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[EVO 4G General] jonathaflores:
ok so i never had a Sero plan, is there some way that I can switch to a Sero???? I would be happy with the extra saved $$, specially for college!!!

{EDIT} nvm saw the post above. that sucks
[EVO 4G General] strengthcoach4:
I had SERO 500 for years then switched plans when the Evo came out. I called employee services this morning and they switched me back to SERO 500 :)
[EVO 4G General] jackpearce:
I found someone on craigslist who want to sell their sero plan for $170. If I could transfer it to my name, I would jump on it in a heartbeat.

P.s. The ad is on craigslist, charlottesville, va.
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
Well I just got off the the phone with Sprint and the lady said that I would have just signed a new contract or still be in the 30 days to switch from Everything Plus back to SERO
[EVO 4G General] strengthcoach4:
Just keep trying man. I got lucky with my first call.
[EVO 4G General] jcjr81:
What's the number for employee services? I too was on a sero but switched when the evo came out.
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
Just called again, no go

Did you come from a Everything Plus or a old SERO plan?
[EVO 4G General] strengthcoach4:
I called regular customer services then got transferred to employee services.

I had SERO 500, then EPRP, then regular plan with govt discount, and now back to SERO 500.
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
I just called for the third time, still a no go.

The guy did say that as of now the system wont let them add the SERO plan on your account if your coming from a Everything Plus but to try back in a couple of days
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Ok, I just called about 5 times. 4 out of the 5 the told me that I had to be within the 30 day period. The fifth time the guy told me flat out that once you are off the Sero 500, there is no way to go back at all...or in other words once you are off ure off for good...

All 5 CSR's were different.

Still...I got some spare time tomorrow :). I will call back !!!
[EVO 4G General] jcjr81:
I'm on the phone with them now and the gentleman is trying to do it. He is having a hard time. Will update...
[EVO 4G General] jcjr81:
Bah, he couldn't do. He told me I have to call employee services and gave me the number...which is the same number I just called. Off to try again.
[EVO 4G General] sup3rg0d:
I just called and they just switched me over. That was way easier than expected :)
[EVO 4G General] verse187:
That crazy lucky you
[EVO 4G General] billslost:
Some people have gotten lucky. The official Sprint stance is this:

-- You must be on a SERO plan as of today. When you log in your plan should say SERO F&F 500 or 1250.

-- If you were on SERO and then left you are out of luck

-- If you are on a legacy, non-SERO plan you are out of luck

-- If you had any discounts those will go away when you move to SERO premium

-- SERO Premium is required for all Android, WebOS, Instinct, and BB devices

Fortunately, I was waiting for crazy chance that WP7 might be SERO eligible so I saved my upgrade. Was able to use it today for the Evo. Activated and rocking the Evo. That's 500 anytime minutes, unlimited Nights/Weekends, unlimited mobile to mobile (any carrier), unlimited text, unlimited data, and 4G - total cost is $50.

So you will hear people who got some exception to the above rules. Just remember that success stories are few and far between.
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
You know what they did??? Or how they did it?
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Thank God I don't deal with you guys :P good luck to all who are still trying though!
[EVO 4G General] werxen:
^ rofl. Noob.

There are still ways to get new plans on Sero. You just don't know of any so please don't "scare tactic" noobs into giving up. You should have your posting rights revoked for posting such utter garbage.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
There's no way to get a CLASSIC SERO (Not EPRP) plan from scratch, OP was a former user and got extremely lucky. But you can try all you want, if you didn't have a SERO plan recently, you'll just keep hearing no; and if you did, you need a lot of luck.

I used to have one, switch to a discounted shared ED plan and pay less then the $50 I would have if I stuck around. Luckily.
[EVO 4G General] donscott:
I just call what I think is employee accounts, this is like my third call, 2 yesterday, and one just now, and the rep went through the process with me and switched my Everything Plus 500 account to Sero Premium 500 effective immediately, at least that what she told me. She even gave told me the amount of the prorated charge for the remainder of the my current billing cycle. I almost couldn't believe it. I asked for a confirmation number and her name which she gave me. It doesn't appear on Sprint.com yet, but prayerfully she did indeed switch me and it sticks. The number I called is 866 264 1282. All I said is my number, name, pin and "I want to switch to Sero Premium." Go figure.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Award is right, you're wrong. Please leave your nonsense out of one thread.

