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Cricket Question

Bhuiyan72

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Hi,
I have a verizon lg Spectrum vs920 that I would like to use for cricket. I just recently got it flashed by a professional via remote flash. Everything seems fine on the phone. Checked the settings a million time. I am not a complete noob at flashing as I have done a lot of phones before. But my experience stops at Motorola Razr days. I haven't been in touch with the flashing market since than. I tried to do the phone myself but realized how far those phones has come.
Anyway, I tried to do a esn change but the phone itself has only IMEI number and cricket has to have MEID number. I tried to do a conversion using a ESN converter but initially I didn't get any result. So, I did the conversion with out the last number of the IMEI (read it somewhere, don't remember right now). I gave the Cricket rep the conversion result, they put it in to the system but the phone didn't work. So, I called back and talk to their tech support. According to them, phone won't work because it has a Sim card in it.
My questions to you guys is,
Has anyone actually ever used this phone with cricket service?
Can it be used with the Sim card in it?
As this phone won't dial *228 and you can not access the service menu, how do you activate this phone?
What exactly should I give the cricket rep when I call the next time.
I noticed the flash didn't set any sid,Nid number, could that be the problem?
I hate to spend another 15.00 and not get the phone going. Please let me know as much as you can about the activation process while I do a little more checking on the settings to see the problem could have been with the phone and not the activation process.
Thanks in advance.
 
honestly it having a sim card should have nothing to do with it. the sim card is there so if you are out of the country and want to use your phone on a gsm network. the person who told you it was cause you had a sim card is ******ed. cricket and verizon are both cdma handsets
 
The SIM card has everything to do with it on a 4G device, I hope your post wasn't serious...I think it gave me cancer.


As for on topic... your phone doesn't have an ESN it has an IMEI. Probably what your issue is.. Youbsee these devices require a SIM card to program them on what to do.
 
The phone does have an ESN, also IMEI, no MEID. QPST my friend...., manual provision... It can and will work on Cricket, no 4G. It has NOTHING to do with the SIM on Cricket. The SIM is for 4G, the phone is not global unlocked so GSM meh right now with it, I'm not even sure if it is capable, heard it maybe was. Also, not sure if it has internal service menu, all the other LG's I have owned have, never needed to find out though, that's what I have QPST and the like for.
 
The phone does have an ESN, also IMEI, no MEID. QPST my friend...., manual provision... It can and will work on Cricket, no 4G. It has NOTHING to do with the SIM on Cricket. The SIM is for 4G, the phone is not global unlocked so GSM meh right now with it, I'm not even sure if it is capable, heard it maybe was. Also, not sure if it has internal service menu, all the other LG's I have owned have, never needed to find out though, that's what I have QPST and the like for.

Lg Spectrum service menu is locked. There are no known codes out there for it. I did see the ESN in qpst. I will try to convert the ESN to MEID. QPST shows the IMEI as the MEID. That's what got me confused. Also found a lot of things questionable with my settings. I will keep you guys posted. Thanks for all your help.
 
Its possible to access the service menu, but it requires root and being manually launched via adb or an app to create a shortcut to the activity like anycut. You have to know the package name and activity name.
 
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