Hi Everyone,
I've been using an HTC Evo 4G for a while now on spring and my mom just bought a new phone to replace her HTC Evo V on virgin mobile. The Evo V is the same as the EVO 3D on sprint, it even has the same spring branding on the top right. I tried to setup the Evo V on my sprint account at home, in a store and by calling customer support. The sprint store said I needed to call support and they could do it but support said it couldn't be done. So I ask you, is it possible to use a virgin mobile HTC Evo V as an HTC Evo 3D on sprint? If so what steps do I need to take in order to have it activate and work either at home, in store or through customer support?
There is only one way to do it, and as far as I know it can't be discussed on xda. So pretty much no.
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demi_fiend said:
There is only one way to do it, and as far as I know it can't be discussed on xda. So pretty much no.
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That is not always true. Check with Sprint and see if they will activate the ESN. Virgin Mobile will not activate any non-VM ESN Phones so that is what cannot be discussed, but some carriers do not care. You can log into your sprint account and see if the ESN is available for activation or go to a store and ask.
raptoro07 said:
That is not always true. Check with Sprint and see if they will activate the ESN. Virgin Mobile will not activate any non-VM ESN Phones so that is what cannot be discussed, but some carriers do not care. You can log into your sprint account and see if the ESN is available for activation or go to a store and ask.
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Is this to activate the Virgin Mobile Evo V on sprint or to get the sprint Evo 3D working on virgin mobile? I need to get an Evo V from Virgin Mobile activated on sprint. Thanks for your reply!
jvswimjack said:
Is this to activate the Virgin Mobile Evo V on sprint or to get the sprint Evo 3D working on virgin mobile? I need to get an Evo V from Virgin Mobile activated on sprint. Thanks for your reply!
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I would just go to a store and ask if you can.
raptoro07 said:
I would just go to a store and ask if you can.
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I already have. I tried to do it on m computer and it didn't recognize the phone when I put in the DEC. I went to the sprint store and they said they couldn't do it there but that if I call support they should be able to take care of it. Called support and they said it couldn't be done which has led me here.
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Since Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA is it possible to get the Evo 3D on Verizon?
If so how would I go about doing this?
Utopia73 said:
Since Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA is it possible to get the Evo 3D on Verizon?
If so how would I go about doing this?
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Well the obvious answer is no But you can hop on the verizon network momentarily if needed although that takes a little bit of tweaking which needs S-off
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You can and you can't. It's kind of illegal. Some people would flash certain PRLs, but on their rooted Evo 4G, to get better signal and basically use Verizon coverage, therefor their contract and account terminated. Some people have switched ESN's and MEID numbers on the Evo to work on the verizon, so most likley the evo 3d can do the same as well. Just gotta keep searching.......and good luck.
Or wait till 2012 and thunderbolt 3d comes out lol jk
But yeah you can't have it legally right now
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
I think he is talking about permanently with a Verizon contact. But you can force it to roam with the roam control app in the market. It doesn't require root for HTC devices anymore.
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Utopia73 said:
Since Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA is it possible to get the Evo 3D on Verizon?
If so how would I go about doing this?
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I read somewhere on here that Verizon won't activate a device with an ESN/MEID that didn't originate in their system anymore. If the Evo 3D somehow ended up with an ESN/MEID that came from a Verizon phone I guess they wouldn't know the difference, they'd think that the Evo 3D was that Verizon phone.
i was thinking about buying the htc evo 3d from ebay.. is it possible to unlock it to tmobile?
im not sure the gsm evo 3d is out yet. t-mobile=gsm sprint=cdma
xlk said:
i was thinking about buying the htc evo 3d from ebay.. is it possible to unlock it to tmobile?
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Nope. T-mobile is GSM. Sprint is CDMA.
It wont work with tmobile but maybe you can get it to work with metropcs or even boost.
Although I hear there are some legal concerns about doing this..
