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Flashing A Phone?

Jumbo_JizzM

Jun 14, 2006, 8:45 AM
😈 ok so i went to a verison dude in southland mall in taylor michigan, showed him this phone i got...wait let me go back a lil further

Ok My Name is Jay i work at detroit metro airport on midnights meaning i find phones and interesting things all night long, well this time i hit the ****ing jack pot. see i found this japanese phone by KDDI its an AU this will tell you all about it:

http://www.au.kddi.com/english/product/lineup/a5514s ... »

any way it was all japified and i could find the english setting, well i finally found that but now i wanna use the phone and its got verison service how do i flash the phone to get that service please e-mail me with this info i herd of flashing the phone from the verizon guy

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ArmySF

Jun 14, 2006, 9:03 AM
first off you can't flash that phone and have it work on the verizon network, so get that idea out of your head, aint goin to happen

second don't use the word japified could really piss someone off
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Septhian

Jun 14, 2006, 9:07 AM
Verizon does not exist in Japan they use there own system...
GSM maybe but not likely; CDMA Not a chance
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sowhatsowhat10

Jun 14, 2006, 9:54 AM
in japan their main network IS cdma but they also have scarce gsm and a few tech's from docomo.......but they dont have ANY ties with our vzw.
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Septhian

Jun 14, 2006, 10:09 AM
They use the Cellular 900MHz and 1.8GHz frequencies.
CDMA as North America uses Cellular 800MHz and 1.9MHz PCS, there is no Quad-band CDMA here,
and this phone is no exception.
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sowhatsowhat10

Jun 14, 2006, 10:12 AM
Septhian said:
They use the Cellular 900MHz and 1.8GHz frequencies.
CDMA as North America uses Cellular 800MHz and 1.9MHz PCS, there is no Quad-band CDMA here,
and this phone is no exception.


i know what band they use but you post stated they had NO cdma when PRIMARILY its the network they use.
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Septhian

Jun 14, 2006, 10:15 AM
Apologies to you, I mis-stated my point; no CDMA as is here.
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sowhatsowhat10

Jun 14, 2006, 10:17 AM
oh okay.
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renardlee

Jun 14, 2006, 2:05 PM
I thought Japan uses W-CDMA, in fact they do, they call it FOMA which is a variant of W-CDMA, it uses the CDMA multiplexing scheme like CDMA but it is in no way compatible with Qualcomm's CDMA or has anything related to it, although Qualcomm get royalties, W-CDMA(FOMA) is 3G-GSM.
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sowhatsowhat10

Jun 14, 2006, 2:19 PM
they do use w-cdma but their main talk tech prior to and outside of w-cdma (umts) is cdma.......the same variant vzw/sprint uses just different bandwidths.
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CaptJeff

Jun 14, 2006, 9:48 AM
Jay,
How about doing what you'd like someone to do for you?
Turn the phone into lost and found or try to find the rightful owner?
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liquifiedgr00ve

Jun 14, 2006, 3:01 PM
that sounds like a winner to me. If they realize that the phone is lost and report it as such, then the esn on the phone will be flagged and you won't be able to activate it anyway. Grow up and buy the a phone like the rest of us....
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