I got this device as a second hand but thought it was network locked as I could only surf with 2g. Neither 3g nor 4g came up. While searching for a solution, I went to the activate device section and reset cellular data which unlocked the phone and now says simlock enabled. I need help on how to unlock it as I'm not resident in the US and it's locked to Sprint network. Found a thread on how to unlock m9 which was said to work for the 626s but could not download the txt files to complete the process
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I am trying to unlock the Sprint HTC one's sim card so it can be used with a international sim card. Sprint has sent me numerous emails detailing my phone has been unlocked on their end, and i do know for a fact that the config was pushed to the phone (had a friend at sprint check this for me) but the phone remains SIMLock Enabled.
My theory is, if i flash a GSM rom, and insert my international sim card, hopefully it would prompt me for the Sim Unlock code. Right now in a sprint rom, it simply states SIMLock enabled and does not give us any optino to enter an unlock code. I would assume that the unlock is stored in NV memory and would survive a reflash of a different rom.
So my question are:
1. can I even flash a GSM based rom from the HTC One Section?
2. Will I be able to get back to a sprint based rom afterwards?
3. Can I harm anything by attempting this?
Thanks in advance.
Sprint One is CDMA, you can't flash GSM rom.
You will brick your one...
Guich said:
Sprint One is CDMA, you can't flash GSM rom.
You will brick your one...
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What if i use a sprint script to make sure the partitions are correct? Im not particularly caring that the phone wont connect to a network, i jsut need the Sim Unlock box to pop up and unlock the phone
94tbird said:
What if i use a sprint script to make sure the partitions are correct? Im not particularly caring that the phone wont connect to a network, i jsut need the Sim Unlock box to pop up and unlock the phone
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Sorry, but what do you mean for Sim Unlock Box?
Are you talking about the pin or you have a SimLock branded phone?
If you have a simlock branded phone, i'm not sure that you can unlock this with an interntional rom.
However, i think no.
Kernel are different...
The Sprint One is a CDMA phone with LTE bands (this is what requires the sim card). The phone does NOT have the hardware to connect to a gsm/wcdma network. So, even if you could sim-unlock the phone, an international (or any other carrier's) sim will not allow the phone to connect to any other network/carrier.
The Sprint One will ONLY connect to the Sprint network.
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Electroz said:
The Sprint One is a CDMA phone with LTE bands (this is what requires the sim card). The phone does NOT have the hardware to connect to a gsm/wcdma network. So, even if you could sim-unlock the phone, an international (or any other carrier's) sim will not allow the phone to connect to any other network/carrier.
The Sprint One will ONLY connect to the Sprint network.
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actually it does have GSM radios inside and is a WORLD phone that can be used internationally. itjsut cant connect to the US based GSM networks.
Hello,
I recently acquired from ebay a used Sprint HTC One M7 for cheap because the guy couldn't unlock it.
I followed all the tutorials and guides here, and got the phone unlocked, TWRP recovery and SuperSU flashed, S-OFF, and a custom rom (Viper) flashed on it successfully.
I am from France and my network operator is Free.fr. I used both the *#*#4636#*#* and the Mobile settings to enable GSM and the phone, SMS, and 3G data are all working properly.
However, my operator allows for 4G LTE as well and I would like to use it if possible, while retaining the use of the Phone itself (making calls, texts etc).
The way it works for Free.fr is that I have to login on their website, and enable 4G manually. The server will then check if my phone has 4G LTE compatibility and enable it if it does, but everytime I try it tells me my phone is not 4G ready.
Is there anyway to do this? A guide or tutorial out there perhaps?
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It seems I need 2600 MHz frequency for 4G to work with my operator, could it be that the Sprint version cannot handle this? Any solutions?
m2smoe said:
Hello,
I recently acquired from ebay a used Sprint HTC One M7 for cheap because the guy couldn't unlock it.
I followed all the tutorials and guides here, and got the phone unlocked, TWRP recovery and SuperSU flashed, S-OFF, and a custom rom (Viper) flashed on it successfully.
I am from France and my network operator is Free.fr. I used both the *#*#4636#*#* and the Mobile settings to enable GSM and the phone, SMS, and 3G data are all working properly.
However, my operator allows for 4G LTE as well and I would like to use it if possible, while retaining the use of the Phone itself (making calls, texts etc).
The way it works for Free.fr is that I have to login on their website, and enable 4G manually. The server will then check if my phone has 4G LTE compatibility and enable it if it does, but everytime I try it tells me my phone is not 4G ready.
Is there anyway to do this? A guide or tutorial out there perhaps?
edit: more info:
It seems I need 2600 MHz frequency for 4G to work with my operator, could it be that the Sprint version cannot handle this? Any solutions?
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Yeah :/ the Sprint HTC One only supports the 1900MHz for LTE. There aren't any solutions afaik, unless you might want to do a hardware mod, and doing hardware mods on an One is near-impossible.. so you're out of luck.
StormyNight said:
Yeah :/ the Sprint HTC One only supports the 1900MHz for LTE. There aren't any solutions afaik, unless you might want to do a hardware mod, and doing hardware mods on an One is near-impossible.. so you're out of luck.
