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ESN Change Method for HTC Touch / Vogue

Just have look at my post at Mobile-Files.com
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hetaldp said:
Just have look at my post at Mobile-Files.com
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what could one possibly change an esn for?

nitty917 said:
what could one possibly change an esn for?
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I would have to say it is for emergency use only since cloning an ESN is highly ILLEGAL.
2 examples of this kind of emergency:
You are a Sprint customer and you have an older device, say a 6700 or Mogul, and you want to buy a Touch but do not want to extend your contract so you buy a new Touch on eBay only to find out that the ESN is bad or black listed or something like that. You are now royally PI$$ED because your new investment turns out to be a waste of your money and an expensive paperweight.
Another example of this coming into use: You already have a Touch with Sprint but you, like me, have the worst luck in existence and dropped your very expensive investment in the toilet while relieving yourself. You try as hard as you can to get it to work again but like I said, your luck sucks and the device just won't power back on. You buy a new Touch on eBay only to find out the ESN is bad and you got royally fu**ed by whoever sold you the phone because now you can't get a hold of this person and eBay won't do anything.
This is when this comes in handy. Now you can clone your 6700, Mogul, or Touch's ESN to your new phone with the bad ESN so that now it has a good clean ESN. Be careful with this though. If Sprint ever found out you did this you could be prosecuted and lose your right to own a wireless phone for a long time, regardless of carrier.

nitty917 said:
what could one possibly change an esn for?
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The main reason anyone is going to want to do this is to steal other customer's ESNs and their phone number, and thus.... FREE CELL PHONE USAGE!!!
The other thing that happens, if you steal another person's ESN and phone number, you can receive all of the calls that are placed to their cell phone.

This isn't the 90's
If you clone a phone as soon as both phones register in the HLR with two different locations they will be flagged as fraud.
The main thing this is good for is replacing hardware on the sly.

ok so if i say want to use my mogul instead of my touch when i go camping as a router for my psp Then I just have to make sure the touch is off before booting the mogul correct ??

Another reason...
You are looking for that replacement phone (after you dropped yours and it hit the ground perfectly to snap the main board). You find a decent price on a Touch on eBay. After getting it, you realize how big an idot you were (buying a Sprint CDMA phone when your network is GSM). You figure, I'll give it to my wife who is on VZW. You go to the web page and enter the ESN...no luck. Call, no luck. Have them do the DMD thing...no luck here either. So then you figure it is your only option. Oh well, I can't bring myself to clone the ESN anyway. Guess I'll put it back on eBay and see if anyone else wants it.

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Astron said:
This isn't the 90's
If you clone a phone as soon as both phones register in the HLR with two different locations they will be flagged as fraud.
The main thing this is good for is replacing hardware on the sly.
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I clone phones all the time with full legal permission. The myth that the phone will be flagged is false. I clone phones that belong to wanted fugitives, so I can monitor inbound phone calls and text messages. All I need is min , mdn, and esn. 9 out 10 times the mdn is the min.

Try making outgoing calls on one of those cloned phones and see what happens.

was anyone able to do this? I tried this on my touch and it doesn't work. after using the command rtask c, then when opening up cdma workshop, i can't connect to the phone using any com port. i tried connecting with all 25 port, none of them worked. can anyone help here?

I cloned a touch to my moguls esn about a month ago and everything worked fine untill today. I only had one phone powered on at one time, never had both of them on at same time. today my data won't worked on my cloned touch but will work on my mogul. They both have the same settings. Any ideas whats going on?

Cloned ESN
Can this method be used to purchase a Sprint Diamond, change the ESN to a Verizon Wireless Touch, and activate the superior Sprint Diamond on Verizon Wireless? I really want a Diamond but I'm on VZW and dont want the watered down version they're getting

I have a question about this.
I recently bought a HTC Sprint Touch Diamond, and so now I have a vogue sitting around. My g/f has MetroPCS (CDMA) and has a really beat phone, and I want to give her the Vogue.
The problem is MetroPCS will not open its network to PDA / PocketPC / Smartphones apparently. So if I cloned the ESN off her phone, and put that ESN on my old Vogue, would it work, or do I need the carrier configuration files (which there are none for MetroPCS).
Thanks guys!
Edit: got it mostly working, no net yet but getting closer...

I can't get cdma to read my phone. It connects but won't read.

