question! The Photon is an international phone, so my question comes.. I am always in Mexico and have a mexican cell phone, is there a way that i can have my mexican sim card in my photon and still use my sprint service at the same time?
I think it will either use GSM or CDMA networks, but not both at the same time.
Google Voice
I use google voice setup with sprint and have it forward to my telcel number when i'm not in the states. If you want a mexico number you could get skype in mexico and have it forward to your google voice in the states. Its convoluted but it works wherever you are.
ins0dus said:
question! The Photon is an international phone, so my question comes.. I am always in Mexico and have a mexican cell phone, is there a way that i can have my mexican sim card in my photon and still use my sprint service at the same time?
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just get google voice..
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I recently took my phone to the UK, and it seems to get no signal at all. When I do the *#*#4636#*#* service menu, it only states that it has usa bands (my captivate and nexus one had multiple bands to choose from). Does anyone know of a workaround to get this phone working overseas?
Called AT&T and they were no help in getting the phone connected.
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I recently took my phone to the UK, and it seems to get no signal at all. When I do the *#*#4636#*#* service menu, it only states that it has usa bands (my captivate and nexus one had multiple bands to choose from). Does anyone know of a workaround to get this phone working overseas?
Called AT&T and they were no help in getting the phone connected.
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AT&T does that **** on purpose because they want you to pay for their international plan...if you talk to them about it, they'll tell you that you need to sign up for a plan that will let you go out of the US with signal.. (it's not permanent, but you pay for the month that you are gone).
Problem is I already have the international roaming plan.
If you're trying to use a foreign simcard it wont work unless you have a sim unlock code.
Otherwise there is no reason it shouldnt work overseas on your ATT sim card if you have the right plan. it has the correct 3g bands to work anywhere in UK/EU on 3g.
It could be that its not pulling down the right APN settings for orange or whatever provider its trying to roam on. Just a thought.
Just out of curiosity where in the UK were you? I was there in Dec with my AT&T Blackberry (worked fine) and will be there in June with my BB and my Atrix (didn't have a personal international phone when I was there in Dec as I had been on Sprint at the time). In the past I've had no problems - taken past AT&T phones to Germany, France, Spain, Scotland, Slovenia and Italy and they've always worked (that was with my old HTC Fuze which I had totally unlocked). The only place I ever had a problem was rural Wyoming about 100 miles west of Sturgis two summers ago. It wouldn't work but for one corner of the driveway at the cabin we were staying at.
I have been in London. I actually brought my samsung captivate, and put my at&t sim card, and everything worked just fine. If I place my sim card back in the atrix it looks as if it does not detect the signal at all.
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I recently took my phone to the UK, and it seems to get no signal at all. When I do the *#*#4636#*#* service menu, it only states that it has usa bands (my captivate and nexus one had multiple bands to choose from). Does anyone know of a workaround to get this phone working overseas?
Called AT&T and they were no help in getting the phone connected.
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Hi. I know where you can work that phone overseas. Kindly contact me.
I cannot seem to find an answer on this. I would like to use my Optimus V to call home from England when I travel there for two weeks. Can the Optimus V be set up some way to do that?
I can probably do wi-fi and use skype when I am at my hotel, but while I'm out and about, I would like to know if there are other options?TIA.
It is called roaming... Call your operator.
The Optimus V does not support GSM. If you had an Optimus T the answer would be different.
1. Virgin Mobile USA does not have international roaming agreements. You're paying $25/mo, dude.
2. If there is a CDMA network in England that supports the 1900Mhz band (which I doubt), it likely doesn't allow BYOD.
So, the short answer is no.
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I would recommend buying a quad band phone to use on your trip. You can purchase a SIM card and have a local #. Your texts and phone calls within England will be cheap and it makes life MUCH easier.
Most of the world uses GSM. In the USA, T-mobile and ATT use GSM. Unfortunately, they chose to use different frequencies that most of the world for voice and data. That is why you need to look for quad band phone.
PS You need an unlocked phone or one that you can get unlocked via the carrier or ebay.
