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Sprint touch pro 2 on straight talk plan???

i have a sprint touch pro 2 and i wanted to take it to straight talk plan ? can i buy a phone from walmart and clone the straight talk phone to be the touch pro 2 ??? thanx in advance

I could tell you, but then we'd both have to be banned from this website. Cloning ESN is illegal as far as we are concerned.

If you answer if he can or not you would get banned?

It is possible but illegal

thanx for all your replies . so since the whole cloning thing is illegal on this site lets skip it . say i got the phone to register with straight talk . what about the settings inside the phone . what should they be ? any idea?
thanx

Well now that ST (ST= Straight Talk) sells sim cards for $15 the answer is yes but no cloning needed. It only works with the $45 unlimited everything plan. Just buy one sim card and put it in the Sprint TP2. Also buy one free ST phone that comes with the $45 refill card. Then go here and follow instructions to sim unlock the TP2. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/cdma-tp2-...us-touch-pro-2-cid-security-sim-unlocker.html,
Pay around $20 to sim unlock your Touch Pro 2...
Use the $45 refill card to to activate the sim card you paid $15 for and sell the cheep phone you got for free for $20. Do this every month if its worth your time. Depending on the free phone that comes with the $45 card you may get more then $20 for it.
Its better then cloning the phone because this sim card will work in any unlocked phone. Will work with a locked phone if its a T-Mobile or AT&T phone. I see people say it works with the Sprint I phone also.
Only thing is the sim card will not work in a Straight talk phone. I just tryed taking the ST sim card out of my Sprint TP2 and putting it in the free phone they gave me. It said something about putting in an unlock code and gave me 5 tries? It said 911 calls only. The phone did not do this when I put in my JOLT Sim card.
I guess cloning a cheep phone would allow you to use ST"s cheaper money per minute refill cards.
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Oh one more thing. My internet is very slow. It works but its slower then Sprint EVDO and even slower then Sprint 1X. The Sprint TP2 only supports slow internet speed when using the sim card.
I bet some very educated person could create a flash to fix this but with every one going to the Android and the I phone I doubt this person will take the time to provide us with the flash. Microsoft has committed suicide with there smart phones and I wont be a part of it for much longer.
PS also my MMS is trying to fetch the photo from sprint so I cant send or receive any MMS.. Regular text messaging works.
Im still searching and having trouble finding how to change this setting.

travissand said:
Well now that ST (ST= Straight Talk) sells sim cards for $15 the answer is yes but no cloning needed. It only works with the $45 unlimited everything plan. Just buy one sim card and put it in the Sprint TP2. Also buy one free ST phone that comes with the $45 refill card. Then go here and follow instructions to sim unlock the TP2. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/cdma-tp2-...us-touch-pro-2-cid-security-sim-unlocker.html,
Pay around $20 to sim unlock your Touch Pro 2...
Use the $45 refill card to to activate the sim card you paid $15 for and sell the cheep phone you got for free for $20. Do this every month if its worth your time. Depending on the free phone that comes with the $45 card you may get more then $20 for it.
Its better then cloning the phone because this sim card will work in any unlocked phone. Will work with a locked phone if its a T-Mobile or AT&T phone. I see people say it works with the Sprint I phone also.
Only thing is the sim card will not work in a Straight talk phone. I just tryed taking the ST sim card out of my Sprint TP2 and putting it in the free phone they gave me. It said something about putting in an unlock code and gave me 5 tries? It said 911 calls only. The phone did not do this when I put in my JOLT Sim card.
I guess cloning a cheep phone would allow you to use ST"s cheaper money per minute refill cards.
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Oh one more thing. My internet is very slow. It works but its slower then Sprint EVDO and even slower then Sprint 1X. The Sprint TP2 only supports slow internet speed when using the sim card.
I bet some very educated person could create a flash to fix this but with every one going to the Android and the I phone I doubt this person will take the time to provide us with the flash. Microsoft has committed suicide with there smart phones and I wont be a part of it for much longer.
PS also my MMS is trying to fetch the photo from sprint so I cant send or receive any MMS.. Regular text messaging works.
Im still searching and having trouble finding how to change this setting.
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MMS issue look for a cab "Arcsoft_MMS_5.2.12.62" install it and you should be good to go on pics.

[Q] Prepaid Infuse carrier?

Hey,
I'm recently got an infuse off contract, rooted it, etc, but I haven't been able to make myself transfer my service too it from my other phone. I'm really torn, as it is a great phone but ehhh.
Anyway.
I'm just wondering if there is some way I can use this phone on a pre paid network or something. I looked it up and saw straight talk was perhaps an option, but it seems very confusing.
Thanks.

well you could use simple mobile. (they have ads on this site alot) you could the infuse unlocking guide to unlock your phone and use it on this service. they use t mobiles towers and have 4g (hspa+) in certain areas. their plans are 40 unlimited talk and text, 50 unlimited talk text and 2g data, and 60 unlimited talk text 3g/4g data. you should check them out.hope all goes well my friend.

thank you very much! are there any cheaper options? do you know anything about straight talk?
can i use it on att month to month?

