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Are CDMA and GSMiPhone 6 the same hardware?

JCat1 said:
This thread has captured my interest. I just finished getting my ATT 6+ (A1522 GSM) unlocked and I am about to go over and try my friends Verizon Sim Card. I'll Keep you updated.

I am moving to Japan in 2 weeks and really need my phone to work. Ive got my fingers crossed.

Is there any chance you can check the regulatory page in your TMO phone and see if Japan is listed? (Settings>General>About>Legal>Regulatory) I would very much appreciate it.:D
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I don't see Japan in mine
 
JCat1 said:
This thread has captured my interest. I just finished getting my ATT 6+ (A1522 GSM) unlocked and I am about to go over and try my friends Verizon Sim Card. I'll Keep you updated.

I am moving to Japan in 2 weeks and really need my phone to work. Ive got my fingers crossed.

Is there any chance you can check the regulatory page in your TMO phone and see if Japan is listed? (Settings>General>About>Legal>Regulatory) I would very much appreciate it.:D
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So I just finished the Verizon Test with my unlocked ATT 6+ (A1522 "GSM")

Everything Worked flawlessly.

Vis Voicemail
LTE just data > Can make calls and call landlines
LTE Voice and Data>Can make calls and call landlines
Text messaging
CDMA roaming capabilities

So it seems that the A1522 GSM is the same as the A1522 CDMA
does anyone have info to prove this wrong?

I still do not have Japanese conformity Mark in Regulatory page Here:
(Settings>General>About>Legal>Regulatory)
so not sure if I will be able to use my phone in Japan or if it will become a useless brick for me when I move overseas.
 
JCat1 said:
This thread has captured my interest. I just finished getting my ATT 6+ (A1522 GSM) unlocked and I am about to go over and try my friends Verizon Sim Card. I'll Keep you updated.

I am moving to Japan in 2 weeks and really need my phone to work. Ive got my fingers crossed.

Is there any chance you can check the regulatory page in your TMO phone and see if Japan is listed? (Settings>General>About>Legal>Regulatory) I would very much appreciate it.:D
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an unlocked iPhone might work in japan anyway???

the regulatory page only lists us, europe, brazil, costa rica, columbia, and mexico
 
JCat1 said:
So I just finished the Verizon Test with my unlocked ATT 6+ (A1522 "GSM")

Everything Worked flawlessly.

Vis Voicemail
LTE just data > Can make calls and call landlines
LTE Voice and Data>Can make calls and call landlines
Text messaging
CDMA roaming capabilities

So it seems that the A1522 GSM is the same as the A1522 CDMA
does anyone have info to prove this wrong?

I still do not have Japanese conformity Mark in Regulatory page Here:
(Settings>General>About>Legal>Regulatory)
so not sure if I will be able to use my phone in Japan or if it will become a useless brick for me when I move overseas.
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It was confirmed about a month ago that the Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T 6 and 6 Plus are the same hardware. You just need to have an unlocked phone and an active SIM to confirm it. I don't believe they will work with Sprint though, but I could be wrong..
 
rigormortis said:
an unlocked iPhone might work in japan anyway???

the regulatory page only lists us, europe, brazil, costa rica, columbia, and mexico
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Thanks for checking.

I have no doubt that it would work there sans TD-LTE, but unfortunately the carrier that I want to use (SoftBank) say on their website that they require Japanese compliance mark.

I have decided to just return my phone before I leave and buy another one when I get there. Unless anyone on here wants to buy an unlocked att 6+. Lol
 
JCat1 said:
Thanks for checking.

I have no doubt that it would work there sans TD-LTE, but unfortunately the carrier that I want to use (SoftBank) say on their website that they require Japanese compliance mark.

I have decided to just return my phone before I leave and buy another one when I get there. Unless anyone on here wants to buy an unlocked att 6+. Lol
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How would they know? Do they physically inspect the phone before giving you a SIM?
 
terraphantm said:
How would they know? Do they physically inspect the phone before giving you a SIM?
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I can't know for sure. But regardless, if I get one there then it will be the 1524 and I will be able to use TD-LTE. So I guess the situation is not that bad. Just might have to practice my patience and do some waiting. :(

If I were to keep my phone and get there only for them to refuse it on their network, then I have officially bought a $1000 brick. Fortunately I have until the day that I leave to return mine.
 
they probably run the IMEI # and won't activate the sim unless its on their list of imei #s
 
activated sim card in unlocked tmobile iphone 6 unable to make voice calls

rigormortis said:
before you repeat what people have been saying since the iPhone 5, about the gsm radio only being able to run on gsm, because the verizon iPhone has an added cdma radio. perhaps you should do the experiment. you would be surprised.

i found out that its no longer true. and verizon sims ENABLES cdma on iPhone 6

i purchased my iPhone 6 128 gb t-mobile version. i stood in line wondering if it was true that this time around it would be locked. the store manager said it wasn't locked. i took my new iPhone and wanted to see how unlocked it was. i had a spare AT&T sim on me. neither sims were associated with an account, they weren't "live" sims. when i put the sims in my iPhone, it asked for a carrier update. and the about screens changed to reflect which carrier the phone was working for. this means when an iPhone 6 sees a new sim, it just automatically refreshes its baseband by itself.

