I am still waiting to try the method you suggested but I wanted to pick your brain once more on this issue if you don't mind. The buyer of this phone (who allegedly flashed it to verizon and then returned it in this condition) is giving me the "I have no idea what you are talking about" response and I wanted to ask you if it was possible they are innocent in this. I don't see how they could be but I don't know much about this stuff.
I bought the phone on eBay a few months ago from a reputable seller. He claimed the phone had a clean esn, no iCloud lock, etc. And indeed the phone worked like a charm on Ting, which uses sprint's towers. I grew tired of the shortened battery life of this older phone and decided to sell it. What I am asking is: given that it worked fine for me mere weeks ago, and that the phone had/still has a clean esn that comes up as a sprint phone when i check it online, is it possible the carrier could have changed from sprint to verizon somehow when I did the complete reset/erase before I shipped it to the buyer? For instance, could it have been flashed from verizon to sprint before I bought it and when I reset it, it reverted to verizon? I seriously doubt this since the serial number when checked online, says it is a clean sprint phone (right?) but like I said I don't know much about flashing. Thanks and sorry for the weird formatting, doing this on my (other) phone and it just posted this way.
