Ok, so you have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3, [SPH-L710] and you want to Flash it to Page Plus?
[I'm assuming this will work for ANY carrier, but we all know what assuming does...]
Take it to dealer and have the MEID activated.
Flash the PRL of carrier you want to switch to, restart phone.
You'll also need to change the SPC on the Phone to 000000
Here's the trick, you need another phone with the dial pad open and ready.
hold the other phones speaker to the mic of the S3
Dial *228 on the S3 you want activated.
When it asks you to press 1, press one on the other phone,
The S3 will hear the dial, and proceed to program it for you.
[Back in the day if you recorded the tones that were made from a payphone after paying, you could play it back,, it would hear the dial, and think you paid, when you didn't]
Now Flash a correct PRL [I have provided a copy I used for Page Plus]
No Roaming Signal
CDMA - EvDo Rev.A
Blam, it works.
Valentinez said:
Ok, so you have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3, [SPH-L710] and you want to Flash it to Page Plus?
[I'm assuming this will work for ANY carrier, but we all know what assuming does...]
Take it to dealer and have the MEID activated.
Flash the PRL of carrier you want to switch to, restart phone.
You'll also need to change the SPC on the Phone to 000000
Here's the trick, you need another phone with the dial pad open and ready.
hold the other phones speaker to the mic of the S3
Dial *228 on the S3 you want activated.
When it asks you to press 1, press one on the other phone,
The S3 will hear the dial, and proceed to program it for you.
[Back in the day if you recorded the tones that were made from a payphone after paying, you could play it back,, it would hear the dial, and think you paid, when you didn't]
Now Flash a correct PRL [I have provided a copy I used for Page Plus]
No Roaming Signal
CDMA - EvDo Rev.A
Blam, it works.
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Nice work. Finally someone kind and honest enough to share their method. :good::good:
Moduli said:
Nice work. Finally someone kind and honest enough to share their method. :good::good:
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Knowledge should be free and shared, in my opinion!
Am I correct in assuming that the 2nd phone needs to be a 3G only phone that is currently activated on Page Plus?
This method works sometimes .... But you have to remember not everything gets programmed OTA ...
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I use to be on Page Plus. I sent my old Droid 4 to Beigephone in Texas and they did all the programming for me for like $60. Then shipped the phone back to me. It was perfect and flawless. Nice to know how to do it on our own though. Thanks for the great overview.
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I recently switched from the Incredible to the Droid 2 global to give it a try. Don't worry I got it for free thanks to the deal that Verizon is running about buy one get one of the same. *Upgraded a family member so I took the free one as I thought what the hell*
Now I've played around with this phone for 1 and 1/2 days so far and I'm not liking the battery life. I rather not return the phone as it was free and so I was thinking if I could just keep it as a backup that would be great.
Now my question is can I switch between the phones without going into the store? I want to activate my incredible again for a while since it got better battery life. *and before you ask, yes I've spent at least the last 15 hours using it like I did my other phone but still the battery was drained faster*
Now I have done a google search already about this topic and found this so far.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5046976_switch-phones-easily-verizon-wireless.html
Has anyone here done this before? I'm not looking to change anything about my services other than the phone. Both phones are smart phones and thus I don't see a problem but I figured I would ask the all mighty people here.
I just call verizon and they do it for me.
Its very simple just call them up and they ask for the codes off the new phone and your set. I believe you can do it right off the website as well.
Eh well I have 1 problem with calling them. I only have my cell as my phone. So I can't call them on the phone that will be deactivated. I'm looking at this as saving me time from having to deal with going to the store or from having to call them.
I'm just worried that since I'm on a contract that I would be locked to this specific phone unless I upgrade again.
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Anyone else done this before?
There's a couple of approaches (or maybe many more I haven't thought of):
1) Do you have a computer (not a phone)? If so, can you just use Skype or some such thing to call them at their 800 number or whatever it is? Then you can shut off the phone.
2) I have an old droid 1 and a dinc. I switch between them by shutting off the dinc, and turning on the droid, typing *228 and that's that. Reversing the process works as well. No one asks for the MEIN/ID, but once I had a small contract screwup where I had a replacement phone I'd forgotten about, and I was asked for the MEIN (is that the right acronym?) , and had to yank the back off to find it and give it to them. It is also in 'about phone' but the phone has to be on.
