ESN Swap Legality Discussion here < Swap Legal - Cloning Illegal is what i get from it
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Alright i have a Boost Mobile PAYGO account and i do not use data at all. I use WIFI when i need it. I'm currently using a HTC Touch Pro (no data as i said) and also have a Samsung Factor and Motorola W385 just laying around. What would be my best course to take in swapping the ESN and info from 1 of those 3 phones to my recently acquired HTC EVO 3D?
All i would need to do is swap the ESN and MEID since im not planning on using data....right?
Would the HTC Touch Pro be the best Donor Phone for me to use since its already in use and a HTC product?
I have the EVO to 3D guide (for Incognito and Rant) but would just appreciate the help on getting the info from the old Touch Pro.
Any help would be appreciated. Just need guidance guys. Thanks
Any help guys?
All i need to do is swap the ESN and MEID right? I'm not using Data so nothing else is needed......
I just really don't want to make a mistake and kill the "new" to me EVO 3D.
A PM would be fine if you don't want to be part of the public thread. I just need a little guidance. Thanks
Alright i've gathered just about all the information i needed to do this by way of searching google and help from other forums.
I was actually able to get my data working on the Touch Pro so now im thinking of doing the complete swap.
I only have 1 final question. When i go to get the NV Item data from my HTC Touch Pro donor phone do i read and save the data from 465, 466, 1192 and 1194 just like the Incognito, Rant and other donor phones? I mean are those numbers (or memory positions that holds the phone's data) from the Memory universal meaning they apply to any and all Donor Phones? thanks.
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Hi guys,
I am seeking help to configure data connectivity on my HTC Evo running on Telus Canada. Voice and SMS work flawlessly but data is no go.
The one key thing that I've noticed is that the HTC Evo doesn't seem to have an APN config option. I have tried to re-adapt different configuration but I've had no luck so far.
If anyone is using HTC Evo on Telus in Canada, your knowledge and experience will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Hey how are you?
I have been looking around to see if anyone successfully is using the HTC Evo under Bell or Telus for a while now!!! I really wanna buy this phone from the states and use it in TO.
Was it hard to get it working under telus? Have you resolved the issues with the data yet?
I d really appreciate the help, thank you!
Me Too I want to buy the HTC EVO and I want to ask if it was easy to activate it under Telus
Hey guys,
Sorry I hadn't updated this thread. I now have HTC Evo working on Telus. Voice, SMS and Data. I initially had problems with slow data but with slight tweaking, I now have up 1700kbps download and 800kps upload speed. I feel so alive with this phone right now. Only glitch that I need to find a way around is not being able to use data while taking a call. Kinda dumb limitation but it doesn't bother me. I rarely use my phone for calls.
So yeah, get to work guys! The dream is indeed possible.
Trax
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PS: First do your research on how to get Voice and SMS working or PM me if you need guidance, then we can start talking about Data in this thread. Godspeed!
I know this is an older thread (September) but I just wanted to re-check because no other forums posts anywhere ain Canada have anyone using an EVO on Telus. From what I ujnderstood, the CDMA format wasn't really unlockable and interchangable, so the DREAM PHONE EVO was out of our reach. Your news is exciting, but hard to believe. Can you offer any more details at all? Does Telus support foreign unlocked phones? WOW. if so.
Sorry to revive an old thread but I have the same problem as the first post on my EVO. Talk and SMS works great but I have no data at all... No 1x, no EvDO. What do I need to do to get it work? It's a great phone but I need my data connection.
I am fairly at ease with tools like QPST and QXDM so don't waste your time overexplaining things!
From what I understand, typically I am supposed to have at least 1x data without any username/password, just get authenticated by the network. Howerver it is not the case. No connection.
Please help me.
Any one have any thoughts?? Im having the same no data problem on bel i got it to the point once where it authenticated and then said protocoll errors. have not been able to get it to that point. and im ready to almost give up ;(
Hello and thanks for reading. I have a LG Optimus S running on Boost, I couldnt find the proper forum so I figured the Optimus V would be as close as I could get. I bricked mine, and got it back going flashing a new rom to it, but my IMEI / ESN and pretty much everything else is wiped / zero'd. I have all my info fixed but the IMEI and ESN now. I have it written down, but I cant find where in the memory it is to fix it. I have been using CDMA WS, but I just cant find the memory addresses for them, any help would be greatly appreciated.
So, question is: Where can I find my IMEI and ESN in the memory of my LG Optimus S (LS 670)?
optimus-s
could you tell me how to even get the optimus-s to change to boost?
I switched my sprint plan up with an evo and want to give the optimus-s to someone on boost , both of our accounts are good and my evo my optimus-s and their boost seek all are paid for and in good standing all three esn #'s are clean no stealing done.
