note that you will also not get 3G from the GSM networks, because the Euro Hero doesn't support the 3G bands needed by either AT&T and T-Mobile, so EDGE is the best you will see.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
In the US, it will work on T-Mobile and AT&T (GSM networks) but not Sprint and Verizon (CDMA networks). Note that you will also not get 3G from the GSM networks, because the Euro Hero doesn't support the 3G bands needed by either AT&T and T-Mobile, so EDGE is the best you will see.
Regards,
Dave
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this doesent answer my question it does the opposite.....
im trying to find out.. if a US hero that i buy in the US will work on any uk network....??
My previous post answered your question! The second post was commenting on what Lord Lucan had said.
Regards,
Dave
so dave in the us cant i just buy a sim free non network hero... ?
The "worldwide" GSM Hero does not support any of the 3G bands employed by networks in the US. So, if you were to buy a GSM Hero, it would work on either T-Mobile US or AT&T, but the best you would get, data wise, is EDGE whilst you are in the US. When you come back to the UK, you would be able to get 3G.
The US Hero, otherwise known as the Sprint Hero, is a CDMA device. This will not work at all on any UK networks.
Regards,
Dave
cool thanks for reply's dave.. looks like im gonna get one. ok so does anyone know where i could pick one up while im there.. im staying in west hollywood.
Why do you want to physically buy one in the US?
You can buy one from Expansys in the US for $540, or in the UK for £370 (with £30 worth of vouchers).
Assuming you could find a local retailer which stocks them in West Hollywood with prices similar to Expansys, you'd have to pay sales tax on it @ 9.75% would bring the cost pretty close to £370.
Regards,
Dave
becasue i have loads of usd to burn and not loads of GBP are you glad you now know my business......anyway back to where a retailer might be
i dont thing it would have uk 3g
would it?
Sorry probably none of my business but what use would the Sprint hero serve you in the UK since it is not possible to connect to any UK network or did I misunderstand. Wouldn't you be better off with the UK hero, at least that one could be rooted. Personally I would rather have that one, but the grass is always greener right.
erasmogjr said:
Sorry probably none of my business but what use would the Sprint hero serve you in the UK since it is not possible to connect to any UK network or did I misunderstand. Wouldn't you be better off with the UK hero, at least that one could be rooted. Personally I would rather have that one, but the grass is always greener right.
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no wrong your whole post is a wrong... i have a USD budget for every year.. so i dont care what price it is i just wanted to get one while im out there.. and as currently posted before like 3 times.. i don't want a sprint one.....so where might i be able to pick a non sprint hero up while in LA.. ?????????
mceiht said:
no wrong your whole post is a wrong... i have a USD budget for every year.. so i dont care what price it is i just wanted to get one while im out there.. and as currently posted before like 3 times.. i don't want a sprint one.....so where might i be able to pick a non sprint hero up while in LA.. ?????????
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umm...there is no non-sprint hero in the US. The cdma hero aka the US hero aka the SPRINT hero is ONLY available on sprint and from sprint. This phone does not use a sim card or any thing like it, when you turn one on for the first time it automatically connects to the sprint network and is linked to the number of the sprint subscriber that purchases by the phones unique ESN number, which cannot be changed legally. If you want a chinless hero, the one that is available on sprint and does not look at all like the UK hero, it will only and can only connect to CDMA networks and as far as I know only sprint. So no my post was not A wrong, I admitted to being kinda lost I just asked what use would a phone that you can not use as a phone serve you, a also asked if I had misunderstood, which I am sure now that I did not, you seem to be the lost one. When you get your US hero and try to unlock it for a gsm network, where are you going to stick the SIM card, please send me a video of you trying to put it into the phone, that will be fun to watch.
I m frm gujarat & i hv a ques which google/xdA or my technoholic friends could not answer.After exhaustive research i couldnt make a decision....
question is: I have a friend in US who just bought an evo 3d frm ebay,but found it had bad ESN.Now he is going to sell it in 250$ coz he cant use it with sprint or any other carrier anymore. Can i use tht fone here in india on cdma or gsm networks,by unlocking or flashing it?I read tht its bootloader will be unlocked soon Plz tell me if this is possible anyhow...m goin to pay real money to him
Thanks in advance
It would depend on what type of towers you have ( cdma or gsm) you need cdma, and also what frequencies they are running. the US evo 3d runs on 1900 mhz. Also im not sure if you can flash the evo 3d yet. im sure its possible, but the methods and apps used to flash other phones havent been tested yet. probably best to wait it out for a while and see what happens
leechgod27 said:
I m frm gujarat & i hv a ques which google/xdA or my technoholic friends could not answer.After exhaustive research i couldnt make a decision....
