ink718, you'll need to get someone you know at radio shack or best buy to follow the instructions I just gave you. I can guarantee you that's the only way as Sprint will never change a referral plan to an 3rd party employee plan. Even then, the whole purpose of this thread is to discuss the issues of those of us who do have an employee plan not being able to get the EVO. You'd just be joining another group of people on a great value plan who are still waiting on a solution for adding a 4G phone to their account. For those who've had success, it's only been going from one type of 3rd party plan to another, never from a consumer to a 3rd party...
Sprint did announce recently that they would not restrict smartphones from the SERO plans anymore. You can read about it here:
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...206795&page=16 on post 240 forward. Supposedly, this doesn't go into effect until October but it'll just cost you an extra 10 bucks for a smart phone and another 10 on top of that for 4G.
Sunshine, F&C plans are not compatible with the EVO, no way around it. The only plan that is cheap and works with the EVO is the reseller employee discount lines.
On a funny aside to all of this crap, my Hero has been flipping out lately. Ever since upgrading to 2.1, it reboots any time I access the GPS from any program. I went into an authorized repair center that wasn't a Sprint owned location. Every rep in that place was carrying an EVO! I've confirmed that actual Sprint employees are still unable to add EVOs to their accounts.