Can you flash the Sprint 6700 rom to the Verizon 6700?

[Mikee4fun]

Does anyone know if doing this will make the phone a brick? I am daring to do it, but hesitant because I cannot find a launch rom from Verizon to go back to.

Mike

[jvanbrecht]

I would not recommend doing this, there are some major differences in how they work there networks, and you will probably brickafy your phone. It's best not to try.

[themacace]

but what if you use the unbranding trick (hard reset after you flash, soft reset before carrier customization begins)?
anyone treied this? anyone WILLING to try this? i will supply the sprint rom if needed!

[helix139]

With all the ROM swapping we did on the 6700 it seems like it should be possible. As long as just the CE ROM is updated and not the Radio ROM you shouldnt run into any problems. The Extended ROM may need some select customizations (removals from the Verizon, additions from the Sprint) but that is cake once the CE ROM is updated. My guess is all that would be needed is an MaUt_NoID ROM updater for the 6700 like we had for the 6600. I don't have a 6700 as of yet so I can't help you but I'm upgrading from my 6600 soon and am definitely interested in getting this new ROM working for other carriers

[kevinpierce1]

I'm pretty new to the whole PDA world, so I am still gathering some basic info. I have a Sprint PPC 6700 I would like to convert to the Verizon network, and it is already a brick. When turned on it shows 'Serial' at the top of the screen until it is plugged into the USB, and then it says 'USB'. At the bottom it reads 'v1.00'. I assume this is the bootloader screen, but what I need to know is how do I get a rom to install. I would settle for getting this thing back to factory.

[helix139]

put it in the cradle with power and run the Rom Upgrade Utility

[kevinpierce1]

That won't work because in its current state, Active Sync does not see it. Windows sees it and recongizes it as a CE device, but that's it.

[helix139]

try using WinRAR to open up the installer and run the EXEs it contains one by one (I think the one you'll need is MaUpgradeUt.exe or something like that

[kevinpierce1]

I'll give that a try this evening. Thanks.

[kevinpierce1]

I tried that, and it tells me that the ROM image is corrupted, and I need to download the proper image for my device. I have tried both updates with this with no luck.