Yep ... it's just that simple ... I'm not sure why it works ... but it does ... I've got 2 Apache's, 2 titan's, 1 vogue, of course ... lots of other things ... but I've always done my radio flashes with the phone not "active" on my account ... something about switching the esn online back to the flashed phone allows the planets to align and I never have to call vzw to "fix" issues ... well ... except my first vogue ... it kept forgetting the authorization code thingie ... even when I hadn't flashed anything ... but the replacement works great if I flash when it's not active ...
One safety note ... make sure the phone you use "temp phone" has the same capabilities for data ... or you might still have to call vzw to get the data fixed ... but pda to pda works great
Fuzzy