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Hello!
Well, I am really pissed by now... after 3 weeks waiting, finally I received a turbosim clone, that according a research to my best, it could be the more probably such class device to be able to allow the locked d3 to connect at least... but NO luck... :-(
As reference to help other around here... the device was:
SMARTPHONE Sim Unlock Card and could check info for ebay item Item number: 270690911540.
I bought this, since after a long research, seems that in case of Droid 2+turbosim success, the key feature was that the sim must be the more recent possible (2011) and with Moto SidKick model losted, since this appears to be the key for success.
Well, by now, the "turbosim" seems that is recognized since the phone after boot with my local network sim installed with turosim stick to it, dont asks for Unlock Network code, BUT also do not reognize my network and do not allow clas none any kind of connection except for dial 911/112 numbers.
At this point I wonder if this is due that the phone is in Subsidy mode after the initial failed attempts to unlock with codes of internet sellers (4 diferent sellers, all have the same 2 codes, and also both fails...).
So by now without be in USA and without be a Verizon Customer, seems that I really pissed...
By now, I would like too share my bad result in order to save some money to another friend around here that may be wonder about try this turbosim option...
As a last hope, I by now wonder if I may be somewhat better luck, if I try to flash the XT883 rom, so I wonder and ask if may be some help/ inof about:
1) Flashing the XT883, may be possible that reset the SUDSIDY mode status, so, may be possible to the turbosim to recognize my local networks and allow calls?connections?...
2) May be posible that the radio part of the XT883 flash could help with the point 1 or with try again the unlock codes?
3) Is the chinese Xt883 rom still in study/hacking process for some kind developer(s) around her that may have a help with the hard locked D3?
4) May be possible that flashing some kind of rom from motorola, may be possible that the unlock could be made with the codes available (that seems that are the Moto original ones, but that after a phone is activated in Verizon network, ?they could be changed by verizon system OTA)...
Thanks for any help and best regards!
Why mess with a turbosim when you can unlock the phone with 10$ ?
Hi Solutor!
Thanks for reply... well, in fact, turbosim was my last approach, since middle september, I pass the proccess of bought unlock codes from 4 different sellers on internet, and 2 of them sold me the same 2 codes, and both codes fails, and in fact put my phone in Subsidy mode... the other 2 sellers after I send the codes and IMEI of my phone in order that they check if they may have a different code, both reply me that they have also the same 2 codes that previously fails... this point was reached by october begins... so I look for an option and found about Turbosim partial success on Droid 2 forums, so try to research and try by bought one that may seems the more possible for droid 3... but no luck....
By now, as I said, my phone is still Locked + in Subsidy mode, and by now I wonders if a Radio section flashing may help in my case, with unlock (not every probably...) or at least to make the turbosim that I already have may be recognized my network... (not sure if could be a improve in some way...)
May You have knowledge of a unlock code provider, that may be recently succesfull in unlock a Droid 3, that was activated on verizon, and that after that, the D3 was succesfully unlocked meanwhile is on an outside USA verizon network?... if so, I am very glad if You could give some suggestion.
Anyway, over all, thanks again for take time to reply, and best regards to all around here too.
xaser66 said:
May You have knowledge of a unlock code provider, that may be recently succesfull in unlock a Droid 3, that was activated on verizon, and that after that, the D3 was succesfully unlocked meanwhile is on an outside USA verizon network?... if so, I am very glad if You could give some suggestion.
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Ok, I understand.
I've unlocked w/o any problem my Droid 3 (in Italy)
http://www.motorola-unlocking.com/unlock_Motorola_Droid-3.html
and (few hours ago) a Droid 2 global, here
http://www.theunlockshack.com/
In the D2g case I used a different provider because the former (for unknown reasons) asks 10$ for D3 and 20$ for D2g
The sim I used was a Vodafone Italy one, in both cases, I don't know if that matters, but given the relation between Verizon and Vodafone I decided that a vodafone sim was better than another.
P.S. I have zero experience with turbosims so I can't help with it, sorry.
Hello!
