Htc Sensation 4g t-mobile sim unlock - HTC Sensation

I have S-OFF, ROOTED and if I flash with custom or unbranded rom do I still have a SIMLOCK or not? Thanks

If you use a custom rom, which are updated through the cwm, then you will still have simlock.
If, however, change the CID, and use RUU another region, it is quite possible that simlok disappear.
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DrVladson said:
If you use a custom rom, which are updated through the cwm, then you will still have simlock.
If, however, change the CID, and use RUU another region, it is quite possible that simlok disappear.
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There must be a img in official RUU about simlock i think..Who knows which one it is?

jerrylzy said:
There must be a img in official RUU about simlock i think..Who knows which one it is?
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Can you find, please?

would be great to have an unlocked sim because many times more often than not it would be easier and faster to switch operators to the AT&T network and roam (plus have 3g) vs be stuck in low speed gsm land.

cellsitetechstl said:
would be great to have an unlocked sim because many times more often than not it would be easier and faster to switch operators to the AT&T network and roam (plus have 3g) vs be stuck in low speed gsm land.
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No, T-Mobile version of the Sensation won't have 3G on AT&T network even if it is sim unlocked. Their 3G bands are not compatible. On top of that, have fun reading your bill with roaming data charges.

i have a grandfathered plan still that has no roaming for voice or data. and i wasn't concerned as much about the 3g for data as opposed to the gsm capabilities for text and voice in a lot of out lying areas where tmobile is spotty as a Dalmatian

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how do i know if my htc inspire is unlocked?

hello i just followed all the steps in the ''(ALL NEW AGAIN ON 04-29-2011) HTC Inspire/DHD Hack Kit V11 '' and everything ran good but how do i know if my phone is really sim unlocked?
im from mexico but im actually in USA or vacations, so i bought the phone, followed the steps and put my mexican SIM card and i dont have signal... then i turned off my phone put another mexican sim card and i didnt have signal neither but when i go to the SIM services application there shows the companies name??
can someone help me or explain me why i dont have signal?
as far as i know i would have to be in roaming or someting?
im in Granada Hills, CA right now but my SIM cards are from mexico
someone please?
Go to HBOOT menu (Power off. Then hold vol down, and press power.)
Check on top what it says. If it says S ENG-OFF it means its unlocked.
diablo009 said:
Go to HBOOT menu (Power off. Then hold vol down, and press power.)
Check on top what it says. If it says S ENG-OFF it means its unlocked.
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I don't think it needs to say S ENG-OFF to be unlocked, just SHIP s-Off.
Eng s-Off means the engineering hboot has been flashed, if I'm not mistaken, which is not the state that the basic rooting process leaves you in.
renehd2 said:
hello i just followed all the steps in the ''(ALL NEW AGAIN ON 04-29-2011) HTC Inspire/DHD Hack Kit V11 '' and everything ran good but how do i know if my phone is really sim unlocked?
im from mexico but im actually in USA or vacations, so i bought the phone, followed the steps and put my mexican SIM card and i dont have signal... then i turned off my phone put another mexican sim card and i didnt have signal neither but when i go to the SIM services application there shows the companies name??
can someone help me or explain me why i dont have signal?
as far as i know i would have to be in roaming or someting?
im in Granada Hills, CA right now but my SIM cards are from mexico
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Did you put the back plate back on the phone after swapping cards? It has to be on to get signal.
Maybe your Mexican sim card will work in mexico.
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Actually it doesn't have to say engoff to be unlocked. Attn1 will simunlock with only radio soff. Does your Mexican carrier have roaming in the US? If not maybe that's why you have no signal? Also are you still on the downgraded rom/radio, some people tend have issues with it, so flashing atleast attn1 Ota's might help aswell.
