Hy.Im new to this forum.
I got the option to buy Verizon Note 2 for 200 $ and I saw on xda that it can be turned into GSM phone.My question is.I live in Croatia if I turn it into GSM will I be able to use it as regular phone.Wifi working, calls working and data working.Thanks.
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Hy.Im new to this forum.
I got the option to buy Verizon Note 2 for 200 $ and I saw on xda that it can be turned into GSM phone.My question is.I live in Croatia if I turn it into GSM will I be able to use it as regular phone.Wifi working, calls working and data working.Thanks.
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It depends on what bands your GSM provider uses and what bands the Note 2 has. In most cases people internationally are able to use it as a GSM phone and have good service.
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Sorry for the duplicate as i posted wrongly on general section rather than Q&A
Hi,
i am planning to buy the Verizon Droid DNA without contract from Amazon wireless and planning to use it overseas(Singapore).
i know the phone is GSM unlocked and i can literally use it with any GSM network and that gave me a confidence to buy it,
Do i really need to activate the phone with Verizon?
regards
Krishna
rkrishnamurthy said:
Sorry for the duplicate as i posted wrongly on general section rather than Q&A
Hi,
i am planning to buy the Verizon Droid DNA without contract from Amazon wireless and planning to use it overseas(Singapore).
i know the phone is GSM unlocked and i can literally use it with any GSM network and that gave me a confidence to buy it,
Do i really need to activate the phone with Verizon?
regards
Krishna
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no i got one and poped my tmo card in and it worked
I can't get past activation. How do I activate when using AT&T sim card?
Take out the SIM card and restart the phone.
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I just moved to okinawa Japan and am curious if I can transfer my verizon note 2 over to Au or DOCOMO here on the island. I am unlocked running one of the clean roms. I've looked at the network differences and it seems it could be possible but I don't have experience to say for sure. I know the note 2 is available some places here but I'm not sure if there are hardware or other differences that would make mine incompatible. Any help is appreciated.
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Yeah it should be able to. Just need to find the right APN settings. That will be the hard part
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I believe this lists the APN settings for NTT
http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2011/04/docomo-access-point-names-apn.html
I couldn't find the other.
I'm hoping that the setting will be able to be set with their sim card. I just hope that I won't have to do a bunch of manual settings adjustments if it can work. I know that when I go into the store they are just going to sell me a new iphone5 on a plan like they do to every other military guy on this island.
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That link I posted States that they do imei logging and the rate changes if you switch from a docomo branded device to something else.
Just fyi
if you root it (since you did) it should be able to work
IF NOT
put these on build Prop Editor
and you will be able to input your own APN addresses
ril.sales_code=LOL
ro.csc.sales_code=LOL
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I do not care if your phone gets exploded or just disappears, do it on your own risk ^_^
Has anybody been able to try this? If so did LTE work on AT&T?
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Has anybody been able to try this? If so did LTE work on AT&T?
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Wrong section and the question has already been answered elsewhere many times, look for it.
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Wrong section and the question has already been answered elsewhere many times, look for it.
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Well., if it has been answer, you probably know it so why not answer or just direct him/her there?
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Well., if it has been answer, you probably know it so why not answer or just direct him/her there?
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Because its in the wrong section of the forum and I'm not helping people that are too lazy to post their question where it belongs. It just encourages them to keep doing it.
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Because its in the wrong section of the forum and I'm not helping people that are too lazy to post their question where it belongs. It just encourages them to keep doing it.
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then just ignore them then
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then just ignore them then
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Its against XDA rules to post in the wrong area. I suppose I could just start reporting the threads to the mods but they have better things to do. Telling people to post in the proper forum might actually get the point across without adding work for the mods.
You could direct me to the correct forum Mr.SmartyPants
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You could direct me to the correct forum Mr.SmartyPants
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Did you ask a question? It would appear this belongs in the Question and Answer forum.
Anyway, the T-Mobile One supports every band at&t does plus AWS. Unlocked and with the right APN, it will work flawlessly on at&t - in fact the T-Mobile software has almost no lag compared to at&t.
There's your answer.
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Did you ask a question? It would appear this belongs in the Question and Answer forum.
Anyway, the T-Mobile One supports every band at&t does plus AWS. Unlocked and with the right APN, it will work flawlessly on at&t - in fact the T-Mobile software has almost no lag compared to at&t.
