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[snakerob62]

Just joined today to see if I can get some help. I am a semi-senior citizen trying to navigate my way through to a working iphone 5. My wife purchased a used phone for my birthday. I am a complete newbie getting a real crash course in all things cellular. My 5 is locked to Sprint. This does not work for me, as I would prefer a no contract plan. I still have not activated my phone because I am adamant about not getting locked into a 2 yr. contract that I can't afford. Wish I had researched the carriers a little better but did not find out until too late that the Sprint plan I thought would suit our needs does not apply to this phone. The phone is used but has a clean ESN. It is running iOS 7.0.2. I was hoping to use something like Straight Talk or Page Plus but am stuck with Sprint. What I think I need to do is unlock my phone but am getting lost in the scammer's world. Is it possible to unlock without spending a small fortune? Will that even help? I do not even have a phone number. Some adult supervision would be appreciated!

 

[Dave Felix]

Just joined today to see if I can get some help. I am a semi-senior citizen
trying to navigate my way through to a working iphone 5. My wife purchased
this for me for my birthday. I am a complete newbie getting a real crash course in all things cellular. My 5 is locked to Sprint. This does not work for me,as I woulf preferr a no contract approach. First problem I ran into was that
I can't sync to itunes because I do not have the newest version (11.1) but I should solve that next week when I get my Snow Leopard upgrade from Apple. I still have not activated my phone yet because I am adamant about not getting
locked into a 2 yr. contract that I can't afford. Wish I had researched the carriers a little better but did not find out until to late that the Sprint plan I thought would suit our needs this phone did not qualify for. The phone is used but has a clean ESN. It is running iOS 7.0.2. I was hoping to use something like Straight Talk or Page Plus but am stuck with Sprint. What I think I need to do is unlock my phone but am getting lost in the scammer's world. Is it possible to unlock without spending a small fortune? Will that even help? I do not even have a phone number. Some adult supervision would be appreciated!

I don't think you need to need to spend money to unlock your device. You'll need to either search the forum or Google on how to unlock a device.

 

[AlliFlowers]

Sprint is Sprint. If you want to use another carrier, your best bet is to sell it and buy another. Sprint is a CDMA carrier and the phone is locked to Sprint and cannot be unlocked for use with anything else.