If you know someone with a T-Mobile similar, give that a try
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Actually it doesn't have to say engoff to be unlocked. Attn1 will simunlock with only radio soff. Does your Mexican carrier have roaming in the US? If not maybe that's why you have no signal? Also are you still on the downgraded rom/radio, some people tend have issues with it, so flashing atleast attn1 Ota's might help aswell.
If you know someone with a T-Mobile similar, give that a try
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well it does says S-Off in hboot
but for example i did all that hack it things, then put my mexican sim, i have a cross where the signal is, but i have an app where there is all those services of my carrier and says the name of my carrier ''telcel'' but without signal
then i flashed the ROM "TB fusion 1.1.8" so i think is is a new ROM? or do i have to flash stock one again?
another information... my band base version is 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M
i think after the U is the radio.... so it is ok? or what could be my problem?
renehd2 said:
well it does says S-Off in hboot
but for example i did all that hack it things, then put my mexican sim, i have a cross where the signal is, but i have an app where there is all those services of my carrier and says the name of my carrier ''telcel'' but without signal
then i flashed the ROM "TB fusion 1.1.8" so i think is is a new ROM? or do i have to flash stock one again?
another information... my band base version is 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M
i think after the U is the radio.... so it is ok? or what could be my problem?
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Maybe I missed your answer, but I asked you if you put the cover back on the back of the phone after you swapped sims.
Hmm. You should have signal, you are putting the cover back on ask Scott pointed out? I'm personally not too familiar with telcel international roaming. If you use your similar card in another phone do you get a signal?
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Hmm. You should have signal, you are putting the cover back on ask Scott pointed out? I'm personally not too familiar with telcel international roaming. If you use your similar card in another phone do you get a signal?
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yes the backdoor is put on so i dont know why i dont have signal :S
i tried with different sim cards because it "should be unlocked" telcel simcard, unefon simcard, and boostmobile simcard (this one is USA) and none get signal :S
any help please????!!!
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i put another telcel sim card and it does got signal but with 0-2 bars and is roaming with aT&t is my radio good? or do i have to use another? my radio is 26.06.04.06_M
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but boost mobile similar cards use the iden network witch isn't compatible with GSM, so I think that's why it doesn't work. Not sure why your Mexican sim cards are not working though. I've only tested my phone with T-Mobile and it worked. So not sure where to go
Edit- just saw that the other sim worked. Radios depend on alot of things that what works for me might not work for you.You could try the Ota's radio if you want
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Are the correct apn settings being loaded from the sim? Sometimes the sim cards don't have the apn info on them, in which case you'll need to find them. I'm a bit tied up atm but I can see if I can find the correct settings
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APN: internet.itelcel.com
Username: webgprs
Password: webgprs2002
APN type: default
Better yet, http://tinyurl.com/6aosyj6
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when you hold volume down+power your first row should say s off.
I have a Movistar simcard which roams on T-mobile's network while in the US and works fine as long as I disable data on the phone. If you want data to work, you'll probably gonna have to change the APN's settings.
Here is a screenshoot
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12194120/movistar1.png
zl4y3r said:
I have a Movistar simcard which roams on T-mobile's network while in the US and works fine as long as I disable data on the phone. If you want data to work, you'll probably gonna have to change the APN's settings.
Here is a screenshoot
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12194120/movistar1.png
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let me see some proff of identification!!! att has detected you bro better move

[Q] Get T-Mobile ''4G'' on international unlocked version?

Okay, so I moved to the US last year from germany and bought there the unlocked HTC Sensation which is really liked so i just switched my Vodafone Sim with a T-Mobile Sim, everything worked fine, i got perfect signal and "4G" or it showed on my sensation a HSPA. Everything fine.
