Bought a new S6 Edge Plus off eBay from a power seller but it shipped with 5.1.1 installed. Came with a Verizon SIM but non active of course ..just wondering can I have that SIM in and do a OTA update using WiFi?
I'll have access to WiFi tomorrow, also I'm using Cricket.
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Can anyone tell me if the s3 on t-mobile uk is heavily branded? Both the handset itself and the operating system with added apps etc
I am considering moving to t-mobile, but if it is heavily branded then I will just get a sim free instead.
Many thanks.
It probably will be... But it's very easy to unbranded by flashing the unbranded stock rom via odin.
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All the S3 on T-mobile so far have pretty much stock apart from a splash screen. There are reports that are unlocked too.
eon_designs said:
Hello
Can anyone tell me if the s3 on t-mobile uk is heavily branded? Both the handset itself and the operating system with added apps etc
I am considering moving to t-mobile, but if it is heavily branded then I will just get a sim free instead.
Many thanks.
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I'm on T-Mobile in the UK and I received a Pebble blue on upgrade from T-Mobile, I have zero branding on the phone, and when I say zero I mean zero, nadda, zip, nothing. It goes without saying that I received my upgrade at about the time when there were just about no pebble blue's available, I'm assuming T-Mobile sent out the first batch without any branding. I consider myself very lucky. This is the first phone I've received from T-Mobile without any branding.
I'm not sure what it's like now, now that they've caught up with stock etc. they have no doubt added all the usual sh*t that they add to their phones.
I also got a OTA update when other people with branded phones were not receiving.
I also have a White SGSIII on T-Mobile and have no branding what so ever!
Not even a T-Mobile splash screen just the stock Samsung.
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How recently did u get your white sgs3?
I just got my Blue S3 on T-Mobile yesterday, and it has no branding whatsoever.
I did buy it from Tesco Phone Shop rather than T-Mobile directly though, don't know if that makes any difference.
I've got white s3 from t mobile and there is no branding what so ever! I'm thinking if it has sim lock?
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got 2 sgs3 in white on T-Mobile uk both no branding at all and both unlocked direct from my local tmob store in the town centre
also got OTA updates
I got mine through mobile.co.uk on T-mobile. Its not branded or sim locked.
You know I just noticed I've no t mobile branding on my blue s3. If course it says Samsung but not t mobile.
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Maybe the first batch will be this way. Here in the U.S t mobile released the S3 to few t-mobile stores. Now a week later all the stores will get it. Do not know why they did that, but hopefully I got something others won't get. X)
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Then again, maybe the t-mobile s3 will not be branded at all. I haven't seen a branded s3 anywhere...
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I got it around three weeks ago.
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i have a white 16gig s3 on uk t-mobile...and there is no t-mobile bloat at all..
plus the the phone is not sim locked at all...
Thanks everyone.
Took the plunge - just got a blue one today from the official T-Mobile store. No branding on the phone or on the software. Excellent.
Got my pebble blue from T-Mobile direct last week. No branding except for the browser homepage which was set to T-mobile's site, however surprisingly, it was SIM locked.
I have since rooted, unlocked and installed an unbranded official Samsung ROM
Might be a noob question.. apologies if it was one.
I have the LGOG unlocked with tmobile.. when att eventually releases a sw upgrade i know that i wont receive it over the air.
My question is that is it possible to get the update (when its available ) by swapping in a att sim card till the upgrade is finished ? Or is it like they check if the sim card has a purchase history or contract with att
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I change my SIM card via different phones all the time, and I have no issues getting updates on the respective phones. No AT&T does not check for purchase history.
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Wondering if I can use this phone with straight talk? it is rooted and unlocked.
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Wondering if I can use this phone with straight talk? it is rooted and unlocked.
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I'm currently trying it out. I bought the AT&T compatible sim from their website, and got the APN settings directly from them. Everything seems to work ok.
From what I have read you can get HSPA+ but not LTE when using the AT&T SIM on straight talk with the verizon note 2. Also in 4.3 there is no need to root to update the APN. Otherwise it works fine.
I was thinking about switching but after doing the math my verizon ETF eats all but $40 of the savings over the next 8 months until my contract ends. Will check it out again come September.
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From what I have read you can get HSPA+ but not LTE when using the AT&T SIM on straight talk with the verizon note 2. Also in 4.3 there is no need to root to update the APN. Otherwise it works fine.
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Correct. Our phones do have have the AT&T LTE bands. And actually being able to edit APN's was opened up on 4.1.2 without rooting but the thought is still correct.
Does anyone have any advice with this? I heard AT&T released an update not long ago to allow the fingerprint reader play nice with phone cases.. How do get this update if I only have cricket?
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Does anyone have any advice with this? I heard AT&T released an update not long ago to allow the fingerprint reader play nice with phone cases.. How do get this update if I only have cricket?
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Hmm, have you tried removing you sim and trying to get the update over wifi? Not sure if that would work, or how you would do it. Also maybe keep an eye out for someone to grab and post the AT&T update zip
I have an old AT&T Sim card. I might try popping it in the v10 and see if that works.
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Ok Kool, keep me posted. I have an unlocked T-Mobile Note 5 that I may end up using on Cricket
Come to think of it, my Note5 has a bad IMEI on T-Mobile, but it did do an update over wifi
Any news with this?
I tried using an old AT&T Go prepaid Sim card and had no luck with it.
I think I'm just going to sell this phone and very an unlocked phone since the v10 I have is for AT&T and I have cricket.
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Now that Verizon has released an update to the S9+, I want to move my Verizon branded S9+ that I flashed to T-Mobile last month, back to Verizon so I can sell it. I can't seem to find any Verizon user data files for it though.
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Now that Verizon has released an update to the S9+, I want to move my Verizon branded S9+ that I flashed to T-Mobile last month, back to Verizon so I can sell it. I can't seem to find any Verizon user data files for it though.
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Just put a VZW Sim card in the phone and it will automatically update to the vzw firmware
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Just put a VZW Sim card in the phone and it will automatically update to the vzw firmware
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That doesn't work. Maybe on the unlocked model, but not the carrier models.
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That doesn't work. Maybe on the unlocked model, but not the carrier models.
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It works on the carrier models as long as it's unlocked. I just did it this morning on my phone.
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It works on the carrier models as long as it's unlocked. I just did it this morning on my phone.
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I have the Verizon S9+ that I flashed to tmobile, but want to go back to Verizon. I have a Verizon sim and even factory resetting doesn't fix it
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I have the Verizon S9+ that I flashed to tmobile, but want to go back to Verizon. I have a Verizon sim and even factory resetting doesn't fix it
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Hhhmm. Then maybe it either cause it's a vzw phone or the S9 is different from the S8
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Hhhmm. Then maybe it either cause it's a vzw phone or the S9 is different from the S8
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I think it's different from the S8. As an example, Sprint has a list of BYOD devices and it says any of the S8 models work, but only the US unlocked model of the S9 or Note 8 work.
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I think it's different from the S8. As an example, Sprint has a list of BYOD devices and it says any of the S8 models work, but only the US unlocked model of the S9 or Note 8 work.
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Hhhhmmm. I put a vzw Sim card in a Sprint s8 this morning and it automatically update to vzw firmware
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Hhhhmmm. I put a vzw Sim card in a Sprint s8 this morning and it automatically update to vzw firmware
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Right, I'm talking about the S9
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