Hey guys so I've decided to get the One but here in Canada we don't have black. So my question is will AT&T stores or any other allow me to walk in and buy one no contract or plan without being a customer?
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mr mystery said:
Hey guys so I've decided to get the One but here in Canada we don't have black. So my question is will AT&T stores or any other allow me to walk in and buy one no contract or plan without being a customer?
Thanks
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You can buy a phone full price without contract but you'll have to unlock it yourself to work on your local network.
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kayone73 said:
You can buy a phone full price without contract but you'll have to unlock it yourself to work on your local network.
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So stores won't have a problem selling device only to someone who's not a customer? Appreciate the input just don't want to waste a trip across the border.
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mr mystery said:
So stores won't have a problem selling device only to someone who's not a customer? Appreciate the input just don't want to waste a trip across the border.
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Yes if its just hardware and you're willing to pay full price they don't care if you're not an AT&T customer. Only matters if you want the contract/subsidized price.
People buy full price phones as gifts for other people all the time and its up to the recipient to go walk in a store and activate a new account or switch their current account over to the new phone.
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Hey,
I want to order the HTC ONE from ATT but without a plan and Unlocked.
Is it possiable?
Its asking me to add a plan even after i choose month to month for 600$
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They probably won't let you pre-order it without a plan/ contract of some sort in place. Even after it comes to the stores, you'd have to be on an AT&T Go-Phone plan which doesn't allow you to use their LTE (if that's something you're looking for).
If you're looking for to use an HTC One that way, your best bet would be to order the SIM unlocked version direct from HTC. It would basically the same thing and you would be able to get past AT&T's wanting to put you in a contract.
holy cow there's threads about this
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expertzero1 said:
holy cow there's threads about this
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Everyone is new at some point............
can i unlock a sprint note 3 and use it for tmobile?
Getting one for a good price. Need to know asap. Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593305
Photon Q. and or Note 3
Bought the phone from a guy on the train. Really doubt I will be able to get it UCCI unlocked...
Hey! I lost my phone on the train! Just kidding. :sly:
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I did notice that the phone was activated on 12/25/2013 so chances are I wont be able to do the unlock?
I am waiting for sprint to let ting.com activate my note and let them unlock it.
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yeah but its been your phone since new right? This one I bought from another owner adn dont plan on using it with sprint
Idk if it can be unlocked for domestic use. Instead of taking the chance, buy a phone that's specifically meant for your carrier. You'll get maximum performance. I think you'd regret it if you got a sprint phone hoping it would work on tmo, no matter how sweet the "deal".
Sprint wont unlock it for international use.
So its up for sale on ebay
Ya seems sprint are being very bad pricks about unlocking these phones... They have the worst customer service I have ever talked to . I am a pc tech and have to be on hold all the time. And sprint by far take the cake on customer service
T-Mobile uses GSM still right? So even if it was Un lockable the phone would only work on a CDMA network.
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Anthonicia said:
T-Mobile uses GSM still right? So even if it was Un lockable the phone would only work on a CDMA network.
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No this phone has both radios ...gsm and cdma if you can get it unlocked and do the domestic unlock here you can use it on tmobile.... It's a world phone
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Epix4G said:
No this phone has both radios ...gsm and cdma if you can get it unlocked and do the domestic unlock here you can use it on tmobile.... It's a world phone
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That's pretty cool. I must be getting old. I need a blanket for my cold feet too. Ya see, back in the day before AT&T was a big mobile carrier they were called Cingular. Cingular used an antiquated GSM network that..... zzzz
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Anthonicia said:
That's pretty cool. I must be getting old. I need a blanket for my cold feet too. Ya see, back in the day before AT&T was a big mobile carrier they were called Cingular. Cingular used an antiquated GSM network that..... zzzz
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Not old enough because before they were Cingular they were Bell South and other Bell regional carriers ... Where ma bell came from
Back before that we had pagers. ..
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Not old enough because before they were Cingular they were Bell South and other Bell regional carriers ... Where ma bell came from
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It was a joke. And Bell South/Cincinnati Bell all the other Bell's were AT&T. Cingular had no part of AT&T until AT&T bought em up. I had to sell against all of them for Sprint, so I knew all about that. Would be nice to work for Cingular back then before the buy-out. Their sales reps were making $60 commission per line on a new contract. $30 on an upgrade. Most we ever made was in the month of December $12 for a new line, $7 upgrade. Made quite a bit when one of the first Sanyo flip camera phones came out. Think I sold 35 in one day working @ a mall kiosk.
