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[Q] Epic touch 4g ESN

I bought an S2 on craigslist (probably sounds familiar) for $100 only to find out that it was too good to be true. The phone wasn't stolen (I later confirmed this with sprint), but the jackass didn't pay his bill. Anyways, I'm somewhat familiar with rooting (rooted my E3D), so I was curious what steps I would have to take in order to get this bad boy working (sorry someone else was irresponsible sprint, but I'm not). I have a couple of junk sprint phones laying around the house, so I'm ready to experiment. Also, does anyone think it would be possible to flash it over to US Cellular? Any advice would be appreciated!

Flash it to Cricket or Metro, it's not getting activated on Sprint until the bill is paid.

I think Boost mobile is another option too.
There are posts here and there about porting the E4GT over to third party carriers, some are very detailed. Search for 'E4GT Boost Mobile' or whatever carrier and see what comes up.
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Or you could resell to one of the developers here so they can test software without having to fry their own phone.

corys00 said:
Flash it to Cricket or Metro, it's not getting activated on Sprint until the bill is paid.
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Is it possible to flash to US cell?

AndroidBeatsIos said:
Is it possible to flash to US cell?
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I doubt it. I didn't have to search hard to NOT find a single thing linked to this phone and US Cell so bets are that they are not a CDMA carrier.

tdunham said:
I doubt it. I didn't have to search hard to NOT find a single thing linked to this phone and US Cell so bets are that they are not a CDMA carrier.
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I found this on multiple sources; US Cellular (3G - CDMA2000 800/1900 MHz)
I'm thinking it would be possible since they're on the same frequencies, but I'm a noob when it comes to flashing.

AndroidBeatsIos said:
I found this on multiple sources; US Cellular (3G - CDMA2000 800/1900 MHz)
I'm thinking it would be possible since they're on the same frequencies, but I'm a noob when it comes to flashing.
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Got me there then. But, there still isn't any information concerning porting a Sprint E4GT over to US Cellular that I can find. Unless you can find a howto guide out there somewhere, it's going to be next to impossible to do. Maybe somebody will chip in here and let you know.

tdunham said:
Got me there then. But, there still isn't any information concerning porting a Sprint E4GT over to US Cellular that I can find. Unless you can find a howto guide out there somewhere, it's going to be next to impossible to do. Maybe somebody will chip in here and let you know.
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The lack (ok, extinction of) results on google is what prompted me to post on here. Glad it's got some attention, hopefully someone has a solution for me...

Please tread very lightly when talking about flashing cdma to another carrier. I know it can be done and is done everyday but talk about esn spoofing and such is illegal and can not be discussed on xda.

I know someone has a blog relating to the matter.. but linking or discussing the matter is forbidden on xda..

AndroidBeatsIos said:
I bought an S2 on craigslist (probably sounds familiar) for $100 only to find out that it was too good to be true. The phone wasn't stolen (I later confirmed this with sprint), but the jackass didn't pay his bill. Anyways, I'm somewhat familiar with rooting (rooted my E3D), so I was curious what steps I would have to take in order to get this bad boy working (sorry someone else was irresponsible sprint, but I'm not). I have a couple of junk sprint phones laying around the house, so I'm ready to experiment. Also, does anyone think it would be possible to flash it over to US Cellular? Any advice would be appreciated!
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I recommend boost i have mine on it n im down to 35 a month unlimited everything n u will be on the sprint network

[Q] Verizon Unlocking

Hello XDA.
This question may be discussed in some other thread (and if it is please redirect me to the relevant one) but I would like a fresh opinion.
I am planning to buy a HTC One X under contract from AT&T. The unlocking part I am sure I can handle. But my main query is whether I would have to see out a certain period where I would have to use the phone on the AT&T network before I can unlock it?
And as I live outside the US, with intention of going there sometime in the future, will I be able to use the unlocked phone when I go there?
Thanks and looking forward for any and all replies.

JackFrost1690 said:
Hello XDA.
This question may be discussed in some other thread (and if it is please redirect me to the relevant one) but I would like a fresh opinion.
I am planning to buy a HTC One X under contract from AT&T. The unlocking part I am sure I can handle. But my main query is whether I would have to see out a certain period where I would have to use the phone on the AT&T network before I can unlock it?
And as I live outside the US, with intention of going there sometime in the future, will I be able to use the unlocked phone when I go there?
Thanks and looking forward for any and all replies.
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this is not the AT&T one x forum

Sorry
JackFrost1690 said:
Hello XDA.
This question may be discussed in some other thread (and if it is please redirect me to the relevant one) but I would like a fresh opinion.
I am planning to buy a HTC One X under contract from AT&T. The unlocking part I am sure I can handle. But my main query is whether I would have to see out a certain period where I would have to use the phone on the AT&T network before I can unlock it?
And as I live outside the US, with intention of going there sometime in the future, will I be able to use the unlocked phone when I go there?
Thanks and looking forward for any and all replies.
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oh and i totally meant AT&T in the title. not Verizon. my bad my bad

Good ESN - How to keep it that way?

