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Okay so January 9th has passed and Best Buy is now "officially" selling the Prepaid Verizon Moto G in stores and online. I've searched online over the past few days and even on the forum and I can not find anything regarding information about flashing the Moto G CDMA version to Straight Talk. :crying:
The closest thing that I have found is a Verizon CSR telling me that the Moto G CDMA is not usable on a contract plan (for six months or some jazz). I already know the Moto G GSM can be used via Straight Talk's BYOP program ( I saw that thread in the forums), but I want to know if I can use the CDMA version as well? I know the phone itself seemingly meets all the requirements but I don't have a handset handy to check the ESN/MEID/IMEI on the Straight Talk website to confirm compatibility.
Anyone have any info?
I hope someone figures something out, I can't pay 50$ for 6 months for 1gb/month when I'm getting 2.5gb for 45$...
There is no 'flashing' involved in getting an unlocked phone to work with an MVNO. This of course may not be the case with Verizon Moto G's sold in their stores however...
If you find one on display in a store somewhere try entering in its information here
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/h/byop/registration#.UtmhMhCwLXo
to find out if it's possible to register. Then you'll know if it's technically possible. A Verizon Moto G may still be locked to their network however and the only way you'd be able to find that out is to purchase the phone and activate service with straight talk. If the software is locked a dev may be able to create a rom without that limitation as has been done in the past for example the HTC Rezound, which was a Verizon Global phone that restricted using any US carrier GSM SIM, before devs got around to making a ROM that circumvented that restriction.
Good luck, if it works that's just one more wireless option available at an even cheaper price. Unfortunately I have no idea how good ST's CDMA network is, do they just piggyback off Verizon?
There have been attempts to activate the Verizon Moto G on Page Plus reported on Howard Forum. They were unsuccessful.
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Is it possible to get the SPC/MSL code?
I believe that the Moto G sold under Verizon is a CDMA phone. No GSM radios inside. You can flash the phone all you want, but you're not going to get it to work on any networks that use the GSM radios like T-Mobile, straight talk, or AT&T...I think people need to be aware of this fact in all the other posts about trying to use a CDMA only phone on GSM networks...I have never heard of an unlocked CDMA phone that works with all the CDMA frequencies in the U.S. also, I've never heard of a prepaid CDMA phone being able to be used through an MVNO...contract Verizon phones can be, but only the high end phones like the Samsung galaxy line or an apple iPhone which has both CDMA and GSM radios.
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Thanks for letting me know. I might just bite the bullet and make the full on switch to Verizon just for this phone.
lmacmil said:
There have been attempts to activate the Verizon Moto G on Page Plus reported on Howard Forum. They were unsuccessful.
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Straight Talk introduced a BYOP CDMA program a while back, and I've had pretty good luck so far when it comes to flashing unlocked CDMA phones over. One of the biggest setbacks to this program though, is the fact that it does NOT support 4g LTE Verizon phones. With the ST program being locked to 3g only phones, you can imagine why everyone was so stoked to see such a decent handset come out that wasn't a 4g phone.
You kind of went on a rant due to a mis-communication. Apologies.
AstroBoy89 said:
I believe that the Moto G sold under Verizon is a CDMA phone. No GSM radios inside. You can flash the phone all you want, but you're not going to get it to work on any networks that use the GSM radios like T-Mobile, straight talk, or AT&T...I think people need to be aware of this fact in all the other posts about trying to use a CDMA only phone on GSM networks...I have never heard of an unlocked CDMA phone that works with all the CDMA frequencies in the U.S. also, I've never heard of a prepaid CDMA phone being able to be used through an MVNO...contract Verizon phones can be, but only the high end phones like the Samsung galaxy line or an apple iPhone which has both CDMA and GSM radios.
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I apologize. I thought you couldn't flash prepaid phone on to straight talk :3
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shanesxe said:
Okay so January 9th has passed and Best Buy is now "officially" selling the Prepaid Verizon Moto G in stores and online. I've searched online over the past few days and even on the forum and I can not find anything regarding information about flashing the Moto G CDMA version to Straight Talk. :crying:
The closest thing that I have found is a Verizon CSR telling me that the Moto G CDMA is not usable on a contract plan (for six months or some jazz). I already know the Moto G GSM can/has been flashed to Straight Talk ( I saw that thread in the forums), but I want to know if I can use the CDMA version as well? I know the phone itself seemingly meets all the requirements but I don't have a handset handy to check the ESN/MEID/IMEI on the Straight Talk website to confirm compatibility.