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So none of that may be useful to you unless you have access to a computer and skype (or an equivalent).
Good luck -
So you say you can just turn off one phone and *228 on your deactivated phone and that will automatically switch which phone is active at the time?
Yes, I can do that as long as the original paperwork on each phone really matches what they have in their computers.
For example, I mentioned that one phone was broken and replaced early on, and I had to call them to change to that one, but once I'd done that call, I could just use the *228 to change.
It sure doesn't hurt to try it.
hachamacha said:
Yes, I can do that as long as the original paperwork on each phone really matches what they have in their computers.
For example, I mentioned that one phone was broken and replaced early on, and I had to call them to change to that one, but once I'd done that call, I could just use the *228 to change.
It sure doesn't hurt to try it.
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Ah cool well both phones match the paper work on my account as I own both and they had both been activated before on my account so I will give it a try and see what happens. If this works then I will be very happy as I can just switch back and forth all I want.
Just tried that and it didn't work. As soon as I tried it asked me to enter the phone number that I was trying to activate.
I think this does have to be done via the website first. I would love to hear some someone that has tried the instructions that I linked above.
I do this on a monthly basis. When u dial *228 from the phone u want to use press 1 for program. When prompted enter phone number with area code that u want on that phone. If your act has a password u may be prompted to enter that or the last 4 digits of the act holders social security number. When it goes through, may take up to 10 min u will get programming complete. Dial *228 again then select 2 to unlock prl and update roaming. Pm me if u need further help. Peace.
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I do this on a monthly basis. When u dial *228 from the phone u want to use press 1 for program. When prompted enter phone number with area code that u want on that phone. If your act has a password u may be prompted to enter that or the last 4 digits of the act holders social security number. When it goes through, may take up to 10 min u will get programming complete. Dial *228 again then select 2 to unlock prl and update roaming. Pm me if u need further help. Peace.
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what he said. no need to call them.
So this is an odd question, but I have the first Samsung Epic working just fine. I dial *228 on that phone and no problem, programs just fine after I dial "1". Whenever I dial *228 on the Epic 4g Touch it goes through Sprint's "programming" screen and won't let me bring up the keyboard so I can "press 1". Is there some way to stop this from auto-poopping up and just have the normal dialer STAY on the screen (like the samsung epic)? Deleted SprintAndroidExtension.apk already, which is what I usually have to do on my first Epic.
Protip: I'm not programming the phone on Sprint's network.
Just tried it on my phone to confirm your symptoms. It seems that you're stuck going the ##MSL# and Service Programming in QPST route. If the phone is activated and Profile 0 properly configured, maybe you can use Update Profile and Update PRL in the settings?
I have an idea. If you really need to press certain buttons to navigate the menu this should work. Get another phone and set it to speaker or hold it up to the mic and press the numbers you need. You might be able to find a program online to do it also. Every number is just playing a certain frequency note. I use to record the number I was dialing with a tape recorder when I was a kid. I would then just play it again to call the number.
On my Epic mobile phone.
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I have an idea. If you really need to press certain buttons to navigate the menu this should work. Get another phone and set it to speaker or hold it up to the mic and press the numbers you need. You might be able to find a program online to do it also. Every number is just playing a certain frequency note. I use to record the number I was dialing with a tape recorder when I was a kid. I would then just play it again to call the number.
On my Epic mobile phone.
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Heh, I tried this but it didn't work. Was a cool idea though. Looks like I'll have to do service programming, which I absolutely do not want to do for a simple VZW programming (since it works on EVERY other phone), but I guess I'll have to. SO stupid I have to go through this trouble just because I can't press "1".
You can program Tasker to send key presses on a delay...
I ended up just grabbing settings in QPST which I thought would never work...but worked just fine. Was weird. Back in the HTC Touch Pro days we were told to always do Verizon Programming.
Well, thanks guys!
