Using a Motorolla T8367 on verizon (was pcs)

I have a motorolla T8367 (talkabout) trimode phone that I bought about
3 1/2 years ago, I haven't used it for about a year and a half now.
Basically after my 2 year sprint contract was up, I jumped ship and
went to verizon, bought a new phone, new number. the whole thing.

Now the problem, My wife is on a different verizon plan, and she just
managed to lose her phone, she's still on contact, and they want about
$150 to replace the phone. I KNOW my T8367 can function quite nicely
on the verizon network, but I need to get it unlocked so she can have
it activated on the Verizon network and she can use it for her phone
for the rest of her contract.

How can I get the T8367 unlocked so my wife can use it with her
verizon service?

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On 5 Jul 2004 08:13:02 -0700, 4th Amendment defiled by Patriot Act wrote:

> How can I get the T8367 unlocked so my wife can use it with her
> verizon service?

Virtually impossible, since Sprint guards their locking codes like their
virgin daughter. They know many of their subscribers would move to VZW if
they could unlock Sprint's more desirable phones.

If you know someone in Sprint's tech dept you could get lucky though.

Strongbox wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2004 08:13:02 -0700, 4th Amendment defiled by Patriot Act
> wrote:
>
>> How can I get the T8367 unlocked so my wife can use it with her
>> verizon service?
>
> Virtually impossible, since Sprint guards their locking codes like
> their virgin daughter. They know many of their subscribers would
> move to VZW if they could unlock Sprint's more desirable phones.
>
> If you know someone in Sprint's tech dept you could get lucky though.


Not impossible at all. In fact he's got it activated on Verizon Wireless
this very moment.

In alt.cellular.sprintpcs Strongbox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Virtually impossible, since Sprint guards their locking codes like their
> virgin daughter.

Ha! Virgin! Heheh.

(Was that intended to be a pun?)


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In article <[email protected]>,
"Rod" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Strongbox wrote:
> > On 5 Jul 2004 08:13:02 -0700, 4th Amendment defiled by Patriot Act
> > wrote:
> >
> >> How can I get the T8367 unlocked so my wife can use it with her
> >> verizon service?
> >
> > Virtually impossible, since Sprint guards their locking codes like
> > their virgin daughter. They know many of their subscribers would
> > move to VZW if they could unlock Sprint's more desirable phones.
> >
> > If you know someone in Sprint's tech dept you could get lucky though.
>
>
> Not impossible at all. In fact he's got it activated on Verizon Wireless
> this very moment.

What does it say about the relative customer friendliness of the two
companies then?

SprintPCS phones are activated on Verizon.

Verizon phones are not activated on SprintPCS.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:44:16 -0500, Rod wrote:

> Not impossible at all. In fact he's got it activated on Verizon Wireless
> this very moment.

I didn't say impossible. I said virtually impossible. If the phone is
locked by Sprint it is virtually impossible to get the unlock code from them
so you can unlock the phone for use on the VZW network.

There are ways do do this by sneaky methods, but for the average person it's
not achievable.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:33:01 GMT, Røbert M. wrote:

> What does it say about the relative customer friendliness of the two
> companies then?

What customer friendliness? VZW has been dropping Sprint as a roaming
partner every where thay can across the country for months now.

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:00:01 -0500, Steven J Sobol wrote:

> In alt.cellular.sprintpcs Strongbox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Virtually impossible, since Sprint guards their locking codes like their
>> virgin daughter.
>
> Ha! Virgin! Heheh.
>
> (Was that intended to be a pun?)

I'll never tell <G>......