chadyboy81
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I have my msl I think I need a donor phone to swap with rite?
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Leslie Ann
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Yes, you will need a donor, and it will need to be a 4g donor if you want Wimax.
Honestly, take it from someone who has done what you are wanting to do... Sell your Evo V and buy the Evo Design. If you want 4g, this is what you will need anyhow.
You have no idea the hell you are opening yourself up to. Damaged phones, rom issues, talking with Sprint to clear errors, and the dozens of hours of your life spent pouring over numbers hoping to find that one piece of information you missed. And even if you pull it off (good luck!), there will always be that nagging thought that if they figure out what you did you will at best lose your account, and at worst a few years of your life in jail.
Honestly, take it from someone who has done what you are wanting to do... Sell your Evo V and buy the Evo Design. If you want 4g, this is what you will need anyhow.
You have no idea the hell you are opening yourself up to. Damaged phones, rom issues, talking with Sprint to clear errors, and the dozens of hours of your life spent pouring over numbers hoping to find that one piece of information you missed. And even if you pull it off (good luck!), there will always be that nagging thought that if they figure out what you did you will at best lose your account, and at worst a few years of your life in jail.
wow...
narutoninjakid
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chadyboy81
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There is a guide some guy sells or he eill do it . I thought it be easy i have an rxtra evo v that i only use with wifi so i just want to figure it out and thats ehats so good about prepaid phones .i doubt ill try anytime soon now
And no i dont get wimax in central pa or southern md and there wont be anymore wimax towers going up anywhere .
Note when i called and activated my evo i was talking to sprint they would of gave me a plan for the evo v i had to say no like 6 times so thats cool just too much if i get a plan itll be for the gs3
And no i dont get wimax in central pa or southern md and there wont be anymore wimax towers going up anywhere .
Note when i called and activated my evo i was talking to sprint they would of gave me a plan for the evo v i had to say no like 6 times so thats cool just too much if i get a plan itll be for the gs3
Leslie Ann
Android Expert
Even the best guide will take you around 20-50 (or more) hours to complete. It is FAR from easy. I used a guide (the process is similar for all cdma phones) and it took me 25 hours (plus 10 screwing around) and I'm great at searching Google for solutions to problems. And you will have problems, trust me, I have helped enough people to do this. The pros who do it have software that will do it in seconds, you can get it, but it will cost you anywhere from $100 to $800.
By the way, many guides are incomplete, Yes, you will get service, and you even might get data, but you probably won't get mms, and possibly SMS. They won't tell you how, because most don't know how. Some can't even get data working. You may want to ask your seller if he has this, odds are he will stammer out some sort of weird explanation.
You have to patch the roms to fix mms and to get the full (speed) benefits. Not every rom can be patched and often the patching also leads to instabilities. The Evo 4g has the widest rom selection of almost ANY phone out and yet, only one rom ran perfect after patching. The rest would start to freeze after a few days, or wouldn't run at all. 3 months later people are still running my patched rom (which hasn't been updated), because it's their only stable option.
I bought one of the first Evo V's because porting is a hassle from the day you start work, till the day you dispose of it. I spent $300 to be free of that hassle.
kevindroid
Android Expert
if you would have to buy a 4g phone to begin with why not just use it and save yourself the headache
OverByter
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Exactly the point that Leslie Ann was making. If you wanted to do it just to get knowledge of the inner workings of CDMA technology that's one thing. But if you're doing it just to get a particular phone on a particular carrier then that borders on both insanity and absurdity.