Hi everyone,
I am a new member here but I have long browsed and admired this forum and I am thankful to now be a part of it! I have a question....I am a Verizon Wireless customer and I purchased an HTC Vogue (xv6900) from Alltel and I wanted to activate it on my line. When I went to do so I was told by 3 separate reps that it could not be done because I was a Verizon plan and only Alltel phones could be on Alltel. They said this is because they are trying to get everyone off of Alltel devices. Is there any way I can flash this phone or hack it so that Verizon will activate it on my account?
Thanks so much!
I was a previous alltel customer that was merged into verizon. I have an alltel vogue. Using the official alltel rom, I'm able to do everything except gps (I could do gps until a week or so ago).
If you were a verizon customer from the start, it may not work the same.
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I'm currently using an HTC Touch (Vogue, Unlocked, Custom Rom, yadda yadda yadda) and I recently came to acquire a used HTC P4000 (Telus's Titan version).
I still have some monkeying around to do with the P4000 (Upgrade to newest official rom among other things.) to see if I'm interested in using it as my primary phone instead of the Touch. Can someone explain if it's possible to have the P4000 running on the Bell network- and who I'd have to talk to in order to set that up.
I'm assuming that it would need to be unlocked first (not sure how to do the p4000, I did my Vogue without any issues though).
Alrighty then.
Did a little forum lurking and I now have a fully unlocked P4000 running DCD's 4.1.2 rom with the Bell Carrier. Boots instantaneously and works wonderfully. The man is a bloody genius.
Now, as to my original question - I have my MSL for both my current HTC Touch/Vogue (Bell) and my recently acquired P4000 (Telus).
Is there a way/method/guide I can follow to manually program the P4000 to work on the Bell network in place of my Touch?
Do I find an underhanded/former/corrupt Bell employee that will transfer my settings for $25?
Do I see my friend who has a friend who's cousin knows this stuff?
Do I take it to the Bell store and say "My phone no workie, I has replacement, make workie?"
I hate to trash on my Vogue but this P4000 is pretty effing slick. Gotta love the Wi-Fi and actual movie acceleration for non-horrible playback.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Your biggest problem will be to see Bell will accept the P4000 ESn number in there database. If they won't then flashing and unlocking isn't worth your time.
Hey everyone, I've been lurking for a bit now and have learned a heap about my phone.
Well, I had a sprint contract which has ran out and currently have the Sprint Touch Vogue without service.
I work on a military base which used to have Sprint towers but have since changed to Verizon. Naturally I would like to do the same since no other carriers provide any good signal out here.
My question is, do I need to flash to a Verizon ROM? If so where can I find just the basic ROM which will still allow use of the internal GPS, and any data connection I may need.
I checked the ESN on their website and it says its not available.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, it sux having no signal out here at all....
if i were you id switch to verizon... they have pretty good service all around.. you should be able to take your vouge over to verizon with no problem. Technical support can do it for you over the phone, they said that the can activate certain sprint phones, verizon can activate sprint phones that verizon currently has or has sold before.
Take a look at codybear's faq on flashing the Vogue. You can flash to Veruzon but you may have a problem getting them to add the esn to their network. Here is that faq:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508544
Forgive me if this has been discussed. I did a search, but did not find anything. Is it possible to reprovision a Sprint Treo Pro to Verizon? I know there are Alltel Pro's running on Verizon. I have a buddy that would kill to have one on Verizon.
Thanks.
UMM..
Oh.. I'd like to know to..
You can buy a real CDMA Treo Pro issued by Verizon (not Alltel), directly from them. I know, because I have one. It's cool - no carrier branding on it at all, just Palm.
If you're wondering how, contact me via private message, and I'll explain how I did it.
already have a sprint one
Just want to know how to activate it on Verizon
Far as Verizon has said, they will not activate any phone that is not specifically branded for Verizon, this has been their policy for more than a few years now.
Wow, its been forever since I posted here. >.>
I can confirm that.
