Now that boost mobile is offering 4g service does anyone have any idea how to get the wimax address from my epic touch 4g on boostmobile's network? Its already flashed to boost with everything working but the 4g service
Update i called boost mobile and they wont do it. The rep said that you have to have the evo design ESN in order for their system to allow the input of a wimax address.....
whitmerray said:
Update i called boost mobile and they wont do it. The rep said that you have to have the evo design ESN in order for their system to allow the input of a wimax address.....
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Thanks for the update I was curious about this myself.
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Update i called boost mobile and they wont do it. The rep said that you have to have the evo design ESN in order for their system to allow the input of a wimax address.....
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This is what i did, it was pretty easy. I wanted to know if my company air card 4g mac address would work, so I edited the 4g mac. I was able to connect but when I surfed I was redirected to a page to call a number.
Then I call my friend who has a Epic Touch on Sprint and he gave me his mac, so again I edited the 4g mac...and guess what..."BAMMMM" I was able to connect and surf with no redirect what so ever.
Now it might be a build.prop thing on the aircard mac and that might be why I was not able to surf only connect.
So if you have a friend that has a Epic Touch 4g on sprint and is willing to share the 4g mac then you will have no issues.
Where and how do you edit the MAC address?
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Unknown Zone said:
This is what i did, it was pretty easy. I wanted to know if my company air card 4g mac address would work, so I edited the 4g mac. I was able to connect but when I surfed I was redirected to a page to call a number.
Then I call my friend who has a Epic Touch on Sprint and he gave me his mac, so again I edited the 4g mac...and guess what..."BAMMMM" I was able to connect and surf with no redirect what so ever.
Now it might be a build.prop thing on the aircard mac and that might be why I was not able to surf only connect.
So if you have a friend that has a Epic Touch 4g on sprint and is willing to share the 4g mac then you will have no issues.
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Yea but that's still not an E4GT with really cheap 4g service on boost mobile. The obvious way around this problem is to buy an evo design register it with your account then get put that esn and wimax addy on a e4gt and break the evo design and return it for ins, it will be recycled and all will be saved.... but that's not quite kosher(legal) so i don't advise anyone to do that ever.
Or just buy an EVO Design (once they go cheaper on ebay) and do what you said but if you keep the phone it's Kosher. Ultimately the EVO Design becomes you donor phone. I bought a donor phone from ebay to get my ET4G working on Virgin Mobile.
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Yea that'd be a good idea, or buy like a broken evo design and just use that... as long as you can still access the phone via pc you should be able to get all the info and a cheaper price on the phone.
Would it have to be a Virgin branded one? Also I am wondering if I would have to actually activate the new EVO Design & then put those settings in my ET4G or just keep my ET4G active & enter the MAC settings from the EVO into my ET4G & get Wimax that way. I just don't want to give up my $25 grandfathered plan!
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Yea that'd be a good idea, or buy like a broken evo design and just use that... as long as you can still access the phone via pc you should be able to get all the info and a cheaper price on the phone.
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wow that is a lot of work to get 4g buy a phone then break it..etc.., I would just ask a friend like I did...but what ever floats your boat.
I just wished the 4g coverage was really some thing to take advantage of, as for me I will maybe connect 5 times a year if that when I am in a 4g area. It is nice to have if you are in coverage and can really use it.
Only wished my damn phone would accept my Mac id from my clear wire wifi modem. Any ideas to why it won't even give me the option to set it?
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Well first of all this doesn't float my boat but I am not fortunate enough to have a friend with a Virgin Wimax phone. If I did, I wouldn't have posted on here.
Second of all, I wasn't the one talking about buying a phone & breaking it...
Third of all. can you give me your friends MAC address??
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wow that is a lot of work to get 4g buy a phone then break it..etc.., I would just ask a friend like I did...but what ever floats your boat.
I just wished the 4g coverage was really some thing to take advantage of, as for me I will maybe connect 5 times a year if that when I am in a 4g area. It is nice to have if you are in coverage and can really use it.
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Update i called boost mobile and they wont do it. The rep said that you have to have the evo design ESN in order for their system to allow the input of a wimax address.....
