I feel like people are getting confused with Region locking and Sim unlocking.
It seems Samsung has no idea as well
When the Note 3 asks for the SIM network unlock pin with a foreign sim card (or other sim) just put the code in that you bought or calculated
Then The next hurdle is that NOT ALL SIMS WORK under EVERY circumstances.. there is trouble shooting at hand if things dont go smoothly. Not jumping to the conclusion that "it does not work" but perhaps exchanging the sim, making sure the phone is compatible, making sure the sim is not damaged.
I want to see some concrete proof of this region lock, so far no you tube video convinced me that there is such thing as this "region lock" the only thing I have seen is the stickers.
I have friends who have AT&T Note 3's unlocked and it works in Europe and my Asian friend using it in China and Korea.
Also Canadian Note 3's do not come with these region lock warning stickers. But they still ask for the EXACT same thing (SIM network unlock PIN) WHEN you insert a different sim.
Just punch in the codes and it works for me. Mine even works on AWS too without any modifying.
After much research I am more and more convinced that Samsung just messed up by printing these stickers to Scare people or something.
When in fact, it may still be the same thing as it has been for many years.
SIM network unlock PIN is a standard unlocking message with a non accepted sim (Some HTC phones show this too when you pop in a different sim from a different carrier non related)
P.S. This is just my full observations and what I have physically seen with various Note 3's
I am still to be shaken from this with a youtube video of someone showing on their phone screen a message remotely close to "YOUR PHONE IS REGION LOCKED" Contact Samsung for further assistance." Until someone shows something like this. I dont think Samsung should have put these warning stickers on the boxes...
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I mean this one....
http://www.2-phones-in-1.com/english/products/universal_digital_dual_sim_II_us.htm
Id like to try this software on my dual sim, just because I can
if so, PM me
I would suggest you send your sims to them to be cut by their machine, I destroyed 2 sims. Other people have reported success, it says on instructions that the metal on sim should not be cut, on many sims there is no chance of it fitting without cutting the metal tabs. I threw mine in the bin, that doesnt mean its no good though.
mine worked fine, cutting went perfect
Yeah, I've used a cut up dual sim with a UK 02-uk Contract and orange PAYG sims. Some people said the O2 doesn't work: I had no trouble.
I very much hope you're note paying 37 euro for it: I got mine for £1.75 from ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6415916094&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT
However, note that the STK menu is something special: it's a menu that gets loaded up when you load a program called "sim toolkit" built into most phones. Then you can choose your line. The one I bought doesn't have this, you go to flight mode on, flight mode off and it'll switch lines.
Cutting the sims requires a careful hand. Get them cut by machine if you can (the guy i got them from will cut them) but you get templates that you should follow carefully with fine scissors and you shouldn't go wrong.
The instructions say that you DO cut the metal tabs on the SIM, there's no other way, but that does not damage to the sim itself. But be careful, practice and try them one by one - you have something called a "Resume card" that is basically a holder for one of the tiny mini-sims. Try this with each cut sim individually to ensure they work, before putting them in the metal tray. I used a nokia to test.
Don't forget to REMOVE THE PLASTIC TEMPLATE. Jeez, this was so obvious but once you've nervously cut the sim up, you'll forget the transparent guide sticker is still on them. Remove this obviously!
In the Magician it took a lot of messing about to get the phone to recognise both sims, because I think there's not much pressure on the back of the sim in the phone's holder. I stuck a little bit of paper down the back of the metal slide to apply some pressure.
It does work, just persevere!
Vijay
PS I read via google that the STK software drains battery faster. I'm sure it wouldn't, but one review said it did? It's not much more effort.
PPS Don't use a sim copier if you're in the UK (eg 16 in 1). It'll destroy your SIMs, they're not compatible here.
For years now, I've been hearing about and seeing examples online of knockoff phones floating around. I never thought I would actually come across one, however, until today.
I work at a major retailer and a customer comes up to me today with a manilla envelope and says that she wants me to setup her phone. She had bought a SIM online from prepaid service and came to the store to buy an airtime card. She then pulls out a phone from the envelope. I see a white "Samsung" phone. It looked to be something similar to a Galaxy S III Mini or Galaxy Express. I didn't think of anything when I first saw it, but I did first look for carrier branding to make sure it wasn't carrier locked. I saw none. The phone also had a hard plastic case on it with a strangely-skewed Android logo on it.
