Sprint Touch Pro 2 in hand...want to flash to metro... need help!

8notime · #1 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 09:01 AM

All the phone's I've hacked to work on Verizon, or any flashing for that matter, required the phone to be unlocked via HardSPL first. Once unlocked I could then flash the radio necessary to do the required programming. Just going in to EPST and changing a few thing wasn't enough. Is Metro PCS different?

**razorloves** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 09:13 AM

getting a sprint (or others) htc phone to work on metropcs does not require changing the radio or rom, so unlocking is not required. you just have to reprovision (houdini software) and setup wap (data) and mms

**p-slim** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by razorloves

getting a sprint (or others) htc phone to work on metropcs does not require changing the radio or rom, so unlocking is not required. you just have to reprovision (houdini software) and setup wap (data) and mms

with hspl you can flash to metro or with houdini software. the hspl will be out before that software is updated that is why everyone is saying wait for the hspl. i'm almost certain that software runs off the hspl but i'm not certain. But if houdini uploads theirs 1st then use it but i highly doubt that will happen.

buttplumber · #4 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 03:53 PM

I was able to flash the mogul over to metro i little over a year ago by going into epst and changing some of the info in there but I cannot access the epst the same way on this phone. I think sprint put some kind of lock on it. I think I might have to flash the rom so that I can access epst and see if that works. Im gonna go to a metro store right now and see what they have to say.

**razorloves** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by p-slim

with hspl you can flash to metro or with houdini software. the hspl will be out before that software is updated that is why everyone is saying wait for the hspl. i'm almost certain that software runs off the hspl but i'm not certain. But if houdini uploads theirs 1st then use it but i highly doubt that will happen.

from what i've read in the hofo metropcs forum, houdini software just reprovisions the phone and does not do anything with firmware or software on the phone, like it does when unlocking with hspl. They refer to this process as flashing, but it is not the flashing in the terms that we use it. I've seen it said many times by the pros over there, that even after you get the houdini flash, your phone is still locked, and in order to flash a custom rom after getting the houdini flash, you still have to unlock with the hspl unlocker. That is my understanding of it all.