and I recently bought a HTC hero from Sprint, it was still in service for a couple days, and it finally stopped making calls, but still had Sprint on the provider and it still said in service.
So, I paid no mind to it, and I recently rooted it, and was messing around, and tried flashing it to Revol myself, now under provider it says Revol, but still in service, even though it hasn't been activated.
Now, I took this phone to several different revol stores, and now they can't flash it. Did I break my phone for good?
Can I get a little help, please?
My phone HATES my SIM CARD, First off i rooted my phone, its fully unlocked and has been just fine for over a month. I'm using FIDO but its an unlocked Rogers phone. (SGH-I727R model) and original FW and everything. made a couple of phone calls in the morning and the when i got home i noticed that my phone displayed "unregistured SIM" so i tried reloading sim card, reboot and so on over and over again. and it didnt work. so put the sim card in my 4year old phone, and it worked.
try calling fido aswell as rogers.. they said, sim card might be old and there is a conflict with the NEW phone. so i went to futureshop talked with the dude got the NEW sim card and tested it out with no success. again tried it with old phone, WORKS..
now you think maybe the phone might be locked somehow... NOPE. i even tried dude's sim card and he is on another network. (NOT rogers or fido) WORKED with his sim, proof my phone is totally unlocked to any carrier.
NEW SIM Card Doesnt work with my phone but worked perfectly with buddies SIM CARD on another carrier?!?!... lol
and now it shows "no service"
PLEASE HELP.
Update
i have just formatted, cleared cache and factory reset and it still says the same ****. no service... anyone help? i'm dead in the water here..
I had the same problem, I had to switch carriers then my phone started working properly, Honestly I think its the company...
Update
well, it looks like i hit rock bottom. i even installed the new ics rom and its still doesn't take my SIM card. I'm pissed. i need to dump this phone and get a working one. I can't switch over to rogers, I hate them. and when i go on vacation this phone will be a brick if i cant insert everyone elses sim cards around the world.
and i dont think its the company's fault. i have a feeling its because its rooted or something along those lines.
maybe i will wait for the new galaxy sIII and dump this ****. $$560 wasted. i feel soo stupid for getting this phone.
hi,
What have you used to unlock sgh-i727? I have one and need to unlock it so can switch to other provider then ATT.
when i bought the phone it came unlocked. you must goto a website and give them your imei # that is on your phone. and they will sned you a unlock code upto 2 hours later.. DONT try and guess the code. and you will have to pay a fee but it will be minimal. $3-10
Final UPDATE, i went to rogers and got the phone on a contract for $50 and now i think i will give this to my mother to use for pics and ****. i have not a clue what to do with this thing.
And now it works
How reliable is that, i went out and bought a second phone from rogers and after a couple of days of my old phone not working with any sim card, Now it works with both rogers and Fido. Now i am stuck in a 3yr contract and have 2 of these phones. anyways i will try and get rid of my stupid contract. its only been a couple of days and "buyers remorse" law states that you can get out of any contract within 15 days of when the contract was signed.
Same Here
Strange - I had the EXACT same thing happen to me as well. Funny thing is it happened the same day as your first post about this issue on Jan. 25. I am on FIDO as well and had a working, unlocked i727R I bought off eBay from Basatne Electronics.
It was unrooted and working perfectly for a month and a half. All of a sudden I got ‘no service’ and sometimes ‘unregistered sim’ when I rebooted. I tried 6 different sim cards from FIDO and Rogers that worked on other phones and same thing. I cleared cache and did a reset. Same thing. I brought it to FIDO and Rogers and tried their demo sim cards in it. Same thing.
Finally I called Samsung to sent it back to them for ‘repair’. They sent me a UPS label and I sent it to Service Absolut, Samsung’s repair subcontractor in Montreal. It was there for over a week now. Their communication is terrible – it just says ‘open’ or ‘close’ on Samsung’s tracking website, so I called Absolut themselves yesterday asking for the status/tracking number. They said they were going to ship it yesterday even though my repair ticket online said ‘close’ since last wednesday.
I find this really strange, especially since your phone seems to have done the same thing as mine right around the same time. I figure it was Rogers/Fido that messed up their network somehow. Two working Rogers sims didn’t work in it either. My sim card was working on my old blackberry still. My IMEI didn’t appear in any blocked IMEI lists I looked up.
I just got my phone back today 10 minutes ago and it works again. It says 'full software upgrade and reset' on the repair list I got back, although I didn't mod my phone in the first place. At least I had my backup blackberry. Still pisses me off – I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong with it and I wiped all my apps when I did a reset, so I’ll have to load them all up again and set up my phone.
Just weird.
And Again...
Well, it seems it just happened again.
After a month and a week or two of working perfectly (same length of time as last time), my i727R now says 'No Service' again for some reason on FIDO network and won't connect to anything except through Wifi.
I didn't install any new software or change any settings when it happened.
It was working one minute, put it in my pocket and a couple minutes later it says 'No Service', even though I have always had service before in the area I am in right now.
Does anyone have a clue what can be causing this?
Network, Software (some kind of timer somewhere that would shut off connection), Malware?
This is driving me nuts - I don't want to have to send it back to Samsung again.
Last time Samsung said they reflashed the software when I sent it back.
I don't know why I would need to do that since it was working just fine and I wasn't messing around with any settings before it started saying 'No Service' - same thing happened last time.
Hi, I bought a NS4G off my friend yesterday, and the first thing I did was return to stock 2.3.4, and update to 4.0.4.
I plan on activating this phone, but when I tried *2, I got "Welcome to Verizon" activation procedure. I checked out my PRL's and it's P:52690, which I found out was PagePlus, I did *#*#786#*#* and reset the RTN.
Now, I just need stock PRL/NV images, or whatever else I need to do to get this phone back on Sprint.
Never flashed a phone before, bear with me.
EDIT:
Figured it out, flashed back to Sprint.
Hi guys running all stock on my s3 and since I've had the phone (2 months) I've never had an OTA pushed to my handset??? I know there have been several because my GF is getting hers. Were both on the same UK network too. Anyone else have this problem? I don't want to have to rely on crappy kies every-time I contacted samsung who said to do a factory reset of my phone WTF? Done it and suprise suprise 'no update available' yet i'm still on june 11th software.
I'm not sure if this is a network issue or a phone issue. I just got a replacement phone from Google. Popped in my sim 2 days ago and it was working fine, OTA 4.4.4 updated the same day. Came to work today and it was working for about an hour, and now it says there is no connection. I go to the "network operators" list and I only see ATT on there, which doesn't work for me since I'm on T-mobile. Other people in my building have T-mobile too and their phones work just fine, so I'm guessing it's not a tower issue.
I've tried restarting the phone as well as taking the sim out and reinserting it. Anything else I can try?
Phone is stock, not rooted, not flashed with a new rom.