My friend took the the phone to a third party company and they offer unlock services so they unlocked it for me.
The phone was bought in AT&T and he unlocked it so it work with T-Mobile. Everything works good except... it's LTE signal is just not there at all, so he was thinking on selling it forward because he was very frustrated with all this.
So I offered my help and told him I will ask here for answers before he sell it.
All help will be appreciated.
Thank you!
Are you sure t mobile has LTE in your area
Also settings -> mobile network
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Hey Guys, I'm wondering if any of you have traveled to Canada with your T-Mobile Phone. I personally go to Toronto every year but last year when I went I was with Verizon and my phone did work, this is my first year with T-Mobile and can any of you tell me if T-Mobile works in Canada? Thank you.
I've heard that once I'm in Canada I can switch to the Rogers Network which is GSM via T-Mobile on my phone? Do I need to be Unlocked for that?
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Hey Guys, I'm wondering if any of you have traveled to Canada with your T-Mobile Phone. I personally go to Toronto every year but last year when I went I was with Verizon and my phone did work, this is my first year with T-Mobile and can any of you tell me if T-Mobile works in Canada? Thank you.
I've heard that once I'm in Canada I can switch to the Rogers Network which is GSM via T-Mobile on my phone? Do I need to be Unlocked for that?
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Your t-mobile phone will work perfectly fine. But, if you can get the phone unlocked, just pick up a prepaid sim card when you get there. Much much cheaper! Btw, while your up there, any calls that go to voicemail, you pay international roaming, even if you don't pick it up. Just a heads up.
I have a htc m8 verizon. I bought it from ebay. The guy said he had it workin on t-mobile. Im living in guyana located in south america. Im not getting any service connection. The phone is rooted, s-off and the bootloader has been unlocked. Is there any way i can get gsm connection with this phone ? Presently im not getting the option to use gsm when im in global mode
stefwall said:
I have a htc m8 verizon. I bought it from ebay. The guy said he had it workin on t-mobile. Im living in guyana located in south america. Im not getting any service connection. The phone is rooted, s-off and the bootloader has been unlocked. Is there any way i can get gsm connection with this phone ? Presently im not getting the option to use gsm when im in global mode
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Hi friend! This is herna from XDA Assist team.
You have not signal since seems your device does not have a working SIM. As you can see on the statusbar there is a SIM icon and a ?.
So it can seems two things:
1. You have no SIM inserted/detected.
2. You are not getting any kind of signal.
If 1 is the problem just check your SIM. If 2 is the problem, you will be asked here about it after I move the thread to the correctly forum.
For the next time you want to ask about HTC M8 you need to do it HERE
I will move the thread to the place where it should be so you will get the best answer possible from users that also have the same device than you.
Have a nice week!
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy 4 that I got with a 2 year contract with Verizon. That contract is up and I like the phone very much. I saw that I could save a lot of money with Ting as my carrier (Ting.com) and bought a SIM card from them. I followed all of the Ting instructions, but working with their support staff apparently they have issues working with phones that did not come from Sprint or Tmobile. I can make calls with my phone through Ting, but texts do not work and when I call voicemail it gives me an error. This error might be because the phone is still calling the Verizon service for voicemail, which is cancelled.
If I root my phone (never done it before) can I bring it back to the manufacturer settings before Verizon put any software on it? If so, what software/ROM do you recommend to get it back to factory settings. I think this is my only chance to get Ting to work with this phone. I don't want to have to sign up with Verizon or ATT and pay activation fees.
I appreciate the help.
XDA Visitor said:
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy 4 that I got with a 2 year contract with Verizon. That contract is up and I like the phone very much. I saw that I could save a lot of money with Ting as my carrier (Ting.com) and bought a SIM card from them. I followed all of the Ting instructions, but working with their support staff apparently they have issues working with phones that did not come from Sprint or Tmobile. I can make calls with my phone through Ting, but texts do not work and when I call voicemail it gives me an error. This error might be because the phone is still calling the Verizon service for voicemail, which is cancelled.