Anyone have any info?
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GSM version "flashed to" straight talk? You don't "flash" a GSM device to anything. You pop your SIM in and go.
If you want to use Straight Talk, you are FAR better off getting the GSM variant.
Entropy512 said:
GSM version "flashed to" straight talk? You don't "flash" a GSM device to anything. You pop your SIM in and go.
If you want to use Straight Talk, you are FAR better off getting the GSM variant.
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Thanks for catching that. I updated the OP.
I don't have an extra 200 dollars lying around for the GSM version of the Moto G, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered starting a thread. I was merely curious to see if anyone had any success with flashing the CDMA version to Straight Talk since the phone meets all the technical requirements of the program.
What is the situation with getting a more thorough guide on doing the flash for the Moto G?
I see some people are getting their phones activated but very little details on how they were able to do it. There are bits and pieces of info posted but its so scattered and incomplete that it is been hard for novices to get a handle on how to do it themselves.
Francehoaq said:
Can you give a good way and complete way to do this?
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You mean switching a CDMA Moto G to Straight Talk?
shanesxe said:
You mean switching a CDMA Moto G to Straight Talk?
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I am was hoping for more detailed info on flashing a Boost Moto G in particular.
If you want to flash that Boost phone to work on Verizon towers, go to Kitty Wireless on Tapatalk, and there are guys there that can flash your phone for Page Plus. A great third party provider.
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There is a tutorial here and on HoFo, its not too difficult to do. You basically flash the vzw software to the Boost phone. It over the air activates and everything works. With the Boost version at $79 this week at Target its a great deal.
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So flashing it skips Verizon's 6 month prepaid requirement?
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JooseyJay said:
So flashing it skips Verizon's 6 month prepaid requirement?
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I would like to know this as well. I doubt that it will "bypass" VZWs 6month blacklist because the Boost MotoGs IMEI still will not be in VZWs system. Meaning it can not be activated on a paid account. (maybe i am incorrect)
Can you give a link to HoFo and which VZW software they are flashing?
I am assuming you would only need to flash the Radio file and possibly the Kernel. Problem is I have not found those files yet.
Nevermind, answered my own question. Its exactly what I thought.
Here is the link to the HoFo thread: http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...o-G-to-Page-Plus?highlight=boost+moto+verizon
And the link to the XDA thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2681166
So has anyone been successful with this yet? I want to make sure a CDMA Moto G works with straight talk before I go buying it. Any confirmation?
SacTappingUni said:
So has anyone been successful with this yet? I want to make sure a CDMA Moto G works with straight talk before I go buying it. Any confirmation?
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If they will accept ESN I believe it will work.
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Ok so the Moto G is rooted and bootloader unlock capable, there's ROM dumps of the VZW and RW roms, and both Republic Wireless and Verizon are CDMA, but I can't seem to find any hard data on whether or not it's possible to flash a Verizon Moto G to Republic?
There's certainly no guides for how to do it, the only guide on this forum is flashing a Boost Moto G to Pageplus...
The reason I ask is because there are a ton of Verizon prepaid Moto G's on Ebay for $75 apiece, which is literally half off the price of ordering from RW.
Has anyone done this? Is it possible? Is it just a matter of unlocking the phone, flashing the RW rom and modem, and activating the phone on RW?
I've done a ton of roots and flashes of various devices before, but I've never flashed a carrier-locked device to another carrier - I'm not scared to do it, I just want to know if it's possible at present. I know it's theoretically possible, but without someone confirming they've done it I'm leery of dropping $70 on this phone, though I'd really love to save $70 on it since I'm scrambling to replace my wife's phone after she managed to waterlog another phone less than 3 months after the previous one...
(And yes, I've searched this and other xda forums for the answer to this and turned up nothing concrete...)
illuminerdi said:
Ok so the Moto G is rooted and bootloader unlock capable, there's ROM dumps of the VZW and RW roms, and both Republic Wireless and Verizon are CDMA, but I can't seem to find any hard data on whether or not it's possible to flash a Verizon Moto G to Republic?