Upon closer inspection when I took the phone over to my work counter, I noticed some oddities. The screen seemed a bit strange. It was resistive. That was the first alarm. I then noticed that the "Samsung" logos on the phone were actually decals or stickers stuck to the front and back of the phone as opposed to being screen printed on, like they should be. After prying the back off, I noticed a really lightweight, cheap looking battery, with no branding whatsoever. There were also two SIM slots with two different IMEIs. I know that some international variants of certain phones have two SIM slots, but I've never actually seen one. Another alarm was something that was printed on the back of the phone under the battery: "Model: i9300." This was defiantly not a Galaxy S III.
I called into the carrier and had the SIM activated. Everything on that end seemed to go through just fine. I put the SIM into the phone and booted it up. I was greeted with a really cheesy boot animation of a stylized Galaxy S logo. When the UI finally loaded, I noticed something reminiscent of a Gingerbread-based TouchWiz homescreen. The fonts were some really pixelated serif fonts and all of the icons and "widgets" on the homescreen were really bad looking icons. When I finally found the settings menu, I dug around looking for APN and after quite a while, I finally found them. I struggled to use the onscreen keyboard with a stylus and put in all the correct settings. I rebooted the phone and was unable to make any calls. A few other oddities that I noticed were an articulating extendable antenna popping from the top of the phone and a "WiFi" logo under the battery. I could find no actual WiFi functions in the software. After playing around with all the call and APN settings, I decided to break the news to the customer.
She said that a "tech-savvy" friend of hers bought the phone for her online for $80. It was hard to tell someone they just basically bought an $80 paperweight. She left and then came back after a short time (after saying she had cried) wanting to buy a "real" Samsung phone. So about $150 later, she had an actual Samsung that was actually able to function as a smartphone should.
Not sure what I want anyone to get from this story; I just thought it was interesting and I thought I'd share it. I just wish I had gotten pictures of the actual phone. Oh well.
Just wow. I've heard about good "fakes", but it's sad that that one was completely unusable.
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For years now, I've been hearing about and seeing examples online of knockoff phones floating around. I never thought I would actually come across one, however, until today.
I work at a major retailer and a customer comes up to me today with a manilla envelope and says that she wants me to setup her phone. She had bought a SIM online from prepaid service and came to the store to buy an airtime card. She then pulls out a phone from the envelope. I see a white "Samsung" phone. It looked to be something similar to a Galaxy S III Mini or Galaxy Express. I didn't think of anything when I first saw it, but I did first look for carrier branding to make sure it wasn't carrier locked. I saw none. The phone also had a hard plastic case on it with a strangely-skewed Android logo on it.
Upon closer inspection when I took the phone over to my work counter, I noticed some oddities. The screen seemed a bit strange. It was resistive. That was the first alarm. I then noticed that the "Samsung" logos on the phone were actually decals or stickers stuck to the front and back of the phone as opposed to being screen printed on, like they should be. After prying the back off, I noticed a really lightweight, cheap looking battery, with no branding whatsoever. There were also two SIM slots with two different IMEIs. I know that some international variants of certain phones have two SIM slots, but I've never actually seen one. Another alarm was something that was printed on the back of the phone under the battery: "Model: i9300." This was defiantly not a Galaxy S III.
I called into the carrier and had the SIM activated. Everything on that end seemed to go through just fine. I put the SIM into the phone and booted it up. I was greeted with a really cheesy boot animation of a stylized Galaxy S logo. When the UI finally loaded, I noticed something reminiscent of a Gingerbread-based TouchWiz homescreen. The fonts were some really pixelated serif fonts and all of the icons and "widgets" on the homescreen were really bad looking icons. When I finally found the settings menu, I dug around looking for APN and after quite a while, I finally found them. I struggled to use the onscreen keyboard with a stylus and put in all the correct settings. I rebooted the phone and was unable to make any calls. A few other oddities that I noticed were an articulating extendable antenna popping from the top of the phone and a "WiFi" logo under the battery. I could find no actual WiFi functions in the software. After playing around with all the call and APN settings, I decided to break the news to the customer.
She said that a "tech-savvy" friend of hers bought the phone for her online for $80. It was hard to tell someone they just basically bought an $80 paperweight. She left and then came back after a short time (after saying she had cried) wanting to buy a "real" Samsung phone. So about $150 later, she had an actual Samsung that was actually able to function as a smartphone should.
Not sure what I want anyone to get from this story; I just thought it was interesting and I thought I'd share it. I just wish I had gotten pictures of the actual phone. Oh well.
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My friend got suckered into buying a phone that's similar to be the one you described. I took some pics of it. He's pissed as he paid $300 expecting a real GS3.