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Ah well, that's alright, at the price I got it for it's still worth it even without 4G. Thanks for the reply!
m2smoe said:
Ah well, that's alright, at the price I got it for it's still worth it even without 4G. Thanks for the reply!
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Hi, could you share your experience of sim unlock the device?
my phone is on 1.57 hboot. I s-off it and RUU to 1.19 firmware. Android 4.1.2. Then I install latest TWRP and Super SU 2.0
Then I download the "sprint htc one sim unlock helper" , select sim unlock.
phone reboot. select " GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto" in *#*#4636#*#*"
Now when I insert my AT&T sim card. it pop up to select carreir, I choose "AT&T", I also choose "GSMUMTS only" in network moode. Also set up ATT APN.
now iin Phone indentity, I could see my phone number,
But there is no signal for the phone at all...
Could you told me your way of doing the sim unlock? Thanks.
laofan said:
Hi, could you share your experience of sim unlock the device?
my phone is on 1.57 hboot. I s-off it and RUU to 1.19 firmware. Android 4.1.2. Then I install latest TWRP and Super SU 2.0
Then I download the "sprint htc one sim unlock helper" , select sim unlock.
phone reboot. select " GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto" in *#*#4636#*#*"
Now when I insert my AT&T sim card. it pop up to select carreir, I choose "AT&T", I also choose "GSMUMTS only" in network moode. Also set up ATT APN.
now iin Phone indentity, I could see my phone number,
But there is no signal for the phone at all...
Could you told me your way of doing the sim unlock? Thanks.
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I did exactly what you did and I had signal. I am from France so I don't know about AT&T though. With my French operator it works fine now.
m2smoe said:
I did exactly what you did and I had signal. I am from France so I don't know about AT&T though. With my French operator it works fine now.
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That is weired. thanks for your reply though.
Hello, I have the Sprint HTC Desire 510 version. Im from Israel, And I've managed to get S-OFF and unlock the device with the Sunshine APK.
I Insert a local GSM sim, the device dosent seem to read it. Plus, I didnt activate the Sprint activate method. Will flashing a new rom will help to use the GSM sim? or theres some other method I should do inorder to make it work..?
Edit: Already looked at some threads here with the search option, But everything seems to be so messy that I can barely find something (If an answer, at all)..
Thanks a lot for helpers.
MeTaL.SnAkE said:
Hello, I have the Sprint HTC Desire 510 version. Im from Israel, And I've managed to get S-OFF and unlock the device with the Sunshine APK.
I Insert a local GSM sim, the device dosent seem to read it. Plus, I didnt activate the Sprint activate method. Will flashing a new rom will help to use the GSM sim? or theres some other method I should do inorder to make it work..?
Edit: Already looked at some threads here with the search option, But everything seems to be so messy that I can barely find something (If an answer, at all)..
Thanks a lot for helpers.
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Ahh you again... I suppose you could try opening the phones dialing pad and type *#*#4636#*#* and then tap phone information and change where it says set preferred network type to GSM/WCDMA AUTO. Maybe that'll work.
Hi XDAs, am quite new to this forum but i need your help.
I bought my HTC M7 as used phone in Nigeria, everything seem perfect but I cant connect to any local radio. So I did a manual update to Lollipop 6.0 and HTC sense 6.0. After the update the phone
boots to Sprint and says "INVALID CARD". We don't have Sprint in Nigeria so am kind of stucked. I tried a few people i know that do unlock phone but they couldn't help.
My phone dont prompt for the unlock code, and *#60# don't display my IMEI, bbut in the setting the IMEI number starts with 99000. Please help!
darejohnson said:
Hi XDAs, am quite new to this forum but i need your help.
I bought my HTC M7 as used phone in Nigeria, everything seem perfect but I cant connect to any local radio. So I did a manual update to Lollipop 6.0 and HTC sense 6.0. After the update the phone
boots to Sprint and says "INVALID CARD". We don't have Sprint in Nigeria so am kind of stucked. I tried a few people i know that do unlock phone but they couldn't help.
My phone dont prompt for the unlock code, and *#60# don't display my IMEI, bbut in the setting the IMEI number starts with 99000. Please help!
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The sprint HTC One is a CDMA phone, not GSM. Thats why its easy to buy one for really cheap, no one wants them These phones can still work on GSM network for roaming purpose. It can be unlocked so you can use it on your local gsm provider but don't expect to get LTE, you'll probably get gsm/3g only.
If your phone is running lollipop: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-htc-one/general/sim-unlock-lollipop-t3068192
otherwise: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586704
So I purchased a unlock code and inserted a non sprint sim and when I reboot it doesnt ask me for a "Sim Unlock Code". It just says "SimLock Enabled, 4G LTE/GSM will not work as SimLock is enabled". How do I get to the page to enter my code?
Sprint devices aren't unlockable with unlock codes, you need to contact Sprint customer car and request it be unlocked OTA.
You can unlock the sprint version using unlock m9 method
I was a able to unlock my sprint 626s using the same unlock method for sprint m9. Search for the 'Getting SPC unlocking Sprint M9' thread and follow the process carefully. Only downside is I'm stuck on 2G and don't know how to enable 3G