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] donscott:
Sweet! Logged in and logged out Sprint.com just now. My account now says "1 device on SERO Premium 500." I changed from Everything Plus 500.
[EVO 4G General] werxen:
Dear Mr. ,

Your request for phone number X has been received and reviewed. Because of the inconvenience you had with your first phone, our manager deemed it appropriate to keep customers instead of having them cancel. Please allow 1-2 billing cycles for the rate changes to be applied. You will see your current cycle change from the $69 rate to the $50 Sero Premium. For further information call the Sero department or email us at *.

Thank you for choosing Sprint.

Sincerely,

Miss X.

Sprint

X, VA

Hey - Dirty. Please STFU already.
[EVO 4G General] Sporkman:
hmm so anyone can get on a SERO plan ? or is this just for people who had it cause id love to save some money lol i have 4 lines

and if so how would i go about doing it quick and painless
[EVO 4G General] werxen:
I got on sero.

Don't listen to idiots in this thread. Do your research and with a little luck you will get it just fine.

If DirtyShroomz gets banned perm from these forums I will post how to get Sero on your Evo even if you do not have it or even had it.
[EVO 4G General] Sporkman:
PM me the info and will it be for all lines or just 1
[EVO 4G General] werxen:
You are just as useless as DirtyShroomz to these forums. What makes you possibly think I will help you out.

Gtfo here.
[EVO 4G General] bigmoogle:
I have never heard of anyone converting from a regular plan to the old SERO, even when SERO was still available.

My understanding is that If you once had SERO and switched to EPRP to get the evo (I Did) then you may possibly get onto SERO premium. (I haven't tried it yet.)

But who knows? If you're good at talking to customer services, anything can happen.

Good luck.
[EVO 4G General] secondechomatt:
just got off the phone with sprint and got mine back! whooo hooo!
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
You can't, werxen is just a tool. You can get lucky but not everyone will be so lucky. I guarantee he just bugged Sprint until they did it to shut him up, if he even got it at all. If you didn't have it, you're not going to get it.

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] werxen:
Seems like you didn't even pass your own training. You don't seem to know ****. Why not stay out of these threads since I am not the only one who has gotten Sero on their evo, Dirtyshroomz.

Can a mod shut this guy up already? ****s sakes.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
It seems that everyone in this thread who was able to get it, already had either it or the everything plus plan before. Except for you. Don't think most people will have your luck.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G General] midhun:
Feel like crying.......

I used to have Sero F&F 500. I changed it into EPRP 500 to get EVO, which i was ok with. Now sprint supports EVO on sero premium.

I called at least 4 times in 2 days also emailed them.

But they wont allow me go back to Sprint Sero saying i changed my sero to EPRP on june.

WHY WHY WHY sprint? i even called the number one member said it worked for him. But no luck for me
[EVO 4G General] secondechomatt:
I had a sero 500, then in June gave it up for EPRP.

All I did was call the standard customer service line and ask to get it back, explaining that I gave it up to get the evo and was unhappy because the evo is now available on a sero line.

He said, I think I can help you out. 30 seconds later, boom. SERO is back. :)

YMMV
[EVO 4G General] jcjr81:
Got the smackdown. Man, thisvis tough. Had I know this would have been available I just would have kept my sero and waited.
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
is there anyway that someone that had Everything Plus and was switched to SERO Pre post a pic of their account showing the switch(black out all personal info of course) that would help people get SERO thats on Everything Plus. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and THANK YOU :D
[EVO 4G General] jcjr81:
0 for 4. The last person offerred to switch me to a eprp but it wouldn't save me over the everything data with my 25% discount. This is depressing.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
That dude has some serious anger issues. Funny he thinks he knows more than me. Not that I claim to know everything but I damn sure know a whole lot. I didn't get to where I am at by being an idiot and not knowing policies and procedures. What a tool.

When he puts a picture up of his plan ill believe him, but it will probably not happen as all his posts and threads are complete bs.

