I just bought a unlocked Sprint note 8 to use on at&t. Got a decent deal. Three days later it's coming up as blacklisted and the number for the guy is now out if service. Am I screwed or will I still be able to use it? Im currently using it with no problems
blane3298 said:
I just bought a unlocked Sprint note 8 to use on at&t. Got a decent deal. Three days later it's coming up as blacklisted and the number for the guy is now out if service. Am I screwed or will I still be able to use it? Im currently using it with no problems
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You sure its unlocked?
Nick216ohio said:
You sure its unlocked?
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Yes. It's a Sprint variant unlocked and I flashed the unlocked firmware on it
You got screwed. He double Dipped and also claimed on his insurance. Greedy scum doosh.
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You got screwed. He double Dipped and also claimed on his insurance.
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anything i can do with it? Its still working right now. Should i be prepared for it to stop working here shortly?
blane3298 said:
anything i can do with it?
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Sell it as USA blacklisted for overseas. So long as it's sim unlocked.
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Limeybastard said:
Sell it as USA blacklisted for overseas. So long as it's sim unlocked.
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its sim unlocked. its still working on at&t right now
blane3298 said:
anything i can do with it? Its still working right now. Should i be prepared for it to stop working here shortly?
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Was seller online or meet in person?
Nick216ohio said:
Was seller online or meet in person?
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in person
blane3298 said:
in person
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I can't promote violence on xda. But if that happened to me and ran into guy again. Hope he has aspirin for the next day. I take it you meet him through craigslist or something?
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I can't promote violence on xda. But if that happened to me and ran into guy again. Hope he has aspirin for the next day. I take it you meet him through craigslist or something?
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yeah it was a craigslist ad
blane3298 said:
its sim unlocked. its still working on at&t right now
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eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
That way each mutal party will get a phone that will work on their corresponding country.
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eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
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might have to do that!
blane3298 said:
might have to do that!
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Try the swap option first if poss. You get a black liwt listed euro phone and they get black listed USA phone. All happy
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Try the swap option first if poss. You get a black liwt listed euro phone and they get black listed USA phone. All happy
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wheres the best place to do that?
Limeybastard said:
eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
That way each mutal party will get a phone that will work on their corresponding country.
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Good ideal but I wonder which site he would use to try and swap? And not get scamed? OP we seen another guy in another thread. Got scam with fake Note 8. Craigslist is full of douche bags who try stuff like this. Delete your craigslist app and never use again.
Use Offerup, Ebay, LetGo, FB ads, Amazon, etc. I will never use craigslist.
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wheres the best place to do that?
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That's a good question , I don't think there is anything to facilitate that. Shame as I've seen a few USA and UK blacklisted issues on this forum to date. Would have been nice if a swap took place to eliviate issues on both parties.
Perhaps a new market has now been envisaged .
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Yeah no more Craigslist lol
blane3298 said:
Yeah no more Craigslist lol
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Yeah never ever deal with craigslist again. If you use another site pay attention to there feedback and details. If you buy anything that's expensive research the crap out of it. If you use other sites we suggested and lets say buy another phone. Have them meet you at your cell carrier. They will be able to tell you if it's stolen, locked, fake, etc.
Seller refuses then don't deal with them. Sites I have to deal with in person. If they don't have atleast 50+ reviews with 5 stars. I won't even bother dealing with them.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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I have a thread about this in the Q and A section. Same deal here. Maybe after a few days they will. I got mine from best buy.
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Best buy will price match att.
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Best buy will price match att.
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Naw they won't I went there before even going to the At&t store because I wanted to get the geek squad insurance.
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Best buy will price match att.
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They will price match it but ATT isn't offering the phone off contract right now so they won't price match it until then
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Best Buys in my area we're always jerks and wouldn't match carrier retail pricing. They would for contracts though.
It seems like it's dependent on store management on whether they will price match carrier full price.
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Well I was able to get Bestbuy to price match Amazon's 699 price which I am happy enough with. But its just irritating that stores make up there own policies. Some one won't price match at all, some are saying they cant sell unless its on a contract, and one said okay and gave me the $50 off.