Well simple mobile is one of the cheapest prepaid gsm carriers around. And I know of straight talk. But the only straight talk smart phone is the nokia e71 I believe and that's the only straight talk phone that uses a sim card. So you would have to buy a 200+ phone JUST to get the straight talk sim card out. And yes you can use simple mobile from month to month but after 30 days of no payment they will take your number and deactivate your sim. And another good cheap prepaid option is walmarts family plan. The only thing is to start to see savings you would have to have multiple lines that's why it's good for families. Finally you could check out h20 wireless solutions they have similar rates to simple mobile but they use att towers.... Whew....that was allot of typing....lol

Itaer said:
thank you very much! are there any cheaper options? do you know anything about straight talk?
can i use it on att month to month?
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Based on conversations on IRC with a ST user:
If your SIM was taken from one of th $200 Nokias, you can use in the Infuse. ST is a Tracfone reseller, which uses AT&T's network.
SIMs from all other ST phones are specifically locked to the phone.
ALSO: If you use a SIM from one of the $200 Nokias, you MUST keep the Nokia. If that phone is ever activated with another service, ST will drop service on your SIM.
Edit: Note, I'm an AT&T contract user, all of the above are hearsay from IRC a month or two ago.

i believe you need a $200 nokia smartphone on strait talk but never sell the nokia! the sim is locked to the imei somehow and if the nokia is activated again the old sim is deactivated. also i think strait talk is a reseller of many carriers, they have cdma phones and a few of the nokia smart phones are on t-mobile sim cards from what i understand. you can try it but i think ifg the sim has a "t" on it then you cant use it, only problem is you have know way to know which sim will be in the phone you are buying.
many of those prepay services have one of a number of methods to lock the phone to their network. do as much research as posible before dropping cash on a device that might be useless

I though Att itself has a pay as you go with no contracty plain also tat works for this for for $5 data (10 mb ha) and $.010 a min talk.

Dani897 said:
i believe you need a $200 nokia smartphone on strait talk but never sell the nokia! the sim is locked to the imei somehow and if the nokia is activated again the old sim is deactivated. also i think strait talk is a reseller of many carriers, they have cdma phones and a few of the nokia smart phones are on t-mobile sim cards from what i understand. you can try it but i think ifg the sim has a "t" on it then you cant use it, only problem is you have know way to know which sim will be in the phone you are buying.
many of those prepay services have one of a number of methods to lock the phone to their network. do as much research as posible before dropping cash on a device that might be useless
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So theoretically, you could buy the 200 phone, and buy the cheap ass phone......in separate transactions, from Wal-mart and then use the expensive sim card, but put the cheap sim card in the expensive phone pkg and return the phone......only if you are evil!

I understand you could use the GoPhone plans, but you will need a new sim card, and also have to have a data plan to go with it, not sure how much the Simple Mobile plans are they talk about, but your looking at around 55-60$ for GoPhone plans with minimum data. 50$ unlimited talk and text and 5$for 10mb. Tops is 25$for 500mb, thats still not a lot of data though. I think 10mb for a phone is a joke, in my opinion. Maybe check out the Simple Mobile, you will have to unlock your phone for that though. Instructions for that are XDA.

emeralds5668 said:
So theoretically, you could buy the 200 phone, and buy the cheap ass phone......in separate transactions, from Wal-mart and then use the expensive sim card, but put the cheap sim card in the expensive phone pkg and return the phone......only if you are evil!
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No. If the expensive phone is EVER activated with another SIM, the expensive SIM you're using will get deactivated according to everything I've heard.

Entropy512 said:
No. If the expensive phone is EVER activated with another SIM, the expensive SIM you're using will get deactivated according to everything I've heard.
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Yeah but if the phone is returned, after it has been opened, then its not returned to the shelf. I think it would be considered refurb. I dont know, but they would probably reassign the imei to another sim. Dont know. I think I will just keep my edge speed in the hope that when att buys t-mobile that I will finally gtr hspda.

