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okay so here is the question i have just bought a sprint htc hero i am going to flash it to metro pcs service... my question is this does anyone know if i flash it to metro pcs would me changing the roms as often as i do with my mt3g affect the flash of the service??? the reason i ask is becuse i work for metro and i know with the samsung instinct or even blackberrys if you upgrade the os after you have flashed the service you lose the flash.... understand?
I could be wrong on this but I dont belive it will affect it. With the BB and instinct if you change the OS you are actually UPGRADING the OS ie. 4.3 to 4.5. but when flashing a rom onto a hero you are not so much upgrading the OS as much as changing and tweaking it a bit.
Once again I could be wrong but thats what I think to be the case.
unless of course we get a fully working 2.1 going then the situation could be different.
thanks for your input
actully that does make sense but then agin when we flash our roms we do full wipes and alot of files and things that make the phone tick change well not change but they are reset everytime are they not? meanin that w.e i do has to be done agin in theroy being that i wiped the phone? and another question while im acting as a noob lol witch roms work with the cdma hero the same ones as the other hero phones? or only the two i saw in this section of the forum?
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I could be wrong on this but I dont belive it will affect it. With the BB and instinct if you change the OS you are actually UPGRADING the OS ie. 4.3 to 4.5. but when flashing a rom onto a hero you are not so much upgrading the OS as much as changing and tweaking it a bit.
Once again I could be wrong but thats what I think to be the case.
unless of course we get a fully working 2.1 going then the situation could be different.
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I am not a cell phone genius by any means, but I am pretty sure the way you move the Hero to another carrier is to change the PRL. Flashing our roms does not mess with the PRL as far as I know.
dskyers said:
actully that does make sense but then agin when we flash our roms we do full wipes and alot of files and things that make the phone tick change well not change but they are reset everytime are they not? Meanin that w.e i do has to be done agin in theroy being that i wiped the phone? And another question while im acting as a noob lol witch roms work with the cdma hero the same ones as the other hero phones? Or only the two i saw in this section of the forum?
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do not flash the gsm hero roms!!!!!!!!!!!!:d
thanks
thanks for that answer ill do some googling i suppose but thanks... i had to switch from tmobile got a job at metro pcs and will only have to pay $15 a month for service so... i love mt mt3g and tmobie but that a big diffrence in money for me
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I am not a cell phone genius by any means, but I am pretty sure the way you move the Hero to another carrier is to change the PRL. Flashing our roms does not mess with the PRL as far as I know.
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do not flash the gsm hero roms!!!!!!!!!!!!:d
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as they said DO NOT FLASH GSM ROMS!!
if you do you will brick your phone. for CDMA you have several different options. just check out the stickie wki at the top. also I forgot that Kcarpenter was right I belive you just change the PRL even if that is not the case, when you do a data wipe you are not reflasing back to stock all it does is erase all the user settings. anthing that is in the codeing for the phone remains.
edit: BTW the only roms you have to do a wipe with are the AOSP 1.6 the 2.1 v1.8-7 and the AOSP 2.0.1 the others should just flash over stock without any issues. I personally use Fresh 1.1 with the modaco kernel (love the setup very fast) links for all are in my sig also check out "Noj lockscreen" in my sig for some cool add ons.
okay okay
thank you its starting to make sense now thanks you guys yea im going to read all that now.. thank you guys
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as they said DO NOT FLASH GSM ROMS!!
if you do you will brick your phone. for CDMA you have several different options. just check out the stickie wki at the top. also I forgot that Kcarpenter was right I belive you just change the PRL even if that is not the case, when you do a data wipe you are not reflasing back to stock all it does is erase all the user settings. anthing that is in the codeing for the phone remains.
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jsut checked out the wiki
you guys are orginized down here lol that kitchen thing looks awsome thanks for the help
I was on metropcs for over 3 years, and I flashed my HTC SPRINT HERO to metro, and changed ROMS etc a lot, those settings don't go away when you do that, Finally I went to sprint, because honestly this phone sucks on MetroPcs is meant to be free and having Unlimited ONline
I Have been rockin a Sprint Hero on Metro for a few days now down here in Tampa. Picked out a nice Hero ROM but No MMS or Internet........
Anyone know the setting for Metropcs........help please!
