[VIDEO] How to Return a Flashed Sprint Android Phone Back to Sprint

**chrisngrod** · 01-20-2012, 11:03 AM

This is a question that we get every so often. We've done a video because it's not necessarily a bad thing. Let's say you want to stay on Cricket, but upgrade phones. If your phone was a good ESN Sprint phone, it might fetch more money from someone hoping to place it on Sprint.

**kingofnothing** · 01-20-2012, 04:50 PM

just wanna know if this removes root?

**chrisngrod** · 01-20-2012, 09:31 PM

I'm going to guess 99.9% no. Just sold and shipped the phone. Should have put that in the video...

**internalrage37** · 01-20-2012, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by kingofnothing

just wanna know if this removes root?

I have done this before and the answer is no, you won't lose root and you won't lose any custom rom or settings ... at least I didn't anyway. The only thing I saw that didn't change was the prl. Just like the video addresses, you will have to change it back to a Sprint one.

Usually you won't lose root unless you run an unroot stock RUU or brick your phone.