This is where I am at with my setup:
Optimus's
rooted with clockwork
wiped and installed new rom
running reborn 2.2.4
obtained spc# and metro psc#
I updated the mdn and msid
and thats as far as I can find on the internet
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Hello xda. this is my first post so I apologize in advance.
I spent about 30 min reading post trying to find one to match and did not find anything.
I have a HTC Evo 3D that I want to put on to boost mobile. I'm wondering if any has herd of this working yet. or are we all playing the waiting game?
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I will not be doing this my self. I know some who says they can. I just wanted to be sure that its possible before I pay and put a small risk into it. the esn is clean as well
any thing with post i should know is welcome and I will be more than happy to fix it as soon i know about it
i just got one myself clean esn and i can find readable addresses ??? pklease advise
Have you asked the company its self? Boost is a Sprint company and uses CDMA. If they say no then I don't know if the temp root would allow the carrier unlock or you may be able to use QPST and program it.
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southern87 said:
Have you asked the company its self? Boost is a Sprint company and uses CDMA. If they say no then I don't know if the temp root would allow the carrier unlock or you may be able to use QPST and program it.
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Thanks for.the reply but boost will not activate this phone I have to have the readable addresses so I can do my thing if anyone knows please addvise thanks
You cannot "flash" a Sprint android device to boost. What you are asking to do is illegally clone a esn/meid of a boost mobile phone and illegally change the esn/meid of the ego 3d to that of the boost phone... This is a very gray area you are treading at best
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I did this for someone last year with their EVO. It's technically illegal, due to cloning, but the info is out there. Good luck.
Have u tried to have them activate the esn WITHOUT telling them its not a boost phone? Do u have cricket in your area? Theres no need to clone the esn unless boost refuses to accept esn's of non boost phones
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kc720 said:
You cannot "flash" a Sprint android device to boost. What you are asking to do is illegally clone a esn/meid of a boost mobile phone and illegally change the esn/meid of the ego 3d to that of the boost phone... This is a very gray area you are treading at best
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IM NOT THE ONLY ONE TREADING but thanks for the heads-up just trying to my thing thats all this is a non-profit venture aka solo=mine thanks to all and its only a matter of time
ya id rather pay sprints monthly bill than break the law... (funny how id rather break the law then pay for music tho )
the friend i talked to said he has done it before (with the 3d), and he just called sprint up not boost. i know this person has tech know how and i trust him about 95%
but there is that little voice inside my head says its easy to run with my phone....
$25 for 45 a month with out breaking the law and risk losing my phone
or~ $90 and put it on sprint....
does this sound worth the risk to you guys?
also my shift key is "broke-ish" am going to have a grammar lecture if i get a little lazy?
its a minor annoyance to get it to work and just don't have time to really fix it atm
I went with my mom to MetroPCS and the dude there had an OG Evo 4g flashed to MetroPCS. He claimed he still had 4g but that's total bull****.
I had my og evo on metropcs....i dont know how true it is that its illegalbecause metropcs itself will flash almost anycdma phone to work on their network.
To the last poster, that dude was full of bs. The evo has internet/data, mms, text, voice. No 4g is possible because metropcs has lte and evo is wimax.
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I'm awere its illegal to clone an esn. but I have an old iden phone branded with nexttel on boost, both the IMEI and SIM card showed on the account and iv herd of this working with cdma as well no cloning.
samuraimoose said:
I'm awere its illegam to clone an esn. but I have an old iden phone branded with nexttel on boost, both the IMEI and SIM card showed on the account and iv herd of this working with cdma as well no cloning.
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na iden wont work it has to be CDMA!
readable ranges anyone ? hope im not pissing anyone off just been trying for days now and it just bumps me out and re-boots
Has anyone got their 3d on boost yet?
louforgiveno said:
Has anyone got their 3d on boost yet?
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If I am not mistaken it should be no different than putting a OG Evo on Boost since all they are doing is changing your ESN to a workable Boost Mobile CDMA ESN -higher end phone. Make sure you check what phone they are using to change your phone to Boost. A crap phone gives you crap internet connection.
Xencer said:
I went with my mom to MetroPCS and the dude there had an OG Evo 4g flashed to MetroPCS. He claimed he still had 4g but that's total bull****.