Hello All, I am one of those who recently bought an HTC One V from Virgin Mobile hoping to use it on Page Plus. For last several days I have been searching on how to unlock this phone but haven't found a way to do so. I recently found some answers and have been trying to unlock the boot loader but can't seem to find a way to do it. The instructions online said to first hold down the down arrow key and press the power button next but that is not working. Does anyone know if the option to unlock the boot loader is disabled by VM? Also, has anyone figured out a way to go around it? If someone knows how to use this phone on Pageplus or is aware of any how to's, please post and I would really appreciate it.
TIA!
Register on htcdev.com, sign in, select unlock boot loader, there will be a list of phones, choose the one that says other supported phones.
From there HTC will guide you through the unlock method. There are also some guides in the general section.
As far as page plus, I know some stores will flash it for you. Check craigslist in your area and I'm sure there will be a local shop that will do it for cheap. Just choose someone reputable, nothing worse than getting conned or scammed.
Good luck!
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whoshotjr2006 said:
Register on htcdev.com, sign in, select unlock boot loader, there will be a list of phones, choose the one that says other supported phones.
From there HTC will guide you through the unlock method. There are also some guides in the general section.
As far as page plus, I know some stores will flash it for you. Check craigslist in your area and I'm sure there will be a local shop that will do it for cheap. Just choose someone reputable, nothing worse than getting conned or scammed.
Good luck!
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There's no need to give it to someone to flash.
I registered my virgin htc one v on page plus last week. Procedure is as follows:
Unlock bootloader - basically htcdev as mentioned above, once the bootloader is unlocked you can use fastboot and install a root/custom recovery (cwm or teamwin)
Root phone.
Install MSL finder app that requires root. I think this is specific per phone, not 100% sure.
Use the diag code on the phone. I think it's something like ##3424#, use the msl code, enable the modem thing.
Install the HTC diag modem driver.
now you can access the phone using QPST or CDMA workshop.
Now all you need to do after that is find a online dealer, there are a few that will do this step for free. Basically port your number or establish a new activation, give them your esn and let them register the phone to page plus. Also download a pageplus prl.
Back in QPST (I think that's what it's called) or CDMA workshop, reset your msl code to 6 0s (000000) and load the prl file on the phone. You may also have to manually set your MIN/phone number. I think activation might take care of this for you? Not 100% sure.
Make sure with the new prl the phone is rebooted and perform an activation, dial *228. With your msl set to 000000 the verizon activation should be able to be completed fine.
Now you should have a working pageplus htc one v phone. Phone and text will work. 3g is another matter, all the settings will still be set up for sprint/virgin mobile. I'm working on the 3g portion but there are tutorials that cover how to convert any phone to verizon 3g and you should/can follow those.
Quick question, what's "page plus?"
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Quick question, what's "page plus?"
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One google search can clear that up. Since we're talking about cell phones and activating it, i would think it's safe to assume it's another prepaid carrier. P+ is a reseller of verizon. The only real benefit for me is that they have a real prepaid plan, you can buy 2000 minutes for a whole year which virgin doesn't seem to have available, which is perfect for my parents. They have monthly plans which are similar but i think a bit better than virgin.
hypergreatthing said:
There's no need to give it to someone to flash.
I registered my virgin htc one v on page plus last week. Procedure is as follows:
Unlock bootloader - basically htcdev as mentioned above, once the bootloader is unlocked you can use fastboot and install a root/custom recovery (cwm or teamwin)
Root phone.
Install MSL finder app that requires root. I think this is specific per phone, not 100% sure.
Use the diag code on the phone. I think it's something like ##3424#, use the msl code, enable the modem thing.
Install the HTC diag modem driver.
now you can access the phone using QPST or CDMA workshop.
Now all you need to do after that is find a online dealer, there are a few that will do this step for free. Basically port your number or establish a new activation, give them your esn and let them register the phone to page plus. Also download a pageplus prl.
Back in QPST (I think that's what it's called) or CDMA workshop, reset your msl code to 6 0s (000000) and load the prl file on the phone. You may also have to manually set your MIN/phone number. I think activation might take care of this for you? Not 100% sure.
Make sure with the new prl the phone is rebooted and perform an activation, dial *228. With your msl set to 000000 the verizon activation should be able to be completed fine.
Now you should have a working pageplus htc one v phone. Phone and text will work. 3g is another matter, all the settings will still be set up for sprint/virgin mobile. I'm working on the 3g portion but there are tutorials that cover how to convert any phone to verizon 3g and you should/can follow those.