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While the rep may have been confused by your question, this raises a question of my own. Would they be able to alter the associated WiMax MAC address on their end if you were using a Boost branded Evo Design as a "donor"?
It wouldn't do anything to alleviate needing a $299 donor phone, but it would open the door to using other HTC 4G phones on Boost with working WiMax.
I can confirm that the Epic Touch will get functional 4G on Boost if an Evo Design is used as a donor, the WiMax MAC address is repaired and the realm is changed to myboostmobile.sprintpcs.com.
I highly doubt boost would change the wimax addy on their end to a non evo wimax addy. They probably could change it on their end but doubt they would, even though half those people you talk to are f*c*ing idiots.
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Is there any I can use evo with boost mobile. I know a lot of people question this, but please. Prepaid is the only way I can have a phone. Thanks
nope sorry
Have you tried going into a boost mobile store (authorized retailer only, not corporate) and asking them to activate the phone on their network? You will NOT be able to purchase one from a sprint store unactivated and bring it to boost. You will not have 4G service, if you do a lot of people are going to try this and it will get fixed, so dont tell anyone if you do (except me).
A boost authorized retailer would love to do this for you because then he can pocket the normal subsidy on the phone which would be sold to you. Call a few authorized retailers and ask them to do this they should know how and be very willing.
boost is owned by sprint they would not allow evo on boost network
The easiest way to get a sprint phone working on BOOST isn't by calling them its getting a BOOST CDMA phone and activating an account or switching your Iden account to the new CDMA phone. Once you have that done you need to have the MSL code for your SPRINT phone and just reprogram it using your MDN which is your BOOST cell# and the MSID thats given to you by BOOST when you activate your phone. Once thats done the phone resets itself and your done, I did this myself and have had my Touch Pro2 working great since Feb. As far as the EVO i want to get it too so it should be the same with the exception of 4G which isnt even available in certain areas like here in NYC yet anyway but everything would be workiing norally in 3G and being that SPRINT owns BOOST i sure they'll be getting 4G really soon. Motorola already has an Iden android phone for BOOST so newer phones and way better service should be comming along too. I had my phone with SPRINT and now that im using BOOST i have the same service with a way better plan and for much less. So if i have to pay BOOST an extra $10 when they get 4G then so be it and i'll have a better plan with the same service instead of paying SPRINT at least $100/month with taxes&fees. Only disadvantage BOOST has is they dont offer a equipment protection plan other than that its much more economical
Guide here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704161&highlight=boost+mobile
One sold on ebay for ~USD$1200
The only way to do it I know of is to change the MEID to one Boost would except.
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One sold on ebay for ~USD$1200
The only way to do it I know of is to change the MEID to one Boost would except.
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they sell on ebay for that much money? are you kidding me? anyone wanna buy my evo =D
9 or 10 months ago when they first came out. Now everyone has one.
lol a year later this one gets bumped up huh... So since it's been brought back let's ask this, anyone figured this out yet for the evo..?? That link is for metro not boost..
Flashed EVO on Boost
my Evo is flashed to boost but my phone keeps getting a Data call error 67 when i try to update my phones data profile and PRL my phone also send calls striaght to voice mail when my mobile data connection is enabled Does anyone know how to fix this?
I imagine it won't grab the update/prl since it wants to get it from Sprint, but you are running Boost. When you are using data, all calls will go to Voice Mail, since CDMA doesn't currently support voice/data simutaneously. You can try to uncheck DDTM mode, this will interrupt data and push the phone call through. It will disconnect your data connection and resume it after terminating the call, however if you were downloading or doing something else, it won't automatically resume the download.
Menu---> Settings---> Call---> DDT Mode (uncheck box).
My phone doesn't have full data connection my phone wont stay on the internet when i receive a call and when my wifi is on my 3g connection gets disabled how do i fix this? does anyone know how to fully flash the EVO to run off sprint 3g too?
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My phone doesn't have full data connection my phone wont stay on the internet when i receive a call and when my wifi is on my 3g connection gets disabled how do i fix this? does anyone know how to fully flash the EVO to run off sprint 3g too?