Justin9825 said:
I can't get cdma to read my phone. It connects but won't read.
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1. After you do rtask c, make sure to install the drivers.
2. Make sure you are on the correct COM settings. (see device manager if you are not sure which com)

hexto said:
Can this method be used to purchase a Sprint Diamond, change the ESN to a Verizon Wireless Touch, and activate the superior Sprint Diamond on Verizon Wireless? I really want a Diamond but I'm on VZW and dont want the watered down version they're getting
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ya this what I want to do, different carriers, but same idea, use my touch esn info and put it on a diamond, would like a how to on this.

Please correct me if I am wrong. Could this be used to make a phone call from my own phone, but have it show up as coming from a different phone?
A friend of mine has the iphone and found a program to do this and is convinced that only the iphone is capable of this feat. I would like to show him that this isn't true. Perhaps my reasoning is somewhat immature, but what the heck!

okay, so lets say I get this working and decide that I might want to get rid of the phone that I just cloned. How can I delete the cloned esn so its clean again? And will this method work for ANY phone, or only the touch?

Sprint to Verizon touch

I'm really wanting to get this sprint touch on the verizon network. I've loaded a verizon rom on the phone and a verizon PRL what i'm wanting to know is what to do next. Verizon won't add the esn to their database or do anything for me. I'm wondering if I change to esn number of the touch to the phone I have now on my verizon account will it work?
Note: I walked into the verizon store asking about this and they told me it would never work because sprint uses SIM cards and Verizon doesn't. I about laughed so hard in her face. Then she told me she wasn't gonna debate it.

Justin9825 said:
I'm really wanting to get this sprint touch on the verizon network. I've loaded a verizon rom on the phone and a verizon PRL what i'm wanting to know is what to do next. Verizon won't add the esn to their database or do anything for me. I'm wondering if I change to esn number of the touch to the phone I have now on my verizon account will it work?
Note: I walked into the verizon store asking about this and they told me it would never work because sprint uses SIM cards and Verizon doesn't. I about laughed so hard in her face. Then she told me she wasn't gonna debate it.
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Yes it will. But you AFAIK the verizon radio firmware won't let you supercid to change the ESN.
Besides, there are ways to get verizon to add the ESN (head over to ppcgeeks, and do some searching). Also... I have not yet gotten the roaming indicator to work on my sprint HTC touch. It always says "preferred network", and displays the roam warnings on incoming calls.
-Tom

Yeah I got verizon to add the esn with no trouble.

Justin9825 said:
Yeah I got verizon to add the esn with no trouble.
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Can you pls tell me "us" how u did it.. cuz i want to give my friend who's on verizon network to use my touch...thks

Read my post here for all the info http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=20090.

Get rid of Sprint

Hi guys, need some help.
If I switch carrier then phone automatically get bad Sprint ESN, right? If so, thats ok, because I dont want to use Sprint.
I've got Sprint L710 but I never used CDMA before, so little bit confused with how to get rid of that Sprint and make it work with Boost even w/o 4g.. perhaps 2g or 3g if possible. Or Virgin, doesn't really matter, the most important is prepaid plan w/o contract.
I'll make a root and even if then I install custom ROM then still will be using Sprint? Or after flashing custom ROM I can go to Boost and ask them to flash their codes?
Nobody else will help me, I hope for your understanding.

As far as I know. You won't get bad esn as long as you don't have any pending balances pending.
And if you pay the early termination fee.
But I'm not sure. As far as the s3 on another net work then it would have to be flashed with whatever company your gonna use it with.
But your probably better off just selling it on craugslist or eBay and buying an unlocked international version.
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When I switched from ATT contract to TMobile prepaid I just unlocked phone, pulled out ATT sim card and go forward with TMobile. I didnt make any notifications to ATT, TMobile just transferred my number in few secs.
I mean how could I make same on CDMA? Could by example Cricket take my phone to their network? Is it possible to delete all related to Sprint from my phone, make it clean as from factory? And then come to Cricket or another CDMA carrier? In that case if I terminate Sprint contract without any notification I think ESN would be bad.

escknx said:
When I switched from ATT contract to TMobile prepaid I just unlocked phone, pulled out ATT sim card and go forward with TMobile. I didnt make any notifications to ATT, TMobile just transferred my number in few secs.
I mean how could I make same on CDMA? Could by example Cricket take my phone to their network? Is it possible to delete all related to Sprint from my phone, make it clean as from factory? And then come to Cricket or another CDMA carrier? In that case if I terminate Sprint contract without any notification I think ESN would be bad.
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Well if your gonna flash the phone to another carrier like cricket. Then bad esn or clean esn don't matter. Just go into a cricket store and tell them you need to flash your phone and they'll put other on their network.
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And am I be able to get at least their Cricket's 3G?
Or for that I need to go through special procedure with donors?