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Being a corporate retail chain aren't they supposed to follow the corporate policies that Best Buy has in place, its not like they are a franchise and can do as they please. They are supposed to follow the rules, but then again thats why I buy from Amazon.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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LOL You can't get a phone and I received accidently 2 additional phones. It appears that when I cancelled and re-ordered, I got charged all three orders but with one upgrade. AT&T is such a joke. At least I can wait for a root and if it bricks have two other to try it again.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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buy it here cheaper than AT&T.
http://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-s-5-att/us
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Best buy will price match att.
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I got Best Buy to price match and regretted it; maybe buying outright is ok but whatever you do keep them away from your plan/contract. I don't trust them at all at this point for anything.
They screwed us up badly at our last upgrade (a simple 2 phones - 1 plan) and we spent at least 2 hours/week for 3 months getting it sorted out. The AT&T rep it eventually escalated to was mystified as to how the Best Buy employee had altered so many points of our plan without noticing it could not work for us, even offering an upgrade on a line that I thought wasn't eligible for 2 more months. We stopped in for just my upgrade so we should have recognized that something was wrong when that happened but I had lost track of how far apart our upgrades were and she was reading it off our account screen (or so it seemed).
Our bills for that 3 month period totalled almost $2000 as Best Buy had left it. Somehow we were billed full price for the ineligible device as well. It took a while but AT&T wiped it all away and even gave us a bill credit for the hassle. The AT&T rep joked that we had to promise to avoid Best Buy for our next upgrade in exchange for the credit. Apparently this is not an isolated problem.
On the plus side it realigned the upgrade dates for our lines when AT&T restarted our original plan so I got this S5 and she got a M8 on Sunday.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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Hmmm... I'll sell mine.
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Hmmm... I'll sell mine.
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Lol. Sorry already bought one.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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I went to two different stores in California and it was not a problem.
Maybe you need to buy the GoPhone card first?
NOW, I need to unlock and root.
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I went to two different stores in California and it was not a problem.
Maybe you need to buy the GoPhone card first?
NOW, I need to unlock and root.
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In what part of California was it?
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In what part of California was it?
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SoCal - Los Angeles, Torrance to be exact. But I ended up purchasing from AT&T in Manhattan Beach. But both AT&T stores would sell me with a GoPhone plan for the full price of $649.
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At&t won't sell me a Galaxy S5 with out a contract plan. Currently I'm on At&t Gophone and tried to purchase a phone yesterday and they said completely not. The only retailer that would was Bestbuy but of course there phone is $100 more. I'm thinking about going to T-Mobile prepaid since they said they would no problem. Uh decisions, decisions. Has anyone else had this problem with At&t.
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I think all depends on manager of store. I went to at&t store close to my house and pay full price for S5 they did not even ask me if i have at&t account. Payed cash, get phone and left store..
Is there an app or xposed mod that'll allow me to bypass my device being blacklisted? I have the tmobile varient but currently using metro pcs service.
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I'm not the most versed person and I'm sure others will agree, it wouldn't be possible. I mean if it is let me. Know because my Note is my play phone, and I just the tether from my daily driver. It has to do with the FCC and the esn etc
It is very possible, install Xposed and look (search) for ESN or imei changer.
Believe it or not, it's in the Play store for free.
Disclaimer: I do not condone, imply, nor suggest ANY illegal activity, such as to illegally change an imei to subvert blacklisting, or for any reason, since such activity is illegal.
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rambo8987 said:
Is there an app or xposed mod that'll allow me to bypass my device being blacklisted? I have the tmobile varient but currently using metro pcs service.
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Why not do it the right way and just pay for an imei cleaning service. T-mobile devices cost like 20 bucks.
MobileUnlockBase said:
Why not do it the right way and just pay for an imei cleaning service. T-mobile devices cost like 20 bucks.
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I never heard of that....where do i get it?
rambo8987 said:
I never heard of that....where do i get it?
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By blacklist you mean the phone is blocked by the Carrier because it is reported lost/stolen right?
you can visit my website at mobileunlockbase.com or just check on ebay for T-mobile imei cleaning
MobileUnlockBase said:
By blacklist you mean the phone is blocked by the Carrier because it is reported lost/stolen right?
you can visit my website at mobileunlockbase.com or just check on ebay for T-mobile imei cleaning
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Omg dude youre a god send. Can it be down now? Or is thete a wait
rambo8987 said:
Omg dude youre a god send. Can it be down now? Or is thete a wait
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It's not instant, process will take 1-3 business days.
