How To: Straight Talk and Android - SIM Swap from Nokia Smartphone

[efparri]

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[rizaydog]

I am sorry. I didn't realize that there was a differance between converting a droid to straight talk and converting it to tracfone. My mistake.

[silentjudge]

I am sorry. I didn't realize that there was a differance between converting a droid to straight talk and converting it to tracfone. My mistake.

For GSM its just a SIM swap. So you can use any AT&T Android on ST with this trick.

On CDMA (ie Verizon) phones, you have to do some legally questionable things to make it work. So its a whole other thing.

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[gotanmp3]

I am sorry. I didn't realize that there was a differance between converting a droid to straight talk and converting it to tracfone. My mistake.

TracFone uses an "air tank" timer on the phone to manage your minutes/days remaining. By cloning another phone onto the service, you're defeating the "air tank" and basically doing exactly what the FCC's anti-cloning law says you'll be put in "Federal pound me in the *** prison" for.

Straight Talk's Nokia Smartphones have no air tank software and require the $45 unlimited plan. As stated numerous times, the service runs on AT&T, so it's entirely SIM-card based.

[deathtrip]

Just curious about something I am having trouble finding.

If I activate an e71 on ST and swap the SIM to another phone, can I change the IMEI on the account to a different ST phone and sell the e71 and still retain the full 3g services on the account/sim?

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[efparri]

This question has been answered several times.

[silentjudge]

Just curious about something I am having trouble finding.

If I activate an e71 on ST and swap the SIM to another phone, can I change the IMEI on the account to a different ST phone and sell the e71 and still retain the full 3g services on the account/sim?

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Are you saying if you can
1. Buy an E71, activate, and swap the SIM to another GSM phone
2. Sell the E71 and retain your current SIM+service in the other GSM phone?

In that case no

Or are you saying
1. Buy an E71, activate it, swap SIM to other GSM phone
2. Buy another E71, transfer your account over to the new E71 and use the new E71's SIM card
3. Sell the old E71 and retain service on your new E71 SIM?

In that case, yes

[deathtrip]

I'm sure it has been, but being on my phone I'm not having much success with finding the answer without reading every single page, which on an Evo would take much longer to do... much like your failure to simply link to, or answer correctly.

I wouldn't have asked if I hadn't taken the time to look.

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[deathtrip]

Are you saying if you can
1. Buy an E71, activate, and swap the SIM to another GSM phone
2. Sell the E71 and retain your current SIM+service in the other GSM phone?

In that case no

Or are you saying
1. Buy an E71, activate it, swap SIM to other GSM phone
2. Buy another E71, transfer your account over to the new E71 and use the new E71's SIM card
3. Sell the old E71 and retain service on your new E71 SIM?

In that case, yes

Thanks for your reply... so from my understanding... You must goto another e71 on the account? It can't be a non-e71 ?

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[dorky82]

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[silentjudge]

Thanks for your reply... so from my understanding... You must goto another e71 on the account? It can't be a non-e71 ?

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You can go to any other ST phone, its just only the E71, E5, and 6790 have unlocked SIMs. When you transfer from the E71 to another phone, you have to change to the new SIM. So you don't get to keep the unlocked SIM if you did that.

[deathtrip]

Oooh, gotcha. Thanks for the help.

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[LG vx8100]

So Renegade, you seemed to be very pleased with your Inspire but now you've gone to the Infuse. How does the Infuse compare? Why did you change? I am just getting into acquiring a smart phone and the service. What you all are doing here looks very appealing. Your use of the Inspire is very influential to me and I have been considering it seriously until noticing your switch (?) to the Infuse. Do both have tethering capabilities?

I have been jumping back and forth through this post but I haven't found a couple of things:

Would you mind telling me the meaning and significance of "rooted, unlocked, using CM7 ROM" in your signature? Are you considering doing something similar to the Infuse? Also "mms".

If you use the Nokia E71's SIM card in an Android can you just take it out of your converted Android, put it back into your E71 and use the E71 (to call ST customer support for example)? Or do you have to reprogram the SIM card to work with the E71 once more? Once you've finished using the E71, can you just transfer the SIM card back to the Android and use it again without having to reprogam the Android again?

Are there advantages to buying an att Android on ebay that is sold unlocked? (What is the name of your eBay store by the way...?)

Thanks,
Mike

Just upgraded.... Done this with the Iphone 3Gs, HTC Inspire, and now the Samsung Infuse 4g

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[silentjudge]

If you use the Nokia E71's SIM card in an Android can you just take it out of your converted Android, put it back into your E71 and use the E71 (to call ST customer support for example)? Or do you have to reprogram the SIM card to work with the E71 once more? Once you've finished using the E71, can you just transfer the SIM card back to the Android and use it again without having to reprogam the Android again?

Yes, absolutely, just a quick SIM swap needed. No reprogramming, nothing else needed. Once your done, you just move it back to your Android and voila, no re-programming.

Are there advantages to buying an att Android on ebay that is sold unlocked? (What is the name of your eBay store by the way...?)

No, you don't need an unlocked AT&T Android for this.

Would you mind telling me the meaning and significance of "rooted, unlocked, using CM7 ROM" in your signature? Are you considering doing something similar to the Infuse? Also "mms".

Think of the ROM as the operating system on the phone. CyanogenMod 7 is a community built version of Android that supports many phones.
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/about

CM7 gives you root, unblocked tethering, fast and smooth UI, better battery life, and much more customizability than the stock Android with Touchwiz on the Infuse or the Android with Sense UI on the Inspire.

[LG vx8100]

SilentJudge,

Thanks for the (undoubtedly) remedial explanations. That helped!

Mike