question is: I have a friend in US who just bought an evo 3d frm ebay,but found it had bad ESN.Now he is going to sell it in 250$ coz he cant use it with sprint or any other carrier anymore. Can i use tht fone here in india on cdma or gsm networks,by unlocking or flashing it?I read tht its bootloader will be unlocked soon Plz tell me if this is possible anyhow...m goin to pay real money to him
Thanks in advance
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From what I understand, Evo 3D's are CDMA devices and are 99% worthless outside of the U.S. however, I did read an article stating that HTC listed the Evo 3D with quadband capabilities (GSM being one of them of course) the only problem is I'm not 100% sure if they did that because it really "is" quadband capable or if that just applies to international or special models. Maybe someone else will beat me to it and fully answer ur question. Your best bet is to try and find out if ur friends Evo 3D is quadband capable, if so, u might be able to use it in India by GSM. If it is only a CDMA device, its probably gna be worthless unless u want to be paying some pretty costly roaming charges
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Im pretty sure that the EVO 3d is only dual band. the photon 4g is tri or quad band. The evo 3d doesnt have a sim card slot either so it doesnt have gsm capabilities.
thank u friends for ur quick replies...one of my friends was able to use evo 4g here,so i thought this also might work.Still i will wait for some solid answer B-)
thought there was gonna be a gsm version
Isn't the evo 3d gsm version releasing in france within 2 weeks?
(i might be wrong, just stating what i read)
Sorry, just read the post and no..., an evo 3d bought in the USA on sprint's cdma network by no means can be used on gsm networks...
Don't know whether it can be used on cdma networks in other countries, however i highly doubt it.
EVO 3D has both GSM and CDMA. I am getting the EVO 3d GSM from the US soon. I have checked on gsmarena which says that EVO 3D gsm is quadband.
I have sprint evo 3d working on reliance CDMA in india.
It cam with hboot 1.30/1.40 ( i didnt remember) but **** i upgraded the hboot to 1.50.
iam thinking of buying the CDMA version of EVO 3d to use in india.here two networks provide CDMA reliance and TATA..i see so many people selling the EVO 3d which they got from sprint and attached to reliance..how do they do it? because if i get the sprint one from US directly it costs me very less but the one they are selling is also the sprint one but they did say something about ESN being registered to reliance network.so can i directly buy from US and register it myself? or do i have to unlock it or something? can someone explain me plz how is it done!
Hi, ESN or MEID needs to be registered with the operator like Reliance or TATA. For registering with the operator there is not only a single parameter of handset, so getting that registered for yourself will be v tough but still if you believe you can do that you can get the handset on your own.
Thanks
vishalchandna said:
Hi, ESN or MEID needs to be registered with the operator like Reliance or TATA. For registering with the operator there is not only a single parameter of handset, so getting that registered for yourself will be v tough but still if you believe you can do that you can get the handset on your own.
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so do u suggest me to buy from them?
if i buy directly it costs 21500
if i buy a reliance registered one it costs me 24000
if i buy a tata registered one it costs me 26000
and hey i also wanted to know why does tata one cost more? everyone is telling more cost compared to reliance. and there is nothing like unlocking for CDMA right?
I want this phone in the worst way to replace my cracked Droid x2. however there is zero chance I will be able to leave Verizon soon. is there anyway to get this phone to work on my existing Verizon plan. If I buy a unlocked cdma version of the phone?
thanks in advance.
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The i9100 is not a CMDA phone so it will never work on Verizon. Biggest problem about Verizon for me (reason why I changed to AT&T) is that verizon phones only work for verizon phones and no other phones will work on Verizon, even sprint phones. ( I have heard some people had success from sprint to verizon, although ive never seen any proof)
I thought the us cellular and sprint S 2s used cdma. from what I can find on the internet its compatible with Verizon when unlocked but they wont activate it because of the esn.
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I coudnt find dif forums for GSM and cdma s2's so i posted here.
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Hardware wise, it may work, (unsure) but Verizon needs to add the MEID into their database to activate the phone, which is something they will not do. So, no unlocked phones will work on Verizon unless its a phone made for Verizon.
could I swap either that or the esn on the s2 with my cracked x2 and activate it that's way. I'm already paying for the contract I just wanna activate the s2 and abandon my x2. not try and have two phones working simultaneously
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carter_e said:
I thought the us cellular and sprint S 2s used cdma. from what I can find on the internet its compatible with Verizon when unlocked but they wont activate it because of the esn.
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US Cellular's Galaxy S2 variant is the SCH-R760, and the Sprint variant (aka the Epic 4G Touch) is the SPH-D710. Both are CDMA phones.
This is the forum for the I9100. A different phone, which is a GSM phone.
You'd be better off asking your questions in the Epic 4g Touch forum. The US Cellular variant is not quite the same, but there are many similarities, and that forum is more appropriate.