[Q] Using a cut-down sim to keep unlimited data

My M8 arrives today and I'm hoping to activate it without losing my unlimited data. I'm month-to-month and I purchased it subsidized from the HTC website as "upgrade-keep my existing plan" which, by what appears to be an oversight, didn't make me chose a new data plan. Long story short, I plan to put the sim card from my Rezound into the M8 before I ever turn it on because apparently the new sim is provisioned for a capped plan and activating it will switch me from unlimited. My problem is that the Rezound takes a regular (mini) sim while the M8 takes a nano. I have a sim cutter also arriving today and I'm concerned about screwing up my sim in the process of cutting it. That's where my questions come from.
1. Is there much risk to cutting a regular sim to nano using one of these cutters (noosy 3rd gen)? It gets great reviews and has an image (for what that's worth) of being higher quality.
2. I have an old unactivated sim from an Asurion replacement Rezound. If I screw up my current sim cutting it down, will this older (but still unactivated) sim work in my phone and retain my unlimited data plan (same plan as when I got the replacement many months ago)?
3. Can I just go into a Verizon store with my new phone and say the sim doesn't work and get a new nano sim provisioned to my current unlimited data account, even though my "current" phone on their system is a rezound with a regular sim?

cntryby429 said:
My M8 arrives today and I'm hoping to activate it without losing my unlimited data. I'm month-to-month and I purchased it subsidized from the HTC website as "upgrade-keep my existing plan" which, by what appears to be an oversight, didn't make me chose a new data plan. Long story short, I plan to put the sim card from my Rezound into the M8 before I ever turn it on because apparently the new sim is provisioned for a capped plan and activating it will switch me from unlimited. My problem is that the Rezound takes a regular (mini) sim while the M8 takes a nano. I have a sim cutter also arriving today and I'm concerned about screwing up my sim in the process of cutting it. That's where my questions come from.
1. Is there much risk to cutting a regular sim to nano using one of these cutters (noosy 3rd gen)? It gets great reviews and has an image (for what that's worth) of being higher quality.
2. I have an old unactivated sim from an Asurion replacement Rezound. If I screw up my current sim cutting it down, will this older (but still unactivated) sim work in my phone and retain my unlimited data plan (same plan as when I got the replacement many months ago)?
3. Can I just go into a Verizon store with my new phone and say the sim doesn't work and get a new nano sim provisioned to my current unlimited data account, even though my "current" phone on their system is a rezound with a regular sim?
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I had the droid DNA before the m8. The DNA wasn't a nano SIM and I use the SIM cutter. I was able to use the SIM and kept my unlimited data.
You can go to the store and request a new SIM.
My All New One

Just go to a Verizon store (a corporate one) and ask for a nano SIM.
There is no charge for it. There is no change to your plan for asking for a new SIM, any kind of SIM.

MultiDev said:
Just go to a Verizon store (a corporate one) and ask for a nano SIM.
There is no charge for it. There is no change to your plan for asking for a new SIM, any kind of SIM.
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do this. theres no charge if its a corporate store, but "authorized retailers" will charge you for it. if you want to take your nano sim and use it for a mini or micro sim device, just buy an adapter off amazon (~$6)

MultiDev said:
Just go to a Verizon store (a corporate one) and ask for a nano SIM.
There is no charge for it. There is no change to your plan for asking for a new SIM, any kind of SIM.
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This. I've kept unlimited through all 3 sized SIM cards. It has NOTHING to do with data caps or anything. You can also go on the website to activate, and when its time to enter SIM card info select 'Send me a SIM Card' to avoid going into the store.

Well now I feel silly for even ordering the sim cutter. I thought I was being proactive. Thanks for the prompt replies.

Could you let us know if this works and you get to keep your unlimited data?

Nevermore said:
Could you let us know if this works and you get to keep your unlimited data?
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switching sim cards wont cause you to lose unlimited data. its only if you change your plan or use an upgrade. SIM cards are just tied to a line.

Abe21599 said:
switching sim cards wont cause you to lose unlimited data. its only if you change your plan or use an upgrade. SIM cards are just tied to a line.
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The new SIMs are to support nfc for Isis. I just changed my SIM in my m7 to the nfc SIM. I have unlimited data, but it doesn't effect your data at all

jessbowring said:
The new SIMs are to support nfc for Isis. I just changed my SIM in my m7 to the nfc SIM. I have unlimited data, but it doesn't effect your data at all
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I was talking about ordering from HTC's website subsidized and being able to keep unlimited data by swapping sims. Best Buy recently closed this workaround.

Nevermore said:
Could you let us know if this works and you get to keep your unlimited data?
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Sure thing. I think some folks may have missed that I kinda did use my upgrade insofar as I received the m8 at the subsidized price for extending my contract. I noticed just this morning that the VZW website has already changed my contract end date to 2016, "my device" is still the Rezound (I assume that'll change once I turn on my m8 with a SIM provisioned to my current unlimited account), and it still shows unlimited with my data usage. Fingers crossed.

cntryby429 said:
Sure thing. I think some folks may have missed that I kinda did use my upgrade insofar as I received the m8 at the subsidized price for extending my contract. I noticed just this morning that the VZW website has already changed my contract end date to 2016, "my device" is still the Rezound (I assume that'll change once I turn on my m8 with a SIM provisioned to my current unlimited account), and it still shows unlimited with my data usage. Fingers crossed.
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I have the exact same issue, Rezound to M8, but the problem for me was everywhere I go they want me to select a plan, where can I bypass this?