So two days after acheiving s-off with the new method for the s4 variant with the jb ota, my dad got the random simcard not detected error. After attempting various firmware flashes, it started getting worse to the extent that it showed the simcard icon and the x over the signal bars more often than not, so I tested his simcard in my amaze, and it worked fine. So we figured that it was a physical issue, so I read on another forum that the One X guys were fixing it by applying a layer of clear tape on the back for a tighter fit. So I had a roll of clear duct tape, applied one layer, and for a few minutes, it seemed to work. After handling the phone, the error came back, so I pulled the simcard and applied another layer of packaging tape. Now, its a tight fit, but I was careful that I was inserting it in the best possible angle so that I wouldnt damage the simcard slot. Popped it in there, played with the phone, so far so good.
Obviously this is a bandaid, but I already damaged the simcard slot by sticking a ghetto converted sim to micro simcard in, and because I cut it too narrow, it slid in kind of diagnally, and it bent some contacts, so these micro sim slots are very sensitive if not outright defective. I say this because for the past two days, I have searched google for thebproblem, and although this isnt unique to htc, there is a very high rate of simcard slot failures for the entire "One" line, including the new 'One'. I may contact htabout this, because this seems like a wide spread problem, and I already had to order a new slot, and it cost me $80 to have it soldered by the guyd at the Jacksonville,Fl branch of CPR, and as good as the technician was, it took him a second try to fix it, and weeks later, it started happening randomly, even though nobody touched the simcard. So thats the info that I have, if you have any questions regarding this issue, post it here so that everyone can see it for future referrence. Goodluck.
Hi everyone,
I love my Note Edge 915A so much I got another one, when the screen started flaking out: Half my screen goes greenish - have read its a microfracture that will only get worse.
So I went looking for another phone and decided I dont like current offerings (I use the SD card and IR blaster a LOT), so I'll get the same for the time being, and ended got a 915F from ebay. Internet said it would work with AT&T. It doesn't look like it does. Questions I need help with:
- SIM card (taken from the 915A I have ) says "Invalid SIM Card". I've re-seated and sung sweet songs to it. Doesn't want to take.
- Read that 4G/LTE wont work on the 915F, maybe never? Have we found a solution to this yet?
- I've never flashed the 915A, but can install a custom ROM for the 915F to get 4G/LTE to work on AT&T?
Bottom line is, I would like some feedback on if I should just return it and look for an used 915A? I liked this one because it was new in box, but...
Thank you!
My friend, i have three solution for you, sens it seem your simm card is dedicated only for the A phone model simmlock.
1. Go to at&t shop to make the simm card for your new phone, they might ask for your phone perhaps to simmlock??
2. Flashing at&t room on new phone could be danger if it's different hardware chipsets, you are in your own!!!
3. Changing hardware board from A model in to F model it should work, that means you have everything in your phone you had before, just be careful you dont desttoy anything during removal of the board, use plastic gloves for any static demage might happen.
Hello, I have a Moto Edge 30 XT2203-1 and only have single sim. Is there a way to force dual sim like in this post?
[GUIDE] to enable DualSim on SingleSim Moto Z by xequtor
###Disclaimer### I am not responsible if your phone will be damaged, broken, boot looping. YOU are choosing to make these modifications and accept the fact that something might go wrong. Thanks -=MoRpH=- for Moto Z Play guide you will need to...
forum.xda-developers.com
Thanks
the Edge 30 has a dual sim slot, i think you just missed how it works. It's a double sided SIM tray.. you stick the SIM cards on top and bottom. It's still a very thin tray so it's easy to miss this capability
@navi7512
mxz55 said:
the Edge 30 has a dual sim slot, i think you just missed how it works. It's a double sided SIM tray.. you stick the SIM cards on top and bottom. It's still a very thin tray so it's easy to miss this capability
@navi7512
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Hi, i found that. However, the software in my phone is not enabled for dual sim.
I'm looking for the exact same thing. Maybe is a motorola manufacturing thing, a specific model of the motorolas, both, moto Z and moto z2 play used to have variants, specifically, I had the MX variant of the MZ2 Play, that was the exact hardware that the brazil variant was, long story short, I was able throug a guide to unlock the second sim (slot with plastic) that she software blocked, the same that the Brazil variant had unlocked out of the box.
I have been looking around, it hasnt been done on the Edge 30, but if we could find the original source of the tutorial of the other two models maybe a really good mod maker (fun name for a master hacker), could make a ooerative guide to achieve the same thing on this model.
In my research I've found two things: 1. my model XT 2203-1 is the exact one that the double sim has.
2. The single sim model (my phone) has the terminals inside the phone for the second sim and also, the sim tray is totally the same, besides that blocking plastic on the back.
If someome wants to, I'm up for a research, or even some tests. I've also read that flashing the dual sim rom, or rooting and changing a couple settings used to do the trick on the original moto z model.