[Q] can phone be used on wifi only without activation? - Motorola Droid and Milestone General

My son currently uses my old Samsung Fascinate, just to play games on and watch youtube videos. It is not activated or anything he just uses it on our wifi, and everything works great. I was wondering if the same thing could be done with the original droid?
thanks

Yes
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My younger brother is doing the same with my old G1
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cool thanks, also would a phone with a bad esn still be ok?, that just means it cant be activated right?

motherpuncher22 said:
cool thanks, also would a phone with a bad esn still be ok?, that just means it cant be activated right?
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Yes. A bad ESN just means that it will only be refused by the cellular network it was made for. Since the phone won't be using a cellular network, you don't have to worry about the ESN.

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Milestone good?

My dad is on Cellular South and looking to get a new phone. They have a Milestone with a slide out keyboard and I was wondering if it is a good device. Is the Milestone Cellular South's version of the Droid I am guessing?
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The milestone is a great, although aging, device.
It is the GSM version of the Droid...almost identical.
But for a non-poweruser, the age will not show at all.
If your dad has any problems with it, just come back here and we tell you had to fix it
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Caz666 said:
The milestone is a great, although aging, device.
It is the GSM version of the Droid...almost identical.
But for a non-poweruser, the age will not show at all.
If your dad has any problems with it, just come back here and we tell you had to fix it
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I am pretty sure this Milestone Cellular South offers is a CDMA model with a slide out keyboard, just like the Droid... not a GSM phone. A buddy of mine has a Hero with Cellular South and his is CDMA.

wifi tether for root users

any1 have an apk for it? i flashed a new rom and i cant find it on the market now doesnt have to b a flashable zip I can only find old versions on google
after some research... looks like vzw blocked it :
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/04/29/carrier-crackdown-tethering-apps-are-being-blocked-in-the-android-market/
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
Wow. This is a sad day. What will they block next? ROM manager, titanium back up or my backup pro?
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Gensoid is what they blocked next
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still works if you side load it
raider3bravo said:
Wow. This is a sad day. What will they block next? ROM manager, titanium back up or my backup pro?
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Those apps are not even comparable to wireless tether
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long live the XDA and rooting community! they cant keep us down!!
now i just hope verizon doesnt do anything to the ones that side load wifi tether
Wireless tether is basically stealing. Full props to verizon for finally blocking it. And gnesoid was taken down by he developer it is not being blocked by verizon.
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miketoasty said:
Wireless tether is basically stealing. Full props to verizon for finally blocking it. And gnesoid was taken down by he developer it is not being blocked by verizon.
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Lol
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miketoasty said:
Wireless tether is basically stealing. Full props to verizon for finally blocking it. And gnesoid was taken down by he developer it is not being blocked by verizon.
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your bridge is in the opposite direction
Here is my 2.07 apk from my inc
http://www.mediafire.com/?01fazofq8a41fq8
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Cool. Thanks for the link. Kinda sucks that VZW isn't allowing it on the market anymore.
xdpurp said:
your bridge is in the opposite direction
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LOL THIS...
xdpurp said:
your bridge is in the opposite direction
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LMAO.....very creative......love it.
miketoasty said:
Wireless tether is basically stealing. Full props to verizon for finally blocking it. And gnesoid was taken down by he developer it is not being blocked by verizon.
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Explain this to me. How is this stealing?
Is using Google Navigator stealing because VZW has VZ Navigator which they charge a monthly fee to use?
We pay $30+ for our data package, we shouldn't have to pay additional fees to use that same data.
dnar56 said:
Gensoid is what they blocked next
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Sigh. They [verizon] never blocked it, the developer pulled it on request of sega. Verizon might piss you off at times, but they don't care about a video game emulator to a 20+ year old system, lol. However...the former console company that hasn't really done much since they retired the said system might want to complain...
So why was Gensoid taken down? According to the developer, it was at the request of Sega. They must have contacted Google and gotten the emulator taken off the market. What exactly Sega claimed in order to take it down isn't know as Google usually isn't forthcoming with details, just general overviews, when asked. The next question is, why now?
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http://www.droidgamers.com/index.ph...-yongzh-gensoid-is-no-more-at-least-right-now
It's also obvious if you search the market on your computer (not your phone). Wireless tether is still there if you use a browser, gensoid is not.
higabyte said:
We pay $30+ for our data package, we shouldn't have to pay additional fees to use that same data.
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Inorite!
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Stealing
Charging customer more money to tether to another device is stealing. Way I look at it, we already pay for 5gb of data (some unlimited). Wireless carriers should let us tether to any device we want to our data limit. I pay for my data plan and should be able to use any way I want to up to the carriers limit.
Barnacle Wifi Tether is still in there at least, i always liked that better anyways.
Just put your phone in airplane mode and turn wifi on and go to the market you will then be able to see all tether apps.
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Unlock?