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I am with you all the way and thanks for the response. My only other question is do you know if this will work for any HTV One V. I bought this from Virgin Mobile and I have a feeling that the have locked out certain things..do you know?
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I am with you all the way and thanks for the response. My only other question is do you know if this will work for any HTV One V. I bought this from Virgin Mobile and I have a feeling that the have locked out certain things..do you know?
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Erm, i bought this on the 50$ virgin mobile sale last week. it's on page plus now.
Does that answer your question?
I mean, any CDMA HTC One V should be portable to page plus. It's all the same radio technology. GSM however will not be able to be ported to P+.
hypergreatthing said:
Erm, i bought this on the 50$ virgin mobile sale last week. it's on page plus now.
Does that answer your question?
I mean, any CDMA HTC One V should be portable to page plus. It's all the same radio technology. GSM however will not be able to be ported to P+.
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Hi, i bought the $50 One V too and was wondering if I could follow your steps to activate on Verizon? Don't need text/3G, just wondering if my mom could use it in lieu of her dumbphone w/o paying for data on verizon postpaid. Thanks in advance!
imonfiiRe said:
Hi, i bought the $50 One V too and was wondering if I could follow your steps to activate on Verizon? Don't need text/3G, just wondering if my mom could use it in lieu of her dumbphone w/o paying for data on verizon postpaid. Thanks in advance!
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You get text, just got to fiddle with the settings for mms.
Basically from all my tinkering it comes down to this. Yes, it works. You have to follow the steps above,
unlock the boot loader
get root installed
install the msl finder
turn on diag mode (##3424# or something)
connect to qpst
change the msl to 000000
put in a prl that's made for sprint phones on verizon (not too hard to find)
reboot
make sure your esn is associated to pageplus (online resellers of minutes can do this for free if you look around), dial *228 for activation
make a call out to set up your voicemail
to get quasi 3g (it's not 3g due to ha/aaa shared secret passwords that as far as i know you can't get with a sprint phone for whatever reason) you have to play with qpst and setup the m.i.p. profiles, an/un for verizon. It says 3g but it's like 1x speed slow.
To get full 3g speed you have to get the right shared passwords which as far as i've been able to determine are associated with your esn. I've read somewhere that you need a real verizon phone, swap esns, reactivate data, copy the passwords, swap esns back and program the sprint phone with the shared secret passwords. As far as i can tell this is the donor phone method. I haven't been able to verify that method but i might be able to in a month or so when i get my hands on a verizon phone.
You'll want to do this setting up before installing any custom roms. I installed pacman on mine after setting it up for page plus.
hypergreatthing said:
You get text, just got to fiddle with the settings for mms.
Basically from all my tinkering it comes down to this. Yes, it works. You have to follow the steps above,
unlock the boot loader
get root installed
install the msl finder
turn on diag mode (##3424# or something)
connect to qpst
change the msl to 000000
put in a prl that's made for sprint phones on verizon (not too hard to find)
reboot
make sure your esn is associated to pageplus (online resellers of minutes can do this for free if you look around), dial *228 for activation
make a call out to set up your voicemail
to get quasi 3g (it's not 3g due to ha/aaa shared secret passwords that as far as i know you can't get with a sprint phone for whatever reason) you have to play with qpst and setup the m.i.p. profiles, an/un for verizon. It says 3g but it's like 1x speed slow.
To get full 3g speed you have to get the right shared passwords which as far as i've been able to determine are associated with your esn. I've read somewhere that you need a real verizon phone, swap esns, reactivate data, copy the passwords, swap esns back and program the sprint phone with the shared secret passwords. As far as i can tell this is the donor phone method. I haven't been able to verify that method but i might be able to in a month or so when i get my hands on a verizon phone.
You'll want to do this setting up before installing any custom roms. I installed pacman on mine after setting it up for page plus.
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Is it necessary to change the msl to 000000 in order for the phone to work? I didn't change it and my phone works fine on Page plus. I understand it won't be able to receive OTA updates, but is that 100% necessary? What happens if I don't change it to 000000?
pm me if you would like a link that i believe has the data issue fixed i cant post in thread
I read on another forum people were having problems doing this method after updating to the newest firmware with the phone. Mine is updated can anyone give me some insight on what I can do?
hypergreatthing said:
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Basically ...Yes, it works..
