[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XDA-Dev-Knowledge:
First I'd like you to know this:

BOOST IS NOT ALLOWED TO

KNOWINGLY

ACTIVATE A NON BOOST MOBILE DEVICE WITH YOUR BOOST MOBILE ACCOUNT

So calling into the boost mobile customer service to do so is not an option now. Also the chances of this happening for you are slim because activating non boost mobile equipment (and this goes for all carriers) lowers their profits. And what do these companies need to keep their business running?

A Profit.

Though note that I said your chances are

slim

, not

impossible

. So with that being said, if

I

were you, I'd do the following to get my phone with Boost Mobile or any other carrier that won't just knowingly activate my phone with my carrier's account:

I'D LIKE ANYONE TRYING TO SWITCH CARRIERS TO KNOW THIS! EVERY STEP IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE PROCESS, WITHOUT DOING EVERYTHING I AM SUGGESTING TO DO, IT WON'T MATTER WHAT STEP YOU SKIPPED BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT BE SWITCHING CARRIERS IF YOU DO SKIP A STEP/DO NOT COMPLETE A STEP.

- If your phone isn't rooted, Root Your Phone! (This is the first thing you

NEED

to do or you can just stop reading now.).

- I would learn to develop some

REALLY

good social skills. This is because you are

NOT

going to get your phone onto

most

other carriers besides sprint but just calling CS and asking the rep, "Hi, my name is ____. And I am calling about adding my HTC Hero CDMA to my _____ account.". You need social skills so that you can meet new people and gain connections to the people they know. Everyone knows everyone, it is just a matter of how you go about finding out how all you know you know. What I mean by this is lets say your friend, Bob knows Jim. Jim has a sister, Kate, who is married to, Timmy. Timmy works as a

Boost Mobile CS Representative

. Now without great people skills you would never know this, but with good people skills you could easily find this out. Lets say you've been friends with Bob for a while and he decides to introduce you to Jim because Bob thinks you and Jim will get along great together because he gets along great with you and Jim separately. Now that you know Jim, you've been hanging with him for a while and he decides to introduce you to the family. You meet his sister and while talking with Jim's sister, you meet her husband Timmy. You all get to know a little bit about each other and Timmy says his current occupation is being a

Boost Mobile CS Rep

! Cha-Ching! Money in the bank now because you've just been

exposed

to your opportunity to the

possibility

of getting your hero on boost. I say possibility because just because he told you he is a CS Rep. for Boost, doesn't mean he'll just activate your hero on your account for you. You need to get to know Timmy and build a good relationship with him as well as the other 3 characters in this example. How do I do that you ask? I am, not you, the road to great social skills comes from within. Being yourself, having a sense of humor, and knowing how people work are all you really need. But the point of this was to basically say you need a

GOOD CONNECTION

with a Boost Mobile CS Rep.

- Now you need to flash a

rooted HTC Hero Sense 2.1 rom for the Hero

if you already haven't.

- Once you have done so you'll need to get your MSL Code if you do not have this already. This can be obtained by using the application below.

MSL Reader

by ESCcode

10,000

downloads,

444

ratings (

4.7/5 avg

)

Free

- Now you need to use some ##codes (I think you'll need to know ##3282# for changing the data/network settings so that you can call and receive phone calls, connect to mobile data towers from Boost Mobile, and also send and receive text messages). With those codes and while on a rooted 2.1 rom, you can configure the locked sprint settings so that you can be on the boost network. If you don't do this correctly (and I cannot specify how to do so) you will have just wasted your time. I will tell you though that the ESN which gets into the legality of things also comes into play. Look those up yourself but hopefully this will get you close to where you need to be.

- Knowledge