Has Cricket Stopped Activating Non-Cricket Phones?

[gdemi]

Tonight I tried several times to activate two different Razr V3C's that where originally Verizon but had Stock Cricket Software on them. Crickets outsourced telephone people, said I had to take the phone to a Cricket store, but couldn't tell me why.

A supervisor finally told me that Cricket has changed the rules and is not allowing phones with no Cricket history to be activated.

I asked why they where sending me to a store if they can't be activated. He said well maybe some Cricket stores would.

I can't wait to talk to a Cricket store today and find out what they have to say.

Has anybody else heard about this change?

If Cricket trys to enforce it, you are probably going to see a lot of illegal ESN changing going on, by people who want their particular phone or don't want to pay retail prices for a phone.

[Mrcricket23]

Tonight I tried several times to activate two different Razr V3C's that where originally Verizon but had Stock Cricket Software on them. Crickets outsourced telephone people, said I had to take the phone to a Cricket store, but couldn't tell me why.

A supervisor finally told me that Cricket has changed the rules and is not allowing phones with no Cricket history to be activated.

I asked why they where sending me to a store if they can't be activated. He said well maybe some Cricket stores would.

I can't wait to talk to a Cricket store today and find out what they have to say.

Has anybody else heard about this change?

If Cricket trys to enforce it, you are probably going to see a lot of illegal ESN changing going on, by people who want their particular phone or don't want to pay retail prices for a phone.

Well i heard about this in some of the newer markets, but never in my market (houston) of course there's always a way around

[marsh1]

i flashed a friends phone he took it to the store on coors and central to get new service. thay told him that thay no longer connect flashed phones ... but told him to go to the mail depo across the street and thay would do it 4 him

[PRLmuncher]

I do it at my store, both flash and activate, and have heard nothing any plans cricket has to stop. Indirect dealers should be able to do it no prob...like Mrcricket23 said "there's always a way around"

[RoTalk]

I just activated my Treo 700w with them but they did not
know how to program it so I came home and did it myself
and called their *22804 after I changed MIN, MDN and after
2nd try it worked, first try said they couldn't program it (the robot).