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How hard is it to unlock a phone?
#21945897 - 07/15/15 05:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm getting a massive headache trying to read through all of the scams and assorted other bullshit that google is giving me when I try to search "how to unlock phone". Can someone please help me figure this out? I'm pretty tech savvy but haven't really messed with phones too much, just used to build computers and took programming in college.
I use Cricket Wireless, which is a GSM carrier that uses SIM cards. They say you can bring your own phone as long as it's unlocked. I currently have an adequate, yet boring ZTE Overture which works fine but it's not super fast and the screen is kind of small (4 inch) so I'm looking to upgrade to a Samsung Galaxy S4 or S5 but I don't want to pay Cricket full price ($250 for S4 and $490 for S5) so I have been looking online and found some used ones that look good and are priced fairly but I don't know if they will work or if they're unlocked, etc.
On Craigslist I found a seller that has a T-Mobile Galaxy S5 for $200 . They said it also has 3 weeks left of prepaid on it so I'm assuming that there has to be some kind of catch here, like it's got a bad IMEI or something. Assuming the IMEI is good though (no idea how to check it); how would I go about unlocking it so I can use it on Cricket?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21945899 - 07/15/15 05:29 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Does it have a bad ESN?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
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Psychonautica said: Does it have a bad ESN?
No idea, I'm just trying to figure this stuff out before I go to meet someone from craigslist. How would I check?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21945921 - 07/15/15 05:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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https://swappa.com/esn
Basically if the phone was lost, stolen, or unpaid for, (you don't actually own your cellphone, you lease it like a car, and after 2 years you've paid it off) If you don't pay it off, they block the ESN, which is a grey area of legality to fix.
There's also things like bad IMEI codes, and other things, but it's kinda hard to explain over typing if you cant already learn from youtube videos and the internet.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21945934 - 07/15/15 05:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Psychonautica said: https://swappa.com/esn
Basically if the phone was lost, stolen, or unpaid for, (you don't actually own your cellphone, you lease it like a car, and after 2 years you've paid it off) If you don't pay it off, they block the ESN, which is a grey area of legality to fix.
There's also things like bad IMEI codes, and other things, but it's kinda hard to explain over typing if you cant already learn from youtube videos and the internet.
I think I have a basic grasp of that stuff, that each phone has unique codes that the carrier can block if it's stolen. So basically when I go to look at the phone I can just enter the codes into the website and see if it's stolen or whatnot right? Assuming that part is all good, now how do I unlock it from T-Mobile once I get home?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart] 2
#21945941 - 07/15/15 05:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'll answer when I'm off work, I gotta head in to the office right now, sorry bud.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
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Psychonautica said: I'll answer when I'm off work, I gotta head in to the office right now, sorry bud.
Thanks man, I appreciate it. I am still reading as much as I can find but there is so much to go through and a lot of it looks like a scam (pay us to unlock your phone!) or they just say to call the carrier and ask them to unlock it but I don't think that will work since I'm not their customer.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21945974 - 07/15/15 06:13 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually you'd be surprised dude. Calling a carrier to unlock the phone works more often then you would think. It the phone is all paid for and has a clean esn they'll most likely unlock it for you. Check out the xda developers forum.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21946020 - 07/15/15 06:36 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Usually not possible unless there's a hardwire/hardcoded factory reset in the system. I've cracked a few phones but others it didn't work (or yer doin it wrong xD)
www.dashhacks.com might help you.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21946070 - 07/15/15 06:59 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Psychonautica said: Actually you'd be surprised dude. Calling a carrier to unlock the phone works more often then you would think. It the phone is all paid for and has a clean esn they'll most likely unlock it for you. Check out the xda developers forum.
I think that's the catch right there though. I've been reading accounts of people that buy a phone from someone on craigslist, everything is good to go and then the next day or week or month it's reported as stolen or the seller stopped paying the bill so it got locked. I think I'm going to skip over craigslist because if it's too good to be true ($200 Galaxy S5) then it probably is.
