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Tmobile G1 - Question

Hey my brother uses this phone as a backup phone but when I insert my similar into I am unable login gmail to make this phone work. Tmobile says I need to be on a special data plan and I do have data plan for my HTC hd2.
My question is...if I flash to a different rom from stock ..will I be able to use this phone?
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Get under a wifi connection and you'll be good to go
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Datfoooo said:
Hey my brother uses this phone as a backup phone but when I insert my similar into I am unable login gmail to make this phone work. Tmobile says I need to be on a special data plan and I do have data plan for my HTC hd2.
My question is...if I flash to a different rom from stock ..will I be able to use this phone?
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Your HD2 data plan is like for windows, the G1 needs the android one.
And no flashing another rom doenst work neither because is the unique IMEI number that they take in count, so in resume they will always knows that you have the G1

Maybe search for how to activate a g1 without a data plan. Might help. Just a blind shot though.
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ahem! i never get tired of posting this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316

[Q] unlocking a captivate for tmobile

I'm thinking about buying a captivate for my wife but she is on the Tmobile network... I am aware you can unlock the captivate fairly easy to be used on Tmobile but I was wondering if you lose any functionality in doing so. I know that some 3g phones will only get edge if unlocked for the opposite network. (like the iphone for tmobile only gets edge). Thanks in advance

Also!! My gf is getting a new phone that can't have data. But! I was wondering, if I give her my extra captivate(after I fix the cracked screen) can I unlawful ock it and give it to her without it asking for a data plan? And sorry op, but I didn't want to start a new thread
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goob1284 said:
Also!! My gf is getting a new phone that can't have data. But! I was wondering, if I give her my extra captivate(after I fix the cracked screen) can I unlawful ock it and give it to her without it asking for a data plan? And sorry op, but I didn't want to start a new thread
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If your phone is rooted you can unlock it permenently by installing galaxy_s unlock by helroz from the market as well as busy box. If you don't want the root option you may call at&t for that.
1.root your phone (search one click root for galaxy s and download to your pc)
2.download galaxy_s unlock & busy box
3.run busy box then galaxy_s unlock you must allow both apps with super user permission.

gorgy76 said:
If your phone is rooted you can unlock it permenently by installing galaxy_s unlock by helroz from the market as well as busy box. If you don't want the root option you may call at&t for that.
1.root your phone (search one click root for galaxy s and download to your pc)
2.download galaxy_s unlock & busy box
3.run busy box then galaxy_s unlock you must allow both apps with super user permission.
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I think at&t has both apps blocked from the market. any chance you have a link of them? I'll try 4shared in the mean time.

Ya I know about that!! But will tmobile realize that its a droid and put on a data plan? I already unlocked my phone in using now, but I just want to make sure.
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goob1284 said:
Ya I know about that!! But will tmobile realize that its a droid and put on a data plan? I already unlocked my phone in using now, but I just want to make sure.
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I don't know, maybe because smartphone do really need a plan I haven't tried it myself. maybea pre paid sim would do if t mobile have it.

gorgy76 said:
I don't know, maybe because smartphone do really need a plan I haven't tried it myself. maybea pre paid sim would do if t mobile have it.
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Alright! Thanks!
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You might wanna take a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995940

I have a captivate on tmobile and I am able to use the unsupported phones data plan for $10 per month. It's only 2g, but the point is that the network doesn't pick it up as an android phone and I'm fine with that. I doubt they'd make you get a data plan if you just used it without explaining anything because as far as I can tell the emei isn't registering with the network as an android phone.

goob1284 said:
Ya I know about that!! But will tmobile realize that its a droid and put on a data plan? I already unlocked my phone in using now, but I just want to make sure.
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try disabling the mobile data in wireless settings before popping up your sim and use wifi only instead.

gorgy76 said:
try disabling the mobile data in wireless settings before popping up your sim and use wifi only instead.
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Ill try that
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I have been running my captivate on Tmobile since last August without any problems. It runs edge, but they have never noticed that I have an unlocked phone. $28 bucks a month is a steal for this phone.

yentlequible said:
I have been running my captivate on Tmobile since last August without any problems. It runs edge, but they have never noticed that I have an unlocked phone. $28 bucks a month is a steal for this phone.
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What features are you paying for? Text? Phone? Data?
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Good news, I finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition) will I lose the "unlock" ?
*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.

