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My wife just told me that she's eligible for two more lines of service on her sprint account. So I decided to list my new Evo 4G and New Evo Shift in the Market for sell ..hint hint! Anyways, I was thinking about getting either the Nexus S only because its $49.99 online at bestbuy or the Evo 3D. However, for some strange reason Bestbuy online will not let me add a line of service online. Apparently, I have to go to the actual store. Now, with the account being in my wife's name would I have any problems opening a new line of service without her being there with me?
I mean, I have the passcode to the account and all that information.When we have problem, I'm the one that calls sprint not her. I also upgraded her line for her a couple of months ago at the sprint store without her presence and had no issues. But i never did it at Bestbuy. I'm hoping they let me open the line.
I plan to tryout the Nexus and hold off on the Evo for a couple of weeks to see if it has any issues at release. If it doesn't or if the issues are minor, I'll exchange the Nexus for the evo.
From what i understand you cannot do anything without the account holder with you. You mighy be able to have them call her from the store to have her ok it. Hope this helps.
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From what i understand you cannot do anything without the account holder with you. You mighy be able to have them call her from the store to have her ok it. Hope this helps.
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Wow.....I was hoping they would being that I'm her husband and i have the password information.
She's gonna be at work then after that she helps out her sister who just got diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
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From what i understand you cannot do anything without the account holder with you. You mighy be able to have them call her from the store to have her ok it. Hope this helps.
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That's a lie, yes he can get the new phones as long as he has access to make changes to the account..
If he knows the security code and her last 4 digits of his wifes SS# he's good to go..
Correct, as long as you have her Social, obviously her full name and phone number, and the Sprint 6-8 digit Passcode, you should be good to go.
you should be fine. I used to do that when I was on my mom's VZW account back when I was 18. as long as you have the passcode, last for of SSN, name and address...you'll be able to access the account. also...make sure that deal isnt online only....sometimes the store dont honor their online prices
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My wife just told me that she's eligible for two more lines of service on her sprint account. So I decided to list my new Evo 4G and New Evo Shift in the Market for sell ..hint hint! Anyways, I was thinking about getting either the Nexus S only because its $49.99 online at bestbuy or the Evo 3D. However, for some strange reason Bestbuy online will not let me add a line of service online. Apparently, I have to go to the actual store. Now, with the account being in my wife's name would I have any problems opening a new line of service without her being there with me?
I mean, I have the passcode to the account and all that information.When we have problem, I'm the one that calls sprint not her. I also upgraded her line for her a couple of months ago at the sprint store without her presence and had no issues. But i never did it at Bestbuy. I'm hoping they let me open the line.
I plan to tryout the Nexus and hold off on the Evo for a couple of weeks to see if it has any issues at release. If it doesn't or if the issues are minor, I'll exchange the Nexus for the evo.
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Have her call customer service and add you as a person who can make changes to the account. Then there is no question.
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Thanks everyone...I went up to Bestbuy and opened the new line without a problem. I just needed the passcode and the last 4 of her social.
Than
Title says it all, I just had some good luck.
I have the EVO 3D (which I used my yearly upgrade on, what a waste) and I'm suffering from not getting any signal and missing phone calls, voicemails, etc, even 10 feet from my airrave at my house. I tried calling sprint tech support multiple times but to no avail, nobody would listen and kept talking about the network ticket that's open in my area and that would fix the problem I was having (even after I mentioned I have an airrave and still having the problem 10 ft from it.)
So I had placed an order for the E4GT on the 20th online at sprint.com. I was just fed up, and I was willing to drop 5 bills on the phone. About 2 hours later I decided to call and cancel the order for a number of reasons. The order was successfully canceled.
Yesterday the damn phone showed up on my front porch after I arrived home. I called that evening to return the phone. The helpful CR said that the order was successfully canceled and my account wouldn't be charged. This is the part that I couldn't believe. She said that it was up to me if I wanted to return the phone or not. She was even offered to activate it for me.
Just when I've lost all hope for Sprint, something like this happens lol.
And I'm enjoying this phone, it's definitely a lot smoother than the EVO 3D, and it can make friggin phone calls.
