Does anyone know if Verizon Galaxy S III can be unlock to use on Tmobile or AT&T network?
No.
Never going to happen.
Verizon = CDMA.
T-Mobile = GSM.
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Moved to Verizon SGS3 Q/A
Sure it could happen, they both have sim card slots.
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nodstuff said:
No.
Never going to happen.
Verizon = CDMA.
T-Mobile = GSM.
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Where have you been? LTE is based on the GSM standard. The Verizon GS3 is a world phone. Not all Verizon phones are CDMA only.
OP - Just search around a little and you will find your answer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775566
Some people have it working, but it will take some rooting and an aosp rom. Its not just a simple unlock process. Looks like data may be limited to edge right now.
Verizon is notorious for locking out the US frequencys for data (850, 1700, and 1900mhz).
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Is it possible to ever get T-Mobile 4g service on an unlocked Samsung Infuse 4g? I've tried every T-mobile APN setting. Anyone have suggestions ?
Nope, not possible. And wrong section.
I dont know how many times this question has been asked and with the same answer. Search before creating a new thread.
There's also a thread to ask questions. Just saying.
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Sorry, and thnaks dudes appreciate it
AT&T UTMS/HSPA/HSPA+ bands: 850MHz, and 1900MHz, only one required to work.
T-Mobile UTMS/HSPA/HSPA+ bands: 1700MHz, and 2100MHz, both required to work.
Bands that Samsung Infuse 4G has: 850MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz.
Bands needed for Samsung Infuse 4G to work on T-Mobile 3G/4G: 1700MHz.
Is the Samsung Infuse 4G compatible with T-Mobile 3G/4G: No.
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AT&T UTMS/HSPA/HSPA+ bands: 850MHz, and 1900MHz, only one required to work.
T-Mobile UTMS/HSPA/HSPA+ bands: 1700MHz, and 2100MHz, both required to work.
Bands that Samsung Infuse 4G has: 850MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz.
Bands needed for Samsung Infuse 4G to work on T-Mobile 3G/4G: 1700MHz.
Is the Samsung Infuse 4G compatible with T-Mobile 3G/4G: No.
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Only 2 small additions....
1. Know your network.
2. www.gsmarena.com or a similar site. Find the specs and compare.
Edit: and if possible, a mod lock or move, preferably both.
bedwa said:
Only 2 small additions....
1. Know your network.
2. www.gsmarena.com or a similar site. Find the specs and compare.
Edit: and if possible, a mod lock or move, preferably both.
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I do know my network (or at least I think I do haha)
And yeah, you can always do that.
wow you're an idiot.. this phone doesnt support tmobile 3g/4g bands..
xavenged said:
wow you're an idiot.. this phone doesnt support tmobile 3g/4g bands..
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There's no need to be rude, he was just asking, if he knew, he wouldn't ask.
What about telmex 5G network?
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ameza001 said:
What about telmex 5G network?
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You should probably "tell" the "mex"ican that there is no "5g".
i also picked up an at&t samsung infuse 4g...and i am searching for the best possible updates for this phone...will post here if i find something nice
its not that crazy of a question nowadays with carrier branded phones being so close to one another. you can actually flash a tmobile radio onto a skyrocket and have 4g hspa-dc through tmobile. but even if the infuse hardware was capable of tmobile bands (which it probably isnt), theres no tmobile version of the infuse inwhich to pull a radio. so the answer atleast for now is no.
I went seeing gtg post, but then I saw the timestamp and now I'm
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Unlocked AT&T Samsung infuse does in fact support 3g network
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busybeebusy said:
i also picked up an at&t samsung infuse 4g...and i am searching for the best possible updates for this phone...will post here if i find something nice
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Are you joking? Necrobumping a thread with an off-topic post?
Have you ever used the internet before?
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BU113T said:
Unlocked AT&T Samsung infuse does in fact support 3g network
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But not 4G - different bands. (I think.)
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it supports 2g not 3g. and since its only 4g hspa+, its the same bands as 3g.
Can I unlock Infuse 4g to Verizon ?
No this a gsm phone.
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Nope, this doesn't support CDMA technology, which is what Verizon and Sprint use. Unlocked, it will support GSM (SIM cards) like AT&T and T-mobile as well as foreign GSM providers. There are a couple of phones that do both, but to my knowledge AT&T has never had one.
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Can I unlock Infuse 4g to Verizon ?
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No. No GSM phone can operate on Verizon's CDMA2000 network. Some of Verizon's phones are dual-mode and can accept a GSM SIM, but it doesn't go the other way around.
The Infuse can operate on T-Mobile's network, but only at EDGE speeds - TMo uses different bands for 3G than AT&T does.
