01-30-2014, 12:43 PM | #31 | ||
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So up to Friday, 1/24/14, I was a Sprint customer with 3 phones and an iPad 4 on my (Retina) account. I was in T-Mobile considering switching and I had my iPad with me. I asked the CSR that was helping me if the iPad could be switched since it had a SIM in it. He went in the back and found an active SIM somewhere, put it into my Sprint iPad 4, 2 minutes later I was streaming HD video from Dish Network Sling Box and watching ESPN. The iPad was even displaying the T-Mobile account information under the Cellular Data screen. It worked well! The problem came in putting my Sprint card back into the iPad. It just kept Searching for the network. I tried a network reset, a full system reset, a forced erase via iCloud and nothing worked to get the iPad from Searching .... until I went to the Apple store and they hard flashed it by being plugged into a computer with iTunes, holding Power and Home buttons 2 full seconds after the Apple logo appears in the screen. That timing was critical to allowing for the flash. After a flash a quick restore of a backup from before I put T-Mobile's SIM in the iPad, I was up and running again on Sprint. I will more than likely switch the iPad to T-Mobile after the iPad is paid off from the One Up program. Quote:
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01-30-2014, 12:50 PM | #32 |
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I think all iPads that are unlocked can also be put into Sprint or Verizon but to do it you'll have to put the iPad into Recovery Mode and do a data / app restore from iTunes / iCloud. I had to do so to get my Sprint SIM to work again after putting a T-Mobile SIM into my iPad 4.
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