I have an old Galaxy S3 that was used on the Virgin Mobile network. The phone sat in a drawer for a long while as the charger port was broken. My son picked it up, took it all apart and looked up replacing the logic board inside the phone to try and get it going again. (I love his desire to get into the guts of it.)
He found S3 logic boards online that have the SIM card on them (VM's are hardwired somehow). I am not a hardware guy at all, though flashed ROM's many times in the past. If he replaces the logic board with one that has a location for a SIM card could we put a TMobile SIM card in and would it work? (I suspect we would have to find a TMobile S3 ROM as well??). Not sure how the interaction of the SIM card with the phone works.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated....
He found S3 logic boards online that have the SIM card on them (VM's are hardwired somehow). I am not a hardware guy at all, though flashed ROM's many times in the past. If he replaces the logic board with one that has a location for a SIM card could we put a TMobile SIM card in and would it work? (I suspect we would have to find a TMobile S3 ROM as well??). Not sure how the interaction of the SIM card with the phone works.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated....