I'm thinking about switching to Verizon, and I saw that I could buy a sim card from them. My sensation is unlocked and was wondering if I inserted this sim card, would it work? Anybody tried this yet?
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It won't work because VZW uses 700mhz while tmobile only supports 850,1900,1700 and 2100
I believe people have had success with using verizon 4g on AT&T and vice versa. Also, I think people are able to use tmo phones on ATT's lte network since AT&T galaxy note owners are able to use it on tmo's 3g.
bananajama said:
It won't work because VZW uses 700mhz while tmobile only supports 850,1900,1700 and 2100
I believe people have had success with using verizon 4g on AT&T and vice versa. Also, I think people are able to use tmo phones on ATT's lte network since AT&T galaxy note owners are able to use it on tmo's 3g.
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There's also the whole CDMA-not-GSM and Sensation-not-LTE issues.
There's is now 4G coverage in the Houston area.My thunderbolt is already fully flash 3G and stable. Want to enable 4G on this phone. Cricket says requires sim card to work. The only sim cards are with the new LG and Samsung S3 by cricket. I know this is possible by using a unlocked 4G cdma LTE phone with sim slot. Does anyone have a unlocked phone on 4G cricket successfully working!!!
willowtree001 said:
There's is now 4G coverage in the Houston area.My thunderbolt is already fully flash 3G and stable. Want to enable 4G on this phone. Cricket says requires sim card to work. The only sim cards are with the new LG and Samsung S3 by cricket. I know this is possible by using a unlocked 4G cdma LTE phone with sim slot. Does anyone have a unlocked phone on 4G cricket successfully working!!!
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This is in the wrong thread. Verizon 4g will only work with Verizon. Verizon owns the entire 700mhz band that 4g functions off. This makes it so no other network can use Verizon's 4g
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disconnecktie said:
This is in the wrong thread. Verizon 4g will only work with Verizon. Verizon owns the entire 700mhz band that 4g functions off. This makes it so no other network can use Verizon's 4g
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I dont think this is true as verizon can still lease their spectrum to other carriers like Straight Talk to piggy back off their network. The biggest problem for him is going to get a non-approved 4g device on verizons network. Verizon does not want people taking flagship devices to other discount carriers. Networks like Cricket dont actually own any spectrum, they just lease it from the bigger carriers at a discount. But verizon only allows a select group of ESN's to connect to it, usually for crappier phones. Some people will go so far as to clone their ESN to get it to work, but that requires special tools developed for your phone and can be quite tricky.
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I dont think this is true as verizon can still lease their spectrum to other carriers like Straight Talk to piggy back off their network. The biggest problem for him is going to get a non-approved 4g device on verizons network. Verizon does not want people taking flagship devices to other discount carriers. Networks like Cricket dont actually own any spectrum, they just lease it from the bigger carriers at a discount. But verizon only allows a select group of ESN's to connect to it, usually for crappier phones. Some people will go so far as to clone their ESN to get it to work, but that requires special tools developed for your phone and can be quite tricky.
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Well its pretty obvious that Verizon isn't leasing any part of their lte spectrum since there isn't one single optional carrier that a Verizon 4g phone will work with.
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Is it possible to unlock all GSM bands to but used with Cricket 4G LTE service?
A possible NV Edit is probably all that is required
If I installed any other Sim Card Tmobile for example you get sim card unknown error and no signal
This is being done on other Verizon 4G LTE phones where people doing NV SEEM edits and unlocking all GSM bands. Using with prepaid carriers like Simple Mobile
willowtree001 said:
Is it possible to unlock all GSM bands to but used with Cricket 4G LTE service?
A possible NV Edit is probably all that is required
If I installed any other Sim Card Tmobile for example you get sim card unknown error and no signal
This is being done on other Verizon 4G LTE phones where people doing NV SEEM edits and unlocking all GSM bands. Using with prepaid carriers like Simple Mobile
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So far no one has managed to do this on the thunderbolt. Its not like other 4g phones and is the only one with svdo enabled.
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willowtree001 said:
Is it possible to unlock all GSM bands to but used with Cricket 4G LTE service?
A possible NV Edit is probably all that is required
If I installed any other Sim Card Tmobile for example you get sim card unknown error and no signal
This is being done on other Verizon 4G LTE phones where people doing NV SEEM edits and unlocking all GSM bands. Using with prepaid carriers like Simple Mobile
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Can the bands the radio receives be changed by software? Isn't the radio physically limited to a range of frequencies?
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I was pretty sure that the radio was locked in to stay at the 700mhz spectrum that Verizon owns. I wouldn't be the least but surprised if it were locked in using hardware as well.
