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Legit Phones?

Hooligan77

Hooligan77

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Looking on ebay, and it looks like there are some people selling phones that are "Flashed" to work on boost mobile from sprint. You can get an EVO 3D, Samsung Galaxy S or S2 and such. Or you can supply the phone and they can flash it by either sending it in, or remotely.

What do you guys think? Legit? I may switch if that's the case, and purchase one of those even tho it doesn't have the 4G.


here are a few links of what I'm talking about...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-Evo-3D-...0809909638?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item4ab1c2bd86

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Remotely-Fl...0731054099?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item27c05d2413
 
Based on the sellers' feedback it looks to be legit. I would be weary of purchasing it still but I usually am very weary of using ebay or craigslist for services regardless.
 
Looks interesting, but the whole donor phone thing is throwing me off. Will Boost think I purchased a Sanyo from them?

I mean I guess it's a win win for people with older phones, but what about warranty issues with new phones he selling flashed?

Another thing I find perplexing is how it's on the Sprint network, but costs so much less than Sprint's Unlimited plan. Is it throttled? Is it TRULY unlimited?

I am interested if I can truly get FULL unlimited everything from them, because I can basically pay half what I pay Sprint.
 
I'm assuming that they will "Think" you have whatever phone you purchased and started with them yeah. And if it works like Virgin Mobile works, then it runs off the sprint network, but only at 3g speed, and no roaming. Works well for me, as I live in a metro area, and have wifi pretty much every where I go.
 
Basically the profiles from the "donor" phone are put on the Evo and so it now works on Boost. Boost thinks it is just the Sanyo still. Think along the lines of cloned ESN and illegal stuff. Going to jail for it? Probably not.
 
Update:

I ordered an HTC EVO 3D, and found a company that does not require a donor phone, and I guess the donor phone thing is "Old School" on flashing now. If you go to YouTube, check out FlashedPhones.net's page. I don't know if you actually search by there webpage or not as I really don't do youtube too much. But this company seems pretty legit, and they have a few videos out there about there process and how the people doing it with the donor phones get a lot of errors.

I'll keep everyone updated on this, should have my Evo by tuesday, then going to send it out to get flashed, and get my number ported over from virgin to boost.
 
Hooligan77 said:
Update:

I ordered an HTC EVO 3D, and found a company that does not require a donor phone, and I guess the donor phone thing is "Old School" on flashing now. If you go to YouTube, check out FlashedPhones.net's page. I don't know if you actually search by there webpage or not as I really don't do youtube too much. But this company seems pretty legit, and they have a few videos out there about there process and how the people doing it with the donor phones get a lot of errors.

I'll keep everyone updated on this, should have my Evo by tuesday, then going to send it out to get flashed, and get my number ported over from virgin to boost.
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any update? What did it cost?
 
jrmckins said:
any update? What did it cost?
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Everything is working great, no issues, and have been running it going on my 2nd month now. I have a full feature phone on the unlimited plan. No 4G (not a big deal for me, I am usually on wifi anyways) and coverage has pretty much been the same as when I was with Virgin Mobile.

Cost was about $280 for the phone (mint condition -but used with a clean ESN) and $100 bucks for the flash. Would have been cheaper, but I wanted the phone back quicker, and they had a few options for price vs. how long it would take.

Very simple process as the company I had it done through sets up everything for you, I think they are a boost dealer actually. They set up my account and everything, and have pretty quick response time with any questions I had. I would definately recommend the company I went thru if your wanting to run a full feature phone with them. Shoot me a PM if you want more info with the company name, they also sell new phones that are flashed, so you don't have to source out a phone, and have more than just the Evo 3D.
 
Hooligan77 said:
Everything is working great, no issues, and have been running it going on my 2nd month now. I have a full feature phone on the unlimited plan. No 4G (not a big deal for me, I am usually on wifi anyways) and coverage has pretty much been the same as when I was with Virgin Mobile.

Cost was about $280 for the phone (mint condition -but used with a clean ESN) and $100 bucks for the flash. Would have been cheaper, but I wanted the phone back quicker, and they had a few options for price vs. how long it would take.

Very simple process as the company I had it done through sets up everything for you, I think they are a boost dealer actually. They set up my account and everything, and have pretty quick response time with any questions I had. I would definately recommend the company I went thru if your wanting to run a full feature phone with them. Shoot me a PM if you want more info with the company name, they also sell new phones that are flashed, so you don't have to source out a phone, and have more than just the Evo 3D.
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Hey i wanted to know which flash company u went thru....thanx in advance
 
Its Legit alright. I have a Nexus S 4G flashed to boost mobile with data speeds over 1 mbps and calling and texting working with the boost shrinkage unlimited plan

If you need help you can ask me or the person who helped me "kolosus"
 
The flash has worked fine for the most part. Don't know what happened, but about april or may, my picture messaging stopped working. I can send audio, but not pictures through text, quite annoying. I tried contacting the company, but no response thus far, typical.
 
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