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Have to unlock new Tilt?

I just got a new tilt for a warranty problem. I had my other one unlocked so I can download roms. Do I have to unlock the new tilt or is the unlocked SIM card good? It's been awhile so don't really rememer.

pavetim said:
I just got a new tilt for a warranty problem. I had my other one unlocked so I can download roms. Do I have to unlock the new tilt or is the unlocked SIM card good? It's been awhile so don't really rememer.
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well mate if it new it prob locked put in a diffrent providers sim card and if you can,t access it its locked then you my friend gonna need to do a lot of reading on how to unlock it

call at&t and tell them your going to europe and need to unlock the phone for use there. (mentioned somewhere in these forums) I didnt try this myself.
When i called they wouldnt give it to me (code) till i owned the unit for 3 months i think. Total bull****. And i work for Lucent. Didnt matter.
Good luck

Are u Serious
man there is a sticky at the top of the page that walks u thru how to unlock ur phone in less than 20 minutes easy as making ridiculous threads in the kaiser rom dev. forum... and a unlocked sim has nothing to do with the brand new phones locked status

oh no !
prepared to get flamed !
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LOL that is too funny

Holy FUC*ING SH*T, ive read just about every redundant thread, this one takes the cake.
Hell i might create a redundant thread linked to this one just so people can vote on how redundant and stupid this one is.

This is the laugh i needed this evening sorry pal but u asked for it with this one

you sir.
are the man.
i bet anything
you didnt check the wiki
or search
and arrogant people like you
that create threads for nothing
shall be flamed like posted above
its a few simple clicks wow.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Redundant thread closed.
BTW, hilarious pics guys.

Stolen Phone

So, about 3 months ago, I got scammed out of my T-mobile Galaxy Note 2 by someone on TomsHardware.com. I thought it was a lost cause, and he was supposed to send me a Galaxy S4 (no comments on the trade please). What he sent me instead was a LG G2X with a cracked screen and was password protected. So, now, after a hard reset, I got access to the phone. Guess what? The pictures are still intact, and there is plenty of pictures of a person, and a name. I looked on facebook, and lo and behold, found the guy.
My question is this: Should I give this information to the police? I filed the report months ago, but if this is the guy, maybe there is a minuscule chance I could get my phone back. Or should I just leave it alone, its too long ago?

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So, about 3 months ago, I got scammed out of my T-mobile Galaxy Note 2 by someone on TomsHardware.com. I thought it was a lost cause, and he was supposed to send me a Galaxy S4 (no comments on the trade please). What he sent me instead was a LG G2X with a cracked screen and was password protected. So, now, after a hard reset, I got access to the phone. Guess what? The pictures are still intact, and there is plenty of pictures of a person, and a name. I looked on facebook, and lo and behold, found the guy.
My question is this: Should I give this information to the police? I filed the report months ago, but if this is the guy, maybe there is a minuscule chance I could get my phone back. Or should I just leave it alone, its too long ago?
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If you already made a report, its best you follow through with the evidence as that is how you can achieve what you want. Police work on evidence, lack of it, they sleep. :fingers-crossed:
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Block your imei so he can't use the phone, eye for an eye
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Owch
That sucks...
I have been doing some thinking about this today actually. after reading a similar post like yours I got remote terminal to send a text to execute something like dd random data to drive in r/w. and maybe even corrupt the boot loader before that hehehe
But after nuking it I would block the IMIE too to render it useless. I bet he will just sell it some poor guy even if cant make calls though. Absolutely tell the popo maybe the pictures are of another guy who lost his phone
good luck

Country of origin - OnePlus Terms on first boot

HI all,
I am planning on buying a new phone soon - either OnePlus 8 Pro/8TPro or Samsung S20/Note 20 (when the latter are released)
Could any OP8 holders please confirm if this was indeed accurate?
If it's accurate, is there a way to avoid this?
Or we stuck on the stock firmware with the 'potential' data being sent off to home?
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5outof7 said:
HI all,
I am planning on buying a new phone soon - either OnePlus 8 Pro/8TPro or Samsung S20/Note 20 (when the latter are released)
Could any OP8 holders please confirm if this was indeed accurate? If it's accurate, is there a way to avoid this?
Or we stuck on the stock firmware with the 'potential' data being sent off to home?
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Hi,
This is a sensitive topic since it can become a little to political, but to keep it simple, OnePlus has never been caught doing something sketchy like that, not like Xiaomi or Huawei and other Chinese brands. But there's always this little doubt because Chinese GOV (not people, please make the difference) isn't transparent at all with its policy and relationship with phone manufacturers. So if this is really an issue because you work in a sensitive place in your country (research, administration, ...) then go for Samsung, because "we never know what could happen". But if you don't have anything sensitive to hide, trust me, Chinese secret services won't give a damn about your data lol.
We're not stuck at all on stock firmware, there are a lot of ROMs that are really good, and can be used instead of stock. I don't know if flashing a ROM deletes the issue tho, because what's a problem with spying is that you don't know where the leak come from, and if OnePlus where indeed spying us, they would've a solution that works even with ROMs since OnePlus let us easily and freely flash anything on our phones.
I'll end by saying that it's really a shame, because OnePlus phones are really good, and those trust issues can sometimes completely ruin the experience...
Also, your question is 100% legit, 20 years ago I'd say your paranoid, but now, with all the political background, you do better asking.
We're living difficult time for privacy since internet is so anchored in our lives...
If anyone want to post in this thread, please stick to the rules by not going full political. Just answer the question asked and put the least amount of political views in the answer. I tried to be as neutral as possible, do so please
Edit #1:
Didn't read the full pic, sorry :silly:
OnePlus do have a data policy, here it is : https://imgur.com/a/daHRpSl