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It's not instant, process will take 1-3 business days.
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Pm me plz
I paid $85 for the same thing on an S4 and got ripped off. I had no recourse since changing the imei is illegal. The attorney compared it to a drug dealer trying to sue an individual for stealing his stash of Coke LOL
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I paid $85 for the same thing on an S4 and got ripped off. I had no recourse since changing the imei is illegal. The attorney compared it to a drug dealer trying to sue an individual for stealing his stash of Coke LOL
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You should have been wiser in picking your seller. Also, the imei is not being changed that is why it is called "IMEI Cleaning".. Official service.
Hi. Just wondering if anyone knows of a fix. Traded my v20 for this op3t and I'm more than happy so far, but all I'm getting is hspa+ for data. Called att and they said they needed to make a case to get LTE enabled.
Anything I can do to enable it myself?
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Hi. Just wondering if anyone knows of a fix. Traded my v20 for this op3t and I'm more than happy so far, but all I'm getting is hspa+ for data. Called att and they said they needed to make a case to get LTE enabled.
Anything I can do to enable it myself?
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Hey I have LTE on my op3t, that's weird maybe some network settings
Its an att issue with unlocked non att phones. If you tell them its an official att phone from your past LTE will work fine. As long as you have the correct US version and not the international or Chinese version.
My LTE on H2O(att) is amazingly fast. But they have no idea what phone im using because they never ask
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Its an att issue with unlocked non att phones. If you tell them its an official att phone from your past LTE will work fine. As long as you have the correct US version and not the international or Chinese version.
My LTE on H2O(att) is amazingly fast. But they have no idea what phone im using because they never ask
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So how do I know if it's the correct us version?
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So how do I know if it's the correct us version?
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Hopefully you got it new from OnePlus and not from amazon or ebay or swappa. The LTE issue is probably just a nice benefit att offers its customers to keep you buying phones with att logos on them. Just tell them you went back to your old att phone and LTE will probably start working perfectly again.
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Hopefully you got it new from OnePlus and not from amazon or ebay or swappa. The LTE issue is probably just a nice benefit att offers its customers to keep you buying phones with att logos on them. Just tell them you went back to your old att phone and LTE will probably start working perfectly again.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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Just go for the OnePlus Store , you wont have any problems! i have got mine 2 weeks ago.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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You got it from these guys didn't you?
TheWirelessCircle
954wrecker said:
You got it from these guys didn't you?
TheWirelessCircle
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No it was an individual. Won't put his name here. He claimed that he had LTE working just fine on at&t.
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No it was an individual. Won't put his name here. He claimed that he had LTE working just fine on at&t.
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Oh ok I hope everything gets resolved quickly for you
I think i got scammed on Swappa also. Mate 9 on Saturday buyer in the same state. Tracking shows only a shipping label was created monday morning. Seller and swappa are not responding I guess I have to contact my credit card company. What a lousy company with lousy sellers Swappa is
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I think i got scammed on Swappa also. Mate 9 on Saturday buyer in the same state. Tracking shows only a shipping label was created monday morning. Seller and swappa are not responding I guess I have to contact my credit card company. What a lousy company with lousy sellers Swappa is
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That doesn't sound right. Swappa normally is very responsive when it comes to issues.
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daniel4653 said:
That doesn't sound right. Swappa normally is very responsive when it comes to issues.
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I get the feeling they have no way to help me besides instructions for me to go start a dispute regarding the transactions. I'd rather they just refunded me instead of making me waste more time.
Got my OP3T yesterday
Went and got a new sim from ATT
Needed to be turned on and off, but LTE popped right on
I'm on totally vanilla 7.0.0 nug I believe, def vanilla whatever it is
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I get the feeling they have no way to help me besides instructions for me to go start a dispute regarding the transactions. I'd rather they just refunded me instead of making me waste more time.
