*The phone is a Verizon model* forgot to add that.
Does anyone have any experience flashing a Motorola Droid 3 to Verizon's prepaid service? The phone was recently given to me by my sister's fiance and I fear if I activate the refurbished phone it will become the default phone on his plan and cancel out the phone he is currently using. Can anyone provide any tips or solutions before I sabotage his current phone plan?
Thank you very much, I can be contacted on skype @ Hydrochetta. I will respond immediately versus waiting an hour or two for a response. If skype is used for assistance I will post the conversation on this thread to further help anyone else who has come across this situation.
Also, I have tried Googling a solution to this but haven't found anything particular to my situation so please don't flame me for the fact I feel it is better to be safe than sorry and simply ask.
Cscrryan said:
*The phone is a Verizon model* forgot to add that.
Does anyone have any experience flashing a Motorola Droid 3 to Verizon's prepaid service? The phone was recently given to me by my sister's fiance and I fear if I activate the refurbished phone it will become the default phone on his plan and cancel out the phone he is currently using. Can anyone provide any tips or solutions before I sabotage his current phone plan?
Thank you very much, I can be contacted on skype @ Hydrochetta. I will respond immediately versus waiting an hour or two for a response. If skype is used for assistance I will post the conversation on this thread to further help anyone else who has come across this situation.
Also, I have tried Googling a solution to this but haven't found anything particular to my situation so please don't flame me for the fact I feel it is better to be safe than sorry and simply ask.
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If the phone is not already activated on his account, it's a clean phone and can be activated without affecting his account what-so-ever. The ONLY way activating the phone could mess with his plan would be if you called Verizon and had HIS number changed to the MEID of the D3, which would require knowing certain pins and information about the account. As long as the MEID/ESN is not already active and has not been reported stolen (i.e. it's a clean esn, being a refurb it should be). Then there should be ABSOLUTELY no issue activating it on Verizon Prepaid or any MVNO such as Page Plus, Straight Talk, etc.You can use an MEID/ESN checker to see if it's clean for activation, Like the one here at Swappa.com
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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.
Hi, I'm interested in switching my N6 to Verizon from T-Mobile. However I input my IMEI on the VZW website checker and apparently the phone (bought at TMO and allegedly unlocked) is incompatible.
I vaguely recall that to get a non VZW phone onto there network, one ahs to use a previously registered sim from another phone. Anyone know if and how this works?
Is there something that starts with 990?
My verizon nexus 6 order shipment email shows the imei start with 990
Theres a few threads that explain how to do this and more than one way. I did this for my dad. Basically, u need a verizon nano sim activated and jus pop it in.
ilanzo82 said:
Theres a few threads that explain how to do this and more than one way. I did this for my dad. Basically, u need a verizon nano sim activated and jus pop it in.
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As someone who has done this... it causes other problems because you have an "unknown device" they basically wont let me me changes to my plan because of it. For example enable advanced calling. After *****ing at them for an hour someone said there is a form we can fill out to register your device on our network so it doesn't show that way.... they said it takes 1-3 business days to process and i did it on Friday. If it actually works i will make a post on it. to inform the masses.
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As someone who has done this... it causes other problems because you have an "unknown device" they basically wont let me me changes to my plan because of it. For example enable advanced calling. After *****ing at them for an hour someone said there is a form we can fill out to register your device on our network so it doesn't show that way.... they said it takes 1-3 business days to process and i did it on Friday. If it actually works i will make a post on it. to inform the masses.
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First, thanks to the mod for moving this to the Q&A section! I will remember next time...
I actually decided that, if I can, I would like to move to Straight Talk with my Nexus 6. I ordered a $0.99 CDMA activation off their website (with free delivery, I felt this was a cost I could swallow if it doesn't work out!). The Nexus 6 IMEI doesn't get recognized as compatible on ST either which means, I suppose, that they can only activate Verizon-registered IMEIs.
Not sure how to proceed from here though. I have an iPhone 5S which is ex-Verizon (now T-Mobile) from which I could activate the ST service, after which I can put the SIM into the Nexus 6 to see if it works. There are no other options to the ST service I want, so changing service isn't an issue. Are there any other ways to approach this? Perhaps I should do what JustusIV is doing and register the phone with Verizon first?
