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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ifestion2014:
Could someone be kind enough to help me through this via Teamviewer?

I bought a N900P three months ago for use in Europe (Greece) without

knowing anything about CDMA/GSM, so know I have a great device

which is useless, Sprint has refused me THREE TIMES the unlock,

I paid twice for unlock services which failed (I got refunded, though),

I even sold this device twice through the net and the buyer didn't pay,

so now I'm desperate about any help given in this mess. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
If sprint refuses there is no unlock..... Sell it.....sprint is the only one that can unlock it now...so its Useless to you....try to get your money back by selling it

Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ifestion2014:
Thanks a lot for the advise mate, I'm really trying to do so.

I just relisted it (for the fourth time, if you believe it).

If anyone here is interest, I'll gladly pm the link and even discount!

I even contacted some Sprint supervisor email I found on xda, no luck.

But I still get no answer to this: "I never signed a contract with you (Sprint).

Why don't you allow me to use my property the way I want?".
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
Because they subsidize the phone they can basically hold it hostage until they have made their money back on it....

Imagine everyone getting totally unlocked phones for 200 bucks when they cost 600 ..no company can lose 400 on every phone and stay in business

Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] JMB101:
I am in the same boat but mine has a clean ESN. Can I get sprint to unlock it without being a customer?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
No
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
As a joke...kinda: has anyone felt the S5? It feels like a damn China clone phone. Probably cost them $50 to make it.

On another note still waiting on a Sprint Note 3 to roll through the shop. Tried a similar method on a G900P and it didn't work...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
Hi had dropped you a pm yesterday .

Have a see and reply .

Thanks

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MBFX:
I feel bad for anyone that needs Sprint unlock. I'd never recommend anyone to go with Sprint. They are the worst of any kind. My friend paid ETF and was told that the phone would be unlocked but that never happened. After the service was done they refused to unlock it even though she was a customer. Their policy stinks and their customer reps are trained to lie and trick people.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] legends08:
Well, i have good news after all of this S**t ... i unlocked for CDMA. not for GSM my Note 3 sprint. for GSM is impossible at least for now. but. its something! for me that i live in another country. :fingers-crossed::)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] charlie1395:
Method Via Box

There is already a solution via box these days I get if I run this method:laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] frasslee:
How?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] chenshuily:
could you tell me how did you unlock for cdma? thank you very much.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
There isnt. Don't trust the logs. Idiots used the other model N900X phones to try to unlock the N900P. IT DOESNT WORK. CLEARING THE EFS DOES NOT AFFECT THE SIM LOCK ON SPRINT PHONES! Sure the box program will report "unlocked" but that's ONLY because it was successfully able to go through the procedure of clearing the efs and repairing the IMEI. At NO point do ANY GSM service boxes touch the Sprint SIM lock. Trust me..I've got four different boxes lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Giopand:
Just read and learn, before you talk.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49017479

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Mi hermano si el teléfono esta desbloqueado directo por Sprint debe de funcionar, no hay necesidad de hacer este procedimiento. Claro al no ser una compañía de Estados Unidos el network lo ve como una compañía internacional. Tenia un iPhone 4G desbloqueado de Sprint en Claro PR y funcionaba perfecto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] warriorpluto:
Anymore good updates? New methods for unlocking this phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] idone:
One of you sitting with a phone needing unlock should try preconfig and change the sales code to XAS which should be a wholesales csc. there is SPR for sprint BST for boost mobile VMU for virgin mobile and XAS.

I would change this property in two places: ro.csc.sales_code is populated by mps_code.dat it is in /efs/imei/mps_code.dat

ril.csc.sales_code can be set by command line adb or terminal emulator

su setprop ril.csc.sales_code XAS

You can launch preconfig from command line

su -c am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.sec.android.Preconfig/com.sec.android.Preconfig.Preconfig

WARINING you will lose data and settings (like a factory data reset!!!), backup things first.

It's worth a try for you guys that have phones doing nothing collecting dust.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] warriorpluto:
OK so after the menu shows up and it modifies the file it erases the phone? I have a note 3 collecting dust
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] idone:
It will factory data reset. Like ##rtn# but changes the way chameleon behaves. Preconfig does touch nv items. Like I said its worth a shot for one of you not using your property because of subsidy locks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
[MENTION=3652279]Giopand[/MENTION] I did read. The link you posted is to the beginning of this thread. NO WHERE does it mention a box solution. It mentions a MANUAL solution. The Octopus box team thought they found out how to unlock the N900P until I told them the exact same thing I said in my previous post. Guess what? They took the N900P off the selection menu in their newest update. Meaning: there is no BOX solution to unlock this phone like there is for the L720.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] klevismartini:
hi, would you please tell me how you can unlock the sprint note 3 for international gsm use?

without asking the sprint department?