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My gut was right. The guy was a scam and swappa was extremely unhelpful. Took them forever to shut the guy down no matter how much evidence they had he was a scammer! Anyone know anyone who wants to do a story about how shady swappa is? I have so many screenshots and messages and saved web pages before they erased my messages. First and last time using swappa for sure
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My gut was right. The guy was a scam and swappa was extremely unhelpful. Took them forever to shut the guy down no matter how much evidence they had he was a scammer! Anyone know anyone who wants to do a story about how shady swappa is? I have so many screenshots and messages and saved web pages before they erased my messages. First and last time using swappa for sure
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That's terrible. Sorry to hear it. My issue is resolved. Swappa was super fast to refund my $15 fee, and PayPal was quick to refund me. Ordered my 128 gb op3t from oneplus website last night. Should be here Thursday. Thought about holding out for the oneplus 5, but I didn't want to wait.
I also noticed that they just made separate listings for the different op3t models. Hopefully nobody else has to go through what I did.
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I have to buy a new phone and out of the phones I was looking at (Xiaomi Mi 9, One plus 7, V40) the V40 seem like a good device with good support inside the U.S.
I am trying to buy a sim free phone as when I was in Japan I had an issue with my phone being locked. I noticed there are alot of really cheap unlocked Sprint V40s on Ebay.
I was wondering if it was a good idea to buy one of these phones and pay someone to flash the U.S unlocked rom onto it. Also wanted to know if doing so would allow the phone to use the bands and frequencies of the U.S unlocked version. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
I did it and it's been perfect since
I purchased my Sprint Unlocked V40 on eBay too. I paid Vlad to unlock bootloader and put Android Pie on the phone. I haven't regretted it at all. I can't say for certain it has all the bands as the factory unlocked model, but it does use all the bands I need for ATT. 2, 4, 12, and 17.
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Well I'm in contract with Sprint and i must say when i go to mexico I'm covered i just hope i will be covered when i go to Japan i would hate to be charged up the ass in roaming fees
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Well I'm in contract with Sprint and i must say when i go to mexico I'm covered i just hope i will be covered when i go to Japan i would hate to be charged up the ass in roaming fees
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Why not buy a cheap Unlocked v40 for the trip, resell it after you come back?
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Why not buy a cheap Unlocked v40 for the trip, resell it after you come back?
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Because I'm currently saving for the trip to Japan...
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Because I'm currently saving for the trip to Japan...
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Okay good to know. But there are options and you don't have to be a d*** about it. If you have the ability you could buy one on a credit card to get it right before your trip, use it, come back. Sell it, then use that $ to pay off your card.
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Okay good to know. But there are options and you don't have to be a d*** about it. If you have the ability you could buy one on a credit card to get it right before your trip, use it, come back. Sell it, then use that $ to pay off your card.
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Wait i'm confused who's being a ****? cause i'm certainly not being one .-.
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Wait i'm confused who's being a ****? cause i'm certainly not being one .-.
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I was confused too. I didn't think you were being a **** either
In person specifically, eg walmart, best buy, target
edit: I know I can order it online I am hella impatient
I think the ones at Best Buy are carrier unlocked.
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In person specifically, eg walmart, best buy, target
edit: I know I can order it online I am hella impatient
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Bestbuy if you choose the unlocked version, but will miss out on the $400 carrier discount for Black Friday.
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I'm not worried about that I'm returning my T-Mobile phone because even after fully paying it off they're not making it easy to carrier unlock it
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I'm not worried about that I'm returning my T-Mobile phone because even after fully paying it off they're not making it easy to carrier unlock it
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yeah no, their policy is around 40 days usage on their network, as I'm sure you've heard by now. They might give a temporary unlock sooner if you make a fuss about traveling internationally.
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yeah no, their policy is around 40 days usage on their network, as I'm sure you've heard by now. They might give a temporary unlock sooner if you make a fuss about traveling internationally.
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I'm approved for device unlock but the app doesn't seem to register that.. Oh well, I'm going back to visible anyway, 40$/mo for unlimited everything is perf
Bestbuy is your best bet, just make sure you request an unlocked device.
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Bestbuy is your best bet, just make sure you request an unlocked device.
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haha yep, that's what I did.