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Has anyone ever heard of a hack you can perform on your phone to make it recognize a signal that would not pick up by default but is there? For example, I live in a local US Cellular area where Verizon is roaming, and the 4G LTE network is active and working here (even though they have no phones for it yet), and i know that 4G roaming will not be agreed to between carriers right away so I'm going to be stuck with a beautiful 4G razr in extended 3G coverage even though I am surrounded by a 4G signal! Is there any way I can hack my phone and force it to pick up that signal and use it? Thanks everyone!
 
tkd_aj said:
Has anyone ever heard of a hack you can perform on your phone to make it recognize a signal that would not pick up by default but is there? For example, I live in a local US Cellular area where Verizon is roaming, and the 4G LTE network is active and working here (even though they have no phones for it yet), and i know that 4G roaming will not be agreed to between carriers right away so I'm going to be stuck with a beautiful 4G razr in extended 3G coverage even though I am surrounded by a 4G signal! Is there any way I can hack my phone and force it to pick up that signal and use it? Thanks everyone!
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No. unless you're paying US cellular to use their network, or Verizon has a roaming agreement this would be theft of service, illegal hacking, probably software piracy. even if you don't care about that, there's really no way to do that. You are not authorized to be on their network, you will get exactly as much service as any other phone that hasn't been activated on the network. There is a slight possibility that you could flash the phone to work exclusively on US Cellular (no Verizon connectivity). I doubt that that's even possible, and it'd be a alot of work to even try.
 
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No. unless you're paying US cellular to use their network, or Verizon has a roaming agreement this would be theft of service, illegal hacking, probably software piracy. even if you don't care about that, there's really no way to do that. You are not authorized to be on their network, you will get exactly as much service as any other phone that hasn't been activated on the network. There is a slight possibility that you could flash the phone to work exclusively on US Cellular (no Verizon connectivity). I doubt that that's even possible, and it'd be a alot of work to even try.
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Being that I previously worked for Verizon, and i am currently working for US Cellular i understand how the agreements work and that you are "not supposed" to be able to do any of this, but if you think about it my phone supportes 4G LTE which both companies use, so the only thing stopping my phone from picking up on this signal is some sort of programming in the phone. I mean even if the towers check to make sure the phone is a US cellular device before allowing it to use the 4G network, i believe there should be a way of hacking it to "trick" the tower and let me use it anyway. That is what i was asking for. If your reply will be that it is illegal, i already know that. I just want to know if it can be done. Thank you.
 
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Being that I previously worked for Verizon, and i am currently working for US Cellular i understand how the agreements work and that you are "not supposed" to be able to do any of this, but if you think about it my phone supportes 4G LTE which both companies use, so the only thing stopping my phone from picking up on this signal is some sort of programming in the phone. I mean even if the towers check to make sure the phone is a US cellular device before allowing it to use the 4G network, i believe there should be a way of hacking it to "trick" the tower and let me use it anyway. That is what i was asking for. If your reply will be that it is illegal, i already know that. I just want to know if it can be done. Thank you.
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That isn't what's really stopping you. It's not a matter of just "picking up the signal" from the network, it a matter of CONNECTING to the network. Am a able to do anything to my old, deactivated Verizon phone to making it work on their network without paying them? No, and that exactly what you're trying to do with US Cellular.

Your phone isn't authorized on their network. Even if you managed to get your phone to access their network, it wouldn't provide you any service.


Please read my whole post next time, and not just the first sentence. Oh, and I'm reporting you're posts to the admins. I honestly don't really care if you intent to break the law or not. That's between you, your victims and the prosecutors. I care that you expect people on here to voluntarily make themselves accomplices to you're crimes.
 
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