OK techies, unlocked / jail broke phones ? ? ?

[Great-Kazoo]

What the hell is the difference, if any? Does a jail broke / unlocked cell have the capability to work with any carrier or just who it's jail broke for? My phone shit the bed and for use of i cannot see paying out the anal cavity $2-400, when a lot of "Used" phones are on CL.

[Lurch]

Who is your carrier? I'm getting ready to switch and will have a Verizon phone to sell.

[kwando]

Jailbreak only plies to apple. Same as rooting for android. That opens up the phone to the main file system. Has nothing to do with carrier.

Unlock allows you to use the phone on another carrier, if they are on the same band. sprint/Verizon are CDMA, tmobile/AT&T are GSM. There MIGHT be some,tweaking involved to get all the features working properly (visual VM, MMS,etc). Try to get a phone on the same carrier if possible.

[Rabid]

Watch out for used Sprint phones, if they are reported stolen they can never be used again with Sprint. If you do have Sprint the best thing to do is to make the deal at a sprint store and have them check to see if it is stolen before you hand over the cash.

[BigNick73]

Watch out for used Sprint phones, if they are reported stolen they can never be used again with Sprint. If you do have Sprint the best thing to do is to make the deal at a sprint store and have them check to see if it is stolen before you hand over the cash.

This is the same for Verizon. If you can get the "esn" from the seller you can call Verizon and check to see if it's good or not, I'm thinking there's a web page you can also do this but cant find it atm. I usually buy mine on ebay and pay with paypal so there's some recourse if it comes up bad. Only happened once to me and the seller exchanged it no problem.

[brutal]

Carrier and contract status?

Sprint has the GS4 for $99 on contract. Love mine and it blows away the Moto I had that shit sideways twice.

[Great-Kazoo]

Who is your carrier? I'm getting ready to switch and will have a Verizon phone to sell.

Verizon

Carrier and contract status?

Sprint has the GS4 for $99 on contract. Love mine and it blows away the Moto I had that shit sideways twice.

Contract, we don't need no steenken contract. PREPAID. Was contract with V for 12 years, did M-M for 1 yr then went prepaid. NO UNIVERSAL CHARGES, TAXES, ETC.

[Circuits]

Verizon

Unless you gonna VOIP it straight up, you still need a carrier, a plan and a SIM. Verizon system compat gives you CDMA options, but only multimode phones will carry over to GSM-based SIM like ATT/T-Mobile/Europe.

If you're happy with verizon, buy a multimode unlocked or CDMA unlocked, or verizon phone. Bitch is usually the data plan to fully utilize the phone on carrier. You can use a jailbroken iPhone on ATT/T-Mobile network no problem, but unless they authorize you a data plan, it's a phone, and your data needs are served only off wifi. I used to use a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone 3Gs on T-Mobile pay-as-you go for my primary phone, but they only supported day-by-day Gen2 (EDGE/GPRS) data service to it, for an extra charge, and turned that option off over a year ago on me.

Data is the achilles heel of a smartphone to a carrier, unless you have ubiquitous wifi throughout your service area(s).

[Great-Kazoo]

Unless you gonna VOIP it straight up, you still need a carrier, a plan and a SIM. Verizon system compat gives you CDMA options, but only multimode phones will carry over to GSM-based SIM like ATT/T-Mobile/Europe.

If you're happy with verizon, buy a multimode unlocked or CDMA unlocked, or verizon phone. Bitch is usually the data plan to fully utilize the phone on carrier. You can use a jailbroken iPhone on ATT/T-Mobile network no problem, but unless they authorize you a data plan, it's a phone, and your data needs are served only off wifi. I used to use a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone 3Gs on T-Mobile pay-as-you go for my primary phone, but they only supported day-by-day Gen2 (EDGE/GPRS) data service to it, for an extra charge, and turned that option off over a year ago on me.

Data is the achilles heel of a smartphone to a carrier, unless you have ubiquitous wifi throughout your service area(s).

Don't use or need a data plan. GPS, i read a map, e-m- tablet or pc, text, vm and the tried and true (ring, ring) Hello. phone call. Which seems to be going the way of writing a letter.
I hate texting.
Especially when i receive AT WORK unable to talk now, will call you after work. unless i end up working overtime. if that happens i'll call after 9 tonight.. After all that you could have just answered the phone and asked to call later, OR go to VM

[brutal]

Don't use or need a data plan. GPS, i read a map, e-m- tablet or pc, text, vm and the tried and true (ring, ring) Hello. phone call. Which seems to be going the way of writing a letter. I hate texting. Especially when i receive AT WORK unable to talk now, will call you after work. unless i end up working overtime. if that happens i'll call after 9 tonight.. After all that you could have just answered the phone and asked to call later, OR go to VM

Sorry, I have that one programmed into my quick text for responding to rejected calls.

The one thing I miss about my Moto is the smart actions. Rules based actions like auto text replies and such. Still haven't looked at the alternative I installed.