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as they said DO NOT FLASH GSM ROMS!!
if you do you will brick your phone. for CDMA you have several different options. just check out the stickie wki at the top. also I forgot that Kcarpenter was right I belive you just change the PRL even if that is not the case, when you do a data wipe you are not reflasing back to stock all it does is erase all the user settings. anthing that is in the codeing for the phone remains.
edit: BTW the only roms you have to do a wipe with are the AOSP 1.6 the 2.1 v1.8-7 and the AOSP 2.0.1 the others should just flash over stock without any issues. I personally use Fresh 1.1 with the modaco kernel (love the setup very fast) links for all are in my sig also check out "Noj lockscreen" in my sig for some cool add ons.
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I have a CDMA Hero running fresh rom 2.4.0 by flipz. I am trying to put it back to stock cause i would like to sell it and get a EVO. When I go to put the stock 2.1 on there it says the phone is not connected to the computer. But I can charge and do everything else. But it will not put stock sprint 2.1 back on there. Can anyone offer any help.
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Slinkyman22
hey guy HTC Snap s510 will not turn on. it gets frozen at the smart mobility page. I have tried hard resetting but it doesnt work. i have tried a bunch of different SPL installers but the get through the step, then when it comes time to install the firmware it wont get past 0%. Right now i just want a way to get my device back up and running with or without WM 6.5. thanks and i am really looking forward to getting this fixed. and if you tell me to searth through threads for answers i just spent over 8 hours searching the web for answers and i am about to give up.
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hey guy HTC Snap s510 will not turn on. it gets frozen at the smart mobility page. I have tried hard resetting but it doesnt work. i have tried a bunch of different SPL installers but the get through the step, then when it comes time to install the firmware it wont get past 0%. Right now i just want a way to get my device back up and running with or without WM 6.5. thanks and i am really looking forward to getting this fixed. and if you tell me to searth through threads for answers i just spent over 8 hours searching the web for answers and i am about to give up.
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Moved to general as not rom development.
Have U tried any method of the unbricking tutorial . Try it.
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Moved to general as not rom development.
Have U tried any method of the
yes I have when i try flashing the rom it doesn't go past 0%
i might not be using the right rom so if you have a link to some that would be awesome
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Mr. Clown said:
Moved to general as not rom development.
Have U tried any method of the
yes I have when i try flashing the rom it doesn't go past 0%
i might not be using the right rom so if you have a link to some that would be awesome
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Have you tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652532. I really don't know if it works with telus, so try it at your own risk.
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tcbert96 said:
Have you tried this? I really don't know if it works with telus, so try it at your own risk.
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I am in the same boat i have read. I have searched. I have spent days looking. I have pulled my hair.
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I am not sure as to the recovery of the phone itself as I have no experience with that as of yet.
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i have tried a bunch of different SPL installers...
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I do want to confirm for you though, Ozone(Cedar) HardSPL as well as [ROM][CEDA/OZONE][WWE][* 3VOLUTION SERIES *][WM6.5 STD 21854][Build 3VO.2.00.122209] are working with my Telus S510. Hope you are successful in the recovery of the phone, I will post if I come across anything I think may be helpful.
So did u manage to unbrick it?
Made any progress
Please share if u have
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I have exactly the same problem, if somone knows how to fix this, please help
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tcbert96 said:
Have you tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652532. I really don't know if it works with telus, so try it at your own risk.
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After allot of time i managed to make mtty to work
and i followed the tutorial.
Now what tho.
I need to flash the original telus rom but i cant find it
Thanks
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I got through that guide as well, but when it comes time to flash the rom, it hangs at 0% and then gives me error 262. I go through recovery but it still doesn't work. I dont have hardSPL either, is there any way to get HardSPL from bootloader? Also, when i try task 28 in mtty again, i get :
Format start
Fill RSVD information for block 351 to 384
TAG NOT FOUND !!! NOT CLEAR STORAGE !!!
Format end
also, the telus rom you can get from a search.
hm... Thats weird
i cant find the telus rom
I can only find the raw form, and i think you need to cook it or smthn
Anyway, if it doesnt work for you, it wont work for me either, cause we are having exactly the same problem.
It would be awesome if we can Install hard spl from bootloader.
But no1 seems to be able to help us.
We are the only users who are bothering to reply as it seems.
Is it an official signed rom you need or the recooked raws? (Not sure how successful I'll be but if it can help I will see if I can recook them.) As for the official signed rom, I haven't been able to find one myself as of yet.
we need the official telus signed rom
Because we didnt hard spl our phones, we're stack.
So either the official signed rom, or we need to find a way to hard spl our phones through the tricolor bootloader
Any ideas?