Once that phone is activated, your plan will change.
You will have 14 days to go back to unlimited.
You didn't find a loophole.

tech_head said:
Once that phone is activated, your plan will change.
You will have 14 days to go back to unlimited.
You didn't find a loophole.
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it can be done.....

tech_head said:
Once that phone is activated, your plan will change.
You will have 14 days to go back to unlimited.
You didn't find a loophole.
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I have it on good authority that it worked only a month ago from a Rezound to a One Max. It's not an m8 but it is a different sim size (mini to micro). I'm not saying it WILL work. I won't be convinced of that until a receive a bill with a whole month on the new contract with unlimited data, but I have reason to believe it MAY work and it seems worth trying...

I went to the Verizon store and bought the phone outright. Coming from a note 2 with a micro Sim to a m8 with a nano sim, I was worried. However I went on the phone with a customer service agent and they assured me that my unlimited data was going to be safe as long as I wasn't using an upgrade and paying full price for the phone. Sure enough there wasn't any issues keeping my unlimited data so I'm happy. Only issue I have is the phone says it's roaming when its not.
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I just got my m8 today....I used some scissors a template and a YouTube video for reference...I cut my sim from my rezound and swapped it for the one that came with the phone. I ordered mine thru HTC with my new every 2. Didn't have to change my plan when buying and after powering on the m8 with my cut sim....it activated successfully and all is good. My data is unlimited and my contract says 2016 now.
Sent from my Rezound on Tachyon using Tapatalk

cntryby429 said:
Sure thing. I think some folks may have missed that I kinda did use my upgrade insofar as I received the m8 at the subsidized price for extending my contract. I noticed just this morning that the VZW website has already changed my contract end date to 2016, "my device" is still the Rezound (I assume that'll change once I turn on my m8 with a SIM provisioned to my current unlimited account), and it still shows unlimited with my data usage. Fingers crossed.
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How did it turn out for you?
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Djay1809 said:
How did it turn out for you?
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It seems to have turned out beautifully. My M8 has been on for 3 days now and VZW still shows two more years under contract with unlimited data retained. I got ballsy and even went into the verizon store with my M8 activated on my cut sim. I asked for a new sim so that NFC would work. The guy looked a little puzzled when he pulled out my ghetto sim, In hindsight I should have taken it out before just to stay under the radar. The only reason it took 20 min vs 2 min was because the guy was trying to put the new sim into the SD card tray. My preliminary advice is get it while you can. The Best Buy website forces you to select a plan so the HTC website will surely be fixed soon.

I currently have the m8 still in my 14 day window, gave up unlimited data to get this phone. Thinking about going tomorrow to return it and order off HTC's store (currently 150$). Just hope that it won't ask to change my plan on HTC's page...

[Q] Transitioning from AT&T Gophone (pay as you go) to N5

Hi xda N5! This is my first post and I'm ready for a lot of slaps, let's go.
So recently I have transitioned from a AT&T GoPhone Z222 to a N5. My plan for the GoPhone is the pay as you go, 10c plan. The GoPhone has the big SIM card while the N5 has the micro SIM card. I'm also worried that my Pay as You Go (10c) plan will get cut off when I switch phones because the N5 is a smartphone. Also, I only plan to use the text & call feature, no data plan for me, so I want to keep my plan.
I have some questions with my transition:
1. What is the best action to take to get a micro SIM card? Like, should I go to an AT&T store and get that changed or should I buy one of those cutters for the SIM card, in order to make a micro SIM card? Is there any other alternatives?
2. For my data plan, is there a way to keep my plan from changing? Will A&T& switch my phone plan from Pay as You Go to their smartphone prepaid service?
Thank you!

Sprint Tab 3: Use On Prepaid Network?

Want to use sprint tab 3 on prepaid network???
Ok so I just got this Samsung tab 3 from a pawn shop for 25 bucks (in pretty good condition) and it had a SIM card in it. I bought it kinda on a impulse and didn't know it was a Sprint tablet. Now...the SIM card of whoever owned it before was still in there..and mobile data is still working. So I turned it off (I'm not a jerk lol) and I'm wanting to use it on a prepaid network. It's not a huge deal to me to have it with 3g/4g so I don't want to put it on my cell plan with Verizon. So I'm wondering if I can use it on straight talk or another prepaid network if I unlock it. Which ones are decent? I'd be looking for like 2 gigs a month. Thanks!