Ive been trying to educating myself on the HTC Evo before I buy. I would like to get one in very near fature but the family budget wont allow for the $110 a month since my current plan is the $50 Boost plan. I attemped to search out these answers in other post and forums to no avail. So I decided to ask.
So with that being said, can anyone answer the following questions or point me in the direction of pages or sites containing the answers.
I've been seeing a lot of Evo's listed on eBay that are "Flashed" or "Ported" to other carriers such as Boost. I would like to know more about this.
Such as:
1) Is it legal? Iv see statements saying yes, no and maybe...
2) Some eBay listings and web sites have stated the EVO needs to have a clean ESN and others have side it doesn't. Whats true?
3) I seen that some people who offer to do this for a fee say they need a doner phone. Is this because there cloning the ESN of the doner to the EVO to make it work? Isn't cloning illegal?
4) How safe is this for the phone, long term reliability and what happens if you have to do a hard reset? What services or features will be lost or gained?
5) Besides the obvious of paying $50 a month in place of $110 for the simply everything plan, What are some other negatives and positives of doing such a thing?
6) Can a novice user do such a conversion? Is it a matter of Rooting and then Flashing the ROM and so forth.
Thanks for the response.
So with that being said, can anyone answer the following questions or point me in the direction of pages or sites containing the answers.
I've been seeing a lot of Evo's listed on eBay that are "Flashed" or "Ported" to other carriers such as Boost. I would like to know more about this.
Such as:
1) Is it legal? Iv see statements saying yes, no and maybe...
2) Some eBay listings and web sites have stated the EVO needs to have a clean ESN and others have side it doesn't. Whats true?
3) I seen that some people who offer to do this for a fee say they need a doner phone. Is this because there cloning the ESN of the doner to the EVO to make it work? Isn't cloning illegal?
4) How safe is this for the phone, long term reliability and what happens if you have to do a hard reset? What services or features will be lost or gained?
5) Besides the obvious of paying $50 a month in place of $110 for the simply everything plan, What are some other negatives and positives of doing such a thing?
6) Can a novice user do such a conversion? Is it a matter of Rooting and then Flashing the ROM and so forth.
Thanks for the response.
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