PPS From my reading, you can buy a sim card in a vending machine in the international arrivals of Terminal 5, in Terminal 1 just after arrivals in the meet and greet area and in Terminal 3. (LHR)
I have a question... when I go overseas w\ my old Infuse, I always had to flash a non-AT&T radio to truly "unlock" the device. The radio ATT had on the firmware made it so you can ONLY roam on the partners AT&T wanted you to be able to, even if you had a SIM from say Thailand.
For example, if I go to Thailand, there are about 5 GSM carriers. AT&T partners with 1 of them. If I put in a SIM from the UK who partners with 4 of them, the ONLY carrier the radio will let me latch onto is the ONE overlapping carrier that AT&T also partners with. Flashing a non-ATT radio resolves the issue, but it's quite frustrating to have had to deal with on the ATT Infuse, so I always used the Rogers radio, which didn't have the limitation.
I assume that's going to be the case with the AT&T SGSII that I just bought as well. Does anyone have any radio suggestions? And since we don't yet have ROM Manager, am I going to have to flash with my PC or what?
Thanks as always!
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I have a question... when I go overseas w\ my old Infuse, I always had to flash a non-AT&T radio to truly "unlock" the device. The radio ATT had on the firmware made it so you can ONLY roam on the partners AT&T wanted you to be able to, even if you had a SIM from say Thailand.
For example, if I go to Thailand, there are about 5 GSM carriers. AT&T partners with 1 of them. If I put in a SIM from the UK who partners with 4 of them, the ONLY carrier the radio will let me latch onto is the ONE overlapping carrier that AT&T also partners with. Flashing a non-ATT radio resolves the issue, but it's quite frustrating to have had to deal with on the ATT Infuse, so I always used the Rogers radio, which didn't have the limitation.
I assume that's going to be the case with the AT&T SGSII that I just bought as well. Does anyone have any radio suggestions? And since we don't yet have ROM Manager, am I going to have to flash with my PC or what?
Thanks as always!
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Interesting - I've never seen any indication that Rogers radios in the Infuse had this positive effect. Especially since the Indian users on the Infuse forums had no problems with any Indian carrier that had frequency bands the Infuse supported. Of course, maybe that's because they always used a local-carrier SIM, and not something a little wacky like a UK sim in Thailand with a US phone...
I9100 radios will not work on the I777.
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Interesting - I've never seen any indication that Rogers radios in the Infuse had this positive effect. Especially since the Indian users on the Infuse forums had no problems with any Indian carrier that had frequency bands the Infuse supported. Of course, maybe that's because they always used a local-carrier SIM, and not something a little wacky like a UK sim in Thailand with a US phone...
I9100 radios will not work on the I777.
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HEHE, yeah. AT&T has several roaming partners in India, so odds are they'd be able to use it just fine with any SIM even if a non-Indian SIM.
UK sims are not as uncommon as you think. MOST global travel sims are registered in the UK or Eastern Europe. Mine is a Tru SIM. Tru is from the UK (you may have heard of their VOIP service, TruPhone). The SIM has a US number, it's just UK-based, since their carriers are far ahead of the US in terms of EU roaming, so it gives the most beneficial rates of any SIM.
It's really the most noticeable in countries where AT&T only has 1 or 2 roaming partners, but the country has 4-5 GSM carriers. Most southeast asian countries like Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore fall into this category, so it can be a bit annoying be limited by my phone. Even in Japan last month I had issues because the roaming carrier Tru will allow (almost any) didn't jive with what AT&T's radio wanted to attach to (it had weak signal). Flashing the rogers radio solved, but hopefully there will be radio updates out for GSII.
EDIT: it's likely that it's not less of a restriction, but just a better roaming relationship with more countries. Canadian Carriers are a bit more "traveled" and progressive than Ma Bell. AT&T loves to advertise that you can use your phone in many countries, but they don't say that in many countries the one and only provider they roam on has TERRIBLE coverage or only a tiny part of the country covered and just gives them a good deal to boost their roaming count.
