New to the group, so if I make any mistakes, if I use the wrong terminology or ask the wrong questions, please let me know.
I'm in the process of looking for a phone, and the Galaxy S3 looks like the only real logical choice. I have run into a few walls, though, and would love some input from anyone with experience, which I certainly lack. I have quite a few questions, so I'll try to keep them numbered, so if you have an answer to one and not the others, I welcome it.
Let me start by prefacing with my situation. I live in the US. I've gone about 2 months without a phone, allowing VZW to close my account. Couldn't afford to keep it, and was okay with not having it, tbh. So, I go back, now that I kinda need a phone these days, and see what needs to be done to buy a phone. They tell me that I have a price to pay, and once I pay that, I can upgrade. But, then they tell me that once I upgrade, I will no longer have my unlimited data. Well, I don't want any part of a contract that caps my data. So I know the alternative is to either leave VZW or to buy a phone outright. It's most likely that I can't afford a phone outright. I'm sure most of us can empathize. So I've been knocking around the idea of buying an ATT phone and unlocking it to put it on VZW. So, I suppose question 1 would be, is this even possible?
I start doing all of this research about cdma and gsm and lte and upper lte, and realize that a lot of it is just completely over my head. But I'm curious if anyone has ever managed to completely unlock phones. I know phones can be unlocked in certain ways, but , question 2, has anyone ever unlocked a phone, specifically the S3, to where it was unlocked enough to undo the restrictions that would prevents a phone from going from ATT's network to VZW's?. I know that there is no difference in hardware in any of the different models from carrier to carrier. But I'm also aware that carriers will disable cdma if their company uses GSM and vice versa, so I'm curious if those can be adjusted or enabled once the phone is unlocked.
I've also seen the international version, the GT-I9300. I thought I read somewhere that this works anywhere in the world, but I cannot find where I read that, so, question 3 would be, would this work for me on VZW in the US? And I mean completely be functional, not where cdma works, but lte doesn't, or vice versa.
Any answers, advice, notions you have are all appreciated. The ultimate goal here is to get an S3 to work on VZW, but not from VZW, as I don't want to lose my unlimited data. I REALLY cannot afford to just buy a phone outright, so this isn't really an option, more of a last resort.
I do plan on rooting my phone, but that's a bridge I can only cross once I get to it LOL. THANKS GROUP!
I'm in the process of looking for a phone, and the Galaxy S3 looks like the only real logical choice. I have run into a few walls, though, and would love some input from anyone with experience, which I certainly lack. I have quite a few questions, so I'll try to keep them numbered, so if you have an answer to one and not the others, I welcome it.
Let me start by prefacing with my situation. I live in the US. I've gone about 2 months without a phone, allowing VZW to close my account. Couldn't afford to keep it, and was okay with not having it, tbh. So, I go back, now that I kinda need a phone these days, and see what needs to be done to buy a phone. They tell me that I have a price to pay, and once I pay that, I can upgrade. But, then they tell me that once I upgrade, I will no longer have my unlimited data. Well, I don't want any part of a contract that caps my data. So I know the alternative is to either leave VZW or to buy a phone outright. It's most likely that I can't afford a phone outright. I'm sure most of us can empathize. So I've been knocking around the idea of buying an ATT phone and unlocking it to put it on VZW. So, I suppose question 1 would be, is this even possible?
I start doing all of this research about cdma and gsm and lte and upper lte, and realize that a lot of it is just completely over my head. But I'm curious if anyone has ever managed to completely unlock phones. I know phones can be unlocked in certain ways, but , question 2, has anyone ever unlocked a phone, specifically the S3, to where it was unlocked enough to undo the restrictions that would prevents a phone from going from ATT's network to VZW's?. I know that there is no difference in hardware in any of the different models from carrier to carrier. But I'm also aware that carriers will disable cdma if their company uses GSM and vice versa, so I'm curious if those can be adjusted or enabled once the phone is unlocked.
I've also seen the international version, the GT-I9300. I thought I read somewhere that this works anywhere in the world, but I cannot find where I read that, so, question 3 would be, would this work for me on VZW in the US? And I mean completely be functional, not where cdma works, but lte doesn't, or vice versa.
Any answers, advice, notions you have are all appreciated. The ultimate goal here is to get an S3 to work on VZW, but not from VZW, as I don't want to lose my unlimited data. I REALLY cannot afford to just buy a phone outright, so this isn't really an option, more of a last resort.
I do plan on rooting my phone, but that's a bridge I can only cross once I get to it LOL. THANKS GROUP!
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