Hello Gentlemen and Ladies.
I was recently given a rooted Sprint HTC EVO 4G.
I bowed down and kissed the ground in thanks.
We, my benefactor, and I went post haste to the Sprint Store to get my number transferred over on to my miraclulous new device.
This went fine. We got the number swapped to the new phone, BUT
driving home we realized that it actually did not work.
So we called sprint tech support and after a long difficult conversation we realized they could not assist us.
Im asking you Kings and Queens of the Evo 4G.....is there a way I can get a rom that will allow Sprint tech support to assist me in getting my phone set up properly?
and WHICH of the 9jillion roms should i flash to?
Thank you in advance from a sparkly new noob who is worthy of nothing but contempt.
For ease of use for them activating it, just flash a stock rom, preferrably the latest one. Then once it's fully activated, you can flash another rom you like. Technically you should be able to activate it with any sense rom, but again, to make it easy for you and sprint just flash a stock one.
I agree, I would flash a stock rom that does not unroot your phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455340
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I want to move the EVO to my main cell phone number on my account and switch my old Pre to the number the EVO currently has. My concern is if I root and then take my phone to Sprint to have them do the switch on my account will I have an issue with a Rooted EVO?
You should be able to switch them over the phone. No need to go in.
djmend said:
I want to move the EVO to my main cell phone number on my account and switch my old Pre to the number the EVO currently has. My concern is if I root and then take my phone to Sprint to have them do the switch on my account will I have an issue with a Rooted EVO?
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all you need to do is call sprint and have them do it without walking into the sprint store..all they need is the serial number of the phone and the hex number, and that should be allowing you to activate to a different line.
I had a rooted samsung moment, and wanted the evo but didnt necessarily want to pay full price for it. A friend of mine (who really liked my phone) was getting a new contract with sprint, so i told him to get the evo, and then I would trade him my Moment for the evo, plus give him some cash. He liked the idea, so we went to sprint and set everything up, basically switching my phone number to the evo, and his old number to my samsung moment.
No problems at all, although the sprint rep gave me a funny look when he saw my custom boot animation. I'm glad they didnt get a good look at my sd card lol
Yes, we've done it many times switching our flashed TP, rooted HERO, and now rooted EVO around on our 3 lines. Just make sure to use the DEFAULT dialer when they want you to run the ##3282# code. That's the only 1 I can get to work with the codes.
you can even do it online through sprint.com... it may not be as easy if you are using a custom rom though.. sometimes you need to press stuff like *533534# and stuff like that and if using a custom rom that wont always work.. but if rooted is all youve done you should be good
I was able to swap my rooted hero's line with my stock evo's line. I did it over the phone.
Ok I just got my EVO working on Sprint....again.
I got my evo and how happy I was to get it working, I was happy when it worked with 3g internet - the sleepless night and whole day paid off. But I was not content, so I tried to root it. I did and without slowing down I put Fresh 3.2 rom on it.
booom! no 3g no internet lots of frustration. i tried every possible rom I could get on it but no success. finally I got the WWE SPRINT rom from from shipped-roms flashed it - btw you have to get into bootloader, hold down vol down and then fastboot-> bootloader->then start RUU.
SO now I'm with Sprint soft, and after reseting in ##786# and phone reactivated and then I tried update profile-> it went on forever until it failed with 1012. I was getting ready to call Sprint CS, but went it to ##3282# just to check - and wow - suddenly 3g appears. Dont know why, it is magic but I am happy.
If anybody has some insights on what happened to me and more importantly why ? I would really like to know more about how root / custom rom makes evo not connect to internet, perhaps some one with insight knowledge of Sprint CS / and provisioning and how vision passwords work could chime in?
First off you want to make sure you post this in the Q&A forum. Next off I'm assuming since this EVO was a bad ESN and you got it working on a SERO you cloned another ESN. If that's the case I'm not thinking you're going to get much help here, and I wouldn't post that in a public forum. If not you need to give more information on how you got a Bad EVO esn activated on a SERO plan which doesn't take EVO's yet.
Hey, I edited my post. Sorry for the typos. If I;m in a wrong forum - Mods- please move, its my first post - so I apologize.
I was wondering if anyone still on the OG EVO uses Ting? They use Sprint devices and now you can bring in your own old Sprint phone to use with their service.
