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This just in - Legally use any Sprint phone on Platinumtel prepaid!!

http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2012/02/available-now-legally-use-any-sprint.html?m=1
As long as the phone is not currently active on Sprint and no outstanding bill. Wohooo!! !
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Also note, no way to re activate phone onto Sprint again
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Yeah no thanks. I like my plan and my bill.

I can see that getting really expensive the way I currently use my phone. I'd go to Boost Mobile if it ever came to prepaid.

phatmanxxl said:
I can see that getting really expensive the way I currently use my phone. I'd go to Boost Mobile if it ever came to prepaid.
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yeah 60 bucks for 1GB of data.... wtf?!?! lol id rather do straight talk or metropc.. hell even pages if possible

Clearly it's not for everyone. Its for people who don't need unlimited and are tired of paying $80 a month. My bill went from $80 a month to $25. I use most data at home over wifi. There are many people who don't need unlimited.
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This is predatory. They are preying on the mathematically illiterate.
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My cousin has a droid 3

But he's tired of paying so much money and wants to come to sprint but I told him to wait because there's no good phones out with a keyboard and its not worth putting a new 2 year contract for a phone from 2010.
Then I remembered he's on verizon lol think it'd be possible to flash it to sprint? Will that be illegal? I mean, he's willing to pay the etf to get out of verizon, its his to do whatever with from that point on right?
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Hate to be that guy but this is a question... but when kenny moves it..
I think he could flash it to an alternative carrier when he cancels it.. unsure of which ones but its possible with a donor phone.
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Sprint only adds sprint ESNs so no.
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marcusant said:
Sprint only adds sprint ESNs so no.
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With a donor phone you defenitely could... kind of defeats the purpose though cuz you would have to buy another phone...
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flastnoles11 said:
With a donor phone you defenitely could... kind of defeats the purpose though cuz you would have to buy another phone...
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The phone has to be in service, right? So can he just get a BS cheap texting phone and donate his service from there to his droid 3 till a new KB phone comes out?
I'm so jealous of users on att who could just put in a sim card from t-mobile into their iphone and never have bother att again
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sprint buyback will pay 85 dollars for a droid 3 regardless of condition.
https://secure.sprintbuyback.com/cns/node/5

A_Flying_Fox said:
The phone has to be in service, right? So can he just get a BS cheap texting phone and donate his service from there to his droid 3 till a new KB phone comes out?
I'm so jealous of users on att who could just put in a sim card from t-mobile into their iphone and never have bother att again
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Theoretically yes... but if you want 3g, the donor phone has to be 3g also... tons of guides on how to do this in development...
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It will cause a &*&%^* load of problems... Epic > motorola anyways...

austin420 said:
sprint buyback will pay 85 dollars for a droid 3 regardless of condition.
https://secure.sprintbuyback.com/cns/node/5
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This is the route I would take!
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He'll be so disappointed when switching from verizon to sprint...my girlfriends droid 2 just blazed past my evo as far as 3g speeds.

But to do this you would have to change the esn/meid of the Droid which there is no way to do currently.
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qccoles said:
He'll be so disappointed when switching from verizon to sprint...my girlfriends droid 2 just blazed past my evo as far as 3g speeds.
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whats the point for speed? To see who's faster? Who cares?
As long as you can get your data or info whatever you need like if you need directions or need to hop on the internet and get something whether it be 20 seconds or 45 seconds it doesn't matter.
And if your in a hurry you should have planned ahead, and don't "say well with LTE or faster 3g speeds i don't need to" well that just makes you lazy as hell.
I rather pay 200$ for 3 lines being UNLIMITED versus 250+ on VZW.
And yes were unlimited because the fact its slower but again who cares.
just saying..........

Will trade sprint nexus for a gsm nexus

I recently got a letter and a call that said I would be dropped from sprint due to excessive roaming and even though I had legitimate reasons why I was roaming I couldn't sway their opinion so now I need to trade my sprint nexus for a gsm one if anyone can help let me know
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Sell it on ebay? Should be able to get 300-350 which is around the cost of an unlocked one from the play store. Off contract the phone is 550$ so you shouldnt have a problem selling it for around that price.
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ÜBER™ said:
Sell it on ebay? Should be able to get 300-350 which is around the cost of an unlocked one from the play store. Off contract the phone is 550$ so you shouldnt have a problem selling it for around that price.
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Yeah I figured I just thought I'd offer it here some nice guys around and I wont have to mess around with ebay but I might have to, seeing as its shut down the 3rd of july
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mjd515 said:
Yeah I figured I just thought I'd offer it here some nice guys around and I wont have to mess around with ebay but I might have to, seeing as its shut down the 3rd of july
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Just a suggestion also this should have been posted in the market section of Xda I'm sure a moderator will move it later. Good luck wish I could get the boot I hate this slow ass Sprint 3G, LTE better come my way or else.
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mjd515 said:
I recently got a letter and a call that said I would be dropped from sprint due to excessive roaming and even though I had legitimate reasons why I was roaming I couldn't sway their opinion so now I need to trade my sprint nexus for a gsm one if anyone can help let me know
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There isn't a 32GB GSM version, is there? Just something to keep in mind while you're making deals.

