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[Q] PRL UPdate is it worth it?

I just got a text from sprint to update my PRL. I HAVE a rooted phone with cyanogenmod 6 on it. Should I update?

I just got the same text, running CM6 also. First time in a year now that I have ever seen a text about a PRL update. Not going to run out and restore a sense nandroid just to check to see whats up though.

This has me confused as well. In all my years as a sprint customer I have never received a text about an update.
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Ive updated and for me a little better phone singal thats all i notice other than that its fine Im runnig CM6 Stable i used ninfinity stock rom to update then switched back hope this helps
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Anyone know is this the 60671 PRL or what? I got the text too and so did my wife...

I'm new at this with android. I have ROM Manager and I have a backup when I was on stock. Can I use Rom Manager backup/restore function and restore to stock and then update? I haven't tried restoring yet, will this restore exactly how it was or will I loose me data?

Ur better off flashing ninfinity rom after u do a nandroid backup of ur current rom its almost like stock but with performance enhancements use that to update ur prl/pri then nand restore back to ur current rom that way u wont loose root good luck
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pwachleman said:
Anyone know is this the 60671 PRL or what? ...
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I updated last night and now have 60671. Sounds like you're in luck and don't need to update. Color me jealous.

I was pretty sure I've seen at some point that you can just flash the new PRL to your phone... I could be wrong though

I nandroided back to an old 1.5 rooted backup, but the PRL update function kept failing with error 1012.
I just downloaded it from PPCGeeks, pushed it to my phone and then used ##PRL# to manually load it. Then wiped and loaded a backup of my current Froyo 2.2.1 installation.

I just backed up my current CM6 rom, restored the Fresh 2.3.3 rom I was running before that, got the prl update with no problem, restored the CM6 rom and now I have 60671 in my CM6. I didn't even know you could download the file on PC and push it over.

I messed up once I decided to stick with cm6, I deleted my fresh rom back up. Where could I get a back up of fresh, I dont want to install fresh and have to wipe Or can I wipe and restore my current back up of cm6 via PC and be OK?
Thanks
Pulling fresh rom back up off my wifes phone

Just make a nandroid of your current setup, wipe, then flash fresh. After you get done you can just restore your nandroid.

cordell12 said:
I messed up once I decided to stick with cm6, I deleted my fresh rom back up. Where could I get a back up of fresh, I dont want to install fresh and have to wipe Or can I wipe and restore my current back up of cm6 via PC and be OK?
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Pulling fresh rom back up off my wifes phone
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I was able to update my wifes PRL by flashing back to fresh rom, her back up. So I took her back up and put it on my phone. I tried to update PRL and am getting ERROR 1012 ??

Just flash the Rom from scratch...

joehunni said:
Just flash the Rom from scratch...
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Doing that now, my main worry was starting over from a bare cm6
Thanks for the help
UPDATE....Flashing new working! Back to cm6 now, lol. Thanks again!

cordell12 said:
I was able to update my wifes PRL by flashing back to fresh rom, her back up. So I took her back up and put it on my phone. I tried to update PRL and am getting ERROR 1012 ??
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I know you have it resolved now, but if anyone else doesn't have an old nandroid... you can download the 60671.prl file from various places - either on the phone itself or via pc and use adb to push it. Then you can load an older rom that has the ##PRL# code working, and have it load the file that way. Then just nandroid back to your everyday rom.

cant download from market after going back to a 2.1 rom from 2.2 beta

i need some help. i cant download from the market after i went back to a 2.1 rom from a 2.2 beta rom. any ideas?

Is it stuck on downloading?
Usually when it is, I just leave it there-- then after a few minutes, it will tell you it's installing.
You can also try going to Settings > Applications > Market and clearing data and cache. Then open up market again and let it refresh.

i tried that already and it still hasnt changed. even did a factory reset twice

pjames said:
i need some help. i cant download from the market after i went back to a 2.1 rom from a 2.2 beta rom. any ideas?
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I SO don't know what I'm talking about. Ever. But especially here.
However having said that, perhaps you flashed the baseband to 2.2 with the modem file and Odin, and need to flash it back to a 2.1.
Anyone confirm/feel free to correct me and call me names....
Also I've had issues with the market upon restoring backups after trying out different ROMs. Sometimes I stop all the backed-up market downloads, then clear the cache, the reboot and try downloading apps again one or two at a time and that works. Recently I had an issue where the market thought I didn't have a program installed, but I did have it from a Titanium backup. Market kept trying to restore it. Then I uninstalled it from my Epic and reinstalled it from the market.

pjames said:
i need some help. i cant download from the market after i went back to a 2.1 rom from a 2.2 beta rom. any ideas?
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I had the same issue when I reverted back to 2.1. Are you doing a restore from a nandroid backup? I tried doing a straight nandroid restore, failed. I tried wiping and flashing a 2.1 rom and then doing a data restore, failed. Finally, I just gave up and forwent the data restore. I had to rebuild everything, but it worked.
I'm sure you can find a more elegant solution, but it's what worked for me.

