Flash iPhone to Cricket before adding ESN/MEID - Help

**chilo** · 10-20-2011, 10:47 AM

The only way to get it on cricket is to jailbreak right? So of my iPhone is on iOS 5 I can't put it on cricket?

**rich hathaway** · 10-20-2011, 12:56 PM

no if it will ota the you dont have to be jb'n

**BHBS203** · 10-24-2011, 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by antman1

i have an iphone4 from verizon and am trying to flash it so it is ready for cricket. Right now it has no service with verizon as i do not have there service. It also does not have a phone number programmed. I am using ios 4.2.6 jailbroken using greenp0ison. I have replaced the prl file on the phone using winscp and replaced the file called "310vzw.prl" with "38515.prl" renamed to the original prl file of course. Then using ifile i opened the carriers.plist and turn the option "prlpushflag" to on and then hit done. Then i tried restarting the phone and it took a second and said no signal but then said iphone not activated then shows the 5 bars like it has a signal and no carrier name. I then went into ifile and put the " prlpushflag" back to off. Then restarted. After it restarted i got the same thing saying iphone not activated. I then checked the option when calling "*#5005*4357#" and it still looks the same as it did when i started. I then changed the sid value in the 310vzw.pri file to the value i saw for the nashville area "04857"
and the home sid looked like this:

Code:

<key>nam - cdma settings</key>
    <dict>
        <key>home sid/nid</key>
        <array>
            <string>4857/65535</string>

i tried dialing the numbers to see if it connects to cricket for activation of the phone and it all goes to verizon still. Then if i dial the "*#5005*4357#" then i get this

what can i do to make sure this phone is flashed and ready before i add the esn/meid to cricket? I also do not have the shsh backed up for ios 4.2.6 so my next shsh that i have backed up is 4.2.8, any help will help me.

great success!