Hope this not bother too much, but as far I understand and because different posts on diferent threads, seems that several people like me, still have their D3 Network locked, so, may be we could try to get better help if we at least may know how many us are, and may be start to cross serial numbers o checking info in our locked phones in order to try to get some light on this bad luck.
By my side the infor that I have is:
Droid D3, still Network Locked and in Subsidy mode since by now Four online codes sellers was tested and all four sellers have the same 2 codes that didnt work.
By now, I also tested with "turbosim" clone card and neither success, the phone still locked.
Also tried to flash original Verizon 5.5.9 rom and later Xt883 rom with the hope that it may help to unlock gsm section, but no success.
My phone is marked as XT862 in back label and have a serial number with the following data (partial for security)
MSN: L826???FWK
(the ??? are other 3 chars but I provide the begin and end of my MSN serial in order to try to start track if the hard locks are from an specific batch of production...)
Thanks and best regards!
My Droid 3 in subsidy mode. I have same unlock code from 5 code sellers. Now I wait answer from cellunlocker.net, maybe they know anything.
Droid 3, Verizon, XT862
MSN: L826???RBH
+1 here.
I had codes directly from Verizon and it didn't work. 3 other codes from online vendors no good either.
= (
I have, however, escalated directly to Motorola, hopefully I will hear from them soon.
#L826***38N
In my humble opinion, the MEID and IMEI might be more important to trace rather than the serial number.
Hello leekslk!
Well, by your post,I hope if that motorola contact may could suggest some usefull info or help. Please, would You may comment about your progress if possible, so, I am sure that would be very gratefull.
Good luck, and best regards!
Well...still, may be around some other people with the Droid 3 still network locked????.... or what may change?... some luck in network unlock or take other routes?
Please, thanks in advance for comments.
Best regards!
@xaser66
Hi there, I have been requested by Motorola to send the unit back for them to provide a replacement (currently awaiting for the replacement unit to be sent out back to me, actually I wished they sent me a Droid 4). But this is after an escalation to management (yes, I do tend to make a big fuss).
If you could try to contact Motorola (i.e by sending a not-so-satisfied email as a loyal long-time customer (posing even) to a high level management executive) that could help.
Otherwise I was told that standard procedure would be to return the phone to where you purchased and get another one. I was even asked to sell the phone online so another Verizon user could use it, and thereafter get another one.
I hope this helps, I was asked explicitly not to reveal email addresses/direct contacts. It might have been worse-off if I didn't have a Verizon account, etc (I had an escalation (also) and case-notes with Verizon which Motorola checked and verified).
Further, if it was convenient and out of curiosity, where did you purchased your Droid 3?
BTW there's a long thread on the D2g forum about this problem, seem that there's a an unlucky selection of D2g and D3 that are unlockable for unknown reasons
Hello!
@ leekslk
Thanks for take time to post... well, seems that in my case it is worst by now... I bought my phone on Ebay, from a seller that sold me it with Clean ESN, so I supposed that this will fair enough to have not trouble in got unlocked by code. However since the first time I didnt have luck, and try to settle with the seller but it ad on ebay clearly said Clean ESN and for use in Verizon, so, may be hard to rise a case against it, apart that I already soend on pay the import taxes and shipping to my country, so, try to return it will make an additional lost, becuase have to pay for the international return shipping... :-(
@ The Solutor
Thanks for psot and try help again, I would like to ask You if could post me a link with this long thread since by now I already read so many things around that I am confused about what to follow.
Thanks to all and best regards!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867912
Thanks Solutor!...
Well, by now I already bought another "turbosim" version with low hopes about (my previous Black color "Sim Unlock Card i-SmartPhone" turbosim purchase dont works... :-( )
Anyway if there still another person around here with a locked phone please post here so try to know if I am alone here, so I may thinsk about try to sell mine for somebody that may could use it in Verizon.... (as far I know mine is still rootable, but no network unlock to the info that I have up to date).
Thanks again and best regards!
Your phone is in the black list of verizon or haven't registered with verizon, so the unlocking codes dont work[ i got one locked also.]