I know that Verizon uses the non SIM card format...CDMA?
I am on T mobile and have a relative that wants to give me his original Droid. My question is if it is possible or not to unlock a droid and put it on T-mobile?
Id appreciate any help. thanks!
gorealmighty said:
I know that Verizon uses the non SIM card format...CDMA?
I am on T mobile and have a relative that wants to give me his original Droid. My question is if it is possible or not to unlock a droid and put it on T-mobile?
Id appreciate any help. thanks!
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Different radio band with,you can't make it run on the different frequency otherwise people would be using Sprint phone's or ATT phone's on Verizon, or visa-versa all the time. Networks install different radio bandwidths in the devices so you can use a phone that they can guarantee you have a signal depending on their coverage area. Not sure but pretty safe to say here to achieve that in a device made specificly for Verizon not gonna be possible. Correct me if I'm wrong by all means but haven't seen anyone do that yet.
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Definitely why I asked imma keep fishing though, I want a %100 guarantee, know what I mean? Unless it comes down to an absolute hardware issue.
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I've seen someone with the signature "sent from my Verizon powered evo 4G" I forget who it was and never asked then how they did it.
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gorealmighty said:
Definitely why I asked imma keep fishing though, I want a %100 guarantee, know what I mean? Unless it comes down to an absolute hardware issue.
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It's simply not possible. The radio frequencies of a GSM network (AT&T, T-Mobile) cannot be detected by the antennas of a CDMA phone (Verizon, Sprint, cricKet) without hardware modification among other things. It's like expecting to get 4G out of a 3G phone; not to mention the network encryption and MID issues.
Haro912 said:
I've seen someone with the signature "sent from my Verizon powered evo 4G" I forget who it was and never asked then how they did it.
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This dude was probably out-of-country or straight-up lying. I've seen this a lot on XDA.
SOURCE: I used to work for Sprint.
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pomeroythomas said:
It's simply not possible. The radio frequencies of a GSM network (AT&T, T-Mobile) cannot be detected by the antennas of a CDMA phone (Verizon, Sprint, cricKet) without hardware modification among other things. It's like expecting to get 4G out of a 3G phone; not to mention the network encryption and MID issues.
This dude was probably out-of-country or straight-up lying. I've seen this a lot on XDA.
SOURCE: I used to work for Sprint.
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To my reply lol. Nice source
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The answer is NO.
The Motorola Droid can't even accept a SIM card. It's useless to you.

[Q] how to flash bionic to metropcs help

i got a droid bionic im trying to flash to metropcs im hope someone can help with sim in phone i can not write too the phone if i pull sim out i can write to the phone butt the meid is wrong pls help
update if i connect to cdma workshop and change from ruim only to nv only i can write it all sticks but meid show as what is the the imei (this phone has meid and pesn and imei)
I don't believe its possible.. I tried and ended w/ failure. I believe the bionic requires a sim and the sim is what gives it its programming, w.o the sim the bionic wont work...
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Haze69 said:
I don't believe its possible.. I tried and ended w/ failure. I believe the bionic requires a sim and the sim is what gives it its programming, w.o the sim the bionic wont work...
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im pretty sure it is possible i know a dude that say he does them but wont tell me how he wants 100 dollars yes the sim has the progrmming but if you connect to cdma workshop change from ruim only to nv only
you can program everything and write prl but in nv only the meid wrong this phone has meid pesn and imei in nv only meid shows as wat is really the imei and esn is different in nv only oh and if you take the sim out before you program it has no signal but after you write prl it does get signal i can dial out and all and when i program everything sticks my problems is i dont know how to get it on metropcs network the meid is not really a meid number its 990000832785887
I didn't think of changing it to nv, let me look into that meid, I've seen a weird meid on a previous phone I cloned, I wonder if its similar..
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I can't seem to find my bionic box but did you check to see if on the side of the box or bottom where the serial is if it has a meid or esn? Where the barcode is.
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Haze69 said:
I can't seem to find my bionic box but did you check to see if on the side of the box or bottom where the serial is if it has a meid or esn? Where the barcode is.
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box only shows imei that 990000 number but with sim in and in ruim only cdma shows normal meid dont remember the whole number but it starts with 2701 like normal and in nv only i do have an esn is it possible to add esn to metro instead of meid
I'll send you a pm how to get the esn on metro, I don't wanna people having a fit over the method lol
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anyone else got any suggestions
It is possible to chang the prl however getting the esn into metropcs system is going to b the real trick how to....
iwas able to to semi flash the bionic but wasn't able to get the esn into metro's system
GdsSrv said:
It is possible to chang the prl however getting the esn into metropcs system is going to b the real trick how to....
iwas able to to semi flash the bionic but wasn't able to get the esn into metro's system
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prl and programming is no prob i can fully flash it just cant add it to meteopcs
I have no problem doing a full flash on Thunderbolt with 3g and another lte phone.
But I look everywhere and can't find a way to add the Bionic esn to metropcs. I need help on this one too.
if you can't write it here due to some user making a fuss, can you pm me or guilde me to the right place?
I pmed you and everyone else that pmed me i, apologize for such a late response, haven't logged on in a while
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No offense but why do people want to take nice phones and gimp them on MetroPCS? The service is garbage. If you want prepaid, then get it flashed to PagePlus if anything (many times you don't even need to flash anything, it will just work after activating and programming OTA). There are a couple decent phones on Metro (LG Connect or LG Esteem, namely), it's easier (and probably cheaper) than getting a Verizon phone finally working on their network properly.
brandogg said:
No offense but why do people want to take nice phones and gimp them on MetroPCS? The service is garbage. If you want prepaid, then get it flashed to PagePlus if anything (many times you don't even need to flash anything, it will just work after activating and programming OTA). There are a couple decent phones on Metro (LG Connect or LG Esteem, namely), it's easier (and probably cheaper) than getting a Verizon phone finally working on their network properly.
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Well from previously working for MetroPCS, i can honesty say there are some area other carriers don't have any service in that metro does because they have their own towers, and if there in MetroPCS 3g coverage then i don't see how they would "gimp" there phone plus if they wanna pay 1/3 of there monthly price on Verizon i don't see why not..
An alternative people could use is unlocking there bionic and use a prepaid gsm carrier like simple mobile.
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Simple Mobile is also pretty terrible (I am a Simple Mobile dealer myself). Does Metro even actually have 3G? I remember when their 4G LTE started (which from my testing is slower than Sprint's 3G coverage), they only had 1x and 4G, but no 3G.
brandogg said:
Simple Mobile is also pretty terrible (I am a Simple Mobile dealer myself). Does Metro even actually have 3G? I remember when their 4G LTE started (which from my testing is slower than Sprint's 3G coverage), they only had 1x and 4G, but no 3G.
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Yea they've put 3g up almost everywhere they have coverage. They used to only have 1x which was terrible
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Haze69 said:
I pmed you and everyone else that pmed me i, apologize for such a late response, haven't logged on in a while
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Have u or anyone got anywhere with this bionic issue not sure who u meant u pmed but I'm still stuck on this
oakieville said:
Have u or anyone got anywhere with this bionic issue not sure who u meant u pmed but I'm still stuck on this
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What issue are you having?
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Haze69 said:
What issue are you having?
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can't add or change meid
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oakieville said:
can't add or change meid
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Pmed
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$50 a month unlimited everything!!!!

