[Q] When to activate

[KCP100]

I just purchased a Verizon Galaxy Nexus on eBay (since they were banned in the US...) and It's in the mail on the way now. It's a new phone, although the guy opened it and upgraded it to 4.0.4 and rooted it. I was planning on doing this, but he did it anyway.

Anyway, I want to install Jelly Bean. I'm no noob when it comes to flashing things, but I was just wondering if there would be any problem having it activated if I flash a ROM beforehand?

The phone has a clean ESN and everything, I just want to confirm that I won't have any problems trying to activate after I have installed JB.

For what it's worth, I was going to flash this with Faux's kernel.

Thanks!

 

[anton2009]

I just purchased a Verizon Galaxy Nexus on eBay (since they were banned in the US...) and It's in the mail on the way now. It's a new phone, although the guy opened it and upgraded it to 4.0.4 and rooted it. I was planning on doing this, but he did it anyway.

Anyway, I want to install Jelly Bean. I'm no noob when it comes to flashing things, but I was just wondering if there would be any problem having it activated if I flash a ROM beforehand?

The phone has a clean ESN and everything, I just want to confirm that I won't have any problems trying to activate after I have installed JB.

For what it's worth, I was going to flash this with Faux's kernel.

Thanks!

No, you shouldn't have any problem. If it were me, I would, flash Nexus factory images, wipe everything (lock bootloader), and then unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery, gain root, then start my own flashing (since it is a used phone, and you can't be too careful with that kind of stuff.)

 

[moe6]

No, you shouldn't have any problem. If it were me, I would, flash Nexus factory images, wipe everything (lock bootloader), and then unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery, gain root, then start my own flashing (since it is a used phone, and you can't be too careful with that kind of stuff.)

+1'd :good:

 

[KCP100]

No, you shouldn't have any problem. If it were me, I would, flash Nexus factory images, wipe everything (lock bootloader), and then unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery, gain root, then start my own flashing (since it is a used phone, and you can't be too careful with that kind of stuff.)

That's what I thought, thank you.

It's a "new" phone that was used for less than a day, but it's still not brand new, so you're right about that.