Hi everyone! This is my first post, hopefully I don't get canned too fast. Here's my situation - I have an Evo 4G that I had with Sprint. I no longer have the service, but still use the phone's wifi for internet and of course I also use the music application. I recently signed up for some weird government free phone thing with tracphone. I have a POS tracphone with 250 free mins every month. Instead of carrying 2 phones with me everywhere, I want to flash/enable the Evo 4G to be on the tracphone network. I basically want to use the serial number and phone number from the tracphone on my Evo 4G. And it seems like it's possible. As I'm brand new to this, my first thing was to download the "evo flashing tools.rar" file. I haven't opened it yet and have NO idea what I'm getting myself into.
Please note, I am NOT trying to get the Evo 4G's 3G/4G network speed going...I will be content with being on a crap network, the crap network that Tracphone uses. I will only be using web features etc while connected to a wireless network. I just want to be able to make calls and send texts from this Evo 4G while being on the tracphone network.
Any and all help is appreciated! As I'm a noob I'm sure there's many links and tutorials I need to know about, so if anyone is kind enough to help me out on this I would be so thankful! I'm sick of carrying around 2 phones!
okay I downloaded the main rar, and I'm reading through the "evo 4g tut" PDF. It seems like they assume thedonor phone can be plugged into the computer...but of course my donor phone is a $10 piece of crap that does not connect to the computer in any way whatsoever.
The tutorial is saying I need to get the ESN and MEID, HA, AAA, 1192 and 1194. How could I possibly get that information out of this phone? It's literally a $10 tracphone that doesn't have the capability to connect to a computer. What do I do now? Is this even possible?
Did you look under the battery?
For just talk and text to work, you need meid, mdn, and msid from donor. You will probably have to change PRL too. Does the tracphone take a sim card? If so, it is not possible to do what you are wanting to do. If you need a little more help or info, shoot me a pm
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thanks!
Ok wait I just popped open the Tracphone and yes it does have a SIM card. Couldn't I just pop the sim from this and put it in the Evo 4G? All I want is talk and text.
But seriously? If it has a SIM card there's no way to use the Tracphone service on my Evo?
I found the IMEI.
Shouldn't I be in business?
How could I get the info I need from the Tracphone without it having the capability to connect to a computer?
There's an almost identical thread/method here but involving using the Evo 4G with Virgin Mobile. This has to be possible. Right?
It's not possible to get your CDMA Evo 4g on a GSM network. You're out of luck.
Does your evo have a sim card slot?
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Hey bud. I flash phones to other carriers all the time. I have a ijunk 3g ill trade ya for ur evo. Its unlocked already so all u would need to do is put ur sim n the iphone n u should b good. If not i will help ya. Let me know. My email is [email protected]
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30717025#post30717025
this is what i need to get done now. any help would be awesome thanks in advance guys
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ive been able to get data with boost and cricket with the Epic and talk and text to work with verzon anybody have any luck at all i have cdma workshop paid version so it shouldnt be to hard...i thought
Would be nice. Sprint data speeds are getting worse everyday (at least in my area) . When I talked to them they said it was not their networks fault but my phones fault. Must be everyone else I know has a bad phone to then. I might have to drop Sprint soon. I don't want to but 40kbs down and 8 up is ridiculous. My friends who have US Cellular for abot same price are getting approximately 200 down and 80 up! When I started Sprint I would get around 150 down and 70 up on this phone
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best speed ive got from this epic is about 250k down and 120k up using eh17 modem and supposely a corporate sprint 21081 has only happened once in my house where i do most of my test at. most of the time its less then 100k :-( i jus came across another epic which im going to make vzw data work on it its already matches the vzw doner phone talk txt work. i jus retired my htc titan a few months ago getting 300k easy in this same area. i had 2 of them one from verizon one from sprint both working on vzw with all features. 2 diff accounts. on the epic ive noticed the roaming signal will not leave me alone even with a modified sprint prl for verizon which fixed it on my mogul/titan. i think my evdo keys are correct. full copy. data works on doner phone. i believe the dmu 10.key is not needed since they were already generated might try and play around with the um properties in qpst tomorrow
