Now that these are getting cheaper and have decent specs I would like to use a couple as Ipod replacement. I want it to function in every way but I want ALL cell service blocked even 911 and remove the sim card warning. Is this even possible or am stuck buying 4 Ipod 5's? the main reason for this is I HATE ITUNES. The only thing apple in my house are these Ipod 4's and now they cant be updated.
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Now that these are getting cheaper and have decent specs I would like to use a couple as Ipod replacement. I want it to function in every way but I want ALL cell service blocked even 911 and remove the sim card warning. Is this even possible or am stuck buying 4 Ipod 5's? the main reason for this is I HATE ITUNES. The only thing apple in my house are these Ipod 4's and now they cant be updated.
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The easiest way is to take it off a plan and it's basically a wifi enabled music player. You can always disable anything you don't need. If you take the sim card out and you root it i know there's a Xposed module that let's you disable the sim card warning or if I remember correctly it will tell you that you'll need wifi if no sim is inserted
And yea I couldn't agree more about iTunes. I enjoy the drag and drop feature in android and I've used iTunes on my kids ipods and I personally don't like it at all
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I have done some searching bad have no found what I am looking for. This could very well be because I suck at thinking up good search terms.
Anyways, I am something of a smartphone noob. I have a TMobile vibant, which is my first smartphone. My child loves playing with various apps and games I have downloaded for her.
I had the idea of buying one of the very cheap, poor condition, phones off ebay so I can have my phone back.
My plan would be to never activate it on any cell network. I would connect via my home wifi, download some apps, then put it in airplane mode and let her have fun.
Questions:
1. Most of the cheap-o phones are cdma, which I have no experience with. If I never activate it on a network, am I likely to have any problems? I know that with my phone, if I pull the sim, I can still used it as a pda, but is that true of all phones?\, or do some require some sort of network login first?
2. Is there are way to disable a phone from making emergency calls? I don't want her accidentally doing that.
3. Other than the ethical questions of a "bad esn" phone, would one cause me any problems for this uses?
4. Are there are pitfalls to my idea that I should consider?
i have been using an old phone of my sons that way. its an old samsung moment (sprint) i down load new apps / games and try them out before i put them on my good phone
1. Though there may be some inconveniences with not being connected to a phone network (it will keep telling you to activate or put in your sim card) you will have basically the same ability as if you were connected besides making calls.
2. As far as I know, if the phone is not connected to a network, there is no possibilty of making a call. Some newer phones might be able to call over wifi but probably not.
3. Don't qoute me on it, but esn numbers are used only for cdma (no sim card) phones to connect to the network and for the network to identify what phone it is. When it has a bad esn, it is because it wont connect or activate to the network. You should have no problem.
4. This is something many people do. Its just like having an android iPod touch.
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ive done a little searching and see this has kinda been touched on, but not in the way i want to know. i have a sg3... 4g (duh) but before this i had the ole' trust TB, my question is this, might get a little confusing... i have two TB's , one was brand new and the other was my daily user. i thought i lost the daily user and filed a claim on insurance and then like two weeks later found the daily user one in a riends car (long night) anyways when i thought i lost the old one i called vzw and told them what happened and they said i could put like a 30 day lock on the sim and no one would be able to call or use data or anything like that for 30 days if they found it, and i could remove the lock if i found it, and if nothing happened, it it would become active again automagicly after 30 days.... well in the mean time i filed the claim and got the new one in and activated it and began to use it, then i found the old one, since the old one was already rooted and had all my stuff on it i started using that one and kept the insurance one as a backup, shortly after all this i upgraded to the gs3, well now i have two TB's with two full size SIM cards, and the galaxy s3 with a micro sim. my question is is there anyway i can use one of the larger sims to put in a usb modem if i can get my hands on one and make it work correctly, i am "grandfathered" in on the unlimited data and plus i just got 4g in my area a few days ago, and i was thinkin if this would somehow work, i would get one of those ?craddlelink? or somethin off of amazon and they will take the 3g/4g usb modems from cell phone carriers and use this as a home access point. i am currently rooted running synergy on the gs3, but i would just like it if i could have a dedicated home routing system, plus it would save battery, tethering 4g is pretty rough on the battery, and HOTTTTT!!!! really HOT, like i think its gonna melt the phone hot!!! anyways much thanks to any and all responses!!! sorry if this is in the wrong spot, wasnt sure to put it here or gs3 vzw, or TB or what. sorry for rambling too.. i do that sometimes
I have one line, I forgot to mention that, but all the sim cards were for that line, I also forgot to ask if I add a line will I lose unlimited on the first line and also I know that viz can tell what device is activated on the SIM but I've heard you can swap it between devices freely, so I was thinking that if I could get one if the sims to work in the modem that it wouldn't matter because I have unlimited, but I didn't know how vz would react to seeing a modem and a phone on one line, if that's even possible
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I have a one-plan three sim that I have been using for ages as my unlimited portable internet access without any problems, then I put it in a tablet - still no problem. They don't mention any restriction on device use in the T&Cs. So I bought a PAYG SIM for my wife to use in her tablet. It worked for a few days then popped up with the message:
Taking your SIM card out of your mobile phone and putting it into a different device – like a dongle or tablet – isn’t what our phone plans of Add-ons were designed for.