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First, thanks to the mod for moving this to the Q&A section! I will remember next time...
I actually decided that, if I can, I would like to move to Straight Talk with my Nexus 6. I ordered a $0.99 CDMA activation off their website (with free delivery, I felt this was a cost I could swallow if it doesn't work out!). The Nexus 6 IMEI doesn't get recognized as compatible on ST either which means, I suppose, that they can only activate Verizon-registered IMEIs.
Not sure how to proceed from here though. I have an iPhone 5S which is ex-Verizon (now T-Mobile) from which I could activate the ST service, after which I can put the SIM into the Nexus 6 to see if it works. There are no other options to the ST service I want, so changing service isn't an issue. Are there any other ways to approach this? Perhaps I should do what JustusIV is doing and register the phone with Verizon first?
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Yeah, I think the easiest way for you would be to just activate your sim card in the iphone and then move the sim card to the Nexus.
I have verizon, and all I had to do was cut my microsim from my previous device down to nano size and put it in the Nexus. The only issue is, like they said above, MyVerizon registers it as a "Non-VZW Device" which can cause issues with making account changes. I'm interested to hear the results of the guy above that says he can fill out a form so it doesn't show up that way.
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As someone who has done this... it causes other problems because you have an "unknown device" they basically wont let me me changes to my plan because of it. For example enable advanced calling. After *****ing at them for an hour someone said there is a form we can fill out to register your device on our network so it doesn't show that way.... they said it takes 1-3 business days to process and i did it on Friday. If it actually works i will make a post on it. to inform the masses.
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This was a bust.... more miss information from the crap customer service.
Went through the same thing. Unless your imei starts with 99 it won't be recognized from vzw. However, all the features do work as advertised. I had no problem adding advanced calling 1.0 and changing voicemail options on my account. I bought the phone through a relative that was on t-mo in december. Been on vzw since.
I found a fair deal from Craigslist for a Nexus 6. Can anyone tell me what to look for so that I dont get scammed? It was purchased from Motorola so I can activate on any carrier correct? (im verizon user). Is there a way to check if cell is blocked? (i.e. bad IMEI or stolen)
I have him holding on to it till tomorrow morning so if anyone can reply with some insight.
Thx
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I found a fair deal from Craigslist for a Nexus 6. Can anyone tell me what to look for so that I dont get scammed? It was purchased from Motorola so I can activate on any carrier correct? (im verizon user). Is there a way to check if cell is blocked? (i.e. bad IMEI or stolen)
I have him holding on to it till tomorrow morning so if anyone can reply with some insight.
Thx
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Best way to do it is to have them meet you at your carrier store (Verizon in your case) and make sure it fully activates on your account, then and only them do you pay, that's what I do for any and all phone purchases. And yes, if it was purchase from Motorola or Google it's good for any carrier worldwide. But always just double check as to why they're selling because think about it, unlocked these phones are 6-700 bucks, and if someone is selling for a fraction of that I'd raise some eyebrows, but that's just me
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Verizon may not activate it. Most people with play store or Motorola nexus 6's need to use an already activated Verizon nanosim. Not sure if this has changed since they started selling it, buy my phone from Motorola is still not recognized by Verizon.
Benjamin1966 said:
I found a fair deal from Craigslist for a Nexus 6. Can anyone tell me what to look for so that I dont get scammed? It was purchased from Motorola so I can activate on any carrier correct? (im verizon user). Is there a way to check if cell is blocked? (i.e. bad IMEI or stolen)
I have him holding on to it till tomorrow morning so if anyone can reply with some insight.
Thx
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The ONLY safe way to purchase a phone from a 3rd party, is to obtain the ORIGINAL PURCHASE RECEIPT, or documentation from the original vendor for it.
Basically, the problem is that a stolen device can work fine initially, but then *become reported stolen* and stop working later on. Like for a car, you need evidence of ownership so that you can hold someone accountable for it if it does become blacklisted.
Frankly, the effort is more than its worth. Just pay the price and buy a new one from google.
Take a picture of ID and or plate #....
There is absolute no way on this planet that I would allow some random Joe take a picture of my ID.