Hope it works out. I think they have a different department that looks at the inventory and figures out discrepancies. One time they shipped two phones for a single order. Called and told them and they said basically the same thing, their mistake but there is no record of the second shipment so there's nothing to do on their end. A week later someone in a different department called and said they shipped a second phone by mistake and they would send a prepaid package to return the phone or would charge full retail.
I wouldn't say you are home free yet.....
So the question is, are you willing to pay for it if they find out now that you had a chance to play with it or would you go back your 3D?
dont be so happy,yet
they will find out,you will see it on your next bill trust me...
At least he has a chance to argue his case with the evo problem.
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My bill should be posted in 2-3 days so we shall see if it shows up or not. The Cs rep even offers to call back in 10 days to see if the bill posted with the charge on there and to see how I was liking my device.
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let me give some advice.always ask the rep to send you an email confirmation,that way you have a way to make an argument more strong,than she/ he said....
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let me give some advice.always ask the rep to send you an email confirmation,that way you have a way to make an argument more strong,than she/ he said....
One has to wonder if there is just not some glitch in their system that will rectify itself during some batch processing that might not occur until the end of your billing cycle or Sprint's Inventory reconciliation at the end of their monthly cycle. Most of the time the records for transactions are just marked deleted or cancelled until such time as the batch processing takes place and then those records are processed and compared against other tables in the database.
Well my Sprint bill just posted and the phone isn't on my bill, it looks like I'm home free!
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Well my Sprint bill just posted and the phone isn't on my bill, it looks like I'm home free!
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I ended up getting mines for free also.. Hehe. Only got charged an activation fee. I can live with that! LOL
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I ended up getting mines for free also.. Hehe. Only got charged an activation fee. I can live with that! LOL
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Haha how'd you do that?
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Haha how'd you do that?
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I'm friends with a head manager at sprint Hehe.
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Well my Sprint bill just posted and the phone isn't on my bill, it looks like I'm home free!
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Sounds like customer service is suffering from LOS..sorry. culdnt resist
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lol if ur clear for 6 months u did good
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I'm friends with a head manager at sprint Hehe.
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"head manager" and a free phone? sounds about right
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That's right
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed
I didnt get the phone for free, but I ordered the phone via wirefly. For some odd reason, my upgrade didnt get used. So i bought another one the following day and sold it to a friend who was no longer eligible for the upgrade.
this is not the first time this has happened on my account... happened once before about a year and a half ago on another line on my account.
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"head manager" and a free phone? sounds about right
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Lmfao! Your such a are prick lololol
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Lmfao! Your such a are prick lololol
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Loll I see but you know better loll
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Lmfao! Your such a are prick lololol
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oh come on.. you know none of us would get a free one if we were friends with a manager... a discount maybe but a free one? hmmm I definitely think your lack of male genitalia is the root cause of that
Hello i just recently found a galaxy s2 at work. So i took it to my local tmobile store where the guy there did a "master reset" then gave me a new sim card for the phone. While i was still in the store looking around testing out the phone i had all bars and 4g and everything worked. Now when im home its spotty at best sometimes its 4g and full bars and i cant make calls or surf web. Sometimes it goes to the circle with the line through it (no connection). I cant seem to figure out how to keep the signal strong. Any suggestions would be great i wanna actually be able to use this beast!!
Are you rooted?
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No im not rooted ive factory defaulted the phone twice today. Just tried putting a piece of paper by the sim card to add pressure but no luck. full bars no signal
APN settingz?
Flash the blaze radio
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Hopefully the guy who originally owned that phone doesn't find you using it and make the absurd assumption that you stole it...
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Hopefully the guy who originally owned that phone doesn't find you using it and make the absurd assumption that you stole it...
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Lol, i didn't notice that he said he took it from the office.
@op, Damn you, really DAMN YOU. I hope when you get a 500 dollar phone it burns after your warranty is up.
thanx for all the people who ASSUME i stole it. I work hard for my money and i got my original vibrant stolen before so i know how much that sucks. I got the phone after it was left in the lobby and sat in the office for 30 days until i collected.
Anyway back on topic if anyone has the same issue it is a hardware defect. I ended up registering the phone through samsung and sending it in for repair for free.
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thanx for all the people who ASSUME i stole it. I work hard for my money and i got my original vibrant stolen before so i know how much that sucks. I got the phone after it was left in the lobby and sat in the office for 30 days until i collected.
