Sprint HTC Evo To Virgin Mobile.

I haven't heard of this being done from sprint to virgin yet but I think sprint recently bought virgin so that may improve your chances.

It's almost as if virgin's become the pay-as-go arm of the sprint giant.

I have been following reports of people getting their sprint evo working on boost mobile...
HTC EVO 4G Sprint to Boost

I'd be interested in setting up my no-contract evo with the option for pay-as-you-go data, but so far it sounds either too complicated or shady.

Please keep us up to date with with your findings. I'm pretty much right behind you.

 

I have been searching for the same thing but come up with the same answer everytime...no, it can't be done. hopefully someone can find a way!

 

That is because Cricket allows it, as does metro. They will allow almost any (possibly any) CDMA phone using it's real ESN. VM, Sprint, Verizon, and boost do not. The only way to get it to work is cloning the ESN and modifying settings.

Side note: This is illegal.

 

The issue i think is that if anything remotely close to illegal is mentiones in a thread it will get shut down and or deleted.



I say sell the evo for profit? Keep the research going...pay sprint ...or sell it.
Hell i will start the bidding going at $50

 

Two things:

It is illegal. Very black and white on that one. The only gray area (in my head) is if you are not cloning to fraudulently obtain service. I don't know if that is or is not legal.

2. Research more. I won't tell you where to find it, but I will tell you there are evos, heros, etc on VM and Boost. The settings are out there.

 

First, read the link you provided to me. You may see an interesting warning.

Second. I highly doubt if you did this one time for your phone you would have cops knocking on your door. That doesn't mean it is legal. It is a fraudulent use of the phone to get it on a network that explicitly denies it. The law was probably never truly about Joe Blow cloning his own phone. It does still apply to Joe.

P.S. You mention "customer of Sprint". Guess who you are a customer of if you have boost or VM cellular service.

P.P.S. That link isn't quite going to help with what you are shooting for.

 

xda developers say its not possible, as of current.

 

xtravbx: do you have a link/source for that? The two threads I've seen on XDA haven't been posted to in almost a week.

I'm interested in doing this strictly for 3G access. I have the Evo on MetroPCS' 40 dollar plan right now, and I'm not sure how much longer I can stand 1X data speeds.

I haven't seen it firsthand, but I believe that it's possible to get the Evo on VM. My only concern is having to buy an Intercept just to stick it in a drawer. I've thought about getting an Intercept to copy the settings from, then returning it for a cheaper phone and using that as the donor. I don't know if data speeds are capped on non-Intercept/BB plans, though.

 

You bought an evo off contract for $219?

 

although its not as bad ass as the EVO its made for virgin mobile service and its only $150.

 

You can't use any phone but one for Virgin mobile on VM's service, however, there is a way to use Sprint devices on Boost Mobile (another subsidiary). Do a Google search.

 

did you ever find out if it worked?? because i want to do the same thing.

 

Should probably drop the subject before the thread gets closed. Look here.

 

There is a bill introduced by Charles Schumer of NY has introduced a bill that is tied in to homeland security that would make it a crime for anyone to mess with the esn of a phone. .

 

As mentioned, talk of ESN cloning, especially links and instructions will get this thread shut down. We thank you for not going there.

 

Virgin Mobile clearly states that they only allow their phones on the service, not their phones esn or meid cloned to another device. So no black or white it's illegal to put a non authorized device on any carrier. Make it easy on yourself and just flash to a carrier that allows it or sell the phone.

 

thats odd i did nothing but called VM and told them it was simply a vm phone (it wasnt , it was a sprint phone) and after some reprogramming the tech support guided me through*, we had it activated for use with VM service.. crazy how thats illegal though. someone should fire that tech guy huh?