jayjr1105 said:
Good news, I finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition) will I lose the "unlock" ?
*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.
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How!? I put in my gf sim and it said emergency calls only? Then when I tried to place a call, it said data connection not available? ! Seriously how did you do it?
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goob1284 said:
How!? I put in my gf sim and it said emergency calls only? Then when I tried to place a call, it said data connection not available? ! Seriously how did you do it?
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in wireless setting in your phone there is an option to scan and select wireless network simply scan after it will prompt you to select t-mobile or at&t since you want t-mobile select that option.

gorgy76 said:
in wireless setting in your phone there is an option to scan and select wireless network simply scan after it will prompt you to select t-mobile or at&t since you want t-mobile select that option.
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What is that sub menu exactly called? I never really dealt with that stuff. Can you please exapnd in full detail?
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goob1284 said:
What is that sub menu exactly called? I never really dealt with that stuff. Can you please exapnd in full detail?
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open menu settings
Select wireless & network
Select mobile network
Select network operator (phone scans network)
Choose t-mobile

gorgy76 said:
open menu settings
Select wireless & network
Select mobile network
Select network operator (phone scans network)
Choose t-mobile
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Thank you so much!!!))))
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Dont think anyone will have to worry about this much longer. Lol

Am I screwed?

I just got a galaxy tab Sprint off ebay and it's still activated. 3g works. I don't think its stolen because i got the box complete with all the contents. my concern is i wont be able to activate this thing when it eventually turns off.
anyone have a similar experience?

You can still use it as a wifi only tab.
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I know, I would eventually like to add it to my Sprint plan.

Then what is the problem ? Here in europe you can use any phone you want with the plan you subscribe.
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that it may be linked to another account??

Why don't you just contact the guy that sold it to you?

Sorry but are you guys on drugs or something?
All you do is put another sim card in, Or am I mistaken and Sprint do not use sim cards or something?

It's a cdma version, so no sim card. But i think you can still use it with another plan. Try to contact sprint.
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[Q] No 4G LTE after SIM error

Hey guys,
I work at Sprint and my technicians and myself cannot figure this out. So I thought I would reach out to you guys!
I had 4G flawlessly on my phone for the first few weeks I had it. One day I got a SIM error that read something like this, "No SIM Card: 4G LTE will not work as SIM/UICC is reinserted". I popped out the little SIM card, wiped it off, and the phone read it and the error went away. Since then I have not had a single connection to 4G LTE.
All of our demo phones are on 4G lte as well as my girlfriends phone at home. I am constantly in 3G or 1X. Any advice would be great
Things I have already tried....
1. Updated profile/prl
2. Reprovisioned phone using ##72786#
3. Toggled settings using *#*#4636#*#*
4. Wiped and installed a new ROM
5. Played around with SIM card slot and rebooting phone
I am going to try a new UICC sim if we have one around the store...if that doesn't work im out of ideas!

I have no suggestions, but I have had the same exact problem the past couple of weeks. I got the error, but I didn't even pop the SIM card out. I just put the phone in airplane mode like I usually did when I got the error. When I took it out of airplane mode, my 4g was gone and it has not come back. I have checked all settings and I can't come up with anything. I also RUU'd back to stock just to make sure. Still no sign of 4g.
Let me know if replacing your sim does the trick, because this has been driving me crazy.
By the way, I know it is the phone and not just sprint messing with the towers or something, because my wife's evo 4g lte is on 4g all the time.
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I read somewhere that your SIM ID and your UICC ID have to match, don't know if it's true, but go to settings - about - phone identity to check it out
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pwgerhardt said:
Hey guys,
I work at Sprint and my technicians and myself cannot figure this out. So I thought I would reach out to you guys!
I had 4G flawlessly on my phone for the first few weeks I had it. One day I got a SIM error that read something like this, "No SIM Card: 4G LTE will not work as SIM/UICC is reinserted". I popped out the little SIM card, wiped it off, and the phone read it and the error went away. Since then I have not had a single connection to 4G LTE.
All of our demo phones are on 4G lte as well as my girlfriends phone at home. I am constantly in 3G or 1X. Any advice would be great
Things I have already tried....
1. Updated profile/prl
2. Reprovisioned phone using ##72786#
3. Toggled settings using *#*#4636#*#*
4. Wiped and installed a new ROM
5. Played around with SIM card slot and rebooting phone
I am going to try a new UICC sim if we have one around the store...if that doesn't work im out of ideas!
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have you check to see if your phone is on cdma/lte, cause it happen to me once that i reset the phone and it was on cdma only
HTC ONE

luisrod03 said:
have you check to see if your phone is on cdma/lte, cause it happen to me once that i reset the phone and it was on cdma only
HTC ONE
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yes I already tried that as well

