Is there any danger in using an old phone?

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Kateyylovee

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My company has had a Cricket for 4 years that we use in one of our trucks. It has been banged around to the point that the battery is being held in with duct tape and one of the corners is chipped off. The clerk at the Cricket store of course wanted to sell me an expensive camera phone that can do all kinRAB of high-tech wizardry which I don't need. I asked her if I could just transfer the phone nuraber to an existing phone and she told me that is OK as long as the other phone is also a Cricket.

Anyway, I see on eBay that lots of people are selling the old Nokia 5170i for Cricket which I am familiar with because we also had one of those. But I'm wondering if somehow the cellular rules have changed or something which will make this old phone inoperable or obsolete. (I'm not sure this Cricket employee was all that technologically savvy.) The last thing I want is to pay the $15 to transfer the nuraber to a Nokia 5170i only to find out that it doesn't work due to advances in technology since that model was popular.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Relztrah
 
There shouldn't be a problem but there are a few things you have to do if the phone on Ebay wasn't previously on the CricKet service. You will have to load the PRL and then get the phone programmed, hopefully OTA. There are many threaRAB describing this process so just take a look around. Generally, CricKet will activate any CDMA phone and it will work just fine for your purposes, calling and texting. ;)
 
i think there may be some problems using the old nokia's from cricket now. my understanding is they don't have enough memory to load the newwer prl's. i'm not 100% on this though but i just wanted to give you a heaRAB up that there might be some problems.
 
yea i think u cant use the old nokia's no more or that they need a software update or something like that cause we have that one little blue nokia phone from cricket and we tried activating it and they couldnt do it..
 
Well, I would have to speculate that there would be enough memory for the PRL. The file itself, version 1039, is only 748 bytes. It is possible it still may not work for other reasons (which would be unfortunate).
 
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