You need to buy the EVO 3D from Rogers Canada
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Don't go with Tmobile unless you have to, I have had some bad experiences with them.
Tmobile = FAIL!
Sorry,
You can't. T-mobile needs SIM card slot, Sprint does not. You could get the sensation, a replica with out 3D and half the amount of RAM.
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It wont work with tmobile but maybe you can get it to work with metropcs or even boost.
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how can i get the HTC EVO 3D to work on metropcs? i'd love this to happen!!!
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how can i get the HTC EVO 3D to work on metropcs? i'd love this to happen!!!
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If you search the forum a bit you can find threads on how to do this. I'm sure I've seen a thread or two on metropcs and evo 3d.
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If you search the forum a bit you can find threads on how to do this. I'm sure I've seen a thread or two on metropcs and evo 3d.
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yeah i saw it too. but i think you cant get mms on it thru metropcs. i hope i'm wrong. i'd love to move from my $55/month (taxes included) on tmobile to $40/month with metropcs. i'd be happy.
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tjlawson09 said:
Tmobile = FAIL!
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I know this must have been answered before but I am not able to find it . You are a senior member can you kindly answer or point me in the right direction?
What are the steps to unlock my Sprint EVO 3D and use it with MetroPCS?
Does rooting mean unlocking?
There seems to be two types of rooting soft and hard, which rooting is required or unlocking?
Thanks
kaptainkool3 said:
I know this must have been answered before but I am not able to find it . You are a senior member can you kindly answer or point me in the right direction?
What are the steps to unlock my Sprint EVO 3D and use it with MetroPCS?
Does rooting mean unlocking?
There seems to be two types of rooting soft and hard, which rooting is required or unlocking?
Thanks
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It's not called unlocking for Metro, Unlocking is a term used for GSM Phones.
You are wanting to FLASH to metro pcs. From what I know there is some CDMA workshop trickery involved, and I believe you DONT need to be rooted for it to work although I could be wrong. Also btw ROOTING ≠ UNLOCKING
Metro is garbage, if you want the best, pre paid , its page plus, 45- buck a month with unlimited talk text and 20mb internet but best part is it uses verizons service
Which in my case tops any pre paid plan by a milestone
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Armenian6000 said:
Metro is garbage, if you want the best, pre paid , its page plus, 45- buck a month with unlimited talk text and 20mb internet but best part is it uses verizons service
Which in my case tops any pre paid plan by a milestone
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lmao...what good is that when u got no data? not only that but PP needs a verizon esn.....if there was a way to change the esn on the evo 3d u think people would pick PP over boost? metro roams off of sprints towers. u can actually load a sprint prl into any metro phone and it will work. anyhow metro is great cause u get unlimited data, even if its slow u still get data and all ur apps work. yes you can flash the evo 3d to metro pcs, its same as flashing any other phone. u need cdma ws to change the passwords and all that stuff the m.ip and the ppp. i sold my last evo 3d on metro pcs alsmot fully working...mms is not working. im getting another evo 3d in 4 days ill see if now with root theres a way to get mms. all apps work on metro pcs.
google: flash evo 4g to metro pcs and its the same settings. u will need cdma ws 3.7 its worth buying it
U can get unlimited data for more money.
I've done my old EVO 4G on page plus, everything works.
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I havnt watched this but here proof it works on EVO 3d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696BWrH7LbQ
oscarh24 said:
lmao...what good is that when u got no data? not only that but PP needs a verizon esn.....if there was a way to change the esn on the evo 3d u think people would pick PP over boost? metro roams off of sprints towers. u can actually load a sprint prl into any metro phone and it will work. anyhow metro is great cause u get unlimited data, even if its slow u still get data and all ur apps work. yes you can flash the evo 3d to metro pcs, its same as flashing any other phone. u need cdma ws to change the passwords and all that stuff the m.ip and the ppp. i sold my last evo 3d on metro pcs alsmot fully working...mms is not working. im getting another evo 3d in 4 days ill see if now with root theres a way to get mms. all apps work on metro pcs.
google: flash evo 4g to metro pcs and its the same settings. u will need cdma ws 3.7 its worth buying it
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StrumerJohn said:
You can't. T-mobile needs SIM card slot, Sprint does not. You could get the sensation, a replica with out 3D and half the amount of RAM.
