In an older post I have been trying to figure out how to make the T-Mobile’s Sidekick prepaid plan to work with iPhone - without success, but with some useful info.

Now, basically it’s reportedly possible to have Sidekick plans (both prepaid and contract) on iPhone, given the following are satisfied:

1. You have a Sidekick plan activated for your SIM and you use hiptop.t-mobile.com as APN in the Settings->General->Network->EDGE of your iPhone
2. You have changed you iPhone’s IMEI (BEWARE: it’s illegal) to match a Sidekick device IMEI.

Now, how to know a Sidekick device’s IMEI or IMEI pattern (just for informational/education purposes on topic of IMEIs):

1. Buy a Sidekick device or borrow a device from a friend - I think this is the easiest, though the most expensive (price-convenience trade-off)
2. Search Google - you will be suprised how many people openly and desperately are posting their devices’ IMEIs
3. Generate an IMEI - just look for Advanced IMEI Generator keeping in mind Sidekick devices have Type Allocation Number (TAC - this is publicly available information) something like: 01016000, 01019000, etc. - just search entire TACs list for yourself if you are interested.

WARNING: Changing IMEI is illegial (at least the claims are like this - learn your country LEGALese language) in many countries. Check your country if you are “elligible” too. Do this on your own risk. I am not responsible on what you do with IMEI of your phones/iPhones.

DISCLAIMER: this post is intended purely for research and educative purposes. Any use of this information is sole responsibility of the reader/user and the author is not to be held liable for any miss-use of the above informative technical details.

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