T-Mobile Carrier Screen

[DM7NIC]

Is there anyway I can get rid of this T-Mobile carrier logo from my startup? I didn't even get a phone from T-Mobile I ordered this Samsung S21 5G from Best Buy. My SIM card is the only T-Mobile item in this phone.

[meself]

Seems I stand correct if show tmobile would mean that's the carrier

[realaud]

@ChaosSaber You did not have that logo because when you bought your unlocked phone, you kept it unlocked by not activating it with a carrier.  You just popped in your SIM card.  When you go to a retailer and purchase an "unlocked" phone and then tell them to activate it with a carrier, it locks it to the carrier - especially if you are financing the purchase with your phone bill.  If you just buy the phone, take it home and pop in a carrier's SIM card, your phone will be on your current phone plan but have no carrier firmware on it. This way you can move from carrier to carrier without doing handstands - just pop in another SIM.

[ChaosSaber]

Its activated, T-Mobile activated it when I gave them the IMEI number, then I switched to Metro and I gave them the IMEI number

[realaud]

What you did was different that purchasing it and having it locked to the carrier, which is what they do when you purchase it at Best Buy and tell them you want it activated to T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, etc. They give you a carrier version of the phone or they download the carrier's firmware to it while activating it.

I buy all my phones unlocked and I never even have the carrier activate it, just move my SIM card from one phone to the other and it registers it on the carrier network but doesn't download any firmware.  Even when I switched carriers from AT&T to T-Mobile, TM just gave me a new SIM to put into the phone after they signed me up for the plan. If you take an unlocked phone to the carrier store, they cannot add the carrier firmware, they can only register it to their network.

[ChaosSaber]

Just going by what Google said, but since they have the logo, then its a locked phone

[Robin621k]

He bought it at Best Buy. Did you buy your phone from Samsung?

[ChaosSaber]

No clue where my phone came from

[Robin621k]

It just miraculously showed up at your door?

[ChaosSaber]

No I bought it second hand, as in I don't know where the person bought it, didn't ask, just made sure the IMEI was good

[ChaosSaber]

This phone unlocked?