US Carriers / IMEI Compatibility Checker

Librem Phones (Librem 5)
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T-mobile USA IMEI checker: https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/bring-your-own-phone

Cricket Wireless IMEI checker*: https://www.cricketwireless.com/cell-phones/bring-your-phone

Verizon Wireless IMEI checker**: https://www.verizon.com/od/prepaid/bring-your-own-device/#/deviceDetails

*AT&T no longer has an IMEI checker on its website, but they own Cricket Wireless, which does provide one, and uses AT&T’s network.

**For Verizon, you can skip the make and model info; then choose “I’m not sure” for the question about where you purchased the device.

This also applies to all the MVNOs that run on the above major networks.

EDIT: Linked this to: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Cellular-Providers

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US Cellular IMEI checker: https://www.uscellular.com/phones/bring-your-own-device#/

They run their own independent network in a limited geographic area of the US, so they’re not an MVNO, but see this for more info: https://bestmvno.com/mvnos/us-cellular/

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Sprint, now owned by T-mobile, only allows an approved list (https://sprint.com/landings/bring-your-own-phone/index.html#eligible-device), or else diverts to T-mobile’s site from this landing: https://www.sprint.com/en/landings/bring-your-own-phone.html.

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T-Mobile’s IMEI checker doesn’t work. When I click “Check phone”, it shows a rotating circle thing that never stops.

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I just checked my IMEI and it works fine for me. Is it possible it’s a browser issue? Are you using NoScript and maybe forgot to allow the necessary items to run?

By the way, @everybody, in case you’re wondering, only T-mobile’s IMEI checker approves my BM818-A1; none of the others do.

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I just checked my IMEI and it works fine for me. Is it possible it’s a browser issue? Are you using NoScript and maybe forgot to allow the necessary items to run?

No, I even turned off the ad blocker.

But just now, I deleted cookies for all t-mobile related domains, and then it did work. I guess they have buggy cookies.

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I set cookies to always delete on exit, so maybe that’s why I didn’t have the issue.

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Even if the librem phone is compatible with Verizon it still WILL NOT work for phone calls. Only when or I guess if purism gets it registered for volte (or even gets volte working in general for that matter) will it work. Texting probably won’t work either. Sorry if I sound aggressive, I have just seen way too many people who blindly believe that if the lte bands match, then the phone will automatically work on Verizon. Verizon is an *sshat when it comes to phones that they can’t inject and malwareise with their bloatware.
Source: Firsthand account of a longtime p.o.w. of verizons network who can’t seem to find a rootable (recent) verizon (volte compatible) phone that isnt a :nauseated_face::face_vomiting: google pixel!

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Or when Broadmobi does, actually, since it’s the modem that has to be tested and certified, if it hasn’t been already. (It apparently has been with T-mobile.)