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Root [Virgin Mobile] Late activation.

Chiral

Android Enthusiast
Jun 10, 2013
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Rooted, trimmed the fat, still unactivated.

Anything I need to do before I activate; aside from restoring the two Sprint .apks?

I recall something about activating while rooted breaking MMS. Should I use G60's stock backup to unroot first?
 
Rooted, trimmed the fat, still unactivated.

Anything I need to do before I activate; aside from restoring the two Sprint .apks?

I recall something about activating while rooted breaking MMS. Should I use G60's stock backup to unroot first?

Some of the issue reported have been while running non-stock.

I would do a backup in recovery,
then restore the stock backup posted by g60madman,
boot the phone and activate and update and login to google services,
then boot into recovery and make a backup and
then restore system and boot but not cache,
then reboot.

But I have not gone through those steps. I activated my phone before doing anything else, and have had no problems that weren't cause by my own flashing.
 
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