I bought a Brand new still Sealed SG II Epic 4G touch for sprint from a guy on craigslist.
Tried to activate it this morning and sprint said it was already activated. As a reuslt, i couldn't the phone. I contacted the seller and he said that he works for sprint and all he has to do is meet up with me and reprogram the phone. This sounds kind of sketchy to me because i can't see how he can reprogram the phone and deactivate the account from the phone?
But the thing is.. i'm not meeting him at the sprint store.
Any experts out there can help me out?
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I bought a Brand new still Sealed SG II Epic 4G touch for sprint from a guy on craigslist.
Tried to activate it this morning and sprint said it was already activated. As a reuslt, i couldn't the phone. I contacted the seller and he said that he works for sprint and all he has to do is meet up with me and reprogram the phone. This sounds kind of sketchy to me because i can't see how he can reprogram the phone and deactivate the account from the phone?
But the thing is.. i'm not meeting him at the sprint store.
Any experts out there can help me out?
Maybe he stole it from the sprint store? Call sprint, check the esn, etc. There's nothing he can do that sprint cant themselves
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bbedward said:
Maybe he stole it from the sprint store? Call sprint, check the esn, etc. There's nothing he can do that sprint cant themselves
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Call sprint and check the ESN to make sure it isn't lost or stolen.
If its not lost/stolen but currently activated to an account, its possible someone used the phone as a donor phone to clone ESN
lol man, hope its not stolen.. alwasy check the ESN before you buy any phone off a site like craigslist! and make sure you check it from the phone itself, sometimes the stickers on the box/back of phone are wrong! trust me, i work for U.S. Cellular and we have a lot of stickers that are wrong..
I called sprint and they said it was recently activated on OCT and it was not reported Stolen or Lost..
Is this a good sign?
The rep even gave me the name of the person it's under and the actual phone number it's currently activated as.
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Call sprint and check the ESN to make sure it isn't lost or stolen.
If its not lost/stolen but currently activated to an account, its possible someone used the phone as a donor phone to clone ESN
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aznne0 said:
I called sprint and they said it was recently activated on OCT and it was not reported Stolen or Lost..
Is this a good sign?
The rep even gave me the name of the person it's under and the actual phone number it's currently activated as.
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lol some customer privacy! they just give it out.. if you cant make/receive calls from the device then that means the esn was used with another device..
When u activate on the website it tells u to reprogram the phone and gives u a code
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That's one thing I miss about GSM phones you can use any phone even if someone stole it. Not that I support buying stolen things but it helps against scams
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aznne0 said:
I called sprint and they said it was recently activated on OCT and it was not reported Stolen or Lost..
Is this a good sign?
The rep even gave me the name of the person it's under and the actual phone number it's currently activated as.
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If you turn it on can you make calls?
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I didn't try making a call.. but It asks me to activate.. and i can tell there's reception with a 3G icon that popped up.
Is that a good sign? lol
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If you turn it on can you make calls?
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I tried to activate it on the sprint website.. but when i type in the DEC number... it says that it's already been activated on another account.
So i can't proceed any further...
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When u activate on the website it tells u to reprogram the phone and gives u a code
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What looks like had happened is he bought the phone online to sell using his full upgrade. Since he used his upgrade to get it, the device would be activated on his account. The phone itself may not be activated yet, but the ESN is. You need to get ahold of the guy again and have him remove the ESN from his line by swapping the devices. Now if he says that it is already off of the account, and Sprint is reporting otherwise, then he probably did steal the phone from someone else, or never did what he said he did.
anyone out there have this same problem? for some reason my phone just didnt get any connection to tmobile and when trying to reconnect to network. it just says sim not able to connect to carrier.
Have you reseated your Sim? Or called tmo?
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yup. i havent called tmobile i plan on doing that tomorrow. but ive changed roms. changed the radio. and nothing.
