Hey guys, this is probably the noobiest question ever, but if I flash a rom, and I have a sim card, will I have to reactivate my phone? I've never had my phone activated until now, and now I'm worried. Thanks.
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So I just got my awesome Nexus 5 in the mail.
I am still waiting on my Straight Talk SIM Card to activate it.
New to GSM so never really dealt with SIM card stuff before.
Is it safe to set everything up on the phone, root it, flash ROMs etc before I activate the phone?
Yes it's safe. I would unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery, then make a nandroid. Also, save the nandroid off the phone. Then have fun
Thanks for the speedy advice!!
Like the question the asks, I have a rooted TMO G3 running custom roms and looking at moving over to ATT and trying to see if I need to ditch the root and custom roms and go back to stock condition before sim unlocking. I have posted same question my TMO G3 forum. Any and all help is appreciated.
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Like the question the asks, I have a rooted TMO G3 running custom roms and looking at moving over to ATT and trying to see if I need to ditch the root and custom roms and go back to stock condition before sim unlocking. I have posted same question my TMO G3 forum. Any and all help is appreciated.
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You shouldn't have to you. My att D850 is sim unlocked and used on TMO. I still have to use ATT roms.
All you do is shut off the phone, put in a sim from another carrier and boot up. You should then get prompted to enter the unlocked code and walla.
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You shouldn't have to you. My att D850 is sim unlocked and used on TMO. I still have to use ATT roms.
All you do is shut off the phone, put in a sim from another carrier and boot up. You should then get prompted to enter the unlocked code and walla.
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thanks for the reply but since I have a t-mobile G3 and been running root and custom roms since the very first days, I am a little wary about doing this for going to ATT
i am too on the quest to find a way to unlock this dang bootloader. I am curious as to if anyone has successfully swapped out their complete phone with carrier and everything to another carrier. We all know we can swap rom with TMO but couldn't we just transfer out the whole internal software with that of TMO and would it be able to be rooted like all others through ODIN? Or would it still be locked down by the .com.carrierconfig that ATT has signed to the phone? This forum is so dead it's unbearable. It seems as if all has lost hope with AT&T s8+. If anyone knows about the question above please answer. Thank you in advance
Hi Everyone,
Long time member, long time post. I used to be a bit more involved with the WM6 stuff ages back
First time dabbling in Android, so I have a potentially stupid question.
I have here a mi4 (Australia). It's carrier locked, but we don't know which carrier.
If I go and root/flash a ROM, does this bypass the carrier lock?
Thanks
I'm used to having to update the baseband/modem firmware, and after much reading on the forums, I'm not sure if the flashing steps achieve that, so that's really the question I'm asking.
Thanks!
So from what I've researched it looks like if I flash the unlocked baseband, then the kernel + rom, I should be okay to use any SIM even if it was locked to carrier previously?
i need help with e-sims because i never used one. i want to know if it is safe to use e-sim if i change custom roms more often.
my questions are :-
-- if my bootloader is locked and i add an e-sim, will it remain even after unlocking the bootloader?
-- will it remain if i factoryReset or hardReset my phone?
-- will the esim remain if i clean flash another rom?
i have no idea how esim are stored in phone so i need some little help because if i reset my phone and my esim is gone i have to request a physical copy and convert that to esim every time i switch rom.
Even I have this question and looking for the answer
I can tell you my experience with an Esim and Sprint. First off with a custom rom like LineageOS it doesn't work with Sprint. BUT every time I did a factory reset or flash another rom or flash back to the factory rom my phone activated right away. Again this is only with Sprint so I can't say for other carriers. Only time I had an issue was when I purposely deleted the Esim but was able to activate it again with My Sprint App.