There's your answer.
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that wasn't so hard. all the debacle could have easily been avoided if you shared the answer 2 days ago then offered the tip of using the search function next time. i'm not arguing just observing the inefficiency of the method you choose to address this post...
I have an unlocked T-Mobile HTC One, and it works perfect with AT&T SIM. I can get both LTE and HSPA+. That actually makes T-Mobile version a much better buy since I'm getting ALL the bands for both carriers, much less bloatware, and WiFi calling when using T-Mobile SIM.
Couldn't be happier.
milan03 said:
I have an unlocked T-Mobile HTC One, and it works perfect with AT&T SIM. I can get both LTE and HSPA+. That actually makes T-Mobile version a much better buy since I'm getting ALL the bands for both carriers, much less bloatware, and WiFi calling when using T-Mobile SIM.
Couldn't be happier.
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How long did it take to get the sim unlock from Tmobile? Thanks
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How long did it take to get the sim unlock from Tmobile? Thanks
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~24hrs. I bought it outright.
APN Settings
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~24hrs. I bought it outright.
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Would you mind listing your APN settings? I have tried tons of different settings and cannot get LTE to work. I'm in Springfield, Mo. and it just rolled out a week ago. My HTC One is non-rooted and T-Mobile branded.
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Would you mind listing your APN settings? I have tried tons of different settings and cannot get LTE to work. I'm in Springfield, Mo. and it just rolled out a week ago. My HTC One is non-rooted and T-Mobile branded.
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All you have to do is install this app and you could install son settings for tmobile ltd
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~24hrs. I bought it outright.
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what was the process because i bought mine outright and they gave me some 90 day bs.
What's the name of the app?
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LTE APN settings
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All you have to do is install this app and you could install son settings for tmobile ltd
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Thanks for the tip on that app. It still didn't fix the problem, but I figured out what my problem was. I was only able to get up to HSPA+ speeds since the APN settings for LTE would not work. When I put the LTE APN settings in, it would say there was a data connection issue and the settings were not correct.
After doing some additional research, I found that since the IMEI of the T-Mobile version is not in AT&T's database of LTE capable phones, my data provisioning on my account was locked in at only receiving HSPA+ speeds. My last phone was a T-Mobile HTC One S, which wasn't LTE capable, so it made no difference what the data provisioning was on my account. To make a long story short, I took my wife's HTC One X that she was not using any longer and had the AT&T phone rep put that phone on my account since it's capable of LTE and the IMEI is obviously in their catalog of devices.
After that, the settings worked immediately for my HTC One.
The more and more I look for help from AT&T, the more I realize that the company doesn't have many employees that are skilled in the way of assisting outside devices. Since T-Mobile welcomes customers to bring their AT&T devices to their network, I can only assume they would have figured this out a whole lot quicker.
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what was the process because i bought mine outright and they gave me some 90 day bs.
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Their policy on this seems to be very arbitrary. I purchased mine at Wal-Mart and paid outright for it, and then submitted the necessary info immediately to their SIM Unlock department. Here's the response I received from them a week later:
T-Mobile Sim Unlock Request
Sim Unlock Reference: ---------
IMEI: 35597205-------
Thank you for taking the time to contact T-Mobile. We have received your SIM Unlock Request. Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. The account must meet the following criteria:
1. 60 days of active usage on device
2. Must have $50.01 or more in accumulative refills since activation.
Please submit a new SIM Unlock Request once the subscriber has met the Eligibility criteria.
Thank You,
Sim Unlock Department
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
I went ahead and just used the eBay seller that veliksam suggested in the Q&A section.
I called T-Mobile after I posted and tried again, I should have my code tomorrow
Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd HTC M7
Wow what a **** head
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milan03 said:
I have an unlocked T-Mobile HTC One, and it works perfect with AT&T SIM. I can get both LTE and HSPA+. That actually makes T-Mobile version a much better buy since I'm getting ALL the bands for both carriers, much less bloatware, and WiFi calling when using T-Mobile SIM.
Couldn't be happier.
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How did you get it unlocked? You would have to wait 40 days to unlock it by T-Mobile. Did you find a site that can get it unlocked? I heard that most of the sites don't have the codes yet for T-Mobile version of HTC One.