escknx said:
And am I be able to get at least their Cricket's 3G?
Or for that I need to go through special procedure with donors?
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What? lol
they should have a cricket store where they flash phones. Idk how the procedure is done, or how it affects the phones. But there might be something screwy with MMS, but you can always ask before you do it. and there might be a fix for that sort of stuff here at XDA

Cricket said that they flash only their phones and I cant keep my existing.
BTW finally we've switched it to Verizon prepaid

escknx said:
Cricket said that they flash only their phones and I cant keep my existing.
BTW finally we've switched it to Verizon prepaid
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weird, down here where I'm at, they flash any phone really.
well if your S3 is just a brick there you can always sell it.
If the price is low enough i can buy it from you, or also ebay

They said that in New York area they flash only Cricket phones.
But even good, cause because of I that I got Verizon.

[Q] metropcs S3 all messed

I really messed up this time. I brought a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 on metropcs carrier from Craigslist. Seller told me that it was sealed and new. I had all iphones before,don't know anything about android and don't know how to test this new phone, when i saw the phone, it was not sealed, it already open by someone, but the phone is new, so I paid $, got the phone. after, I went to metropcs corporate store to active my new phone, the metro guy told me. the phone I'm having right now is reported lost. I got fraud. I'm so sad right now, worked two weeks just for buying this phone, now my money is gone(seller dispeared), I got a phone that I can't even use. I already asked all unlock service, they all tell me they can't unlock the phone, I don't want to sell it to anyone to make them sad, I'm wondering if there is anyway that someone can help me to put the phone back to service(make a call or text).I don't know if root can help or not, I don't know how save this phone, if it can't be used, I will use it as ipod touch,mp3 player. here is all the information that I know to provide, if you guys need to know more, I'll stay here and answer. Thank you for reading it.
AP:R530MVQALJ1
CP:R530MVQLJ1
CSC:R530MMTRALJ1
MEID 99000207231931
MetroPcs R530

does this mean no one can help me here?

Phone is reported lost so the ESN is bad now. That means the phone cannot be activated on Metro PCS anymore. But what you could do is put it on another prepaid carrier like boost mobile if you really want to use it.
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Or u could flash a new esn over from an old metro phone. Go on craigslist look for someone who flashes sprint phones to metro. Explain your problem. U might not get 4g but it should work..

trying to switch from att to sprint??? please help

I am trying to change carriers from AT&T to Sprint I went into the Sprint store. they said that the phone is not able to be hooked up to sprint. It was something with the IMIE do any of you have your phone on sprint if so what did the reps do to activate it please any help would be greatly appreciated

It totally is. I bought mine unlocked and am on Sprint. You just need the right SIM card. They should know better. Go to a store that does repairs and services.
bradmill08 said:
I am trying to change carriers from AT&T to Sprint I went into the Sprint store. they said that the phone is not able to be hooked up to sprint. It was something with the IMIE do any of you have your phone on sprint if so what did the reps do to activate it please any help would be greatly appreciated
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bradmill08 said:
I am trying to change carriers from AT&T to Sprint I went into the Sprint store. they said that the phone is not able to be hooked up to sprint. It was something with the IMIE do any of you have your phone on sprint if so what did the reps do to activate it please any help would be greatly appreciated
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You need a special SIM card from Sprint and not all stores have it, what i did was call many Sprint stores in my area and i had to drive like 50 miles to go to the store that had it, let me tell you sprint people are just too stupid and often don't know wtf they saying lol

Hey thank you guys for the response. I'm going to go back up there tomorrow.

Sprint is one of Project Fi's carriers. So their network will work with this phone. I've never dealt with Sprint directly but I had the same situation with Verizon when I was on the 6P. All I had to do was activate one of their Sims in a Verizon phone and swap it out. I showed the sales people in the Verizon store this and they were amazed.

Juansegovia20 said:
You need a special SIM card from Sprint and not all stores have it, what i did was call many Sprint stores in my area and i had to drive like 50 miles to go to the store that had it, let me tell you sprint people are just too stupid and often don't know wtf they saying lol
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You are 100% correct, my friend. From telesales to corporate stores, they have no clue what they're doing, and the idiotic right hand has no clue what the moronic left is doing.