Darkshneider;9343371Content deleted/QUOTE said:
While I don't necessarily disagree with the point you're trying to make, there is no need to be an ass about it.
The damage is already done. Mods can move or whatever they want with the thread. You have no control over it, other than to state your discontent with it. At that point, polite encouragement is better than abusive.
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Ibwas having the same problem. It was caused by restoring from a nandroid backup. I just reflashed and restored all my apps manually
Tapatalkin it from my Epic 4G

i fixed it by going back to the 2.2 beta rom i was using. i reverted back to 2.1 because gps wasnt working but now gps is working on 2.2 and i have market access. i would say close this thread but i sure somebody else will have this problem and need the help so leave it open

Nandorid process for the epic?

So I'm new to this phone and I'm unsure about its backup process and its restore process. I come from the moto cliq phone and that phone had a different custom recovery that in my opinion was better.
With this clockwork recovery unless I'm doing something wrong I get force closes left and right when I do a rom restore. So what happens is I completely restore the rom and as soon as the phone loads into it everything will give me force close warnings which in return never let's me fully load in, making the restore crap! Because I have to start fresh.
So could anyone here tell me the proper process of backing up my rom/ restoring, using this clockwork recovery? Or is this a known bug? Rom I was using was EE 1.2.9.
Thank you for any sorta help.
- Its just going to be Epic!

Pvt WhoOkid said:
So I'm new to this phone and I'm unsure about its backup process and its restore process. I come from the moto cliq phone and that phone had a different custom recovery that in my opinion was better.
With this clockwork recovery unless I'm doing something wrong I get force closes left and right when I do a rom restore. So what happens is I completely restore the rom and as soon as the phone loads into it everything will give me force close warnings which in return never let's me fully load in, making the restore crap! Because I have to start fresh.
So could anyone here tell me the proper process of backing up my rom/ restoring, using this clockwork recovery? Or is this a known bug? Rom I was using was EE 1.2.9.
Thank you for any sorta help.
- Its just going to be Epic!
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I can't tell right off, because EE is updated now, but is EE 1.2.9 a froyo ROM? Some apps will FC because they are NOT for froyo. If you did the backup from eclair and then flashed to a Froyo rom you may see those FCs.
You might try booting into clockwork, wiping the cache and user data and system, then doing an advanced restore and restoring just the data. But again, apps that are not supposed to run on froyo will fc.
Also, it sounds like you can re-load everything fresh with too much hassle - you've had lots of practice by now - why not try flashing a new EE ROM like 2.0.0.01. Follow the instructions and FLASH the DK17 modem. Then you can reload your apps from the market and do an updated nandroid/clockwork backup.

EE 1.2.9 is the rom before the froyo beta drop that he did. When I do backups everything goes smoothly, but when I restore and I just hit restore a rom it seems to restore fine, but the min I pass the load up screen all I get is force close for everything.
I don't know if I'm doing my back ups or restores wrong or if maybe it could be the rom? But somehow I doubt its the rom. I'm trying to figure out if there's a procress to backup or restore that I'm doing wrong?
All I hit is back up when doing my nandroid and to restore I just hit restore, I didn't do advance restore. Any tips?
Thanks for the reply.
- Its just going to be Epic!