I have a friend who just did his EVO and is thinking about Rooting and flashing and all that hot jazz. I wanted to make sure that it would all work the same way ROM wise while on Ting. On the website it does state that the phone needs to be stock before switching over but after that you can mod it. They don't care what is done it seems. I like to be extra cautious though.
No, but I am thinking of moving there temporarily until I figure out what phone I want next.
Ok so I know I did the ultimate no-no with a flashed phone. BoostMobile tech support tried to update my profile. I know I shouldn't have done this. I called both Sprint and BoostMobile tech support for help. My Sprint EVO 4G, flashed to Boost, was being blocked by my boyfriend's Sprint Airave. This is the 2nd EVO4G I have had flashed to boost. The first one (lost forever!) was flashed for over a year, we had the airave then too with no conflict issues. Lost phone. Bought new one (sprint) had it flashed. Now it tries to use the airave.
Differences:: New phone is rooted with Synergy RLS1. Old one was not rooted and had stock ROM on it.
New issues:: CONSTANT notifications about voice mail update. (never had that before). Attempting any kind of call results in error from Airave. I understand WHY! I just want to Stop the BOOST-SPRINT communication and make calls like I did before.
Anyway, I told them the AIRAVE problem, and told them I had custom ROM, ROOT and FLASHED phone they said "No Problem! We know what to do". they screwed the phone up and then accidentally dropped the call. So here I am after days of searching, reading, contemplating, still without phone service. Booting the phone results in loop of ATTEMPTING HANDS FREE ACTIVATION. and many times while on. Under settings, System Updates if I click on update profile it says.....Previous DM session is working now please try again later.
Will I have to go through the whole flash process again? Since I just did this 3-4 weeks ago there isn't much I need to save on the phone. I have all the versions and settings numbers from the phone but just didn't know which ones to post.
Frustrated, Aggravated and Completely out of touch with the world!!!
I would have never gotten to days. After a few hours of no success, I would have just started over
sprint airave blocks boost signal
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I would have never gotten to days. After a few hours of no success, I would have just started over
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yes I do appreciate the advice. And in moving forward that is the best choice.
Also in moving forward I am hoping that some of the senior members might have comments as to why the almost identical phone was now being blocked by the sprint Airave and getting the constant Sprint notifications of updated voice mail. Surely there is a way to shield the phone from the airave. Other than calling Sprint (no results) or calling Boost ( wrong results) someone has to have figured out a way to stop this.
Any speculations, suggestions, or comments?
What kind of donor phone did you use to flash the Evo?
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What kind of donor phone did you use to flash the Evo?
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That I do not know. I have not been able to reach the person who flashed the phone. I will ask that when I reach them. btw I have the original boost phone that was associated with my account before I flashed the first time. That was the donor then, I think. And I was thinking that I should re-register that phone before I flash back again with this 2nd phone. Is that thinking a valid thought?
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What kind of donor phone did you use to flash the Evo?
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I found the type of phone. I logged in under my account and it says the current phone is Sanyo SCP-6760 Incognito. I can use the account to change the the phone back to my original handset that I used for years and was the handset I used to fllash to the first EVO I had.
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I found the type of phone. I logged in under my account and it says the current phone is Sanyo SCP-6760 Incognito. I can use the account to change the the phone back to my original handset that I used for years and was the handset I used to fllash to the first EVO I had.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, anytime you need to know what donor phone was used to flash your phone..just log into your Boost account and click on "Update Handset" this will tell you exactly what phone is on your account aka used as your donor phone. It will almost always be either the Incognito or Rant. ((But anyone thinking of flashing a phone, should never have this problem because you should always have physical possession of the donor used on your account..there is not one single reason why the person flashing your phone would need to hold on to your donor. Period. So always make sure that you ask for , and receive the donor phone used to activate your Sprint phone)))
That being said...Unfortunately, your phone is going to need reflashed again, and you definitely did not need to activate the previous donor on to your Boost account. You just needed to contact the person who flashed your phone and (hopefully) he still has your donor phone and will be able to pull your passwords (profile info ) out of it again and write it to your Sprint phone. (Like you already seem to be aware of) when your profile was reset, that meant that it did not match what was on your flashed Sprint phone. You'll need to (first activate the donor that was on your account before you just switched it to your previous one) and then update the profile (on that donor) and then put it on your Evo and you'll be good as new...OR just reflash your phone all together with the donor that you just activated on the account.