Right now I'm checking ebay to see what I can find for cheap so I can play around with it and if it doesn't work I won't be upset. I'd just hate to hand over $200 to some craigslist scammer for a phone they probably stole or didn't pay off. I already messaged one guy about a phone and asked a few questions and he literally told me to "go fuck myself", so he probably stole it or something. It pissed me off for a second but I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of a reply, he's most definitely got a shittier life than me anyways so why bother.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21946081 - 07/15/15 07:03 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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it takes 2-5 minutes with a Nokia phone or such online, but works on any phone usually free, but some charge up to $10 for it You just enter the IMEI which you need from inside phone under the battery, you also need to know your carrier, or guess it from between 10-15 carriers
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946095 - 07/15/15 07:08 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just unlocked a nokia 3310 and 3510i , very nice phones :-)
Took a few tries as I didnt know the carrier... but they dont forcelock if you fail entering unlock code, unlike simcodes
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946104 - 07/15/15 07:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Exchanged my Galaxy S3 for Nokia 3310, the nokia 3310 costs $8 today, the S3 costs like $600
the 3310 is better in every way, each day I find new benefits , and 1 week battery lifetime
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946123 - 07/15/15 07:16 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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lessismore said: Just unlocked a nokia 3310 and 3510i , very nice phones :-)
Took a few tries as I didnt know the carrier... but they dont forcelock if you fail entering unlock code, unlike simcodes
Did I just get trolled? Hmmm I guess I should have clarified that I want a better smartphone, not an oldschool nokia... I'm not a drug dealer looking for a burner phone lol.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21946320 - 07/15/15 08:29 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would never buy a samsung, and not sure I would buy an android phone if I were to buy a smartphone again, too many problems
Slow dialer, slow apps, even on an S3, and the battery drains in 5-6 hours to 16 hours max with normal use - or 1-1.5 days with standby most of time
Android is really terrible for phone stuff, and its apps are even more terrible, ads everywhere and slowness everywhere
Sure it works, in nice ways sometimes, but it's just slow and drains battery like hell
Samsung is the worst 'phone' I have had in my life, drops calls daily in the start, then they firmware fixed it so it didn't, people still complained daily they couldn't hear me Maybe just a Galaxy S3 issue?
S2 has these problems too iirc, or some similar issues, cant quite remember...
Rather a Nexus, or any other brand than Samsung , the signal quality is very very poor, 0% signal often inside buildings/cars
My friend with a HTC desire got 80-90% signal inside a concrete building, where I got 0% signal, not even GPRS . So my GPS stops functioning inside cities, inside buildings, inside cars often, especially when I needed it, just useless as a phone. Everyone of my coworkers says the same, don't buy a samsung. Cheap plastic phones (and expensive plastic too).
Iphones got the same issues... you cannot hold the phone then it drops signal to 10% from 100%
Because all smartphones have 'antenna' in bottom of phone
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946335 - 07/15/15 08:33 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you want to hold a smartphone in your hand, you need a cover put on it, else your hand disturbs the signal, as the antenna is in the bottom
So signal drops from 100% to 5-10%
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore] 1
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lessismore said: I would never buy a samsung, and not sure I would buy an android phone if I were to buy a smartphone again, too many problems
Slow dialer, slow apps, even on an S3, and the battery drains in 5-6 hours to 16 hours max with normal use - or 1-1.5 days with standby most of time
Android is really terrible for phone stuff, and its apps are even more terrible, ads everywhere and slowness everywhere
Sure it works, in nice ways sometimes, but it's just slow and drains battery like hell
Samsung is the worst 'phone' I have had in my life, drops calls daily in the start, then they firmware fixed it so it didn't, people still complained daily they couldn't hear me Maybe just a Galaxy S3 issue?
S2 has these problems too iirc, or some similar issues, cant quite remember...