Are you using a theme? Any time I have tried to restore a theme it has caused endless force closes.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

Pvt WhoOkid said:
EE 1.2.9 is the rom before the froyo beta drop that he did. When I do backups everything goes smoothly, but when I restore and I just hit restore a rom it seems to restore fine, but the min I pass the load up screen all I get is force close for everything.
I don't know if I'm doing my back ups or restores wrong or if maybe it could be the rom? But somehow I doubt its the rom. I'm trying to figure out if there's a procress to backup or restore that I'm doing wrong?
All I hit is back up when doing my nandroid and to restore I just hit restore, I didn't do advance restore. Any tips?
Thanks for the reply.
- Its just going to be Epic!
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So at some point your phone is runnign with NO fc's? And then you back up and restore to test the backup, and suddenly you have FCs? You should not get FC's from restoring a nandroid backup that you had just made from a flawless ROM.
It's possible that one of your resident programs is conflicting with the others - if you go into settings, applications, running services, do you see anything there that perhaps should not be there?

s9ortner said:
Are you using a theme? Any time I have tried to restore a theme it has caused endless force closes.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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I've never used a theme for my epic, none really catch my eye.
- Its just going to be Epic!

bilestoad said:
So at some point your phone is runnign with NO fc's? And then you back up and restore to test the backup, and suddenly you have FCs? You should not get FC's from restoring a nandroid backup that you had just made from a flawless ROM.
It's possible that one of your resident programs is conflicting with the others - if you go into settings, applications, running services, do you see anything there that perhaps should not be there?
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You're exactly correct. A perfect example is right now I'm running EE 1.2.9 with no force closing problems with all my apps installed and everything is running smoothly, I made a back up and then wiped my phone completely of everything.
Then went ahead and tried hitting restore, everything seemed to have restored because I got no errors in recovery but the min the phone loaded into home screen I get errors like "launcher pro force close, beautiful widgets force close." And so on.. I've clicked over 100 times force close and everything seems to give to me force close errors renderng my phone useless, after the system restore.
So I had to start fresh again and just reinstalled everything and everything is working fine. Weird huh? I don't know what I could be doing wrong.
Thanks for the help.
- Its just going to be Epic!

You need to do an advanced restore and only restore data. Basically you flashing a 2.1 rom over a 2.2 rom this will break things. Since you are going from 2.1 to 2.2 your best bet is to reinstall all your apps from scratch or use titanium backup to restore your apps. You are bringing in data from 2.1 to 2.2 that shouldn't be there that is why your getting fc's.
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skeeterslint said:
You need to do an advanced restore and only restore data. Basically you flashing a 2.1 rom over a 2.2 rom this will break things. Since you are going from 2.1 to 2.2 your best bet is to reinstall all your apps from scratch or use titanium backup to restore your apps. You are bringing in data from 2.1 to 2.2 that shouldn't be there that is why your getting fc's.
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I'm not updating to 2.2 yet. This all is happening on 2.1 using EE 1.2.9 (eclair.) Which doesn't make sense to me at all. Unless something is wrong with clockwork recovery?
- Its just going to be Epic!

Unable to send sms

I flash different roms all of the time, but i've never had this problem. After flashing back to CM7 on my Shift, I can receive texts but not send them.
I flashed a Sense rom and updated the PRL and Profile; nothing. Then I dialed *#*#4636#*#* for the SMSC update, tried both the 11-digit SMSC number and the 16-digit Hexadecimal PDU number, but every time I got the "update failed" message.
However, something must have worked, because despite nothing appearing to work, I can send and receive texts on the Sense rom. However, when I restore my CM7 backup, the problem resurfaces... even after attempting the SMSC updates in CM7.
Does anybody know what i'm doing wrong? I'd like to get my ability to send SMSs back on my AOSP rom.

I would try a Fresh Flash of the CM7 Rom you want to use. Instead of the CM7 Backup you already have. It may be corrupt, or just a bad Nand Backup.

prboy1969 said:
I would try a Fresh Flash of the CM7 Rom you want to use. Instead of the CM7 Backup you already have. It may be corrupt, or just a bad Nand Backup.
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Ah, well I was hoping there was a way to keep my settings and apps but so be it. I'll re-download the rom over WiFi tonight and post my results.

Well, after taking prboy's advice I re-download my CM7 rom (Sparksco's v1.1 stable version of CyanogenMod 7.2.0).
At first I did a full wipe before flashing, but ran into the same SMS issue as before. I ended up restoring my Sense rom with working SMS, then flashing CM7 over it without wiping, and now I am able to send and recieve texts like normal.
Only problem now is i'm missing a lot of functionality. For example, the home button doesn't work, I can't take a screenshot, the phone app for making calls is missing and I can't access the "CyanogenMod settings" from the settings menu.
Any ideas? Is it possible to backup/restore just the part of a rom that is responsible for SMS capabilities? In the meantime, i'll play with rebuilding caches and permissions.