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] eagle63:
I got switched back today to my old SERO plan! (had SERO 500 for years, then EPRP since June 2009, now back to SERO) Here's the best part: I did it in a Sprint store. It was a corporate store, and the rep said "sure, no problem" when I played dumb and asked if I could have it back. It was so smooth and painless I almost didn't believe she got it switched, so I logged on to my Sprint account when I got home just to check - sure enough, she did it!
[EVO 4G General] tatnai:
here's your proof. I had SERO plans for all three of the lines in the first pic (caught the "before" pick after one line had already switched back), switched to a EPRP family plan that combined all three lines to get the EVO for two of the lines. Called tonight with the number above. no questions asked, switched all three lines back over to individual SERO Premium plans.

1. don't know if you never had SERO, and now have EPRP, if they will let you do this; doubt it.

2. highly doubt anyone is going to go from a regular everything plus to SERO. I've been reading forums about SERO for about 4 years now, and getting onto a SERO rate plan by switching an existing non-employee rate plan line was nearly unheard of.

3. losing sprint premier and full upgrade q 12 months, which I had on the primary line only when it was a family plan. oh well. (EDIT: seems sprint premier stuck after the line change, as it is still showing at the top of my account page, and the line that used to be the primary line is showing full upgrade discount eligible 1yr from the last one... hope it stays)

Enjoy.

PS: and yes I realize I only save $5 by making this switch, but now I can boot my brother back off my plan and not have to deal with getting money from him. :D
[EVO 4G General] nc_carol:
I have a SERO now.$109.00 for a family plan with the works. Free mobile to any mobile, nights/wknds free after 7 , unltd data, 1600 share minutes up to 5 lines, first 2 free, 14.95 for the other 3 we use Google voice for most landline calls so never get close to going over minutes. After all the surcharges/insurance ends up about $45 each. Can't beat it
[EVO 4G General] JArcher84:
Well they wouldnt let me back onto SERO but they did put a 120 dollar credit on my account
[EVO 4G General] muncheroo:
I got my sero back, but I am saving a grand total of $4 a month .... on my old plan i had $10/month credit for getting off evo and 20% discount. Oh well $4 a month adds up... right?
[EVO 4G General] 6ixtynin9:
I know all about SERO and I call BIG TIME BS on this. There's 2 different SERO plan. One old and one new. First of all, smartphone had always been allowed on old SERO. The HTC Touch Pro 2 was the last smartphone that was compatible with SERO. Data extensive phone such as Palm Pre, Instinct, Evo, etc. or mobile OS's such as Android, WebOS, etc. REQUIRES the Everything Data (minimum) to work, old SERO will never work with these phone, EVER. Second, the old SERO plan code was removed from Sprint's system, so if they assigned a new plan to your account and removed SERO, there's no way they can get it back. Everyone in the SERO community and forums know this. Third of all, It's funny how Sprint magically changed your account and you somehow managed to get both before and after screenshot, right when someone asked for proof. I was just wondering how was it possible to get a screenshot of an "before the change" when you've already made the changes? I think it's pretty simple, just do a little bit of editing with paint. Again, this is big time BS. You should post your claim in the SERO community. Everyone there will laugh at you.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
What part exactly are you calling bs on? I can't really make out the screens from my phone, but Sprint opened up sero premium plans to the EVO and all of the data intensive phones a few days ago.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G General] c3hutson:
I just called and after a 10 minuteish hold and him checking with the "lead supervisor" he said that sero 500 no longer exists and that eventually you will all get caught and switched lmao.

Not sure how else to try for this. That was the general customer service number. Anyone have a different number I can try?

UPDATE: Called the employee number listed above and am on hold. Look promising!
[EVO 4G General] bigmoogle:
No bs.

I suggest you visit the SERO community. There had been chatter on the sprint sero boards since August about SERO premium. It went live October 1.
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Ok I tried a few times today and out of like 8 calls I could not get my sero 500 back. They all said I have to be within the first thirty days of switching to the new plan to switch back to the sero 500.

But its weird how some of u who have switched from sero since June, actually got ure sero back.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
You guys know the more you call the more your account is notated with "told customer no" and the less chance you have if being switched right?

