Questions About Verizon Phone On Sprint

[xxSLRxx]

Sprint blocks all non-sprint phones from their network by whitelisting ESN's. With that being said, the only way I know of to get around this is to take a Sprint phone and clone its ESN to the phone you are flashing. Keep in mind this is highly illegal and is not discussed or encouraged on this site.

In all honestly, I would recommend purchasing a GSM phone and unlocking it if you plan to use it abroad. Most of the world uses GSM over CDMA-- not to mention that once the phone is unlock it will work on any GSM network at that point. Setting up data on a GSM phone is as simple as adding the network's APN to the phone.

Another option would be to purchase a phone that support both GSM & CDMA. I know one of Verizon's new Droids is a "World Edition" phone that supports both technologies, but I'm not sure if it's the one you have. With one of these phones, you could setup the CDMA side for Sprint and unlock the GSM side for use overseas.

To answer your question directly, you can learn to flash a phone to other networks, but the process is going to be a lot more convoluted. Instead of just popping in another network's SIM card to an unlock GSM phone, you'd have to: add your ESN to the network, throw on the network's PRL, NAM program the phone, and configure your data settings.

Data settings can typically be configured in CDMA Workshop under the EVDO tab. On Android phones, you have to edit the APN in order to setup MMS. Also, there are more steps involved if the network uses a proxy...

Nevertheless, the community here is very supportive, so I'm sure you'll receive the help you need to do whatever you choose to do.

sprint does use mms on their droids though so you "might" be able to get it to work.

Sprint has a "MMS application" but it doesn't work the same way as the MMS app on other networks' phones. This is the main reason why the MMS app doesn't work properly when flashing Sprint ROMs to other networks. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the Sprint MMS app is more or less the same as the non-Sprint MMS app; however, the underlying frameworks that the app uses is more than likely Sprint specific.

[Freak4Dell]

The esn will be hard but not impossible to add to the account, throw cloning ideas out with it being a MOTO Droid it just won't happen unless you spend more than it's worth.

Well, I didn't want to break any rules, which is why I left it vague in my first post. I guess I'm going to put this idea on hold, then. I didn't realize it was more difficult to manipulate a Motorola phone than other phones.

Sprint blocks all non-sprint phones from their network by whitelisting ESN's. With that being said, the only way I know of to get around this is to take a Sprint phone and clone its ESN to the phone you are flashing. Keep in mind this is highly illegal and is not discussed or encouraged on this site.

In all honestly, I would recommend purchasing a GSM phone and unlocking it if you plan to use it abroad. Most of the world uses GSM over CDMA-- not to mention that once the phone is unlock it will work on any GSM network at that point. Setting up data on a GSM phone is as simple as adding the network's APN to the phone.

Another option would be to purchase a phone that support both GSM & CDMA. I know one of Verizon's new Droids is a "World Edition" phone that supports both technologies, but I'm not sure if it's the one you have. With one of these phones, you could setup the CDMA side for Sprint and unlock the GSM side for use overseas.

To answer your question directly, you can learn to flash a phone to other networks, but the process is going to be a lot more convoluted. Instead of just popping in another network's SIM card to an unlock GSM phone, you'd have to: add your ESN to the network, throw on the network's PRL, NAM program the phone, and configure your data settings.

Data settings can typically be configured in CDMA Workshop under the EVDO tab. On Android phones, you have to edit the APN in order to setup MMS. Also, there are more steps involved if the network uses a proxy...

Nevertheless, the community here is very supportive, so I'm sure you'll receive the help you need to do whatever you choose to do.



Sprint has a "MMS application" but it doesn't work the same way as the MMS app on other networks' phones. This is the main reason why the MMS app doesn't work properly when flashing Sprint ROMs to other networks. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the Sprint MMS app is more or less the same as the non-Sprint MMS app; however, the underlying frameworks that the app uses is more than likely Sprint specific.

The Droid Pro is indeed a CDMA/GSM phone. I just need to get the unlock code for the GSM part before I leave. I don't have Verizon, nor do I know of anybody that works for Verizon, so I can't get it from them, but I can just shell out some money and get the code.

Sigh...here's to hoping a phone in the Droid Pro form factor comes to Sprint at some point.