I have an HTC EVO 4G from Sprint, I recently did the HTCDev unlock on the bootloader, but what I'm trying to accomplish is unlocking/rooting the phone to be used on another carrier other than Sprint, but all the info I've gathered I can determine that my phone's bootloader is unlocked, but can't find any info on whether or not doing so also unlocked it so I can use the EVO on another CDMA carrier or if there are additional steps needed to make that possible as well?!?! Just need some helpful advice whether I've truly already achieved what I'm wanting to do or point me in the right direction to finish the process so I can take my phone to another carrier other than Sprint. Thanks for any help
What carrier are you trying to flash to?
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I'd like to flash it to work with Verizon or any other CDMA company, which I know both companies (Sprint and Verizon) use CMDA instead of GSM, like I said I know for certain my bootloader is unlocked, just wanting to make sure it actually unlocked it to work on another carrier.
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No one has any input at all??
Unlike gsm cdma are not locked to your carrier. Just look for a guide to flash to the carrier you want. I would suggest boost or cricket if they have good coverage in your area.
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Oh ok I'll have to look into that then, are Boost and or Cricket good carriers?
I use cricket myself and while the actual service in my area is good customer support is worthless. Most of their employees are brainless and have no clue about anything. On the plus side they will activate any phone from any carrier.
I believe that with boost it is a bit more work. Been told you need a donor phone from boost to activate but again I am not 100% sure on that.
I suggest checking out the coverage maps for your area before flashing. Also both offer 4g but use lte while the evo uses wimax so you won't be able to get 4g coverage no matter the carrier you choose.
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Thanks for the info! I greatly appreciate it, I've been trying to locate a good link to download CDMA Workshop to be able to get my MSL so I can flash different PRL's to my phone because the Evo is not activated right now so I can't download the free MSL reader from the Play Store and every link I find is broken and doesn't work to actually get the CDMA Workshop downloaded....
Google "how to flash evo 4g to cricket" open guide from lovelysms and use the link there.
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Thanks! I'll do that, I greatly appreciate all your help
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Hello, I have Sprints version of the Galaxy s2 and would like to totally switch plans/service to Virgin Mobile...I have seen online elsewhere that this is possible but no direct directions on how? I would prefer Virgin but Metro PCS or Cricket would also do if they would function properly with the phone. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
There have been quite a few threads around here regarding flashing over to metro, but I haven't seen anything about virgin. Do a search for metro flashing and like I said youll find a few different threads.
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Its only possible by rewritting esn as virgin is owned by sprint and each virgin esn is scanned in their system
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i tried running search on flashing metro but the only useful info i got was for using another phone model...anywhere i can find model specific flashing info for the SPH-D710? the only experience i have with flashing is taking my old galaxy from froyo to gingerbread using odin...guessing i would need an actual guide if one exists? thanks for your help!
Look up a program call qxdm I believe or cdma workshop u have to rewrite nam and prl if u wanna go to metro then connect phone and dial ##8778# or #8778# and switch phone option to modem need any help shoot me a pm
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You sure can. I have the exact same phone on Platinumtel prwpaid which also runs on the Sprint network. Just rewrite the ESN as stated above...
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I have a sgs2 and cdma workshop on my desk top...what do i need to do to get it to work with virgin mobile?
I know ive seen some post about it. As for the esn I know for the Epic 4g if I remember right I think you needed an old virgin mobile phone for the esn
I know iv seen some saying the sgs2 disnt need a "donor" phone..but i heard sonething about changing something for the 3g to work i just dont see video or info how to get the esn to virgin...i have cdma workshop but not sure what to do with it..lol
There's a guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404270
(I hope it still works)
I have a quick question: is it possible to flash BACK to sprint after flashing to virgin mobile? This is with an epic 4g touch that had a clean esn.
warriorwithin120 said:
I have a quick question: is it possible to flash BACK to sprint after flashing to virgin mobile? This is with an epic 4g touch that had a clean esn.
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Yes, it should just be a matter of reversing the process you used to flash/pgm your device to VM... Assuming you did retain all of the relevant data from your original setup...
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Yes, it should just be a matter of reversing the process you used to flash/pgm your device to VM... Assuming you did retain all of the relevant data from your original setup...