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So wait.
You are complaining about the phone doing EXACTLY WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO?
You did do at least SOME research before buying this particular phone, correct?
And what do you mean "flash the EVO to run off sprint 3G?"
That's what it does stock!
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So wait.
You are complaining about the phone doing EXACTLY WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO?
You did do at least SOME research before buying this particular phone, correct?
And what do you mean "flash the EVO to run off sprint 3G?"
That's what it does stock!
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Apparently he's used to GSM phones.
teh roxxorz said:
Apparently he's used to GSM phones.
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Actually thats not what the phones suppose to do cause i know there's a number of people that actually got their EVO's to act like a smart phone on boost and not disconnect their data when calling. Did you do your research? i was actually hoping that someone who knew how to fix the problem would respond rather than someone with just a mere comment that says nothing.
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Actually thats not what the phones suppose to do cause i know there's a number of people that actually got their EVO's to act like a smart phone on boost and not disconnect their data when calling.
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Not possible.
There exists no CDMA service in North America that allows simultaneous DATA and voice.
In theory if you had a good 3g connection and was doing VOIP it could look like you were doing both
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Guide here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704161&highlight=boost+mobile
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ok, so why does the header say "BOOST" and the whole thread talk about cricket and/or metropcs? how 'bout one for "BOOST MOBILE"...
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Not possible.
There exists no CDMA service in North America that allows simultaneous DATA and voice.
In theory if you had a good 3g connection and was doing VOIP it could look like you were doing both
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i don't follow Verizon, but I thought I read somewhere that they conquered that beast? i could be wrong.
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nope sorry
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yes he can, many have the evo on boost. do a google search my man, you will find what you require to make it happen.
I just got my 4g touch from letstalk.com and tried turning on the 4g (yeah the extra $10 a month all us suckers need to pay) and it didnt connect? Does it take a while to activate coming from just a 3g hero?
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I just got my 4g touch from letstalk.com and tried turning on the 4g (yeah the extra $10 a month all us suckers need to pay) and it didnt connect? Does it take a while to activate coming from just a 3g hero?
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You have to have 4g in the area which you live. you can check the
4g coverage map on sprint.com I believe.
And the 10.00 charge is now for any smartphone, not just 4g capable ones.
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dbldown768 said:
I just got my 4g touch from letstalk.com and tried turning on the 4g (yeah the extra $10 a month all us suckers need to pay) and it didnt connect? Does it take a while to activate coming from just a 3g hero?
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Do you have 4G in your area?
Sorry, yes i live in the chicagoland area. I would imagine i should have coverage. Since my old hero didnt have 4g does it take a day or so after upgrade?
Oh my......
let the flames begin.
whatever flame away. if 4g doesnt work no way im paying $10 a month when i didnt have to before. and coverage map show 4g, so i would expect it to work.
I know it sounds like a dumb question, but with provisioning and all the b.s. i have no idea if something has to change on their side.
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Sorry, yes i live in the chicagoland area. I would imagine i should have coverage. Since my old hero didnt have 4g does it take a day or so after upgrade?
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It should be available immediately. If you can't get 4G, there's no 4G in your area.
Now, if the coverage map shows 4G, then your phone may be defective.
BTW, the $10 charge is not for 4G but for all new android phones with or without 4G radios.
They call it "we are gonna charge you more cause we can" fee.
dbldown768 said:
whatever flame away. if 4g doesnt work no way im paying $10 a month when i didnt have to before.
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You didn't pay the fee because you where grandfathered in with your contract... Once you got this phone and signed a new contract you now have to pay for the "data" fee even if you dont have 4g coverage.... I dont have 4g where I live...
U troll no?
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well then call my phone defective. the wife's phone works just fine...
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well then call my phone defective. the wife's phone works just fine...
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It gets 4g?
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Hey I just got the Touch Pro 2 and I can't get 4G...how do i activate it?
I don't know anything about the 3g hero, but you really should double check to make sure you have 4g coverage. The coverage for 4g than 3g coverage so just because you have 3g doesn't mean you automatically have 4g. It's a bummer for those who don't have a coverage. Me i'm like right at the edge of 4g coverage so if i want those speed i have to like walk a block or two just to get a bar or two of 4G.