The tech support lady kept asking if it had Verizon written on it, checked the screen during startup for the Verizon logo, and said the fact that dialing *228 failed to connect all meant it wasn't a Verizon phone and they would not activate it. She also asked if it had SIM card, which it doesn't have of course, my phone is a CDMA one.
Not sure where I'm going from here; I sure would love to use this Treo Pro and would love to hears suggestions.
I just bought one from Verizon for 149.99 no contract. It was a CPO device. There were some requirements but I got.
Requirements:
1.Can't be eligible for upgrade. (My contract end 9/10)
2.Current phone in use must not be in stock (I had a very old Moto E815 connected at the time)
I am a Verizon customer that was a Alltel customer. I kept my alltel contract because it was much better than a new Verizon contract, but Verizon said I would have to buy my phones outright if I wanted to ever upgrade. My question is that on eBay some HD2's are gsm and I know cannot be used on Verizon but some are wcdma/gsm phones, can those be activated on verizon's network?
Thanks for any input. I could not find a definitive answer.
In short, WCDMA =/= CDMA. WCDMA/UMTS is the 3G evolution of GSM, and has nothing to do with CDMA. Confusing, but the gist of it is that there's no way to use an HD2 on CDMA. Might have more luck flashing a Sprint EVO to Verizon's PRL, but since CDMA's functionally dead in my country I've not looked into it at all.
Hi folks!
I'm on Alltel right now and we're soon to go defunct. I want to be able to sell my and my wife's Hero's once that happens, but since Alltel wont exist any more i'm not sure if that would be...ethical (selling a phone for a defunct phone company).
I know this phone works on the Sprint network, so is there any way to convert (not sure of the nomenclature) my Alltel phone for use on the Sprint network?
Thanks guys, hope that makes sense.
You would have to load a Sprint PRL onto the device and manually program it work with sprint, then load a Sprint ROM but I'm not sure that Sprint would allow a non-sprint branded device on their network... Pretty much the same instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794506
but replace verizon with sprint . And you would have to google the settings in which to modify or someone here can read you their settings for it to work
Hmm...good point. Nice thing is that there is no Alltel branding on the phone itself. I'm wondering if i could take it down to a Sprint store and have them flash their software onto it? Would that work?
yes it would work, but more of a question, would they do it?
JazzNeurotic said:
Hmm...good point. Nice thing is that there is no Alltel branding on the phone itself. I'm wondering if i could take it down to a Sprint store and have them flash their software onto it? Would that work?
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So, if they could do it, wouldn't it be possible for me to find the RUU that they'd just flash on the phone and do it myself, without all the rigmarole of that Verizon thread?
If not, that's cool, i'm just curious
Theoritically, yes, however, to my knowledge, Verizon Doesn't sell a Hero they sell the Eris is which is the Hero + proximity sensor, so you would be hard pressed to find a Verizon RUU for the Hero . and even if you did, it doesn't change the internal settings to use Verizon towers, it just changes the looks.
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Theoritically, yes, however, to my knowledge, Verizon Doesn't sell a Hero they sell the Eris is which is the Hero + proximity sensor, so you would be hard pressed to find a Verizon RUU for the Hero . and even if you did, it doesn't change the internal settings to use Verizon towers, it just changes the looks.
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I believe he's trying to get it to work with Sprint.
Sent from my Cyanogen flavored frozen yogurt.
Well in that case, Sprint Does sell a hero, but good luck in getting them to activate a non-sprint phone. It's all just politics folks!
gidkid said:
Originally Posted by TpyoKnig
Theoritically, yes, however, to my knowledge, Verizon Doesn't sell a Hero they sell the Eris is which is the Hero + proximity sensor, so you would be hard pressed to find a Verizon RUU for the Hero . and even if you did, it doesn't change the internal settings to use Verizon towers, it just changes the looks.
I believe he's trying to get it to work with Sprint.
Sent from my Cyanogen flavored frozen yogurt.
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I can confirm that Sprint WILL NOT activate a non-Sprint branded phone on to their network. I last tried about 8 months ago. I doubt they've changed since then.