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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
Region lock is moot so long as the phone is first setup with local sim card correct ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
The region lock (if the 900t even has one. No sticker on the box) is moot to begin with. It is removed when you put in the network unlock code as verified by chainfire in his post. I never put a tmo sim in my phone. Went straight to unlock with the code. If you use chainfires app to patch the modem it may be different. I didn't go that route.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] barondebxl:
Great job! Also got my second Tmobile Note 3 yesterday and unlocked that sucker. Now im enjoying LTE and the freedom of an unlocked bootloader.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
I'll be testing your theory when I travel to UK next month and put in a UK sim card .We shall see. ...

Mines not rooted just SP lock removed via Cellunlocker.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I did exactly the same deal, it will be interesting to see how it works out.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
Thing that gets me are that some or one that are saying it still will not accept a local sim card. There is this this on this forum, Moderators please delete if not allowed to link to other forums as apologize if breaking the rule if any.. He or she basically setup phone locally then went to HK and the sim card was rejected. Hope I am not in for a rude awaking.

http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...ms-other-than-euro-ones-european-version.html
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
There is some speculation over whether the region lock will remove properly when it is activated.

Would be nice if someone from Europe could send you a SIM to test before you go. You could possibly get(but not use) and store the region lock removal apk on your SD card and do a little test when you get there.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
I thought of what you said. But I thought that I need to be there to try local sim whilst there to see if it works. ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I would think it would know immediately.

Like the SIM unlock

You boot the phone and it prompts really quick for the SIM unlock code.

Good question though.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
In an ideal world the above will work, lets see Uncle Les, Lets see when I go back to my home..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shinasurada:
Will an unlocked t mobile note 3 be able to do native wifi tethering on the att network?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I installed FoxFi on mine, works flawlessly.

Some mentioned using the TMO app as well.

Main thing!!

If it pops a window saying call ATT and the option is "OK" don't select "OK" just hit the home button and go about your business. Works great.

Hitting the OK button gets you reported basically.

FoxFi does just fine for me, no questions.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Some Interest concerning this issue

http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3-release-manufacturer-admits-misstep-region-lock-feature-1432206
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] MattMJB0188:
Ok. Few questions here for you experts lol.

1. Where is the best place to buy the TMO Galaxy Note 3? Negri? It comes unlocked already from them.

2. I've read that AT&T's LTE speeds aren't as fast? I can pull 40-60mbps down on AT&T LTE; would this change on the TMO Note 3?

3. I have the old $30 grandfathered smartphone plan on AT&T, would my current plan (Data Unlomited for iPhone on 4G LTE) work? Or would I have to get the IMEI of an AT&T android and switch it?

4. What do you guys with AT&T's $6.99 insurance do? It won't cover a TMO device?

Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Quickvic30:
Well I bought one off Craigs list then the next day I realized the deal was too good to be true and the phone would probably be blacklisted in a month so I got my money refunded cause the guy didn't know the story behind the phones short history.

I just went went t mobile and bought one outright. You can get it for 703 if you buy a 30 minute prepaid plan for 10 dollars and then just discard that sim or use the prepaid sim with 30 minutes on it. If you buy the prepaid 30 min plan and phone it's 770 out the door with taxes. If you buy the phone out right its 739 and 795 after tax.

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You would also need the imei number from an Android phone that had 4G lte. I used the chain fire region unlock twice now and it has worked perfect both times and is only 3 dollars on the play market.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] MattMJB0188:
Anyone?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] antiochasylum:
1.Negri, orn T-Mobile store, Craig's list, eBay. Anywhere you can buy one really

2. Why would it change? Its the same identical device. I get better speeds on my TMobile Note 3 vs my ATT Note 2.

3. Yes, I have the 30$ a month unlimited as well. I just unlocked my T-Mobile note 3, popped in my Sim and done, I came from a ATT Note 2 (Btw you do know its NOT unlimited. You get throttled at 5gigs on LTE devices).

4. No idea. Never even thought of that. I have never used the insurance to save my life. Its just a gimick anyway. Save the 7$ and donate to a developer.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Ya, save the money and get squaretrade or negricare if you want insurance.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Btw matt, the "coming from an iPhone question" was answered a few pages back. Lots of helpful info for your situation.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jmarquesh:
Aio Wireless APN

Just received my Aio Wireless SIM. Unlocked the Tmobile Note 3 with a code from cellunlocker. Tried the APN settings for ATT in the guide and didn't work. The APN was not saved. I made a search and found these settings for Aio:

Name: Aio Wireless

APN: ndo

Proxy: Not Set

Port: Not Set

Username: Not Set

Password: Not Set

Server: Not Set

MMSC: http://mmsc.aiowireless.net

MMS Proxy: proxy.aiowireless.net

MMS Port: 80

MCC: 310

MNC: 150

Authentication type: Not Set

APN type: default,mms,fota,hipri,supl

So far LTE is working but download speeds are too low compared to upload: 1.68 Mbps down vs 4.55 up. While browsing the internet does not feel too bad. Maybe is something related to Speedtest.net?

