Is your Sprint 4S Unlocked?

[risingofthephoenix]

according to google maps it's 20 miles but in all actuality it's an hour drive

 

[Cleveland]

according to google maps it's 20 miles but in all actuality it's an hour drive

About 40 mins, regardless of the time it takes it's still 20 miles away, so it was a lie when you said they are nowhere near each other

 

[Skier1960]

according to google maps it's 20 miles but in all actuality it's an hour drive

Can you translate that into French for me?

 

[npatrick]

My experience with Sprint, International Roaming, and iPhone 4s (pre trip)

I'm going to China soon.
It's been a long and winding road with the iphone 4s and sprint, but I thought I'd share what I've learned:

1. iphone bought late in November was immediately "enabled" by Sprint for global roaming. I've had sprint for 5 years, so that's why.
2. here's the interesting part: I'll be in China which has GSM and CDMA. These will switch based on "the strongest signal", there is no way for user to switch. So even if my Passport SIM card works there, I'll have to find a place where signal is greatest according to the following information bar readings:
China Telecom: CDMA
China Unicom or China Mobile: GSM
3. I still get different answers from Sprint regarding my own GSM SIM. One rep said: "Just connect to iTunes and it will "unlock" automatically." Another said "it should work, but I can't say for sure."
4. When I go to China, I was told to "turn cellular data off" to avoid exorbitant data charges, but turn voice roaming on to get voice and text.
5. Finally, for dialing from China to US, another glitch is that I first need to know which network I'm on (see carriers above) then dial either the CDMA access code first "00 1 xyz xxx xxxx" or the
GSM Access Code first: "+ 1 xyz xxx xxxx"

The bottom line seems to be that the whole setup (phone, radio, sprint, etc.) is not designed from a user perspective. I just want to go to China and use a local SIM to avoid the $2.50 / minute voice calling (though text at $.50 is < text charge on the Global SIM card I bought).

Maybe someone else can weigh in on actual experience in China? And whether I'm right about the above? Thanks. This whole thing gives me a headache

 

[chiratsu]

Update: I requested the unlock code for my iPhone since I am traveling on Friday and Sprint took down my IMEI # today and said my iPhone will be unlocked once they make the change on their side (which could take up to 8 hours according to the rep) and then I would just have to connect my phone to itunes and that would do it.

I will see what happens when I put in my AT&T sim card in tomorrow to see if they really did unlock it.

 

[Cleveland]

Update: I requested the unlock code for my iPhone since I am traveling on Friday and Sprint took down my IMEI # today and said my iPhone will be unlocked once they make the change on their side (which could take up to 8 hours according to the rep) and then I would just have to connect my phone to itunes and that would do it.

I will see what happens when I put in my AT&T sim card in tomorrow to see if they really did unlock it.

Putting the AT&T sim won't do anything ... It's unlocked for carriers outside the us only I believe since it's a CDMA based US carrier iPhone

 

[verwon]

Putting the AT&T sim won't do anything ... It's unlocked for carriers outside the us only I believe since it's a CDMA based US carrier iPhone

You are right. Only foreign sims work.

 

[chiratsu]

Putting the AT&T sim won't do anything ... It's unlocked for carriers outside the us only I believe since it's a CDMA based US carrier iPhone

This is accurate, I really don't care about AT&T just need to make sure I can use a foreign sim in there!

You are right. Only foreign sims work.

thanks

 

[Cleveland]

Just wanted to make sure you knew and as long as they have the iPhone and it's a micro sim.. A sim is a sim lol