My 15 year old daughter bought a phone on Craigslist that was a Bell Canada phone she was told it was unlocked. We have tried to activate the phone on both Sprint and Verizon but neither service was able to get it to work. It is a Palm 700wx running windows 5.0 I cannot confirm it is unlocked. Is there a way to get this phone to work with Verizon or sprint or better yet both?? Please help my daughter worked hard and paid money she earned for this phone, I would hate to see her get discouraged because of one scumbag scammer.
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I have a HTC Pro Touch phone that was my company phone for about two months before Verison took over Alltel in my area. My company switched to ATT iphones at that time. I have recently decided that maybe I could use this nice phone with ATT. Much to my disappointment I found through a little research that Alltel and ATT networks are not compatible and the phone and can't be unlocked for use with ATT.
Its seems that my only option now is to find someone with a nice phone that would like to trade hoping that they might be in the same situation in reverse. Have I missed something that can still make this phone work somehow? If not does anyone have a good idea, of how I could make a fair trade?
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racing5k said:
I have a HTC Pro Touch phone that was my company phone for about two months before Verison took over Alltel in my area. My company switched to ATT iphones at that time. I have recently decided that maybe I could use this nice phone with ATT. Much to my disappointment I found through a little research that Alltel and ATT networks are not compatible and the phone and can't be unlocked for use with ATT.
Its seems that my only option now is to find someone with a nice phone that would like to trade hoping that they might be in the same situation in reverse. Have I missed something that can still make this phone work somehow? If not does anyone have a good idea, of how I could make a fair trade?
Thank you and I hope this post is ok for this section.
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You could SIM unlock it, but it's not very cheap. There are some nice links in the Raph Wiki that points to SIM unlocking services.
@racing5k
You can try putting it up for sale onbay.com or amazon.com. If you want to avoid registering a selller account on any of those two site (which is free to do), you put a free listing on craigslist.com, always deal local and accept payments in cash and in person. Amazon and ebay will charge you seller/listing fees, there are no fees to list and sell on craigslist. You have a CDMA version of this phone. What you need is the GSM version, which for ATT was branded the HTC Fuze. I have the Fuze but am having a issue with it (battery indicator says it is fully charged at 34%) which I have yer to resolve.
@ZoneBlaze
sim unlock will not work, Alltel uses CDMA technology and ATT uses GSM. racing5k has a CDMA version of the phone, the two technologies are not compatible with each other.
I have a quick question. The Xperia TL just came out and I really like it. And please don't go bashing on it saying I should just get another phone like the Droid DNA. -.- My friend has AT&T and I have Verizon, so I obviously cannot get the phone stock from Verizon. I'm not sure if the Xperia TL is rootable yet, but when it is, I would intend to root it and flash it to Verizon. My friend is planning to switch over to Verizon.
If her contract is up, is it possible that she can upgrade to the Xperia TL (while she's still on AT&T) and then afterwards switch over to Verizon? Will she have to give the phone back? Because if not, then I'd gladly take it off her hands. I'd be willing to pay whatever the discounted price with a contract is, as well.
Even if she didnt the att phone won't work on Verizon.
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AT&T phone won't work on verizon network... AT&T is GSM and Verizon is CDMA
Right now I have an HTC Evo running on the Sprint network. I purchased an iPhone 4s (Verizon) from a friend that has a good ESN. I was hoping i would be able to flash the phone and merrily be on my way to using the phone on the Sprint network. After some researching it doesn't look like that is going to happen since the stingy bastards who own mobile phone companies will not accept ESN's from other carriers. Although, i did read on some old forums that companies were required to let the phone operate on their system if the ESN was good. Is this true? Is that a law? Do they have to let my phone operate on their system or is there any way i could get Sprint to make it work?
Answers are greatly appreciated as i would love to use my new phone on the Sprint network. :laugh:
I lost my phone in November while out at sea and bought a second hand one in Mexico. A Sprint Galaxy S4 L720 running 5.0.1. It was unlocked and running just fine on a Mexican carrier. I bought a new SIM in Peru today and noticed the data wasn't working, phone calls were fine. I then did something very stupid and entered in ##72786#. The Sprint hands free application won't validate the phone. I tried calling Sprint and they informed me that the phone I bought was lost/stolen and refuse to help me.
I am in Peru right now, I cant return this phone to the previous owner and I already spent $250 on it. I don't live in the USA. This is not a matter of ethics in this case, I simply can't eeturn the phone to the carrier. The phone was unlocked before, how can I get back to how it was. It is telling me invalid SIM now and I can't make calls. Is there some way to bypass the activation process?
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If the phone has been reported lost or stolen to the carrier, you will not get help in these forums on how to activate it.
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My father recently lost his phone, and so I'm migrating his number to my t-mobile family plan. The only phone he has available is a Samsung Galaxy S7 that he purchased years ago to test with Freedom Pop. It's Sprint branded on boot up, but gives an invalid SIM with a t-mobile sim.
Model: SM-G930P
Software Version: G930PVPSBC TA1
Hardware version: Rev0.6
I've not had to be in the XDA scene for over 6 years since I'd started using Nexus / Pixel phones, so I've let alot of my knowledge slip; but I'm at least capable if pointed in the right direction.
Can someone please help provide me with a checklist of what I need to do to get this phone functional on T-Mobile? If I at least know what I have to do, I can figure out the rest...but given the time crunch of him without a phone and in need for medical reasons, I'm in a bit of a rush and can't study this model phone enough to know what all is necessary.
I'm assuming I need to unlock it, but I've never had to unlock a phone...they've all just worked between carriers for me. I tried contacting Sprint, but they wouldn't unlock it without an account. I tried some shady sites, but they seem expensive and don't understand why needed.
I'm hoping all I need to do is just figure out root access, get a recovery mode installed, flash a T-Mobile or other firmware, and bam...but I really am not sure. Any immediate help would be greatly appreciated!!
I tried contacting Sprint to unlock the phone, but they required I have a Sprint number with them. Seems odd, considering it's a federal law for unlocking now...
Well, I went ahead and just flashed the SM-G930T firmware on my Samsung Galaxy S7....and got an invalid SIM error.
Tried contacting T-Mobile, they went through a bunch and ended up saying Sprint would need to unlock it.
So now I'm stuck...and have no idea what to do next. Seems like I need to setup a Sprint account, get a Sprint number, unlock my phone, and cancel the service? That seems insane...
Was going to do a three way call with Sprint and T-Mobile, and hope somehow something could be sorted. Considering T-Mobile owns Sprint now...this just seems like hassle.
Any advice from anyone would be appreciated!