Flashing Eris to Metro PCS

[Evil Sports]

My sister needs a phone and she is on Metro, I have the Eris sitting in the drawer doing nothing, can someone tell me how I can get it working on metro??

 

[Realm]

So far the Eris can only be flashed to Cricket Wireless

 

[namu1107]

An eris sitting in a drawer doing nothing??? what is this world coming to?!?

 

[jessebwallace]

So far the Eris can only be flashed to Cricket Wireless

This is entirely not true - I have mine working fully on MetroPCS.
Follow this guide

 

[juicy.cook]

Just finished completely flashing mine with the same guide. Everything works perfect. Although there are /some/ data issues when connecting to the market. You have to hit retry a few times, but that is about it. The browser works perfect. I would suggest checking with dealers who flash as opposed to corp stores. The people at corp stores know nothing. I tried dealing with them for about 2 weeks, presenting them with legitimate information, and they were too stupid to realize all they needed were some drivers. Just be sure to call before hand and ask how much it should be to flash a phone. Some dealers jack up the price to $50, but I found one who was charging $20 like the corp stores.

 

[Realm]

This is entirely not true - I have mine working fully on MetroPCS.
Follow this guide

thats awesome! what about straight talk?

 

[benji05]

What about straight talk???

 

[Hiroshika]

Straight talk wont work, they dont allow phones that arent in their database like cricket and metro do.

 

[pkopalek]

Straight Talk may or may not work eventually, when people figure out the network settings, and find a way to spoof their phone as another phone.

They're not nearly as strict as Verizon/Sprint with the serial numbers of what phones go on their network, but they won't ACTIVATE one that isn't the kind that they want you to activate.

It may be possible, like T-Mobile, to tell them you have a different phone than you actually have.

I'm standing by for this one, because it LITERALLY uses Verizon's service 100%, and would be way cheaper.

 

[iggypop123]

even if you can flash it the data will be horribly slow

 

[noworldfortomorrow]

I'm standing by for this one, because it LITERALLY uses Verizon's service 100%, and would be way cheaper.

Good luck browsing the web with any sort of speed, though. StraightTalk only uses Verizon's 1x towers, no 3G coverage whatsoever.

 

[lionsden]

What up Jedi's??? just to make sure... I've been reading and correct me if I'm wrong but all I have to do is take my eris to metro pcs have them metroflash it with the I40 or I45 plan, make sure text and talk is good and then root it to then follow this giude to get the web up and running ??? - thanks for your help.

 

[lionsden]

Found my answer.. thanks

 

[pkopalek]

Cricket / MetroPCS Web/MMS Flash 8/9 - xda-developers