Everyone should refuse, no questions asked.
Get an original receipt or take your chances.
Make sure it's completely wiped and that you're able to assign your google account on it.
Benjamin1966 said:
I found a fair deal from Craigslist for a Nexus 6. Can anyone tell me what to look for so that I dont get scammed? It was purchased from Motorola so I can activate on any carrier correct? (im verizon user). Is there a way to check if cell is blocked? (i.e. bad IMEI or stolen)
I have him holding on to it till tomorrow morning so if anyone can reply with some insight.
Thx
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You can check the IMEI here:
www.swappa.com/esn
You also need to find out if the phone was financed from Motorola. I would ask for a copy of the invoice - he can log on and print it out. If the seller balks at that or otherwise does not want give you his name/address, I would not purchase the phone from him. I would also ask for photo ID so that I could verify he was the buyer of the phone from Motorola and is entitled to sell it. Again, if he balks at that, he isn't legit.
There is no legitimate reason for anyone to want to be an anonymous seller when you are purchasing a phone that they could report as lost or stolen and get the IMEI blacklisted.
Also, you will need an already activated nano SIM to get the phone active on your Verizon line. There are several threads on this.
I recently tried activating a Nexus 6 from AT&T to one of my existing Sprint lines. After Sim card switches, BYOD to SIMGLW446C and lots of support from a knowledgeable in-store tech it was determined that my phone was confirmed "activated" but it would not connect to the network.
The tech discovered the phone did not have a MIN nor did it list my phone number in the phone settings. They could not determine where the error was stemming from but told me the IMEI and ICCID were accurate and we confirmed the phone unlocked through ATT. (Unlocked two days prior to latest attempt at activating)
Nobody seems to know what is keeping this phone from functioning properly. Any input is greatly appreciated as I would love to have it in service. I have it listed for sale as AT&T but am starting to feel skeptical if there is just something wrong with it and shouldn't be selling it off for someone else to be disappointed.
Thanks for reading
Sam
Pyrofreek9 said:
I recently tried activating a Nexus 6 from AT&T to one of my existing Sprint lines. After Sim card switches, BYOD to SIMGLW446C and lots of support from a knowledgeable in-store tech it was determined that my phone was confirmed "activated" but it would not connect to the network.
The tech discovered the phone did not have a MIN nor did it list my phone number in the phone settings. They could not determine where the error was stemming from but told me the IMEI and ICCID were accurate and we confirmed the phone unlocked through ATT. (Unlocked two days prior to latest attempt at activating)
Nobody seems to know what is keeping this phone from functioning properly. Any input is greatly appreciated as I would love to have it in service. I have it listed for sale as AT&T but am starting to feel skeptical if there is just something wrong with it and shouldn't be selling it off for someone else to be disappointed.
Thanks for reading
Sam
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Ok... I'm sure you made sure the IMEI that is printed somewhere... is not blacklisted...
Go grab the factory images and flash the newest radio from it using fastboot... See if that works...
If not... Flash the whole thing... Image at a time and see if that fixes it...
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There is this:
Thanks for the input. I flashed a new factory image and it authenticated to Sprint's network just fine. It still wouldn't let me switch and activate online but no other issues aside from that.
I bought an SM-N960U used off of letgo about a month ago now and I have been trying to get it to work for me but I am still having a few issues.
The guy I bought it from, who himself bought it used, was using it on T-Mobile and I am able to make and receive calls okay and get internet okay with Verizon. The phone was originally a Sprint phone. It continuously gave me "Activation was Unsuccessful" fullscreen messages repeatedly until I used adb to disable com.sec.omadmspr and com.sprint.ms.smf.services.
When swapping SIMS from different carriers the phone DOES NOT ask for an UNLOCK code.
When I first got the phone I tried to call Sprint and ask if the phone was Carrier locked thinking that if there was a small amount owed or something perhaps I could pay it and UN-Carrier Lock the phone... Well, that didn't go well. Since I wasn't on the account and couldn't provide the name or phone number of the old owner they wouldn't tell me if there was OR wasn't a carrier lock on the phone. Eventually I got them to take the IMEI but they still told me nothing.
