hello all,
I'm by far no expert , I however have used Odin a few times & run MOAR on my phone successfully, so I'm not a complete noob.
I have bought a used g900p from ebay as well as the sim card for LTE, checked it out & it is clean.
now I just need a guide to flash it over to use it on boost.
I know there are several services out there that offer this for 50-100 bucks , but I'm confident I can do it myself with a little guidance.
can anyone help me out?
Try to call boost and see 8f they can walk you through the process of activating it on boost. If they cant help you, you can take it to an official boost store and they can do it for free. When i had mine done they even gave me the sims card at no charge.
I did a little homework before I even ordered it.. I also ordered a new sim card that would allow it to run on LTE.
The boost store & the coustomer service line both told me multiple times that the phone was incomparable which I knew was complete bull.
I finally called a store in another state that advertised the service on youtube.
They wanted 50 bucks, but I talked them into doing it for 20.
I probably spent too much on this project,, but at least now I have gotten everything up & running with a sweet s5 on boost for under 200.
Thanks for the help
If its the sprint s5 then you were lied to , because I bought a used Sprint s5 from Bestbuy and took it to a local boost store and he activated it on boost for free. He did have to call boost up and get them to do something also but once I got the phone back it was on boost and had all the boost bloat on it also including bootscreens. The Sprint s5 is listed on the boost site as one of the devices that can be switched over.
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GF had the LG Volt on Boost and loved it. Unfortunately it died, and Bestbuy didn't have any to replace it with. She now has the Moto E and hates it. I have an S5 from a business (shouldn't be locked in any way). How do I go about making my lady happy again by moving everything over to an S5?
TIA!
SouthSeaPirate said:
GF had the LG Volt on Boost and loved it. Unfortunately it died, and Bestbuy didn't have any to replace it with. She now has the Moto E and hates it. I have an S5 from a business (shouldn't be locked in any way). How do I go about making my lady happy again by moving everything over to an S5?
TIA!
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Just did this with an S4. Here is what i had to do. First of all S4 was bought on line and associated with some strangers account. went to sprint store made the S4 my phone
for about a minute so i could get the MSL. Since this was a phone not under your contract you will probably need to do the same. Once you have the MSL just take the phone to Boost Store they will port it to their service. Make sure you have a sim card for LTE my store did not have any and the last one they ordered took about a week to get they said.
You did not say what carrier the S5 was on so this is only good for the Sprint variant
I purchased a T-mobile Note 4 via OfferUp and I didn't check phone properly. Purchasing in a parking lot, I made sure it powered up and checked to make sure it was a Note 4, but guy looked honorable. I KNOW BIG MISTAKE. Got home and found a lens on back camera cracked. And, didn't know to put my T-mobile SIM card in to check before purchasing. Called to change my T-mobile to put on my account and the IMEI# was bad & T-mobile had it locked, T-mobile said that the phone was never paid for and therefor locked. Ordered a Net10 SIM and a months service. When I got Net10 SIM, went to my account to activate. Wouldn't work! Took to a boost store and guy checked and said it wouldn't unlock. Do I have any options or do I loose my $300 and call it a monster learning experience. Its running on 5.0.1 Lollipop!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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I purchased a T-mobile Note 4 via OfferUp and I didn't check phone properly. Purchasing in a parking lot, I made sure it powered up and checked to make sure it was a Note 4, but guy looked honorable. I KNOW BIG MISTAKE. Got home and found a lens on back camera cracked. And, didn't know to put my T-mobile SIM card in to check before purchasing. Called to change my T-mobile to put on my account and the IMEI# was bad & T-mobile had it locked, T-mobile said that the phone was never paid for and therefor locked. Ordered a Net10 SIM and a months service. When I got Net10 SIM, went to my account to activate. Wouldn't work! Took to a boost store and guy checked and said it wouldn't unlock. Do I have any options or do I loose my $300 and call it a monster learning experience. Its running on 5.0.1 Lollipop!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
[email protected]
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Unfortunally i really don't know if there is a different solution in these situations, when a phone is locked by the carrier in most of cases there isn't much to do... I don't say it's impossible but yeah you need an expert here.
Maybe you can find a better help here on the general forum of the note 4 > T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
First I am new to thread, know little of it and see their is huge amount of info here. So thought I'd just ask for what I'm looking for so possibly to get things working again quickly without me trying to learn all this stuff. I'm little overwhelmed with this phone at this point.
