I have been doing a lot of reading about this subject over the last few weeks. I have heard mixed stories and results. Here is my understanding so far in order to get a motorola droid x onto the straight talk unlimited plan:
1. The droid x must be cdma (verizon). Good or bad esn.
2. Purchase a NEW straight talk cdma phone and $45 plan.
3. Activate the new straight talk phone using the $45 plan.
4. Download DFS software for changing the esn.
5. Connect the droid x to your pc.
6. Open device manager and locate the com port the phone is on.
7. Open DFS, enter the com port the droid is on.
8. Enter the phone password. I have only read one person say this is necessary but didn't mention what the password was.
9. Click the "read" button to get the current esn on the droid
10. Enter the 20 digit number from your straight talk green card enter it in the MIED box.
11. Click "write".
12. Disconnect phone from pc. Some say to reboot phone??
13. Next, others have said the phone might try to activate through verizon. I have heard not to allow it to do this??
14. Update the roaming on the phone by dialing *22891. Not sure about this number.
15. To get the internet to work. Someone mentions that you need to set up a gmail account to get it to work. I am not sure if this is necessary.
Does this sound about right or am I way off?
Has anyone done this yet?
I can confirm working HTC Desire VZW to Straight Talk swaps as well as Sprint ports to Boost Mobile.
Did this work???
Might be dredging up ghosts from the past; but I didn't think a new thread was necessary if there was already a thread for the Droid X and getting it to work on Straight Talk.
I was given free, a Motorola Droid X M8810 handset, and I'm already using an LG Optimus Q, and was wondering if there were a way to get the Motorola Droid X set up using the already set up account that my Optimus is on.
PagePlus prepaid might be a better answer. They resell Verizon services for rooted and non-rooted phones using CDMA.
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I currently have a Droid Incredible 2, and my friend has a Thunderbolt that he doesnt want anymore because he is going to AT&T. He said he'll give me the phone for free, so i said alright i'll take it. Now, would this be possible exactly without paying an activation fee? I know with AT&T you just switch the sim cards, someone else i know does it all the time. So my questions are, Is it possible to switch phones without paying any money? If i have to switch SIMS, is it possible since im going from a 3G to 4G phone? If it does cost money, how much and what am i going to to exactly?
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I currently have a Droid Incredible 2, and my friend has a Thunderbolt that he doesnt want anymore because he is going to AT&T. He said he'll give me the phone for free, so i said alright i'll take it. Now, would this be possible exactly without paying an activation fee? I know with AT&T you just switch the sim cards, someone else i know does it all the time. So my questions are, Is it possible to switch phones without paying any money? If i have to switch SIMS, is it possible since im going from a 3G to 4G phone? If it does cost money, how much and what am i going to to exactly?
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There are different ways. First of all you have to make sure it's not currently active on any line on his account. So either have him put a different phone on his line or wait till he cancels.
NORMALLY:
Method 1: VerizonWireless.com -> Activate New Phone -> Type in MEID # (under battery) -> Dial *228 on phone and hit option 1 to activate on your line.
Method 2: Just dial *228 on the Thunderbolt -> Option 1 to activate on your line.
USE THIS ONE:
Method 3: Take it to any Verizon Wireless store; they shouldn't charge you. You'll probably have to use this method because of the 4G SIM card in the phone. They'd have to give you a new one.
No matter what method you choose, make sure it's not active on his line.
Hi, I want to flash my phone to Verizon prepaid.
I have a Evo Shift I have been using on Boost. The coverage is bad and Verizon is the only provider that gets good coverage to my home. Verizon or Verizon through straight talk, I dont want anyone else PP ect.
The meid is taken care of and I flashed a 01337 prl , so I do not need any help there, but Im having trouble getting it on to Verizon.
Im having trouble getting it on Verizon.
It will not OTA and I cannot get into the Revere donor phone settings because I cannot get the spc/msl.
Ive tried 000000, looking in NVM folder in bit pim, and scaning in dfs, lg download will not recognize it.
Do I need a prepaid specific prl?
Can anyone tell me how to get the spc for VN150 Revere? Will Verizon give it to me?
Is there another very inexpensive prepaid phone that would be better to use?
Ive been searching for anwsers for days, seriously. I found the thread about putting the Evo 4g on $50 Verizon prepaid, but the annoying forum rule of 10 post prevents me from veiwing it.
Thanks
I think the page got pulled. If you search from google cache you can still see it. I'm in the same boat as you. I bought a pantec caper because the post indicated the phone was super easy to pull the data from, but windows 7 does not recognize it. It does not automatically go into diag mode. So I've been googling for a couple days trying to piece together some info.
Im able to connect to the Revere in Windows Xp and Windows 7 by downloading the driver from LG, but there is something weird with the spc. 000000 isnt working and workshop cannot read it.
I did get the Shift to OTA, I had not changed the SPC to 000000 so Verizon would not activate it.