BTW, good to see you again Entropy! I missed you the couple weeks I had Infuse while you were away, hehe. Glad to be back w\ a phone you have so I can enjoy the great things you put out!
I could be wrong, but i thought it was the SIM card that told the phone what towers were roaming and not roaming. The only way an AT&T phone would keep you from going on another providers towers in another country is if you were still using your AT&T SIM card, or if your phone simply didn't work on the band of the carrier you were trying to use.
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I could be wrong, but i thought it was the SIM card that told the phone what towers were roaming and not roaming. The only way an AT&T phone would keep you from going on another providers towers in another country is if you were still using your AT&T SIM card, or if your phone simply didn't work on the band of the carrier you were trying to use.
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Well a SIM is just like an ID, and the carriers will either let you register with that ID, or not let you register. However, AT&T in all of their glory modified the radio so when you go to a country, the radio will disallow access to a carrier. I am not quite sure how they do it. For example, if you go to Thailand w\ an ATT sim card you'll likely roam on DTAC or AIS. You can't roam on Tru w\ an AT&T sim card because they don't have a roaming agreement, but the phone fully works fine if you put a Tru sim into it. Where the radio also limits you somehow, is if you have a SIM from say O2 in the UK, and you pop it into an unlocked Infuse 4G, you can't roam onto Tru, even though Tru is a roaming partner of O2, and the phone fully supports the frequencies and everything works just fine.
Weird right? Now flash the Rogers radio. Since Rogers has Tru as a roaming partner, it works if you put in a Rogers SIM, Tru SIM, O2, etc.... that's where the mystery and misery lie. I'm really hoping they didn't do the same to the SGSII's radio.
I got my photon 4g from a online 3rd party dealer. It is advertized as "unlocked". When turn on the phone , it will eventually enter into a "hand free activation" screen for Sprint . I want to use the phone in Asia and in Canada with GSM / 3G carriers. I am not a sprint customer and have no desire to sign contract with Sprint in North america. What should I do ?
On the packaging , it said that if I want to use it internationally , I need to call Sprint first . Also it said KEEP the included SIM card inside the phone to use a GSM network.
Should I call Sprint about international travel and possibly get a unlock code (for GSM usage) ?
Should I take the included SIM card and put in my other SIM cards oversea ?
Should I root the phone ?
Should I "unloack"/bypass the boot loader ?
If I need help from Sprint to unlock the phone , do you think they are willing to help me if I am not their customer and I don't live in the states ?
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I got my photon 4g from a online 3rd party dealer. It is advertized as "unlocked". When turn on the phone , it will eventually enter into a "hand free activation" screen for Sprint . I want to use the phone in Asia and in Canada with GSM / 3G carriers. I am not a sprint customer and have no desire to sign contract with Sprint in North america. What should I do ?
On the packaging , it said that if I want to use it internationally , I need to call Sprint first . Also it said KEEP the included SIM card inside the phone to use a GSM network.
Should I call Sprint about international travel and possibly get a unlock code (for GSM usage) ?
Should I take the included SIM card and put in my other SIM cards oversea ?
Should I root the phone ?
Should I "unloack"/bypass the boot loader ?
If I need help from Sprint to unlock the phone , do you think they are willing to help me if I am not their customer and I don't live in the states ?
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Don't bother talking to sprint. Look at this thread and delete the specified apps that force activation through Sprint: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265816&highlight=bypass+sprint+activation
You will want to put in your local SIM card once activation is bypassed.
photon gsm now unlocked http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
For use in Asia
Photon works out of the box on GSM no need to program or unlock it.
As far as skipping activation is concerned there is a thread in this forum by Farookh.
Enjoy Photon
xyzdan said:
I got my photon 4g from a online 3rd party dealer. It is advertized as "unlocked". When turn on the phone , it will eventually enter into a "hand free activation" screen for Sprint . I want to use the phone in Asia and in Canada with GSM / 3G carriers. I am not a sprint customer and have no desire to sign contract with Sprint in North america. What should I do ?
