My buddy gave me a brand new HTC Touch Pro2. He is on the Sprint network but I am on the Verizon network. I would like to unlock this phone and use it for verizon. I really need help with this and don't know how to do it. Can someone help me out ?
your friend wouldnt happen to this guy, would he? lol
anyway, technically theres nothing that needs to be done to "unlock" a sprint phone to use on verizon, but as a matter of policy verizon wont activated devices from a different network
well i have been told by several people that i have to unlock it. one of them actually use to work for verizon. but no that is not my friend lol.
Verizon checks the phone esn which is the cell phone equivalent of a vehicle's vin. They only allow their own phones on their network. There is no "unlock" needed, they simply won't do it and beyond faking the esn which is illegal, there is nothing you can do to get them to activate it.
actually there is a way, and some verizon reps also add esn to their bases, and yes you need a unlock code which only sprint will give, with which you can change some things, but i dont have detailed info, but ppcgeeks has some more info on it.
if you mean the MSL number you can get that using getSPC (although im not sure it would even be needed) but it still doesnt matter as its unlikely your going to get VZW to activate the phone unless you have a friend who can add the ESN, as a matter of policy they wont do it
So bottom line, can I or can I not do this. Is it impossible or what? . .
If so I am just going to sell this brand new phone and buy a verizon one.
Quick question. I may be picking up a Nexus S 4G on Craigslist. Seller said that phone is currently flashed for Cricket. Is it possible to flash it back to Sprint? And how would I go about doing that?
I know there's a chance of bad ESN, and I will confirm with Sprint that ESN is clean before I go ahead with the purchase.
Ask the seller how he put it on Cricket and reverse the process. You an also google how to put it on Cricket and reverse engineer the process.
Can I buy/trade my DX for another Verizon-based phone, and activate it with Verizon? It's the activation I'm mostly concerned about.
Thanks!
Yes, you can. Make sure the esn is clean or you won't be able to activate it. A quick call to VZW with the esn will confirm it.
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I bought a nexus s 4g sph-d720 on craigslist and found out it had bad esn but I want to flash to straight talk anyway. The phone is unlocked but what sim card should I get from straight talk? Will a sprint sim card work?
First things first: Sprint does not use SIM cards. CDMA phones in general don't use them. So if the carrier of choice you want to use this phone on requires a SIM card, this is not the phone for you.
hi im trying to swap the esn on my vx11000 from (VZW "verizon") from that of a LG 150 on ReadyMobilePCS (SprintPCS or MetroPCS owned not really sure) VIA CDMA workshop but the vx wont let the esn change it will let the other setting change thought any advice or thoughts/help.
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hi im trying to swap the esn on my vx11000 from (VZW "verizon") from that of a LG 150 on ReadyMobilePCS (SprintPCS or MetroPCS owned not really sure) VIA CDMA workshop but the vx wont let the esn change it will let the other setting change thought any advice or thoughts/help.
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So what you are saying, is that you have a device, that doesn't work under the carriers, (probably because it was reported stolen for example) and that you want to "clone" an ESN from a device that works.
Uhmmm.... No.
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