So, I've been using the phone daily for about a month now, but because of it's problems (the app that won't run) I still have to carry my old phone as well. This phone is always on Roam. One time when trying to fix it I dialed the *228 PRL update number. That was a mistake. It broke my internet to the point where NO ONE was able to fix it. I went to a Verizon stone. No help. I called customer service. No help. They transferred me to Tech Support.... finally they had me swap in one of my older SIM cards and they programmed that one to work.
TLDR; The phone works with VZW voice and data, but is always on roaming, some apps refuse to work properly, under UICC Unlock the phone says it is locked to Sprint Sims and sometimes the data connection drops and it says it doesn't work because of "Data Roaming" being disabled.
What version of locked is my phone? Is it safe to start flashing it?
ref: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...h-firmware-t3958791/post80093967#post80093967
you probably has nothing to do with your problem but it may be of some help if you contact the guy mentioned in this thread for the LG V20, it's a guy that works for sprint and you can contact him on the Sprint Users forums ..
He may be able to help you with the sim unlocking of your phone, there's nothing to lose I think!
give it a shot ... look at this thread and then register for an account on the Sprint Forums and look for the guy..
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/lg-v20-ls997-successfully-unlocked-oreo-t3835061
You need to contact the person who sold you the device and ask them for assistance. As they may need to contact Sprint to activate the device and unlock it for you.
kbrn said:
you probably has nothing to do with your problem but it may be of some help if you contact the guy mentioned in this thread for the LG V20, it's a guy that works for sprint and you can contact him on the Sprint Users forums ..
He may be able to help you with the sim unlocking of your phone, there's nothing to lose I think!
give it a shot ... look at this thread and then register for an account on the Sprint Forums and look for the guy..
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/lg-v20-ls997-successfully-unlocked-oreo-t3835061
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Hey thanks! I looked at this link and think maybe this guy can help. I sent him a message!
Hoping for the best!
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You need to contact the person who sold you the device and ask them for assistance. As they may need to contact Sprint to activate the device and unlock it for you.
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Thanks, but the guy I bought it from bought it used, so he wont have any Sprint account info, so then I'd have to try to track down the person he bought it from... and on and on and I dont know how long or fruitful the search would be... and again... I'm on the phone right now, on Verizon with a Verizon SIM. I dont think its carrier locked... but then I dont know what's going on.
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Thanks, but the guy I bought it from bought it used, so he wont have any Sprint account info, so then I'd have to try to track down the person he bought it from... and on and on and I dont know how long or fruitful the search would be... and again... I'm on the phone right now, on Verizon with a Verizon SIM. I dont think its carrier locked... but then I dont know what's going on.
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They don't want to make it easy for people to re-purpose stolen phones. There are things a legitimate owner can do in order to make a phone ready for re-sale, and it sounds like these things didn't happen for the phone you bought. It all sounds a bit fishy, doesn't it?
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They don't want to make it easy for people to re-purpose stolen phones. There are things a legitimate owner can do in order to make a phone ready for re-sale, and it sounds like these things didn't happen for the phone you bought. It all sounds a bit fishy, doesn't it?
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Thanks, but if I thought "it sounds a bit fishy" I probably wouldn't have bought the used phone in the first place... and I certainly wouldn't have called Sprint and given them the IMEI and asked them; the people that could render my phone a useless brick, with one tiny bit of information, for help. Each smart phone I've bought in the last few years has been used because frankly to me it seems to be the best way to buy them financially. $1000 the day they come out or $200 - $300 6 - 12 months later used.
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Thanks, but if I thought "it sounds a bit fishy" I probably wouldn't have bought the used phone in the first place... and I certainly wouldn't have called Sprint and given them the IMEI and asked them; the people that could render my phone a useless brick, with one tiny bit of information, for help. Each smart phone I've bought in the last few years has been used because frankly to me it seems to be the best way to buy them financially. $1000 the day they come out or $200 - $300 6 - 12 months later used.
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Point is, when someone is about to buy a used phone from a stranger, make sure it is factory reset and then immediately call the carrier and confirm the IMEI is clean and that it has been carrier unlocked, else, don't buy it. Obviously it's not advice for you, since you already did it the wrong way. This is a good lesson for posterity.