I was transferring a stock S3 from an other carrier to VZ. However the phone shows up with the roaming triangle over the cell bars and can't make or receive calls even though the SIM card has been activated. VZ store rep said that since the phone wasn't originally an Verizon phone it can't be activated to work on their network. However the VZ tech guy indicated that it could be flashed and would then work.
I have used ODIN 3.09 to flash I535VRUDNE1 onto the phone. After that i had UID inconsistent error and did a factory reset and the phone appears to work fine. In the "about phone" confirms that i am on version I535VRUDNE1. However the original problem remains that "roaming" triangle icon is there and i can't connect to VZ cellular service. When it factory rebooted there was a VZ screen that noted that this sim card has been activated and verified my phone number but it is still in roam mode. Should I be trying to flash a different or more basic ROM to get VZ to recognized and support it? I am completely lost on what to do next.
Background is that the other carrier was a VZ partner and they shared towers but the phone spent 99% of the time on VZ towers and network so I know it works on their network.
Thanks
David
DavidGGG said:
I was transferring a stock S3 from an other carrier to VZ. However the phone shows up with the roaming triangle over the cell bars and can't make or receive calls even though the SIM card has been activated. VZ store rep said that since the phone wasn't originally an Verizon phone it can't be activated to work on their network. However the VZ tech guy indicated that it could be flashed and would then work.
I have used ODIN 3.09 to flash I535VRUDNE1 onto the phone. After that i had UID inconsistent error and did a factory reset and the phone appears to work fine. In the "about phone" confirms that i am on version I535VRUDNE1. However the original problem remains that "roaming" triangle icon is there and i can't connect to VZ cellular service. When it factory rebooted there was a VZ screen that noted that this sim card has been activated and verified my phone number but it is still in roam mode. Should I be trying to flash a different or more basic ROM to get VZ to recognized and support it? I am completely lost on what to do next.
Background is that the other carrier was a VZ partner and they shared towers but the phone spent 99% of the time on VZ towers and network so I know it works on their network.
Thanks
David
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I've heard of several issues both ways, people have reported phones not working from other carriers on Verizon and vice versa. I'm moving to straight talk soon myself with the VZW S3
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I picked up a mint verizon s3 local on a trade for some scrap phones I had. So here is my issue. I put in a sim(at&t) and got the switch to global notification but it never gets signal. Phone info shows -120dbm 99asu. Figured since it was free I would play with it and installed hyperdriver rls 16 still nothing. Took everything back to the first stock ics nothing. Currently have it on jb 4.1.1 nothing. I started to wonder if the radio was trashed so I dialed 911 with no sim in the phone and it popped up 3 bars and made the call.
Am I wrong in thinking this phone will work on US networks with a sim? Anyone ran into this problem possibly can maybe point me into a direction to get it working. The phone is clean and not blacklisted and it reads the different sims I have put in it I just can't get any signal to pull up other than an emergency call. I know there is signal my s4 is on the gsm network sitting right next to it.
Thanks in advance, I have been searching since yesterday for a solution.
****update.....Went ahead and took it to 4.1.2 stock and happened to find an old verizon sim. Phone picks up verizons network without issue. Still nothing when using the at&t sim.
It isn't working for AT&T because you haven't set up the appropriate APNs for that network. Google AT&T APNs. Reboot after making the changes. CHECK FOR TYPOS!
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It isn't working for AT&T because you haven't set up the appropriate APNs for that network. Google AT&T APNs. Reboot after making the changes. CHECK FOR TYPOS!
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I thought I would at minimum show signal even without adding the apn. From everything I have read its talk ready just inserting the sim. Will look at adding apn's this morning.
Final update. Still no joy on getting it to work and I listed it for sale.
There's a thread about getting vzw s3 to work on T-Mobile, I'd imagine you'd need to follow a similar process. And FYI, all phones will call 911, sim, no sim service, no service, they'll call 911. My niece was playing with one of my sisters old, no longer connected phones. All of the sudden police and ambulances showed up. She had dialed 911, they tried to return the call unsuccessfully so they used the phones GPS info and showed up at the house.
