Id like to start by saying that I have spent hours and hours these last few weeks trying to find all the info I need but have come up somewhat shorthanded.
I currently have an LG Optimus V on Virgin Mobile and I want to upgrade my phone while keeping my $25 a month plan. I want a top-of-the-line phone like the Galaxy S2 or similar(which I will buy on Craigslist).
SO, I am wondering if there are different methods to getting different phones to work(I have seen a lot of info about how to get an HTC EVO to virgin) and if this should affect by buying decision?
ALSO, I was wondering if anyone had a straightforward step-by-step guide to flash a phone to Virgin because all the ones I have found are broken up and very confusing to follow?
I would also like to know if it is possible to get a Verizon phone to use on Virgin(I was thinking of the Razr)?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Hey Guys,
Back Story (don't really have to read if you want to skip)
I was at the bar with some coworkers and a new guy I work with was talking about how he had bought a Samsung Fascinate from a friend of his that had gotten his account frozen (it was on Verizon Wireless). The coworker wanted to transfer it over to Cricket Wireless (it is a crappy carrier in my area if you haven't heard of it) but they told him that they could do it but that he wouldn't get MMS. He ended up just buying a new one from Cricket and offered to sell me the one he could use for 50 bucks (it is like new in a box with everything) and told me if I couldn't do anything with it he would buy it back. This was kinda a win/win no brainer for me so of course I took him up on the offer.
He also did say that he could not get Verizon to activate it because there was a hold on the account that the phone currently belonged to.
The phone obviously will not work for me because I am on Sprint but from what I understand is that it is pretty much the same phone as the Captivate on AT&T. My dad uses AT&T for his carrier and has an iPhone but hates it and wants to go to an Android phone.
The questions:
1. Can I get the Samsung Fascinate from Verizon Wireless to work with AT&T?
2. Can I somehow remove whatever information that has linked this phone to being locked on Verizon so that I could sell it or activate it on another Verizon account if I want to sell it or give it to someone who does have Verizon?
3. Are there any other good options that I can do with this if neither of these will work?
I have no issues with rooting/flashing/messing with whatever is on this phone. I am a flashaholic on my Evo 4g and know that Samsung is a bit different then HTC when it comes to this type of thing but should have no issues figuring out the difference as far as rooting and such from other posts on this site. I just did not see anywhere that this question was already asked and know this is the absolute best place to come to get the correct answers for questions like these.
Thank you for any help you can give!!!
Does anyone have any ideas? Sorry for the bump but its been 2 days now and I am trying to figure out what to do. Thanks!
Hey all,
I'm really new to this community and rooting in general and I just have a question regarding rooting between carriers. I've never really had to root my phone till my new HTC one (m8) blocked my tethering app =(.
Anyways the question is whether or not rooting my HTC one on a verizon network would be the same as rooting it on a t-mobile network. My plan was to upgrade 2 year contract via verizon and then have t-mobile buy out my contract so I can still get unlimited data (verizon takes away the unlimited plan once you upgrade and my phone is now ancient.) Since all the new 4g verizon phones come unlocked, I am free to switch over to t-mobile. The problem is I don't know anything about rooting, and while I'm fairly certain networks have nothing to do with rooting a phone, I did see different sub forums for the same phone but different network. Should I wait till I've hopped over to t-mobile before attempting to root my phone?
Sorry for the rant and thanks in advance for any advice you can give!
LatrommiSumac said:
Hey all,
I'm really new to this community and rooting in general and I just have a question regarding rooting between carriers. I've never really had to root my phone till my new HTC one (m8) blocked my tethering app =(.
Anyways the question is whether or not rooting my HTC one on a verizon network would be the same as rooting it on a t-mobile network. My plan was to upgrade 2 year contract via verizon and then have t-mobile buy out my contract so I can still get unlimited data (verizon takes away the unlimited plan once you upgrade and my phone is now ancient.) Since all the new 4g verizon phones come unlocked, I am free to switch over to t-mobile. The problem is I don't know anything about rooting, and while I'm fairly certain networks have nothing to do with rooting a phone, I did see different sub forums for the same phone but different network. Should I wait till I've hopped over to t-mobile before attempting to root my phone?
Sorry for the rant and thanks in advance for any advice you can give!
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First off, welcome to xda.
Why upgrade on Vzw and then jump over to TMo? Sounds like you have no contract obligation with Vzw right now. From the TMo ads I've seen on tv, you won't be able to keep any new Vzw phone when you go to TMo (TMo gets it). So I don't understand what you're trying to achieve.
You said "... I'm fairly certain networks have nothing to do with rooting a phone, ...". Yes and no. The M8's on different carriers are NOT all the same. There are carrier-specific differences. The M8 for instance - bootloader is locked for Vzw phones and others such as TMo. But with TMo you could go to HTC Dev and get the bin code to unlock the bootloader; not possible with Vzw M8 (but a root exploit makes that point moot).
I'm not entirely sure what you want to do, but I think the answer to "Should I wait till I've hopped over to t-mobile before attempting to root my phone?" is yes.
Hope that helps.
