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Default Uses for evo without service?

I've got an evo thats been blacklisted by sprint due to insurance reasons, and I was just wondering if theres anything cool I can do outside of the obvious stuff. I'm thinking a complete os overhaul kinda thing designed for wifi use alone, maybe? I dunno, any ideas?

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you can flash it to another provider like Cricket or Boost if you want to use it as an actual phone.

You can use it as a personal media player (audio or video)

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combined with an HDMI cable and a ps3 controller, wii remote, or a phonejoy and use it as an android or retro gaming console

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you could use it as a tiny web server I suppose
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Put in airplane mode, and you can do anything you could do with service except for make calls and text.
 
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Android retro gaming console is exactly the creativity I was looking for haha. I don't need to flash it to another provider seeing as I still have sprint, and if necessary I can gtalk/text over wifi.

The media player was one of those obvious ideas, though the hdmi cable would make it a pretty sweet portable movie collection. Thanks for the suggestions guys, any more ideas?

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With wifi and a voip account or Google voice you could use it as a web phone, you could mod it into an entertainment device al la iPod touch, flash it to another carrier, really only your imagination limits the possibilities, even turn it into a portable computer using office apps and wifi for email and creating documents on the go, a pretty nice digital camera/portable photo editing device, and etc
 
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had oen for the last few months until a TWRP death flash.

Used GrooveIP to make it a backup phone, Google Voice to make it a backup text point. Wiimote and some emulators and HDMIwin etc to make it play games.
 
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