But a few days ago i got the HTC One S Unlocked international version, which i really love. So after cutting my sim and putting it in I noticed that I only get Edge with my phone. First i thought there was something wrong with my sim, so i went to tmobile an got a new microsim. But still the same... so i googled a little and found out that compared to the tmobile htc one s the international version doesnt support the AWS frequency (1700/2100mhz). But i think both versions have the same chip so it must be able somehow to enable the AWS frequnecy, so after hours of looking i still couldn't find anything.. I read that i could put a tmobile ruu on it, but i am not sure about this if this works or of there are other ways to get 4G on my HTC One S
Well, With the Sensation, The US 4G version had an extra gold pin on the back, Like an antenna. So you would never get 4G on a non 4G phone.
However, Some users believe that there is no such thing as 4G and that its all a hype.
But what you can do is modify the signal icons (.png files) and replace the H icon with a 4G icon, So whenever you get a HSPA signal, Your phone will show 4G..
ajcole95 said:
Okay, so I moved to the US last year from germany and bought there the unlocked HTC Sensation which is really liked so i just switched my Vodafone Sim with a T-Mobile Sim, everything worked fine, i got perfect signal and "4G" or it showed on my sensation a HSPA. Everything fine.
But a few days ago i got the HTC One S Unlocked international version, which i really love. So after cutting my sim and putting it in I noticed that I only get Edge with my phone. First i thought there was something wrong with my sim, so i went to tmobile an got a new microsim. But still the same... so i googled a little and found out that compared to the tmobile htc one s the international version doesnt support the AWS frequency (1700/2100mhz). But i think both versions have the same chip so it must be able somehow to enable the AWS frequnecy, so after hours of looking i still couldn't find anything.. I read that i could put a tmobile ruu on it, but i am not sure about this if this works or of there are other ways to get 4G on my HTC One S
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More than likely a hardware limitation.
The internation version can't get T-Mobile 3G/4G, as you stated, they use different frequencies.
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jj00KKEERR said:
The internation version can't get T-Mobile 3G/4G, as you stated, they use different frequencies.
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Yeah i am aware of this, but because i like to root, mod and stuff my phone i am not sure if it would work if you would put the stock tmobile rom/radio on it if it would work, because i heard some people got the aws frequency to work on the galaxy note from at&t. But nobody tried it yet, if yes please help me
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Yeah i am aware of this, but because i like to root, mod and stuff my phone i am not sure if it would work if you would put the stock tmobile rom/radio on it if it would work, because i heard some people got the aws frequency to work on the galaxy note from at&t. But nobody tried it yet, if yes please help me
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You can't change the radio hardware with software.
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[Q] Aid with Radio.

So, I just bought a used HTC One S off craigslist and the guy was using an AT&T card in it and said there was problems connecting with a t-mo sim. I assume he flashed an AT&T radio. Do you guys know the best way to reset the radio back to t-mo? I don't really mind root so could I just factory reset? It's on LeeDrOiD One Supreve V2.1.0 if that helps.
Are you sure the phone is not blacklisted and that is why you cant use it with tmobile?
Just checked and the IMEI is not blocked unless you mean something else. He was even using the phoen (though with his AT&T sim)
rockerode said:
just checked and the imei is not blocked unless you mean something else. He was even using the phoen (though with his at&t sim)
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Hi Crumpla!
there is no ATT radio. All of the radios will be specifically for T-Mo or the European variant. the reason that it works on ATT is just because it works on the same bands and frequencies as both att and T-mo. The version of radio should have no bearing on whether it will work on T-Mo or not
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there is no ATT radio. All of the radios will be specifically for T-Mo or the European variant. the reason that it works on ATT is just because it works on the same bands and frequencies as both att and T-mo. The version of radio should have no bearing on whether it will work on T-Mo or not
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What does the phone say with a TMo Sim in it?
"Phone not allowed on network"? and "MM6" up top in the signal area?
Check radio setting
With dialer punch in
*#*#4636#*#*
Choose "Phone information"
Scroll down to Radio, see if it's On or Off.
Maybe play with it, turn it off turn it on see if it give you anything
EDIT: did some googling and seems like MM6 mean it's blacklisted.
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Check radio setting
With dialer punch in
*#*#4636#*#*
Choose "Phone information"
Scroll down to Radio, see if it's On or Off.
