Flash Verizon iPhone to Cricket (manual method)

Before trying this, add your meid to cricket (or metro pcs) database by calling them and giving them your meid in decimal format. Then dial *22804. If that does not work, this method will help you. You don’t need to do this if *22804 after adding your meid! This shows you how to get your Verizon iPhone 4 on Cricket (voice and text only) I’m running 4.2.7 but I have not verified if this works on 5.0+ so if it does or does not please let me know. A few commenters have mentioned that the file system is a little different in the iPhone 5.0+ firmware so if that is the case you may need to find where the prl’s are stored because I do not know. Other than that, the process should be exactly the same. Text only works for a couple weeks at most and then begins to degrade. Apparently that is a problem Cricket needs to solve so I’ll let you know if that ever happens. SSH programs: (Windows) winscp.net (Mac) cyberduck.ch You can sometimes find a prl at cdmagurus.com – If you can’t find it there try google. This is sometimes the hardest file to find and it’s specific to your location. I don’t explain how to ssh very well so if you don’t know how to do that you will have to look it up. It’s not hard but it requires more than just a sentence of explaining. Plist editor for Windows: modmyi.com Need help jailbreaking your iPhone? modmyi.com UPDATE: On June 22, 2012 Cricket will be an official iPhone carrier. I will keep this tutorial up for the iPhone 4 (which will not have Cricket …
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