Hey guys,
I have had Straight Talk for a while on my iPhone 4S and I wanted to switch my service to my old Verizon Note II. So I got the CDMA LTE Sim from WalMart and put it in my phone and it activated. Voice and text work but data doesn't.
I am on Alliance ROM Build 30, do I need to go back to stock to get the LTE to work?
It's hard to find any info about this since Straight Talk only started offering CDMA LTE in December of last year, so finding up to date info is next to impossible. I contacted customer service and they had me try all the *228 numbers and none worked. Next they want me to call customer service. Is that my only option? I just know their phone customer service isn't the best and I don't want to waste my time.
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So I am going on a cruise in the Caribbean on Saturday for 5 days and the ship that I will be on has cell coverage for international roaming but when I called Verizon to activate it they declined because I have not been a customer for over one year. I need my phone to work in case of an emergency because the wife and I are leaving our 1 year old son behind with my parents. I have s-off and am on the newest ics leak firmware and radios and running rezrom 2.4. I have the lte toggle app and basically want to know if there is anyway I can be able to receive calls and messages while on vacation. Any help would be great. Thanks guys
If you check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421341
You will see that the Rezound can be used internationally for calls fairly easily. Data and SMS are hit or miss.
What did you ask the Verizon tech? It sounds like they thought you were asking to unlock the SIM. You don't need to unlock your SIM with the Rezound, just insert the SIM of your choice.
I have never heard of a need to have an account for a year to activate international service. Verizon will make good money on you while you roam, but it'll cost less than not activating an international plan with your current SIM and just allowing roaming manually.
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Officially the Rezound is a CDMA only phone. Therefore Verizon can only set up the international operation for 40 countries (No GSM operation). Verizon has a totally separate international help group, and will even loan GSM capable phones. You can turn on the service for a short as a week. Ask for the international group, no regular store employees. They also give you a "help" number to call when you are out of the country.
For on board service, the ship has to have CDMA service as well as the more common GSM to handle a stock Rezound. And usually they become your service provider for more $$, not Verizon. You may be able to get critical messages through the cruise line if you check with them and arrange it ahead of time.
That said it international rates are expensive (data is outrageous) and even in 40 countries where Verizon shows service it is often hit or miss (like the Caymans for me). But as said before, get a GSM SIM card (check on line deals) and the phone can generally work for voice and SMS reception (not replies) in up to 160 countries depending on what card you buy. There are a number of threads that provide more info, and even ROMS like Venasaur for better international use support.
I flashed a few cdma roms like eclipse & blackwidow, and will both preform nicer than my stock rom did, for some reason I can't get service to dial or get online.
I'm using a verizon xt912 droid razr, from what I understand this is a CDMA device?
Is Verizon your carrier?
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Might try just waiting for awhile. Verizon has some sort of program that doesn't like 4g cards switching between devices, and it either takes from 5 minutes to an hour to accept the 'switch' (which may be how it is interpreting the new rom) or rejects it altogether until you call tech support. I had this happen when I accepted the stock update and customer service had to change permissions for the 4g card even though it was the same phone and stock software.
thank you very much, It's not actually my phone but a buddies phone that I'm working on - after the third cdma rom didn't get service I'm starting to think it's not actually in service. Someone just mentioned to me that he found it and by the time he contacted the original owner they had already arranged a replacement. So if this is the case then I think the phone just doesn't have service being paid for.
ickk said:
thank you very much, It's not actually my phone but a buddies phone that I'm working on - after the third cdma rom didn't get service I'm starting to think it's not actually in service. Someone just mentioned to me that he found it and by the time he contacted the original owner they had already arranged a replacement. So if this is the case then I think the phone just doesn't have service being paid for.
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I have same issue I am trying to fix up a razr for use in europe for someone and I also get no service even when I put a offline verizon sim grr it does show the number with European sim but it won't show signal at all while in 4S it roams on T-Mobile.
have you tried going into your network options and making sure the right network was selected, i just installed pacman rom and had to go change from the wrong network mode
Has anyone tried the new LTE sims from straighttalk ? I am on the old e71 sim and haven't had any issues but was thinking of getting a new sim since att has some LTE in my area. I use my WiFi at home so not sure if worth the hassle. This is also my business line that I spend a couple thousand dollars advertising with the phone number and am paranoid about the number getting messed up.
works great for me.
same coverage and speed as i got with at&t.
beenkenobee said:
works great for me.
same coverage and speed as i got with at&t.
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thank you for info. was there any problems porting number. when i originally ported from verizon years ago i had to carry 2 phones for months as all calls and text from verizon #s would go to old phone and straighttalk customer service said it was on verizons end and verizon told me that it was straighttalk since they now own the number. worked itself out but took a while. what was neat was i could call out on my old phone still.
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thank you for info. was there any problems porting number. when i originally ported from verizon years ago i had to carry 2 phones for months as all calls and text from verizon #s would go to old phone and straighttalk customer service said it was on verizons end and verizon told me that it was straighttalk since they now own the number. worked itself out but took a while. what was neat was i could call out on my old phone still.
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i had no problems...it couldn't get any easier.
I've been a loyal HTC user for a very long time (12 years). Well I bit the Samsung bullet and went to the S7 edge. But it's locked up pretty good. So I took it back yesterday.
Now I'm wanting to try the V10. But I'm on Sprint. And Verizon is the best choice to use. Can anyone dummy this down for me?
I understand the Verizon version is SIM unlocked. So it seems like I can drop in a Sprint SIM card. Change the APN settings and I should be good, right?
Verizon and Sprint both use CDMA+GSM(for Data), but as far as I know you won't be able to activate Verizon's phone on Sprint network. Both company has their CDMA inventory table and if the ESN is not registered in their inventory table, it won't activate for you.
My son has an S9+ G9560 on my ATT plan. He had to get a new SIMM. After getting the new simm he can''t get connection for calls or text or data.
He is in Texas, I'm not.
He was told by ATT, I have no idea how good the rep was, that ATT is no longer compatible with the international unlocked phone.
He has no experience with flashing anything with a phone. His software version is g9650zhu9FUE3, with a May 1 patch.
Broadband version g9650ZCU9FUE3.
Any ideas on what to do? Or is the ATT rep correct?
Thanks,
Have him call AT&T advance tech support, see if they will help.
Or have him go to a Best Buy, Samsung Experience center. They can flash stock roms.
Not sure if they will though because it's not what it was loaded with... they are sort of pricks.
Or maybe they can sort out the sim card issue.