I'm stuck at the same with with my Mobilicity Snap. I went through the HardSPL and it said everything was successful but now my phone is bricked because I failed to notice SPL 1.24 still on the tri color screen. I also would like to know if there is a way to use MTTY, some other tool, or get hardspl onto the phone through the bootloader. HardSPL hangs on 0% from the boot loader for me.
Also tried MTTY task 28, task 29, reboot, reflash to no avail.
We all seem to have the same problem, I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed yet.
I guess there's no luck finding a factory rom for the s510 series...?
You guys are braver than me, I won't attempt a flash unless I have an out waiting.
Come one ! Really there is no fix for the file with the bad code ?
Hi ALL! Please help. Thank you!
I am trying to restore my phone to fact default for a girl that I am selling my phone too. I was currently running sense 3.0 with the virtuous rom and a modified radio. Anyways, I downloaded footballs posted PD15IMG.ZIP and put it on the root of my SD card and I tried to do it that way, because that has worked in the past, but now I think I might have bricked my phone, ****. Basically... I tried to do that and it didn't work saying that the update failed because "main version is older"...so I flashed a different backup to try and do it with that rom, but that didn't work either, now I am seeing that it says "s=on" at the top? So can someone please help me... am I doomed or is there a way to fix my phone..?!?! Thanks.
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Hi ALL! Please help. Thank you!
I am trying to restore my phone to fact default for a girl that I am selling my phone too. I was currently running sense 3.0 with the virtuous rom and a modified radio. Anyways, I downloaded footballs posted PD15IMG.ZIP and put it on the root of my SD card and I tried to do it that way, because that has worked in the past, but now I think I might have bricked my phone, ****. Basically... I tried to do that and it didn't work saying that the update failed because "main version is older"...so I flashed a different backup to try and do it with that rom, but that didn't work either, now I am seeing that it says "s=on" at the top? So can someone please help me... am I doomed or is there a way to fix my phone..?!?! Thanks.
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you, sir, are unfortunately **** out of luck. the same thing happened to me and I tried EVERYTHING for like a week straight but was never able to fix it. the problem is that you should have reverted back to the stock radio before trying to flash the PD15IMG. you have a radio lockout, and I dont think theres any way to fix it. its been discussed on another thread if youd like to view it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092170
*edit*the other guy got his fixed so you might wanna try the methods he did, but I was never able to fix mine so I just bricked it
Looking for the sbf for this in case of needing to go stock would really appreciate some help
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mikeew83 said:
Looking for the sbf for this in case of needing to go stock would really appreciate some help
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Here is your link
SBF flash for Alltel MB809 - Milestone X
SHADO_X6_3.1.39_SHADOW_BP_C_02.06.00R_AP_BP_Flex_20_signed_secure_alltel_1ff_P3_USERBLD.sbf.gz
http://www.fileserve.com/file/sAXdN...20_signed_secure_alltel_1ff_P3_USERBLD.sbf.gz
Compression MD5 - 8E155E9189BE6E619CB2E46C7718BF1E
SBF MD5 - 9C67A33735D0ED84155034FB36797C83
holy crap! you don't know how long I have been waiting for this and I don't think it would ever come!!! how did you get this!?
Ty so much is this tested
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yes it does work but it changes the build number to AWCC which I have no idea what that means, the build I had on it before was RETAIL
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Just realized that this is for the AWCC Alltel, unfortunately for me I am on the alltel which Is still being switched to VERIZON. Phone still works though.
ive tried this an i just get error when flashing
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ive tried this an i just get error when flashing
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it would help to know what error. lol
Milestone SBF on Droid X
I have a rooted Droid X that I flashed to alltel's network, however certian things like 3G and MMS were not working so I thought I would try to flash the alltel SBF to the phone and it worked! Kinda...it just isn't booting...I think it just needs to be wiped and SBF flashed again but I'm not sure. Either way now I'm stuck with a phone that I can't boot. Any ideas?