Maybe play with it, turn it off turn it on see if it give you anything
EDIT: did some googling and seems like MM6 mean it's blacklisted.
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Yea that's why I was asking...hope its not blacklisted :/
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[Q] Phone Thinks I Am Roaming

Hello,
I bought my HTC Sensation about a year ago on Ebay. The seller claimed the phone was purchased outright and paid off. I checked the imei and it showed clean. When I got it, I popped my Airfire sim card into it and it worked fine. A month ago, I switched to Cricket as Airfire was going out of business. Cricket made me enter my imei. It said it was bad. I called T-Mobile and they said the seller defaulted on payments. They refused to help in any way. They told me to buy the phone direct from them next time. I told them I had proof I was buying it in good faith. They didn't care and apparently have no problem punishing the victim.
Anyways, when I got my Cricket sim and popped it in, my phone said I was roaming. It has said I was roaming for a full month now. I can send and receive calls, but my data is stuck at EDGE and some of the programs don't work since the phone thinks its roaming. I need to have "data roaming" enabled for data to work. Cricket ran some tests and eventually said I needed to do a factory reset.
So, I switched from the Android Revolution rom to the ViperS 5.2.1 rom. I did a full dalvik and cache wipe and reformatted everything but the sd card. I installed the new rom and kernal. Same thing. Phone still says I am roaming. Odd thing is, when I go to manually select carrier, my options are Cricket (current carrier), Airfire (previous carrier) and TMobile (stock carrier). Also, when I am using data, it has an "E" above the data. E is what Airfire used. Is there somehow somewhere a place that the phone is storing info through wipes?
I am s-off, rooted and debranded. I sim unlocked the phone myself. I am so stuck and think that only one of the geniuses on XDA are my only hope. I have went mental spending hours and hours on this. Some XDA peeps are smarted than HTC and Cricket combined, so please help me out here.
Thanks,
Grant
SuperGrant said:
Hello,
Thanks,
Grant
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Hi grant, this is a very odd situation your in. With my sensation when I leave the UK and connect to another EU "partner network" is the only time my phone would jump into roaming mode. Is it possible that cricket is not directly supported in your area? Maybe they rent their local connection from another carrier and thats why your getting connected as roaming? Have you tried any other sim cards to see if they come up as roaming?
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Hi heavy_metal_man
I am quite sure that At&t is Cricket's parent company so all of the towers should be At&t's networks. Also, I have checked it when in other cities and I get the same message, though I haven't traveled more than 30 miles away.
The previous sim with AirFire worked fine. I also popped out the sim for Cricket and put it in my mom's phone to see if it was the sim. Her's worked fine. She got the automatic Cricket update settings right away and was not roaming. Mine never got the Cricket pop-up so I had to manually enter all of the data info. Yes, odd indeed and I am lost.
SuperGrant said:
I am quite sure that At&t is Cricket's parent company so all of the towers should be At&t's networks. Also, I have checked it when in other cities and I get the same message, though I haven't traveled more than 30 miles away.
The previous sim with AirFire worked fine. I also popped out the sim for Cricket and put it in my mom's phone to see if it was the sim. Her's worked fine. She got the automatic Cricket update settings right away and was not roaming. Mine never got the Cricket pop-up so I had to manually enter all of the data info. Yes, odd indeed and I am lost.
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OK, the info your adding manually, is that the same info as is registered when the card is in your mums phone? Same APN etc?
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heavy_metal_man said:
OK, the info your adding manually, is that the same info as is registered when the card is in your mums phone? Same APN etc?
Hi heavy_metal_man. Yup. Same info. Only difference is that the info all loads automatically on hers. I do get automated texts from Cricket when I put the sim in my phone as did she, but I had to get the APN info from Cricket the first time because it didn't auto load. I am still wondering if it is a sim issue, but I expected my mom's phone to be roaming when I put the sim in hers. I was shocked when it wasn't. She just has a free stock phone from Airfire btw. Nothing fancy and nothing done to it.