those speeds are from my boost mobile account
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chrisonline909 said:
ive been able to get data with boost and cricket with the Epic and talk and text to work with verzon anybody have any luck at all i have cdma workshop paid version so it shouldnt be to hard...i thought
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Sure, just flash a Verizon PRL...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898628
Originally Posted by chrisonline909
ive been able to get data with boost and cricket with the Epic and talk and text to work with verzon anybody have any luck at all i have cdma workshop paid version so it shouldnt be to hard...i thought
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Sure, just flash a Verizon PRL...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898628
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thanks, im on the verizon network just fine i can make calls send txts. mind you im on a "repaired esn" registered on the verizon network kinda like the what the boost fellas are doing also. my other epic is on boost nice 50 a month for everything. but..... this is the only non verizon phone i cant get fully working on the verizon not even 1x data. stupid sprint activation thing is getting annoying......grrr
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How are you getting the Ah-AAA(nv item 1192)? Newer phone don't seem to give you that. When dump that location its just not there.
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How are you getting the Ah-AAA(nv item 1192)? Newer phone don't seem to give you that. When dump that location its just not there.
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I have the paid version of the newest cdma workshop and pulled the info from my doner. its a LG VX10000S.
update: ive been doing some research at work today and i believe now its because of the roaming triangle i was getting which was not allowing evdo to connect i hear only certain modified sprint prls designed for verizon towers will get rid of the Triangle. the one i had used before with my mogul is not one of them anymore,..
Well guys to bring an old post back to life....
An Epic 4G with full unlimited data working on verizon prepaid is the ish.....
I also have the epic with verizon all the unlimited data. Have you gotton any other phones to work also?
gedster314 said:
How are you getting the Ah-AAA(nv item 1192)? Newer phone don't seem to give you that. When dump that location its just not there.
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The NV items could be in different locations on newer phones. There are other ways to read and write the AAA password.
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how did you finally get the epic to work on verizon prepaid?..i have the 3g icon w/no roaming indicator but it wont connect
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First of all, I would like to thank all the members on xda who have worked on the evo for metropcs! So, after countless hours of research and trial and error I was able to get my evo flashed to metropcs. As was doing this, I ran into a couple of problems/questions that I would like someone to address(or can redirect me where I can find that information):
A. It seems to me that most solution to "flash" a phone to metropcs assume that you already have tallk and text on your phone. Why?
B. To get talk and text I had to modify the nam settings and write a metro prl using cdma. I then had to pay someone on ebay to put the esn into metros database. Would the same settings apply to most phones(evo 3d, nexus, iphone etc) ?
C. Besides ebay, does anyone know where I can add ESN's into metro's database (I tried my local stores but they didn't want to).
D. This last question is just out of curiosity: I know metro has lte and sprint wimax and that's why the evo can't get 4g. But, what if we change the WiMax settings(in particular the NAI) on a flashed phone to that of a evo that is on sprint(of course with the person's permission). Would the phone get 4g from that person account?
My ep4gt is rooted and CWM, but where do I find the rom for straight talk? I assume I need a rom to make this work on the ST unlimited plan.
Once flashed, how do I activate on ST?
Sorry searched couldn't find this answered.
You can't. Straight Talk uses T-Mobile's network which is GSM/AWS, and requires a sim card. This phone is CDMA only.
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Straight Talk is CDMA (through Verizon) And no it hasn't been/ cannot be done as far as I know.
ST uses ATT, Verizon, and t mobile afaik.
There are mulitiple services on ebay offering to flash your cdma phone over to ST on the verizon network.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/130619122331?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
a member on this forum pitchristian has had this done also.
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I couldnt update my profile or Prl as of a week ago, I did some digging and...
