Sprint phone on Virgin mobile?

[Teknic]

I'm with Verizon, but thinking of switching to Virgin mobile. They have a $25 a month plan that includes 300 minutes & unlimited data/text. Virgin is a subsidiary of Sprint, so they run off the same network.

The catch is that I would have to use only the phones they have available...and they don't have any phones I want. Ideally I would like to have a Windows Phone 7 or maybe an android.

Does anybody know of any way to get a Sprint phone to work on Virgin mobile, or maybe through a hack? That would be great if possible.

 

[zerocool84]

Hack yes but it's illegal. If there was an easy way to do it, no one would use Sprint.

 

[Teknic]

Wouldn't it be the same as jailbreaking, which was illegal too?

Anyways, would you happen to be able to point me to a direction to where I could learn more about doing this? I tried googling to no avail. Thanks.

 

[rudeguy]

Wouldn't it be the same as jailbreaking, which was illegal too?

Anyways, would you happen to be able to point me to a direction to where I could learn more about doing this? I tried googling to no avail. Thanks.

totally depends on which phone.

Check out xda developers for info on Android phones.

 

[pm]

Keep in mind that the unlocking/jailbreaking provison just makes bypassing security to unlock a phone not an infringment of copyright... it's not a blanket provision that makes things legal... it just makes it not copyright infringement.

So on CDMA the method used to identify phones is the ESN. Virgin Mobile's network only allows ESN from their phones. I have heard that the only way to do it is to spoof your ESN. Unlocking allows you to take a SIM chip from another company and put it in your phone, ESN-spoofing is a whole different thing and involves essentially making your phone on the network look like another phone. This is not at all the same thing and is definitely an illegal activity (cell phone network hacking) and not covered by the DMCA provision.

The alternative - which is legal - is to sweet talk a Virgin Mobile representative into adding your Sprint ESN onto Virgin's allowed ESN list. But I have heard that this is extremely hard to do and very rare.

Tecnic, I sympathize with your situation, but we aren't going to talk about how to spoof an ESN here in GG&P since that discussion would be a violation of forum rules.

 

[Teknic]

Okay, that makes more sense now.

Thanks pm/rudeguy/zerocool