I just opened her phone and tried hers, connects no problems. Sitting in the same room and i get nothing, her phone works fine.
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I just opened her phone and tried hers, connects no problems. Sitting in the same room and i get nothing, her phone works fine.
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Now I know your trollin..........
4gz is claustrophobic and cant go in roomz!?!
On the real tho... I dont think you haz da 4g in your area bro
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I just opened her phone and tried hers, connects no problems. Sitting in the same room and i get nothing, her phone works fine.
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Assuming your wife has a 4g capable phone, then you might wanna talk the guys at sprint then or maybe it's something as simple as just turning on the radio from your settings? I dunno *shrugs*. I haven't tested mine yet since i'm still using my EVO and haven't had the chance to move my account to my epic touch 4g. waiting for a stable root.
on the phone with sprint now. they tried to go through manual activation, still showing 'unknown' in the 4g settings when you try to turn it on. they want to send me a replacement. problem is i ordered this phone from letstalk.com and now they want me to call them.
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on the phone with sprint now. they tried to go through manual activation, still showing 'unknown' in the 4g settings when you try to turn it on. they want to send me a replacement. problem is i ordered this phone from letstalk.com and now they want me to call them.
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lemme know what happens bc i also got my phone from letstalk today and my 4g isnt connecting and im in the chicagoland area too!.. lol
i had the evo 3d before this and it had no problem connecting to 4g in my area
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lol, i kinda figured letstalk might have messed up the data activation bc some ppl had the same issue from wirefly. well i did a hard data reset and my 4g is up and running now **FROM MY BASEMENT**, which i thought was ridiculous to even try but it actually still connected haha. just proof of its superior radio to the E3D.
anyway heres a link that may help you, btw you DONT need to be rooted to use Terminal Emulator to get your MSL, look for kingsway8605's post, its simpler http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1269282
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on the phone with sprint now. they tried to go through manual activation, still showing 'unknown' in the 4g settings when you try to turn it on. they want to send me a replacement. problem is i ordered this phone from letstalk.com and now they want me to call them.
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edited changed my mind.
dont mind the trolls they have nothing better to do
If your area has no 4g coverage you wont get anything
For example where I live there is no 4g but 5 min down the street I have it a work lol
I've been using an EVO for about a year and a half on Cricket in order to save a few bucks. I'm now back in a better job and ready to go back to a better service provider.
If I sign up for Sprint and get a new device with WiMax 4G (do they still offer those?) is it possible to program my EVO to use the 4G service and use it as a dedicated connection at home and disable it on my new phone (I don't need 4G while out and about honestly)?
is it possible to program my EVO to use the 4G service and use it as a dedicated connection at home and disable it on my new phone (I don't need 4G while out and about honestly)?
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The only way to do this would be to use the new device as a hotspot, thus sharing the 4g with the Evo. There is no way of just "transferring" wimax keys from one device to another. However, if you are going to get a new device on Sprint, why not just re-activate the Evo with new service?
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The only way to do this would be to use the new device as a hotspot, thus sharing the 4g with the Evo. There is no way of just "transferring" wimax keys from one device to another. However, if you are going to get a new device on Sprint, why not just re-activate the Evo with new service?
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Well this EVO has a bad ESN as far as I know, which is why I got it for use on Cricket. However, I tried looking up the ESN on some site that supposedly can check it and it said it was clear.
This phone is starting to age. It needs a new housing and the screen has gotten a few scratches. I wouldn't mind upgrading to a new phone at this point. It looks like Sprint still has WiMax devices so I'm good there. Maybe a Galaxy SII is in my future.
It looks like I can maybe get a new device and then once 4G is activated I can program the mac address of the 4G radio on the new phone into my EVO. I found some instructions that I think will do the trick:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447615
It seems like people have successfully transferred/shared 4G service between devices before. I think all I need to do is get aG service on a new device and then once that MAC is in Sprint's system change my EVO's 4G mac to that of the new phone. It doesn't look like I need to swap RSA keys between devices. This explains why you can do something like make your EVO 4G work with Clearwire's 4G simply by getting your MAC into their system.