Sent from my Evo beeesshh
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Yep thought of that and that's fine :-) . I got some time to spare tomorrow.... I'll try again :-P
[EVO 4G General] tatnai:
Sure, whatever you say Mr 11 posts.
[EVO 4G General] superm1:
I used to have sero myself before switching in June for the evo. I called a few times over the weekend, and got various different "no" answers about being able to switch back to sero.

One of them actually told me that there isn't much of a point because compared to the cost with my corporate discount (25% for my company), it's only about ~$3 difference (before tax).
[EVO 4G General] muncheroo:
check the 2nd page on this thread. that's the direct # to sprint employee accounts. they were the ones who switched me over. again, don't expect to have a $35 dollar bill like the good ole days. $40 base + $10 4g + $10 fees = $60 bill =(
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
Ahh Damn I thought it would he just like the old days with a $35 plan..... so I guess I won't be saving much at all..... right now I pay $120 after tax for two lines.... one is sero 500 with a plain flip phone on it the other is the EPRP with the evo and $7 TEP insurance....... so basically I would have saved (doing quick math in head.....)$3-$4 (maybe slightly more...).... not worth it...... I guess I'll leave the CSRs alone now and un-clutter their lines lol
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
So wait, it's $40 base + $10 4g? My eprp family plan is better....

Sent from my HTC Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] 6ixtynin9:
This IS BS. He said SERO (referring to the old SERO plan), not SERO "Premium". Big difference!

SERO is the old one and costs $30 for 550 minutes (not 500 mins. like he said) or $50 for 1250 minutes and unlimited everything else. SERO is not compatible with any Android phone or any data extensive phone. I know that for a fact, otherwise I would have activated 2 Evo's and 1 Epic on my other three SERO lines.

SERO Premium is the new SERO that costs $40 for 500 minutes or $60 for 1250 minutes. This plan is made for data extensive phones and can only be obtained if you are already on the SERO plan. Pay $10 extra to lose 50 minutes (compared to the old SERO), not worth it.

I suggest YOU visit the original SERO community. If you read my previous post carefully, you'd realize I already stated that there's 2 different type of SERO plan. SERO F&F 550/SERO F&F 1250 is cheaper and is NOT the same as SERO Premium.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
It was well established earlier in the thread that it was the sero premium plan.
[EVO 4G General] 6ixtynin9:
So what are you trying to say? Unlike you, I have a life and a job, and is not online posting 100 comments per minute. OB/GYN...? LOL. Sure, whatever you say Mr 100 post per minute.
[EVO 4G General] uniquenameevo:
Same here. Had I known I would have waited...avoided the shared plan hassle...but I am here and it works.

With four lines, unless they aren't on a shared plan, I doubt this is worth your time.
[EVO 4G General] bigmoogle:
I'm in the same situation. The only thing I can think of why to switch is if you ever decide to go back to a plain vanilla phone, you may be back on the good old $30 plan.
[EVO 4G General] Neo3D:
I just tried to get SERO back on my plan too but she said she couldn't do it. Are you sure this is possible?

She just replied:
[EVO 4G General] Neo3D:
What phone number? I read thru that entire 2nd page several times?
[EVO 4G General] bigmoogle:
866 264 1282

But also try Employee Care at (888) 876-8381
[EVO 4G General] ThorSonic:
Tried 4 times and got a big fat, "No" every time.

They say that they have been specifically told numerous times not to switch back customers to SERO (SERo Premium)who had it before.

Retentions was more than happy to cancel my account.

I wasn't rude or angry, they simply would not give in at all.
[EVO 4G General] eagle63:
As I posted earlier, I walked into a Sprint store and the rep put me back on SERO (after over a year of not having it) in less than 5 minutes, no questions asked. Yes I got lucky. But the point is, there's clearly no system restriction that prevents them from doing it. The only restriction is if the employee knows it's not allowed.
[EVO 4G General] gators2kt:
So if I currently have one SERO F&F 500 and one of the Everything Plus 500 for $59.99 would I be able to switch my Everything Plus to the SERO Premium?

I had to SERO lines and cancelled one when I got the EVO on launch... I activated the EVO at Best Buy and called sprint to get the plan down to $59.99 from $69.99.

