TJC Funknuckle
Newbie
same as title, my son has a hero on sprint and his friend just upgraded to the iphone4 on verizon and offered him his OG droid for 20 bucks, but we are on sprint
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can i port a droid over to sprint?
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You can do it, but from what I have heard sprint doesnt pass out the PRL and other codes that you need to put it on sprint. That is what Cricket does, they change the PRL and other network information from verizon to their own to make it owrk on their network. So if you could find all of the sprint information then you could technically do it.
TJC Funknuckle
Newbie
MoBrianjr, could you walk me through that in baby steps? I have no ide where to start period. If not no biggie and thanks for the reponse
Sprint / Verizon Compatibility for Phones / Making them work.
Heres the scoop with getting Sprint / Verizon phones to work on opposite carrier / other unbranded carrier:
Get the EPST/DST settings - PRL and what not out of ANY data capable phone (except blackberry, unless its a blackberry you need to take across)
Find the programming code for the phone you've got, edit them to match the destination carrier. Done!
NOW, heres where it gets weak sauce. Verizon & Sprint will both tell you that the ESN needs to be in their database for them to activate it. Thats a big fat load. What you have to do is keep probing for intelligent life coupled with a little bit of a LIE and eventually they'll manually add the ESN to the system, which as of 2009 every CSR could do. Some Verizon phones have lock codes to prevent you from modifying or even viewing the programming, but they are typically easy to find on the internet.
I've only managed to get Verizon to do this for me 2 times in 6 years, its a real pain.
Taking a Verizon phone to a smaller carrier like CellSouth and what not is usually a breeze as they just want your service, however there will be issues with some of those on the data side of things, depending on their setup.
Old thread, just thought i'd throw this in.
Can Verizon phone work with Sprint? - Sprint-PCS - Mobility-Networks
So pretty much it seems like its not even worth it.
shadowdude777
Android Expert
Well if you have any friends at Verizon it's definitely worth a shot.