There's no mention in the T&Cs of this but they obviously like the idea of me using it in a phone.
- - - My Questions are : How do they detect that a SIM is being used in a Tablet and not a Phone? (I'm assuming IMEI lookup or sth)
Are they going to do the same to my pay monthly SIM in my tablet?
How do I block it/reverse it if I need to (It's not in their T&Cs so it seems a little unfair)
There doesn't seem much on this when I googled it, though someone from PC Advisor had the same problem last year:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/...-only-pay-monthly-account-from-use-with-ipad/
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I have a one-plan three sim that I have been using for ages as my unlimited portable internet access without any problems, then I put it in a tablet - still no problem. They don't mention any restriction on device use in the T&Cs. So I bought a PAYG SIM for my wife to use in her tablet. It worked for a few days then popped up with the message:
Taking your SIM card out of your mobile phone and putting it into a different device – like a dongle or tablet – isn’t what our phone plans of Add-ons were designed for.
There's no mention in the T&Cs of this but they obviously like the idea of me using it in a phone.
- - - My Questions are : How do they detect that a SIM is being used in a Tablet and not a Phone? (I'm assuming IMEI lookup or sth)
Are they going to do the same to my pay monthly SIM in my tablet?
How do I block it/reverse it if I need to (It's not in their T&Cs so it seems a little unfair)
There doesn't seem much on this when I googled it, though someone from PC Advisor had the same problem last year:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/...-only-pay-monthly-account-from-use-with-ipad/
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I'm interested in this too. I had an All You Can Eat data sim (PAYG) in my iPad and it worked fine for like 6 months.
That was like between just before Christmas of 2012 up to June/July 2013. I used like 30GB a month, it was EPIC!
Then, one day, everything stopped working. Just like that! And no matter what I try it's never worked again since!
I've even tried different sims in different tablets. They all work for like a day then the next day they're blocked again.
You know how there are hacks out there that enable tethering without the carrier knowing you're doing it?
Not many of them work in my experience but I have come across a couple that have, and still "do" work.
Is there a hack of some kind that can bypass this detection of a phone sim being used in an iPad?
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I'm interested in this too. I had an All You Can Eat data sim (PAYG) in my iPad and it worked fine for like 6 months.
That was like between just before Christmas of 2012 up to June/July 2013. I used like 30GB a month, it was EPIC!
Then, one day, everything stopped working. Just like that! And no matter what I try it's never worked again since!
I've even tried different sims in different tablets. They all work for like a day then the next day they're blocked again.
You know how there are hacks out there that enable tethering without the carrier knowing you're doing it?
Not many of them work in my experience but I have come across a couple that have, and still "do" work.
Is there a hack of some kind that can bypass this detection of a phone sim being used in an iPad?
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I got the sameproblem with giffgaff. Does no one no a solution?
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I'm curious as to a solution too.
No need to spoon feed me if you dont have the time.. Further reading links will do
still no answer to this?
Anyone got around this? Ive a feeling its browser based.
Right,... So I'm a newbie from London, England. I splurged on a new Galaxy Tab S t705 to use as my primary phone. I unfortunately found that my line carrier (3mobile) have a block that prevents using a normal voice sim card phone plan on their tablets. I have complained to no avail that its a phablet because it has a stock phone app but they will not budge. For personal reasons, I dont want to move carriers, so Im between a rock and several hard places.
I have tried every way for 4 days to get around this (and in the promise have been come a semi expert on firmware, flashing, odin, custom recovery, rooting, etc. I've soft-bricked my device several times and encountered numerous bootloops.
The end result is that I am a considerably wiser android user and will never go back to Apple or Windows after being enlightened to the world of Droid, BUT...I can't crack this sim block. How do they know I'm using a tablet and how do I get around it. There's a drink waiting for anyone who can help me and thousands of other Brits solve this riddle.
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The only info I have found is that I suspect it is browser based. As the internet seems to work fine for other things until you open a browser. Then it detects it and boom. SIM001 error.
This was on my Ipad. It was detecting both safari and chrome based sessions. So I suspect the build number of the browsers is what it reads. Of course this is all my own speculation. I ended up getting an ASDA mobile pay as you go for the rare occasions I am outside wifi with my iPad. If your tablet truly is a phone then 3 should allow you. But I appreciate you will get nowhere with there tech support. Computer says no.