I may not need the Revere SPC if I can just get the 3g settings and activate another phone temporarily then switch back to the Shift so that it sends a new Akey.
Dumb question: How do I search Google cache?
erikred said:
Im able to connect to the Revere in Windows Xp and Windows 7 by downloading the driver from LG, but there is something weird with the spc. 000000 isnt working and workshop cannot read it.
I did get the Shift to OTA, I had not changed the SPC to 000000 so Verizon would not activate it.
I may not need the Revere SPC if I can just get the 3g settings and activate another phone temporarily then switch back to the Shift so that it sends a new Akey.
Dumb question: How do I search Google cache?
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I'm using FireFox. Quick way is to google FLASH EVO TO VERIZON $50 UNLIMITED. Then on the result that you want (~3rd one down), rather than clicking on the link, if you click on the >> Arrow on the right of result to get quick view, at the top of hte quick preview of the page, it will show cached. Click that link.
This is highly against the rules.
Reporting.
quick question... my scenario is that I used my wifes upgrade to get the m8 and phone just came in today. She is taking my s4. Do I need to first activate it under her account and then do the switch or can I just go online and activate it directly under my account? We have two separate accounts. Just seems tedious to have to first activate it on her account and then do the switch. THanks!
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quick question... my scenario is that I used my wifes upgrade to get the m8 and phone just came in today. She is taking my s4. Do I need to first activate it under her account and then do the switch or can I just go online and activate it directly under my account? We have two separate accounts. Just seems tedious to have to first activate it on her account and then do the switch. THanks!
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You should call Verizon and see if they can activate it to yours, but you're probably going to need to go into a store to get a SIM card that is provisioned for your account. The SIM is what matters and what they sent you is probably set up for her line.
If you have a micro SIM you can just pop yours in and be fine. But I don't know if the s4 uses the same size SIM card.
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i do this all the time with work. You can call them and authorize the device to be switched to your account without activating it on her line. You will have to be an admin on the her account or have someone on the line who is.
topaz330 said:
quick question... my scenario is that I used my wifes upgrade to get the m8 and phone just came in today. She is taking my s4. Do I need to first activate it under her account and then do the switch or can I just go online and activate it directly under my account? We have two separate accounts. Just seems tedious to have to first activate it on her account and then do the switch. THanks!
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I did the same thing as you, i just called in Verizon and they switched it over without activating the new M8 on my sister's line.
it will work fine!
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I did the same thing as you, i just called in Verizon and they switched it over without activating the new M8 on my sister's line.
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thanks! did your sister need to be there or did they just activate this on your account? I just spole with a rep and they said since it's on two different accounts the phone needs to be active on her account for 24 hours before i switch. is that true?
There's no magic in the SIM. You simply need the SIM number tied to your phone number. You can switch the SIM the same as you could switch the IMEI on older phones. The website walks you through it if you choose activate or switch device.
Assuming you're trying to keep your unlimited data, I would do it in the below order.
Activate the device on her account when you get it.
Log into her account and switch her old phone back on the line.
Log into your account and put the M8 and SIM on your line.
Take her SIM from the old phone and plug it into the GS4. If her old SIM is not a micro sim, simply go through the switch process again with your S4 and SIM.
You should be able to do all of the above as quickly as you can click through the website.
got it to work... just called back CS and got someone competent on the phone. They did the switch and all is well. THanks for the help fellas!
I wouldn't imagine there'd be any need to call CS, just pop your SIM into the new phone (assuming it's a nano SIM (or you can cut it down)) and turn it on. The only thing that needs activating via CS is the new nano SIM that comes inside the M8, if you're using your original SIM then there shouldn't be anything to call CS about.
The above only applies if both phones and lines are using LTE phones with SIM cards, if they're still on 3G phones with no SIM, then you'll need CS to switch lines and phones around.
Your must activate it first on the upgrade plan, if you don't you will lose your plan. My wife did our wrong when she got her motox.
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Yeah I did the same thing..
I got on a separate phone from any phone on my account and called the activation line went through it and the options lead you to a choice of activating the new phone/sim with a line other than the one the renewal was used on. At that point I had to talk to a customer service person and it was a piece of cake. They did try and sell me insurance again.
Easy though
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Starting this October, PagePlus is offering 4G/LTE. Initially, I was assuming that all I need to do is plug in an LTE SIM card and activate account, and all will be peachy. However, it seems that by flashing phone to pageplus when it looks like a 3g device, I have messed up some radio settings, and verizon provisioning doesn't work, phone repeatedly keeps trying to call *228. Contrary to that, the other S3, which I didn't flash does not call at all, but instead pops up message box stating that the phone is being programmed, and after a couple minutes it's online . I do not remember what exactly did I program, it was awhile ago . Pageplus support knows that problem, and they are advising anybody who wants to go LTE to bring up an unflashed phone, saying the flashed one won't work
There are folks on kitty forums who offer remote de-flashing for 30 bucks, but no description what actually they do. Does anyone know what the process is? I can get my phone into QPST/DFS. Anyone knows what to do next?
