Exodus Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 How are phones unlocked these days? I purchased a Sprint phone from wally world off contract outright thinking I could simply use my T-Mobile sim card in it given the merger... Apparently not. I called Sprint and they told me it needs to be active for 50 days on service to be unlocked:thumbdown Its a heck of a deal at 50 bucks. Are there any third party unlocking services that work? Worst case I can return to store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 Basically any carrier's policy is it has to be on the network for X amount of days, then it auto unlocks. I think Verizon's is 90 days for example. Otherwise, there are services you can pay to unlock it but they are pretty sketchy. I just gifted my old Verizon iPhone 7 Plus to my mom who just switch to T-Failboat and it worked just fine, just missing a couple of their LTE frequencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POS VETT Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 Sprint runs on CDMA and T-Mobile is on GSM. Unless it's a phone that can run both systems, it wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 Sprint runs on CDMA and T-Mobile is on GSM. Unless it's a phone that can run both systems, it wouldn't work. I think most phones imported to the US do both now. Cheaper to make one chip that does both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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