Anyway to flash a cricket phone to another CDMA service?

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Leo

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I sometimes travel to eastern ky where they have Appalachian Wireless, a CDMA cellular service. I currently have a cricket phone. I have seen on this board mentioning about using other CDMA phones provided by MetroPCS, Verizon and the like. I was wanting to know if there is a way I can get one of my old Cricket phones and flash it for Appalachian Wireless.
 
:^/ I haven't tried it, but at an educated guess I'd say it's just a matter of swapping the PRL, same as switching to cricket. Of course, you'll have to choose a carrier who accepts phones that they didn't sell, and that's the tricky part; Cricket's rare that way....
 
Well said, fellow Mafia meraber! :buddies:

Let me add to that the best case scenario is to get a Cricket-capable phone from another carrier that supports Dual NAM's. That way, you can activate with that particular carrier first, then switch NAM's, load PRL, and activate with Cricket. You will effectively have two different phone lines on the same phone, and each will be from a different carrier! :eek: I do it all the time with Verizon pre-pay phones. Shuh. *shrugs*

Good hunting!
 
so does the verizon razr2 come with two nams unlike the cricket razr2?

still haven't found out exact procedure to activate second nam on a cricket branded razr2...
 
: / Flashing a Verizon phone back to Verizon should be as easy as replacing your Cricket PRL with the original Verizon one.

Mind you, if the original Verizon ROM data has been replaced, then putting it back will be trickier unless you copied it somewhere safe.
 
Remeraber the key is activating the phone's ESN with Verizon or whatever other carrier FIRST. Then you can flash it with whatever ROM you want. You can also seem edit the phone to support dual NAM's so that way you can have a Cricket PRL on one and your other carrier on the other.
 
There's a way to get Verizon to accept the ESN in their database. I remeraber reading about it here somewhere in the Cricket forums.

I also don't know the official status of Verizon accepting foreign ESN's.
 
You're right, I read something about that as well. I believe it is the Verizon Authorized Dealers that can add just about any ESN to the database. It's the corporate stores and CS that will tell you it can't be added, as per the script they all read from.
 
I thought that Verizon will only accept the ESN if it has never been in their network before. For instance if you somehow are able to leave your contract they will black list your ESN on their network (won't show up blacklisted other places). Could be completely wrong, I just thought I read something about that.
 
no. they will accept pre-loaded esn's that do not have a past bill against them and have not been reported lost/stolen. pre-loaded typically means the device was sold through verizon channels, although presumably now it also means devices aproved by their anydevice team.
 
Yea perhaps it was when that person posted about leaving your contract because of a minor technicality...I thought I read something on there about them black listing your account or something.
 
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