MMS don't seems to be working but I don't know if that has something to do with the fact that I transferred my number from another company (I received an SMS saying the full transfer may take some hours to complete.

EDIT:

Turns out that MMS is working properly. Apparently the problem is in the other phone to which I was trying to send the MMS.

Data (4G LTE) is also working properly when I test it here at work. Now I get 5.52 Mbps down and 5.04 up, ping 196 ms.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Limeybastard:
I have read this and other journals about the region lock. It appears its primarily based on EU models and not US versions. I guess I will be the guenie pig soon..

:laugh:

Best LTE download speeds I get on the N900T using ATT is on average 25 mpbs down and about 4 up.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] romulusram:
So say I buy a AT&T Note 3 on contract and I sell it then use the money to buy a T-Mobile Note 3 to use on the AT&T network . Would I use the sim card and the IMEI of the AT&T Note 3 I sold? And if I did, would I have any problems in the future when eventually the person who bought my AT&T Note 3 and started using it on the same AT&T network as well?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Yup, you can do that. I've done it before with other phones. Just get the ATT note and the sim card. Verify you have LTE and then you are done talking to ATT. Sell it and insert the SIM into the Tmobile one. The only reason the IMEI is needed is to get the correct data plan with LTE. Nothing more. No future problems for either party.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I did this. I've done this before, never had a problem. As long as you don't report the phone lost or don't fulfill the contract, The ATT phone will be fine.

It is preferred to do it this way because you won't get into problems getting LTE to work on your TMO phone. Just get the ATT phone, get it working on LTE and sell it.

That's what I did.

The IMEI is on the phone, not the SIM.

Get your new TMO, put the ATT sim in and you're good to go after setting up the proper apn.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] romulusram:
Thanks for the tips!

Quick question: Since it will be a T-Mobile phone on the AT&T network, what would happen with OTA updates that are pushed from the AT&T network, would I still receive them or probably not right?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I have a TMO on ATT and got the first update. I believe there was one.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TEKHD:
How is that possible? (Impossible in my opinion)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Ya, I think so too. The ota, if the phone is unmodified will come from samsung/tmo update servers not att. ATT will not touch a 900t. That would be a recipe for disaster.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I might have got it before the root, you may be right.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] romulusram:
So the T-Mobile Note 3 on an AT&T network would still get T-Mobile OTA updates?

I wonder how a phone identifies itself in this situation or if the updates come directly from Samsung servers so it wouldn't matter what network. But I'm sure carrier updates come from the carrier networks themselves..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] B0nes424:
What if I cannot obtain an AT&T note 3 before getting a TMO? I have a guy who wants to trade me for my S4. If his TMO note 3 is already unlocked can I just put my S4 sim in there and set up APN settings?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Yes, I think this is the ideal situation. I came from a ATT Note 2 and it is the same. You are coming from a Android LTE phone so you don't even have call or visit ATT. Just change sim cards and go from there.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
OTA's work over wifi and that's not on the carrier network. So yes, if your device is unmodified it would get the Tmobile OTA's. Samsung does most of the work for our OTA's. It just goes to the carrier for testing and to get bloated up. Who know's they might have an agreement with samsung and provide the bloat to them and then samsung put's it in there. Samsung is the one who has all the original source code.

Personally I don't want anyone to touch my device but myself. The good parts of OTA's are usually already incorporated into the latest rom's and I know what I am getting. Carrier OTA's are usually very late to the party compared to the dev community here. You have to wait months longer to get carrier OTA's because of red tape and testing while international devices and us (thanks to devs) get updates quicker.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] B0nes424:
Well i made the trade. Note wasn't unlocked when I got it so i'm just waiting on my code. Hopefully I get it soon!!!! lol
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
I went out and bought the t-mobile version earlier today. activated the 30 min prepaid sim, and then followed instructions forwarding my info and payment to cellunlocker. that was 2.5 hours ago, i got a confirmation msg from cellunlocker and another confirmation from paypal, and when i type my info into cellunlocker to track status, it diplays "pending". is this what it says while it's getting your code? how long was other people's wait around here?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
It varies. I waited about 2 hours for mine. Some have waited 15 hours. The process takes longer on the weekends. The fastest I've heard is 5 minutes.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Ahh ok. I'm at ease now, hadn't read that anyone had longer wait times than 20 mins for this device. Thanks for the quick and useful response.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
So T-Mobile's Galaxy Note 3 is still the best to use on AT&T's network (with LTE capability)? And if so, why?

