Hey guys,
I'm traveling to Greece for our honeymoon and want to be able to use my cell phone without paying Verizon's crazy international rates. I'm running Scott's CleanRom on Verizon. Can I simply buy a Vodafone prepaid Sim, pop it in, click add APN, add all the appropriate info for the access point, and then all good to go? I read imnuts post regarding this but am a little confused. Hopefully someone can help! Thanks in advance.
Perry
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pschatz12 said:
Hey guys,
I'm traveling to Greece for our honeymoon and want to be able to use my cell phone without paying Verizon's crazy international rates. I'm running Scott's CleanRom on Verizon. Can I simply buy a Vodafone prepaid Sim, pop it in, click add APN, add all the appropriate info for the access point, and then all good to go? I read imnuts post regarding this but am a little confused. Hopefully someone can help! Thanks in advance.
Perry
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That is correct. I recently did this with a Telus prepaid SIM, and worked just fine. Granted, I was using Beans18, but your method should still be correct.
In Greece right now and did just that! I only had to add an apn for data use. Really loving that I can do that with this phone.
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JonKyu said:
In Greece right now and did just that! I only had to add an apn for data use. Really loving that I can do that with this phone.
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What provider did you get the sum from? Do they have a data only sim?
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I'm using my-q which apparently is now owned by wind. I'm not sure if they do. But with my particular prepaid service you can add Internet bundles online so technically you could just use the money you put on your sim to replenish your data instead of adding more minutes.
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Has anyone used the photon in Mexico? If so .. what provider do you recommend for pre paid sim usage with full data? Going to a wedding and need full capabilities of my phone.
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not sure, but if you see any cute women at weading, ....... I use VodoPhone in Sweden on AT&T and it served me well.
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All cute women are mine.. i don't like to share.
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I hope your photon breaks and your camera shoots in 0.000MP! oh, and your SD card fails!!
as a fail safe, you can use Sprint International with their rates if it's that important. I never used sprint outside the country. unlock, root, and swap SIM with VodoPhome and see. like $30.00 at most airports I have been.
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Try movistar or telcel. Im pretty sure there the big boys over there. My grandpa just came from Mexico to the states and is using a T-Mobile phone with movistar. Idk that helps but good luck with them ladies.
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in the past I've just used the resort wifi and nettalk.
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There's an user here that has a Photon working with Telcel.
I msgd him a couple of times to ask how good it works and seems to work just fine. What he really couldn't tell me is what needs to be done after you insert the sim card, if the settings are picked up automatically or manually..
I'm going to try myself since I will be going on vacation in a couple of months or so.
I used my Photon in Mexico without any issues. I purchased a pre paid TelCel sim card, and it worked without having to do anything. If you want to use their data, you will need to manually add on TelCel's apns. I recommend downloading apn global from the marketplace for free. You just choose your country and provider, and it fills in all the needed info automatically.
Thanks for the heads up... i have downloaded the apn app and will check into telcel when i get there ... by any chance would you know how much i would be spending on a pre paid sim in Mexico?
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linenoise said:
I used my Photon in Mexico without any issues. I purchased a pre paid TelCel sim card, and it worked without having to do anything. If you want to use their data, you will need to manually add on TelCel's apns. I recommend downloading apn global from the marketplace for free. You just choose your country and provider, and it fills in all the needed info automatically.
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Humm I search for APN GLOBAL and I can't see it.. any chance you can drop a link?
When I went to Mexico last September I just activated international roaming in case of an emergency and used groove ip while I was at the resort which was almost all the time I was there.
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Humm I search for APN GLOBAL and I can't see it.. any chance you can drop a link?
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http://slideme.org/application/apn-global
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http://slideme.org/application/apn-global
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thank you very much!
Teczeus said:
Thanks for the heads up... i have downloaded the apn app and will check into telcel when i get there ... by any chance would you know how much i would be spending on a pre paid sim in Mexico?
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So what's up dude did you go already and did it work for you?
I'd like to know cause I will go to Mex. in a couple of weeks..
Family member gave me their Thunderbolt, I now have the Incredible 2., which is 3G. I have an unlimited data plan for some time. If I drop my sim into the thunderbolt and activate is it going to wreck my plan and put me on the new tiered system?
No and the sim from the dinc2 is worthless in a thunderbolt. That's a gsm sim. I came to the thunderbolt from the dinc2 and I still have unlimited data
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Maybe call vzw and ask just to be sure but I believe it only applies if you use an upgrade and buy the tbolt from them. Because anyone can buy a phone from anywhere ie(craigslist,ebay,etc) and put it on there lime as long as the ran is clean. But like I said check with them to be safe.
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It shouldn't mess with your plan, but you will need a different sim that will allow you to get the 4G lte network.
Like he said above, the sim you currently have is useless.
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It shouldn't mess with your plan, but you will need a different sim that will allow you to get the 4G lte network.
Like he said above, the sim you currently have is useless.
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Thanks guys! Where would I find that SIM?