Rather a Nexus, or any other brand than Samsung , the signal quality is very very poor, 0% signal often inside buildings/cars
My friend with a HTC desire got 80-90% signal inside a concrete building, where I got 0% signal, not even GPRS . So my GPS stops functioning inside cities, inside buildings, inside cars often, especially when I needed it, just useless as a phone. Everyone of my coworkers says the same, don't buy a samsung. Cheap plastic phones (and expensive plastic too).
Iphones got the same issues... you cannot hold the phone then it drops signal to 10% from 100%
Because all smartphones have 'antenna' in bottom of phone
dude you have a fuckin s3 and you're bitching? That phone is practically a fossil. You know the s6 is out now right?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore] 1
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lessismore said: If you want to hold a smartphone in your hand, you need a cover put on it, else your hand disturbs the signal, as the antenna is in the bottom
So signal drops from 100% to 5-10%
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946366 - 07/15/15 08:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm not much a fan of Windows phones, I actually hate windows, but Nokias windows phones look like the most comfortable thing to use, compared to the bad signal quality of Iphones and Samsung phones, and compared to the slowness of Android (its terrible, especially with powersave on...)
Windows phones also have extremely good camera, as good as a mobile phone can get
Still nowhere near a real digital camera of course... , people think they get the best of all in 1 package, but cameras in phones are usually useless.. Distorted colors that I wouldn't take my pictures with.
Nokias windows phones have the best sensors at this moment as to what I can see...
41Megapixels vs like 8-12Mpix in the Galaxy
The real advantage to the windows phone is it looks so easy to use, and fast too... I just cannot stand android, its terrible to use in practice, but looks cool...
Its fun as a gadget, but I wouldnt use Android as a phone really. Hope they fix it in the future, then I may use my S3 again from my desk drawer...
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21946367 - 07/15/15 08:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Only installing software that runs properly on the android system could help. I used custom firmware on my PSP to extend the battery life, put out LED lights inside the hardware and use various programs for battery saving.
Still that puppy only runs 333mhz (unlocked, when it was put in store it runs at half the speed of the processor for battery-saving scammers) Compared to a few GHZ these days on phones... it can be an issue if you have several apps running in the background or processes you're not using. I tend to be minimalistic with electronics. I believe most android phones even possess a fifth core along with the quad-core solely for battery saving.
These aren't thorium batteries yo but I generally don't buy smartphones, etc. Computers are much more handy :P Buy old Nokia. It can call, it can text, it never runs out ^^!
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Beanhead]
#21946388 - 07/15/15 08:45 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Indeed, buy old nokia, 3310,3510i,6100,8210 etc :-)
Then buy a laptop + 3g data card, laptop is much better for surf than a smartphone
you can also connect laptop to any nokia phone via data cable,irda,bluetooth
I prefer this way much over a smartphone, 6100 is the ultimate phone for me + laptop It's a pleasure to sms on + I can surf the web on the go if I need it via datacable
I only buy to suit my needs, and at this moment I just got a 3310 since I never use internet on the go anymore. But when I did, the 6100 + laptop was very nice, I dont need faster internet than gprs on the go, because most places wont have faster anyway...
You cannot upload youtube vids over 3g everywhere on the go i.e.. , most places only got poor GPRS reception
best part... 14 days on standby for the Nokia 6100! ;-P , vs 16 hours on Galaxy phones
So you can use internet on it and it will still last a week standby... kickass
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21950315 - 07/16/15 02:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lessismore, I don't really recognize your qualms. Sure, any smart phone drains its battery much faster than an old school handset, but they're very usable in every respect. I'm sure millions of people agree with me. Maybe you had a spot of bad luck back in 1783 with your s3.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: koraks]
#21950329 - 07/16/15 02:45 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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koraks said: Lessismore, I don't really recognize your qualms. Sure, any smart phone drains its battery much faster than an old school handset, but they're very usable in every respect. I'm sure millions of people agree with me. Maybe you had a spot of bad luck back in 1783 with your s3.
Yeah I mean if I could take my laptop with me out on the shop floor at work then I would but I can't and it's also a pain to drag a laptop with me everywhere I go. This is kind of a moot discussion, as no one is saying a smart phone is more powerful or useful than a laptop, just that they're more convenient.
