I have an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7. The phone was originally on Straight Talk. It is model SM-G930VL. I have confirmed with ST that the device is unlocked. When I enter in the Cricket sim I get an LTE symbol, and can send and receive texts, I cannot make calls or get data. Straight Talk is telling me because this was CDMA it won't work with GSM. Is there anyway to make this model work with Cricket?
Edit: I understand technical differences between GSM and CDMA. I am basically looking for confirmation that this phone should work with cricket even if a Verizon / ST version to begin with.
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Im about to unlock my phone for use with Verizon, and I wanted to double check something since I'll have to wait until later to do it.
I was informed that my ATT LG G2 wouldn't be compatible with a Verizon SIM since it's CDMA, but I searched around and it appears as though this phone supports the CDMA network.
Would it work?
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Im about to unlock my phone for use with Verizon, and I wanted to double check something since I'll have to wait until later to do it.
I was informed that my ATT LG G2 wouldn't be compatible with a Verizon SIM since it's CDMA, but I searched around and it appears as though this phone supports the CDMA network.
Would it work?
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SIM and CDMA are not the same thing. Verizon uses SIM cards with 4G LTE part of their service. If have a phone that's only 3G then that's CDMA and don't have a SIM card. Also Verizon only "allows" Verizon branded phones on their network. Which is not to hard to get around for the 3G CDMA no SIM needed service BUT I am not sure "IF" its "POSSIBLE" or "HOW TO" if you want to use it on Verizons 4G LTE like I do!
I'm going to ask here and in a another forum that has a lot of LG G2 activity.
The D800 model will not work on Verizon's network, as the D800 does not support CDMA. It doesn't matter if it is unlocked, it will only work GSM networks.
Sent from my LG-D800
At work today, in a Walmart Connection Center, I tried out an AT&T sim and a Verizon branded sim in one of the LTE compatible Straight Talk devices (Galaxy Core Prime) that uses Verizon's towers. I thought it was interesting to know that the requirement for Verizon LTE phones to be carrier unlocked also applies to MVNOs. I have yet to try and activation of such devices with another carrier, but the cards worked just fine. I suspect that Verizon will have the IMEIs blacklisted, but that's just speculation. If anyone has tried this, I am curious now if they would activate them.
I'm using a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge on Cricket that uses ATT network
I have few questions regarding the Straight Talk G930VL version. Is the phone sim locked to Straight Talk? If so, is there any way to sim unlock it to use on T-Mobile? And I'm assuming installing the T-Mobile firmware is doable and will make it fully compatible with T-Mobile and all it's LTE bands.
TIA
Does any one know if a sprint version U11 will work on verizon ? Yes no CDMA compatible with verizon but as published on line verizon no longer requires a phone to have CDMA as per the unlocked version being able to work on verizon and the verizon version itself having no CDMA support either.
I"am asking because I know someone that can get me a discount on a sprint U11 I just need to know if it will work on verizon.
I tried looking up the gsm bands and all I get is one set I cant find any just specific to the sprint version. I know that even if verizon wont activate it I could just pop in a sim that was activated in a verizon phone previously.
Here is a link to an article that lists verizon no longer requires phones to support CDMA to be activated on their network as they are getting rid of CDMA.
https://www.androidcentral.com/us-u...-support-verizons-cdma-network-and-thats-okay
Anyone ?
So I had a boost phone that recently broke. It had a sprint sim card. My mom got a new phone and gave me her S6 SM-g920a. I had to go online to get it unlocked. Upon unlocking it and it not working I called att. They told me it wasn't compatible. Ok.. So then I read on xda if you root it there's a way you can unlock it for my sim. Cool. Problem is my computer fried the other week. No oden no flashing nothing. My questions - Is it true rooting it will really make the sim compatible? And can you root this phone using no oden or even computer?
Thanks in advance
Not really.
The S6 SM-G920A is an AT&T phone (the A at the end of the model indicates AT&T model) so it uses GSM technology and can work with only a GSM SIM card.
Boost and Sprint are both CDMA networks, this means they use CDMA technology.
So, your phone, previously from AT&T, recognizes only GSM bands. Whereas Boost and Sprint use other bandwidths.
Check your phones and networks bads here and see if they really are compatible: https://www.frequencycheck.com/carriers/at-t-united-states
If their not, then you could use this phone only with GSM networks, such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Cricket, MetroPCS
Well that's just disappointing. Thank you very much for your help though