[Q] Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3 sim/micro sd port removal and install

[kylemcallister4444]

Hi, so after searching the forum for a bit I've decided to post my question, this is also my first post even though I've been a member for awhile.. Just the first time I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. So hey hi hello. Okay. So. I am in need of a tutorial for the uninstall and replacement of the sim/micro sd port. Solder points ect. I'm not a master at modding devices, but I'm pretty sure this is within my ability. So yeah, thanks in advance.

 

[gabesir]

Hi, so after searching the forum for a bit I've decided to post my question, this is also my first post even though I've been a member for awhile.. Just the first time I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. So hey hi hello. Okay. So. I am in need of a tutorial for the uninstall and replacement of the sim/micro sd port. Solder points ect. I'm not a master at modding devices, but I'm pretty sure this is within my ability. So yeah, thanks in advance.

Why would you wanna do this , are you planing to taking over the world???? anyways you may be able to find a tear down of the phone and go from there. Maybe this link

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[kylemcallister4444]

haha, nothing that sinister. im just having trouble getting my device unlocked for gsm networks. just a thought i was having. anyways, i couldnt get sprint to do an international unlock on it because it didnt have a sprint number attached to it. apparently.. ive used chainfires region lockaway. didnt seem to work, as i was going through the terminal emulator i couldnt get the sim lock to turn off. which i assume affected the editing of the build.prop i couldnt add the ril. and ro. lines. which in turn affects editing the apn, i cant add a straight talk apn. so now im sitting just going through files looking at all of them, wondering if i do some hardware modding and then edit the corresponding files... if there is a way around sprints customer service ineptitude.

 

[gabesir]

maybe get a sprint prepaid service for a month or two, and tell them you going out of the country:fingers-crossed:

 

[kylemcallister4444]

yeah i was coming to that conclusion myself. really id only need a sprint card long enough to activate it with them. i was really hoping to avoid giving that ... evil evil company, anymore money. ill keep digging for a day or two and post any progress.

 

[Epix4G]

yeah i was coming to that conclusion myself. really id only need a sprint card long enough to activate it with them. i was really hoping to avoid giving that ... evil evil company, anymore money. ill keep digging for a day or two and post any progress.

Yes sprint is a evil company ... How dare them not unlock a phone they are losing money on .... They pay full price and people want to get them cheap and unlock .. my phone is unlocked and had no problem doing it ...I have had sprint for about 10 years ... Do you really think that you should get a $700 phone and get it unlocked for like $200 and sprint just eat the rest. .. It's the reason there are international gsm phones ... You pay $700 and it's yours ... I just don't understand how all you people think by stealing these companies will not continue to allow this .... Should have got a vzw phone the government made them unlock them

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[kylemcallister4444]

Sorry if I offended you. I assumed xda was a community of individuals that enjoy the challenges of outsmarting giant companies that.. I'm sorry, aren't losing money off these phones. I don't believe for a second sprint pays 700 + for this device. And regardless, what is the percentage of consumers that take the time to learn how to do anything technical enough to be considered rude or less profitable to the company? ..1 maybe 2 %? Like I said.. Sorry if I offended anyone, definitely not my intention. I bought this phone full priced.. Because I ran the meid through straight talk byop and it came up as compatible for their service. Then spent another 60 at Walmart to buy their activation kit. Yeah I consider a company that will put regional and domestic locks on their devices to turn more profit evil, and not just that, if you remember the launch of this device they didn't come out and tell people what they were doing with the locks; they waited until their was too many negative comments and videos going around to ignore. Even now people/business's that are less tech savvy are paying full prices to unlock their phones because their told it's the only way. My bad.

 

[Epix4G]

Sorry if I offended you. I assumed xda was a community of individuals that enjoy the challenges of outsmarting giant companies that.. I'm sorry, aren't losing money off these phones. I don't believe for a second sprint pays 700 + for this device. And regardless, what is the percentage of consumers that take the time to learn how to do anything technical enough to be considered rude or less profitable to the company? ..1 maybe 2 %? Like I said.. Sorry if I offended anyone, definitely not my intention. I bought this phone full priced.. Because I ran the meid through straight talk byop and it came up as compatible for their service. Then spent another 60 at Walmart to buy their activation kit. Yeah I consider a company that will put regional and domestic locks on their devices to turn more profit evil, and not just that, if you remember the launch of this device they didn't come out and tell people what they were doing with the locks; they waited until their was too many negative comments and videos going around to ignore. Even now people/business's that are less tech savvy are paying full prices to unlock their phones because their told it's the only way. My bad.