Anyways, I've decided to just try and score an "old" phone on ebay for a reasonable price and go from there. I figure if I can get a Galaxy S4 or LG G3 for a decent price then I'll make it work. I did a hard reset on my original phone the ZTE Overture and now it's running much faster which is ok but I still want a bigger screen and slightly faster performance, I hate feeling the lag while shroomering at work lol.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21950630 - 07/16/15 06:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ask ANY geek what is best: phone or laptop for hacking?
They say laptop + 3g modem / a wireless modem
Phone is not useable for much, sure it is a fun gadget that geeks like, but that's it, and they can extend normal phones with functionality
But the basic functionality worked often best in older phones, which had physical buttons
I hate typing on a smartphone, it's pretty useless. But I suppose I would have done anything to justify buying my $700 phone when I bought it too
The real hacking is on linux, old laptops(linux doesn't care about hardware), and wireless modems/wifi wardriving
A phone is just to fit in
(feel free to replace hacking with "fun" in the above)
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21950843 - 07/16/15 08:01 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dude you don't know shit about anything. I've rooted every android phone I've ever owned since my Droid Eris and have had little to no problems doing any of things you've mentioned in your post. My rooted nexus was awesome and even when overclocked I was getting close to 20 hours battery life out of it easily. It was a Samsung and guess what? It never dropped a single call in the two years I had it. Im currently using the HTC m8 rooted and its probably one of the fastest phones I've ever owned and ive had it for almost 2 years.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21951020 - 07/16/15 09:02 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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lessismore said: Indeed, buy old nokia, 3310,3510i,6100,8210 etc :-)
Then buy a laptop + 3g data card, laptop is much better for surf than a smartphone
you can also connect laptop to any nokia phone via data cable,irda,bluetooth
I prefer this way much over a smartphone, 6100 is the ultimate phone for me + laptop It's a pleasure to sms on + I can surf the web on the go if I need it via datacable
I only buy to suit my needs, and at this moment I just got a 3310 since I never use internet on the go anymore. But when I did, the 6100 + laptop was very nice, I dont need faster internet than gprs on the go, because most places wont have faster anyway...
You cannot upload youtube vids over 3g everywhere on the go i.e.. , most places only got poor GPRS reception
best part... 14 days on standby for the Nokia 6100! ;-P , vs 16 hours on Galaxy phones
So you can use internet on it and it will still last a week standby... kickass
It's a real shame USB can't travel from laptop to phone but vice-versa apparently it can. I've tried several times making my laptop the Hotspot but to no avail. I'm probably just noob though.
Yeep I did it like that for bluetooth, using my PSP to game and stream on computerscreen w/o cables.
You can't upload YT vids O_O whoa
Thanks, if I do buy a phone it will be Nokia xD
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
#21951081 - 07/16/15 09:25 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Malcolm_Xtasy said: Dude you don't know shit about anything. I've rooted every android phone I've ever owned since my Droid Eris and have had little to no problems doing any of things you've mentioned in your post. My rooted nexus was awesome and even when overclocked I was getting close to 20 hours battery life out of it easily. It was a Samsung and guess what? It never dropped a single call in the two years I had it. Im currently using the HTC m8 rooted and its probably one of the fastest phones I've ever owned and ive had it for almost 2 years.
My friends HTC Desire has 100x better signal than my galaxy S3
And that is an OLD phone
I just don't recommend buying a Samsung, it's usually a shit phone, and my bro has one too China plastic phone
Plz stfu, you think you know, so 20hours is a lot huh? lol 20 hours is not even enough to get back from work...