Thanks!
dm5530 said:
First off, welcome to xda.
Why upgrade on Vzw and then jump over to TMo? Sounds like you have no contract obligation with Vzw right now. From the TMo ads I've seen on tv, you won't be able to keep any new Vzw phone when you go to TMo (TMo gets it). So I don't understand what you're trying to achieve.
You said "... I'm fairly certain networks have nothing to do with rooting a phone, ...". Yes and no. The M8's on different carriers are NOT all the same. There are carrier-specific differences. The M8 for instance - bootloader is locked for Vzw phones and others such as TMo. But with TMo you could go to HTC Dev and get the bin code to unlock the bootloader; not possible with Vzw M8 (but a root exploit makes that point moot).
I'm not entirely sure what you want to do, but I think the answer to "Should I wait till I've hopped over to t-mobile before attempting to root my phone?" is yes.
Hope that helps.
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Hi,
Thanks for the response and welcome =). The reason I don't want to switch directly over to TMo right now is because I broke my galaxy S4 a month back and I have no smart phone to use. My plan was to use the Vzw upgrade to get a new phone since TMo is willing to buy out contracts to get new customers. I mostly wanted to know if it was possible to use my Vzw M8 on the TMo network via rooting. I read about the CDMA vs GSM network problems and was wondering if there was a fix around that. As for TMo getting my phone, they only require you trade in and buy a phone for contract buyouts, but I can do that with cheap phones (trade in my htc tbolt for 50 bucks and buy a flipphone.) Thanks again for your response, can use all the help I can get =)
LatrommiSumac said:
Hi,
Thanks for the response and welcome =). The reason I don't want to switch directly over to TMo right now is because I broke my galaxy S4 a month back and I have no smart phone to use. My plan was to use the Vzw upgrade to get a new phone since TMo is willing to buy out contracts to get new customers. I mostly wanted to know if it was possible to use my Vzw M8 on the TMo network via rooting. I read about the CDMA vs GSM network problems and was wondering if there was a fix around that. As for TMo getting my phone, they only require you trade in and buy a phone for contract buyouts, but I can do that with cheap phones (trade in my htc tbolt for 50 bucks and buy a flipphone.) Thanks again for your response, can use all the help I can get =)
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I understand your situation better now.
If TMo doesn't force you to turn in the M8, then I think you could find a way to use the Vzn M8 on TMo. If you do this, you'll be looking in the Vzn thread for many things since that is the version of the phone you bought. Not sure if you could use ROMs, etc from the TMo M8 thread (don't think so); I'd be cautious about doing that. Think of yourself as using a Vzn M8 in a foreign (TMo) country.
From what I found here, (in particular, I'm talking about this post) you won't be able to get LTE service and you'll have to find out how to set up the phone so there might be some challenges, too.
Just another caution - don't know if Vzn has a minimum time after start of contract where the ETF situation is even more costly than say 6 months to a year down the road. Wouldn't want to start the ball rolling then find out there are some other fees that TMo won't pay.
Good luck.
Cheers!
dm5530 said:
I understand your situation better now.
If TMo doesn't force you to turn in the M8, then I think you could find a way to use the Vzn M8 on TMo. If you do this, you'll be looking in the Vzn thread for many things since that is the version of the phone you bought. Not sure if you could use ROMs, etc from the TMo M8 thread (don't think so); I'd be cautious about doing that. Think of yourself as using a Vzn M8 in a foreign (TMo) country.
From what I found here, (in particular, I'm talking about this post) you won't be able to get LTE service and you'll have to find out how to set up the phone so there might be some challenges, too.
Just another caution - don't know if Vzn has a minimum time after start of contract where the ETF situation is even more costly than say 6 months to a year down the road. Wouldn't want to start the ball rolling then find out there are some other fees that TMo won't pay.
Good luck.
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Thanks again for all the help! Vzw has a max 350 contract cancellation fee and TMo offers up to 350 per line so I should be fine. My main worry was indeed about the switch from CDMA to GSM network and having trouble with LTE =/. I think I might just sell the phone on Swappa and buy a TMo version if the fixes don't work. Thanks for the links, they're very helpful, and I really appreciate the help overall.
I got the phone unlocked for $20USD and different SIMs calls/txts work fine.
But I cannot edit the APN.
Do I need to wait for root or is there a method?
Thanks.
Boost Mobile LG Stylo 2 LS775 ZV5
I have the same freacking problem. APN is greayd out. Been looking all over for the solution.
On my original Stylo (rooted 5.1.1), I use a free app called "Shortcut Master (lite)" available on the Play Store, but I do believe it requires root permission to access the hidden APN menu. Just got this new Stylo 2 (Boost LS775) and trying to figure it out now, so if I do I will definitely report back here! (if you don't hear anything, I am stumped) We NEED root on this damn thing!
Hope this helps
I've been researching how to unlock 2 phones I had purchased for me and my daughter for Christmas and came across this forum. In another thread on a similar forum for the LS775 - http ://androidforums. com/threads /help-rooting-lg-stylo-2.1044670/page-29 - the posts by Anthonykb seem to suggest that you can have shell access to many of the hidden menus within the phone. Might very well be worth the read and the solution you're looking for. His instructions seem very easy to follow (have to remove the spaces in the link - I'm new so had to break it up).
