Can I unlock?

[dreamlight]

Okay, so I'm a absolute dummy when it comes to phones, almost as bad as I am with PC's (not quite) but anyways, I have a cricket Branded phone but I literally cannot get any coverage inside of my house whatsoever, I'm currently on Verizon for their coverage but the speeds are worse than dial up internet (literally) and I'm wondering if I can unlock my cricket Branded phone to work with T-Mobile/metropcs

[Batteries Included]

How long were you on cricket

[Batteries Included]

6 minutes ago, dreamlight said:

Okay, so I'm a absolute dummy when it comes to phones, almost as bad as I am with PC's (not quite) but anyways, I have a cricket Branded phone but I literally cannot get any coverage inside of my house whatsoever, I'm currently on Verizon for their coverage but the speeds are worse than dial up internet (literally) and I'm wondering if I can unlock my cricket Branded phone to work with T-Mobile/metropcs

If you used your device on Cricket for over 6 months, you are entitled to an unlock from Cricket to get the device to work on T-mobile. Metro runs on T mobile's network, no problem there. They are all GSM (other than Verizon) so all cell providers excluding Sprint and Verizon work with each other, as long as it is unlocked. Getting back to unlocking, visit a Cricket store and ask them to unlock it. 

Link: https://www.cricketwireless.com/support/apps-and-services/device-unlock/customer/device-unlock.html

[dreamlight]

2 minutes ago, Batteries Included said:

How long were you on cricket

Uhh maybe a month or two ??‍♂️

[Batteries Included]

1 minute ago, dreamlight said:

Uhh maybe a month or two ??‍♂️

You most likely cannot unlock your device. 

[dreamlight]

5 minutes ago, Batteries Included said:

You most likely cannot unlock your device. 

So should I reactivate and just deal with shabby indoor service for 5 more months or?

[Mooshi]

17 minutes ago, dreamlight said:

I'm currently on Verizon for their coverage but the speeds are worse than dial up internet (literally)

What?

 

You're either A in a super bad coverage zone for 4G or  B in Safety Mode after running out of data.

 

Tmobile and Sprint are also 2 networks I'd avoid if you already have service. I use Project Fi which piggybacks off both and my coverage is atrocious in some parts of town.

[Batteries Included]

Just now, dreamlight said:

So should I reactivate and just deal with shabby indoor service for 5 more months or?

5 months. $40 per plan, so $200. Not worth it. Metro offers free phones if you did not cancel your verizon service yet.

https://www.metropcs.com/switch.html?icid=home|main|switch

[dreamlight]

Just now, Mooshi said:

What?

 

You're either A in a super bad coverage zone for 4G or  B in Safety Mode after running out of data.

 

Tmobile and Sprint are also 2 networks I'd avoid if you already have service. I use Project Fi which piggybacks off both and my coverage is atrocious in some parts of town.

I have 4-5 bars of LTE constantly and I have unlimited high speed data every speed test I do is usually about 0.90 mbps

[dreamlight]

3 minutes ago, Batteries Included said:

5 months. $40 per plan, so $200. Not worth it. Metro offers free phones if you did not cancel your verizon service yet.

https://www.metropcs.com/switch.html?icid=home|main|switch

Theres no metro store within 20 miles, I cba to drive 30 minutes for phone transactions, do they offer any deals online? All those are in store only

[Mooshi]

3 minutes ago, dreamlight said:

I have 4-5 bars of LTE constantly and I have unlimited high speed data every speed test I do is usually about 0.90 mbps

If you're on the unlimited plan, it's only good for 4G speed up to the first 22gb. Anything after is subject to slow down if the tower is overloaded. 

 

Mobile internet is not meant to replace wifi, but supplement it.

[dreamlight]

4 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

If you're on the unlimited plan, it's only good for 4G speed up to the first 22gb. Anything after is subject to slow down if the tower is overloaded. 

 

Mobile internet is not meant to replace wifi, but supplement it.

This is the first month and I've only used 4.39 gb

[dreamlight]

Just now, dreamlight said:

This is the first month and I've only used 4.39 gb

When had cricket I was getting constant 5-8 Mbps all the time (unless of course I was in a shabby coverage area) aka inside my house.

[Mooshi]

2 minutes ago, dreamlight said:

This is the first month and I've only used 4.39 gb

Try doing a network setting reset to establish a fresh connection. 

[dreamlight]

7 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

Try doing a network setting reset to establish a fresh connection. 

Still the same slow speeds and I have no clue why

[dreamlight]

10 minutes ago, dreamlight said:

Still the same slow speeds and I have no clue why

Is Verizon dying?  @Mooshi

[Mooshi]

2 hours ago, dreamlight said:

Is Verizon dying?  @Mooshi

Hmm..something seems weird. Network resets are supposed to resolve those type of network issues. I'd actually call them (*611 from your vzw phone) and have someone look at the account. If it's not Saftey Mode kicking in or deprioritization from the unlimited plan, I wonder if a tower is having an issue?

[dreamlight]

32 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

Hmm..something seems weird. Network resets are supposed to resolve those type of network issues. I'd actually call them (*611 from your vzw phone) and have someone look at the account. If it's not Saftey Mode kicking in or deprioritization from the unlimited plan, I wonder if a tower is having an issue?

Hopefully they can sort this problem out, otherwise back to cricket I go