You would have to bring charger with you EVERYWHERE
Btw the screen on my galaxy S3 cracked all over in multiple places, from dropping onto carpet from table height, after about a month! It's supposed to be crackfree gorilla glass, I call bullshit on that, it landed on the edge and cracked all over
Samsung is the worst phone you can buy, but Iphones have poor signal too
The highest quality looking smartphone I've seen past 5 years is a HTC legend, aluminum body, looks high quality and feels so too Don't buy a plastic smart phone , don't buy a Samsung even if they say they use metal now
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
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Galaxy S7 and S8 are not better than S3 btw
Are you aware that neither of these phones are out yet? So how would you even know?
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Same hardware, just 0.2" larger screen, no differences else
You're wrong
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
#21951121 - 07/16/15 09:37 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes I'm obviously aware, couldn't you tell? lol
They made Galaxy S3 one month, then next 4-5 months came S4, S5
But before that S2 a few years before...
So they just make a new one 5 times a year and hope people buy because it's the newer model, then they gladly pay $300 extra for same features
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21951131 - 07/16/15 09:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Are you not going to address the link I just showed you? You literally said its the same hardware with a bigger and screen and no other differences. There's been like 12 software updates between the S3 and the S6, so what are you even talking about? Even then, you're still wrong because the hardware has been drastically improved. The S3 was completely plastic
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
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So they just make a new one 5 times a year and hope people buy because it's the newer model, then they gladly pay $300 extra for same features
Also, they only release one phone per year. Wrong again, what a surprise.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
#21951153 - 07/16/15 09:44 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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[mod edit: flaming in a thread about phones? Really.]
Edited by koods (07/16/15 10:23 AM)
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
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I'm spamming the thread by telling you you're fucking wrong? And now i'm convinced you're willingly ignoring my link. And again, the S6 isn't plastic.. where are you getting your information?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21951164 - 07/16/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lol, clean up your room I think your mom is calling
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
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HA! That's really all you got? Can't win the argument so you have to resort to "Your mom is calling?"
[mod edit: break it up.]
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: BigHeart]
#21951180 - 07/16/15 09:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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didn't read the thread, but if it's a gsm phone, you can call the carrier where the phone came from and they'll usually give you the unlock code.
That's how it used to be, at least.
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I could wrap my galaxy s5 in tinfoil and I'd STILL get better service than your shitty ass nokia's. The only think a nokia is good for, is putting into a sock, and beating someone to death with and then stealing their smart phones.
Please tell me how your shitty 1XEV Edge Network Cell phone out preforms my Galaxy S5?
The S5 has more computing power than lower end laptops bro. Your laptop with a 3G CARD (lmfao 3g. how cute) doesn't even come CLOSE to the speeds a 4g phone can do, even a 4g phone from YEARS AGO is faster than a 3g laptop.
You obviously browse the internet with internet explorer, and have no fucking idea how computers, or cellphones, or even the internet works.
If your hand is so fucking fat, greasy and gargantuan in size that you prevent an iphone or an android from connecting to a network I have an idea, you don't need a new phone, you need a fucking diet and a gym membership. The only possible reason I could see for you not wanting a smart phone is your greasy mammoth hands leave smears on the touch screen. Or your giant titan paws crush and crack the screen under the weight of your massive thumbs.
You're seriously more dense than a nokia 3310 which is fucking miraculous.
But I'll give one thing, a nokia 3310 has more computing power than your miniscule brain
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21953012 - 07/16/15 05:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Psychonautica said: I could wrap my galaxy s5 in tinfoil and I'd STILL get better service than your shitty ass nokia's. The only think a nokia is good for, is putting into a sock, and beating someone to death with and then stealing their smart phones.
Please tell me how your shitty 1XEV Edge Network Cell phone out preforms my Galaxy S5?
The S5 has more computing power than lower end laptops bro. Your laptop with a 3G CARD (lmfao 3g. how cute) doesn't even come CLOSE to the speeds a 4g phone can do, even a 4g phone from YEARS AGO is faster than a 3g laptop.
You obviously browse the internet with internet explorer, and have no fucking idea how computers, or cellphones, or even the internet works.