UPDATE: see post #3 for solution
Can't help you with deflashing, but I will tell you that my local page plus vendor did mine for free and it only took him about 5-10 minutes. Maybe yours would do the same. Just a thought.
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I guess it indeed is simple once you get to QPST mode. I used DFS to program, and the only setting I had to change was RuimConfig = RuimOnly (from NV_ONLY), see screenshot attached. Did not work on 4.0 firmware which I tried to use first, but worked fine on 4.2.1 and 4.1.2.
I got a sim card for my phone. All I did was verify that my phone was on RuimOnly (it already was), then I contacted PagePlus to activate my simcard (you're supposed to do this before you put it in your phone, they say) and they remotely programmed the phone, everything went smoothly. I have 4g data now, no "unflashing" required. Pretty easy. :good:
You put it on your phone before, you want this set up, then you can use the phone, so no problem.
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I can confirm this works. I switched 2 samsung galaxy note 2 SCH-i605 from 3g to 4g.
The phones were originally flashed over to pageplus using wireless workshop. This puts them on pageplus as 3g phones. They drop the last digit of the MEID so it is a 14 digit code (3g) instead of 15 digit for 4G.
Here's what I did to get 4G LTE working.
Ordered a pageplus SIM card from pageplus
put the simcard in the phone
Used DFS to change RUIM from NV_Only to RUIM_only
Contacted Pageplus on chat and had them change my phone from 3g to 4g. I'm not sure exactly what they did, but I gave them the 15 digit MEID and the SIM ICCID (printed on the sim card you get, or look in settings, about device, details or something like that, you know where to look. ) The customer service rep said that what you need to tell them is you want to change a 3g phone to 4g. I told them it was back to standard firmware just to make them happy. It seems the RUIM changes is all you need.
Voila! Reboot the phone, give it a minute - it connects to 4G and then disconnects and looks like it has failed, but give it a minute and it comes up with 4G LTE and speedtest.net confirms it is blazing fast.
Loving it!
This is only required for a verizon phone that has been flashed in the past to make 3g work on Pageplus. Not needed on contract phones from verizon that are originally 4g.
Happy downloading!
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I guess it indeed is simple once you get to QPST mode. I used DFS to program, and the only setting I had to change was RuimConfig = RuimOnly (from NV_ONLY), see screenshot attached. Did not work on 4.0 firmware which I tried to use first, but worked fine on 4.2.1 and 4.1.2.[/QUOTE I did that but i do not have 4g and imwe in a 4g coverage area. using a mxx xt912. any help is appreciated
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Gift for a friend
hi everyone,
I have a few questions based on my circumstances. I just deactivated a S3 Verizon from PagePlus which was flashed to 3g. I would like to hand my phone off to a friend as he's running a Droid X (!).
1. From what I understand to "unflash" I need to use DFS (cdmatool.com) and set Ruim config to RuimOnly. However, I believe the phone needs to be in QPST mode? I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
2. Since I already deactivated the phone, when my friend tries to re-activate on pageplus (with a new SIM), do we need to contact PP and tell them this device is now 4g?
3. Does it matter that I have a custom ROM running 4.3? I don't think so, but would like confirmation.
I really don't want to mess up this gift.
Thanks for any and all advice!
Dapeche said:
1. From what I understand to "unflash" I need to use DFS (cdmatool.com) and set Ruim config to RuimOnly. However, I believe the phone needs to be in QPST mode? I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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In general, this is done via USBSettings dialog, see if this thread helps you to get this menu enabled: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227576
I have a i605 currently flashed to page plus 3g can't write with dfs without spec and I can't seem to get it can anybody point me in the right direction
I'm dumb figured it all out except page plus they keep saying I have to go to a dealer I said I am no longer flash but they keep telling to have a dealer manually flash it.....?
Update got everything working once I was in ruim only I called them at told them I had two phones and gave them the full imied as my second phone then the iccid and voila activation was a breeze
I bought this phone Verizon HTC ONE M8 off of an unknown person. Straight Talk sent me a new sims card but when they went to activate it they said i needed to call verizon that there waS SOMETHING PENDING ON VERIZONS END. called them and they told me with out the account number they couldnt help me. They think thAT THE PHONE WAS reported lost/stolen.
Is there anyway to get around this so i can activate my phone. only thing it is good for right now is using it as a Tablet with wifi.
Can you get in touch with the seller?
Save the Manuals!!!
I had this problem when I originally activated my M8 on straight talk. They said that to me when I bought it off swappa and they pre check the ESN to verify if its clean or not. I just called back and they were able to get it switched over. I assume your using the CDMA BYOP program thru straight talk like I was and all I had to do was call in and have the sim card activated.