Anyway back on topic if anyone has the same issue it is a hardware defect. I ended up registering the phone through samsung and sending it in for repair for free.
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Just curious but, why did you include that you "found" the phone when your actual question was pertaining to signal issues?.... By doing this, you were asking for the wrath of xda to fall upon you lol!
I'm just sayin!
I did a search, and at this point I still don't know what to do..
In April I bought a close to brand new S2 off a guy from craigslist. He seemed like a professional type in every aspect, so I wasn't worried too much about being screwed. I bought the phone only and nothing else as he didn't have the box or anything for it. On my way home I noticed that it still works, I could call/ go on the internet. He told me to just do a hard reset and I could get it working in my name... (This is my 1st smartphone and used phone transaction, I was stupid not to thoroughly go through everything).
Fast forward to today almost 3 months later, I haven't had time to tinker with it as I've been overseas for a while and just got back. The phone still works 100%, not bricked or anything and I did use it to surf the web after I bought it. (I used wifi overseas as well if it matters).
I don't know if its stolen, or the seller is just such a [email protected]$$ that he never disconnected it from service and doesn't realize he's still paying for it.
Can I disconnect it from Sprint without the seller's information?
Since it hasn't been bricked so far, I'd like to try to root it/ use it in my name and hope that it hasn't been stolen and it wont get bricked on me.
Suggestions? Thanks.
If it's still working then it's tired to an account and until it's removed they won't hook it up from my experience. Anytime you but one you should have the esn checked. As far as stolen or lost or they didn't pay the bill that has nothing to do with bricking it. That's only during flashing and such and if you follow the directions the dev. Leave you, you should have no problems.you can call Sprint and see what they say I had a friend who bought a phone at the flea market and it was still tired to a commercial account and they released the esn. Depends on the person at Sprint I guess. Other wise you can have it flashed for boost our others etc. Good luck
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If it's still working then it's tired to an account and until it's removed they won't hook it up from my experience. Anytime you but one you should have the esn checked. As far as stolen or lost or they didn't pay the bill that has nothing to do with bricking it. That's only during flashing and such and if you follow the directions the dev. Leave you, you should have no problems.you can call Sprint and see what they say I had a friend who bought a phone at the flea market and it was still tired to a commercial account and they released the esn. Depends on the person at Sprint I guess. Other wise you can have it flashed for boost our others etc. Good luck
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I'm a little confused, they way you worded it I'm interpreting it as if Sprint wouldn't agree to release the ESN- I can flash it and that will disconnect it from Sprint?
Thats a good idea though, I'll wait a bit to see if anyone else suggests anything else and hopefully get this resolved.
Thanks.
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I'm a little confused, they way you worded it I'm interpreting it as if Sprint wouldn't agree to release the ESN- I can flash it and that will disconnect it from Sprint?
Thats a good idea though, I'll wait a bit to see if anyone else suggests anything else and hopefully get this resolved.
Thanks.
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Flash to Boost Mobile, they had 4G too, is a good service and cheap, no contract.:good:
Sorry about the wording didn't proof read and using a new Swype and it changed a few words lol. Basically if it's reported lost, stolen, on an account that was shut off due to no payment or still on an active account they tag the esn as being "bad". Sprint says they won't release a esn in those cases but I was there as a friend told a sad story to the rep over the phone about how he bought it at a flea market because he was having surgery etc. The rep said the phone was tied to an active commercial account but sent a message to someone above them and got the esn cleared. I haven't heard of that happening much but it maybe worth a try. And if all else fails or you just want to, you can have it flashed to boost.
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I would recommend flashing the phone to boost mobile, virgin mobile, or page plus if you cant get the esn released. I have my epic touch running on virgin mobile for $25 bucks a month. Talk about a sweet phone for a crazy good deal. It helps me fight the upgrade bug from upgrading to the galaxy siii lol. Yeah my data doesnt work that great most of the time but never have a problem with talk and text.
