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Phone Hacking???
    #8718237 - 08/02/08 11:16 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

ok. so i've got a friend offering to sell me his cell phone at a discounted price, however, i'm a subscriber to sprint while the phone is with AT&T and uses a SIM card unlike my current sprint phone. Will sprint allow me to transfer my account on to this phone? Or will i have to find someone to hack the phone?

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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Birthbytongue]
    #8718406 - 08/03/08 12:37 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

what sort of cell phone doesn't have a sim card? is it an old one?


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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Artnotwar]
    #8718432 - 08/03/08 12:47 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

Its a samsung dualband tri-mode phone model SPH-A640 about a year and a half old.  And lacks any visible SIM card. Perhaps its within the body, underneath the shell?

The phone i want to upgrade to is samsung bluetooth model SGH-i617.

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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Birthbytongue]
    #8718542 - 08/03/08 01:54 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

No, you can't use an AT&T (GSM) phone on the Sprint (CDMA) network.


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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: zouden]
    #8724189 - 08/04/08 01:01 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

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No, you can't use an AT&T (GSM) phone on the Sprint (CDMA) network.




Exactly. They work on different technologies. And no, you can't hack it so that it'll work. It's something that's physically built into the phone.

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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Gumby]
    #8749441 - 08/09/08 03:30 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

ok. i've been doing some research. I have decided that now i would like to just make that Black Jack a prepaid phone. However, I'm not sure if I should purchase a new AT&T sim card from their store due to the fact that the phone might be "hot". I've noticed that i can purchase at&t sim cards from ebay at a very low price, but i'm not sure if I would be able to activate it without a help from a sales rep? Or should i go the route in which I use an online service to unlock the at&t phone and then purchase Tmobile sim cards???
Thanks for the help everyone.


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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Birthbytongue]
    #8749846 - 08/09/08 05:55 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

If the phone is hot there's a chance the IMEI has been blocked. You won't get in trouble if you put a sim card in there, but it just won't work. Unblocking the IMEI is considerably more difficult than unlocking the phone, probably impossible.

There must be a way to tell if the IMEI is blocked...


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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: zouden]
    #8751471 - 08/10/08 02:19 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

yes. you hit my primary concern. I figured that the IMEI might give me trouble. having used a net 10 prepaid phone before.
does anyone know if there is a way to tell if the IMEI is blocked?
i mean surely, if there is any trouble i can just take the phone and walk away, right?
but thus, my reason for avoiding the sales rep.

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Re: Phone Hacking??? [Re: Birthbytongue]
    #8751493 - 08/10/08 02:29 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

There's probably a website that tells you. There's one that works in Australia.


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