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Unlock for the sprint iPhone 4s?
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I am not sure if Sprint is officially unlocking, so you may want to check with them, my guess is that they are not, even if they are I am sure they will require to either pay full price for the phone or keep it on service for some minimun required time.
Unofficially unlocks required Jailbreak to even start working on it, and there is not Jailbreak for the 4S as right now.
No, you can never use a Sprint or Verizon sold iphone on AT&T.
When they do unlock the GSM side is only to be used with foreign non US carriers when traveling.
It wont work.
When they do unlock the GSM side is only to be used with foreign non US carriers when traveling.
It wont work.
Yes, but if you return the phone dont you have like 14 days to try out the service and return the phone without paying any fee's?
Call them up and check.
Dont wait till the 14th day like some others have done
Hmm really? how are they doing that? the radio is a Quad freq, it shouldn't be any technical limitation once it is unlock, which mean that if there is (and now bear with me I am just taking a wild guess here) that the unlock is just partial, by limiting non-us carries, which also means that the software unlock should be able to overcome that limitation easily.
Yep, its pretty Sh***y of them.
Its gotta be done software wise I would guess for a US CDMA to reject any AT&T and Tmobile sims but once the GSM side unlocked by the carrier to accept any foreign non-US sims.
Oh i got you,,, it is not a baseband lock but a SIM check... make sense... yeah ****** but really surprising
Yes, but if you return the phone dont you have like 14 days to try out the service and return the phone without paying any fee's?
Call them up and check.
Dont wait till the 14th day like some others have done
I really don't want to deal with them again..I would rather just take the early term fee and pay it with the iPhone 4s sell
I hear you. But the 4S will be blacklisted once you terminate service so not sure if it could be activated again on another Sprint account. And that could bring less money on ebay or CL.
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Sell the 4s and use the money to pay off your ETF etc. then go to at&t or who ever. However if your with in 14 days it's throwing away money IMO.
Sell the 4s and use the money to pay off your ETF etc. then go to at&t or who ever. However if your with in 14 days it's throwing away money IMO.
Ya when my number got ported over with AT&T they said they would cancel Saturday..so that was this previous week..blacklist it?
If you put it on ebay and factor in the fee's, agreevation and risk I dont know if it would be worth it to me.
Sprint phones aren't likely to fetch as much, less demand.SO be sure you look at sprint iPhones for prices. Also people will be Leary they are buying deactivated phone. Meting them at the sprint store would be the best option.
On ebay people receiving and claiming the phone never came or the box was empty and many other eBay scams.
Be careful.
Yes, but if you return the phone dont you have like 14 days to try out the service and return the phone without paying any fee's?
Call them up and check.
Dont wait till the 14th day like some others have done
I returned the sprint phones back to sprint and I was shocked as they still had my old iPhone 4 from AT&T..so I took it back to AT&T got it working and will use it until my iPhone 4s comes in
Why would Sprint even have your old iPhone 4 if it was on AT&T and has nothing to do with them whatsoever?
When I got sprint they had a program to where I could sell them my AT&T iPhone 4s for 250 a piece..that became credit for them..so got iPhone 4s's for me and wife..when I returned the sprint phones she never sent my AT&T phones in yet..so I got them back
That's not entirely accurate. Sprint and Verizon iPhones can connect to the AT&T network, but only with foreign SIMs.
Interesting.
So with a Vodafone sim to roam on AT&T's network for example.
Still the same though, you can't use any AT&T or tmobile sims on any unlocked CDMA iPhones.