I was walking my dog the day after St. Patty's and came across a Droid 2 phone. I called the last 3 people on the recent calls, left messages, and no response. So I figured I'd try to make this a testing/whateva phone.
My question is this....Can I actually use this phone with another carrier? Like Boost, or cricket? and how can I unlock it to do so. I just rooted the phone with no problem, but I would really like to unlock it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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I was walking my dog the day after St. Patty's and came across a Droid 2 phone. I called the last 3 people on the recent calls, left messages, and no response. So I figured I'd try to make this a testing/whateva phone.
My question is this....Can I actually use this phone with another carrier? Like Boost, or cricket? and how can I unlock it to do so. I just rooted the phone with no problem, but I would really like to unlock it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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You can get it flashed to cricket or google how to flash it yourself if you already have a cricket account.
Also DO NOT upgrade the firmware to .621 aka 2.3.4 or you will lose root forever!
/ is cricket the only possible provider? I've heard in the past sprint or att are possible options, and I've googled for months and still found nothing. Right now I'm on att with 2 infuse 4g's.. but I did buy a droid 2 and an x2 when I was with verizon...(sold the x2, to someone who got it unlocked). Any help from anyone would be huuugely appreciated..
OvaHex said:
/ is cricket the only possible provider? I've heard in the past sprint or att are possible options, and I've googled for months and still found nothing. Right now I'm on att with 2 infuse 4g's.. but I did buy a droid 2 and an x2 when I was with verizon...(sold the x2, to someone who got it unlocked). Any help from anyone would be huuugely appreciated..
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If your Droid 2 is a Global you may get it unlocked to use AT&T. normal Droid 2 lacks a SIM card so only cricket/page one is all you can use outside of Verizon
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Hey all,
My buddy managed to get his hands on a Droid 2 while at the MAX conference this week. Unfortunately for him, we are in Canada. If I were to root his phone could I just use the Telus radio frequencies that I use for my milestone on it?
Thanks!
I forget which Canuckian carriers are which, but if you have a Milestone, then Telus would be GSM and the Droid 2 won't work at all. You'd need to use one of the CDMA-based carriers to even have a chance.
Next is provisioning...all the programming for your carrier. I am not sure if the current level of unlocked-ness allows for other carriers' provisioning or not...someone with more knowledge in that arena would have to chime in, but I am leaning toward no, as I have not seen any discussion about converting a D2 to work on Sprint, etc.
And even if that works, the carrier will determine how easy it is to get going. They may activate out of network ESNs with no fuss, or more likely they will not allow it, in which case you have to go more illegal routes, that IIRC are not even allowed to be discussed on here.
FWIW, I used a Droid Incredible in BC (Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler) this summer. Worked fine, for the most part. However, I have a Verizon account and paid for their Canada roaming and international data packages. So I did not work directly with any Canadian carrier. But at the basic technical level, the phone CAN work in Canada.
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Thanks guys ^^ I'll let my buddy know his phone is really just a android touch in Canada.
Hey all,
Instead of making a new thread, I figured I'd should just pull this one back since it's the same question.
I've been seeing talk about a droid 2 global. Is there now a way to make a droid 2 from the states work in canada?
Thanks
Hi, i am a noob to Droid X, bought one with a clean ESN but it is flashed to Metro Pcs. I cant get to to go back to verizon, everytime i try to program it, Metro Comes. Up. Help Please!!
heartbreakkillah said:
Hi, i am a noob to Droid X, bought one with a clean ESN but it is flashed to Metro Pcs. I cant get to to go back to verizon, everytime i try to program it, Metro Comes. Up. Help Please!!
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Try SBF?
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php/Main-Page/Droid-X-Full-2.2-SBF.html
If the sbf doesn't work, then you might have to go so far as manually revising the programming via qpst.
I don't have any experience with switching phones to metro but I switched a phone from sprint to Verizon and it required a lot of gpst editing in it so I would believe that this would have been done to your phone is well.
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amathophobia said:
I don't have any experience with switching phones to metro but I switched a phone from sprint to Verizon and it required a lot of gpst editing in it so I would believe that this would have been done to your phone is well.
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any links on how to do that?
When I first got my droid x is was on cricket, but I managed to get it back to verizon by flashing the sbf and calling verizon to switch the esn to my account.
kennydied23 said:
When I first got my droid x is was on cricket, but I managed to get it back to verizon by flashing the sbf and calling verizon to switch the esn to my account.
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Thank you for the info, so hard without asking a provider.
It turns I missed something : i thought I could use CDMA phones on GSM net by modding or flashing, but that does not seem to be possible .
So US phones with CDMA do not work at all in Europe .
Darn, all great phones live in the US : Samsung epic, Droid Incredible and Droid X.
sigh...
guess I'll wait for the Samsung to arrive here ...
I have a friend that switched from verizon to at&t. He asked me if it was possible to unlock his verizon droid 2 so that he could use it with his new carrier. I told him I would look into it, does anyone have any suggestions?
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I have a friend that switched from verizon to at&t. He asked me if it was possible to unlock his verizon droid 2 so that he could use it with his new carrier. I told him I would look into it, does anyone have any suggestions?
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Regular Droid 2 cannot be used on at&t or t-mobile as it is CDMA only. Droid 2 Global maybe able to used AT&T/Tmo 2G (EDGE)
You can't. They both use different types of networks to communicate.
I searched as much as i could and im just real unsure on which information to trust. I have a Milestone X2 (droid x2) that i want to use on a verizon plan. The service provider i had used verizon towers and i just wanted to know if i needed to do anything to the phone before trying to have it switched on until my razr gets back from being fixed. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated since i am new to all this and have no idea what im doing. Someone told me i had to jailbreak it or something and i was like ummm ok
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Are you saying that you're on VZ with the RAZR now and want to use an old non-VZ phone as a stop gap?
Call them and see if the ESN is in their database.
You can check a Verizon ESN here:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/estore/certifieddevice/cd
If something doesn't come up saying you're fine, call anyways, to confirm...
I'm hoping there are still a few people around that can help me.
I got the MyTouch 4G shortly after it first came out. I loved that phone, but then after moving to Europe I found myself needing a phone for the service here so I sold mine on Ebay. My parents both got them as well and now that THEY've moved on to other phones, I've inherited them.
My questions...
1. I rooted these phones about 2 years ago, but I have no idea whether they're SIM unlocked. Is there a way that I can find out?
2. If they're not SIM unlocked, is there some way I can reroot them to be?
Thanks, guys.