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] no2chem:
Hmm, I've been away for awhile, but I can't get my phone internationally unlocked because I'm on an indirect account with an account spending limit. And apparently, there is no way to remove the ASL, so I'm out of luck.

Anyway, my research so far shows this:

1) The UICC unlock menu item launches some code in SprintDM

2) By default, verbose logging is turned off. But if you set the property ro.product_ship=false, you get verbose debug output.

3) The SprintDM is just some really poor code which sends some messages to TSL (not sure what that stands for, but seems related to provisioning).

4) The TSL process tries to talk to https://oma.ssprov.sprint.com:443/oma using a POST request. It seems to happily do this over WIFI. The payload is a SyncML file, which seems to contain the MEID, device id, and a request type: openmobilealliance.dm.unlocksim.userrequest

5) The communications seems to be over HTTPS, and the sprint server returns a message, which i assume just means to deny the request.

6) TSL also seems to care about the contents of /data/data/com.samsung.syncservice/dmacc_db.dat. Not sure whats in that file.

So one thing that would be useful would be to see the contents of the log for someone who is internationally unlocked, and has ro.product_ship set to false.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
I'm wondering if at any time it talks to the modem using AT commands. If so, we might be able to log that command and run it using a UART interface and a terminal to connect to it and send the AT command. I cant see all the other stuff making a difference. It seems that it's mostly there to identify your device, your account, and send the unlock.

Keep in mind this is pure speculation.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] no2chem:
yeah, possibly TSL seems to be written with JNI (or NDK), so a lot of the code is native. But any idea where this TSL process is?

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hmm, well I thought it might be in SprintSyncMLSvc, which does contain some interesting stuff, but that isn't were the TSL code is.

Anyway, I noticed com.samsung.dmexthandler has a SimExternalHandler class with a method setSimLockRil(int paramInt). I don't know if this is the right sim lock handler or not, and I haven't been able to figure out exactly what it does yet, (except call IPhoneDataService->setSimLock(I)), Not sure what object IPhoneDataService is though.

Guess I'll keep poking around until I find TSL.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
No clue what TSL is...never heard of it before...like many things involving baseband manipulation lol. Any chance you can give us a crash course on what you think TSL might be? Seems like it's another part of the phone that communicates with the modem, similar to RIL?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bads3ctor:
International Unlock for Good ESN Sprint Galaxy Note 3

Put your phone on a cheap Ting plan and follow this:

https://help.ting.com/entries/43744186-International-SIM-Unlock

Eligible Devices

The following devices are eligible for international SIM unlock:

...

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

...

I have not tried this but it looks like you can internationally unlock the Sprint Galaxy Note 3 through Ting.

From the post: "Unlocks are not guaranteed and these decisions are final. We pass these requests along to the our network partner and are unable to change the outcome if an unlock request is denied."

Edit: They seem to have a no usage plan so it would cost $0 if you don't use the phone while waiting for the unlock to go through. From Ting: "Keep in mind that you should allow at least 3-4 business days for your device to be unlocked"

Check your ESN here: https://ting.com/byod

Ting micro SIM $14: https://ting.com/shop/nexus5-sim
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Tilde88:
Did you do something special to the MI3 modem to allow GSM frequencies, or you just pulled the MI3 modem and made a flashable ODIN package (meaning that only the MI3 comes with unlocked frequencies)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
He probably pulled the MI3 modem and NONHLOS then packaged it in a tarball, then MD5'd it. The MI3 modem is special in many ways. I think it was one of the last Note 3 modems to not have the IMEI certification verification.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
OK question ....if u was to put a clean meid on my note 3 ...would I have to put the imei on the phone to get the international unlock on the phone .....because the imei on this phone isn't like the lg g2 when u write a meid to it the imei change to ..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
It shouldn't matter .

If you have a clean meid and if the line this.meid is active on is in good standing and is older than 90 days and hasn't got any unlocks done in last 1 year then spen t will.unlock .

Sprint unlocked the meid and associated imei . So you should be good .

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
well ting don't activate any sprint note 3...so that's a no go ....there have to be a way some how
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DAFTEK:
I own a Sprint Galaxy S4 that was blocked and had a bad ESN and was able to fully unlock it to use International and domestic with this method -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2530610
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
As far as I know, US Cellular phones strictly operate on CDMA bands. I've never heard of anyone unlocking a recent US Cellular phone for GSM.

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If anyone has complete logs of the unlock process I'd be willing to analyze them to see if I can track anything down that'll help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DAFTEK:
Ok got rid of the USCC Note3 and purchased a brand new T-mobile unlocked with clean ESN but here is a problem i can't figure out so maybe someone can help.

"I am currently located in the Midwest USA"

1. When I insert a prepaid T-mobile sim card the phone works and I am able to make calls and everything works right out the box upon boot up..

