Hi, I have an Audiovox 6700 and I live in Manitoba, (Canada). My Cellular service provider is MTS, which is the Manitoba Telecommunications Services Company or something to that effect
Anyways... I am planning to possibly upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 in the future, but I have a few questions first...
I was going to use Helmi's Kitchen or whatever, but I noticed that MTS is not in the list for carriers, will this cause problems? Do you HAVE to have your carrier selected for everything to work right? Or is it just something to do with branding and that sort of thing...
Also, is there any way to back your phone config up entirely? OS and all? I have bad luck with these sort of things and I know nothing is 'guaranteed' especially with hacking like this, so I just want to know I am making all the necessary precautions so I don't lose my phone forever
I think that's it for now but I thank you for reading!
Mitch.
I would like to know the same thing i have it with a company know as cellular south. And I was wondering if I could use one of the roms.
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Any help would be appreciated...
Im a Sprint customer and my contract ends in May, I have learned to hate it... I want to change over to the AT&T Tilt phone... I been reading a lot about mods and unlocking this phone, etc. I understand that unlocking the phone allows me to use it on different networks but how does that really affect things.. what other service providers would support this phone? How does unlocking the phone and using it on another network work in relation to internet access, etc. Would it be that all Im doing is just giving myself the option to use this phone but with a plan from another company? Should I even worry about unlocking it? Just looking for some clear explanation of things.. thanks in advance
an unlocked tilt will work on any gsm network
and internet will work depending on the network both sittingwise
and speedwise
alright im on attblue, and i refuse to upgrade. their new plans blow compared to mine, however ive a question.
i know att now imei checks phones for pocketpcs and adds 30$ data if it matches, i know it detects my hermes and displays it in billing control panel.
however, if i slapped a universal on a attplan would they be able to tell it was a pocketpc or could i get away without data?
any input from people would be..very useful.
try putting your sim card in a regular phone then add the data
oh, would they now. How do you know this? what device have you tested it on, and was it international based or an att branded one.
i ask because it seems they can't identify devices that arent ATT
I figured I'd ask here. I'm almost certain that it isn't possible at all to do but you never know what the great devs here at XDA has come up with.
I have a HTC HD7s from ATT. It's a GREAT phone in my opinion. Never had a single problem with it; but I did with AT&T. They were just; lacking in terms of anything in my local area.
Now for my question; It's probably not possible but like I said you never know until you ask. I am currently running on Sprint service with my Epic 4G Touch. Love the service as it does what I need it to do (a lot better then AT&T ever did). Now AT&T is GSM if I'm correct and I know sprint is CDMA.
But what could I change my HD7s over to via flashing/custom roms or whatnot. I doubt sprint would even think of being an option; but if there's a way to get it on even a pre-pay service; I'd love to have it sitting around as a backup phone if I ever needed it. So is it possible to flash over my HD7s to any other carriers? I have read that my current phone can actually be flashed to multiple other carriers, but with sprints (decent) service, there's no need.
Thanks ahead of time!
Your HD7S cannot work on a CDMA network (Sprint, Verizon) because it lacks the necessary radio hardware. No amount of flashing can fix that.
If it's unlocked, you can use it on any GSM network, however; no flashing would be required for that. The most obvious example of a non-AT&T GSM network in the USA is T-Mobile. Your phone will work on T-Mobile but won't get 3G due to lack of AWS UMTS support -- in other words, it doesn't have support for T-Mobile's 3G frequency.
If you can find a virtual network operator that uses AT&T's network, then you should be able to use your phone on that network and get 3G. I'm not up on which operators that might include.
The specific thing you need for your phone is a "SIM-unlock" which means removing the restriction that AT&T puts on their phones to prevent using SIM cards from other carriers. Typically, AT&T will remove this lock for you if you ask them, but otherwise there are sites online that can sell you unlock codes or you could try calling HTC.
