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yes I got the SIM card from from Sprint International. Is it safe to say, N5 phones can be activated if purchased from the following (Phones are all compatable, but it's the carriers policy that prevents activation). Google Play: Any carrier Sprint: Any carrier T-Mobile: Not Sprint White Van: Might get lucky for carrier

^lol. As much as I want to continue on getting this resolved. I ended up selling the N5. Maybe in the future this will be fixed by sprint but ive been dealing with them for weeks and I need to replace my s3. I ended up ordering from google play store. Now if I can't activate that one. I'm going to throw the phone at sprint hq building. Lol

Are you sure? If a IMEI is looked up in a manufacture system (LG in this case, it shows its a Tmobile device), I would think that every carrier would have the same capability to do so. To your point, it is also true that Sprint's policy is that no phones are allowed to be added in the system.

This is what I believe the issue is. Thanks for the input.

Yes, I have tried the chat and they simply said they can not activate if not purchased from Sprint or Google. I don't think it would matter. But I know its nearly impossible to get a phone added to the system. What is sounds like is that Sprint has a internal database of "Sprint" phones. If it's not on the list, than its not allow. I will keep my journey up to date on getting this activated. If I don't find a resolution, i'm just going to order one from Google Play and sell mine on CL.

So Sprint is saying "If it is not bought from Sprint or from the Google Play store, a Sprint device then it cannot be activated" Has there been reports of a Tmobile N5 used on Sprint? I only recall the other way around. I think when Sprint looks up the IMEI/MEID, they probably see it's a tmobile phone and getting it added into the white list is nearly impossible.

yes, have tried online chat. Phone call *2, and store.

I understand the MEID is the IMEI with the last check digit left off. When I enter the MEID on sprint, I get "Hmmm… this number doesn't match our records, please try again." When I was at the store, they scanned the barcode and the same thing. I got a reply back from dan and someone is suppose to contact me. We'll see how that goes.

Thanks Mike. I'll continue to try to get the phone activated. I pulled the MEID from the phone itself. The tech also repeated d it and it just shows as an invalid number. I've contacted dan@sprint.com to try and rectify this issue. Hopefully I can get the phone on the network. I really hate to switch carriers since ive been on SERO since it existed. Im sure sprint would love to have me off the sero plan though.

Mike, thanks For the info. I was under the impression that the nexus 5 is identical as well. But why would the meid not show up in sprints database? I called sprint again after the 100th time and the ticket that was opened up was closed. They said the phone was defective... I called Google and LG. Google says the phones are all identical. Lg on the other hand says the phones that are distributed to carriers are only for those carriers. But that doesn't make sense since these phones are essentially not carrier locked. Now what I'm curious is how the imei's are distributed. If lg phones going to t mobile, theoretically sprint wouldn't have my imei/meid in their database. I always thought that imei/meid's are distributed in a global level. No? The rep at sprint corp store tried everything they could and the phone couldn't be activated. Is it because the phone was originally purchased from T-Mobile?

So sifting through the posts, the N5 can be switched with tmobile and sprint. I got a tmobile N5 16GB for a great deal but can't seem to activate it with sprint. I have the SIM from sprint and it appears that the problem is the phone is not on sprints database. Would of thought that adding in the IMEI would be simple...not. I would assume the IMEI's are distributed among the carriers for activation? Have been trying to get this activated since the beginning of the year.