You'll want to do this setting up before installing any custom roms. I installed pacman on mine after setting it up for page plus.
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Hi, I recently installed the RhythmicRom v1.2e after failing to get PacMan to boot (latest radio update created issues...) I was using GrooveIP previously, but now I'm thinking PagePlus would be more mobile. Will I have to Factory reset/wipe Rom before flashing PP? any work arounds? thanks.
Hello, I am new here but have intermediate experience with devices.
Alright time to throw everyone for a loop lol, hopefully someone can help me out.
Here is my problem:
My phone is not connected to a network.
Here is what I have:
Samsung Galaxy S III with Metro PCS (NOT rooted, and with latest PRL and software updates)
What happened:
I woke up yesterday to find my phone not on Metros network, and not on a partner network. My 4G still works though, I can access internet but just can not call/txt or receive either.
In Settings > About Device > Status, here are some of the satus'...
Network: Searching for Service
Signal Strength: -93dBm 47asu
Mobile Network Type: LTE:14
Service State: Out of Service
Roaming: Not Roaming
My Phone Number: Unknown
Min: Unknown
PRL Version: 0
Things I've Done So Far:
Contacted Metro through phone support and Facebook support, neither could help fix the problem.
Took my phone into a Metro store and they wont honor a repair since my screen has a hairline crack in the screen. (which I will also say, they noted that already on my account...)
I've already went to *#22745927 and enabled the hidden menu multiple times (cause it disables with each restart) and I've went to **772 to view my MDN and MSID (MIN) and the MDN shows nothing and MSID has a 10 digit number (that's not the right number for my account), so I tried to edit them to the numbers that I know are correct and after I hit done, the phone restarts but then when it comes back on, nothings changed, and when viewing **772 again, the numbers don't save in the fields.
I know *#197328640# lets you access the service menu, but I don't really feel like touching any of that and making things worse (unless someone knows how to fix this issue through the service menu then ill do it)
Now that my long winded speech is done, its your turn to try and solve this dilemma and help me out please
I hope this is the right section to post in, sorry if it is not.
Thanks in advance to any help ^^ if anyone's got any other questions, ill try to answer them best as I can.
Slimjim2424 said:
Hello, I am new here but have intermediate experience with devices.
Alright time to throw everyone for a loop lol, hopefully someone can help me out.
Here is my problem:
My phone is not connected to a network.
Here is what I have:
Samsung Galaxy S III with Metro PCS (NOT rooted, and with latest PRL and software updates)
What happened:
I woke up yesterday to find my phone not on Metros network, and not on a partner network. My 4G still works though, I can access internet but just can not call/txt or receive either.
In Settings > About Device > Status, here are some of the satus'...
Network: Searching for Service
Signal Strength: -93dBm 47asu
Mobile Network Type: LTE:14
Service State: Out of Service
Roaming: Not Roaming
My Phone Number: Unknown
Min: Unknown
PRL Version: 0
Things I've Done So Far:
Contacted Metro through phone support and Facebook support, neither could help fix the problem.
Took my phone into a Metro store and they wont honor a repair since my screen has a hairline crack in the screen. (which I will also say, they noted that already on my account...)
I've already went to *#22745927 and enabled the hidden menu multiple times (cause it disables with each restart) and I've went to **772 to view my MDN and MSID (MIN) and the MDN shows nothing and MSID has a 10 digit number (that's not the right number for my account), so I tried to edit them to the numbers that I know are correct and after I hit done, the phone restarts but then when it comes back on, nothings changed, and when viewing **772 again, the numbers don't save in the fields.
I know *#197328640# lets you access the service menu, but I don't really feel like touching any of that and making things worse (unless someone knows how to fix this issue through the service menu then ill do it)
Now that my long winded speech is done, its your turn to try and solve this dilemma and help me out please
I hope this is the right section to post in, sorry if it is not.
Thanks in advance to any help ^^ if anyone's got any other questions, ill try to answer them best as I can.