Hey all,
I've just ordered a T-Mobile Samsung Note II from eBay with a Good/Clean ESN. I plan on Unlocking it because I live in Canada and use Wind Mobile here (Its NOT illegal for me to do this here ). I do travel to the states and would like to get a prepaid T-Mobile sim card to work on it. I'm planning on unlocking it using the method shown in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176721
How do I prevent it from becoming a bad ESN? I know this is a noob question but I really need help in understanding this. Thanks!

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Bad ESN is either due to ending contract without paying bill and ETF or losing the phone and reporting it stolen and then finding it. The carrier blocks the ESN after either of those.

miamivice151 said:
Hey all,
I've just ordered a T-Mobile Samsung Note II from eBay with a Good/Clean ESN. I plan on Unlocking it because I live in Canada and use Wind Mobile here (Its NOT illegal for me to do this here ). I do travel to the states and would like to get a prepaid T-Mobile sim card to work on it. I'm planning on unlocking it using the method shown in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176721
How do I prevent it from becoming a bad ESN? I know this is a noob question but I really need help in understanding this. Thanks!
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You might wanna check out this thread lots of people giving there experience and advice on the whole blocked imei phone after the fact...
YOU Just gotta hope the phone is good unless you know who you got it from and so on ..
Good Luck
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181961

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 SGH-i317 AT&T Question and help

I need some help in understanding this Samsung galaxy note 2
I have been reading all that I can about my new phone a Samsung galaxy note 2 SGH-i317
from what I can tell from my lack of phone Geekizum there is two models a 7000 and 7005??
7000 is European 3g?? and the 7005 4g is USA?? then there are the sprint, Verizon , AT&T, and T-mobile fall under the 4g USA model??
my question is are all the phones from the USA Big four the same phone with different brands on them or are they made differently for each
company?? if not then why are some custom roms made for different phones i.e., sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile
Question if I have rooted my phone and have a custom recovery install can I install any rom?? or go from 4.1.2 to say 4.4???
the unlocked phone Fry's sold me ended up to be a AT&T phone but my carrier is T-Mobile so I wish to be able to find and use the t mobile hot spots but they are not on this AT&T phone
I have downloaded these roms the 1- Jedi X20,2- CleanROM ACE 5.0, and JellyBam v9.00
I have noticed the this site has banned the JellyBAM rom???
so if there is a better rom the jedi x20 and cleanroom ace v5 can someone point me that way Please??
but overall what are the differences between the phone if any and why????
Bill

no help
this use to be a very helpful forum
but I see it has gone down hill

MerlinTT said:
this use to be a very helpful forum
but I see it has gone down hill
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I'm not very active here but I believe all of your questions can be answered within existing threads and/or a few Google searches. You probably haven't gotten a response because of that. There are even forums for each model of the phone.
I bet if you do a bit of research and come back with a more specific question that is posted within a related thread, you will see a response.
The folks here are really helpful but it's a lot to ask them to rewrite/repost information that is already posted and can easily be found.

MerlinTT said:
this use to be a very helpful forum
but I see it has gone down hill
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It may be the structure of your post. No one knows where to start.
If maybe you'd thrown a couple of questions out, you would have gotten answers. I read it three times and it's still WTF.
And the post above mine is correct. Goggling for the phone differences on your own, eliminates cluttering up the forum with answers you could have already found, and may already have.
Basically the N7100 and N7105 are the international versions of the Note 2. Each carrier, Sprint, TMO, Verizon, ATT has their own version of the software basically to load all their own crapware on it.
So there are different versions of ROMS supporting those carriers, with radio files to support their networks.

please help. sprint to verizon?

I have a possible great deal on a brand new HTC m8. The problem is that it's a Sprint phone. I need to know if I can make it work by unlocking it or flashing it to make it work on Verizon's network? This is my first post so sorry I know this is probably an easy question but for the price of $175.00 I had to ask thanks for the help hope I'm not breaking any rules!

Dan29$treet said:
I have a possible great deal on a brand new HTC m8. The problem is that it's a Sprint phone. I need to know if I can make it work by unlocking it or flashing it to make it work on Verizon's network? This is my first post so sorry I know this is probably an easy question but for the price of $175.00 I had to ask thanks for the help hope I'm not breaking any rules!
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its not really against the rules but its kinda frowned upon. and to answer your question it would most likely not work since the two companies use non similar LTE signals though you might be able to use it for 3g but that would be atrociously slow.. lols..