I bought a used ATT atrix from cowboom and verified that the meid was clean from ATT. I bought and activated a net10 sim and unlimited card. When I install the sim into the phone I get emergency call only unless I turn airplane mode on and reboot. Or hold volume down when booting and select NO BP Then I can get in. However, If i turn the radios on, I get a red circle with a line through it in the signal strength bars. The sim works in an unlocked iphone. I registered with motoblur thinking that it may have been necessary but it didnt help. Any ideas?
Additionally, a message comes up saying network with limited service found, do you want to initiate a network search
Im returning the phone pretty sure its defective
it's not an international phone, that is... goto development section, unlock your bl, root it, flash a custom recovery, install an international rom. :victory:
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hey everyone, i'm about to buy AT&T Galaxy Note through Craigslist.
seller states that it is unlocked, but not rooted. is there anyway for me to verify it is unlocked?
is it simply inserting my T-Mobile SIM card and making sure it doesn't say phone is locked, enter network lock control key, etc...?
tuffCookie said:
hey everyone, i'm about to buy AT&T Galaxy Note through Craigslist.
seller states that it is unlocked, but not rooted. is there anyway for me to verify it is unlocked?
is it simply inserting my T-Mobile SIM card and making sure it doesn't say phone is locked, enter PIN, etc...?
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Yes all you have to do is insert your sim and it will either connect, or you will get a prompt to enter the PIN. If you want to use 3G/4Gish though, you will have to root and flash the t-mo radio that's in dev section.
P.S. With most Samsung phones, you can check for the unlock by dialing *#7465625# and it will tell you directly if there's a network lock on it, but Samsung disabled this on the skyrocket IIRC and kept it disabled on the note
zoso28 said:
Yes all you have to do is insert your sim and it will either connect, or you will get a prompt to enter the PIN. If you want to use 3G/4Gish though, you will have to root and flash the t-mo radio that's in dev section.
P.S. With most Samsung phones, you can check for the unlock by dialing *#7465625# and it will tell you directly if there's a network lock on it, but Samsung disabled this on the skyrocket IIRC and kept it disabled on the note
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perfect. thanks for the quick response!
When I inserted a tmo sim into mine nothing happened except for it would show the sim phone number under the Settings app. No signal bars either. This is on a stock unlocked phone.
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When I inserted a tmo sim into mine nothing happened except for it would show the sim phone number under the Settings app. No signal bars either. This is on a stock unlocked phone.
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You might have to wait a few minutes for it to acquire the signal.. Is the sim active? Sometimes inactive Sims don't connect, but I put my old t-mo sim in & it had a signal in 20-30 seconds.
Easiest way to tell is to reboot the phone after you put a non-at$t sim in. If it's locked it will ask for network control key .
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You might have to wait a few minutes for it to acquire the signal.. Is the sim active? Sometimes inactive Sims don't connect, but I put my old t-mo sim in & it had a signal in 20-30 seconds.
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Yeah it was an active sim. Ten minutes later with no results. It wouldn't work without the APN at all and the Tmo rep didn't want to go through all of that (it was his sim).
tuffCookie said:
hey everyone, i'm about to buy AT&T Galaxy Note through Craigslist.
seller states that it is unlocked, but not rooted. is there anyway for me to verify it is unlocked?
is it simply inserting my T-Mobile SIM card and making sure it doesn't say phone is locked, enter network lock control key, etc...?
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It is that "simple"..
If you insert your non-AT&T (including it's MVNOs which are considered AT&T also), and it's LOCKED, it will ask you for the unlock code. If it doesn't, it has been unlocked permanently.
If after doing this, it does show your number under about, but you don't get a signal. This might be an indication of how well the phone gets a signal or how good/bad the signal is, on your carrier in the area you are testing in.
An after thought is to check the versions in the about and research. You may have acquired a hacker/tinkerer's phone that may have played further with the phone's settings and or flashed a different modem. It may also be indicative of why s/he is selling it, possibly faulty.. YMMV
You have to flash T-Mo compatible modem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1573568
thanks everyone. i bought a note from someone an hour after my initial post and it was unlocked.
i'm enjoying this phone/tablet/phablet/whatever u wanna call it on tmobile. still getting used to the size, but the display is beautiful.
I recently rooted my phone with Casual's method. Everything went smooth on the flash.
Except I am unable to activate the phone through the verizon *228 method.
when I dial *228 it just says physically on the phone "A Verizon Sim card has activated your service and updated your phones roaming capability"
but then I got to call someone and it says I have no service.
I also transferred my service to my old Droid X while I did the rooting just in case that has anything to do with it.
Someone please help, at this point im about to return it to stock.
Spherdeg said:
I recently rooted my phone with Casual's method. Everything went smooth on the flash.
Except I am unable to activate the phone through the verizon *228 method.
when I dial *228 it just says physically on the phone "A Verizon Sim card has activated your service and updated your phones roaming capability"
but then I got to call someone and it says I have no service.
I also transferred my service to my old Droid X while I did the rooting just in case that has anything to do with it.
Someone please help, at this point im about to return it to stock.
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*228 is for 3G devices that have no sim. Thats what Ive been told and what ive experienced. Now you said no service, are you getting any bars or is it no bars at all. Have you tried going to mobile setting and toggling lte/3g mode. Also have your tried the hidden setting either by dialer and changing lte/gms/3g modes and then going back. Sometimes it may get stuck in a radio mode that doesnt get signal like in gms mode. I had been in the same situation and fixed it by doing the above.
