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Can Verizon LTE phone can be used on Cricket?

Why do you guys keep focusing on that crap? Who cares about de-prioritization????? It's not the boogeyman like everyone says it is! If you live in a heavily congested area, your speeds will suffer anyway. Every network does it so please stop mentioning it every 2 seconds. Even when networks are congested, the speeds are still usable, you can watch YouTube or read your emails just fine - and that's what matters. You don't need 40mbps or 20mbps, but companies are nice enough to allow you to get those speeds when possible. Cricket sums it up the most, 8mbps is more than enough for most people, 8mpbs = 1MB/PS. To stream 1080P YouTube videos you need 4-5mbps, and 1080P60FPS is 7-8. Even in congested areas my Verizon speeds were well above 8mbps, infact, they were almost always 16 or higher, even in congested areas after I used 22GB.

If a network is so bad when it gets de-prioritized, then the network is garbage anyway and you probably wouldn't enjoy good speeds to begin with. T-Mobile in my area is ultra congested and you'd be lucky to get over 5mbps during peak hours, it's horrible. I can't imagine how bad Sprint is.

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De-Prioritization is on every network and YES Verizon does it at 22GB and not "whenever they feel like it". If your speeds suffer that bad when you are past the 2XGB mark, then your cellular provider is probably trash anyway. Congested is Congested, putting anyone at the top of the list for data isn't going to help that much if the tower really can't handle all of the connections. Just be happy you have a choice when it comes to Unlimited.
Exactly what I'm trying to make everyone understand myself. It'll be fine everyone :)
 
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Bottom line folks, at 8MBPS, you can still do all you want with no issues and more then enough for what you need on a mobile device. So let's put this to rest and understand people that want and need more are few and far between. I've been with Cricket for years now and traveled and have had no issues at all, Prior to that I had all the major carriers and quickly realized what I was paying for wasn't worth my cost. It's simple, if Cricket is not the plan or carrier for you, then simply use the plan you feel is best and we are all happy. All enjoy your day. We can all find something wrong with something. ;)

And as Dstephe added in another thread, this to come which is a bonus, http://androidforums.com/threads/at...-cricket-plus-volte-and-wifi-calling.1123856/
 
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I will confirm this as well. I just ported my Verizon Samsung Note 4 to Cricket and everything is working 100%, except the Verizon apps. :)

I did have to mess around with the APN settings to finally get my SMS to work properly, but everything is good now.


How would I be able to do that, can u please tell me about the APN in order to get my note edge to work?
 
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I am at&t now but still have old Droid Razr HD that I used on Verizon before. I know it has snapdragon S4 chip that supports standard GSM bands and today's Verizon phones are unlocked global phone. So you should be able to swap SIM for GSM carrier when traveling abroad.

So I tried to activate it for my daughter on Cricket but it didn't work. It keeps saying unknown network when cricket SIM is put in and network mode is switched to GSM or Global. Has anyone had any success in activating Verizon phone on Cricket?

OK here are some tips not sure if you got it fixed or what and it will help everyone. When you put in your sim card you will need to do a apn setting change. That you get the info from cricket website. But one thing no one says to do and was trial and error. Change the portal thing from IPV4 to both IPV4/IPV6 there is two of them to change to both 4 and 6 and the normal mms will work no need for extra app to text with.
Thanks
Here is my settings
 

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