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Does anyone know if you need to flash the virgin mobile version of android 4.1.2 onto a sprint epic 4g touch in order to use Virgin mobile or can you just use any of the sprint roms and just swap the info out from a virgin donor phone.
thanks
Gentlemen, I would caution you on discussing the changing of ESNs here in XDA. As I'm sure you know, flashing this way is now illegal and talking about piracy and the like in the threads is frowned upon by the mods. Just trying to help. Good luck!
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Can I use any other service provider besides sprint on my epic 4g since its now rooted?
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Lueoldgregg said:
Can I use any other service provider besides sprint on my epic 4g since its now rooted?
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Google Flashing Samsung Epic to Alternat Carriers. I believe you need a donor phone from that carrier.
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Who are you looking to go to? Just curious.
I thought I read some where that this phone can use cricket...
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mine even flashed to a carrier outside US called Smart-Telecom, sometime can be buggy, but as long as you flashed correctly everything should be working.
I know I've seen posts from people who have flashed their epic to work on Boost or Cricket.
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Can I use any other service provider besides sprint on my epic 4g since its now rooted?
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Our epic's use CDMA technology, theoretically, they could be reprogrammed to work on any CDMA Carrier given that the following is done.
#1 The Carrier allows adding ESNs to their database, thus you'll get working talk and text.
(You'll have to manually know the rest of the programming to each carrier and input the missing values. Not to mention some companies make it even tougher by hardcoding things into the framework-res)
#2 The carrier does NOT allow adding of ESNs to which you'll then need to drop more bills, buy a donor phone that you can read its values from, and port that to your epic.
It is not a guarantee that all CDMA carriers will work with 100% things functioning correctly, thus not all carriers go through the trouble of doing OTA programming to phones that aren't natively theirs. Although some do at least give you the needed programming settings, you may get lucky and find guides that other people have wrote up that are tedious, but good to follow. Cutting you the hours of work it took to write the guides, just so you can follow it with everything working in like 30 mins of your own time.
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Is there anything you can do to make my inc work on metro pcs network?
I just gave my friend my old inc because i have no use for it after i upgraded to rezound, and he doesn't want to get verizon because of the contract. He went to metro pcs and asked if he can joing their network with my inc, and they told him that he has to go somewhere and flash something on the phone for $80, and then they can do it.
and so i came here to ask around, maybe i can do it myself somehow
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Is there anything you can do to make my inc work on metro pcs network?
I just gave my friend my old inc because i have no use for it after i upgraded to rezound, and he doesn't want to get verizon because of the contract. He went to metro pcs and asked if he can joing their network with my inc, and they told him that he has to go somewhere and flash something on the phone for $80, and then they can do it.
and so i came here to ask around, maybe i can do it myself somehow
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I would check in inc development like a few pages in it should be there
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so what do i look for? htc inc flash to metro? or its some specific roms or something? never changed carriers on any phone so i dont know
andrix10 said:
so what do i look for? htc inc flash to metro? or its some specific roms or something? never changed carriers on any phone so i dont know
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Well you need a donor phone already activated on metro. You then need to use a pc program called qpst to change the esn and other network settings of the inc, to the esn and network settings of the donor phone. You then need to flash a metro prl to the inc. This is just to give you a general idea of what needs to be done and what you will need. When i find the actual guide i will post it here for you.
EDIT: I cant find the thread on xda, but from looking around google it seems all you need to do is flash a metro prl. This will allow metro to connect to and program the inc with the correct network settings. You still need the qpst program to change the prl, and you also need to find a metro prl. I want to flash my inc to straight talk so i am going to be doing some serious googling on the subject.
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EDIT: I cant find the thread on xda, but from looking around google it seems all you need to do is flash a metro prl. This will allow metro to connect to and program the inc with the correct network settings. You still need the qpst program to change the prl, and you also need to find a metro prl. I want to flash my inc to straight talk so i am going to be doing some serious googling on the subject.
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guys here it is
hXXp://unleashedprepaids.com/index.php?topic=577.0
replace XX with tt
the PRL is attached to the thread, its kinda hard to find it is the 3028
please refer to hXXp://androidforums.com/lg-esteem/433515-prl-post-thread-current-prl-3028-a.html
for all the PRL
I did not found anything on XDA about the flash to metro.. here it is, CREDITS to androidforums and BlastGT1
dont forget to say thanks :good:
Tyvm, but do I have to get service from metro first? Says I have to enter [email protected] or something
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Do I have to have a number from pcs or just put in random number?