New Sim card probably. That's your best bet
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*228 is only for CDMA devices only, not CDMA/LTE. Your problem is that you activated a non-SIM device on your account after having a SIM device active. Doing so de-activated your SIM card, so you're going to have to go to a VZW store, or call VZW to get a new SIM to have service on your phone again.
Hello guys, I have an issue with my HTC Amaze 4G, the issue is that it cannot detect my SIM Card, it shows NO IMEI, when I try to call *#06# I get a blank IMEI window. If I reboot the phone into bootloader and then back on, it will ask me to enter my SIM Card security code and proceed. After I enter my SIM Card security code, I get a full signal on the top bar and after 30 - 45 seconds the phone restarts and we go from scratch, no IMEI, it cannot detect the SIM Card. When I get to this point, it shows the grey signal bars and a white X above them. If I try to turn on "Air Plane Mode" and back off that doesn't work, I can't even turn it on, in settings it shows "ON" but I still have the grey signal bars and the white X above them. At this point, I restart the phone, and when we come back to the lockscreen, it shows "Air Plane Mode" on. Any ideeas? Should I buy a new SIM reader ? The phone is not rooted or with a custom rom..
Thanks !
Ps. I don't have a warranty on the phone, it expired..
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Hello guys, I have an issue with my HTC Amaze 4G, the issue is that it cannot detect my SIM Card, it shows NO IMEI, when I try to call *#06# I get a blank IMEI window. If I reboot the phone into bootloader and then back on, it will ask me to enter my SIM Card security code and proceed. After I enter my SIM Card security code, I get a full signal on the top bar and after 30 - 45 seconds the phone restarts and we go from scratch, no IMEI, it cannot detect the SIM Card. When I get to this point, it shows the grey signal bars and a white X above them. If I try to turn on "Air Plane Mode" and back off that doesn't work, I can't even turn it on, in settings it shows "ON" but I still have the grey signal bars and the white X above them. At this point, I restart the phone, and when we come back to the lockscreen, it shows "Air Plane Mode" on. Any ideeas? Should I buy a new SIM reader ? The phone is not rooted or with a custom rom..
Thanks !
Ps. I don't have a warranty on the phone, it expired..
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You've got a corrupt partition, one of the potential downsides of s-off. There have been other posts with users having similar problems. Do a search to see how they resolved it. If worse comes to worse you may have to flash a factory ruu.
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Odysseus1962 said:
You've got a corrupt partition, one of the potential downsides of s-off. There have been other posts with users having similar problems. Do a search to see how they resolved it. If worse comes to worse you may have to flash a factory ruu.
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Thank you for your answer, but that doesn't help me. As i said above, THE PHONE IS NOT ROOTED OR WITH A CUSTOM ROM. It's on original rom with the Bootloader locked and S-ON.
Call T-Mobile, its an error on their end.
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I read today that there may be a need to upgrade tmobile SIM cards to conform with or utilize the New towers they acquired when they took over metro?
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in a first moment, the carrier signal was ok, but data wasn't working. so i called the carrier, get the correct APN, and the everything was fine for 5 minutes, for phone calls, data network. But suddenly signal was lost, and never got back. Factory reset, the signal bars still off, with an X. Tried to locate the carrier manually, but it doenst work. What can I do now? I will try another sim card to check if it works. How do i know the phone is carrier locked?
If its the AT&T version (presumably, since this is the AT&T variant section) it should carrier locked, unless you obtained the unlock code; or otherwise purchased it SIM unlocked from a 3rd party vendor.
On the other hand, if you were able to connect to the network at all, it is probably not carrier locked. Likewise, if it was locked, it would ask for the code when you inserted the SIM.
I think something else is going on. Even if it as SIM locked or bad SIM, I believe it should still read the network as being present. It would just not let you connect to the network.
Although, replacing the SIM is an easy and cheap thing to try. At least to eliminate it as the issue.
Hey guys, recently switched to AT&T from verizon 2 months ago. The guy at AT&T typed in the APNs and all is good besides poor reception at my house. Last night i turned off mobile data to see if my reception to send a text got better. Now I cant get mobile data to turn back on... It says add mobile service please contact customer service and gives the verizon customer service number. Any ideas on how i can get it back on? I've tried everything i can think of besides activating it on verizon again....
You might need to manually enter your APN since this is a Verizon device running on AT&T. Also if you are using an AT&T SIM you might need to input an IMEI for AT&T to get back on. These are the issues you run into trying to use CDMA/Unlock phone for one carrier (unlocked does not mean full functionality on all networks, if that was the case there would be only a single model of the V10) on a GSM carrier.
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You might need to manually enter your APN since this is a Verizon device running on AT&T. Also if you are using an AT&T SIM you might need to input an IMEI for AT&T to get back on. These are the issues you run into trying to use CDMA/Unlock phone for one carrier (unlocked does not mean full functionality on all networks, if that was the case there would be only a single model of the V10) on a GSM carrier.
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I did manually enter the APN... It senses not connected to VZW and then says to call VZW customer service... might have to activate on verizon again turn on data and switch sim?
The same exact thing happened to me a month ago
Go to: Settings>Backup & Reset>Network Settings Reset
it will turn your data back on by default but you might have to put your APN info back in
hope this helps
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