verizon are such jerks

i have a galaxy s3 that is locked to verizion ...but verizon wont do a pre-paid sim card without charging up the nose.

so what i was going to do:

the phone has the ice cream sandwhich 4.0.4 .....uggh what a farce OS so i rooted it and with the superuser access downloaded the ez unlock app to unlock boot loader

then now im in the process of upgrading it to jelly bean OS 4.1.1
with that i should be able to manually kick it out of CDMA mode and into GSM so that i can use a T-mobile sim card. the last time i manually put it in GSM mode the data packets didnt work and i know there is a way to make a partition and load titanium or similar app to get the data packets to work.

this is all without ODEN.

i remember using ODEN to hack into a galaxy S2 ...worked like a dream

after i have jelly bean 4.1.1 i was going to attempt to jelly bean root and load the update 4.1.2

has anyone ever upgraded to 4.1.2 yet? any issues
anyone know if i can skip 4.1.1 and upgrade directly to jellybean 4.1.2 from the ice cream sandwhich??


Verizion really are jerks bcoz i wouldnt have to go through all this if it were an AT&T or T-Mobile phone and if verizion would work pre-paid sims the way T-mobile does.

i refuse to give Verizion any money when they are sooo exclusive with the sim unlocks ......once they sell us the phones it should be our business what we do with them .....somehow Verizion still thinks they own the phones even afrer they sell them to us :banghead: