Root prepaid Cards

[brandennj]

Is it possible to root this phone to use prepaid cards?

 

[SiempreTuna]

I think you mean unlock the phone. In order to this, you should contact the network: if you're out of contract then they should do this for a small charge.

Doing it yourself is not legal in many jurisdictions.

 

[mtlguy]

From what I was told by verizon, the phone was unlocked from the get go because of some law governing their exclusive usage of the 700mhz 4G LTE band or something, I've seen this posted elsewhere also.

That and up here in Canada the prepaid card I put in it would never have worked at all (does everything, data, text, call out) except recieve calls.

 

[rjglenn]

If this phone is like every other LTE phone that Verizon sells, and there is no reason to expect it not to be, it will be hard coded to reject every domestic (US) GSM carrier. There are a few of the Motorola phones that people have been able to get around this, but for the most part it won't work.

mtlguy, I'm perplexed with your issue. It's supposed to be unlocked so that you can use other SIM cards outside the US. It seems like some of the internal settings are stuck on Verizon. You have to figure out how to get into the manual programming menu and look at what the home NID & SID is.

Are you using the phone on a GSM or CDMA carrier? If it's GSM, all of that is supposed to be controlled by the SIM. This will be a problem for me next summer. I spent way too much money on international roaming this summer and I was planning to use a local SIM next year. Hell of a note, spend thousands on a trip and bitch about a $250 phone bill...