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SuperGrant said:
heavy_metal_man said:
OK, the info your adding manually, is that the same info as is registered when the card is in your mums phone? Same APN etc?
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Hi heavy_metal_man. Yup. Same info. Only difference is that the info all loads automatically on hers. I do get automated texts from Cricket when I put the sim in my phone as did she, but I had to get the APN info from Cricket the first time because it didn't auto load. I am still wondering if it is a sim issue, but I expected my mom's phone to be roaming when I put the sim in hers. I was shocked when it wasn't. She just has a free stock phone from Airfire btw. Nothing fancy and nothing done to it.
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Hmm. Are those 3 carriers the only ones available to you? I think the imei may be key here, if cricket know its a T-Mobile phone they may register that you are roaming. I think your previous carrier (airfire) was a Virtual mobile network, much like giffgaff in the UK ( which runs on the o2 network.) As such they may not have inforced the same imei policy's that cricket does. But this is just a hunch as I am on UK networks and we do things much differently. If you could ask about any friends and colleges that have different carrier simcards from our previous 3 you could gauge what carriers your phone is compatible with.
Worst case scenario you could maybe buy another broken htc sensation and perform a motherboard swap. This would solve your imei issue, assuming that it was the primary issue. But check the simcards first and report back
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heavy_metal_man said:
Hmm. Are those 3 carriers the only ones available to you? I think the imei may be key here, if cricket know its a T-Mobile phone they may register that you are roaming. I think your previous carrier (airfire) was a Virtual mobile network, much like giffgaff in the UK ( which runs on the o2 network.) As such they may not have inforced the same imei policy's that cricket does. But this is just a hunch as I am on UK networks and we do things much differently. If you could ask about any friends and colleges that have different carrier simcards from our previous 3 you could gauge what carriers your phone is compatible with.
Worst case scenario you could maybe buy another broken htc sensation and perform a motherboard swap. This would solve your imei issue, assuming that it was the primary issue. But check the simcards first and report back
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Hmm... There are only 3 carriers available. Should there be more? It's not tied to the sim? Everyone I know either still has Airfire and plans on switching to Cricket or has cdma so I have been out of luck with trying another sim. The only other thing I thought about was 4ext recovery. No matter what I flash; roms, kernals, firmware or radios, the recovery always survives of course. So, if the previous carriers are surviving the flashes, perhaps there is a place on the phone like the recovery where they are surviving.
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Hmm... There are only 3 carriers available. Should there be more? It's not tied to the sim? Everyone I know either still has Airfire and plans on switching to Cricket or has cdma so I have been out of luck with trying another sim. The only other thing I thought about was 4ext recovery. No matter what I flash; roms, kernals, firmware or radios, the recovery always survives of course. So, if the previous carriers are surviving the flashes, perhaps there is a place on the phone like the recovery where they are surviving.
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Its unlikely to be to do with the recovery, no reason for it to keep anything like that. It's most likely the phones imei at this point, though im unsure as to why this was not an issue for airfire.
Do you know what firmware version you have? Have you flashed 3.33 by yourself?
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Its unlikely to be to do with the recovery, no reason for it to keep anything like that. It's most likely the phones imei at this point, though im unsure as to why this was not an issue for airfire.
Do you know what firmware version you have? Have you flashed 3.33 by yourself?
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Yup, I flashed 3.33 universal after doing a super Cid. Well, maybe its time to just get a new phone, although I would really like to figure out this problem first. I am not the kind of person who can just drop things, lol.
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Yup, I flashed 3.33 universal after doing a super Cid. Well, maybe its time to just get a new phone, although I would really like to figure out this problem first. I am not the kind of person who can just drop things, lol.
