| Author |
Message |
Skinkutter
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
Moto Razr
Service Provider:
None |
 
Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:13 pm |
|
If I buy an old T-mobile phone from my brother can I activate it with a new T-Mobile to go simm card? I found the cards on Craigslist. I tried my Tracphone card, but the screen just stays white when I turn it on. The thing is that my brothers phone probably had an overdue balance when it got shut off if that makes a difference. When you turn the phone on with his simm it says all of this t-mobile stuff, than it says unregistered simm. Any help would be great. I just don't want to give him the 50 bucks and then call t-mobile to get it turned on and have them say I owe them x amount of $$$$. Thank you for the help.
|
 |
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
scott1494
Posts: 1 |
Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:54 pm |
|
The previous owner's account balance has nothing to do with the phone's ability to be used in the future when using a GSM phone like this. The "Unregistered SIM" message means that you're using a SIM card for which this phone is not intended. You will need to have the phone unlocked and it should work.
|
|
Skinkutter
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
Moto Razr
Service Provider:
None |
Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:52 pm |
|
So you say it will need to be unlocked even though my new simm card would be a tmobile prepaid simm?
|
|
mpapple10
Posts: 1132
Phone Model:
T-Mobile Shadow/HTC Juno
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:05 am |
| scott1494 wrote: | | The previous owner's account balance has nothing to do with the phone's ability to be used in the future when using a GSM phone like this. The "Unregistered SIM" message means that you're using a SIM card for which this phone is not intended. You will need to have the phone unlocked and it should work. |
The Sim could be unregistered if the account to which it was linked to on t-mobile no longer exists.
|
|
Naelyan
Posts: 68
Phone Model:
Samsung M620 Upstage
Service Provider:
SaskTel |
Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:40 pm |
|
Yeah, it sounds like the old account is cancelled (hence "phone probably had an overdue balance when it got shut off"), that's why you're getting the "Unregistered SIM" error with his old SIM card. You should be able to activate a prepaid SIM card and then use that phone no problem.
|
|
sora0256
Posts: 71
Phone Model:
Wing, Sidekicks 1,2,3,lx, RAZR V3re, Samsung Blast, Shadow, RAZR V3T, Pantech C300, Voyager, enV and Shine
Service Provider:
T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon |
Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:35 pm |
The phone should work with T-Mobile TOGO because you can use any T-Mobile phone with a T-Mobile Sim Chip.
Even if there was a balance left on the previous owner's account, that information is tied to the sim of the previous owner. It has nothing to do with the phone.
|
View more 