The verizon blacklist has nothing to do with the sim unlocking, I have activated a d2g (which is blacklisted) w/o any problem.
Not like unlock as in Password unlock, I mean as,
I need to change my phone provider from Verizon to AT&T.
My phone is a Android Milestone (1) and it recently recovered from a bootloop.
More on the information of the bootloop, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post31092838
I'm wondering if anyone can help me? I'm not sure if that's in anyone's expertise but i'm asking anyway. ^-^
If the phone was on Verizon originally, it is a Motorola Droid (A855), not a Milestone (A853 or A854). That also means it uses a CDMA radio and will not work on ATT which uses GSM.
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I need to change my phone provider from Verizon to AT&T.
My phone is a Android Milestone
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These statements create conflict in my brain. There is no Milestone on Verizon.
Beyond that discrepancy, there is no way to get a CDMA phone onto a GSM network. Wikipedia is your friend.
Good luck!
-CM7 on DInc2
Greetings everyone!
I was going to post this in the "Ask any question" thread, but as it got longer I figured I'd make a new thread. Perhaps it will help others who are also looking to buy a Moto X.
I've been a long time considering a Moto X but I've been scared off previously by the difficulties many people seem to have with sim unlocking, bootloader unlocking, and rooting. I'm spoiled because I started with a Samsung Captivate which is unbrickable and can be coerced into running just about anything (now on CyanAOSP 4.0). Currently my main phone is a CDMA (yuck) version of the Galaxy S3 which was given to me. I'd like to go back to a GSM phone and I am again looking at the Moto X.
Given the difficulties with sim unlocking, bootloader unlocking and rooting, my questions are these:
1. Which version(s) of the phone (1058, 1060, etc) should I look at buying for ease of unlocking? I'll be using a T-Mobile (likely) or AT&T (less likely) reseller for a provider. 1058 and 1053 are obvious choices, what about others?
2. Are there versions of the phone, or versions of Android that I should avoid which may be harder to unlock and root than others?
The following are things to take into consideration when selecting a phone:
1. It has to be able to be sim unlocked.
2. I don't care about, or want OTA updates.
3. I don't care about using an older Android OS, such as 4.2.2. but I'm also not opposed to a newer OS.
4. I'd like to be able to use a custom rom, but I could live with a factory rooted rom. (This is the case with my S3)
5. I can't afford a developer edition. $100-110 ish is about my limit.
I've read it's much harder, or impossible to unlock the bootloader on a 4.4.4 phone, if I get one of them, I wouldn't mind downgrading it to 4.2.2 if it would make for an easier time unlocking the bootloader.
You might ask, what's wrong with my S3? The answer is nothing. I like it very much, but I don't like that it's CDMA. That makes it much harder to change providers (currently on Boost). Also if I happen to drop it in the toilet, I have to go without a phone until the Boost store opens, then run to them and purchase a temporary replacement. With a GSM phone, I'd just dry off the sim card and put it in my Captivate, or my Nokia feature phone, or my Sony Ericsson, etc.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
first 4.4.4 cant be downgrade with out significant risk, second save a little more and get the xt1053 dev edition which will answer all your questions and needs
Thanks for the reply. I will remove downgrading from the list of options and keep that in mind as I'm shopping. I would really like to have a 1053, but they seem to go for $200+, which is double what I can afford. I'm on an uber strict budget and I'm not willing to wait another three or four months. I'm likely going to ditch Boost tonight, so I'll be back on my four year old Captivate till I buy another phone.
Then buy the xt1058 but not at&T because there's no bootloader unlock. If you can get your hands on a Rogers xt1058, go for it
I haven't come across a non-AT&T 1058, but I've got a line on a cheap, unbranded 1050 which I may try to pick up. I understand they're nearly identical to the 1060 except for maybe(?) a different CDMA band, which I don't care about. The specs show the GSM bands of the 1060 and the 1050 to be identical. Since people have decent success with the 1060 on TMO, I would imagine I'd have the same results with a 1050 on TMO given that their GSM radios are the same. I know that LTE may not work depending on my area and provider, but I'm not concerned with LTE. I'm on wifi 95% of the time, so 3G/4G on the UTMS(?) band would be perfectly acceptable.