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"Half the ram" are you stupid it is essentially the same phone without 3d
And to answer the op yes you can IF its the GSM version.
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sRs DoLLaR mEnU said:
"Half the ram" are you stupid it is essentially the same phone without 3d
And to answer the op yes you can IF its the GSM version.
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Sensation although not half the ram it is 3/4 the ram.
Armenian6000 said:
Metro is garbage, if you want the best, pre paid , its page plus, 45- buck a month with unlimited talk text and 20mb internet but best part is it uses verizons service
Which in my case tops any pre paid plan by a milestone
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Armenian, thanks for the reply.. but is page plus available in new york? and is it $45 a month with taxes included? please tell me more.. thanks !
Just doing a roll call of all users that are using Evo 3D on VM. As in flashing a sprint evo 3d to vm
are you 12 yo?
loscassapalle said:
are you 12 yo?
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yeah im 12 because i enjoy my $35 a month phone bill.
loscassapalle said:
are you 12 yo?
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He's actually a great developer over in the wildfire s section. I ran his sense 3.5 Rom and his 2.1 and they're great. He's also helped me out through pm trying to fix some stuff. Thanks jmztaylor! And welcome to 3d world, did you get your 3d yet, or is it even out for VM?
About your poll, I pay sprint for service but my phone says Virgin Mobile because I was one of the few that had to flash that red hot VM firmware leak, but ill be back to all sprint soon.
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He's actually a great developer over in the wildfire s section. I ran his sense 3.5 Rom and his 2.1 and they're great. He's also helped me out through pm trying to fix some stuff. Thanks jmztaylor! And welcome to 3d world, did you get your 3d yet, or is it even out for VM?
About your poll, I pay sprint for service but my phone says Virgin Mobile because I was one of the few that had to flash that red hot VM firmware leak, but ill be back to all sprint soon.
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No I have a sprint evo 3d on vm
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are you 12 yo?
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You're a bad troll and you should feel bad. Look up bloodrain's posts if you want to be a troll.
Also OP, are you talking about Firmware or actually have bought it on VM?
IDK about you but if I'm going prepaid I'm going to go to a GSM network that runs on a good carrier like ATT.
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You're a bad troll and you should feel bad. Look up bloodrain's posts if you want to be a troll.
Also OP, are you talking about Firmware or actually have bought it on VM?
IDK about you but if I'm going prepaid I'm going to go to a GSM network that runs on a good carrier like ATT.
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Sorry I clarified in the op. Flashed a sprint evo 3d to vm
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Jmztaylor, sorry for going off topic but have you tried Simons utility to unlock the 3d? It says it works for all HTC phones.
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Jmztaylor, sorry for going off topic but have you tried Simons utility to unlock the 3d? It says it works for all HTC phones.
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Nope. But I may give it a shot
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Nope. But I may give it a shot
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K, is that the tool that does supercid also? Or was that theQ's tool?
Bought mine from 02 but I'm using vm if that helps
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Jmz, I flashed my sprint evolution 4g to my virgin mobile account.
I thought the Evo 3D came out just about a year ago on Sprint, perhaps 13 months. Why would anyone break contact with a year to go to move to VM? I'm sure I'm missing something here.
I recently bought the Sprint branded Evo V 4G but that's not the users you're looking for.
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bsoplinger said:
I thought the Evo 3D came out just about a year ago on Sprint, perhaps 13 months. Why would anyone break contact with a year to go to move to VM? I'm sure I'm missing something here.