Did you buy it from Tmobile or from ebay or craigslist? I bought mine of craigslist and my IMEI got blacklisted because of previous owner. And I got same message error,.
same thing happened to my galaxy s2. It all of a sudden stopped working. They wont give me any further information when I called them. The only solution was to get the person to lift the block by calling in. However I cant even contact that person since that persons number doenst work anymore and the phone was bought off of craigslist. No reciept no proof of purchase besides the phone and original box.
This has been happening for a long time now, and many many threads about it., so the sympathy level for those of you getting scammed is minimal., do your homework and protect yourself when buying off craigslist.
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I have searched everywhere, and there is not one place that shows how to switch back to sprint from straight talk. I bought this phone on ebay and the guy said it would activate on sprint no problem and i got it as a present for my dad. I need help returning it to sprint, there are many threads about how to do it from cricket or metro pcs, but nobody ever states from straight talk.
Can somebody help me please!!!
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I have searched everywhere, and there is not one place that shows how to switch back to sprint from straight talk. I bought this phone on ebay and the guy said it would activate on sprint no problem and i got it as a present for my dad. I need help returning it to sprint, there are many threads about how to do it from cricket or metro pcs, but nobody ever states from straight talk.
Can somebody help me please!!!
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Have you tried either of those methods to see if they work?
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I really messed up this time. I brought a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 on metropcs carrier from Craigslist. Seller told me that it was sealed and new. I had all iphones before,don't know anything about android and don't know how to test this new phone, when i saw the phone, it was not sealed, it already open by someone, but the phone is new, so I paid $, got the phone. after, I went to metropcs corporate store to active my new phone, the metro guy told me. the phone I'm having right now is reported lost. I got fraud. I'm so sad right now, worked two weeks just for buying this phone, now my money is gone(seller dispeared), I got a phone that I can't even use. I already asked all unlock service, they all tell me they can't unlock the phone, I don't want to sell it to anyone to make them sad, I'm wondering if there is anyway that someone can help me to put the phone back to service(make a call or text).I don't know if root can help or not, I don't know how save this phone, if it can't be used, I will use it as ipod touch,mp3 player. here is all the information that I know to provide, if you guys need to know more, I'll stay here and answer. Thank you for reading it.
AP:R530MVQALJ1
CP:R530MVQLJ1
CSC:R530MMTRALJ1
MEID 99000207231931
MetroPcs R530
does this mean no one can help me here?
Phone is reported lost so the ESN is bad now. That means the phone cannot be activated on Metro PCS anymore. But what you could do is put it on another prepaid carrier like boost mobile if you really want to use it.
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Or u could flash a new esn over from an old metro phone. Go on craigslist look for someone who flashes sprint phones to metro. Explain your problem. U might not get 4g but it should work..
I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 that I got from a friend. He was with Sprint but went to another carrier so he unlocked the phone and used it with them. Now I want to use it on my Sprint acct but when I tried to activate it Sprint told me the the ESN is not in their database anymore so they can't activate it. The ESN does not show up as bad, they just say they have no record of this ESN at all.
It this point I'm not sure what to do. This phone is a better phone (it's 32 gb, mine is 16) and it's in better shape than mine so I would settle on cloning my ESN to this phone but I have not been able to find any way to do that.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can activate this phone?
Thanks!
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I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 that I got from a friend. He was with Sprint but went to another carrier so he unlocked the phone and used it with them. Now I want to use it on my Sprint acct but when I tried to activate it Sprint told me the the ESN is not in their database anymore so they can't activate it. The ESN does not show up as bad, they just say they have no record of this ESN at all.
It this point I'm not sure what to do. This phone is a better phone (it's 32 gb, mine is 16) and it's in better shape than mine so I would settle on cloning my ESN to this phone but I have not been able to find any way to do that.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can activate this phone?
Thanks!
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well sprint doesn't have the ESN in there database cause it was literally moved to the other company......unless they went to a sub company of sprint cause then it would still be alright