What I don't know for sure is if the bootloader can be unlocked on the 1050. According to this guy, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52949525&postcount=352 it can. Any input from the gurus on this possible purchase?
I just realized one other thing. According to Wikipedia, the 1050 uses CDMA 800 where the 1060 uses CDMA 850. I read that one of the CDMA bands that Verizon uses prevents them from sim locking their phones, something to do with FCC rules. Would that be the 850 band? If so, there's a moderate chance this phone is sim locked and I can't find anything about specifically sim unlocking a 1050.
I ended up buying a 1053 Developers Edition on eBay for $70 with a dirty, chipped rear cover. I figured who cares about the rear cover because it's going in a case, right? Got it in the mail today and there's a quarter inch crack in the screen on the lower right corner that wasn't in the description. The camera also gives an error and crashes when it tries to load. Ugh! Other than that I really like it.
Ok, firstly, I know certain discussions about IMEI are NOT acceptable on these forums. I am confident that none of my questions cross that line, but if any do, I request a moderator to please let me know and I will edit the post accordingly.
My current situation: I have an ATT Note 3 with a dead motherboard. It is my own phone, off-contract, unlocked, clean IMEI, no other problems. Like an idiot, I decided to see if the phone could swim and apparently it does not (motherboard died due to water damage). I have had it tested by some qualified people and they tell me that the screen still works fine, digitizer works, its just the motherboard that has a short and will no longer power on. They are unable to do any component replacements to fix it for me.
My proposed solution: Buy a busted Note 3 from ebay and salvage the motherboard from it to replace the one in my device. This should give me back a fully functional phone. NOTE that I am no longer in the US and will be using this phone in India and Europe for the most part. So, as long as I am buying a replacement phone, I figure I should just buy a T-Mobile device, since these come with unlocked bootloaders, making it much simpler for me to do whatever I want to with my phone.
My Questions:
1) I already know that a T-Mo motherboard can be swapped into an ATT frame. BUT does anybody know if the same is possible with the other carriers, Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular? Yes, I am aware that the first two are CDMA carriers, but they do come with a SIM slot for use internationally on GSM networks. I ask because ebay consistently has busted phones from these providers going for much lower than ATT and T-Mo.
2) What is the difference, if any difference exists, between a "BAD ESN" and "ESN Blacklisted"? I only lived in the US for a couple years for college and have no idea how these lists work. I do know that devices with BAD ESN or Blacklisted ESN sell for much cheaper on ebay. The description usually says they will not work in the US, but will work without issue abroad. HOWEVER, to the best of my knowledge, if a phone has any ESN issues, and was not already unlocked, it is not possible to unlock them anymore. Is this true?
3) This is the part where mods might get mad at me. Without asking for details on how, this is just a straight up yes or no question. Are device IMEIs wedded to carriers in anyway? For those that understand what I am driving at, my thinking is simple: I have an ATT Phone with a Clean ESN that is also unlocked, but won't power up. Can I do some 'magic' with a T-Mobile motherboard with a bad ESN? To make that more clear, I know for a fact that I can do this with a replacement ATT board that I pick up. But then I end up with a locked bootloader again. I just wonder if this is possible with a T-Mo motherboard.
Again, I am NOT asking how any of this can be done, just whether it matters when the network changes. I know that ATT and T-Mo share their blacklists, so I am assuming this should also work, but if anybody can say yes or no, it would be much easier to decide on what busted up phone I buy on ebay.
Never mind ... Found a guy who fixed the motherboard for me! Now I have a new problem, the damn display no longer works... But this should be easier, just have to find ANY phone that still has a working LCD and then VERY carefully salvage the display.
If a moderator sees this, I guess they can lock this thread. Would have still liked to know the answer, if only for the sake of knowledge, but clearly this is not going to get answered anytime soon