Feel bad for the sales guys who had to feed their family on commission checks bc all of the commissioned sales reps were eventually done away with. The race was over and the American dream, you could argue, went away with it...
Ahh, satire. That's how life was back around the turn of the century. Gimme a break, I'm old!
I know someone was working on internationally unlocking the device without sprint. Doesnt look like they got it yet though.
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I know someone was working on internationally unlocking the device without sprint. Doesnt look like they got it yet though.
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There's a dude trying to buy a car in the general discussion forum.
Perhaps you could check there.
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snyper2k2 said:
I know someone was working on internationally unlocking the device without sprint. Doesnt look like they got it yet though.
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I doubt internationally unlocking is possible, due to frequency issues as far as I know.
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can i unlock a sprint note 3 and use it for tmobile?
Getting one for a good price. Need to know asap. Thanks.
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No LTE no matter what you do, the device is CDMA period! You can not change that, so yes, you can unlock, but chances are you will get 3g only!
Sorry...
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Not really sprint note 3 related, but I upgraded my phone to a galaxy mega last month decided I didn't like it went back to a note 3. I can't return my mega since it's after the 14 day period. Can I sell it and still pay the 17 dollars and change on my bill still? Or does the balance have to be paid in full before I can sell it?
You can sell it, but in till sprint is happy (get there money) they can/will black list it.
Photon Q &/or Note 3 on ting.com
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You can sell it, but in till sprint is happy (get there money) they can/will black list it.
Photon Q &/or Note 3 on ting.com
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Will another user be able to activate it though? If I continued paying for it on my monthly bill?
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Will another user be able to activate it though? If I continued paying for it on my monthly bill?
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No, as long as the phone is tied to your account, it can't be activated on someone else's.
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Activating a cheap phone on that line will free up the mega esn from your account.
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Activating a cheap phone on that line will free up the mega esn from your account.
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Indeed
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Indeed
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thanks well reason I asked is cause I bought a note 3 again and didn't want the mega to just collect dust. But I asked sprint they said it's fine
To get my device. I can't find it anywhere early. I checked swappa and there have been a couple for sale. The developer version does not catch LTE so I'm stating away. Anyone else having a hard time finding one? I'm not on AT&T btw I'm on AIO prepaid lol unlimited everything 55 a month (including LTE)
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It has been stated by multiple users that the unlocked and dev versions are based off of the att version. I can't see a reason why you can't get lte.
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"I asked on Twitter and this is what I received from @HTCUSA: The developer edition will support several LTE bands. More details on the #HTCOneM8 developer edition to come!"
Source: http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-m8/373943-htc-one-m8-developer-edition.html#post3532448
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"I asked on Twitter and this is what I received from @HTCUSA: The developer edition will support several LTE bands. More details on the #HTCOneM8 developer edition to come!"
Source: http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-m8/373943-htc-one-m8-developer-edition.html#post3532448
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Apparently they've been lying. I'm not sure but 3 eBay listings say the same and I'm just cautious about it. I'd rather get AT&T version just to be safe
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Z51 said:
To get my device. I can't find it anywhere early. I checked swappa and there have been a couple for sale. The developer version does not catch LTE so I'm stating away. Anyone else having a hard time finding one? I'm not on AT&T btw I'm on AIO prepaid lol unlimited everything 55 a month (including LTE)
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Are you not able to buy it contract free from AT&T website?
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Are you not able to buy it contract free from AT&T website?
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I tried and it wouldn't let me. I'll try it again a little later today and see what happens. Hopefully it goes through
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It has been stated by multiple users that the unlocked and dev versions are based off of the att version. I can't see a reason why you can't get lte.
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Any one actually test the dev version with AT&T? I'd love a dev unlocked unit but I just wanna be sure. If I buy it and it doesn't catch LTE I will smash it to pieces out of anger lol (serious)
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Z51 said:
I tried and it wouldn't let me. I'll try it again a little later today and see what happens. Hopefully it goes through
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Most at&t folk have ordered by phone actually, try calling them.
I ordered mine launch day and got it 2 days later via FEDex, was ordered online.
from AT&T or HTC.com?
Just got mine from best buy. Amber gold att version.I'm a happy camper lol
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Z51 said:
Just got mine from best buy. Amber gold att version.I'm a happy camper lol
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They have them in store now?
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They have them in store now?
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They did at Manhattan beach. Rosecrans and Sepulveda. Only in Amber gold. I really wanted this color anyway so I made out just fine haha. Went in there and I was gonna pay cash. They approved me for credit and got it for 18 months no interest. Sweet lol.