I'd like to purchase this phone this week, and be able to unlock it so I can use with SIM cards outside of the US.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Please read the OP. It will answer your questions.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
The original OP's post is a month old... A lot happens in a month.

Although I'm still doing research myself & searching across the forums, I figured it'd be easier to post in this thread in case people are still following the original poster's suggestion when there's a newer alternative method (I may or may not have missed).
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
That's fine. There is also a date below the post that shows when it gets updated. I try to keep it up to date as much as possible. Last edited by mircury; 25th October 2013 at 09:58 PM.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
Didn't notice the timestamp, nor made the correlation between you and the original poster (you).

It's been a busy day... but thank you.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
yea i have been busy doing some other things throughout the night here, even managed to squeeze into a preorder for the ps4 cod ghosts bundle on the walmart website.. yay!! a 3 day autoclick and browser macro mission finally accomplished!!

- i know for a fact that all my info on the CU site (imei, carrier, etc) was correct, and i activated the tmo phone with the tmobile prepaid card and made a phone call to my other phone before turning it off until i get the code later for unlock.

anyway, that unlock code has been on the back of my mind since 5:40pm yesterday, 8 hours ago.. if it wasn't for you telling me that the process can take longer on the weekends, i think i'd be really discouraged right now. the one thing that bothers me, is that the CU.net order tracker status reads "pending". Ihis normal while it's searching codes? Or does it signify a problem with my payment option (debit card), which i know is valid since i've used it since tonight a couple of times.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] B0nes424:
I am currently sitting at 37 hours waiting for my code. I have sent emails and received emails. in response. None of which have given any indication as to when I'll be getting my code. I'm not stressing though. 24.99 is not a ton of money for one code. Multiply that by thousands and this site is making a pretty decent amount of money. Doesn't seem lucrative to screw someone for 25 bucks.

That being said...I'm getting a bit jumpy while sitting here with a phone that I can't use lol
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Right. Ain't the end of the world, but it ain't the get home and play with my toy thing I was hoping for. Which brings me to a question.. I put the att sim in the tmo phone cuz I thought I was gonna turn it on and unlock it. Never did. Now that it's been 11 hours I'm gonna throw the Att sim back into the att phone and keep using that one until the tmo code areives. If I play with the tmo phone, like root and install root apps on it, can i unlock on top of all that when I get the code?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Ya, it won't won't hurt it at all.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
nice, at least i can get it all setup then. thanks :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
okay.. 27 hours and counting. Still says order is "Pending". Now i'm getting worried I won't be able to unlock this without 40 days of service. I used a prepaid phone sim card to activate the phone before i sent the request and payment to Cellunlocker.. that's not a bad thing to do right?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
You don't need to activate the 900T when going to an ATT sim or any ATT mvno like straight talk. People are really worried about this because of the region locks on the international phones. Myself and others here have tested this. The first sim I put in the phone was my AT&T one and it prompted me for the network unlock code and I put it in. It said it was successful and I was done. Once you get the code you will be fine. You don't need any other service let alone 40 days of it. If you haven't gotten your code by tomorrow I would definitely call them to see what's holding it up. I know it's frustrating waiting. Hope you get it soon.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Alright will do. Thanks for the advice I'll update you on the situation with a big yaaaaaaay. Except it will have a !!!!!!!!!!!!! at the end.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] GoldfishTX:
With the Knox 0x0 root, you might be able to use regionlock away to unlock the phone and skip waiting for the code entirely.

CU took about 10 minutes for me to get my code. If it had been 8 hours, I would have been pretty annoyed, much less 36+.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
I'm going on 44 hrs now. Definitely lost hope in them. Gonna call them soon and see whats up, but I don't expect them to tell me anything except to sit tight until i get the message as to whether or not they found a code.

Conceening RegionAway- I read that you have to have an unactivated sim in the phone when doing this, only problem is that I activated the phone with the prepaid sim card I got with the phone as per CellUnlocker's advice. Am I SOL for using the region lock away method now?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Called CU.net today, they told me that for my particular device they will have more information regarding as to whether or not they will be able to find the code for me by Tuesday or Wednesday. They told me to keep posted for an email from them.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Deleted. XDA app wouldn't give me permission to post the picture.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Just got this from CU customer service. At least they have good support. I said yes, please do it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Wow, totally strange.

I just bought my Phone from TMO Corporate store about 2 weeks ago, came home and tried a cheap Unlocker for 48 hours and ended up cancelling it. They couldn't get it.

I did Cellunlocker.net and got it in about 4 hours.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Ha!.. What was the name of the cheap service? I may have to try that one if this 5 day alternative process doesn't work.

I highly doubt I will get a T-Mobile rep to unlock it for me as I have an ATT plan and sim.