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If memory serves, Cricket's LTE is courtesy of Verizon, I read it I think on Engadget a while back... Either way, it goes along with Verizon's Rural Coverage Plan to work with regional carriers to bring LTE to places where people would never expect it.
T-Mo works with AT&T phones because both are 1800Mhz or whatever for EDGE, so I would think if Sprint LTE is 700Mhz....
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If memory serves, Cricket's LTE is courtesy of Verizon, I read it I think on Engadget a while back... Either way, it goes along with Verizon's Rural Coverage Plan to work with regional carriers to bring LTE to places where people would never expect it.
T-Mo works with AT&T phones because both are 1800Mhz or whatever for EDGE, so I would think if Sprint LTE is 700Mhz....
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Verizon owns the upper c block of the 700mhz spectrum. Read this.
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=230
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If memory serves, Cricket's LTE is courtesy of Verizon, I read it I think on Engadget a while back... Either way, it goes along with Verizon's Rural Coverage Plan to work with regional carriers to bring LTE to places where people would never expect it.
T-Mo works with AT&T phones because both are 1800Mhz or whatever for EDGE, so I would think if Sprint LTE is 700Mhz....
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I doubt Sprint is using 700 they are probably using spectrum they got from the nextel acquisition (not looking stupid now lol). And of Sprint was using 700 and the had an lte roaming agreement, which they don't, with Verizon..... sprint lte phones would be working in allot more places, which they aren't.
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http://m.networkworld.com/news/2012/012312-lte-spectrum-255122.html?page=2
If the info from the above article is correct you can see Sprint lte is not compatible with Verizon or ATT. In my searching I also found that apple made 3 different variants of the iPhone 5 with different lte frequency combinations.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5-lte-model/
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willowtree001 said:
Is it possible to unlock all GSM bands to but used with Cricket 4G LTE service?
A possible NV Edit is probably all that is required
If I installed any other Sim Card Tmobile for example you get sim card unknown error and no signal
This is being done on other Verizon 4G LTE phones where people doing NV SEEM edits and unlocking all GSM bands. Using with prepaid carriers like Simple Mobile
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those other Verizon 4g Lte phones, like the moto Bionic, have radios and antenna that support those GSM frequencies, and the engineering software tools to perform those tasks have been leaked.
Afaik, but I haven't looked in a while, after making those seem edits it unlocks Gsm/Edge for Att, T-Mobile and global roaming. I think it also enables hspa for Att but not T-Mobile due to frequencies the bionic's radio supports or doesn't support. It does not enable Lte for any other carrier.
its my understanding that the radio chips and antennas in the TB only support Cdma/Evdo and VZW's upper 700mhz block LTE
It also doesnt help that ril for the thunderbolt is closed source because of the svdo capabilities in it.
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Anyone try getting/buying a sim card from cricket?
You would need a SIM for the phone to work at all, right, since it is needed for 3G and 1X on Verizon?
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You would need a SIM for the phone to work at all, right, since it is needed for 3G and 1X on Verizon?
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The sim would be needed for 4g to work. Cricket will provide you with a sim but you will still only get 3g because they can't get Verizon's 4g signal.
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But my phone doesn't work at all without a SIM, is it different for cricket?
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I think to use the phone with cricket you will have to have the sim but still won't be able to use 4g.
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Quick Question
"There's is now 4G coverage in the Houston area.My thunderbolt is already fully flash 3G and stable. Want to enable 4G on this phone. Cricket says requires sim card to work. The only sim cards are with the new LG and Samsung S3 by cricket. I know this is possible by using a unlocked 4G cdma LTE phone with sim slot. Does anyone have a unlocked phone on 4G cricket successfully working!!!"
If you don't mind, I was hoping you might be able to tell me how you flashed your thunderbolt to Cricket. I have tried many times unsuccessfully, and to be honest I'm absolutely stuck. I'd appreciate any and all help I can find. Thank you so much Have a wonderful day!
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Dave
Can the Galaxy S3 INTERNATIONAL version work on Verizon?
The bands for international are:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband) HSPA+ 850/900/1900/2100
I don't think it can but I just wanted to check! I want to use my 4G!
THANKS!
No, Verizon is CDMA while this phone is using GSM radios
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Wish it would work with Verizon! Thanks! Is CDMA horrible compared to GSM?
Given ever had GSM only CDMA so I cannot speak on it, sorry
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rayman121985 said:
Wish it would work with Verizon! Thanks! Is CDMA horrible compared to GSM?
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In what way? It's easier to switch phones on gsm just pop in a sim card. CDMA have to go in or do it online