So I switched to pre paid and I'm loving it. I get the same speeds as on a plan,(my area sucks) but unlimited data, for less money. 2 thumbs up!
What carryer you on? What was the specific plan?
So that we may all have a lookieloo and benefit from your shared joy
AT&T $50 unlimeted go phone. Buy a crappy phone activate it and then put the sim in your thrill,but you gota activate it on the crappy phone. Don't tell them your using a smart phone.
Or straight talk for 45/mo
Just order an att compatible sim card from them and your good yo go... full 4g
And so I have spoken it.. and so it shall be.
What r u running I just got one on prepaid stock it doesn't work on data.
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I'm running thrillseeker. If you activate the sim through the thrill then att knows your on a smart phone and want to charge you extra for data. activate the sim through an old crappy go phone and it will work.
Never knew that!
Just a quick question, If I got a Skyrocket. Activated on a crappy phone, then got the prepaid thing for AT&T would I get 4G LTE speeds if my area has it or no.. Thank you
IDK? Not sure how all that works? The pre paid card says 3g???
hackedout said:
I'm running thrillseeker. If you activate the sim through the thrill then att knows your on a smart phone and want to charge you extra for data. activate the sim through an old crappy go phone and it will work.
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I tried this but cant get data havent updated to gb yet
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Have you got data turned on in the phone settings? Call att, the squeeky weel gets the grease. Mines working fine.
hackedout said:
Have you got data turned on in the phone settings? Call att, the squeeky weel gets the grease. Mines working fine.
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Don't see what at&t would do to help me use a smartphone on a plan I shouldn't? Ima try to update to GB tonight see how it goes.
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Trekfan422991 said:
Or straight talk for 45/mo
Just order an att compatible sim card from them and your good yo go... full 4g
And so I have spoken it.. and so it shall be.
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what exactly does one have to do to get that? straight talk? what is this demon magic?
ebatr8 said:
I tried this but cant get data havent updated to gb yet
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Do a quick search on APN's settings . Might shed some light on your problem.
Cab121 said:
Do a quick search on APN's settings . Might shed some light on your problem.
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Found a couple but couldnt get them to work
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hackedout said:
So I switched to pre paid and I'm loving it. I get the same speeds as on a plan,(my area sucks) but unlimited data, for less money. 2 thumbs up!
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Can you screen shot your apns please wanna try to get this running thanks if you can I appreciate it
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Dose data work oon the crappy phone? If it works on the crappy phone it should work on the thrill.
One more question.. since its prepaid we cant use keep the same number that ive been using, right? Cuz id really like to keep my number):
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I didn't get to keep my old num. but it was because mine had been turned off for a while. I could of kept my old num. if it had been available.
hackedout said:
I didn't get to keep my old num. but it was because mine had been turned off for a while. I could of kept my old num. if it had been available.
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So how bout those apn settings op, I set up thrill seeker finally on a gingerbread and I couldnt get data to work on either gingerbread or froyo share the wealth man.
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It should be setting the apn for ya but Ill find and upload the settings. Their the same as all the rest of the roms use.

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