There's certainly no guides for how to do it, the only guide on this forum is flashing a Boost Moto G to Pageplus...
The reason I ask is because there are a ton of Verizon prepaid Moto G's on Ebay for $75 apiece, which is literally half off the price of ordering from RW.
Has anyone done this? Is it possible? Is it just a matter of unlocking the phone, flashing the RW rom and modem, and activating the phone on RW?
I've done a ton of roots and flashes of various devices before, but I've never flashed a carrier-locked device to another carrier - I'm not scared to do it, I just want to know if it's possible at present. I know it's theoretically possible, but without someone confirming they've done it I'm leery of dropping $70 on this phone, though I'd really love to save $70 on it since I'm scrambling to replace my wife's phone after she managed to waterlog another phone less than 3 months after the previous one...
(And yes, I've searched this and other xda forums for the answer to this and turned up nothing concrete...)
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There are probably no guides because the bootloader on the Verizon model is currently the only one that cannot be officially unlocked. I say "officially" because, apparently, there's a "Chinese guy" on these forums that you can pay to get you a code to unlock it. I bought one from Amazon (when it was $70) to use as a WiFi only device (aka media player), but I found out that same night that the VZW model is the only one with the locked down bootloader. Needless to say, I refused the package, and it went right back to where it came from. I knew that price was too good to be true. It's cheaper because the VZW model is junk (at least in my opinion).
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There are probably no guides because the bootloader on the Verizon model is currently the only one that cannot be officially unlocked. I say "officially" because, apparently, there's a "Chinese guy" on these forums that you can pay to get you a code to unlock it. I bought one from Amazon (when it was $70) to use as a WiFi only device (aka media player), but I found out that same night that the VZW model is the only one with the locked down bootloader. Needless to say, I refused the package, and it went right back to where it came from. I knew that price was too good to be true. It's cheaper because the VZW model is junk (at least in my opinion).
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Oh I thought the unlock posted here was not an "official" unlock and therefore would work on any Moto G because it was more or less a "hack", was I mistaken about that?
What about flashing a Boost over to RW or some other variant? I can get a Boost Moto G on ebay for about $100, so that's still $50 cheaper than ordering from RW.
illuminerdi said:
Oh I thought the unlock posted here was not an "official" unlock and therefore would work on any Moto G because it was more or less a "hack", was I mistaken about that?
What about flashing a Boost over to RW or some other variant? I can get a Boost Moto G on ebay for about $100, so that's still $50 cheaper than ordering from RW.
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Well, before you are able to flash anything onto your phone, you need to have an unlocked bootloader. In order to do that, you have to register with Motorola, and then go through a couple steps to get the unlock code for your device. This is so they can keep track of you unlocking your bootloader because it voids your warranty (in the US at least). This is the first step in all the guides I've seen for rooting this device. Then after that, you can flash a custom recovery, root, etc. If you Google "motorola unlockable bootloader", you can click on the link that takes you to the official Motorola page that shows which of their devices can have their bootloader unlocked.
As far flashing Boost to RW, I couldn't tell ya. I'm not familiar with either one of those. If it were possible, I would imagine it wouldn't be the easiest thing to do.
Since Boost and RW are both Sprint-MVNO's, I would think it would be a pretty easy straight forward flash. But I haven't heard of anyone doing it. Does RW offer "bring your own device" ?
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jcmarv said:
Since Boost and RW are both Sprint-MVNO's, I would think it would be a pretty easy straight forward flash. But I haven't heard of anyone doing it. Does RW offer "bring your own device" ?
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Sort of...they only have 2 phones that you can use, and you MUST use their ROM on the phones since it includes special controls for making calls over wifi when the signal is available. One of the 2 phones you can buy from them is the Moto G, and their ROM has been dumped by another forum member here. You can activate service directly from the phone itself, and they do allow reselling phones and activating used phones, so in theory you could buy a cheap Moto G somewhere, unlock the bootloader, flash the RW firmware onto it, and then activate.
But nobody has actually confirmed whether or not this works, and I'm not really in a position financially at the moment to plunk down the money to experiment like this.