If I root my phone (never done it before) can I bring it back to the manufacturer settings before Verizon put any software on it? If so, what software/ROM do you recommend to get it back to factory settings. I think this is my only chance to get Ting to work with this phone. I don't want to have to sign up with Verizon or ATT and pay activation fees.
I appreciate the help.
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Hi, thanks for using XDA assist!
The problem here is that Verizon is a GSM carrier and Sprint is CDMA.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635776
Good luck!
Evolution_Tech said:
Hi, thanks for using XDA assist!
The problem here is that Verizon is a GSM carrier and Sprint is CDMA.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635776
Good luck!
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Thanks for responding. Actually Ting has deals with Tmobile and Sprint so it works. I am GSM and the phone says Tmobile at the top now, so I dont think that is the issue. Do you know if my idea regarding rooting will work?
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Thanks for responding. Actually Ting has deals with Tmobile and Sprint so it works. I am GSM and the phone says Tmobile at the top now, so I dont think that is the issue. Do you know if my idea regarding rooting will work?
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Unfortunately, I don't think that will work. I know from repairing phones, that phones built for Verizon have different internal hardware than phones built for Sprint. While it may be possible that I'm wrong, and your phone might be successfully ported to Ting, I feel it is highly unlikely.
I think you should contact Ting customer support and get a definite answer before proceeding.
I purchased a T-mobile Note 4 via OfferUp and I didn't check phone properly. Purchasing in a parking lot, I made sure it powered up and checked to make sure it was a Note 4, but guy looked honorable. I KNOW BIG MISTAKE. Got home and found a lens on back camera cracked. And, didn't know to put my T-mobile SIM card in to check before purchasing. Called to change my T-mobile to put on my account and the IMEI# was bad & T-mobile had it locked, T-mobile said that the phone was never paid for and therefor locked. Ordered a Net10 SIM and a months service. When I got Net10 SIM, went to my account to activate. Wouldn't work! Took to a boost store and guy checked and said it wouldn't unlock. Do I have any options or do I loose my $300 and call it a monster learning experience. Its running on 5.0.1 Lollipop!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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I purchased a T-mobile Note 4 via OfferUp and I didn't check phone properly. Purchasing in a parking lot, I made sure it powered up and checked to make sure it was a Note 4, but guy looked honorable. I KNOW BIG MISTAKE. Got home and found a lens on back camera cracked. And, didn't know to put my T-mobile SIM card in to check before purchasing. Called to change my T-mobile to put on my account and the IMEI# was bad & T-mobile had it locked, T-mobile said that the phone was never paid for and therefor locked. Ordered a Net10 SIM and a months service. When I got Net10 SIM, went to my account to activate. Wouldn't work! Took to a boost store and guy checked and said it wouldn't unlock. Do I have any options or do I loose my $300 and call it a monster learning experience. Its running on 5.0.1 Lollipop!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
[email protected]
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Unfortunally i really don't know if there is a different solution in these situations, when a phone is locked by the carrier in most of cases there isn't much to do... I don't say it's impossible but yeah you need an expert here.
Maybe you can find a better help here on the general forum of the note 4 > T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
I just purchased a Sprint S5, planed to sign up R+.
The S5 already has Android 6.0.1.
Is there a way to unlock the phone for the GSM carriers, such as T-Mobile or AT&T ?
By law, Sprint has to unlock your phone if you request it. You can just call them and ask them to unlock the phone. I think you can also unlock it online without calling Sprint, but their website is down right now so I can't give you specific instructions. Sign into your Sprint account on the web, and next to your phone, there's a drop down menu that (I think) has an option to unlock.
Idoneapps(.com) do hell of job. I'm using ATT, the only catch is I only get 3g. But I don't really care because I have a 3g throttler in use because of my custom ROM. It's around $30 for the app. But it works.
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i can also confirm the idoneapps.com method as working. its $35, but it just works. Plus their support forums is backed by a fellow called NoDial and he is johnny on the spot with regards to responding to queries! also, xda member @stifilz can unlock with no preset cost, but donating to him for his time is always a good thing