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I recently switched from straight talk to verizon's own pre paid plan after being fed up with straight talk. When I first got the service active everything was fine. I flashed the CM11 AOSP rom snapshot. I then proceeded to try and update my roaming capabilities by dialing *228 which the automated system told me was successful and ever since then my phone will not stay on LTE. It will only goto 3G. If i try to force the lte only mode then my data will work but i wont be able to make calls. I have tried going into stock recovery and resetting factory to try and clear the NV and flashing both the kitkat and lollipop RUU to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You might have damaged your Sim card by dialing *228, well I don't know about damaged, but I know Verizon phones locked to their network that uses 4G LTE Sim cards are blocked from dialing *228 because of the reasons you described.
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You might have damaged your Sim card by dialing *228, well I don't know about damaged, but I know Verizon phones locked to their network that uses 4G LTE Sim cards are blocked from dialing *228 because of the reasons you described.
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So maybe i need to go get a new sim card then. Thats what i figured hopefully i can get to the verizon store before work and grab one.
Hey,
Were you able to get it working again?
I have the same issue. I dialed *228 like an idiot and my phone activated on 3G and won't get anything else.
I've had Verizon reset the connection on their side and I went to the store and picked up a new SIM but I still can't get LTE. It's driving me crazy. I've tried restoring to a prior backup, factory resetting the phone. Nothing gets me LTE.
Hello, I just bought a verizon Samsung Galaxy s7. I am a net10 customer, so to use the phone i purchased the byop kit and inserted the verizon compatible chip and then i go to register the phone with net10, and it says it cant do it, to contact customer service. So I called them and they said that for some reason the imei wont register manually, and that i have to call verizon and see if it was locked. So i called verizon and they said according to the imei i gave them it isnt locked, and that verizon doesnt even lock 4g lte devices. but no matter what i do i cannot get the phone to register with imei. I have even tried strait talk. Another thing to note is that on the verizon website, the s7 isnt listed as compatible device for a byop plan.
So theres no one i can call to have anything unlocked, i cant get my money back from net10, after i called net10 customer service back and told them that verizon said it wasnt locked, net10 CS then stated that the phone wasnt compatible on their network.
A verizon tech said he sometimes has problems registering phone imei's. He said sometimes it goes through, and sometimes you have to keep trying. I really have no clue of what type of process is happening here...
So, i took out the verizon compatible sim, and put in the att/unlocked gsm device sim and then registered that through net10. it actually went through, I now have a phone number and i have basic data, but i cannot send or receive mms. I used the APN settings i found somewhere on the internet for ATT network as they are the only ones that work so far..
The other problem i have is that my phone says the sim isnt from verizon, which im assuming i can just flash the "u" version of the rom to take care of? But am i hoping there is a way to make my phone work in their network so that i can use the intended sim card.
So with all that said I have a couple questions.
1. Why wont my phones imei register on the carrier networks?
2. If i cant get it to register on their networks, is there any way to at least get my mms working?
I find it very strange that no one else has had this problem. I cant find any information as to why the s7's arent part of the byop yet.
Thanks in Advance!
So I got a US Cellular Note 5 that has been unlocked and put my Verizon sim in it. Calls, Texts work great. However, it shows that I have 3g even though I should have 4g and it has a triangle above the cell bars.
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So I got a US Cellular Note 5 that has been unlocked and put my Verizon sim in it. Calls, Texts work great. However, it shows that I have 3g even though I should have 4g and it has a triangle above the cell bars.
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Triangle usually means you are roaming. If you only have 3g your apns probably not setup right, but it could be because of the roaming issue.
Thank God someone else in the same boat!!!
I bought a US Cellular Note 5 from a Wal-Mart on their $199 deal and had been led to believe it could be used on Verizon (Slickdeals professors) but today is last day to return and I am in a quandry...
I need to be sure it is unlocked.
I need to make sure it will work on Verizon
In other words, " I NEED help!"
The phone still says US Cellular when it turns on AND when I put a generic Verizon Sim card in, it doesn't recognize it - th e SIM card had not been used before.
The clock is ticking (my fault) and I am still outside the Wal-Mart hoping for feedback.
I thank you all in advance.
I have been battling with this no LTE case for this Galaxy S7, BYOD. This is the official US unlocked version, and works with Sprint (on their whitelist), furthermore, my wife has the same phone rocking LTE with FP right now (BYOD as well, so on sprint network), so it's compatible with FP's service.
My understanding for FP byod (based on previous exp) is that if the phone was activated on Sprint network before, the MEID and the ICCID info is stored together, so even if BYOD process only ask for MEID, as long as you have the previous activated SIM, the ICCID info get carried together, so you normally would have no problem getting LTE.