If you paid full retail. .... If .... Yes they should unlock for you but you also have to see the company side. ... They are there to make money ... They are a public company ... They answer to Stock holders. .. They don't pay 700 but yet they pay way more than 200 and they get their money back by the customer fulfilling the contact they sign. ... If they lose 400 on one out of 20 phones. ... That amount is at least double that on s4 and lg g2 just because they are easier to unlock .... I can tell you this is not acceptable to the ceo and others running sprint . So I can almost guarantee it will get harder to unlock these phones because of it . I am not offended but I see both sides of the argument

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[kylemcallister4444]

If you paid full retail. .... If .... Yes they should unlock for you but you also have to see the company side. ... They are there to make money ... They are a public company ... They answer to Stock holders. .. They don't pay 700 but yet they pay way more than 200 and they get their money back by the customer fulfilling the contact they sign. ... If they lose 400 on one out of 20 phones. ... That amount is at least double that on s4 and lg g2 just because they are easier to unlock .... I can tell you this is not acceptable to the ceo and others running sprint . So I can almost guarantee it will get harder to unlock these phones because of it . I am not offended but I see both sides of the argument

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Geez I just realized my reply didnt post. If I remember correctly; it was really long winded, basically only amounting to one actual point, I just said I totally understand that aspect of it, and that I completely support the capitalistic way of life. Everyone from a CEO to a cashier at McDonald's is just trying to get paid and make the people around them happy. Really the only thing that bothers me is when they've clearly made their money off me, and now are gouging me for the few pennies and nickels I have left. I'm a typical poor college kid, so money really matters to me when I get it. And yes I did *really* pay full price for the phone, so this is just that much more annoying. I've mostly given up on getting it to work, aside from today, I put about 2 hours into digging around the net and snooping through the devices root directories. I had a thought that maybe if i could get a log of another note 3 source codes as a unrecognized sim was inserted, pushing the msl unlock prompt. maybe I could write an adb command emulating that. The problem I'm still stuck at is having an invalid sim error, tried 2 different carriers sim cards now (straight talk and verizon) having verizon show as invalid confused me because they are CDMA as well. Not really sure, Oh also getting a prepaid sprint plan apparently is a no go because their prepaid service only works for like three or four of their phones, and the note 3 isn't one of them. so I couldn't activate it if I wanted to.

 

[Epix4G]

Geez I just realized my reply didnt post. If I remember correctly; it was really long winded, basically only amounting to one actual point, I just said I totally understand that aspect of it, and that I completely support the capitalistic way of life. Everyone from a CEO to a cashier at McDonald's is just trying to get paid and make the people around them happy. Really the only thing that bothers me is when they've clearly made their money off me, and now are gouging me for the few pennies and nickels I have left. I'm a typical poor college kid, so money really matters to me when I get it. And yes I did *really* pay full price for the phone, so this is just that much more annoying. I've mostly given up on getting it to work, aside from today, I put about 2 hours into digging around the net and snooping through the devices root directories. I had a thought that maybe if i could get a log of another note 3 source codes as a unrecognized sim was inserted, pushing the msl unlock prompt. maybe I could write an adb command emulating that. The problem I'm still stuck at is having an invalid sim error, tried 2 different carriers sim cards now (straight talk and verizon) having verizon show as invalid confused me because they are CDMA as well. Not really sure, Oh also getting a prepaid sprint plan apparently is a no go because their prepaid service only works for like three or four of their phones, and the note 3 isn't one of them. so I couldn't activate it if I wanted to.

They are first cdma phones not true gsm ... so sprint just like Verizon will never let another cdma phone on their system.... The only way to do such a thing is to change esn to a known good vzw esn ...which is illegal by the way ... You could never get vzw lte bands with this phone which is the only reason it has a sim card ... it can be put on cricket etc some other carriers as well ...do some research

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