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Did you IMEI change? Check if it's 004999010640000
1.) Wrong forum. You have a US Version of the S3. Not the international... Ask a mod to move it.
2.) Don't quote the WHOLE OP. Especially if you're the first flipping person to reply!
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b-eock said:
1.) Wrong forum. You have a US Version of the S3. Not the international... Ask a mod to move it.
2.) Don't quote the WHOLE OP. Especially if you're the first flipping person to reply!
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Sorry about having the wrong forum, if a mod could move this that would be appreciated.
bump
If you want it moved, press the /!\ report button.
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I'll bump it once more, since its now been moved to the correct forum.
The IMEI question is still relevant, is it intact? But from what your saying it sounds like you have the old metro s3 model, meaning it's a cdma device not gsm like ours. You probably need to be in Sprints forum as their fixes for this kind of problem will likely be different than ours. I can already tell your dialer codes are different....
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DocHoliday77 said:
The IMEI question is still relevant, is it intact? But from what your saying it sounds like you have the old metro s3 model, meaning it's a cdma device not gsm like ours. You probably need to be in Sprints forum as their fixes for this kind of problem will likely be different than ours. I can already tell your dialer codes are different....
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First of all thanks for posting
and the IMEI is fine and is there.
I got the GS3 from Metro the first day it came out.
Ok, it's probably the SCH-R530? model. Since T-Mobile bought metro they now have the SGH-T999N. The original one for them was a variant of Sprints if I remember right.
I'd just copy your OP here into a new thread there. They'll probably be better able to help than most people here.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Ok, it's probably the SCH-R530? model. Since T-Mobile bought metro they now have the SGH-T999N. The original one for them was a variant of Sprints if I remember right.
I'd just copy your OP here into a new thread there. They'll probably be better able to help than most people here.
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Yea I went over to the Sprint GS3 forum and posted there and have had 3 replies so far.
So far I couldn't find an answer even on Google so if I just missed my answer somewhere please don't heckle me.
Someone gave my son a Sprint Epic 4G that has been carrier unlocked and setup for Cricket. I want to carrier lock it back to Sprint but all I can find is how to unlock it.
Razorwindmo46 said:
So far I couldn't find an answer even on Google so if I just missed my answer somewhere please don't heckle me.
Someone gave my son a Sprint Epic 4G that has been carrier unlocked and setup for Cricket. I want to carrier lock it back to Sprint but all I can find is how to unlock it.
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More than 99% sure MEID was the result of a "donor" meid and your device "mating". So to say.
What you need to do is check to see if the MEID matches the one on the battery sticker.
Secondly, it was probably flashed because it had a BadESN.
I can say a few things.
MSL
16-Digit Password
DFS CDMA Tool
Number bumpin till they start humpin.
Direct Message me if you really want to know.
Yosh.
jaysoblitzed said:
More than 99% sure MEID was the result of a "donor" meid and your device "mating". So to say.
What you need to do is check to see if the MEID matches the one on the battery sticker.
Secondly, it was probably flashed because it had a BadESN.
I can say a few things.
MSL
16-Digit Password
DFS CDMA Tool
Number bumpin till they start humpin.
Direct Message me if you really want to know.
Yosh.
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You may be correct about the bad esn # because the sticker has been removed. As far as the MEID, it only comes up with a hex number with the typed code that has been checked and is clean.
Well, I can "fix" it for you. Just make sure your device is on 4.1.2. I'll get the MSL n handle it with DFS.
Its an Epic 4g or an Epic Touch 4G?
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Epic Touch 4G. At the moment I don't have it. My son took it back home. I'm not sure what version it has either. There was an update waiting to install and he did it last night.
Ok that's perfect. When you can direct message me I'll give you a number to text and we can get the fix going.
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jaysoblitzed said:
Ok that's perfect. When you can direct message me I'll give you a number to text and we can get the fix going.
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Sorry for the long wait, I just got the phone back from my son last night. I think I got the correct esn back. I had to update to 4.1.2 via Kies and now it's showing a Dec for MEID and no cricket.
Razorwindmo46 said:
Sorry for the long wait, I just got the phone back from my son last night. I think I got the correct esn back. I had to update to 4.1.2 via Kies and now it's showing a Dec for MEID and no cricket.