On the packaging , it said that if I want to use it internationally , I need to call Sprint first . Also it said KEEP the included SIM card inside the phone to use a GSM network.
Should I call Sprint about international travel and possibly get a unlock code (for GSM usage) ?
Should I take the included SIM card and put in my other SIM cards oversea ?
Should I root the phone ?
Should I "unloack"/bypass the boot loader ?
If I need help from Sprint to unlock the phone , do you think they are willing to help me if I am not their customer and I don't live in the states ?
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you dont to do anyting.
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xyzdan said:
I got my photon 4g from a online 3rd party dealer. It is advertized as "unlocked". When turn on the phone , it will eventually enter into a "hand free activation" screen for Sprint . I want to use the phone in Asia and in Canada with GSM / 3G carriers. I am not a sprint customer and have no desire to sign contract with Sprint in North america. What should I do ?
On the packaging , it said that if I want to use it internationally , I need to call Sprint first . Also it said KEEP the included SIM card inside the phone to use a GSM network.
Should I call Sprint about international travel and possibly get a unlock code (for GSM usage) ?
Should I take the included SIM card and put in my other SIM cards oversea ?
Should I root the phone ?
Should I "unloack"/bypass the boot loader ?
If I need help from Sprint to unlock the phone , do you think they are willing to help me if I am not their customer and I don't live in the states ?
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the sim card is already unlock. i used this phone in indonesia, malaysia and singapore no prob. just select gsm networks only to avoid the sprint activation thing. its a great phone. nowadays sprint has their sim cards built into the phone.
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the sim card is already unlock. i used this phone in indonesia, malaysia and singapore no prob. just select gsm networks only to avoid the sprint activation thing. its a great phone. nowadays sprint has their sim cards built into the phone.
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Hi guys!
do yuo konw if the same thing for Photon Q with carrier CSpire ?
many thanks!
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I have alway had my personal pones used in Mexico and bought in USA (ebay) I have neve had any issue as far as the phones are GSM unlocked, my last phone was the LG G7, new open box from eBay, I use the phone in Mexico without any problem as well as I use it here in Houston, 4G data, calls, SMS etc..
I arrive 3 days ago to spend time with family and I got a preowned Verizon LG V60 GSM unlocked, as soon as I put my SIM card from ATT Mexico it says Service Disabled and the Network Options are greyed with no option to change anything, I already Crossflash to the US Cellular ROM and still have the same problem, I know the phone is unlocked cause I put a SIM from Telcel and it get signal and Roaming and also detect the networks, my question is, have something changed with the service providers here that blocks the SIM from other countryes?
The only think that I notice is that I have a cheap Samsung A13 from my work In mexico, bought in Mexico and If i put the SIM card there I notice a icon of VoLTE in the signal bar, is that the LG V60 does not support VoLTE?
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Long story short...
I have alway had my personal pones used in Mexico and bought in USA (ebay) I have neve had any issue as far as the phones are GSM unlocked, my last phone was the LG G7, new open box from eBay, I use the phone in Mexico without any problem as well as I use it here in Houston, 4G data, calls, SMS etc..
I arrive 3 days ago to spend time with family and I got a preowned Verizon LG V60 GSM unlocked, as soon as I put my SIM card from ATT Mexico it says Service Disabled and the Network Options are greyed with no option to change anything, I already Crossflash to the US Cellular ROM and still have the same problem, I know the phone is unlocked cause I put a SIM from Telcel and it get signal and Roaming and also detect the networks, my question is, have something changed with the service providers here that blocks the SIM from other countryes?
The only think that I notice is that I have a cheap Samsung A13 from my work In mexico, bought in Mexico and If i put the SIM card there I notice a icon of VoLTE in the signal bar, is that the LG V60 does not support VoLTE?
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VOLTE is usually softwarw specific and sim card specific. a tmobile v60 will get you volte on tmobile yes but other operators on tmobile network mabey not. Basically buy the right V60 to go with your sim card and if you carrier operates on tmobile network then get tmobile v60 etc and so forth.