I picked up a EVO 4G from a friend who had it flashed to work on a service provider called Clear Talk, he says it can work on cricket, and Metro PCS also. Not sure where to begin, on getting this phone on my Sprint Account. Do I have to get it reflashed first just to get the line active and then proceed to root etc. Need a little help on where to start, thank you in advance
By flash you mean a custom rom is flashed right? If so, you are already rooted. I would ask your friend which method he/she used. Also, before flashing any other Rom, turn off the device. Once its off, hold vol. Down and power until your booted into recovery. Meanwhile, you can download any Rom for the evo and place it on the root of your sd card. At that point, go into recovery and choose flash .zip from sd card or something like that. Let it run and then reboot.
Also, it would be smart to put the Rom on your sd card before anything. When you download a Rom, don't extract the .zip file.
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Rydah805 said:
By flash you mean a custom rom is flashed right? If so, you are already rooted. I would ask your friend which method he/she used. Also, before flashing any other Rom, turn off the device. Once its off, hold vol. Down and power until your booted into recovery. Meanwhile, you can download any Rom for the evo and place it on the root of your sd card. At that point, go into recovery and choose flash .zip from sd card or something like that. Let it run and then reboot.
Also, it would be smart to put the Rom on your sd card before anything. When you download a Rom, don't extract the .zip file.
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Figure out what rom is on there, make a backup of it just incase.
Thanks I will ask him, before I start on anything, but should I get the phone activated before I do any changes to the device or could I do what I want and then be able to activate it. This is my first time owning a phone that is not activated on my account
Does anyone now how to update the evo if its flashed?
So what is needed to flash a phone to a company like ClearTalk. A lot of people have ClearTalk down here and I had a phone that I wanted to flash to them so my sis could buy it, but I have no idea exactly what was needed to do it. Thanks
the phone has to be reprogrammed (not simply a ROM) using your PC and software tools such as QPST and CDMA Workshop. That or you take it to an actual Clear, Cricket, MPCS store and let them flash it using their software.
Google is your friend: "how to flash (insert phone here) to (insert provider)" for example.......
If your EVO is already flashed to another provider then it is HIGHLY LIKELY that you bought a stolen phone/one with a bad ESN (for whatever reason) that can never be reactivated on the Sprint network, hence the reason it was flashed to another provider
HTC hero for cricket and cleartalk
i would like to know the instructions to get my htc hero phone to work with cricket or cleartalk, and would also like to know if the esn number for the hero needs to be cleared from sprint in order to work with other providers. if you have the rom please let me see the link for it i would really appreciate it
HELP Evo flashed to cricket no web
I Have an Evo flashed to cricket with talk and text but i cant get 3g or 3g emblem. im using the ava-froyov9 with a ziggy beta kernel my .PRL is 42600. trie using the proxy method and tried having cricket change my phone id to m6000 proxy method did not work and cricket refused to change my phone id though i am on the android $55 plan... i have not set any apns cause they will not save but dont know if this effects the internet or not
mmorin86 said:
i would like to know the instructions to get my htc hero phone to work with cricket or cleartalk, and would also like to know if the esn number for the hero needs to be cleared from sprint in order to work with other providers. if you have the rom please let me see the link for it i would really appreciate it
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Show how to flash i believe theres about a thousand different tutorial if u look hard enough
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=492824
Couldnt you just reflash with ruu to put it back to sprint stock? And maybe flash in the radios?
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Does being rooted prevent or have anything to do with the metro flash?
I ask because Hboot shows S-Off
I cannot unroot.... cannot set user permissions in clockwork. please help...
mexigga said:
Does being rooted prevent or have anything to do with the metro flash?
I ask because Hboot shows S-Off
I cannot unroot.... cannot set user permissions in clockwork. please help...
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I am pretty sure being rooted will not prevent you from flashing to Metro. If anything, being rooted is necessary. S-off will not have an adverse effect on the flashing to Metro process, either.
Everything you need to know is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704161
I got it to root prior to reading this. I will take to M PCS and see if flash is successful (this time around)
thanks.
mexigga said:
I got it to root prior to reading this. I will take to M PCS and see if flash is successful (this time around)
thanks.
