Question about unlocked/flashed phones

[blackswan77]

Hey all,

I have Verizon wireless but am looking to buy a gently used DROID phone on ebay or another site instead of having to wait another 18 months to get my discount in store. I found a phone that I am interested in that was originally for verizon wireless. However, the person claims that the DROID 2 is "flashed" and "able to be used on the Cricket network" now. Does this mean I should steer clear of this phone? If I can still use it on the Verizon network and there will not be any problems then I will not have a problem with it but if this may lead to problems in the future I'd like to know ahead of time.

So can someone give me some advice/explain this to me a little better?

Thanks.

-blackswan77

 

[Aypse]

He probably means its been rooted. If so, its fairly straightforward to unroot it and return it to stock. I would guess that you would need to do this in order for it to work with verizon service.

 

[chrstdvd]

I do not know about the rooting part, but I read a hole bunch of people complaining about Cricket yesterday. I would steer clear of it.

 

[takeshi]

Flashing != rooting. Unlocking isn't relevant to CDMA devices unless they're GSM/CDMA hybrids and then it's only relevant to the GSM portion.

Unless you're willing to flash it back to Verizon then don't go with it.

 

[blackswan77]

Thanks guys for your helpful feedback. Sounds like more trouble than it is worth and I am going to stick with something that has it reset to factory defaults with a clean ESN for Verizon.