It looks like sprint changed some 3g passwords after the iphone release. thats why my speeds reverted to 1X. You can update the passwords but if you didnt flash the phone yourself then you need to get it back to whomever did it and they can update it. I actually just took my eg4t and flashed it to straight talk wireless instead. $45 unlimited everything(although they are supposedly cutting people off that use more than 3-5g per month) It runs off Verizons towers so my speeds quadrupled over sprints crappy 3g speeds."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19443407&highlight=straight+talk#post19443407
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I PM'ed him,no reply yet as to if there is a way to do this without paying to have this done.
Id save over a 100 a month if I could switch my lines to straight talk. Im kind of interested in this also, but its something ill want to do myself and not through ebay.
For Android phones, Straight Talk uses Sprint. They signed a contract back some months ago. They are not ties to a specific provider and will use what makes sense for them, so it could change over time.
Well these phones when flashed use the verizon network. There are lots of youtube videos where they call some number and it tells you the provider.
So i'm seeing that this is a paid for service only (to have phone flashed to ST)
Interesting. 2 people I know with ST, and both phones have SIM cards. Granted, both are clamshells, but good to know.
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Interesting. 2 people I know with ST, and both phones have SIM cards. Granted, both are clamshells, but good to know.
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I bought two ST phones last year, the Samsung qwerty slider, and the one that looks like a blackberry. They were both cdma and ran off the Verizon network. They had bars where my sprint phone did not. I guess different regions use different carriers to piggy back on. There is no T-Mobile coverage in a 10 mile radius where I live.
Here you go:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...id-phones-will-use-sprints-network/2011-09-09
I'm sure Straight Talk is willing to use whatever makes the most sense for them so I wouldn't be surprised if they switch stuff around over time.
Maybe this process goes around that? But I have confirmed that these phones do work on the vrz network.
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Maybe this process goes around that? But I have confirmed that these phones do work on the vrz network.
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Indeed they do...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
I switched mine to Alltel $45/month unlimited talk text and web but it roams does anybody else who flashed their epic touch always have a roaming indicator? Also my sprint 4g still works
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snoopy1e11 said:
I switched mine to Alltel $45/month unlimited talk text and web but it roams does anybody else who flashed their epic touch always have a roaming indicator? Also my sprint 4g still works
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how did you flash yours?
I have my ET4G running on prepaid Platinumtel. You can take any Sprint (Android is easiest) phone and "hack" it to run on any Sprint MNVO network easy (with some diligent research on the web) such as Platinumtel, Virgin etc. I can't say how here, only that it can be done
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Do all the Sprint prepaid spinoffs (Boost/Virgin et. al.) offer unlimited data, or is it capped/throttled?
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You have to start the port process 24 hours before the idiot starts the flash process. It's not really a flash though.
It uses the verizon towers, no question. You can change around your prl's to determine which towers you wish to use.
So far, very happy with this
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.....
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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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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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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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And how do we do this
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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.
Hi i was looking around and I found out that they are some people who was able to flashed their epic 4g touch to verizon prepaid ,but I cant find the guide or the tutorial for how to do it. Can someone help me and tell me what I need to do to flash my phone to verizon prepaid ,Thank you ,I hope someone help me with this.
You need a donor phone from Verizon.
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Ok and what a do with the donor phone?
Research what a donor phone is, and that will bring you all the information you need to know.
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or just pay 50 buck to a buddy of mine he will do it all you need is a usb a phone a working computer
If you have metroPCS service in your town, you can also flash it to metro- text, talk, mms, web, gps all for $40 a month. I also think you can for cricket as well. Both are pre-paid carriers- no need for a donor phone.
Thank you for the help,but I will glad if you send me a tutorial in how to flash it to Verizon,due to there is not metro PC or cricket in my area just Verizon prepaid.
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Hi I flashed my Epic 4G touch to Verizon prepaid but It keeps saying roaming whats up with that everything Is working perfect but it says roaming witch probably is not a good thing??