To add another layer of complexity on top of everything, the Verizon Moto G's are the only ones that you can't unlock the bootloader on (yet), but I'm going to ignore that hurdle for now - I'll get a Boost phone or something instead if that ends up being the only block.
Does anyone have a spare Moto G that they want to test this on (or could send me...?) I think RW has a 30 day guarantee, so even if you signed up for service with them to test cellula+3G data you could cancel without paying any money.
Though I suspect I may have to be the guinea pig on this, but again, I'm not really in a position to pay for this right now. I wouldn't mind waiting but my wife needs a phone soon.
illuminerdi said:
Sort of...they only have 2 phones that you can use, and you MUST use their ROM on the phones since it includes special controls for making calls over wifi when the signal is available. One of the 2 phones you can buy from them is the Moto G, and their ROM has been dumped by another forum member here. You can activate service directly from the phone itself, and they do allow reselling phones and activating used phones, so in theory you could buy a cheap Moto G somewhere, unlock the bootloader, flash the RW firmware onto it, and then activate.
But nobody has actually confirmed whether or not this works, and I'm not really in a position financially at the moment to plunk down the money to experiment like this.
To add another layer of complexity on top of everything, the Verizon Moto G's are the only ones that you can't unlock the bootloader on (yet), but I'm going to ignore that hurdle for now - I'll get a Boost phone or something instead if that ends up being the only block.
Does anyone have a spare Moto G that they want to test this on (or could send me...?) I think RW has a 30 day guarantee, so even if you signed up for service with them to test cellula+3G data you could cancel without paying any money.
Though I suspect I may have to be the guinea pig on this, but again, I'm not really in a position to pay for this right now. I wouldn't mind waiting but my wife needs a phone soon.
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I have an unlocked verizon moto g and i flashed the republic software on my phone but sadly the activation can never complete.
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I have an unlocked verizon moto g and i flashed the republic software on my phone but sadly the activation can never complete.
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Did anyone figure this out?
I would like to use a Verizon Moto G on Republic Wireless.
I'm also interested in this, but doing it the other way around: flashing a non-Republic Wireless firmware onto a Moto G XT1031 which came from Republic Wiress / with RepublicWireless Lollipop 5.1 firmware and locked Motorola bootloader. So that I can use my phone with other CDMA-based, Sprint MVNOs (i.e. RingPlus, Ting, Tello etc).
I am actually switched over to RingPlus (cancelled the RW service). With the stock RW XT1031_falcon_cdma 5.1 firmware, the phone handles inbound voice calls well. The only issue is obviously the dial out voice calls - RW's own freaking software app intercepts my dial out call and will reject it, arguing that I have no active RW service...
Is it possible to switch either of these phones
http://www.amazon.com/Moto-Boost-Mobile-Prepaid-Phone/dp/B00HPP3VW2
http://www.amazon.com/Moto-Verizon-Prepaid-Phone-Only/dp/B00HPP3QD6
to Straight Talk Wireless? I know switching them to Republic or a few other CDMA-based networks won't work, but since Straight Talk has a Bring-Your-Own-Phone option, is there any way to switch it over to them? Rooting/flashing custom stuff is fine, as I will likely flash either CM or AOSP soon after I get it.
Thank you so much!
thejrcrafter2 said:
Is it possible to switch either of these phones
http://www.amazon.com/Moto-Boost-Mobile-Prepaid-Phone/dp/B00HPP3VW2
http://www.amazon.com/Moto-Verizon-Prepaid-Phone-Only/dp/B00HPP3QD6
to Straight Talk Wireless? I know switching them to Republic or a few other CDMA-based networks won't work, but since Straight Talk has a Bring-Your-Own-Phone option, is there any way to switch it over to them? Rooting/flashing custom stuff is fine, as I will likely flash either CM or AOSP soon after I get it.
Thank you so much!