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Wait.......you're taking the Evo to Metro PCS? I don't think they are going to be very helpful seeing as this is not something they condone. What you need (and please read the thread to clarify because I have never personally done this myself but will be doing it soon for a friend of mine) is to have an existing account with Metro so that you can add the info from that account to the Evo and therefore activating on Metro. Unless you know someone that works there and knows what they are doing with this, I don't think you should bother taking it over to them.
Sorry, I should have clarified: I am existing and need to have phone Metro Flashed to get the service. Merely adding the # isn't working as I am on their system already.
I lost the Metro Flash when I screwed up my 1st attempt at rooting.
Here's the problem. Evo is stock & unrooted. People at Metro (right now) are saying that they can't get their computers to read my evo so they are re-downloading drivers, etc. It failed first attempt (today) to metroflash.
I was successful at another corp. store and may need to try where it succeeded.
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Sorry, I should have clarified: I am existing and need to have phone Metro Flashed to get the service. Merely adding the # isn't working as I am on their system already.
I lost the Metro Flash when I screwed up my 1st attempt at rooting.
Here's the problem. Evo is stock & unrooted. People at Metro (right now) are saying that they can't get their computers to read my evo so they are re-downloading drivers, etc. It failed first attempt (today) to metroflash.
I was successful at another corp. store and may need to try where it succeeded.
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So Metro is helping you flash a phone from another carrier over to them? Talk about customer service! lol
For what it's worth I've never even had to have an EVO rooted to swap its carrier.
Keep in mind though, if you put any AOSP ROM on your phone you will lose the ability to enter ##DIAG# to enter diagnostic mode, and lose the EPST stuff. (For editing settings on the phone, not through QPST/CDMA WS)
If you are flashed to metro or in my case cricket, and you root then you might lose web/mms. Talk and text can be obtained without rooting but web and mms need rooting to run on the proxy work around.
mexiking713 said:
If you are flashed to metro or in my case cricket, and you root then you might lose web/mms. Talk and text can be obtained without rooting but web and mms need rooting to run on the proxy work around.
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That's where I screwed it up the first go-around. My Evo is good now.
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For what it's worth I've never even had to have an EVO rooted to swap its carrier.
Keep in mind though, if you put any AOSP ROM on your phone you will lose the ability to enter ##DIAG# to enter diagnostic mode, and lose the EPST stuff. (For editing settings on the phone, not through QPST/CDMA WS)
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that's the part (AOSP) I didn't realize when I got into android flashing/rooting...
Could've saved me a lot of heartache had I been patient and did more homework on XDA.
i just got an htc incredible flashed on boost mobile, can i use the unrevoked3 method to root and load cm7? i hear that cm7 has issues with boost mobile or something, and if not, does anybody know which rom i would be able to use without interfering with the boost flash, i'd like to keep my phone running new android os version releases anddont want to get stuck on 2.2, thanks.
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i just got an htc incredible flashed on boost mobile, can i use the unrevoked3 method to root and load cm7? i hear that cm7 has issues with boost mobile or something, and if not, does anybody know which rom i would be able to use without interfering with the boost flash, i'd like to keep my phone running new android os version releases anddont want to get stuck on 2.2, thanks.
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I too have a similar setup. I flash every rom that comes out. Only thing that will give you problems would be the epst settings.
If you were to flash a verzion rom, chances are the apn and epst settings would b set up for their service.
You can dial ##778# to edit these settings . I dont know Boost mobile's ESPT settings.
I use cricket so I followed this http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-titan/61034-cricket-pst-settings-thread-ryan-mogul.html
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030471
is where you will find what you need.......PST your on your own!
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i just got an htc incredible flashed on boost mobile, can i use the unrevoked3 method to root and load cm7? i hear that cm7 has issues with boost mobile or something, and if not, does anybody know which rom i would be able to use without interfering with the boost flash, i'd like to keep my phone running new android os version releases anddont want to get stuck on 2.2, thanks.
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how did you get a dinc on boost. thought they had to be sprint phones with clear esn's?
Yes how did you do this i would love to ditch Verizon and head to Boost. I would save 50 plus bucks a month!