Post in the Marketplace.
And GL getting a straight trade. The Sprint version is hardly worth what the GSM one is, even at the $399 Play Store price.

How much does a Verizon gnexus with bad ESN sell for

I know its only good for a 4" tablet/MP3 player I was thinking I can get $200 for it seeing that I played almost $700 for it but what do you think its worth
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I see them going for about $170ish on ebay including shipping

DertyDOH said:
I see them going for about $170ish on ebay including shipping
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OK then I think I can get at lest $200 for it then if not close to it I can use the money to buy a gsm galaxy nexus
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Why is the ESN bad in the first place.
Just curious.

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Why is the ESN bad in the first place.
Just curious.
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Second this. Bad ESN's never happen from good things.
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It will be bad on the 1st because I can not pay $489.00 a mouth on my bill it keeps going up every mouth and I don't know y this mouth its going to be $499.00 and I am not behind on the bill at all but the cost just keeps going up so I'm not going to pah the bill so I'm going to sell it because of the bad ESN and so I can buy a gsm nexus
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leerpsp said:
It will be bad on the 1st because I can not pay $489.00 a mouth on my bill it keeps going up every mouth and I don't know y this mouth its going to be $499.00 and I am not behind on the bill at all but the cost just keeps going up so I'm not going to pah the bill so I'm going to sell it because of the bad ESN and so I can buy a gsm nexus
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I guess you could give Verizon a ring and ask what the heck is going on.

Verizon marks phones for unpaid bills and other stupid ****. They black listed my Droid Incredible because I terminated my contract for the Nexus. DINC is literally a brick now.

Smokeey said:
Verizon marks phones for unpaid bills and other stupid ****. They black listed my Droid Incredible because I terminated my contract for the Nexus. DINC is literally a brick now.
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That's unreasonable..

I thought 4g phones couldn't be blacklisted? I got a bad esn gnex on cl for 100 and tried to activate it and it worked...,
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Yep even if you buy your phone out right if you don't pay your bill they will black list it
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leerpsp said:
Yep even if you buy your phone out right if you don't pay your bill they will black list it
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Wtf. GSM all the way.
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wilsonlam97 said:
Wtf. GSM all the way.
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Yep gsm all they way for me as well after all this with Verizon they have me turned off on all CDMA phones will the CDMA droid 3 even with a bad ESN you can flash a new radio with unlock code and it will work on gem so I'm going to have a droid 3 on at&t come the 1st till I can get a gsm galaxy nexus
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Smokeey said:
Verizon marks phones for unpaid bills and other stupid ****. They black listed my Droid Incredible because I terminated my contract for the Nexus. DINC is literally a brick now.
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That DINC can be used on alternate networks like cricket or metropcs that accept foreign esns... it not really hard to flash/reprogram them if you look a little bit.. that's the reason they are sold on craigslist all the time.
Before I took the plunge and bought a new GSM GNex for the $30 tmobile plan, that's I'll I did is buy bad esn phones off of ebay and reprogram them for my cricket account

pdxtechdoctor said:
That DINC can be used on alternate networks like cricket or metropcs that accept foreign esns... it not really hard to flash/reprogram them if you look a little bit.. that's the reason they are sold on craigslist all the time.
Before I took the plunge and bought a new GSM GNex for the $30 tmobile plan, that's I'll I did is buy bad esn phones off of ebay and reprogram them for my cricket account
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I wood do that but the only phone company's in Dawson springs NY is t- mobile edge at&t 2g in straight talk sprit does not work were we Are at and the company's you named i looked them up and we do not have them around here so I will just sell it or trade it for a gsm android phone
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Goodbye sprint and Hello Verizon.

To all sprint users thank you for the past few years. But I have left sprint and went to Verizon. I know what some of are thinking but I really got tired of sprints **** service in my area. Talked to customer support on Tuesday and was told if I return my og Evo ( don't really know why they want that ) and my gnexus i could end my contract with no fees. So I did, went to best buy that same day picked up a gnexus for Verizon for ONE DOLLAR, AND MUST SAY IM LOVING THE LTE!!!!! To the Verizon pepes see u in the dev. Section.
Glad I got all 4 of my batteries from sprint the other day lol.
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justen7723 said:
To all sprint users thank you for the past few years. But I have left sprint and went to Verizon. I know what some of are thinking but I really got tired of sprints **** service in my area. Talked to customer support on Tuesday and was told if I return my og Evo ( don't really know why they want that ) and my gnexus i could end my contract with no fees. So I did, went to best buy that same day picked up a gnexus for Verizon for ONE DOLLAR, AND MUST SAY IM LOVING THE LTE!!!!! To the Verizon pepes see u in the dev. Section.
Glad I got all 4 of my batteries from sprint the other day lol.
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There is no comparison. Congrats.