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I read somewhere that flashing to straight talk is illegal and im the one who tested the republic wirless firmware .
use neither
I have Boost and called them yesterday about getting a carrier unlock code for the Moto G and they acted like they had no clue what so ever about what a carrier unlock code is and since motorola told me the phone is locked to boost then using it on ST will probably not happen. Verizon is probably just as bad about locking the phone to their network and refusing to give out the code. Now you may be able to get a unlock key from some one online which was what Motorola also was one of my options. Now with that being said ST does have a GSM version of the Moto G and you may just want to check into that.
highspeedfelon said:
I have Boost and called them yesterday about getting a carrier unlock code for the Moto G and they acted like they had no clue what so ever about what a carrier unlock code is and since motorola told me the phone is locked to boost then using it on ST will probably not happen. Verizon is probably just as bad about locking the phone to their network and refusing to give out the code. Now you may be able to get a unlock key from some one online which was what Motorola also was one of my options. Now with that being said ST does have a GSM version of the Moto G and you may just want to check into that.
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Verizon currently has all devices esn on their network kind of blacklisted. If you attempt to flash to page plus you will receive an error saying esn isnt clean. After 6 months of service verizon releases you form the black list, so i guess after 6 months the moto g can be flashed to companies that accept BYOP.
hi, i bought a moto g 2 weeks ago, its used, because it was to expensive new, anyway, i dont check if was posible make calls, because i see it has signal, and data, now when i finaly i get a micro sim, a cant make calls or send sms, i trying with 4.4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.3, i really dont understand what happen, also i pay for a unlock sim, and now if i insert a sim card from other company, dont ask me for unlock code, but i dont get signal, and i cant register in any network, my phone only says no service, i trying usen diferent radio firmware, kernel, and nothing,
any one has a clue about what is happening to my moto g?
Someone can help us?
I have a moto G xt 1032 with the same trouble, but I don't find any solution, please someone to can help us?
pocho3103 said:
I have a moto G xt 1032 with the same trouble, but I don't find any solution, please someone to can help us?
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Maybe your carrier is not compatible with the Moto G
skyguy126 said:
Maybe your carrier is not compatible with the Moto G
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Thanks, but that wasn't the problem, in fact was a more serious inconvenience, because I bought that device as refurbished, then I went to a customer support of my carrier to ask about what happened, and recheck the device's imei, we found that this one was reported as a stolen in another country.
Fortunately I got my money back, but I don´t understand how the imei block only affected the voice call, however all data package worked fine.
Anyway, it's a very delicate situation to have in mind, because I was looked on line the imei status before buy it and was fine.
Be careful when you go to buy a second hand device, and be sure that who sell it are trust.
Short story GF needs a new phone been eyeing the moto g for a while. And cricket does have a moto g through there website but one thing is the internal memory is 8GBs ,happens to be the only model crickets offers. which is clearly not enough for a app heavy user. GPE has a 16GB version on googleplay perfect size. Just needed some help confirming GPE model will work with Cricket USA. (Any limits like 3G only or LTE capable from the bands provided by google on their playstore and whatever cricket bands are.)
Also stupid question cricket use sim? (I try not to ask gf cause she will beat me knowing I'm getting her a new phone and asking that question would be dead give away)
Thanks alot
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Short story GF needs a new phone been eyeing the moto g for a while. And cricket does have a moto g through there website but one thing is the internal memory is 8GBs ,happens to be the only model crickets offers. which is clearly not enough for a app heavy user. GPE has a 16GB version on googleplay perfect size. Just needed some help confirming GPE model will work with Cricket USA. (Any limits like 3G only or LTE capable from the bands provided by google on their playstore and whatever cricket bands are.)
Also stupid question cricket use sim? (I try not to ask gf cause she will beat me knowing I'm getting her a new phone and asking that question would be dead give away)
Thanks alot
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From what I understand, Cricket is an AT&T MVNO and will use sim cards, along with the AT&T towers. Also the version of the Moto G on the Google Play store is the European one, no idea why they would do that, but that means no 3G in the U.S. I'd suggest either getting the phone through Amazon, or from Motorola themselves, as they do carry it for sale directly.
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From what I understand, Cricket is an AT&T MVNO and will use sim cards, along with the AT&T towers. Also the version of the Moto G on the Google Play store is the European one, no idea why they would do that, but that means no 3G in the U.S. I'd suggest either getting the phone through Amazon, or from Motorola themselves, as they do carry it for sale directly.
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If I buy from amazon which version model should I get the Global GSM(amazon references that model working with att so cricket is a safe bet if I'm correct just wanna make sure) or US GSM?