I'm got everything working on tmobile on my Verizon note 2 but data is spotty is there any modern I can flash to better my situation or even get Lte
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I'm got everything working on tmobile on my Verizon note 2 but data is spotty is there any modern I can flash to better my situation or even get Lte
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Did you follow the guide to unlocking your phone for use on other networks? If so did you add all the APN's for T-Mobile?
I highly doubt you will get LTE in T-Mobile unless you live in one of the 8 cities they're testing it out in which are:
Denver
Las Vegas
Kansas City
New Orleans
New York
San Diego
San Jose
Seattle
If you live in one of those cities then it is possible you could get LTE through T-Mobile if the VZW Note 2 has the correct radios that can work on T-Mobiles LTE bands.
My best advice is that you should post in the thread that has the instructions for unlocking for user on other networks. It depends on how you unlocked the phone to use it on other networks, what APN's you've added and if there are others that can/need to be added, and if your area has LTE or if it just has 3G or HSPA+.
Sorry for not being more helpful.
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Wonderful reply thanks that was very informative. ... I did follow those guides but never saw any radios to flash or modems ill have to go check again thank you again
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Wonderful reply thanks that was very informative. ... I did follow those guides but never saw any radios to flash or modems ill have to go check again thank you again
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I am a little unsure if it would be ok to flash a VZW modem seeing as how that is a T-Mobile phone, that area is a littlr foggy to me. Really the best place to ask would be that thread, I am not trying to be rude at all. Just saying thats where the people who know the most about that check for questions. Kinda like you ask questions about roms in the specific rom thread.
Whenever you get an answer come back to this thread and update it, I have seen this question posted a few different times and have never seen the answer so if you would update it it would be very informative for me so maybe next time this pops up I can give a definite answer.
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It's a Verizon phone on tmobile sim
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Yeah me again lol my bad
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Yeah me again lol my bad
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HA! Hope you got it now...lol.
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It's a Verizon phone on tmobile sim
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Thanks for clearing that up, at some point I got that turned around.
I would think that there is probably nothing you can really do in this situation..... There is a chance that flashing one of the new VZW radios and then resetting everything up for T-Mobile might make it better. I HIGHLY doubt it though.
The only other things I can thing that might help would be flashing a T-Mobile rom or T-Mobile radio instead of the VZW rom and radio. That could possibly brick your phone though or cause you to get absolutely no service whatsoever, I really wish that there was more info on this subject.
Whenever you get an answer from the other thread please either post it here or PM it to me so I will know next time how to help the people in your situation.
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Im trying to get my Note 2 to work on TMobile, i need HELP, ive read everything but nothing is working to unlock it.
Its already unlocked you just need sim make sure its not attached to an account on Verizon but I flashed the tmobile tablet rom and a verizon kernal I was getting 6 to 8 mbps I can live with that for now
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Oh and the lte apn
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T-Mobile for me is every easy. What I did was first unlock it using CASUAL (thanks Adam) then I just flashed it with CleanRom ACE edition.
If I plan to stay with that network, I'd choose T-mobile as carrier and never had a problem with it. If you have WIFI issue, reflashing it with Verizon carrier will fix that also.
I have for the past few years always bought the phones I wanted from craigslist, I would get an att phone and then root+ custom rom then use on straightalk by setting the APN.
Well when the note 2 came out I really wanted one but couldnt find one under $600 used, so I got on a friends verizon plan and paid $300 for my note 2.
Fast foward a year or so and now she is letting the phones get shut off due to an outstanding balance on it (always paid my part)
So my question is.... will this phone need unlocked to be able to use it on straight talk? Would a root and custom rom be all thats needed or do i need to have it unlocked? I still have my straight talk sim card.
This is my first time dealing with a verizon phone and a situation like this.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
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Anyone?
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Anyone?
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Sorry, your current phone might not be eligible for any plan on VZW since she is terminating for outstanding payment. It depends if they block your device from the network or not, go to a Verizon store with your device and explain the situation, I'm sure they would try to retain the business if it is at all possible.
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Anyone?
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You can use this phone on ATT and Tmobile and any of their MVNO's as well as on Pageplus, selectel and couple others.. So to answer your question NO you are not screwed you still have options..
This phone comes unlocked already no need to install custom rom. but you do need to change the APN's
just pull out the Verizon sim card and pop in the sim card you have and should work but you will have to change the apns for mms and data
Awesome... thanks
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No you're not. I've tested almost all gsm prepaid services and they work. Not lte speeds but at least hspa+
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