I figured it out...just needed to get into recovery by booting with home button and pressing the search button and wiping...after that I did another wipe and now everything is working perfectly, I think...still have to check the MMS but 3G is working like a champ!
just wanted to leave some important info concerning "STANDALONE GPS"
on my MB810`s i am not activated and have the BLUE TRIANGLE in notification bar with my stock OTA FROYO 2.2.340 or my OTA GB 4.5.596 on both my DX`s
you can not get STANDALONE GPS working if you have VZW and no activation!!!
i flashed to this alltel SBF from above and i have STANDALONE GPS and alot less bloatware from verizon
so we are running android 2.2.1....
is there no GB for this MB809?
i know this is an old thread but i know google tends to lead people to this thread so i needed to post. found out today alltel updated their activation number and therfor or atleast in my area this sbf will not let my activate my phone due to the built in old one. if anyone has any solutions please post it even if this thread is old. im also active in the droidxforums i know many people are eventually going to run into this problem as well.
thanks
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i know this is an old thread but i know google tends to lead people to this thread so i needed to post. found out today alltel updated their activation number and therfor or atleast in my area this sbf will not let my activate my phone due to the built in old one. if anyone has any solutions please post it even if this thread is old. im also active in the droidxforums i know many people are eventually going to run into this problem as well.
thanks
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what change? what the new way?
No, there hasn't been a Gingerbread release for the Milestone X that the regional carriers use. Hopefully it'll come.
So what's a guy supposed to do to get a DroidX to work on Alltel?
Just flash the Alltel SBF and everything will work just fine. Make sure you don't try to SBF back to 2.2 once you get the 2.3.5 update or it will brick your phone.
Anyone know is there is a Verizon software version that will also leave a brick if you try to SBF to Alltel? I have an X that someone wants me to flash but i'm scared to screw their phone up. It has the 2.3.3 version.
please help need milestone x altell sbf file most of the links are dead.
rob151200 said:
please help need milestone x altell sbf file most of the links are dead.
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My friend recently got an Htc Evo 4g and he found out it was flashed to Metro PCS which he did not want, so is there anyway to flash it back to Sprint?
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My friend recently got an Htc Evo 4g and he found out it was flashed to Metro PCS which he did not want, so is there anyway to flash it back to Sprint?
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what software is on it now? (version)
is it rooted?
It is not rooted but I'm not sure what version he is on..
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It is not rooted but I'm not sure what version he is on..
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you might want to find out..
have you looked at the process to make an evo work on metro? it might shed some more light on how to go back
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you might want to find out..
have you looked at the process to make an evo work on metro? it might shed some more light on how to go back
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I have not.... was hoping for a simple process to flashing it back to sprint =/ but i'll take a look into that then.
I found that the Evo, my friend has is not rooted and has the 2.3.3 update, I've read to unflash the phone back to sprint i would have to flash a stock ROM that contains the Sprint ESN. but the problem is can a 2.3.3 Evo be rooted at least get CWM on it to flash the stock ROM? anyway around this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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My friend recently got an Htc Evo 4g and he found out it was flashed to Metro PCS which he did not want, so is there anyway to flash it back to Sprint?
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First I would find out with sprint if the esn is good.
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an Evo flashed to MPCS is likely going to have a bad ESN and will not be able to be activated on Sprint again, hence the reason that phone was probably sold (or was stolen). However, that's not guaranteed. Definitely need to call up Sprint and check the ESN/MEID, or try this website http://www.checkesnfree.com/index.html, no clue if it really works though.
The ESN has not been changed on the device at all. The rom has nothing to do with the carrier. The phone can have whatever rom you desire on it and work on Sprint, MetroPCS, or Cricket if flashed properly. No ESN change necessary.
Btw, if that phone has the 2.3.3 update on it already then it IS a stock Sprint rom, and you won't be flashing other roms to that phone since the boot loader is going to be locked.
However, this should not stop you from being able to put the phone in diagnostic mode and flash the phone back to Sprint using QPST or some other phone flashing software.
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an Evo flashed to MPCS is likely going to have a bad ESN and will not be able to be activated on Sprint again, hence the reason that phone was probably sold (or was stolen). However, that's not guaranteed. Definitely need to call up Sprint and check the ESN/MEID, or try this website http://www.checkesnfree.com/index.html, no clue if it really works though.
The ESN has not been changed on the device at all. The rom has nothing to do with the carrier. The phone can have whatever rom you desire on it and work on Sprint, MetroPCS, or Cricket if flashed properly. No ESN change necessary.
Btw, if that phone has the 2.3.3 update on it already then it IS a stock Sprint rom, and you won't be flashing other roms to that phone since the boot loader is going to be locked.
However, this should not stop you from being able to put the phone in diagnostic mode and flash the phone back to Sprint using QPST or some other phone flashing software.
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Thanks for the response, and yes, the phone was sold to my friend which he later found out it was flashed to Metro PCS, and since the phone is on 2.3.3 the last option would be to call sprint and see if anything can be done.