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shoutout to gsmarena. absolutely indispensable resource. love you forever
if you are a company that sells things then having a public database of all the things you ever made that lets you easily compare them is great. if you aren't a company but are autistic about things from diverse sources, making your own database is also great and i love you
@hikari i used to get sad about not being able to find cdma2000 phones on there
but that doesn’t matter anymore :)
@unlobito lmao did they actually not have them or was that a joke about the name,
@hikari they never listed cdma2000 handsets!
this was vaguely annoying when cdma2000 networks were still prevalent in .do and .us, but just does not matter these days (unless you want to look up a retro handset)
@unlobito lmao they were true to the name i guess
@unlobito was this because cdma handsets had poorer portability between networks? they don't take sims right?
@hikari they don’t take SIMs (unless you were in China, but you’d call that a RUIM) and cdma2000 doesn’t really have a notion of a “network ID” like GSM does
instead, you find a copy of Qualcomm’s baseband management software (that fell off the side of a truck obvs) and reflash the Preferred Roaming List for your new network / current area
this implies your new network playing ball with enrolling the MEID, which .do networks would but .us networks rarely did
this also has *really funny* implications for base stations at airports and along motorways, which had to constantly reflash handset PRLs OTA to ensure continuity of service
@hikari eternally unsure if the Qualcomm tooling was less cursed than what ended up happening in iOS lands
you get a base PRL with your IPCC, so a jailbreak + https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Tutorial:Re-Provisioning_iPhone_4_using_file_system_(Incomplete) let you point to another network that’d enroll your MEID
new to me, some of the smaller .us cdma2000 networks were willing to enroll iPhone MEIDs and reflash the PRL through OTA: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Tutorial:Re-Provisioning_iPhone_4_from_Verizon_Wireless_for_other_CDMA_Carriers