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I know how you feel. Maybe its because they cricket know the sensation 4g is a T-Mobile device and force you into roaming mode by default. I think its possible to overwrite the devices mid and cid, flash a sensation XE rom and effectively have a sensation XE. But such things can be quite dangerous and i couldn't say for definite if it would work to fix your issue :/ (not recommending anyone tries this without proper research and understanding :/)
Can you get access to another cricket sim without a contract? Just for testing?
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I know how you feel. Maybe its because they cricket know the sensation 4g is a T-Mobile device and force you into roaming mode by default. I think its possible to overwrite the devices mid and cid, flash a sensation XE rom and effectively have a sensation XE. But such things can be quite dangerous and i couldn't say for definite if it would work to fix your issue :/ (not recommending anyone tries this without proper research and understanding :/)
Can you get access to another cricket sim without a contract? Just for testing?
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I believe I have already done that. When I go into info about my phone, it says Sensation XE. It also registers as Sensation XE in the Google play store. I was thinking about telling Cricket to send me a new sim. Otherwise, I have no access to one at this time.
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I believe I have already done that. When I go into info about my phone, it says Sensation XE. It also registers as Sensation XE in the Google play store. I was thinking about telling Cricket to send me a new sim. Otherwise, I have no access to one at this time.
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I think that it would be your best bet, although your device is probably showing up on the play store as an XE because of its build.prop from your custom rom, not any advanced MID changes. although you can check by using the command
Code:
fastboot getvar all
this will show your your mid, cid and your imei among other things.
SuperGrant said:
I believe I have already done that. When I go into info about my phone, it says Sensation XE. It also registers as Sensation XE in the Google play store. I was thinking about telling Cricket to send me a new sim. Otherwise, I have no access to one at this time.
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I've worked it out! Its a frequency issue. Cricket apparently only support cdma frequency's, while the sensation only uses gsm frequency's. So in order to connect your phone is bunnying onto a local gsm service, which is then redirecting you to cricket. Hence the roaming! If you want off the data roaming you will need to either swap to a different phone carrier or buy a cdma phone
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Hi heavy_metal_man,
Cricket did use CDMA for most of the time, but they have switched to GSM. They send a sim now and are trying to switch all of their old customers to GSM. What I am having trouble figuring out is what frequencies they use. Perhaps my phone is not quite compatible. I am having trouble with that as well. GSM arena, Phonescoop and the other major sites kind of have different data as far as my phone goes. My phone is called "HTC Sensation 4G" as far as I know. Yet, they list no 4g capability or frequencies. Of course, I believe that would only affect data and I still should not show as roaming.
I have been unable to figure out fastboot since switching to the viper rom. It doesn't use usb mass storage anymore. It uses the new system in which the whole phone is recognized as a storage device by the computer. Forgot what they called it. I wish they hadn't changed it, and apparently Windows 7 should recognize it by default, but it does not. I am sure if I get enough time to put into it I will figure out how to use the fastboot commands again.
I am ready to give up and just get a new phone pretty soon. Would be nice if Cricket's customer service wasn't so worthless. It could still be the IMEI or something on their end that I can do nothing about but they have failed to provide any solution.
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Hi heavy_metal_man,
Cricket did use CDMA for most of the time, but they have switched to GSM. They send a sim now and are trying to switch all of their old customers to GSM. What I am having trouble figuring out is what frequencies they use. Perhaps my phone is not quite compatible. I am having trouble with that as well. GSM arena, Phonescoop and the other major sites kind of have different data as far as my phone goes. My phone is called "HTC Sensation 4G" as far as I know. Yet, they list no 4g capability or frequencies. Of course, I believe that would only affect data and I still should not show as roaming.
I have been unable to figure out fastboot since switching to the viper rom. It doesn't use usb mass storage anymore. It uses the new system in which the whole phone is recognized as a storage device by the computer. Forgot what they called it. I wish they hadn't changed it, and apparently Windows 7 should recognize it by default, but it does not. I am sure if I get enough time to put into it I will figure out how to use the fastboot commands again.