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why you say hes bull**** it's very much possible, illegal yes but here's how one will get 4g
get a working 4g phone (one that is active with sprint) and backup wimax keys and copy the wimax mac address
then take the nonworking phone in his case metro one and restore the good wimax keys to it; then change the mac address to the good one
so.. before you call people full of **** do homework
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now about the 3d; problem is it has a mechanism that detects memory reads / scans and then locks the memory from being read thus the reason you have no readable memory scans
djurban said:
why you say hes bull**** it's very much possible, illegal yes but here's how one will get 4g
get a working 4g phone (one that is active with sprint) and backup wimax keys and copy the wimax mac address
then take the nonworking phone in his case metro one and restore the good wimax keys to it; then change the mac address to the good one
so.. before you call people full of **** do homework
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Wouldn't that require someone to still be paying a sprint bill to remain active on the 4g? Maybe I missed something.
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yamaford said:
Wouldn't that require someone to still be paying a sprint bill to remain active on the 4g? Maybe I missed something.
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yes you are correct it will still require someone to pay sprint or clearwire
but if you have a family member who has and 4g account you could use theirs and what most people don't know is that the 4g(data) can be used by both parties at the same time not esn/meid thats different subject
sdwyz74 said:
na iden wont work it has to be CDMA!
readable ranges anyone ? hope im not pissing anyone off just been trying for days now and it just bumps me out and re-boots
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have you tried evo shift readeable addresses?
playya said:
If I am not mistaken it should be no different than putting a OG Evo on Boost since all they are doing is changing your ESN to a workable Boost Mobile CDMA ESN -higher end phone. Make sure you check what phone they are using to change your phone to Boost. A crap phone gives you crap internet connection.
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if it was that easy he wouldn't be asking bro! it's not as simple as you paint it! i can flash any android to boost with fully 3g and 4g using clearwire if anyone that is attempting to falsh the evo 3d and has any progress let me know i'll like to s hare my knowledge
Hello, does anyone suggest a link for Phone donor requirements, legality, etc? I am trying to flash my Evo 3d and I have a broken MetroPcs phone as a donor but I want to know more about it and if I can even use a broken phone as a donor, etc.
Thanks
Hey everyone,
I do not roam in this forum, ever. As you might see I don't have an EVO LTE, as much as I would want to.
Here's the thing. I want to see if I can get a good condition EVO LTE to hold me off for 6 months to a year so I can use my Desire for testing ROMs only. It would have been easy except for 2 things: a) I am in Canada so I have to ask TELUS whether it will work on their network; b) it's a CDMA phone. TELUS has CDMA network, which may help.
So I got an email back from TELUS support pointing me to this page http://mobility.telus.com/en/BC/phones-and-devices/devicecompatibility.shtml?eVar6=link. He asked me to input an IMEI and that would see whether it is compatible with the TELUS network.
So I'm trying to find an EVO LTE IMEI, but... I'm almost afraid to ask, but can someone point me in the direction of one? Is the IMEI an extremely, extremely private thing? The kind of thing that if it falls into the wrong hands, it can wreck your phone? Because this would help me greatly, but if it's supposed to be private and secure like that, then I'm fine without.
Sorry if I sound like a noob, I've just never had to deal with the serials and IMEIs except in S-OFFing my Desire, during which you have to provide a serial number (I practically have it memorized by now).
Thanks guys.
droid_<3er said:
Hey everyone,
I do not roam in this forum, ever. As you might see I don't have an EVO LTE, as much as I would want to.
Here's the thing. I want to see if I can get a good condition EVO LTE to hold me off for 6 months to a year so I can use my Desire for testing ROMs only. It would have been easy except for 2 things: a) I am in Canada so I have to ask TELUS whether it will work on their network; b) it's a CDMA phone. TELUS has CDMA network, which may help.
So I got an email back from TELUS support pointing me to this page http://mobility.telus.com/en/BC/phones-and-devices/devicecompatibility.shtml?eVar6=link. He asked me to input an IMEI and that would see whether it is compatible with the TELUS network.
So I'm trying to find an EVO LTE IMEI, but... I'm almost afraid to ask, but can someone point me in the direction of one? Is the IMEI an extremely, extremely private thing? The kind of thing that if it falls into the wrong hands, it can wreck your phone? Because this would help me greatly, but if it's supposed to be private and secure like that, then I'm fine without.
Sorry if I sound like a noob, I've just never had to deal with the serials and IMEIs except in S-OFFing my Desire, during which you have to provide a serial number (I practically have it memorized by now).
Thanks guys.
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Your IMEI is extremely sensitive information. someone who gets it can mark it lost or stolen and literally make your phone a brick. on top of that they could switch it to their account ( fake person ) and make an claim for it being lost. i sell cellphones for a living and many people try that. do not give it out unless your on the phone with legit customer service.
Plus that link has no https:// secure on it. i wouldnt trust it.
IMEI is private and you shouldnt have one less you own the device...
Closing this thread before it tailspins into the wrong direction...
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