Like the title says. My previous Phone bill from Sprint was too much for me so I decided to cancel. I'm now with Virgin Mobile because of their cheaper plans and I know they use the Galaxy S3 so I was wondering. How can I start using my Galaxy S3 with them? I have a clean IMEI & the Phone is free of any hidden charges. Can somebody help me please. I'm not the best when it comes to these kinds of things...
Any help is appreciated
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Hi,
I want to know if we can flash a Samsung Galaxy s III to Boost Mobile.
And one more thing that I want to know is should be the phone originally from Sprint only or Verizon is also fine?
I do not have any idea and that is the reason I'm asking.
FYI. I want to buy a Samsung Galaxy S III on Ebay ( Sprint or Verizon ) and use it with a $50/ Month plan.
So if Sprint works fine then I will look only for Sprint on Ebay. Otherwise I can look for Verizon also.
So kindly please advise. Once I get some information on this, then I should start looking out for the flashing services.
Thanks.
AJ
No offense, but did you even do a search? It's right there on page 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727949
qzmpal said:
Hi,
I want to know if we can flash a Samsung Galaxy s III to Boost Mobile.
And one more thing that I want to know is should be the phone originally from Sprint only or Verizon is also fine?
I do not have any idea and that is the reason I'm asking.
FYI. I want to buy a Samsung Galaxy S III on Ebay ( Sprint or Verizon ) and use it with a $50/ Month plan.
So if Sprint works fine then I will look only for Sprint on Ebay. Otherwise I can look for Verizon also.
So kindly please advise. Once I get some information on this, then I should start looking out for the flashing services.
Thanks.
AJ
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Aside from price why would you want Boost? Boost is owned by Sprint and uses there network
lets see. flash to boost $35 a month in 18 months.
on sprint $80 minimum.
I would say thats a pretty good reason to want it on boost hehe
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just bought an LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) off ebay with clean esn
the phone is still going to have the last persons virgin mobile info in that phone correct?
is it possible for me to transfer that info to my S3 and then i buy a virgin mobile plan (i like the $35 one) and then go ahead and activate the phone like that?
i dont want to activate the the Optimus V "first" then transfer that info to my S3 because say i decide to sell the S3 later on.
i dont want the next person to have to use QPST or DFS.
i just want them to be able to buy their plan and activate the phone like it was an original virgin mobile branded phone.
is that possible
thanks
en11gma said:
just bought an LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) off ebay with clean esn
the phone is still going to have the last persons virgin mobile info in that phone correct?
is it possible for me to transfer that info to my S3 and then i buy a virgin mobile plan (i like the $35 one) and then go ahead and activate the phone like that?
i dont want to activate the the Optimus V "first" then transfer that info to my S3 because say i decide to sell the S3 later on.
i dont want the next person to have to use QPST or DFS.
i just want them to be able to buy their plan and activate the phone like it was an original virgin mobile branded phone.
is that possible
thanks
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Little do we all know the S3 is coming to Virgin
sextape said:
Little do we all know the S3 is coming to Virgin
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if you can help it would be great
You will need to activate the Optimus v on a VM account which will get it reprogrammed with your account info. From there you should be able to follow guides to transfer the S3 to take over the optimus's account info. At that point you can not ever power the Optimus back on or it will flag your VM account and probably put a suspend on the account.
If you want to resell the S3 after the fact for use on any carrier I think it would require some work to get it setup for another account. Because the S3 came from sprint it will never just "auto program" to a VM account, it will need to be manually reprogrammed.
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sextape said:
Little do we all know the S3 is coming to Virgin
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Cool beans, I wonder if that will push the VM S2 price down at all.
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rocket321 said:
If you want to resell the S3 after the fact for use on any carrier I think it would require some work to get it setup for another account. Because the S3 came from sprint it will never just "auto program" to a VM account, it will need to be manually reprogrammed.
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i know i can activate the VM phone and then transfer that over to the S3
what i want to do is make it so if i do sell it the next person will be able to have a flawless transistion to VM just like if it was a "real" VM phone.
i mean after all VM will accept Sprint phones wont they (if they have a good esn)?
ok so if i flash an AOSP rom like CM and then try to activate the S3 with the info i get from VM during phone activation?
i would of course do a "1x" transfer of all the carrier settings but after that the next user would just have to call VM with that info and the phone should be able to easily activate shouldnt it?
i should not have to activate the original VM phone "first" and then take that info and use it with the S3 should i?
i dont like that and if i have to do it that way please explain why,
thanks
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would really like a good guide or some good info on what would have to be "set" with qpst or dfs so if i did sell the phone in the future as a Sprint S3 flashed to VM that the buyer would be able to enter the imei number in the VM website and continue to activate just like a normal VM phone.
i wouldnt think this should be to big a problem would it?
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I'll bump too. I have a friend with a sprint s3 with a broken screen, and he'll give me a good deal on it too!
Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 no wifi hotspot
Hello! Just activated a new SG S3 this week with V MOBILE and I am loving my device except that apparently V Mobile has disabled or buried the hot spot feature. It is running 4.1.2 and I have tried and tried and no sign of it. It appears they are trying to sell their external wifi hotspot device which would get terribly expensive. My plan is their $45/mo unlimited (2.5 gb) data and text 3G& 4G Lte on Sprint's backbone) and it makes me crazy that I can't share my data plan with my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Ridiculous they want to charge extra for data I am already paying for.
So my question is whether anyone out there has found a way to circumvent Virgin Mobile's tampering. I have tried several apps for tethering with zero success. Wondering if using bluetooth is the only way? Wouldn't that be slow?
Obviously I am not a programmer and it sounds scary to root my device. Would hate for it to become a paperweight. Ugh. Could there be some app I could run off an sd card or add on to make this work? I used to be able to do this with my old T Mobile unlimited account on my old Samsung galaxy running 2.3
Your help and support would be great and I can try to make it work or else return the device to swap with something else.
Thanks!
gilgomez
I am looking to get a Samsung Activ S Oddyssey ( Verizon Phone ) to work on Sprint. I can get a Samsung Galaxy S III Sprint phone with a good ESN or another phone. I have seen on other threads there are some developers that do this.Looking for someone do this for me. Don't mind paying. Don't like the windows 8 phones Sprint is offering. Can anyone help?
jita4 said:
I am looking to get a Samsung Activ S Oddyssey ( Verizon Phone ) to work on Sprint. I can get a Samsung Galaxy S III Sprint phone with a good ESN or another phone. I have seen on other threads there are some developers that do this.Looking for someone do this for me. Don't mind paying. Don't like the windows 8 phones Sprint is offering. Can anyone help?
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Help Please
I am looking at getting a Samsung Galaxy Nexus SCH-I515 but want to run it on Boost Mobile. The reading I have done is contradictory (can activate any cdma phone and Verizon is excluded) I was just hoping someone here could give a definitive (ish) answer. Can this phone be activated through boost? BTW customer service was semi unclear to me as well, saying information that is contradicted in their own Web page... Which is why I am here. Thanks in advance.
If its anything like using Virgin Mobile, I had to "trick" the phone into thinking that it was a different device. I know that a few mom and pop shops around will do the work for you. My friend has an AT&T phone running on Net10, which is basically the same network.
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I haven't decided whether to take a chance or not. I might just get an approved device (seems to be what the company wants anyways) I'll try to let you guys know. Thanks again.
i just bought a sprint s3 now i know from thread searching its possible to get a sprint s3 to virgin i just dont know how any help will be appreciated and if theres no gide ill pp $10 for one being written sorry thats all i have