Recap- I have S5 samsung phone, had it since new. Bought thru ATT, my account paid and phone is unlocked (after att finally released it).
I have switched service to Tmobile, have two phones bought and working thru them. I have a sim card for my S5 from Tmobile.
So silly me who knows little thought I will figure out how to unmarry this phone from ATT so I can truley be free of them and use my phone on Tmobile.
Seemed as easy as installing an app, now I'm thinking what the hell have I got myself into.
So I'm just wanting my phone to work, I talk, text, run apps, take pics, ect.
I wish to remove ATT and add Tmobile.
please advise, thank you.
Upgraded my s5 to the s6 edge and i'm trying to get it on the network. The s5 has a large sim and the s6 has the micro sim so i couldn't just swap. Went to verizon. took the phones down and there system would not open up my new s6 phone. i checked online and the esn is not black listed but it also says no results found. the seller is trustworthy and said he unlocked it and used it on t-mobile for years, verizons plan was to have me bring in a phone that had a micro sim and would register. they would make a working sim. then switch them right back out.
What are your thoughts suggestions and ideas, i will be calling verizon again be 100 percent positive that if a friend brings down their verizon phone and does it for me that they wont have any issues at all.
I pay so much for this verizon unlimited that it really is a shame they cant get me fixed up, and switching plans is not an option. thanks everyone
So I'm an idiot. When I went to pre-order, I selected T-Mobile since they didn't have a Sprint option and I figured they were "merged" by now. Apparently that's not the case. I was reluctant to get the Unlocked model.
When I got the phone yesterday, I spent 4 hours on the phone (Note 8) and a worthless trip to one of the "Sprint/T-Mobile" stores. On the last call, a guy from Sprint said my IMEI number was not in the database yet -- I'm guessing because it shipped about 5 days earlier than expected. He would elevate the issue so it would and he'd call me back once it was added, then I could transfer my Sprint SIM from my Note to my T-Mobile Fold 2. He didn't call back.
The guy at the store said I'd have to call T-Mobile to get them to unlock it so I could put it on Sprint. But they won't talk to me if I don't have an account with them and that I'd have to talk to Sprint.
I want to keep my cell phone number, so now I'm wondering if I just open a new T-Mobile account and get my number ported to T-Mobile. I've been with Sprint for 22 years so I'm reluctant to do that even though they're going to be one network -- but probably not for a while.
Recommendations?
Wade
File an FCC Complaint. It's kind of the nuclear option but in my experience when it comes to cell phone and working with wireless providers (as well as internet) that's really the only thing that seems to get them to treat the customer as a customer. Even if the phone isn't compatible that will at least get someone from the Executive Offices on the phone with you to lay out what is happening and how to fix it.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
I got my phone Tmobile variant Wed paid in full and tried to unlock it in the phone settings. Didn't work. So called up Tmobile. He told me to do what i already tried. Told him it didn't work. He took my IMEI and he put me on hold. Then he came back and said to try again in 3 days and if i still can't unlock it to call back. I too think maybe it's because the phone isn't technically out yet. I'm using Fi which will only be using Tmobile anyway so i went ahead and flashed unlocked firmware. Then i downloaded the Fi app and was able transfer my number. But of course being on unlocked firmware the unlock option is now gone. So i may flash the carrier firmware this weekend and try unlocking again.
I'm currently in the same predicament. I was going to get the unlocked version but it was going to take another month to ship so I went ahead with the T-mobile version. After being unable to activate the phone, after 2+ hours working with CS the answer I finally ended up with from a T-Mobile rep (Sprint was useless) was to go into a store today and they can transfer my account over to T-Mobile and then I'd be able to activate the new one. The process will also unlock the rest of my phones so that they can accept a new SIM card from T-Mobile. Not what I wanted to do but since I can't get an unlocked version it may be the only option I have because after playing with this phone there is no way I'm getting rid of it.
Last night, I finally got my situation RESOLVED!
I went to another Sprint/T-Mobile store and found someone who knew how to transfer my Sprint account and Phone Number over to T-Mobile using the same SIM card! I chose the Magenta Plus plan -- and am even saving $20 a month for being "Over 55"! I'm now a VERY happy camper who's now getting 150Mbps downloads (so far). The Manager said he noticed the Model Number of my Z Fold 2 and thinks it was the Verizon model which may have caused some of the problems.