The Dr offers a recent experience. Purchased two new 7135's flashed for USCellular, and put them onto Verizon. But it was not pretty.

1) It was not as simple as I had hoped. Using File Manager, there is a great disparity between the files that USCellular puts into their phone vs Verizon. The least not being roaming partners.
2) Another small item was putting the correct carrier logo. The easy part was putting the carrier logo (discussed elsewhere). The hard part, is that a hard-reset (paridy of words) brought back the original carrier logo. Not good.
3) Given the phone was unlocked, I could not even get it to see Verizon. Wel that wasn't exactly true: one phone saw Verizon, and the identical phone, didn't see Verizon.
4) After much effort, we were successful. And yes it was a "we", as I needed Verizon's technical lead and flashing to make it all work. Not for the faint of heart, but yes, it does/did work.

The Dr.

After 2 full days of trying everything: off to the technical lead at my friendly Verizon store armed with four phones: 2-USCellular; 1-Original Verizon with graffiti 1; and 1-upgrade Verizon with graffiti 2.

1st we tried the software upgrade to the USCellular phones, and it took 5 tries to make it take. In the end, we had to manually add some files from the Verizon phone to the USCellular. But a hard-reset brought everything back to USCellular.

Again, did the same thing; moved some files, deleted some, moved some back, and SUCCESS. I'd love to tell you which files, but since we were winging-it, no usable notes. Now, even with a hard reset, the phone worked terrific including a VZW logo. Excellent, now to the PDA part.

PDA Upgrade-Nope: all efforts to upgrade the pda part to latest rev (why would anyone want to give up grafiti 1?) all failed. So, we left the pda part alone, and all now seems well.

What we learned:
a) Change the carrier logo as you will, but unless you get it flashed, the original carrier logo will return on a hard reset.
b) 7135's for USCellular do work on VZW, but it isn't painless.
c) would I do it again... not too soon, but I would try it again.

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I am trying to upgrade my 7135 from UScellular. I have emailed them and they say that the do not do the upgrades. And my phone has a password and I do not know it. Did your phones have a password to do the upgrade?

Thanks
TooHuge

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My understanding is that firmware upgrade is not DIY (unless you have a special software program that is proprietary to Kyocera and not available to the general public).

I also understand that phone firmware is carrier-specific, so I wonder what US Cellular means when they say that they "don't do" the upgrades.

The dr offers: if the phone is locked, six digit programming lock, you are <pooped> I don't think anyone can help. But I have a thought...

Now, if the circumstance was different, say if your phone happens to say "verizon" when turned on? You should get some interesting looks and the best of help if when a tech does a *611 and connects to USCellular... they'd figure for sure it is broken, and will do their best to fix it.

Reasonable would be to reflash the phone. Unreasaonble would be a replacement verizon flashed phone.

Your mileage may vary. Just food for thought.

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out of the wireless business; but I do consulting and security as a CISSP; www.wiremore.biz shares my values and has a good business link as well.