If your hand is so fucking fat, greasy and gargantuan in size that you prevent an iphone or an android from connecting to a network I have an idea, you don't need a new phone, you need a fucking diet and a gym membership. The only possible reason I could see for you not wanting a smart phone is your greasy mammoth hands leave smears on the touch screen. Or your giant titan paws crush and crack the screen under the weight of your massive thumbs.
You're seriously more dense than a nokia 3310 which is fucking miraculous.
But I'll give one thing, a nokia 3310 has more computing power than your miniscule brain 
I got an Iphone 5 it's more expensive than yours, sucks to be you bro
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21953518 - 07/16/15 07:50 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Uhh.. Okay? Price makes it better how exactly? I bet an original bell telephone costs more than your iPhone does that make it better?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21953934 - 07/16/15 09:37 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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4g makes your phone better, how?
most places are GPRS still if lucky, sure if you go to New York I'm sure you can get 4g in some places for a few minutes
it's not like you need more than gprs to surf the web gprs is covered 95% of the country here , 4g is covered in like 10%
samsung phones are just useless, you cannot go hunting mushrooms with such one, or go out in the field, no GPS coverage because no signal... lousy signal with Samsung phones I'm sure you're happy for yours, but that doesn't make it a good phone , most people complain about its signal quality
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#21954129 - 07/16/15 10:34 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That was one of the most misinformed posts I've ever read.
I've had many phones, including multiple samsungs.
4g is all over, not just big cities, I get in 95% of the time, and I don't even live in a city. I even get 4g out in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
I get GPS signal literally everywhere.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: PLURAL]
#21954591 - 07/17/15 02:06 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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GPS depends on satellites and has virtually total coverage. It has nothing to do with 4G. And Web browsing on gprs is Hellingly slow. I don't see how you didn't notice these things when you were using smart phones
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: koraks]
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21954613 - 07/17/15 02:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
As usual though.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21954625 - 07/17/15 02:34 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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GPS depends on satellites, not 4G coverage. Back to the drawing board. I never said that there is total 4G coverage in the US. Learn to read.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: lessismore]
#21954631 - 07/17/15 02:36 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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lessismore said: gprs is covered 95% of the country here , 4g is covered in like 10%
Who the fuck taught you percentages bud?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21954633 - 07/17/15 02:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's not our fault you live in a shitty under developed third world country but that explains you're complete and utter lack of research done on topics before you start posting like the leading researcher at Harvard.
I'd probably start making shit up of I didn't have access to the Internet myself. Let alone running water.
I'm sorry you still poop in an outhouse but you have no idea how a phone works so stop running your mouth with blatant misinformation. 4g covers almost the entirety of developed nations.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21954639 - 07/17/15 02:41 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Do you actually read the posts you respond to and notice who makes them?
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
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4g coverage of the whole world in 2012, 3 years ago. tell me more about how 4g is only in 10percent of wherever you live. that was 3 years ago. Ever heard of Moores law I'm sure you haven't but that means technology grows exponentially. so by this point we probably have ten times the coverage this map has marked. You're uneducated and uniformed. Please stop posting your ignorant made up facts and statistics in every God damn thread. You've quickly taken the spot to the most ignorant mother fucker I've ever seen in my entire life.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: Psychonautica]
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I never said anything about 4G coverage. You must be referring to lessismore's posts. We're not the same person.
And you misunderstand Moore's Law, which refers to the miniaturization of transistors and the production cost per transistor, not technology in general.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: koraks]
#21954656 - 07/17/15 02:51 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/moores-law-technology.html
Again. Ignorant and wrong.
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The insight, known as Moore’s Law, became the golden rule for the electronics industry, and a springboard for innovation
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#21954662 - 07/17/15 02:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I actually have a PhD on the dynamics of innovation, one of my primary cases being the lithography industry. Nice of you to do a little Web search, but it's no substitute for the actual research (both theoretical and empirical) I've done. Do yourself a favor and drop the subject.
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Re: How hard is it to unlock a phone? [Re: koraks]
#21954669 - 07/17/15 02:56 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You have a PhD in bullshit. Lmfao.
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