Edit; Screw it. i'm gonna search for another service right now, pay someone else to do it and see if i get a code faster than i get a response back from CU.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I don't remember the price of the $6 service but it became obvious they weren't going to be able to get the code.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
I just paid unlockforcheap.com $30 so if they get I'll take cellunlocker on their refund offer. Wait time says 12-24 hours so fingers crossed.

thank me dammit i probably helped you!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Boosoth1st:
Made mistake of giving ATT my Tmo ph imei still on their website I got to give it..

Made mistake of giving ATT my Tmo ph imei still on their website I had to give it otherwise it said just unrecognized imei which means I won't get LTE? It's a bummer because I am not getting 4G LTE, only 4G HSPA+ which isn't bad, but I want to be able to get LTE, do you know of a way of getting LTE on ATT withough having to give them an ATT IMEI number? or how can I get one? Thanks.

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Made mistake of giving ATT my Tmo ph imei still on their website I had to give it otherwise it said just unrecognized imei which means I won't get LTE? It's a bummer because I am not getting 4G LTE, only 4G HSPA+ which isn't bad, but I want to be able to get LTE, do you know of a way of getting LTE on ATT withough having to give them an ATT IMEI number? or how can I get one? Thanks.:mad:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Try going down to an ATT Corporate store and tell them the story and that they can use ant LTE imei to get the phone provisioned.

or

Call and come clean with the advanced tech support people and treaten to drop your data connection if you can't get it working.

This is assuming you're not under contract.

or maybe

Borrow somebodies LTE phone, get provisioned and then swap back.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Quickvic30:
If your rooted I would try the region unlock. Just remove your t mobile sim card and give it a try, its 3 bucks......
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Actually.. Funny thing is, just yesterday I realized how much cheaper and better T-Mobile is than AT&T. Gonna cancel my att contract and go start up a T-Mobile plan today. No worries about unlock anymore lol..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Black Moon:
So you still haven't got the code from cu? That worries me then
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Ya, I hope a lot of people give T-mobile service at least a try because of this locked bootloader stuff on ATT. Vote with your money. T-Mobile isn't that bad. Free wifi calling is great, especially in large downtown buildings where normal cell signals are spotty. I would be on them if I wasn't on a corporate account. I can't complain though, they pay my bill. I'm converting my family over to T-mobile though. I've got 1 left. :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] teknowiz23:
Get Emmmmmmm!! About to head out to Tmo to get my att number ported over. Quite stoked this dilemma will be over and I WILL NEVER BE THROTTLED AGAIN!!!!

I've been with att for 5 years.. I feel like I'm about to end an abusive relationship.

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Ha!.. Nope. They sent me through an alt database and said it could take up to another 5 business days to get a "no code" or a code. Its not gonna happen. I'm putting my money to T-Mobile on that.

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HAHAHA.. I just received the unlock code from the secondary service I applied for. Cellunlocker.net has been working on it for 3 days at a projected unforseeable result in 8 days.. Unlockforcheap did it in 13 hours. I'm leaving for T-Mobile shortly but I'll try the code now anyway and see if it works.

UPDATE; NETWORK UNLOCK SUCCESSFUL!!

after adding APN details.. Its all g LTE! So hilarious that I'm going to switch to T-Mobile right now after all that.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Boosoth1st:
Thanks, will try that, I was planning to do just that.:D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Be real sweet while you're down there...

Maybe walk in with a Pizza...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Yes, and bat your eyes at them a lot. The faster the better.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
You don't want to scare them though...

Don't look twitchy
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Black Moon:
So did you get refund from CellUnlocker.net? Anyway, good that it's working, finally :D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Boosoth1st:
On the same line... I called them and they wouldn't change it as rhey didn't have a ph with them and it was beyond them.. they told me to try it in a store and see if I was lucky..

The othe option I have is to actually buy a broken cheap totally bad phone from ebay so as to get the att imei from there... so my question is; can it be any kind of LTE att phone such as the GS3 ime (there seems to be plenty of broken ones of these type)? Or does it have to be the imei of a compatible LTE band phone? I know the GS3 has less LTE frequencies than the GS4 or GNote3 or even the GS3mini! I wonder if att will give me only those frequencies (on my Tmo GN3) allowed by the phones with the imei registered with att or it will give me all LTE frequencies that my Tmo GN3 can handle?

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:confused:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I don't think it would work like that. They need you to be able to access any LTE freqs because you may travel into different areas where only one freq or the other is on the tower. There are tower maps out there that show what freqs are where. It will be challenging to get them to activate it that way,let us know if you are successful.

Sux that you have to do this.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] vinnyj85:
Havent seen it anywhere yet so I thought I would give it a try here, I have a note from at&t that im trying to use with a tmobile sim but all I get is edge speeds even tho ive changed the apn setting how to I get 4g/lte