Help Need help getting my Volt back to Boost Mobile

[yaketyblah]

I was using my Volt on Freedompop and now I want to activate it on Boost. Boost tells me the phone is not one of theirs now. What changes are made to a phone when it switches carriers so I can change it back?

 

[kwknott]

Was it originally Boost?

 

[bg4m3r]

You're likely stuck. Neither Boost nor VM will take a phone from another carrier. Once you switched off Boost, they probably removed it from their system so as they said, it's not their phone anymore.

This is a stupid policy, IMO. They don't make much off the hardware, so why have a fit about where the phone was bought?

Try Ting or RingPlus. What was wrong with FreedomPop?

 

[kate]

I was using my Volt on Freedompop and now I want to activate it on Boost. Boost tells me the phone is not one of theirs now.

You could try calling Freedom Pop and see if they can release or update the phones IMEI status back to Boost.

Try Ting or RingPlus.

With Sprints new policy I'm not sure you could. Unfortunately they now require the phone be used on it's native carrier, Boost, for one year before allowing to activate on another carrier.

 

[yaketyblah]

Would manually changing my Prl back to boost help? I already did the apn fix. I don't like freedom pop because the calls are voip and unreliable.

 

[bg4m3r]

Would manually changing my Prl back to boost help? I already did the apn fix. I don't like freedom pop because the calls are voip and unreliable.

The PRL is just a list of preferred towers to use when roaming (preferred roaming list). Doesn't have anything to do with which carrier can activate the phone.

With Sprints new policy I'm not sure you could. Unfortunately they now require the phone be used on it's native carrier, Boost, for one year before allowing to activate on another carrier.

Yeah, but it's already off Boost. He didn't say if it ever had been on Boost, or for how long. I was running on the assumption that it had been active for a year already.

 

[yaketyblah]

The PRL is just a list of preferred towers to use when roaming (preferred roaming list). Doesn't have anything to do with which carrier can activate the phone.

Yeah, but it's already off Boost. He didn't say if it ever had been on Boost, or for how long. I was running on the assumption that it had been active for a year already.

Took your advice and activated on ting. Now i have my msl as well. Seems to work well. Thanks for the help. Phone was active on boost for 1 month before I bought it and activated on freedompop.

 

[kate]

Took your advice and activated on ting. Now i have my msl as well. Seems to work well. Thanks for the help. Phone was active on boost for 1 month before I bought it and activated on freedompop.

Glad to hear it worked on Ting. From what I've seen lately it should be been denied due to Sprints new restrictions. Maybe you ended up in some kind of loophole, or you got lucky.

 

[bg4m3r]

Glad to hear it worked on Ting. From what I've seen lately it should be been denied due to Sprints new restrictions. Maybe you ended up in some kind of loophole, or you got lucky.

Maybe because it wasn't labeled as a Boost phone? (They were denying ownership)

Or Ting just doesn't give a F.