Thanks gents, I'll give Sprint a call and see what they say.
sprint will not release it, I've bought more than one Craigslist phone that had this problem and have never had success getting help from sprint.... and before you guys wonder what's wrong with me if I actually want it to work I meet at a sprint store to confirm clean esn... if the price is low enough though I don't care cause I'll just play with it for a week or two then sell it on eBay for twice what I paid bad esn and all
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sprint will not release it, I've bought more than one Craigslist phone that had this problem and have never had success getting help from sprint.... and before you guys wonder what's wrong with me if I actually want it to work I meet at a sprint store to confirm clean esn... if the price is low enough though I don't care cause I'll just play with it for a week or two then sell it on eBay for twice what I paid bad esn and all
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I'm with u,i bought Atleast 10 e4gt on cl for a c-note to 150 and churned a ez 100plus profit on Ebay.plus it got me comfortable with the phone b4i tried to root my personal t989 a few months back. actually the s2 I'm typing on now...lol might go boost cricket or metHO with this one tho cuz i think the s3 is gonna mess with our profit margin lol but im with ya, price is right i dont give a f about esn lol. Worse case senerio, i dl groove ip and make another google voice account and wifi teather that b and have a free phone line. But to the op, ur toast, i guarentee u that phone will never be in ur name with sprint.And u have bricking confused, they won't or can't Brick it, flash a international Kernal in a tmobike s2 like one of my idiot friends did, that bricks it. But flash it to boost be done with it, unlimited everything for 50 bucks."where you at g?" Lol or I'll Paypal u 50 for it right now
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I'm with u,i bought Atleast 10 e4gt on cl for a c-note to 150 and churned a ez 100plus profit on Ebay.plus it got me comfortable with the phone b4i tried to root my personal t989 a few months back. actually the s2 I'm typing on now...lol might go boost cricket or metHO with this one tho cuz i think the s3 is gonna mess with our profit margin lol but im with ya, price is right i dont give a f about esn lol. Worse case senerio, i dl groove ip and make another google voice account and wifi teather that b and have a free phone line. But to the op, ur toast, i guarentee u that phone will never be in ur name with sprint.And u have bricking confused, they won't or can't Brick it, flash a international Kernal in a tmobike s2 like one of my idiot friends did, that bricks it. But flash it to boost be done with it, unlimited everything for 50 bucks."where you at g?" Lol or I'll Paypal u 50 for it right now
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Offer to ship internationally, you'll get at least an extra 50 out of it and usps flat rate envelopes are like 17 to anywhere in the world... on topic though I know people have got past due balance esns cleared after 90 days (ie once sprint sells the account to collections) but if it still shows as attached to another account sprint won't do anything no matter what
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Can anyone recommend a good flash tutorial for boost? I can't find anything good and current for my S2 Epic 4G. Thanks!
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Flash to Boost Mobile, they had 4G too, is a good service and cheap, no contract.:good:
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x2 i have mine on boost and 4 evo 4g
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Can anyone recommend a good flash tutorial for boost? I can't find anything good and current for my S2 Epic 4G. Thanks!
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see my boostflashcom
my wirelessbuddy
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x2 i have mine on boost and 4 evo 4g
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see my boostflashcom
my wirelessbuddy
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Can anyone help me out with this? Also if I flash to boost, do I have to get their Android plan? Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891077
It looks like I'll be using that, long road ahead of me
Can anyone confirm that this is proper method? Or is there anything else? Thanks.
Just got a sprint s3 off Craigslist and its still activated what can i do?
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Call sprint.
Be careful with phones on craigslist. You can try transferring the phone to your account, but I believe the original account holder is still responsible for taking his account off of the phone. For security measures, Sprint may contact the account holder of the phone to see if it is lost or stolen first, and if the guy really wants to screw you over, then he can say that, yes, the phone was lost/stolen, and it will blacklist the serial number of that phone. Now he has your money, and you don't have a phone.
If they guy is nice, he'll work it out with Sprint to deactivate his account, and you'll be set.
In short, if you're doing a craigslist deal, next time, meet with him in a Sprint store, and ask the Sprint employee to make sure that the ESN is good before paying him the money. Otherwise, it's easy to get scammed.
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Be careful with phones on craigslist. You can try transferring the phone to your account, but I believe the original account holder is still responsible for taking his account off of the phone. For security measures, Sprint may contact the account holder of the phone to see if it is lost or stolen first, and if the guy really wants to screw you over, then he can say that, yes, the phone was lost/stolen, and it will blacklist the serial number of that phone. Now he has your money, and you don't have a phone.