I'm assuming the phone's not rooted, but any chance you might be able to flash new radio software?

pwgerhardt said:
yes I already tried that as well
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I had that issue also but I popped the out the sim and back in then reboot. I have 4g again but under my mobile data I have network set to automatic.
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http://techwalls.com/no-sim-card-error-on-htc-one/
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pelon90005 said:
http://techwalls.com/no-sim-card-error-on-htc-one/
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Yeah I did the tape fix. It got rid of the errors but still no 4g
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pelon90005 said:
http://techwalls.com/no-sim-card-error-on-htc-one/
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Im not getting the "no sim" error anymore. I never got it again after the first time I popped it in and out. Im just getting no 4G after fixing it.

Rirere said:
I'm assuming the phone's not rooted, but any chance you might be able to flash new radio software?
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The phone is rooted. I don't think there are any other radios out for this device yet though. Thanks for your reply though

I'm a Sprint Tech and do not have an answer currently for you guys as I have been receiving this error as well and only just found this thread. Will try to research tomorrow and see if I can find an answer. I only received this message once as of yesterday and it went away seconds later. Tonight it reappeared and is sticking. Under app info it shows this is the Phone app that is sending out this notification. There is a possibility if you force close the app and then disable notifications for it that this error may go away; however, I'm not sure what other notifications we would consequently loose. Current corporate PRL is 55015 and I am running Viper 1.0.3 with stock kernel. I am wondering if this has to do with refreshing your PRL because I did not notice it until I requested it from Updates two days ago even though the actual PRL version number did not change.
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What about running a RUU
http://goo.im/devs/joeykrim/m7_wls/m7_wls_1.29.651.7_decrypted.zip
ITS NOT .10 but u could just update after. See if it works.
If ur rooted use this
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22979706399752930
Its .10
Try it
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Already ran RUU. No dice. Took it to a Sprint store and they replaced the SIM card. Still no dice. I'm starting to think it's the radio itself.
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Damn. We seriously dont have radio img's yet? I thought the RUU flashes the radio.
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i have the same problem. i went to sprint today and asked if they knew anything. with out missing a beat he says oh you just need to take your sim card out and wipe it off with alcohol really well. is he lying to me or is he being serious to me?

Rally187 said:
i have the same problem. i went to sprint today and asked if they knew anything. with out missing a beat he says oh you just need to take your sim card out and wipe it off with alcohol really well. is he lying to me or is he being serious to me?
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I doubt it will work but let us know if it works for you. A brand new SIM didn't work for me so I'm not too hopeful about it.
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tristandespain said:
I doubt it will work but let us know if it works for you. A brand new SIM didn't work for me so I'm not too hopeful about it.
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yea that sh!t didnt work at all. this seems really stupid to me that our phone is having this issue what could be causing this why would the sim card mess it up?

Ok so the consensus is, this seems really stupid too but its the only thing I can figure, the SIM is loose. If you eject your HTC One Micro Sim and place a small piece of scotch tape on the reverse side of the connector, this gives the card just enough volume, when reinserted to consistently maintain contact with the reader as the SIM tray is simply too big and is allowing the phone to believe there is actually no SIM card inserted when the connection is detected as broken. Suppose this also explains the inconsistencies in various user experiences since we all have different handling habits. Any one else want to wager to guess why this problem is so intermittent?
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my friend who works at bb hooked me up with another sim. im taking it to sprint tomorrow and see if they can do anything. my friend said he could swap for a new htc one as well. i would have to pay 30 bones though.

I am stuck!

Aright guys, maybe someone here can help me. hopefully
I bought a sprint htc one to use on my tmobile plan
it took me days to finally be able to sim unlock it using viperboys app while on BadBoyz rom
Now, I am still on Badboyz rom, but I can't get my phone to pickup any signal from tmobile, it stays connected to sprint!
I do not know which option to use when I enter the *#*#4636#*#* screen, I do not know what APN settings to use, what rom to use,
I am so lost, all I want is to be able to use My tmobile service. If anyone could give me some advice I would be so thankful!

Are you using a t-mobile SIM card?
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