10/3/2025.
Reports are that boost may may changed their T & C.
(Around 10/1/2025 . maybe, not clear)
Requiring activating phone and using service for some time.
(3 months?).
Do your research.
However, may not matter much as phone appears to be gone for good from boost website.
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You must activate the phone on boost network within 30 days of purchase.
If not you may be charged the full MSRP of the Device(s).
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best practice=open the phone. activate the boost account. make a call or 2. send a text or 2
phone call &/or text just insures the phone number has been fully registered on the boost network
while not entirely necessary, just to be safe.
and not get a $600 bill or get sent to collections
[ which has happened to at least one user on this thread ]
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make sure u activate.
By checking this box I agree to e-transaction/e-signature, Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions. Once activated I authorize Boost Mobile to automatically charge my card monthly for my Boost Mobile services, taxes and surcharges. My service will not begin until my SIM is activated. If you do not activate your Device(s) on the Boost Mobile network within 30 days of purchase, you may be charged the full MSRP of the Device(s) (less your purchase price), if applicable, to the card used today or any alternative method. . I also agree to receive communications regarding this order via email, SMS, or phone call using the contact information provided
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Buying multiple phones?
Consider this.
The first phone will be 120.
Subsequent phones (either purchased at same time on withing next few days) will be less.
Boost has a weird way of billing and its often confusion. No one has figured it out yet.
Many have made speculations:
For example. Below is from a user.
My first purchase cost me $125.90 in total then subsequently thereafter I purchased 2x more phones which came out to $94.84 each.
Since you bought the first phone at regular price, Boost treats any further purchases as an additional line since they're on the same account.
However, bear in mind Boost will automatically enable autopay again so be sure to disable it prior to your next billing cycle recurring.
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unlock details .
update 4:
look for user =CyanWing
i believe this user has offered 3 unlocks for $5
full transparency:
no feedback as of yet
update 3:
look for user =ThriftyGame5232
this user has supplied many code for many users here.
over 100+.
full transparency:
most are successful. however, to date only 2 have failed.
cost i believe is $3
update2 :
other services have been id'ed. s low as $3-8,
search and use your own judgement
update1:
cost=$15. unlocks vai code obtained from a webiste posted here a few times.
search for key word "unlock".
cost is $14.95. and has worked for practically everyone.
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To reduce installation of games and other unwanted apps:
Set up without going on WiFi or inserting SIM card. Click on Skip for WiFi and Set up offline for the SIM card. Then Continue to set up offline.
Go to the App manager, click to view system apps. Then disable App cloud, Mobile Applicatons Manager.
After that you can enable WiFi, isert SIM card, activate.
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P.S. don't mind if the solution is adb commands to disable, fiine with that.
"SOB out of stock...oh well I'll check back later"
showed out of stock when I was logged into my account.
Still in stock via incognito. Started the check out process incognito, logged in, then redid the checkout process and it let me grab one. Don't know what's going on there...whatever
edit: as a data point, it's been about a week, maybe a bit longer from activation. It did show the prorate, $32.26.
Also is there a way to down grade service and keep the number?
Reminder. bootloader unlocking required for flashing a custom rom needs to be done on the original DISH firmware. Once it is unlocked you are free to flash whatever firmware and factory reset the phone, the bootloader will remain unlocked. It is possible to flash over RETUS without unlocking the bootloader but to have an unlocked bootloader on RETUS firmware it needs to be unlocked before you change over.
The two main custom roms being maintained are LineageOS and DerpFest. Lineage can be run with GAPPS (playstore/default Google suite of applications) or without GAPPS where you can select your preferred applications, use MicroG/gmscore to run apps that have dependencies on Google. Lineage is not rooted out of the box. DerpFest has GAPPs prepackaged in the install file and is already rooted out of the box you need only to download the KernalSU APK to manage root permissions and install modules
I will get and flash retUS firmware.
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It's hidden in the menu, but there is a dialer code to get the imei 2 value. The esim doesn't appear to be in the carrier's databases I have checked but you can use a donor sim to get a QR code or ask your carrier to add it to their database (took mobile X like 3ish days, maybe it was longer).
Once you have the QR code scan it and setup is normal for esim.
edit: dialer code; *#06#
**Edit: this method worked for me, I am able to add 2nd sim card as eSIM and set it as my main voice line in Sim preferences.
You need to activate it when you get it, and then disable auto pay and let it cancel before the second month
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The i-imei servce for $5. Check earlier posts in this thread.
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