I recently bought the Sprint branded Evo V 4G but that's not the users you're looking for.
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Because you can get a 3d off contract. Many people "flash" sprint phones to virgin mobile
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I'm using a sprint flashed evo 3d on boost!
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Do you need a donor to flash 3D to vm now that the firmware is out?
EDIT: And does it have to be a smart donor?
How's the service for Virgin Mobile? This divorce is going to cost a lot of money. Trying to cut back on everything just to stay afloat.
I installed the VM firmware the first day we were told that it had to be installed to run freeza's ROM, but I have not had many issues like others. And after flashing the nocturnal release, I cannot find anything on my phone that references VM.
How do you flash to VM? sorry if that's off-topic
On Sprint here. Worst customer service, limited signal, great price. Lol.
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As Title. I have Sprint Evo 3D 4G, I want to use it for Virgin Mobile. Is it possible of doing so? Will that affect my Virgin Mobile cheap plan? Thanks in advance.
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As Title. I have Sprint Evo 3D 4G, I want to use it for Virgin Mobile. Is it possible of doing so? Will that affect my Virgin Mobile cheap plan? Thanks in advance.
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CDMA phones can't be "unlocked" like GSM phones can. CDMA phones are identified by the MEID number, and Sprint has a database of these numbers and what brand they are associated with. So they will see you are trying to activate a Sprint-branded phone and Virgin and reject it. Changing they MEID is possible but is illegal in some jurisdictions (Missouri comes to mind), so I won't go any further.
Or you could call up Sprint and ask very nicely if they'll activate it for you anyway. But don't be surprised if they say no.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974000
Anything you want is yours. All you gotta do is search
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974000
Anything you want is yours. All you gotta do is search
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Thanks.
Should I finish the esn swap first then flash rom? or the other way round?
I see many of the custom CDMA roms are based on Sprint. Does they also work on Virgin Mobile?
What is the stable daily using ROM you are commending?
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Thanks.
Should I finish the esn swap first then flash rom? or the other way round?
I see many of the custom CDMA roms are based on Sprint. Does they also work on Virgin Mobile?
What is the stable daily using ROM you are commending?
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I'm on MetroPCS and all the Sprint ROMs work for me, they should all work for you too (provided you're flashing CDMA ROMs)
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Thanks.
Should I finish the esn swap first then flash rom? or the other way round?
I see many of the custom CDMA roms are based on Sprint. Does they also work on Virgin Mobile?
What is the stable daily using ROM you are commending?
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They work perfectly fine on virgin mobile. If you want to get MMS working your gonna have to flash an HTC EVO V ROM. Not sure i can like to another forum but theres a EVO V forum at android forums. Make sure to back up before you flash. The first time i flashed a ROM the ESN changed back. Just the ESN so it was a quick fix.
I was a loyal sprint costumer for 7 years. My sister couldn't afford the bill no more, so she let it get cancelled. But before she did, I rushed and got an AT&T (Fusion 2) GoPhone and ported my number to it.
Long story short. Help me make the right dissension now.
I have a new refurbished HTC EVO 4G LTE with clean ESN because I turned it in w/ bestbuy warranty and they gave me a new one.
Can I unlock the EVO to AT&T prepaid? I was reading that I can't w/ AT&T correct? So what are my other options to go prepaid with my EVO?
I prefer Verizon prepaid since sprint towers don't get good reception. Please link me to the right thread if I'm on the wrong one. Thanks!
Reminder, I want to be able to keep/port my same #
Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2116244
And no, AT&T won't work. Sprint is CDMA, whereas AT&T is GSM. The two are totally different and not compatible with one another.
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FinZ28 said:
Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2116244
And no, AT&T won't work. Sprint is CDMA, whereas AT&T is GSM. The two are totally different and not compatible with one another.
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Thanks FinZ28! If anyone has more suggestions, please post
You could always try Ting, Cricket, Boost....
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