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Making the Diamond work on the Verizon network

Hello everyone, as you can see this is my first post on xda-developers.com. The Diamond will also be my very first WM device. I found a great deal on the Diamond ($450 US for the phone without a contract with the upgraded 1350 battery), however it's currently for a carrier outside of the U.S. I currently have Verizon wireless, and I was hoping to be able to use this phone on their network. This phone is the CDMA version by the way.
So my question is: Is it possible to unlock the phone and flash it with a different ROM in order to get it to work on the VZW network?
I apologize if this seems like a silly question or if the info is somewhere else, I looked around a bit but couldn't find the info to answer my question about this particular phone. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope to have an answer soon!

Sorry for the bump, but I need an answer to this quickly and my thread was pushed off the front page. Is it currently possible to take the CDMA version of the Touch Diamond and get it to work on the Verizon network?

It will be possible but I you will have to wait for the Verizon version to launch before you can port another carriers Diamond over to Verizon as you will need a Verizon ROM.
The Verizon one will be crappy though so you will still want a Sprint or other CDMA carrier's version.
You then unlock it and install a Verizon ROM on it and you should be set.

Thank you very much for the reply! So basically I could go ahead and purchase the phone and just use it for a PDA for a little while, and then sign it up with VZW when the VZW ROM gets released?

Ya well, like I told my friend who I'm going to do the same thing for, I would wait until the Verizon one is released just in case something weird happens and you can't port. Then you aren't out the money. Wait until someone else does it first.
Up to you if you wanna take the risk. $450 is a pretty good deal.

That's true, being out $450 doesn't sound like a very good idea to me... I suppose I'll wait until I find out for sure if this is even possible.

Nevermind
Jeff

Sprint Diamond Question

I should be receiving the Sprint HTC Diamond later this week. A friend referred me to this forum, and it's making me very excited. It looks like there is a great community of people wanting to tweak their phones here.
My question is:
Will all of the previous information on hacks/tweaks/applications for the HTC Diamond on here for the EU / Chinese GSM versions of the HTC Diamond still apply to the Sprint CDMA version?
Do I need to wait until more investigation is done to start modding?

I second this. Will the mods for the GSM version work on the Sprint CDMA version?
Also, mackerman, when did you order your Sprint Diamond? I ordered mine on Sunday morning when they became available on the Sprint site, but Sprint still hasn't shipped the phone. Just wondering if yours has shipped yet.

I8UB4 said:
I ordered mine on Sunday morning when they became available on the Sprint site, but Sprint still hasn't shipped the phone. Just wondering if yours has shipped yet.
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I just spoke to a Sprint sales rep. and he said the hold up is due to hurricane Ike reeking havoc in Texas...which happens to be where my Diamond is shipping from. Damn hurricanes!

I luckily got mine today. As far as the tweaks Some work some might not, gotta try em and see

i just got mine today, and this things is a beautiful beast. very sleak and well customized touch flo3d for sprint. only bad thing as reported on reviews is the low in call audio.

Hi I am also new here and just have activated my new Diamond from Sprint would any of the GSM tweaks work on this CDMA version? Thank you very much!

Verzion Diamond??

I searched first and found no info so i figured i would ask. Does anyone know when verizon will be releasing there version of the diamond the only info i could find on google was saying october but as u can see i doubt that will happen. I also searched the verzion website and there ws no info there any help would be great.

I believe that Alltel, Sprint and Telus will be the only ones which I believe that the best plan is on Alltel for this type of phone anyway if your in an area that has an alltel carrier. Sweet phone by the way the best screen display out of any phone I have ever seen too.

Well i do know for sure that they are putting it out the question is when. The reason i ask is because instead of using the msm7200 like all the other diamonds they are using the msm7500. Which will mean that we will finally have opengl drivers for our vogues. You can check the specs right here.
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=1365

Got wrong diamond? please help!

I bought a brand new looking htc diamond today and i think i screwed up big time. I am with T-mobile and when i got home i discovered gthat my diamond does not have place for a sim card. It says sprint on top of it, does that mean its not a comatible phone to T-mobile or is there a some sort of workaround? Would i be able to use it somehow on metropcs? Any help would be appreciated, hate tho think i just wasted the money on the phone that i will not abe able to use((

Not familiar with T-Mobile put it does sound like you purchase a CDMA Device which doesn't use the GSM (sim card) technology. There is no way around this other then reselling it and picking up the right device.

Could you post a photograph or a link to the brand of the phone? Is it HTC? Is a Diamond? Sure? It sounds a bit strange...
I never haven't seen a CDMA device so...

Where did you buy it from?

How hard is this?
He bought the Sprint CDMA HTC Diamond. It won't work on T-Mobile, so just resell it and purchase a GSM one.

yes your phone is not gsm
send it back or sell it on

[Q] GSM or AT&T cyanogen

Ok so I did some searching and couldn't find anything on this so I desided to make a post on it. I purchased the Dev HTC One off the dev forums on HTC's website. I was curious should I flash the ATT version of cyanogen or the GSM version. I don't really know how this would matter unless it had something to do with a minor hardware difference but I don't know at all. I have an AT&T SIM card in it right now for service so I am leaning towards the ATT one but ATT is GSM and because I didn't actually purchase this from ATT and did purchase it from HTC Dev that makes me thing well maybe I should get the GSM because that is more universal. Or hell maybe it doesn't matter a bit..
Could someone please tell me what one I should be using.
Thank you!