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So nobody knows of any roms to use w/ incredible on boost mobile?
you can find one on ebay, the sellers id was everythingcellular i think, or you can find someone off ebay,google,craigslist to flash it for you, you need a donor phone, the 2 ones i was told about were samsung rant and sanyo incognito, you get your service activated onto a donor phone and the person flashes it.
Hello everyone.
I have a Sprint EVO 4G and it has S-OFF so I flashed it to 2.2 and used Rom Manager to put the stock 2.3.3 rooted deodexed onto it then went to Metro PCS and had them flash it over which they did for $10 then the guy could not get into the NAM setting to put my new phone number ect into the phone. He said usualy all they have to do is 000000 to get into the settings he called the metro techs and they said to reflash it which he did anyway by the end of this he asked me if I knew how to get into the settings which is what brings me here. He refunded my activation and kept the $10 for the flash. I kinow if anyoine can help me it's you guys. Thanks
Adam
OH YEA & P.S. to save another thread should anyone have the answer to this and I get this working on Metro (calls and texts only) can you either direct me to a thread to get the internet 3g and MMS working or give me the steps. Thanks again
download mls finder in the market
jamesrc2384 said:
download mls finder in the market
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Did you mean "MSL Reader"?
Did u figure it out yet
hey..just wondering did you figure it out yet??? I'm having the same problem.. Thank you
Maybe this will somehow help... It's for flashing to Boost Mobile but perhaps...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182260
I had this happen to me the first time I tried to "Metroflash" my Evo. I went to three different stores thinking it was the operator, not knowing that when I flashed and rooted the evo, metro pcs could not set it up on their Houdini system. I went bare bones via hard reset (stock rom) and voila, metro got it on their system.
I followed this guide by Bloodykiller after it was rooted. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795182
Again, this is what worked for me. Hope this helps.
i recently flashed my samsung epic 4g to metro pcs and everything works except for mms (even the internet). the phone is also rooted but i am afraid to put a rom on it because i heard that there is a chance it could lose its flash. i am running android 2.3.5 and gingerbread.ei22. is there a metro pcs friendly rom out there?? thanks
From what I have heard, flashing another rom causes the phone to lose its MetroPCS flash. I hope someone can prove me wrong as I am trying to flash my Epic over to MetroPCS as well.
Also, out of curiosty, did you use this guide --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192128 to flash it over to MetroPCS?
yes
that is the guide i used, but you will still need to add your esn to metropcs's inventory. how? idk. but i ended up paying to get it flashed. they should knock a few bucks off since you did most of it. oh and if you follow the guide correctly and get it flashed by a store you shouldnt pay for internet just get regular talk and text because when i got mine flashed thats what they did and i still got internet for free. mms doesnt work though. hope i helped
edit: i also heard you can make a backup, flash the rom and if you dont have service restore and never do it again but im to afraid to risk losing it. if you try it (i dont recommend it) and it works please send a link to the rom. Thanks
Posted on General when i should have posted here.
Any way i can do this by myself?
PLEASE?
MoonMaster345 said:
Posted on General when i should have posted here.
Any way i can do this by myself?
PLEASE?
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Yes you can. You just need to flash a metro prl to your phone, and then contact them. They should be able to do the rest ota. You can get a metro prl here http://www.corolada.com/prl/. If on a stock rom you can flash it with epst, if not you need to use a pc program called QPST.
Man you are the greatest..Seriously!
Im gonna try it right now
Although i need help because QPST cant detect the phone. Im pretty sure that means that the phone needs to be in diagnostic mode
But im trying to get in it but i can't. Does it have to do with being in Tiny's CM10 and not stock?
Well update, i went to gingerbread and changed the prl but i dont think my number got transfered although the metropcs system works
Any help with this?
MoonMaster345 said:
Well update, i went to gingerbread and changed the prl but i dont think my number got transfered although the metropcs system works
Any help with this?
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Simply changing the prl will not program your phone. The prl meerly allows metro to comunicate with the phone. Im not sure exactly how metros system works. Do you already have an account and number from metro, and is the phones meid registered on metro? If it is you can probably dial *228 and select the option to program if metro uses this option. If you dont have an accout or your phone isnt registered with metro, you will need to call them and do so. You just give them the phones meid they register it, and then program the phone ota (over the air).