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Mesmerize to straight talk WITH a pre-activated donor 100% working

So about a week ago... i needed a phone. So i bought a straight talk 45$ a month unlimrted from walmart as well as an LG Optimus... ummm... piece of $h!t. Hated that phone. Then, i was given a USCC sch-i500.(mesmerize) i believe it had 2.3 on it. I scoured these forums and decided i would flash my mez to Verizon with odin via a package i downloaded from some guys site that did remote flashing. He required that you download that package first before he connected with you remotely to flash your mesmerize. Came with a .PRL file as well.... Anyway so i downloaded some CDMA torrents and got to flashing. I changed only the IMEI on the mez to the one on the Straight Talk LG Craptimus. And flashed the .PRL as well. I then threw the Lg into a drawer, minus the battery and tried to activate my mezfinate by dialing *22890 and *22891. During the ota progamming i started recieving texts.... but then it didnt take much time to realize that i COULD ONLY get texts when doing the OTA. And that was about all that my mez was able to do. No calls out, no texts out, when calls came in.. it would ring once and then say i missed it. Now mind you... i had spent literally all my money on this straight talk package. So i got scared... i then Re read these forums and came to the sick realization that apparently it was not possible to activate it with full functionality without having a new un-activated donor. Well... at that point i decided screw it... i would somehow get by doing constant ota to at least see who was texting me until i could afford another donor. But in the meantime i put a custom cwm recovery on my mez. 6.0.something and then flashed cyanogen mod 10 for mezmerizemtd because none of the verizon roms were flashing. Even thhough i was on verizon firmware. Ok. Now after that i got to thinking... maybe you need the unactivated phone because that first initial ota comes with some sort of advance initial programming. Welllll.... I then thought about possible ways to recreate that ota WITHOUT a new unactivated phone... so i thought about it and realized that since this new byop program came out.. that more than likely if you requested a new number to a "new" phone that it would automatically come with that first initial set of programming. Anyway. So i called straight talk and the automated menu got me to the change your number part. Now... they dont give u a new phone number over the phone. But the robot asks for the last 4 digits of the new phones identification number. I at first tried the S/N number which included some alphanumerics... but the robot told me that it was a 4 digit number. No letters. So i just put the last 4 of the very IMEI that i had already flashed from my already activated lg craptimus. And low and behold it programmed my mez into a wonderful FUNCTIONAL prepaid straight talk phone. The only setback was memorizing a new phone number which wasnt to bad since i had only had the phone for about a week. I still have all the files i used so if this information is not outdated or something new and usable. Throw me a shout and ill upload the files i used. Even the cdma files if thats allowed. Hopefully this wasnt old news because i wrote this from my mez... and it feels like i just wrote a new bill of rights. Xda.everyone involved with xda. And all the contributions that have helped make my many years of owning androids so much better than the stock users i scoff at. Thank you for everything. Without you i wouldnt be who i am. Not joking. I just wanted to give back a little something.