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With my budget, any time of year is bad for new toys. :o
That's why I have the V to begin with. It was the cheapest android worth having that I could find. My old Treo 650 had just about given up the ghost. It was held together with epoxy towards the end...:rolleyes:
 
brotherswing said:
:eek: It is? How so? I didn't think it was any different than buying an unlocked phone...

I'm being naive, aren't I?
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Yes it is. That's the difference between CDMA and GSM. If CDMA carriers won't flash a phone and you take matters into your own hands to modify your ESN/ IMEI to trick a carrier into thinking it's a different phone it's illegal. Unlocking a phone just allows you to use your SIM card in the phone. CDMA has all of it's network info stored on the phone and can't be modified legally without the carrier doing it (ie. Cricket), and GSM phones have all the network info stored on the SIM card which can be put into any other GSM phone without having to modify the ESN/ IMEI.
 
Ah, I feel better now. Just thought of an excuse for keeping both. The V as my actual phone (don't want to give up the grandfathered $25 plan) and the Evo with GrooveIP for playing games and videos and such.
 
marc12868 said:
Yes it is. That's the difference between CDMA and GSM. If CDMA carriers won't flash a phone and you take matters into your own hands to modify your ESN/ IMEI to trick a carrier into thinking it's a different phone it's illegal. Unlocking a phone just allows you to use your SIM card in the phone. CDMA has all of it's network info stored on the phone and can't be modified legally without the carrier doing it (ie. Cricket), and GSM phones have all the network info stored on the SIM card which can be put into any other GSM phone without having to modify the ESN/ IMEI.
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You see that's the problem with most CDMA phone companies, they wont accept ESNs into their systems from another carrier, metro is the only one who will, ik how to do the whole ESN changing thing though, I cloned my moms phone haha, she got mad and I undid it.
 
I honestly thought I could just flash a compatible Rom, then call them up and have it activated. I had no intention of tricking them. Well, reason enough to keep my V, but I'm still not going to turn down a free Evo! ;)
 
sammyz said:
You see that's the problem with most CDMA phone companies, they wont accept ESNs into their systems from another carrier, metro is the only one who will, ik how to do the whole ESN changing thing though, I cloned my moms phone haha, she got mad and I undid it.
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Cricket will too. My mom has like 3 phones that will all ring when someone calls...

brotherswing said:
I honestly thought I could just flash a compatible Rom, then call them up and have it activated. I had no intention of tricking them. Well, reason enough to keep my V, but I'm still not going to turn down a free Evo! ;)
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Sadly no... not with cdma carriers :/. I'm glad I'm on a GSM carrier all I have to do is get a different GSM phone and pop my sim into it and it works :D
 
brotherswing said:
I honestly thought I could just flash a compatible Rom, then call them up and have it activated. I had no intention of tricking them. Well, reason enough to keep my V, but I'm still not going to turn down a free Evo! ;)
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The ESN has to be in their database. I'm not sure if you could find a store or a customer service guy help you add it in. If you can then you're in luck.
 
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