I just bought a new verizon phone, and now have no need for my old LG Chocolate. I switched over my contract and number, does that mean the phone can be activated by someone else? If not, I do I make it so that can be done? I want to sell it on ebay. Thanks.
Is it GSM or something else (CDMA, TDMA, analogue)? If it is not GSM, you probably can’t unlock it. If it is GSM, you can probably take it to one of those independent resellers (the kind that have a booth at the mall) and they will unlock it for a fee.
If you’re very lucky, your service provider, or the one you got the phone from, may unlock it.
You can certainly give a Verizon Phone to someone else so they can use it with Verizon. I have passed on old Verizon phones to my brother in law. He took them to Verizon and had them set that phone up for their account. I think you will have trouble taking a Verizon phone and using it with Sprint. The phones should be compatible from an air interface point of view but verizon mandates a fair amount of verizon specific stuff on their phones.
Ya, if I sold it or gave it to someone else it would be used for the Verizon service.
You (“you” in this case being whoever gets the phone) don’t even have to go to Verizon in person, as long you already have a phone number with them. You can swap the service online from your old phone to your “new” phone.
(The only problem with this is if you’re not the head of the account, just someone on it- my brother and I are both on our parents’ plan. My phone was dying, but my best friend had a fine Verizon phone she’d given up when her parents swapped services on her. I had to get my father to do the swap for me. It was a frustrating process, since he was 500 miles away, but it was better than the $20 fee that the Verizon store would have charged.)