Would EVO 4G work on the Boost Mobile Network

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Yes no maybe?
it'll be sweet if we could buy an unlocked EVO 4G and run it on the boost network! Don't care for 4G at this point in time anyway

no evo will not work on boost mobile
and boost is owned by sprint they wouldnt activate a evo for boost

I think a better question would be WHY would you want to activate it on the Boost network? That's like buying a Ferrari and putting four spares on it.

Originally Posted by Xenithflare

I think a better question would be WHY would you want to activate it on the Boost network? That's like buying a Ferrari and putting four spares on it.

lol.. More like buying a Ferrari and taking a v12 out and putting a v6 in it.

funny replies, but i dont think you guys understand what the op means, i personally have the touch pro 2 with 3g working perfectly fine with boost mobile, its more like a hack that a techie did for me, basically works on the sprint network and everything BUT the monthly payments go out to boost, pretty neat.

now im anxious to know if it would be possible with the evo as well, im positive that it may be done, ill try and ask the tech that helped me out with the touch pro.

and off topic the ferrari replies reminded me of this sports car : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQB_tgS7f0

Yes you can the evo is a cdma phone the only thing you need to do is to go online to boostmobile.com and change the esn # but the only thing is that you much cdma account with boost

Originally Posted by walex365

Yes you can the evo is a cdma phone the only thing you need to do is to go online to boostmobile.com and change the esn # but the only thing is that you much cdma account with boost

can you give more information on this please

yes you can and in florida there are many people who can get your current esn added to boost meaning you wouldn't have to change it and even have 3g working with full features.

Yet another thread on getting your evos on boost. Here's the deal for those of you who don't know. The process to get an evo working on boost mobile invloves cloning esn's. And it doesn't matter if it's your own esn or not - the FCC sees this as a federal offense, and nobody on XDA should assist with this in any way. This isn't the same as breaking your contract with sprint - this is a government entity you're going up against. Will they catch you? Who knows, but you've just gone on record as wanting to commit a federal offence in a public forum - and one of the posters above just admited to doing it twice already. Good luck with that.

This is what the FCC has to say about it;

Fraud

Cellular fraud is defined as the unauthorized use, tampering, or manipulation of a cellular phone or service. Cellular industry estimates indicate that carriers lose millions per year to cellular fraud, with the principal cause being subscription fraud. Subscriber fraud occurs when a subscriber signs up for service with fraudulently obtained customer information or false identification.

In the past, cloning of cellular phones was a major concern. A cloned cellular telephone is one that has been reprogrammed to transmit the electronic serial number (ESN) and telephone number (MIN) belonging to another (legitimate) cellular telephone. Unscrupulous persons obtain valid ESN/MIN combinations by illegally monitoring the transmissions from the cellular telephones of legitimate subscribers. Each cellular telephone is supposed to have a unique factory-set ESN. After cloning, however, because both cellular telephones have the same ESN/MIN combination, cellular systems cannot distinguish the cloned cellular telephone from the legitimate one.

The Commission considers any knowing use of cellular telephone with an altered ESN to be a violation of the Communications Act (Section 301) and alteration of the ESN in a cellular telephone to be assisting in such violation. The Wireless Telephone Protection Act (Public Law 105-172) was signed into law on April 24, 1998, expanding the prior law to criminalize the use, possession, manufacture or sale of cloning hardware or software. The cellular equipment manufacturing industry has deployed authentication systems that have proven to be a very effective countermeasure to cloning. Authentication supplements the use of the ESN and MIN with a changing encrypted code that can not be obtained by off-the-air monitoring.

Originally Posted by fachadick

Yet another thread on getting your evos on boost. Here's the deal for those of you who don't know. The process to get an evo working on boost mobile invloves cloning esn's. And it doesn't matter if it's your own esn or not - the FCC sees this as a federal offense, and nobody on XDA should assist with this in any way. This isn't the same as breaking your contract with sprint - this is a government entity you're going up against. Will they catch you? Who knows, but you've just gone on record as wanting to commit a federal offence in a public forum - and one of the posters above just admited to doing it twice already. Good luck with that.

This is what the FCC has to say about it;

Fraud

Cellular fraud is defined as the unauthorized use, tampering, or manipulation of a cellular phone or service. Cellular industry estimates indicate that carriers lose millions per year to cellular fraud, with the principal cause being subscription fraud. Subscriber fraud occurs when a subscriber signs up for service with fraudulently obtained customer information or false identification.

In the past, cloning of cellular phones was a major concern. A cloned cellular telephone is one that has been reprogrammed to transmit the electronic serial number (ESN) and telephone number (MIN) belonging to another (legitimate) cellular telephone. Unscrupulous persons obtain valid ESN/MIN combinations by illegally monitoring the transmissions from the cellular telephones of legitimate subscribers. Each cellular telephone is supposed to have a unique factory-set ESN. After cloning, however, because both cellular telephones have the same ESN/MIN combination, cellular systems cannot distinguish the cloned cellular telephone from the legitimate one.

The Commission considers any knowing use of cellular telephone with an altered ESN to be a violation of the Communications Act (Section 301) and alteration of the ESN in a cellular telephone to be assisting in such violation. The Wireless Telephone Protection Act (Public Law 105-172) was signed into law on April 24, 1998, expanding the prior law to criminalize the use, possession, manufacture or sale of cloning hardware or software. The cellular equipment manufacturing industry has deployed authentication systems that have proven to be a very effective countermeasure to cloning. Authentication supplements the use of the ESN and MIN with a changing encrypted code that can not be obtained by off-the-air monitoring.

Not true, you do not need to clone the ESN. All you have to do is call up Boost Mobile, tell them you have a phone u need activated, and hope your ESN is accepted by the network. Sometimes the Boost Rep will notice right away that it is not a Boost phone and deny you. Other times, the reps do not seem to care and try it. There is nothing illegal, why is there so much internet police on this site!?! I currently have the EVO on Sprint, though I have had the TP, TP2 on Boost, without cloning or without taking it to anyone. I simply called like I stated before.

Some phones work, others do not. Once unactivated from Boost, I was able to put the TP2, with a clean ESN, back on the Sprint network.

**I HAVE SEEN THE EVO ON THE BOOST NETWORK, WITHOUT ANY CLONING, "FLASHING", OR TECHWORK DONE TO IT.**

It is not a crime of any sort. You do not break any contracts with Sprint. Simply go buy an EVO outright from Sprint, or Ebay. Then the phone is yours, you can do whatever you want with it. Cloning is illegal, though you do not need to clone it.