Robert

*Update* I called them today and the representative wouldn't let me switch my EP to the SERO Premium. She put me on hold and asked her supervisor... supposedly. I'm not saying that she didn't but who knows. Anyway, basically she said that it was impossible for her to add any type of SERO, whether it be the original (obviously) or the Premium unless I wanted to update the original SERO to the Premium. So basically I'm stuck with a $125 bill instead of a ~$100 phone bill.
[HD2 General] SXUsr:
Given some of the download counts here, using PollPix's 25,000 downloads of his wallpaper collection as an example, it might be an idea to have a look HERE.
[Nexus One General] James Bell:
Nice update for Car Home:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/20...tm_source=tcm&utm_medium=ttl&utm_campaign=gmb
[Nexus One General] unforgiven512:
I can't find the application on the market, and the link is broken...
[Nexus One General] arkavat:
great!

but it looks like it is not installing in CM6. "Not Signed properly" error.
[Nexus One General] unforgiven512:
I'll have to include it in one of my update packs...
[Nexus One General] arkavat:
Here

market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.carhome
[Nexus One General] rori~:
..and its a very nice update, finally :)
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
I have it installed on CM6.

Just have to remove the existing copy first...

(I used Root Explorer, and added .bak to the existing filename, so I could restore easily).

Reboot in between removing the old copy, and installing the new...
[Nexus One General] arkavat:
i am getting frequent force closes. anyone else experiencing it?
[Nexus One General] mik101:
Anyone have the APK? I wanna push it to system/app. It won't install from the market for me (and I've already removed the old one, but not the launcher as instructed elsewhere).
[Nexus One General] khaytsus:
Yeah, it's actually useful now! It's basically a big simplified configurable launcher now, which is good for car use, although I still don't get why they desaturate the icons, makes them hard to see. That's exactly what you don't want driving!

Anywho, so you can move icons around, add shortcuts, etc... And when you hit the home button it returns back to Car Home.. so makes it easy for me to put Waze, Gasbuddy, GeOrg etc all in the same place without poking through the launcher to do it.

We'll see how the "auto run on bluetooth" thing works I suppose, but there's that feature. So far I don't see my phone automatically connect to my BT GPS so not sure it'll automatically do anything here, but we'll see. None the less, seems like it might be useful now, wasn't before IMO.
[Nexus One General] tweitzel:
This happens on my Nexus One with Android 2.2.1 stock (FRG83) when I use the QR code from the post above: I get a dialog telling me: "Not found: The requested item could not be found".

When I search on the market with the phrase "car home", I don't see any application from Google.

I'm located in Germany, maybe that is a problem?
[Nexus One General] WiKDMoNKY:
To get it to install correctly on CM6...

Uninstall the Google Car Home app via Titanium Backup (I had 2 in Titanium Backup and uninstalled both)

Reboot

Install from Market

Open the Gapps zip file (mine was in /sdcard/clockworkmod/download/mirror.kanged.net/gapps/gapps-hdpi-20100817-signed.zip) with Root Explorer (or similar) and extract the CarHomeLauncher.apk

Install CarHomeLauncher.apk from wherever you extracted it (mine was /sdcard/extracted/)

Enjoy!!!
[Nexus One General] disgustip8ted:
if you have the google dock you dont need to add the launcher back into it

this is a very nice update. 4 screens to create shortcuts and i think it fixed a problem i was running into with using voice search, i had to speak very loudly when it was docked in the google car dock. it didnt seem like it would pick up my voice very well and now it does. i like how now when its docked it gives you the option when you "exit car dock" it lets you switch back to it from the notification bar. also love being able to access the android menu from the settings now. used to have to close out of the car home completely before.
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
Thx for the info. It works now. How about street view. I uninstalled it using titanium cuz when I tried downloading from the market it would fail at installation.

Your help is greatly appreciate.
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
Thx for the info. It works now. How about street view. I uninstalled it using titanium cuz when I tried downloading from the market it would fail at installation.
[Nexus One General] WiKDMoNKY:
To install Street View for Google Maps...

Uninstall the Street View via Titanium Backup

Reboot (it will not work without rebooting)

Install from Market (Street View for Google Maps)

Enjoy!!!
[Nexus One General] J.L.C.:
The new car dock installed for me, but I can't launch it - I don't gave an icon anymore.

CM6 nightly build 184

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