This Phone was never activated on Sprint before, so when I first activated it BYOD, so no previous SIM info, but I plugged in a compatible SIM that was activated on Sprint network before (with another MEID though). My initial activation had problem (red bar on my account summary), had to email customer service to add this ICCID. Phone passed the hands free activation and all. No problem using the fp apps, phone, sms, cellular network worked (only 3G).
I then started to do all kinds of reset trying to get LTE connection. I have done,
1.##72786# carrier reset
2. Restore APN setting to default, clear cache, reboot
3. Matching all the LTE related parameter with a known LTE connected phone (my wife's GS7)
4. factory reset
5.Deactivate and then reactivate the GS7 (by swapping devices between two fp accounts)
Now almost three months now, I'm still facing the same issue. FP customer service has been helpful doing the routine checks, but not beyond the suggestion of PRL update/reactivation. The final solution they offered was to deactivate the account and the activate the GS7 with another byod account. I did this just today, by swapping another device in this account, and then reactivate the GS7 to that account.
My very first concern is if the ICCID info has been accurate (not missing or mistaken a digit), but I asked them to verify this at least three times, nothing came back as error.
Compared to my wife's same GS7 with fp, my phone is rather slow to establish the 3G mobile data connection, for example, her phone would almost show LTE instaneously after a reboot, but my phone would be at least after a min to show the 3g icon.
Can someone share some insights on what else I could do? I just could not think of anything else from my phone side to do. A note worthy thing is, when I helped BYOD my wife's GS7, I was in the same boat of needing to add ICCID via customer service to pass HFA, and then all the reset to get the LTE. I actually wasn't able to get LTE connection by what I did, shut off the phone with 3G connection, but next morning I turned on the phone, LTE was there. Along with me, I saw multiple users who had similar no-LTE problem report they were getting LTE same day.
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I have been battling with this no LTE case for this Galaxy S7, BYOD. This is the official US unlocked version, and works with Sprint (on their whitelist), furthermore, my wife has the same phone rocking LTE with FP right now (BYOD as well, so on sprint network), so it's compatible with FP's service.
My understanding for FP byod (based on previous exp) is that if the phone was activated on Sprint network before, the MEID and the ICCID info is stored together, so even if BYOD process only ask for MEID, as long as you have the previous activated SIM, the ICCID info get carried together, so you normally would have no problem getting LTE.
This Phone was never activated on Sprint before, so when I first activated it BYOD, so no previous SIM info, but I plugged in a compatible SIM that was activated on Sprint network before (with another MEID though). My initial activation had problem (red bar on my account summary), had to email customer service to add this ICCID. Phone passed the hands free activation and all. No problem using the fp apps, phone, sms, cellular network worked (only 3G).
I then started to do all kinds of reset trying to get LTE connection. I have done,
1.##72786# carrier reset
2. Restore APN setting to default, clear cache, reboot
3. Matching all the LTE related parameter with a known LTE connected phone (my wife's GS7)
4. factory reset
5.Deactivate and then reactivate the GS7 (by swapping devices between two fp accounts)
Now almost three months now, I'm still facing the same issue. FP customer service has been helpful doing the routine checks, but not beyond the suggestion of PRL update/reactivation. The final solution they offered was to deactivate the account and the activate the GS7 with another byod account. I did this just today, by swapping another device in this account, and then reactivate the GS7 to that account.
My very first concern is if the ICCID info has been accurate (not missing or mistaken a digit), but I asked them to verify this at least three times, nothing came back as error.
Compared to my wife's same GS7 with fp, my phone is rather slow to establish the 3G mobile data connection, for example, her phone would almost show LTE instaneously after a reboot, but my phone would be at least after a min to show the 3g icon.
Can someone share some insights on what else I could do? I just could not think of anything else from my phone side to do. A note worthy thing is, when I helped BYOD my wife's GS7, I was in the same boat of needing to add ICCID via customer service to pass HFA, and then all the reset to get the LTE. I actually wasn't able to get LTE connection by what I did, shut off the phone with 3G connection, but next morning I turned on the phone, LTE was there. Along with me, I saw multiple users who had similar no-LTE problem report they were getting LTE same day.
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Hi mate
Maqybe here they can help you better , this section is for the exynos model
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Please continue the discussion here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-s7/help/g930u-freedompop-lte-connection-t3619028