2. When I insert a prepaid Walmart Family Mobile Sim card the phone works and I am also able to make calls, net, sms with no special settings right out the box upon boot up...

Now here is the problem!

3. When I insert a prepaid Orange sim from Romania and upon boot up I get a popup screen with "SIM network unlock PIN" with two buttons, "UNLOCK" & "DISMIS" but when I enter the unlock code I receive "Network unlock unsuccessful" and have a "No service" and "Invalid SIM card" errors on the task bar.[/B]

4. When I insert a prepaid Cosmote sim from Romania and upon boot up I get a popup screen with "SIM network unlock PIN" with two buttons, "UNLOCK" & "DISMIS" but when I enter the unlock code I receive "Network unlock unsuccessful" and have a "No service" and "Invalid SIM card" errors on the task bar.[/B]

All of these sim cards have credit and operate flawlessly on my Sprint S4 that was unlocked by sprint and then did this method -> http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2530610 with the Goldeneye International S4 rom.

So how do I turn this Unlocked clean ESN T-Mobile Note 3 on to accept a European prepaid SIM card to work here in the states as the S4 works? :confused:

I really appreciate all the devs here and the effort they put on this forum. Thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rbeavers:
FYI. ting.com does charge $6. for the line, even if you don't use any voice, data or texts.

They still won't take my Sprint Note 3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
I talk to ting and they not gonna activate the note 3s from sprint
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
You were lied to. Apparently it's not unlocked and you're trying to enter in the wrong unlock code
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mustasusi:
Because it appears to be the only variant that has FM radio over any other Samsung device since 2013.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
Is that so ?

I haven't seen the FM radio in my note 3 .

I have the sprint one

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
when is somebody gonna figure out how to unlock the phone with out sprint
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
It's called next radio
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
I am using vision X 1.0 NAB , and yes i have debloated it , looks like i must have uninstalled the apk :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] idone:
Here you go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
Love ya bro !!

thanks a bunch
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jodhaaa:
Is that possible to do the same thing for SM-g900p (sprint galaxy s5)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Yes but it does no good if you're not already internationally unlocked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
so is anybody willing to share their system dump from there phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
It's not even a system dump that we'd need. It'd be multiple logs, including QXDM logs, a dump of the entire phone (mmcblk0) and possibly more. I'm not a wiz at cracking Sprint's intl unlock but I am blindly trying with both the S5 and Note 3. Wish Autoprime would fill in the blanks on the S4 L720 unlock tool.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
OKwhat about restoreing the entire ...backup that u can do in efs besides the efs folder from somebody else ...phone because I was reading that u need the uicc card in the phone while u update the prl and profile when having the international unlock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
That'd be a really dirty way for an unlock. I don't think anyone's ever done an entire raw write of the mmcblk0. Not too sure how you'd even do this as the recovery might end up overwriting itself in the process. Which might halt the entire process. And doing this in the Android System is just asking for a hard brick. Something that'd be interesting is to raw write every partition MINUS recovery in a custom recovery and try booting.

I'd leave this up to the N900P guys to try. They have a proven sd card (hard brick) unbrick method. Pretty nifty, Shabbypenguin led the way and me, along with various other XDA members pieced along a lot of other documentation to nail down what media it works on, what programs will work to raw write the file onto the sd card, what format the sd card should be in, etc. As far as I know of, there hasn't been any hard brick documentation that I've come across for the S5. Then again I haven't been digging for that information lately.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mrhunter13:
this really sucks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Just give it time. Like everything else it all takes time. For example, it took two GSM "teams" months to figure out how to calculate the response from the AT MSLSECUR command and the AKSEEDNO command. Sprint tightened up after the L720 was unlocked with a one click. Do you think the ONLY carrier who still uses a 6 digit SPC over their QC DM port (and changes their 16 digit password) would give up that easily? It takes talent, patience, skills, and...time.

It'd definitely help if some experienced (baseband/RIL/Java/modem/efs/NV ram, item) devs chimed in here. We could definitely use a slight push in the right direction.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crossvxm:
I wonder if something this similar would work for the Sprint Galaxy S5...I really want my new one on GSM as the IMEI is completely invalid and I didnt want sprint anyways.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] GothicGeek502:
Guy claims he can do it without sprint unlocking it first

So guy on Facebook goes by the name Ricky Flash says he can do it without sprint first unlocking it and OH he can do the sprint Galaxy S5 already on his own too. Oh and he says XDA is for Noobs and copycats who don't know what they are really doing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
They see me trollin....they hatin...patrollin, they trynna catch me online trollin...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] RpRAUC:
hi guys! can galaxy note 3 sm-n900p unlock for international operators? this way, or pay code?

(I'm sorry, it's hard to read the whole topic)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
The only way is if the phone is unlocked for international usage by sprint .