Thank you so much for replying Raiz, very much appreciate the input and perspective.

Raiz said:
Edit #1:
Didn't read the full pic, sorry :silly:
OnePlus do have a data policy, here it is : https://imgur.com/a/daHRpSl
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Thanks again for posting the pic/edit!

Freedom phone

Anybody heard of this new phone to be released in August? Just asking because I would like more details on it. Such as hardware details, OS details etc. And the possibility that the bootloader is unlocked and maybe someone is already working on root method?
Freedom Phone
Freedom Phone
freedomphone.com
Thank you

AFAIK the phones offered by Freedom Phones are Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL running GrapheneOS.
More info here

jwoegerbauer said:
AFAIK the phones offered by Freedom Phones are Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL running GrapheneOS.
More info here
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Thank you for the information but I think we may be talking about 2 different organizations. The link you provided is .net and the one I posted is .com. Not only that but the freedom phone from your post has graphene OS while the one from my link uses freedom OS.
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I saw that on the NTD channel on YouTube (it's a conservative news channel that YT would never recommend)
https://www.youtube.com/c/ntdtv/videos
They were saying that the Freedom Phone is a plan by a guy who become a millionaire by his age of 18, because he invested in Bitcoin. So, a prejudice warning right there.
Next, they said that his main concern was that it is hard to source the hardware (really?), because the big names in cell phone business do dominate the industry, while none of them interested in privacy. (True).
So, he had figured out how to get the hardware and his new freedom phone is flying off the shelves, because it is a revolutionary new concept where the phone has his own store and doesn't allow the network location scanning and so on, so basically it is a de-googled phone.

TRexombo said:
Anybody heard of this new phone to be released in August? Just asking because I would like more details on it. Such as hardware details, OS details etc. And the possibility that the bootloader is unlocked and maybe someone is already working on root method?
Freedom Phone
Freedom Phone
freedomphone.com
Thank you
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Conservatives are touting this phone to be patriotic, etc... but there are articles claiming its a cheap chinese knockoff with huge security issues, likely built in to the phone at the request of the NSA for snooping purposes.

Question Corrupted firmware software

Purchased a sm-s908u 1tb model from Facebook marketplace earlier and on getting it home noticed it was very sluggish
Factory reset and hardware reset and noticed that non of the Samsung one ui settings were available in settings.
Then realised that there was no one ui elements at all! Seems to be badly running a vanilla android!
What are my options?
My first thought was to download firmware from samknows and hope that it fixes this very odd issue!
The phones still under warranty so I could always go down that route.
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What phone is that supposed to be? Looks like a clone

It's not supposed to have rounded corners, you've been scammed

Nah its legit, the IMEI codes on the phone match with the box

I'm sorry it's fake it's not even the proper settings menu or anything

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Nah its legit, the IMEI codes on the phone match with the box
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Scammer know how to do that. It’s all stolen, or faked. You have been scammed. Unless you can return it, your money is gone. if you try to use the warrant, you will be told the same thing.
another way I know it’s fake is a lot of these screens are clearly fake, not something Samsung would create, very ugly too. Look at the updator. Obviously fake. The toast in the second update picture has a grammer mistake too. And so does everyhtig in the updator. Read it again. And Google the real Samsung update screen. And real Samsung start up screen.

Can you get into recovery? What does it look like? If it really is legitimate, you might be able to load an official firmware, but who knows. What provider are you using? Are you using an e-sim? Says you are using slot 2.
The screen on a real S22U will be edge to edge, so I am afraid the others may be right.

100% fake.
Sorry mate

Don't order things like that from Facebook marketplace bro, that looks so fake

The welcome screen looks like Note 4 or 5. I'm sorry this happened. I don't know why people buy cell phones off Market

"The current version is the latest, not found the new version!" is the kind of broken English you would find in a fake phone.
And the SM-S908U only has one physical SIM, the other is eSIM.

Facebook is not your friend. Bad people reside there.

hello friend odin recognizes your cell phone if it is not false

Dial these two codes and see what happens
*#1234#
*#0*#