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Please use search function, most of the questions are already answered. If you still need to post your doubts please do it in an existing thread. Is really no need to open a new thread with same topic. Dispersed information helps to nobody.
I recently left the United States, and now my phone isn't working as smoothly as I would like it to. So, now I have lots of question. I also missed the 4.3 OTA update, not sure if I even really need it from the flyer I looked at on VZW website. First things first.
I arrived in Buenos Aires 2 weeks ago and signed up with a local service called Claro, got a chip, found APN's and was online. Pretty smooth. However, I was stuck on the Edge network. So, after almost 2 weeks of pulling hair out and searching on the web for the problem. I called VZW global services and they told me that Claro is who they use for there PRL (preferred roaming list) and that if I use Claro's service with my VZW phone I will be locked in Claro's Edge network and never get 3g or HSPA+. They told me to use a different service in Buenos Aires if I want to get 3g or HSPA+. So I cancelled the Claro service and went to the other companies and their plans totally suck. None of the plans here are really that good, but Claro had the best plan for me.
My first question for this thread is, if I root my phone will it remove VZW's PRL from my S3 and allow me to get Claro's 3g and HSPA+ connection, or is there a way to remove the PRL?
Please help me figure this stuff out. I'm seriously tired of digging through forums. I feel like I have been devoting so much of my energy to a silly phone. :cyclops:
I don't think rooting the phone will get you anything new related to phone service, roaming, or priority access lists.
I don't know much about how PRL's work, but rooting your device might be the first step needed to tinker with embedded phone settings and flashing roms that might do what you need.
I found this: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-update-your-prl-your-cdma-device
may not apply to S3, but could be useful.
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I don't think rooting the phone will get you anything new related to phone service, roaming, or priority access lists.
I don't know much about how PRL's work, but rooting your device might be the first step needed to tinker with embedded phone settings and flashing roms that might do what you need.
I found this: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-update-your-prl-your-cdma-device
may not apply to S3, but could be useful.
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Thanks for reply.
I did some reading on PRL's, so yeah, I don't want to mess with that stuff on my phone.
I went to another carrier here in the city and I'm stuck on the same network, Edge. Basically I'm back at the same place as before and I was fed some bull**** from VZW global support. So, I called VZW global support again got totally frickin' nowhere! I should of bought an AT&T phone I wouldn't have this problem right now. [email protected]#k VZW, they sell a product and call it a "global phone" but then it has limitations in other countries, that's not [email protected]#cking "global." God bless corporate America! So fed up with phones right now, I was so much happier with a flip phone.
Hello,
New here, don't see an up to date thread on this issue. I moved and Verizon has no towers here, so I had to cancel. I'm lucky to get a single bar of 1x or maybe 3G. Then it cuts off. Anyway, AT&T is about the only choice here, tower coverage wise, so I was looking into it. I popped in an old SIM card from a friend's AT&T phone, and it recognized it, didn't seem to request an unlock code. My contract has been up with V for months, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Poking around, seems like basically the issue is some providers use GSM towers (like the rest of the world's standard) but a few like V use CDMA. This info seems a little outdated, probably because not a lot of folks care about the older Razrs anymore. AT&T seems to have upgraded a lot of their service to LTE now. I might pop into AT&T tomorrow to see what I can come up with. My GF has a family plan thingy going so to add this old XT912 would only be another $20 / m.
I just thought I'd throw it out there, and ask you guys what sort of problems I'm going to have? I've read I might get signal, but no data. I've read that the physical radio operates on a different frequency and might connect to GSM but might not be stable. Just wanted to hear your thoughts in laymans terms. I'm pretty new to phone modding, but it's interesting for sure.
Thanks for any attention.
Just looked up more about the physical issues with phone radios. Stumbled across this app named GetRIL
Read on other sites that some phones are Radio Interface Layer locked, which I think is just the physical limitation of the phone. After the FCC changed some things, like forcing carriers to unlock phones after service is complete, most newer users won't have this issue. Anyway, it's interesting reading.