Cellular phones topics - Activating LG 4400 on Sprint Network

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Activating LG 4400 on Sprint Network

Gary W. & Mary Ellen Holland

2006-01-09, 2:48 am

Up until May of this past year my family and I used 3 LG 4400 on Verizon
Wireless. In May we all changed to LG 6100's. A good friend of ours is
currently a Sprint subscriber and recently broke her Samsung flip phone. She
is in the middle of a two year contract and is ineligible to upgrade to a
new phone. Sprint wants her to pay about a $100 and extend her contract for
another two years for a refurbished phone. She isn't willing to do this
because she is unhappy with Sprint and wants out at the end of her current
contract. I offered her the use of one of my unused LG 4400's to get her by
until then. I understand that Sprint service requires a CDMA dual band
trimode phone which is what the LG 4400 is. This evening she tried to have
Sprint activate this phone and the rep told her that he showed the ESN as
having a number associated with it, which is impossible since we activated
an LG 6100 in May to replace it. I called VZW and had them check the ESN and
was told it was unassigned. Shouldn't Sprint be able to activate this phone
for her?
Thanks,
Gary Holland

Quick

2006-01-09, 2:48 am

Gary W. & Mary Ellen Holland wrote:
> Up until May of this past year my family and I used 3 LG
> 4400 on Verizon Wireless. In May we all changed to LG
> 6100's. A good friend of ours is currently a Sprint
> subscriber and recently broke her Samsung flip phone. She
> is in the middle of a two year contract and is ineligible
> to upgrade to a new phone. Sprint wants her to pay about
> a $100 and extend her contract for another two years for
> a refurbished phone. She isn't willing to do this because
> she is unhappy with Sprint and wants out at the end of
> her current contract. I offered her the use of one of my
> unused LG 4400's to get her by until then. I understand
> that Sprint service requires a CDMA dual band trimode
> phone which is what the LG 4400 is. This evening she
> tried to have Sprint activate this phone and the rep told
> her that he showed the ESN as having a number associated
> with it, which is impossible since we activated an LG
> 6100 in May to replace it. I called VZW and had them
> check the ESN and was told it was unassigned. Shouldn't
> Sprint be able to activate this phone for her?

They could, but they won't. I don't believe Sprint will activate
phones not originally purchased from them.

-Quickb

The Drifter

2006-01-29, 5:48 am

Change the ESN on the VX4400 to the ESN from the Samsung, and Presto!

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:12:45 -0500, "Gary W. & Mary Ellen Holland"
<gwhmeh@rbnet.com> wrote:

>Up until May of this past year my family and I used 3 LG 4400 on Verizon
>Wireless. In May we all changed to LG 6100's. A good friend of ours is
>currently a Sprint subscriber and recently broke her Samsung flip phone. She
>is in the middle of a two year contract and is ineligible to upgrade to a
>new phone. Sprint wants her to pay about a $100 and extend her contract for
>another two years for a refurbished phone. She isn't willing to do this
>because she is unhappy with Sprint and wants out at the end of her current
>contract. I offered her the use of one of my unused LG 4400's to get her by
>until then. I understand that Sprint service requires a CDMA dual band
>trimode phone which is what the LG 4400 is. This evening she tried to have
>Sprint activate this phone and the rep told her that he showed the ESN as
>having a number associated with it, which is impossible since we activated
>an LG 6100 in May to replace it. I called VZW and had them check the ESN and
>was told it was unassigned. Shouldn't Sprint be able to activate this phone
>for her?
>Thanks,
>Gary Holland
>

Dogfart

2006-01-29, 5:48 pm

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, at 00:12:45 [GMT -0500] (16:12:45 Monday, 9 January 2006
where I live) "Gary W. & Mary Ellen Holland" wrote:

> Shouldn't Sprint be able to activate this phone for her?

But whether they will is another matter entirely......

Steve Sobol

2006-01-29, 5:48 pm

Dogfart wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, at 00:12:45 [GMT -0500] (16:12:45 Monday, 9 January 2006
> where I live) "Gary W. & Mary Ellen Holland" wrote:
>
>
> But whether they will is another matter entirely......

They won't. They never have. They only activate ESNs of phones they
originally sold, or new phones out of their own inventory.

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