The mobile service provider gets a lots of ID of your connection when you logon their network: SIM S/N, device IMEI, etc... and this is the important ID: the device. I guess they are able to identify the device as at least what kind, like phone, table, dongle, hotspot, etc... that's the only thing what they need... so my suggestion is changing the IMEI to another device to one which is on the whitelist. But I don't know how it could affect on the device...
As the title says, I've been dying to get a Note 10.1. I finally got one but it happens to be a T-Mobile version and the sim card has been removed. I don't plan on getting 4G service ever if I can avoid it.
So now I have a few questions:
1. Will I be able to get updates like the wifi only tablets do or will I be forced to get T-Mobile service when updates come out?
2. I have these annoying notifications about the missing sim card. Is there a way around this? I have Sprint service for my phones so I really don't know much about sim cards. Do I need to go to T-Mobile and just ask for one to pop in without getting service? Are they free or would they send me packing because I don't have their service?
3. I also have the x'd out signal meter that I would love to get rid of.
Any advice you guys can give me as a sim card/carrier tablet noob would be very helpful.
Thank you
If you're rooted, you can use xposed mods to do almost anything to the tab you want. As for updates, I'm not sure about since I have the 8013 and Samsung has said fu to it.
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As the title says, I've been dying to get a Note 10.1. I finally got one but it happens to be a T-Mobile version and the sim card has been removed. I don't plan on getting 4G service ever if I can avoid it.
So now I have a few questions:
1. Will I be able to get updates like the wifi only tablets do or will I be forced to get T-Mobile service when updates come out?
2. I have these annoying notifications about the missing sim card. Is there a way around this? I have Sprint service for my phones so I really don't know much about sim cards. Do I need to go to T-Mobile and just ask for one to pop in without getting service? Are they free or would they send me packing because I don't have their service?
3. I also have the x'd out signal meter that I would love to get rid of.
Any advice you guys can give me as a sim card/carrier tablet noob would be very helpful.
Thank you
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if you are running stock rom. I would go to amazon and Order a sim card for data devices. I think you can get one for like 14.00 with 1 gb data PRE PAY. setup t mobile account and then change your plan to pay as you go DAILY . Your sim will not expire and if you want or need to use the devices on there network even once a year you can just jump on there site and buy a day or weekend pass.I have not checked this lately so the above cold be slighty different now. Good Luck
Hi. Has anyone heard about Visible Wireless (https://www.bevisible.com/)? I was wondering if any body has tried activating the account on an iPhone and then move the SIM card over to your Android? I have a feeling the iPhone restrictions are just for THEIR OWN ease of support and there is really no restriction put on in the back-end and this switch would work.
I have opened an account with Visible and will find out when the SIM card arrive.
If you've tried it and it didn't work, please let me know so I can go ahead and cancel the order.
Thanks.
Have you gotten the Sim yet? Did everything work ok?
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Hi. Has anyone heard about Visible Wireless (https://www.bevisible.com/)? I was wondering if any body has tried activating the account on an iPhone and then move the SIM card over to your Android? I have a feeling the iPhone restrictions are just for THEIR OWN ease of support and there is really no restriction put on in the back-end and this switch would work.
I have opened an account with Visible and will find out when the SIM card arrive.
If you've tried it and it didn't work, please let me know so I can go ahead and cancel the order.
Thanks.
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So, what happened?
Hi All... The SIM card arrived and I tried to work with VisibleWireless people via text and phone for OVER 3 WEEKS but was NOT able to activate the SIM card data portion on my iPhone 6. I can make phone calls on my iPhone but NO DATA! Switching the SIM over to an Android phone will let me make phone calls but since there's NO DATA service, there's no point. They finally gave me a refund and I canceled the account. This company IS A JOKE!
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Hi. Has anyone heard about Visible Wireless
I was wondering if any body has tried activating the account on an iPhone and then move the SIM card over to your Android? I have a feeling the iPhone restrictions are just for THEIR OWN ease of support and there is really no restriction put on in the back-end and this switch would work.
I have opened an account with Visible and will find out when the SIM card arrive.
If you've tried it and it didn't work, please let me know so I can go ahead and cancel the order.
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If your iphone is not compatible with VOLTE?
I have had visible for 2 months and it works as advertised.
WiFi calling is now working on S9
I love Visible. It's working like a dream so far.
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I love Visible. It's working like a dream so far.
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I am also using it on an S9 and if you understand it ONLY works on verizon and there is no roaming you will do fine.
As an aside, I am trying to change the SIM Pin and require it at boot as an additional way to secure the phone. Visible will not, or cannot provide the default SIM Pin. Anyone know what it is?
I'm sorry. I don't.