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so I just got my hands on a sprint LG g3 and on the box it says that it can be unlocked for GSM. is there any way to do this and bypass sprint unlock and get for me so that I can use my AT&T sim card in there?
try to edit the build.porp like g2
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I would also be interested in how to accomplish this.
Unlock G3
What happens when you put a GSM Simcard ? As I know all should be GSM unlocked like my Verizon G2.
hakkan said:
What happens when you put a GSM Simcard ? As I know all should be GSM unlocked like my Verizon G2.
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it just gives me an icon as if i dont have a SIM card in there at all. As far as I know the Sprint version is lockdown far more than Verizons.
hakkan said:
What happens when you put a GSM Simcard ? As I know all should be GSM unlocked like my Verizon G2.
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Verizon had to unlock them ....that was according to the fcc for some spectrum they got....Sprint does not have to unlock them and it will be much harder
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Epix4G said:
Verizon had to unlock them ....that was according to the fcc for some spectrum they got....Sprint does not have to unlock them and it will be much harder
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How would we go about unlocking it???
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jrccomputer said:
How would we go about unlocking it???
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Call Sprint and ask then to do it for you. They can do it remotely.
infernosoft said:
Call Sprint and ask then to do it for you. They can do it remotely.
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What if the phone is off contract?? Clean ESN bought off the internet??
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jrccomputer said:
What if the phone is off contract?? Clean ESN bought off the internet??
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Good question. I recently got mine on CL so I'm wondering the same...
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Good question. I recently got mine on CL so I'm wondering the same...
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Has to be on sprint account for 90 days then they will unlock it
They still haven't unlocked note 3 or S5
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So lame that it's in their hands. It's my phone, damit.
infernosoft said:
So lame that it's in their hands. It's my phone, damit.
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No it is not ..... they subsidize the phone ..... I know you didn't pay full price from sprint .... You should have done some research before you bought it
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No it is not ..... they subsidize the phone ..... I know you didn't pay full price from sprint .... You should have done some research before you bought it
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I didn't buy the phone directly from Sprint, so yes, it is lame.
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I didn't buy the phone directly from Sprint, so yes, it is lame.
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They would not unlock it if you paid full price from sprint either .....has to be on the account for 90 days ...and Bill has to be up to date etc ... they don't have to unlock it ... they do it only because some sprint people actually travel and it's nice to be able to pop a sim in ....vzw only had unlocked phones because they have to from fcc .... Maybe people should just buy a gsm phone if they want use it on gsm
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They also limit the number of phones you can unlock per year. I travel a lot and have a lot of phones so it's frustrating for people like me who like to use their CDMA phone as their int'l GSM phone as well...
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They would not unlock it if you paid full price from sprint either .....has to be on the account for 90 days ...and Bill has to be up to date etc ... they don't have to unlock it ... they do it only because some sprint people actually travel and it's nice to be able to pop a sim in ....vzw only had unlocked phones because they have to from fcc .... Maybe people should just buy a gsm phone if they want use it on gsm
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Maybe you should stop being a ****... I won it in a contest.
Guess i will be a **** Again....may as well sell it and buy another because you won't use it on gsm without Sprint unlocking it...
All i said was just for your information but i truly don't care if you ever get to use the phone...
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Epix4G said:
Guess i will be a **** Again....may as well sell it and buy another because you won't use it on gsm without Sprint unlocking it...
All i said was just for your information but i truly don't care if you ever get to use the phone...
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I think you are just missing the point. It would be much more practical if every phone was unlocked for cdma or gsm use like the Nexus 5 is. I have a Nexus 5 I bought from Sprint and it runs on Att right out of the box. This is how all phones should be. I happen to have Sprint and Att accounts and its great to be able to swap phones between them without a huge hassle.
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I think you are just missing the point. It would be much more practical if every phone was unlocked for cdma or gsm use like the Nexus 5 is. I have a Nexus 5 I bought from Sprint and it runs on Att right out of the box. This is how all phones should be. I happen to have Sprint and Att accounts and its great to be able to swap phones between them without a huge hassle.
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I am not missing the point this is a 600 dollar phone and these people want to get it cheap and unlock it instead of paying more for it .... it's people trying to rip off these companies ... the full price of this phone is right at 600 but you can get it with bad esn for like 200 ... it's just people being cheap
There are threads just like this on note 3 s4 S5 g2 etc for sprint all the same
The Nexus from Google was 400 to start out off contract
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