If they guy is nice, he'll work it out with Sprint to deactivate his account, and you'll be set.
In short, if you're doing a craigslist deal, next time, meet with him in a Sprint store, and ask the Sprint employee to make sure that the ESN is good before paying him the money. Otherwise, it's easy to get scammed.
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When i bought the phone i just checked to see that it works, and later i realized that it was getting text messages and the data was working, and i called sprint and they said i have to hand it in at a sprint store... Which I'm for sure not gonna do since i paid for the phone. The thing is i think the person i bought it from stole it. (we met at dunkin donuts and he seemed pretty shady)
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When i bought the phone i just checked to see that it works, and later i realized that it was getting text messages and the data was working, and i called sprint and they said i have to hand it in at a sprint store... Which I'm for sure not gonna do since i paid for the phone. The thing is i think the person i bought it from stole it. (we met at dunkin donuts and he seemed pretty shady)
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Hate to be the one to say it. But if it is stolen you are out of luck. The Device is no longer viable on Sprint. If it is stolen, it will most likely be reported soon. Then it will be deactivated from the Network, and have a Bad ESN ( Stolen / Lost / Other ) . Next time I suggest following the advice given by metayoshi. Meet the seller at a Sprint store. That way you are safer. Also if you ever want to check out the ESN on Device before purchasing it. You can use THIS SITE. It's free .
I texted the guy I bought the phone from that if he doesn't get the phone deactivated I'll report his phone number to the police
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This girl called me today claiming the phone was her sisters and she has lots of money so she bought another phone and she forgot to deactivate the old one... So i was like how about she calls sprint and tells them that she wants it deactivated since i can't use unless she does that, and she said she'll try to make that happen today or tomorrow...
Yay! Perfect condition gs3 for 100$ and some pain in the ass
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Hope it all works out for you.
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Its still activated so its for sure not stollen, if my phone was stolen it wouldn't take me more then a day to report it, but i discovered the charging port is having problems so i want to replace the motherboard
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Its still activated so its for sure not stollen, if my phone was stolen it wouldn't take me more then a day to report it, but i discovered the charging port is having problems so i want to replace the motherboard
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It's obviously stolen
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Them why wasn't it reported stollen yet its been a few days already
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Them why wasn't it reported stollen yet its been a few days already
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i bought mine from a friend for 100. when he mailed it he forgot to wipe his info. so it showed up activated. i just reset msid and mdn to all 0000. added it to my account via the website. rebooted when i did so it went through hands free activation. works fine been using it a week.
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i bought mine from a friend for 100. when he mailed it he forgot to wipe his info. so it showed up activated. i just reset msid and mdn to all 0000. added it to my account via the website. rebooted when i did so it went through hands free activation. works fine been using it a week.
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How do i reset everything if dont have the msl?
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How do i reset everything if dont have the msl?
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when i went through the activation on line of swapping phones from my old evo lte to the s3. it said if you have difficulty activating you may need this # and gave me my msl.
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when i went through the activation on line of swapping phones from my old evo lte to the s3. it said if you have difficulty activating you may need this # and gave me my msl.
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They'll never give me the msl if its still active on someone's account they'll think i stole it
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They'll never give me the msl if its still active on someone's account they'll think i stole it
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ya idk i know when mine came his data and stuff still worked. i could make calls and all. i just went to my account online and did the swap. never talked to anyone. just entered hex. and hit swap device. said updating device. rebooted still had his info. so i took the msl 0000 every thing. rebooted and it went through hands free activation.. installed my info.
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ya idk i know when mine came his data and stuff still worked. i could make calls and all. i just went to my account online and did the swap. never talked to anyone. just entered hex. and hit swap device. said updating device. rebooted still had his info. so i took the msl 0000 every thing. rebooted and it went through hands free activation.. installed my info.
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I tried that and it asked me to enter the other guys account info since it was still active
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But since the charging port has a problem I'm hoping that replacing the motherboard will solve all my problems
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But since the charging port has a problem I'm hoping that replacing the motherboard will solve all my problems
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better get the hex from the replacement board then.