Help Galaxy S3 Sprint (Ting)

[Matthew Lechner]

Hi I just joined today. I have a question.
Can CyanogenMod Installer mess up Ting on my phone? Touchwiz is an awful skin for my GS3.
It is a sprint phone, we activated the sim w/ ting. A Sprint sim card.

 

[kate]

Welcome to the site

To initially activate a Sprint phone with Ting it has to have a stock Sprint ROM installed. After Ting activates the phone you can root and put a custom ROM on it, but if you deactivate it you'd need to put the stock Sprint ROM back on to activate it again with them.

Also, you can easily get rid of Touchwiz by installing another launcher from the Play Store. Nova Launcher is a popular one.

 

[Matthew Lechner]

Welcome to the site

To initially activate a Sprint phone with Ting it has to have a stock Sprint ROM installed. After Ting activates the phone you can root and put a custom ROM on it, but if you deactivate it you'd need to put the stock Sprint ROM back on to activate it again with them.

Also, you can easily get rid of Touchwiz by installing another launcher from the Play Store. Nova Launcher is a popular one.

It is already activated, i am just sacred if it didnt work, my mom would be pissed.

 

[kate]

You should be fine since it's already activated, but check the details of whichever ROM you install. Sometimes they will have unsupported features (no MMS for example).

We also have a root forum for the Sprint S3 here:
http://androidforums.com/forums/sprint-cricket-galaxy-s3-all-things-root.1748/