Thinking of doing the same.
But with Sprint I got 5 smartphones with unlimited "data" for $250.
With Verizon, the cheapest is, I believe, $320 or something. I did it a few days ago.

arozer said:
Thinking of doing the same.
But with Sprint I got 5 smartphones with unlimited "data" for $250.
With Verizon, the cheapest is, I believe, $320 or something. I did it a few days ago.
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As said above there is no comparison!!! LTE is awesome. Apps would sometimes take 15 min. To download on sprint 3g and on Verizon its like 30 seconds and done.
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Lucky you. I still have a few months to go on sprint **** before I can move on. Enjoy.
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Duce HD2 said:
Lucky you. I still have a few months to go on sprint **** before I can move on. Enjoy.
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Call 3 times in a row, each time make sure you choose end sprint service, and I bet you could leave now. Worth a shot.
I spent most of the past weekend uploading music to my play account and then it wouldn't work over sprints crappy service. That was pretty much the last draw for me. I just explained to her I could not utilize the phone with there service and something had to be done.
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Duce HD2 said:
Lucky you. I still have a few months to go on sprint **** before I can move on. Enjoy.
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I had 7 months left on my contract, called them to see what the ETF would be, they said 50 bucks, cancelled that day. The ETF shrinks fast, you should check into it!

Welcome to Verizon, been with them for about ten years with no major issues other than paying an arm and a leg. Guess it's worth it for the quality of service they give.
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I switched to Verizon from Sprint in February with four months left on my contract. They said the ETF would be $50, which would have been well worth it, but they never actually charged me for it. The service is far superior--I can use LTE almost anywhere as opposed to WiMAX almost nowhere and I no longer have to use Juice Defender to prevent my battery from draining like crazy due to poor signal, which allows me to use Google Voice to its full extent and save money on messaging--and it actually turns out to be cheaper for me than Sprint. The only downside is that I no longer have unlimited data, but 4GBs is more than enough, so it doesn't really matter anyway. I dislike Verizon's stance on locking the bootloaders for most of it's phones, but as long as they keep supporting Nexus devices, I'll be set. I think you made a very good choice in switching.

miketoasty said:
Welcome to Verizon, been with them for about ten years with no major issues other than paying an arm and a leg. Guess it's worth it for the quality of service they give.
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I agree with this. I've been on three of the four major US characters. AT&T had decent service, but horrid customer service. T-Mobile had great customer service, but horrid coverage in my area. VZW has been the best of both for me. I'd like better coverage at my workplace, but I think that our building was designed to be a Faraday cage anyway.
I've been with VZW for about 4 or 5 years now, and I pretty much hadn't needed their customer service until the last 6 months. Because of repeated issues with my Droid Charge (after owning it for 11 months), they freely replaced it with my current Nexus. My wife's Droid X recently developed problems with the screen and USB port. Today, they bumped her upgrade date up. It's was only bumped up to now from 6 weeks out, but they easily could have told her "too bad; you have to wait".
I'm not too pleased with the recent changes like the removal of unlimited data and the removal of the yearly upgrades for the primary line of a family plan, but they're still the top option for me in my area.

Yeah buddy!!! I just did same thing with mine and the wife's phones...no etf or anything..and I still had a year on contact. Was with Sprint for close to 10 years and finally got tired of the spotty coverage. No regrets at all. Limited data is better than slow data!!,
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Verizon, locked devices but service in every place possible.

I got 14gb data on Verizon just in case
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arozer said:
Thinking of doing the same.
But with Sprint I got 5 smartphones with unlimited "data" for $250.
With Verizon, the cheapest is, I believe, $320 or something. I did it a few days ago.
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Ya, but that $70 is suddenly extremely worth it when you realize that Sprint has the worst service area in the country. They're horrible.

justen7723 said:
As said above there is no comparison!!! LTE is awesome. Apps would sometimes take 15 min. To download on sprint 3g and on Verizon its like 30 seconds and done.
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Sprint LTE is blowing away Verizon LTE where I live now! Average 25 down, 10 up, vs Verizon 10 down, 13 up. I'm a happy camper lol
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good riddance, maybe if more hardcore users like u leave, my data will speed up to how it was in the good ol days like when i had a palm treo.

Yuhfhrh said:
Sprint LTE is blowing away Verizon LTE where I live now! Average 25 down, 10 up, vs Verizon 10 down, 13 up. I'm a happy camper lol
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Cause we need 50mbps on a mobile phone. Practical right? No.
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Yuhfhrh said:
Sprint LTE is blowing away Verizon LTE where I live now! Average 25 down, 10 up, vs Verizon 10 down, 13 up. I'm a happy camper lol
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That works for you but like I said, there is no LTE from Sprint where I am and won't be for about another year at least. So for me and most other sprint customers there is no comparison.
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Should have went GSM... Not CDMA to CDMA...