I am ready to give up and just get a new phone pretty soon. Would be nice if Cricket's customer service wasn't so worthless. It could still be the IMEI or something on their end that I can do nothing about but they have failed to provide any solution.
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Sorry for my delayed reply, I noticed that cricket swapped out to gsm and I discovered that their gsm tech is actually supplied at&t as they bought them out.
So I looked at their coverage map for the area airfire operated and I noticed that they had 2 or 3 area that were only providing 3g support via a partner, so I assume that would put you into roaming. It might be worth a look at their map and confirm if you reside on one of these black areas ?
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Sprint HTC A9 Sim Unlock

Hello I have a Sprint HTC A9 that has been successful unlocked for domestic use, but I have voice with no data. I have S-Off, boot loader unlocked, running stock os. Has anyone else ran into this problem? Can someone please advise?
A friend mentioned that the Sprint variant might not have correct bands installed to be compat with other carriers. I'm wondering if replacing the radio firmware with the developer edition version would work, but I can't get around simlock to test.
HTC A9 Sprint Unlock success!!
Please share? I've been trying for days and made little progress.
There is a guy from Craigslist in my area that did it and he will not tell me, I asked. If there is any kind of way that I can back it up, screen shot it, or whatever. Someone please let me know. I don't have any personal data on it, because it has no data so I'm not using it yet. I don't care about sharing. Let me know and I'm more than happy to.
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There is a guy from Craigslist in my area that did it and he will not tell me, I asked. If there is any kind of way that I can back it up, screen shot it, or whatever. Someone please let me know. I don't have any personal data on it, because it has no data so I'm not using it yet. I don't care about sharing. Let me know and I'm more than happy to.
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If it's an MSL code, he should have supplied that for you. I think MSL is unique to the IMEI/MEID/ESN of your device.
About your successful unlock, congrats! Your success let's me know it's do-able. I'm calling a local computer repair shop that offers unlocking services tomorrow. :fingerscrossed:
I've tried a half dozen ways to get this phone unlocked, but so far I've come up empty except for one scenario:
S-OFF
1. Change CID/MID to unlocked and flash unlocked RUU. Phone works fine, radio not functional.
2. Change CID/MID to sprint and flash sprint RUU. Phone will work with T-mobile SIM for one boot-up. As soon as phone is rebooted the SIM locks.
You can't just reflash the sprint RUU either. If you want to get another successful boot, you have to flash the unlocked RUU, then the sprint RUU and you'll get one boot. My only guess is something in the partitions is zero'd out by the unlocked RUU. I've also tried using the CM13 build immediately after the sprint RUU, and again I get one boot, but as soon as I reboot, CM13 shows sim not inserted.
Perhaps someone can make sense of this.
Attached screenshot proof unlock A9 Sprint, this unlock successfull :laugh:
Lussardi said:
Attached screenshot proof unlock A9 Sprint, this unlock successfull :laugh:
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That not unlocked! I used mine in mexico to! Call sprint, they will unlock it for UMTS and HSP for free! Put a US AT&T sim in it and show me....
Cheers,
disco
disco_y2k said:
That not unlocked! I used mine in mexico to! Call sprint, they will unlock it for UMTS and HSP for free! Put a US AT&T sim in it and show me....
Cheers,
disco
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i live in overseas and its worked for me :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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i live in overseas and its worked for me :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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which method you have used to unlock it?
hmmm.....I am seeing exactly the same thing. put in T-Mobile's sim card. the phone is working fine but no data. anybody got Sprint version of HTC A9 to work on GSM network?
scsc168 said:
hmmm.....I am seeing exactly the same thing. put in T-Mobile's sim card. the phone is working fine but no data. anybody got Sprint version of HTC A9 to work on GSM network?
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put the correct APN and DATA works fine
Lussardi said:
put the correct APN and DATA works fine
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Wow.... you are a life saver Lussardi! Thank you very much!