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Do I have to have a number from pcs or just put in random number?
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Just use zeros.
K tyvm
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Is there any way to roam on sprint with the play? Verizon (3g) and sprint (3g) are both cdma and i know you can roam on verizon with the sprint E4GT. It would be so nice to use my play. I miss it since the switch to sprint.
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Maybe if you flash a new PRL in a software such as CDMA Workshop. I'm not really sure though.
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That would require a unlocked bootloader woudnt it?
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hit the thanks it doesn't hurt.
I haven't used CDMA Workshop in a long time, but last time I messed with a phone, I needed the 16 character code and the 6 digit MSL to get access to most things.
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That would require a unlocked bootloader woudnt it?
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hit the thanks it doesn't hurt.
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Even though the R800x is a VERIZON you cant have it run on Sprint. Sprint doesn't allow phones from the outside. Your best bet is to flash pageplus cellualr or criket they both use verizon towers and you'd be good to go. Dont go to metropcs they've been bought by T-mobile. Plus T-mobile is converting metropcs to GSM.
Quick question im trying to buy a few phones to donate around have a couple already but im getting mixed responses from people so here it is if a phone had a bad esn can it be used on diffrent carriers or is a no go all the way around?
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Quick question im trying to buy a few phones to donate around have a couple already but im getting mixed responses from people so here it is if a phone had a bad esn can it be used on diffrent carriers or is a no go all the way around?
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Yes, it can be used on other networks. Mine is on Verizon Wireless. It's not the easiest process.
I flash phones all the time was just wanting to know if there would be any additional steps id have to take?
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I flash phones all the time was just wanting to know if there would be any additional steps id have to take?
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Oh, I couldn't tell you. I've only done it once. I had issues with 3g but went away once I flashed to GB rom.
Question is there anyway to get rid of the Sprint stuff so it won't keep complaining to update on stockish roms?
No there shouldn't be any diffrent steps as long as you have the donor phone you should be good.
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I got a D710 with bad esn, and use it on cricket. Stock roms suck, I rarely find an mms fix that works on most, and can't get voice mail notifications. AOSP is better, I get voicemail out the box, but nothing seemed to work on MMS. I'm not a pro, but have flashed my share of devices. Using a doaner phone means esn change, that is an iffy subject. Change it to use on another carrier? Why, when you could do the same thing and keep it on Sprint? Not legal either way. Bad esn means failed to pay the bill or was claimed lost/stolen. Either way, changing the esn to use it is considered fraud. The phone belongs to the carrier. No one would hunt you done for it, but you should know about it. Soon all the black listed cdma devices will be in one database, and just flashing a device won't be a way to use it. "Cleaning up" an esn or part it out will be all the devices with bad esns will be good for.
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Ya I have bought bad ESN phones just to flash them to cricket which is relatively heard other providers can be a lot harder but never tried. And cricket will pretty much allow anything on there network.
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May want to check also with the parties you're donating to. Many of them may not need to activate it - in which case ESN doesn't really matter. Bad ESNs can be flashed to other carriers, but Sprint may take some talks to get that working - and assuming they're nice enough to do it.
Well there's flashing and esn changing. Flashing is not touching the esn and taking it to another Sprint MNVO and just activating it either legitimately (some are byod) or just changing some settings on your end and then activating it on said mnvo carrier. Then there's changing the esn. If there are carriers that only allow their devices, then youd have to go this route which is a bit complicated and not for the average user. This involves obtaining a donor phone (one that the carrier sells) and taking the esn and a bunch of other settings from that phone and plugging it into the phone you want to use. Ive done this successfully with an epic touch 4g on Platinumtel and Virgin Mobile. It's been working perfectly for the last 9 months. It is completely legal. Where it becomes illegal and fraudulent is if you clone someone elses phone and do not pay the bill (read this for more info although it's still a gray area http://www.hackerscatalog.com/Services/TECH_Notes/one.html) So yes, you can do a lot with a phone with a bad esn if you know what you're doing or pay someone who does. Keep in mind it would be easier to take a sprint phone to virgin mobile or verizon phone to page plus, etc. A lot of the settings will stay the same and cdma carriers use different frequencies for data and you might end up with 1x for data. If you need a how to guide, I could post a link. Let me know.