Recent content by LarryLounge

Well, this is embarrassing but it turns out I had the wrong SIM in the phone all this time; I think it was a Straight Talk Verizon-network sim that had failed to activate the week before. Once I got a fresh sim from the AT&T store, I was able to activate the phone and get my number ported over...

The IMEI comes up clean when I look it up, and I don't know how being blacklisted would cause it to choke on an AT&T sim that it was happy with 12 hours earlier.

I'm willing to accept your premise but if the phone is locked to AT&T, why is it telling me I can't use an AT&T sim in it? It doesn't complain about being locked when it has the Straight Talk sim, only when I try to boot it with its original AT&T sim.

I bought it off eBay and the IMEI comes back as clean from the two free tools I found online. The phone was listed as open-box but the seller seems to know the phone's original purchaser and is trying to get info on the AT&T unlock message about the phone being active on another account. I...

I attempted to activate an open-box Samsung a32 with Straight Talk. The activation failed, but now the phone refuses to accept its original AT&T sim (which worked when I got the phone), and the phone tells me that my phone isn't allowed to use [the AT&T] SIM card and asks me for an unlock code...