My HTC A9 has delivered APN setting, which cannot be modified. However, I was able to create a new APN manually and use that one. After that, data started to work. So far, I see it was able to connect to 4G and also LTE. At one place with strong LTE signal, i tested the download speed, and it was 82mbps. I have never seen that kind of download speed on my iPhone.
Thanks,
Sean
// , Did you unlock an HTC One A9 [Sprint] for complete LTE on T-Mobile or on AT&T?
// , Let me make sure I understand this correctly.
Can I do the following:
1. Unlock a Sprint HTC One A9.
2. Buy a data-enabled T-Mobile SIM card or AT&T SIM card.
3. Enter APN & Data settings.
4. Use that same HTC One A9 with T-Mobile or AT&T, with no loss in performance?
If this is true, that surprises and pleases me.
I assume that one can unlock an AT&T HTC One A9 for use with T-Mobile with no loss in performance, as well?
I found the following for my research about this question:
https://unlocklocks.com/blog/how-to-unlock-htc-one-a9-by-unlock-code/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sitesearch.php?q=htc one a9 unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-a9/general/sim-unlock-free-help-to-help-t3307036
Adjutant said:
// , Let me make sure I understand this correctly.
Can I do the following:
1. Unlock a Sprint HTC One A9.
2. Buy a data-enabled T-Mobile SIM card or AT&T SIM card.
3. Enter APN & Data settings.
4. Use that same HTC One A9 with T-Mobile or AT&T, with no loss in performance?
If this is true, that surprises and pleases me.
I assume that one can unlock an AT&T HTC One A9 for use with T-Mobile with no loss in performance, as well?
I found the following for my research about this question:
https://unlocklocks.com/blog/how-to-unlock-htc-one-a9-by-unlock-code/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sitesearch.php?q=htc one a9 unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-a9/general/sim-unlock-free-help-to-help-t3307036
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My Sprint version of HTC A9 has been working on T-Mobile's network for almost a week now. I see no issues so far. Data connection is still good with connecting to LTE most of the time.
scsc168 said:
My Sprint version of HTC A9 has been working on T-Mobile's network for almost a week now. I see no issues so far. Data connection is still good with connecting to LTE most of the time.
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What process did you go through? Can you provide a little more detail? Thanks...
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What process did you go through? Can you provide a little more detail? Thanks...
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i am not sure if my experience is any different from others here. but, here's the detail of what i went through....
My Sprint variant of HTC A9 was purchased directly off htc.com back in 11/2015. Since the phone was paid in full, I believe the phone was not locked to begin with. I had been using it on Sprint for the past 10 months. Just recently i switched my plan to T-Mobile. With T-Mobile's sim, I see the phone picked up the sim card. Phone started to work (i can make/receive calls) but data would not work. I talked to a couple of HTC rep for support. Both of them told me it should work. From their understanding, A9 and the new HTC 10 should work on all US major carriers...especially mine is a CDMA phone. According to them, CDMA ones can work on GSM....but GSM would not work on CDMA network. Anyways, they were no help for me.
I started doing research on my own and found many people experiencing the same. Phone would work but data would not connect. It was not working until a member on this board, Lussardi, came to rescue. He suggested to manually put in APN. So, I started to check out the APN setting. I see with t-mobile's sim card in, the phone is using a delivered T-Mobile APN setting. I went ahead and created one myself named T-Mobile Manual. I put in APN: fast.t-mobile.com and MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc and left everything else default. After I selected to use this new APN, the phone started to pick up mobile data. Now, depending on the area that i am in, i can see it's using either 4G or LTE. At one place with strong LTE signal, i did a speed test. It was over 80mbps.
Anyways, that's all. Good luck everyone.
// , Thank you!
// , Thanks for the thorough response, and for not just giving up.
The large corporations generally don't care too much about usability for this sort of outlier customer experience.
Can you give any instructions on how you unlocked the sprint version of the HTC A9?
Thanks.

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