As far as the Voicemail Update issue...I have noticed this being pushed constantly to the Sprint phones also(including my Evo LTE on Boost) , I honestly don't believe there is a way to stop it. It doesn't really bother me anymore it just sits in the notification tray all the time. I imagine that eventually Sprint will stop pushing it to their phones. If I do ever come up with a fix for it though I will be sure to try and look this thread up or pm you with it. Good luck with getting your Evo back online...and word to the wise..never call Boost for anything if you have a flashed phone on your account...First off they will trouble shoot it as if its the donor phone..Second, their standard protocol is to Update the profile, and/or Factory reset the phone, either of which will interrupt the service on your flashed Sprint phone.
I have a Sprint Epic 4g touch that I gave my nephew when I upgrade to the S4 (which I now have on S/T). I Factory rest the epic before giving it to him. He was planning to move to michigan and had the phone setup with straighttalk but only on sprint towers. Now we need to be able to reactivate the S/T plan but need to be able to use the verizon towers. Can I just reroot the phone and flash a custom prl to be able to use his michigan # he previously was giving by S/T? Or do I have to have it flashed?
Another thought occurried to me, could I just root the phone with a custom recovery then take it to the Salem, Oregon S/T store and have reactivated as a new account on the local sprint towers then when I bring it home flash a custom prl to use the verizon tower?
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I have a Sprint Epic 4g touch that I gave my nephew when I upgrade to the S4 (which I now have on S/T). I Factory rest the epic before giving it to him. He was planning to move to michigan and had the phone setup with straighttalk but only on sprint towers. Now we need to be able to reactivate the S/T plan but need to be able to use the verizon towers. Can I just reroot the phone and flash a custom prl to be able to use his michigan # he previously was giving by S/T? Or do I have to have it flashed?
Another thought occurried to me, could I just root the phone with a custom recovery then take it to the Salem, Oregon S/T store and have reactivated as a new account on the local sprint towers then when I bring it home flash a custom prl to use the verizon tower?
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Have a similar question. I upgraded my S2E4GT (flashed to S/T, rooted and on CM11 Villuminati) and my friend asked if he could have it so he could use it on S/T. Wondering if, since the MEID of my S2 is no longer active on my account, if he can just buy a new S/T plan and activate from there. Or are there actions I need to do to the phone so that it's "clean" for him to just buy a S/T plan and start using the phone?
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Have a similar question. I upgraded my S2E4GT (flashed to S/T, rooted and on CM11 Villuminati) and my friend asked if he could have it so he could use it on S/T. Wondering if, since the MEID of my S2 is no longer active on my account, if he can just buy a new S/T plan and activate from there. Or are there actions I need to do to the phone so that it's "clean" for him to just buy a S/T plan and start using the phone?
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If the phone is rooted, then it will show up as custom and you may have problems. If you were able to root it once, make a backup, then take it back to stock. Get it activated and then restore your backup
stryfe2010 said:
I have a Sprint Epic 4g touch that I gave my nephew when I upgrade to the S4 (which I now have on S/T). I Factory rest the epic before giving it to him. He was planning to move to michigan and had the phone setup with straighttalk but only on sprint towers. Now we need to be able to reactivate the S/T plan but need to be able to use the verizon towers. Can I just reroot the phone and flash a custom prl to be able to use his michigan # he previously was giving by S/T? Or do I have to have it flashed?
Another thought occurried to me, could I just root the phone with a custom recovery then take it to the Salem, Oregon S/T store and have reactivated as a new account on the local sprint towers then when I bring it home flash a custom prl to use the verizon tower?
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Um this is old but I feel like answering kinda anyways. So I'm not 100% on what you're talking about but you cannot use this phone on Verizon. To the best of my knowledge. Which is limited.
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If the phone is rooted, then it will show up as custom and you may have problems. If you were able to root it once, make a backup, then take it back to stock. Get it activated and then restore your backup
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Ok thanks. I can get it back to stock, but once there, is there anything else that needs to be done so that if I sell the phone to my friend, he can activate it on ST (without it being on my account)? Part of the reason I ask is because when I go back into the phone's settings>about phone>status it shows my phone number still listed. I "thought" it would be as easy as he buys a new ST plan and activates it that way, thus reassigning the number to the phone. But...not sure. In the meantime, I've been googling how to do this "generically" and topics of updating the PRL and or MSL come up, but I'm still trying to understand how that might work. Hoping someone already "knows" and can inform me of the process specific to our phones.