well. guess what. on a lark, i decided to put my "live" sim out of my verizon iPhone 5 and guess what. it worked. i was shocked. i thought that maybe the iPhone 6 was like an iPad air / iPad mini retina, and you could only use it for data.

so i figured it was natural , eh , it was okay, that data worked.

so then i decided to try and make a phone call to a regular land line, (Diamond Dan's Pro Wrestling Hotline (317) 335 HOTT) , and guess what. the CDMA radio came active, and the phone call went through. it acted just like my iPhone 5. the 3g/LTE connection went to 2.5 (showing just verizon in the upper left hand corner) and it worked

as far as i can figure out the only difference between a t-mobile and a verizon iPhone 6 is now verzon's white list of verizon devices.

what this means is that verizon cannot and will not put your non vzw iPhone 6 IMEI or MEID numbers on your account. you can't sign up for verizon with a non-vzw iPhone 6, and you can't transfer your service to a non-vzw iPhone 6. but as far as being compatible , for data and making telephone calls it works.

i posted another message on this forum and i have tried notifying ask maggie on cnet of my discovery. but no one yet has verified my claim

i don't know if Volte works. i didn't test that. i didn't test if putting in a "live" AT&T sim will lock out "live" verizon sims. because my 2 other sims i have for t-mobile and AT&T are not active.

when you are running the sim in an iPhone 6 plus ( the phone i had to test on ) , my verizon website no longer listed the iPhone 5 as being on my account. replaced was a generic graphic with NON VZW PHONE and SIM CARD # XXXXXXXXX in its place.

i guess it is possible if i had a real live AT&T or t-mo sim that the phone would of stayed in GSM mode only . that is something i did not try.

i also sent several text messages to my coke rewards using short code #2653 and the sms worked as well

another item i did not test was visual voice mail
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While it is true that a live sim works on an unlocked iphone 6, it didn't restore the basic phone functionality for me. I used an activated verizon sim from my android and cut into a microsim for my newly purchased iphone 6 (unsubsidized, hence, unlocked from the apple store). However, unlike your luck in gaining full functionality, I am only able to use the cellular data on the phone (essentially an ipad with cellular data). I can use the maps, browse, i.e. things that cellular data allows for. I can also send and receive text messages from my number. However, I can't use send imessages from my actual phone number, and can only use imessage from my icloud account i.e. username@icloud.com sender (which makes sense, because this uses cellular data). I also can't make or receive calls of any type unless it's a facetime call to my icloud account. I know verizon won't allow you to use a nonnetwork phone on its network, and my device shows up in verizon as unknown, but I want to know how you could get the calling function? Because if I'm allowed to use their cellular data with the sim card and I'm allowed to send sms texts to noniPhone users from my phone number, why won't the calling function work? Also could I play dumb and try to exchange my unlocked tmobile phone for an unlocked verizon iphone at the apple store? I'm fully aware that verizon doesn't sell unlocked iphones. I bought a tmobile phone because my verizon plan ends in december and I'm planning on switching over to att and verizon doesn't sell contract-less iphone 6s.
 
I just did an AOL on one of the "loophole" UDP accounts that someone set up recently with VZW. Hopefully VZW honors it long term, but my main question is this. I have the "T-Mobile" iPhone 6. I bought a cheap used Verizon iPhone 5c from Swappa in order to activate my new Verizon account. Since the 5c doesn't support VoLTE, can I still get VZW to provision it on the SIM so I can get it working on my iPhone 6?
 
KPOM said:
I just did an AOL on one of the "loophole" UDP accounts that someone set up recently with VZW. Hopefully VZW honors it long term, but my main question is this. I have the "T-Mobile" iPhone 6. I bought a cheap used Verizon iPhone 5c from Swappa in order to activate my new Verizon account. Since the 5c doesn't support VoLTE, can I still get VZW to provision it on the SIM so I can get it working on my iPhone 6?
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Should work. When I got my iPhone 6 I didn't bother having to activate a new SIM card I simply took my old SIM card from my Verizon iPhone 5c and put in in my 6 and went into settings and enabled VoLTE and it worked right away...about 7 days later I got a text saying Verizon "added" advanced calling 1.0 to my account (its free). So it just works....
 
nateo200 said:
Should work. When I got my iPhone 6 I didn't bother having to activate a new SIM card I simply took my old SIM card from my Verizon iPhone 5c and put in in my 6 and went into settings and enabled VoLTE and it worked right away...about 7 days later I got a text saying Verizon "added" advanced calling 1.0 to my account (its free). So it just works....
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Thanks. Did you buy the Verizon iPhone 6 or the T-Mobile version? Unfortunately, I didn't know about the VZW trick until recently, and I've been on AT&T for 10 years, so I just bought the full-priced T-Mobile phone last month. What I'd like to so over time is get my voice and data through VZW but keep my AT&T UDP.
 
gloop123 said:
While it is true that a live sim works on an unlocked iphone 6, it didn't restore the basic phone functionality for me. I used an activated verizon sim from my android and cut into a microsim
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its too bad it didn't work for you. all i can think of is your mileage may vary. maybe try turning the phones off for 5 minutes, turning on the iPhone 6, and then inserting the sim. maybe try erasing the iPhone

maybe trick of moving the sim only works from iPhone to iPhone.
 
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