I was wondering since Boost and Virgin Mobile now have Sprint's 4G WiMAX , how would I flash my Evo 4G over to Boost Mobile with the 4G WiMAX working?
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I was wondering since Boost and Virgin Mobile now have Sprint's 4G WiMAX , how would I flash my Evo 4G over to Boost Mobile with the 4G WiMAX working?
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Its been talked about already, you'll need a 4G donor. Read to use the HTC Design 4G.
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Its been talked about already, you'll need a 4G donor. Read to use the HTC Design 4G.
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that doesn't help me any maybe a link would help..........
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that doesn't help me any maybe a link would help..........
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You don't need a link to figure that out. You needed a donor 3g boost mobile phone in order to flash any cdma phone over to 3g boost mobile. You will obviously need a 4g boost mobile phone in order to flash over any cdma phone over to 4g boost mobile.
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I was wondering since Boost and Virgin Mobile now have Sprint's 4G WiMAX , how would I flash my Evo 4G over to Boost Mobile with the 4G WiMAX working?
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Yea I think you would need to buy the HTC EVO Design 4g use the stuff you used to flash you EVO 4g to boost mobile. This is just an idea after you are done with the HTC EVO Design 4g return it.
If u return the phone and somebody buys it and turns it on, won't that scramble the data
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If u return the phone and somebody buys it and turns it on, won't that scramble the data
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Yea if you use the donor and return it you'll be screwed once someone else buys that phone and turns on the 4g unless you find a way to scramble that phones wimax address.... there has to be another way to do this besides using a donor for is wimax mac address..
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Yea if you use the donor and return it you'll be screwed once someone else buys that phone and turns on the 4g unless you find a way to scramble that phones wimax address.... there has to be another way to do this besides using a donor for is wimax mac address..
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I wonder if those WiMax MAC addresses are anything like ESN/MeIDs in a sense they are close numerically to other similar phones on the same network. That is the only way I can think it would work but that is highly illegal in this case.
From my understanding
You don't necessarily need a 4g donor or anything just change your mac address to a SPRINT WORKING MAC ADDRESS on your phone.
I remember when I first started doing cable modems in vegas this is how we used to get on the network, we used to clone mac addresses from modems by fishing them and then we flashed them on a modem and voila
I don't think that sprint is provisioning the 4g mac addresses like that but using a friends wimax mac address as your own can work, don't ask me how to do this as I don't know with HTC evo I have it on my e4gt flashed to boost and I did it by ##33284# ##debug# lol dont know if that's right on the numbers.
But yeah just borrow a friends mac address and change it to that turn on your 4g and GG!
4g on boost help
well i still havent figure it out, i bought the evo design from boost so i can have 4g, i dont like the cell phone at all, is too tiny compare to evo 4g or galaxy s2, so i flash it to the galaxy s2 like everybody knows now days and also change the wimax mac address from the design in to the galaxy change the realm and it worked!! I have 3g and 4g working with everything messagesand internet, now i tryed the same with the evo 4g change the wimax mac address and the realm same like i did on the galaxy but it didnt work, so question: anybody knows how to make 4g to work on evo4g with the evodesign 4g as donor?
You need more than just the MAC, also needed is the proper NAI and user name to the MAC address.
i haven't had my evo in a while but there was one month i was late on the bill and sprint cut my service
but surprisingly i was still able to use 4g i wanted to know if it was possible to buy a used evo from ebay and just connect to sprints/clears wimax without a contract
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i haven't had my evo in a while but there was one month i was late on the bill and sprint cut my service
but surprisingly i was still able to use 4g i wanted to know if it was possible to buy a used evo from ebay and just connect to sprints/clears wimax without a contract
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You would have to have a data contract to use 4g on your evo. It would be easier to have a WiFi tether instead of the 4g tether.
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Sounds to me like the 4G service just didn't get deactivated as fast. It's a different network than the normal phone/data service.
If you think you're going to buy a second hand EVO and the 4g is just going to magically work and be free then I would like to buy some weed off you...