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Regardless of what it displays a factory restore won't even clear the MEID because the original has to be removed in order to put a valid cricket MEID. If you go to checkesnfree.com and in the dropdown box select sprint and type in the MEID it will let you know if it is a valid MEID for sprint. If not it will state on the side "InvalidESN"
Let me know what it says.
By the way, if you said you saw guides on how to unlock/flash it; its the exact same process except all you need is a S2 sprint MEID and Sprint PRL. Do a factory restore; and it will update via Handsfree activation. You should put the ESN on the Sprint account before doing so. Another good thing to do is put a BadESN and Sprint PRL first and let it update by handsfree and it will put the owner with the badesn info automatically but it will have all the sprint settings again. After that process you can put a clean one then factory restore and it will be brand new stock from sprint.
jaysoblitzed said:
Regardless of what it displays a factory restore won't even clear the MEID because the original has to be removed in order to put a valid cricket MEID. If you go to checkesnfree.com and in the dropdown box select sprint and type in the MEID it will let you know if it is a valid MEID for sprint. If not it will state on the side "InvalidESN"
Let me know what it says.
By the way, if you said you saw guides on how to unlock/flash it; its the exact same process except all you need is a S2 sprint MEID and Sprint PRL. Do a factory restore; and it will update via Handsfree activation. You should put the ESN on the Sprint account before doing so. Another good thing to do is put a BadESN and Sprint PRL first and let it update by handsfree and it will put the owner with the badesn info automatically but it will have all the sprint settings again. After that process you can put a clean one then factory restore and it will be brand new stock from sprint.
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I did the checkesn.com before you posted this and it said, Sprint = badESN - NCIC = passed - MyStolenPhone.com = passed.
You are correct. Factory reset/restore didn't work but, after doing QBKing77's Unroot / Unbrick the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, it activated. I believe when I told my son to call Prepayd, they may have give him a dummy ESN. Anyway, it is working now. I do appreciate your helping since no one else seemed to be concerned. I clicked the Thanks button for you. By the way, I ordered another phone for him so it will sit until it needs to be used. He is very hard on phones.
jaysoblitzed said:
Regardless of what it displays a factory restore won't even clear the MEID because the original has to be removed in order to put a valid cricket MEID. If you go to checkesnfree.com and in the dropdown box select sprint and type in the MEID it will let you know if it is a valid MEID for sprint. If not it will state on the side "InvalidESN"
Let me know what it says.
By the way, if you said you saw guides on how to unlock/flash it; its the exact same process except all you need is a S2 sprint MEID and Sprint PRL. Do a factory restore; and it will update via Handsfree activation. You should put the ESN on the Sprint account before doing so. Another good thing to do is put a BadESN and Sprint PRL first and let it update by handsfree and it will put the owner with the badesn info automatically but it will have all the sprint settings again. After that process you can put a clean one then factory restore and it will be brand new stock from sprint.
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Anyone who knows about things like this, would know that's quite an offer of help to so generously to offer to someone haha.... All I'm sayin is if she don't want it.... I'd be estatic to take it for her Lol .
Really though, that'd be pretty cool of you to do that for someone...
Razorwindmo46 said:
So far I couldn't find an answer even on Google so if I just missed my answer somewhere please don't heckle me.
Someone gave my son a Sprint Epic 4G that has been carrier unlocked and setup for Cricket. I want to carrier lock it back to Sprint but all I can find is how to unlock it.
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You can probably just get the oneclick file and load that from your pc . Or , install kies lite on your pc and it should reload it to factory specs .
Razorwindmo46 said:
I did the checkesn.com before you posted this and it said, Sprint = badESN - NCIC = passed - MyStolenPhone.com = passed.
You are correct. Factory reset/restore didn't work but, after doing QBKing77's Unroot / Unbrick the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, it activated. I believe when I told my son to call Prepayd, they may have give him a dummy ESN. Anyway, it is working now. I do appreciate your helping since no one else seemed to be concerned. I clicked the Thanks button for you. By the way, I ordered another phone for him so it will sit until it needs to be used. He is very hard on phones.
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Anyone ever need to, or information regarding this topic feel free to PM I can guide you through.