Just walk into Verizon and they should just give you one. They shouldn't really ask any questions, but if they do, just tell them you picked it up used and just need a sim card for it.
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It may cost you $25 to pick one up
And btw you should ROOT The tbolt
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It may cost you $25 to pick one up
And btw you should ROOT The tbolt
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Sims are free for VZW customers. You have to get it from a corporate store or order it though because the licensed retailers will charge for it.
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Sims are free for VZW customers. You have to get it from a corporate store or order it though because the licensed retailers will charge for it.
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It was free without any impact on my current plan
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It was free without any impact on my current plan
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Awesome. Glad it worked out for you.
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Hi i have an AT&T samsung galaxy note i717 and im wondering if i can use it on att's prepaid service?
the features i need is
1. Voice
2. Text
3. 4G Data
has anyone ever done this and can they confirm it will work like a normal plan should?
I use straight talk from wal-mart on my note. Before that I had a iPhone on ATT prepaid. I'm not sure if they have 4g on pre paid...
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I also have straight talk and I'm running jellybean on it and everything's pretty chill so far.. but just like any other carrier, be weary of speed caps cause man, ain't nothing really "unlimited" on any service lol smh..
Good luck, bud.:thumbup:
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You can use any GSM carrier with a sim card.
That Pay-as-you-go data is pretty expensive, isn't it?
Anyway, if it's at&t you don't need to unlock the phone.
You don't need to root the phone.
But you will need to flash a ROM so you can change the APN settings (the "pta" APN is usually the only setting the stock ROM let's you use). But before you flash the ROM see if you can add the APN for that data plan in the ROM you have now.
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You can use any GSM carrier with a sim card.
That Pay-as-you-go data is pretty expensive, isn't it?
Anyway, if it's at&t you don't need to unlock the phone.
You don't need to root the phone.
But you will need to flash a ROM so you can change the APN settings (the "pta" APN is usually the only setting the stock ROM let's you use). But before you flash the ROM see if you can add the APN for that data plan in the ROM you have now.
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I know any GSM works lol but I wanna make sure I'm gonna get 4g working (LTE optional) my T-Mobile service sucks in my apt and I wanna switch to att but I wanna test their service before I switch and sign a contract
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srkrono said:
I know any GSM works lol but I wanna make sure I'm gonna get 4g working (LTE optional) my T-Mobile service sucks in my apt and I wanna switch to att but I wanna test their service before I switch and sign a contract
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...e-3g4g-hspa-on-your-att-galaxy-note-sgh-i717/
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---------- Post added at 03:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:39 AM ----------
Hope that wasn't against the rules?
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^^^^ forum tip number 1:
post what you want to say OUTSIDE the brackets that say QUOTE.
Otherwise it looks like what you posted was in the quote and your post looks empty.
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kingstatus said:
Hope that wasn't against the rules?
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It wasn't, but it wasn't what he wanted to do.
The steps I gave will give the OP what he wanted.
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I use straight talk from wal-mart on my note.
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What he said. :thumbup:
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srkrono said:
Hi i have an AT&T samsung galaxy note i717 and im wondering if i can use it on att's prepaid service?
the features i need is
1. Voice
2. Text
3. 4G Data
has anyone ever done this and can they confirm it will work like a normal plan should?
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I have an at&t Samsung galaxy note. I have an actual plan && i think its way too expensive. Did you try the prepaid service through at&t? If so, did it work?
Ok so now that I got my AT&T ONE unlocked, Which prepaid carrier has the best performing data and plays nice with our phones?
I'm thinking of getting out of my contract if I find a carrier that has decent performing data. But of course this could be a moot point, from what I heard AT&T's coming out with new prepaid plans.
shook187 said:
Ok so now that I got my AT&T ONE unlocked, Which prepaid carrier has the best performing data and plays nice with our phones?
I'm thinking of getting out of my contract if I find a carrier that has decent performing data. But of course this could be a moot point, from what I heard AT&T's coming out with new prepaid plans.
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Where did you get your unlock code? I'm in Canada with a Rogers Wireless HTC One and I'm limited with 1GB of data where I used to have 3GB with Virgin Mobile. I'm thing about going back to Virgin. I'm paying $70 a month with unlimited Canada wide, unlimited SMS/MMS and 1GB data is too much. I only need 200 minutes of talk time but I like a lot of data.
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I recommend cellunlocker.net it's free if you make a video of the process and put it on YouTube
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Tw1tchy said:
Where did you get your unlock code?
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I got it from someone on EBAY. It was only $3.50
I forgot the link to it but if you look at my recent post history it should be in there somewhere
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hyelton said:
I recommend cellunlocker.net it's free if you make a video of the process and put it on YouTube
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Really? Well it's time to get the video camera out!
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$70 per month for 1 gig? They ought to be thrown in jail for that!
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I connected my One Dev Edition to H2O(uses at&t towers), data seems to work fine but when i run speedtest i get 0.01mb download, not sure whats wrong
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maybe need 3 more month. then we can unlock it easy.
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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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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