Sprint Hero flashed to MetroPCS..??

**JDM_SOHC** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 10:29 AM

So my buddy bought a Hero and took it to Metro to have it flashed but the dude didn't know what he was doin in the store so now my friend is feeling like he got stiffed since he was promised he could have it on Metro..

Question being, I myself flash and mod all day on my TP2 but I've never flashed to a different service.. What's involved in flashing from Sprint to Metro...??

kenny21 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 10:55 AM

I helped my bro inlaw flash his TP to metro and as easy as it should have been it wasn't. On the website they say they can flash most phones including that one so first we took it into metro and they said they could do it but then finding someone who actually knows how to flash a more advanved phone is next to impossible. So we experimented with a lot of different ways and actually had the voicemail working but without having someone from metro putting the esn in their system the phone just wouldn't have the full functions of calls and all that. So I guess the hardest thing is finding a store that has the experience and the brains to flash the phone to begin with. I haven't really heard too much about flashing a Hero over to metro yet till now
Hope this helps

ducylowycz · #3 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 11:05 AM

Depends if Metro-PCS even offers the Hero...if not there isn't a ROM DUMP from an original phone so a cook couldn't make it for Sprint.

I'm assuming this involves:

Firmware
Baseband
Modem files

It's probably WAY more complicated than that but when I had previous winmo phones this is the way it worked.

**JDM_SOHC** · #4 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 12:55 PM

Thanks a lot for the info guys... So it sounds like it's not even possible...

He has a flashed HTC Diamond right now, but its a huge POS lol... Oh well, I guess I'll get him the bad news..

spiritcrusher33 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 01:13 PM

its possible.. a friend of a friend has one.. working..

**JDM_SOHC** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 04:40 PM

Do you know how he did it?

spiritcrusher33 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 04:55 PM

sorry not off hand.. he was at my brothers house a few weeks ago.. he was asking me questions bout themes and such.. I will try to find out for ya..

**JDM_SOHC** · #8 (**permalink**) 04-15-2010, 09:27 PM

Thanks bro I appreciate it...