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MrMondayNight

MrMondayNight

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Sprint bought all the US Cellular towers in my home town (Chicago) and my sister gave me an S3 from USC just to play around with since she didn't need it I was wondering if there was a way I could flash the USC phone to boost mobile my current phone is the HTC Design 4G active I was gonna use it as the donor if possible.

If these threads are frowned upon please delete.
 
With CDMA it's not a matter of flashing, it's a matter of the serial number of the phone. Sprint might decide to accept all USC phones in that area on their towers, or they may not. I'd go into a Sprint corporate store in another part of town (so I could still go to my local store later and play dumb) and ask if they know what's going to happen.
 
even if sprint accepts it, you still cant use it on boost

you have to go through the process of flashing it to boost and its possible.

idk the steps but you can find it with some reasearch
 
There's info in here and over at XDA. There is also some information on YouTube on how to flash over to Boost.
 
MrMondayNight said:
Sprint bought all the US Cellular towers in my home town (Chicago) and my sister gave me an S3 from USC just to play around with since she didn't need it I was wondering if there was a way I could flash the USC phone to boost mobile my current phone is the HTC Design 4G active I was gonna use it as the donor if possible.

If these threads are frowned upon please delete.
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You need a 4g lte donor phone, the Htc Evo Design is Wimax not lte.
 
Mikessv said:
You need a 4g lte donor phone, the Htc Evo Design is Wimax not lte.
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4G speed really isn't an issue for me since I don't even use it on my Evo if there is a tutorial that you can point me to that would greatly appreciated because I've been looking for one all day with no luck what so ever in finding a good on.
 
4g will never work no matter what the donor that i know of, but sadly with an htc for a donor youll never get any kind of data. you can make and recieve sms and calls, no mms, no data of any kind. htc locks their aaa keys down hard
 
if you wanna do it still, thats on you. but as far as instructions for meid repair, flashing to boost, esn repair, and service programming i wont go through it all, least of all on here, but now you know what to google ;)

as far as an android based donor, the only one i know of is a samsung galaxy prevail. the instructions for doing so are difficult to find but i did make a program that handles alot of it, and if you can figure it out im sure any android phone or at least any samsung can be done using a similar method just gotta figure out what block file holds the nvitems and unpack it
 
junkie2100 said:
4g will never work no matter what the donor that i know of, but sadly with an htc for a donor youll never get any kind of data. you can make and recieve sms and calls, no mms, no data of any kind. htc locks their aaa keys down hard
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Damn good info!! Thanks.

This is something that I didn't know about the HTC phones. I've only had the SV and knew that I had to register it in order to unlock the bootloader but I had no idea that they locked the other stuff on the phone down that hard. An HTC is basically worthless as a donor then. A daily driver smartphone is pretty much useless without a data connection IMO.
 
I'm not sure if its allowed to be talked about in here so sorry to the mods in advanced but you would need cdma workshop and check some threads on xda or Google.
 
well most phones do try to lock their nvram, htc is notoriously good at it tho, not as good as motorola, but still pretty good. im sure theres a way to do it, there technically has to be a way, but it would be unbelievably difficult, samsung however used a standard rfs file system on the nv block, so once someone was able to figure out which one was the nv block all you had to do is copy it to a pc and open it with magiciso like an archive

as far as needing cdma ws though that is correct, unless you want to use qxdm and qpst, but editing the nv is so much easier with cdma ws, i even made a program that pulls the correct file, you then unpack the right nv items, and it can translate them to the correct format to upload directly into the new phone. qxdm requires manually editing one hex digit at a time... ive done it, rather painful process, writing the script to convert from binary to a properly formatted text file probably took less time lol
 
Not sure, but probably not... samsungs are generally locked as far as internet login info. Youd get voice and text but nothing else is guaranteed. Most use the incognito, i used the prevail, do some research and find out tho might get lucky
 
It would be ideal but at the same time google is how i figured out how to use the prevail as a donor. Mind you that took me 3 days of scouring obscure sources, but i figured it out. There may be a way to do it with other devices but im not gonna try to search it out on a phone. If you do find the prevail though ill tweak my program to pull the correct nv items and get you a link
 
Other than the Prevail that I can't find right now :( what boost phones that I can get at a sore do you suggest using because the Array by Samsung is $10 and the factor is $5 but I'm willing to try anything right now.

But I found my sister's old samsung seek -_-
 
Anybody else know? Kuz i havent tried those but i would have to assume that youd have to find your own method of getting the data profile. Ive used a prevail and a sanyo incognito, thats it. So youll have to google it
 
Ok so I found another phone with 3G called the Kyocera coast could I use that phone if so then I will finally be in business I've googled around and found out it is 3G and found the drivers, it's 5 bucks at target so I think I may just use that phone to try to flash.

FYI I was able to get all my NV files from the Design 4g using CDMA workshop just confused as to what to do with them cause it spit out a text file.....
 
ok a phone being 3g has nothing to do with anything, its about whether you can pull nv items 1192 1194 465 and 466 i think it was im kinda in the.middle of helping my brother now but when you pulled the nv items, are any of them all 00s? because if they pulled correctly uou just push them to the new device and data should work fine, even provision like normal if its running a sprint or boost rom. that of course soesnt include the meid and esn stuff but we wont go into that here. baaically do you remember how you pulled the.items? see the write button next to the.button to read them? there ya go
 
So just write to the US Cellular phone and it should work? At least data? Now to figure out how to do the rest like i did for this one.... I have a Sanyo Innuendo coming on the 5th so I may be in the clear on a donor Thanks HTC -_-
 
will the Sanyo Innuendo work as a donor instead since I have that one coming?

EDIT: the 466 and 1192 portion gave me an access denied message but I have the other two.

gonna try the Open sesame method
 
thata what i figured... thats why it wont work you need all 4 of them. i am not sure about the innuendo tho. incognito is the only one im sure of and the one normally recommended. all i can do is wish you luck
 
junkie2100 said:
thata what i figured... thats why it wont work you need all 4 of them. i am not sure about the innuendo tho. incognito is the only one im sure of and the one normally recommended. all i can do is wish you luck
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I used QPST and the open sesame method to get the 465/466/1192/1194 files can I send the files to you to make sure they are the correct ones?
 
dont ever send anyone your aaa keys... even me lol. but of there is data, none of them came up all 0s then youre good, just gottan then convert to the proper format for cdma ws and flash or manually memory edit in qxdm. not going through all that, youll have to figure it out but its not hard. same data, just different layout
 
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