My own question is how did you get the unlock codes? I purchased 2 LG Stylo 2 LS775 phones from Best Buy because their website said they were unlocked. Being a cell phone novice, despite them being virgin mobile phones, I took the Best Buy website at face value and a friend said he read some time in 2015 they started manufacturing them unlocked. So here we are after Christmas, and the 14 day return period and I find they are actually carrier locked to Virgin and Virgin Mobile has been very uncaring of our situation to say the least and refuse to supply the unlock codes unless we pay for service for a year despite me asking nicely as websites have advised lol. If their service was worth a crap here where I live I'd probably just switch from Tracfone where I currently have an account. So not wanting to wait a year to use our first smart phones, I am searching for a safe and inexpensive way to unlock them. I saw all the unlock websites but they seem very fishy. I haven't even activated the phones yet as I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do at the moment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Glut4mor said:
I've been researching how to unlock 2 phones I had purchased for me and my daughter for Christmas and came across this forum. In another thread on a similar forum for the LS775 - http ://androidforums. com/threads /help-rooting-lg-stylo-2.1044670/page-29 - the posts by Anthonykb seem to suggest that you can have shell access to many of the hidden menus within the phone. Might very well be worth the read and the solution you're looking for. His instructions seem very easy to follow (have to remove the spaces in the link - I'm new so had to break it up).
My own question is how did you get the unlock codes? I purchased 2 LG Stylo 2 LS775 phones from Best Buy because their website said they were unlocked. Being a cell phone novice, despite them being virgin mobile phones, I took the Best Buy website at face value and a friend said he read some time in 2015 they started manufacturing them unlocked. So here we are after Christmas, and the 14 day return period and I find they are actually carrier locked to Virgin and Virgin Mobile has been very uncaring of our situation to say the least and refuse to supply the unlock codes unless we pay for service for a year despite me asking nicely as websites have advised lol. If their service was worth a crap here where I live I'd probably just switch from Tracfone where I currently have an account. So not wanting to wait a year to use our first smart phones, I am searching for a safe and inexpensive way to unlock them. I saw all the unlock websites but they seem very fishy. I haven't even activated the phones yet as I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do at the moment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I sold it before that new development on that forum. I found a guy who remote desktopped to my pc and direct unlocked the phone for $20usd if you want his details let me know. That Anthonykb post looks extremely interesting in terms of being able to edit the apn after the unlock (as unlocking the boost stylo 2 didnt unlock apn edit ability)
I received the Boost Mobile version of the lg stylo 2 as a gift for xmas. The phone is not unlocked and i have not activated it yet. I have Tmobiles prepaid plan on the phone im using now and want to keep it. Does anyone know a way to unlock the phone without activating it through Boost so i could use my Tmobile sim or maybe edit the apn. I read on Boost mobiles website you have to have service a year to require it from them and thats def not an option. Any help or input would be gladly appreciated.
Thanks, Mrw187, appreciate the offer, but I think I'll look locally. These are our first smartphones, so the more I tinker, the more I'm learning. Best Buy misrepresenting the phones online could turn out to be quite the boon to catapult me into modern times - hopefully I don't accidentally turn them into paperweights lol.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-stylo/how-to/guide-how-to-edit-apn-unlocked-boost-t3536537
luisitox22 said:
I have the same freacking problem. APN is greayd out. Been looking all over for the solution.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-stylo/how-to/guide-how-to-edit-apn-unlocked-boost-t3536537
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-stylo/how-to/guide-how-to-edit-apn-unlocked-boost-t3536537
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Wow, i even sent it back to amazon but a feind bought it fome and i purchased a Virgin mobile version!! thanks so much for this! I was also on ZV6.
Okay, as the title said, I need advice on a program or software that will help me unlock two different phones.
They're both Sprint phones and They're not easy to unlock, I'm normally pretty good with these kinds of things but Sprints CDMA garbage is preventing me from prevailing.
The first phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 running 6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
The second Phone is an LG G3 running 5.0.2 (Lollipop)
as i said they're Sprint phones but i need to unlock them so that I can switch over to T-Mobile
I'm not paying to get them unlocked because if i was going to i'd be better buying a new phone instead.
Any advice on how to do this or where to go that won't cost anything?
the help is very much appreciated, Thank you in advance.
First of all, I am a noob here trying to get help with a phone I bought off Ebay. I currently am with Verizon Prepaid and thought this phone I bought would work, but the service is shotty.
Phone is an LG V30+ Thin Q running on software US99830b. Model# LG-US998 and was told it was factory unlocked. I hope I am providing enough detail. I have searched and since this is all new to me I want to make sure I get the steps right.
I am trying to get this phone to work on Verizon network, especially Verizon Prepaid if it can be done, because Verizon themselves told me the phone wasn't compatible. I have found some threads regarding this and I think I have the answer, but want to make sure and hear it from the experts themselves.
Thanks so much for your help with this matter.
Anybody?