Unlocked cell phone question
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Unlocked cell phone question
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I have an android phone that is supposedly unlocked. How can I verify this?
I have an android phone that is supposedly unlocked. How can I verify this?
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Put in a SIM card from a different carrier and see if it connects
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It's an odd question to ask here.
He could have literally typed his question into google and gotten an answer immediately. I'm assuming he's not helpless.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
And you "don't see how that's relevant here".
Bizarre.
He could have literally typed his question into google and gotten an answer immediately. I'm assuming he's not helpless.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
And you "don't see how that's relevant here".
Bizarre.
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I need an inexpensive device that runs Android 9 or newer or iOS 12 or newer (preferably a generation or 2 newer than either of those for future proofing) to run my Zwift Companion App while riding on my trainer using Zwift. They deprecated my old Kindle Fire solution (Amazon's version of Android 5). If I don't want it to use as a phone (reasons for not wanting a cell phone), it looks like my cheapest option would be a 4-5 year old locked phone. I could use a locked phone because all I want it for us to use it on wifi, right?
And yes, I could have googled as well (and I did), but couldn't find someone wanted to do exactly what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd check for verification.
I believe I could also go one step further/cheaper and get a phone with a bad IMEI/ESN because, again, would never be used on a cellular network and only on wifi, but that would probably mean supporting theft, which I don't want to do.
And yes, I could have googled as well (and I did), but couldn't find someone wanted to do exactly what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd check for verification.
I believe I could also go one step further/cheaper and get a phone with a bad IMEI/ESN because, again, would never be used on a cellular network and only on wifi, but that would probably mean supporting theft, which I don't want to do.
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("locked" is kind of ambiguous. There's "carrier locked" and "screen/phone locked". We are talking about the "carrier" one.)
Your question wasn't as easy as the OP's. If the OP had made any effort (and still had questions), it's likely he would have asked a different question. People don't mind helping but they really don't want to do work that the person asking the question could easily do.
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Yeah, screen-locked and iCloud locked are a lot of what I see sellers trying to slip into the "locked" description without people noticing when I'm looking at carrier-locked used phones. If Apple isn't going to unlock a dead terrorist's iCloud locked phone for the FBI, they're definitely not going to unlock an iCloud locked phone that some random dude sold me.
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I need an inexpensive device that runs Android 9 or newer or iOS 12 or newer (preferably a generation or 2 newer than either of those for future proofing) to run my Zwift Companion App while riding on my trainer using Zwift. They deprecated my old Kindle Fire solution (Amazon's version of Android 5). If I don't want it to use as a phone (reasons for not wanting a cell phone), it looks like my cheapest option would be a 4-5 year old locked phone. I could use a locked phone because all I want it for us to use it on wifi, right?
And yes, I could have googled as well (and I did), but couldn't find someone wanted to do exactly what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd check for verification.
I believe I could also go one step further/cheaper and get a phone with a bad IMEI/ESN because, again, would never be used on a cellular network and only on wifi, but that would probably mean supporting theft, which I don't want to do.
And yes, I could have googled as well (and I did), but couldn't find someone wanted to do exactly what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd check for verification.
I believe I could also go one step further/cheaper and get a phone with a bad IMEI/ESN because, again, would never be used on a cellular network and only on wifi, but that would probably mean supporting theft, which I don't want to do.