That can only be done while it is activated on a sprint account for more than 90 days in the US and there h as been no unlock done in that account to in last 1 year.

Once spring training unlocks it then with the method mentioned in this thread we can unlock for the domestic usage that is usage in the US as well .

Up until now there is no way other than what I just explained .

Yes we all hate sprint for that but at least they are learning from their mistakes ( read the unlocking on sprint s4 )

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] RpRAUC:
wanted to buy in ebay a used & bad ESN and then unlock, but it does not work. thank you so much for your reply!

probably should look onT- Mobile?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
Search a bit read descriptions carefully I think there are still couple of listings in which the phone has been unlocked for International use.

If it's unlocked then it's forever unlocked even if later on it becomes bad esn .

keep looking

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] RpRAUC:
do you mean that it could be unlocked the owner before and will work in 2G networks?

that , it works in GSM 900 - 2G? right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lord dredd:
Well any owner with a good standing account can get his phone unlocked with sprint provided it's more than 90 days old and no unlocks in a year and he can later sell it without paying dues and breaking the contract ( I am not suggesting this , this is a malpractice . But people still do that )

Which means the phone is bad esn at the time of sale or becomes a bad esn later on .

That wouldn't matter if it was internationally unlocked before becoming blacklisted with sprint , it will remain u locked forever .

So you may be in luck .keep trying .

Sent from SM-N900P - NOTE 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] RpRAUC:
I will try! the main thing that really worked in an unlocked at GSM

very big thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MadMax31:
Not completely true, mine was unlocked by sprint I used it for about a week and then I flashed x-note rom (big mistake :crying:) and became locked, I talked with sprint and they told me than even after international unlock after flashing a custom rom it can become locked again...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crossvxm:
Should have created a nandroid backup. Would have had a 90% chance to keep the unlock there. Never flash a rom without backing up. Wait a minute, doesnt your EFS get backed up automatically with certain rom flashes? If im not mistaking, the unlock sticks in the EFS somewhere, so perhaps restoring the EFS will help you?

I'm just waiting for an unlock for the G900P (Sprint S5) without the need of an international unlock first.

I REALLY wish it were as easy as the LG G2, taking an unlocked T-Mobile stock rom and adding some things like the Sprint boot img etc to get it running on the Sprint G2. Sometimes I feel like just taking it into my own hands and using ODIN to just flash a T-Mobile S5 system and tossing it on the Sprint to see if it fools it into thinking its a T-Mobile S5...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MadMax31:
Wrong again, I did made a nandroid backup and even after restoring the network lock remained.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crossvxm:
Tremendous bummer, they should be able to unlock it again being that they clearly have on record that your unlocking the EXACT same phone, exact serial number, IMEI, everything. You should ask them again repeatedly and they will eventually do it. If not, give them a threat that you cannot continue to pay for their services if they refuse to unlock a phone that was once unlocked by them. They'll probably tell you to wait one second while they talk to there supervisor and give you a yes afterwards. Works every time. Remember Sprint (as seen in the news at the end of last year) is THE WORST carrier to date, they dont want to lose their precious remaining customers. They lost me because of their scamming with the "4G" which became 3G in a famous big city. And their sudden assult with fees left and right.

TRY IT.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MadMax31:
Well the thing is I didn't unlocked it, it was the guy who sold it to me, so I have tried already but sprint is the worst company, I guess I'll have to sell it in ebay.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crossvxm:
Oh, then yeah your out of luck. You should try Craigslist instead. Right now my Galaxy S5 is a bad esn (Sprint). :(

Traded my T-Mobile LG G2 for it just hoping an unlock solution would someday rise. I was aware of it being bad,

but the guy was also aware that that G2 had a dead section on the top of the digitizer. So i was kind of getting rid

of a headache for another headache, but hey I can say i own an S5 right? Anyways if I where you, try to get a G2 at

least, still packs a quad core 2.26GHz along with a 5.2 full HD screen and a 13mp camera. Best of all, if you get a

Sprint model, they're usually cheaper, ESPECIALLY with a bad esn, and for us, unlocking is just a rom flash away. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Afaik, nandroids don't touch your EFS data partitions. It may backup the EFS folder, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the EFS data (names are...misleading. Thanks Samsung). If all you did was flash a ROM...flash back to stock. It should still be unlocked as long as it didn't wipe the EFS data with RTN or SCRTN.

IF flashing back to stock works please post back. This would help narrow down where the unlock is now happening, which might be in /system.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MadMax31:
No, already tried that too, right now I have it fully stock I even unroot it, the strange thing is that previously I flashed kitkatkiller 4 and everything was working correctly, just after flashing x-note (not bashing the rom) it got locked again, I am not a newbie to flashing I been doing it since the captivate days.