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Well, after taking prboy's advice I re-download my CM7 rom (Sparksco's v1.1 stable version of CyanogenMod 7.2.0).
At first I did a full wipe before flashing, but ran into the same SMS issue as before. I ended up restoring my Sense rom with working SMS, then flashing CM7 over it without wiping, and now I am able to send and recieve texts like normal.
Only problem now is i'm missing a lot of functionality. For example, the home button doesn't work, I can't take a screenshot, the phone app for making calls is missing and I can't access the "CyanogenMod settings" from the settings menu.
Any ideas? Is it possible to backup/restore just the part of a rom that is responsible for SMS capabilities? In the meantime, i'll play with rebuilding caches and permissions.
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Your pretty much worse off then when you started. Flashing a Rom on top of another Rom without wiping is not a good idea. Flashing a Non-Sense Rom over a Sense Rom without wiping is a really bad idea. You I'm sure have a lot of corrupt data. You can try this, Nand back to the Sense Rom. Update PRL / Profile. Then do a Full wipe and flash the CM7 Rom. You should have better results.

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Your pretty much worse off then when you started. Flashing a Rom on top of another Rom without wiping is not a good idea. Flashing a Non-Sense Rom over a Sense Rom without wiping is a really bad idea.
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Of course, I mainly tried it as a test.
Playing with caches and permissions didn't help. I'll try what you suggested and a few other things.

Well keep us posted.

Well I fixed my issue, but not in the way I wanted.
I remembered I had a backup of an old CM7 nightly in my dropbox. I restored that, verified SMS worked, then wiped everything except /system and did a clean install of CM7.2.0. Everything is right again.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know where things like the profile, prl and SMSC number are stored on a phone? Is it even user-accessible from recovery or the OS?

MrLinky said:
Well I fixed my issue, but not in the way I wanted.
I remembered I had a backup of an old CM7 nightly in my dropbox. I restored that, verified SMS worked, then wiped everything except /system and did a clean install of CM7.2.0. Everything is right again.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know where things like the profile, prl and SMSC number are stored on a phone? Is it even user-accessible from recovery or the OS?
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Well glad you got it sorted. I believe you can use CDMA Workshop for that.

MrLinky said:
Well I fixed my issue, but not in the way I wanted.
I remembered I had a backup of an old CM7 nightly in my dropbox. I restored that, verified SMS worked, then wiped everything except /system and did a clean install of CM7.2.0. Everything is right again.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know where things like the profile, prl and SMSC number are stored on a phone? Is it even user-accessible from recovery or the OS?
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Glad to hear it's working ok now. You can view your prl info on aosp under about phone. Currently there is no recoveries that have the prl or SMSC locations encoded into them. But if you happen to find out what the locations are, let me know and I might be able to pull some prl image files and post them into a flashable to flash in recovery.

Me too...
Me too, I would like to know what is the solution. I am experiencing long sms message and mms sending issue on CM 7.2.0-RC2 for HTC EVO 4G. I know this is for EVO shift but this can be solution to the phone has the similar issue. If you know any thread related to this, please guide me to it's right thread, I'll be greatly appreciated.

adealg said:
Me too, I would like to know what is the solution. I am experiencing long sms message and mms sending issue on CM 7.2.0-RC2 for HTC EVO 4G. I know this is for EVO shift but this can be solution to the phone has the similar issue. If you know any thread related to this, please guide me to it's right thread, I'll be greatly appreciated.
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In messaging settings, change the settings to split the message after 160 chars...
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drob311 said:
In messaging settings, change the settings to split the message after 160 chars...
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Thanks!
However...
Yes I have. It is working with or without it. I am wondering why there's SMSC numbers aren't there and it keeps failing update. What about MMS? MMS is not working...

ClockWorkMod Recovery on Defy XT557D

Need to install this from SDCARD, is this possible? If it's possible, can you post the link to this update.zip file?

techjohnny said:
Need to install this from SDCARD, is this possible? If it's possible, can you post the link to this update.zip file?
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If you're talking about the Defy XT for Republic Wirelesss, best not to miss around with it. We do not have a stock rom yet, and if you restore another rom... You won't be able to use it with Republic Wireless as they have certain customizations which make it work on their network.

CWM from sdcard
techjohnny, Have you found a bootmenu and 2ndinit/sndinit for the XT557D? I haven't seen someone successfully build a CWM recovery with the stock cwm tools due the locked bootloader other than the defy/defy+ community who used 2nd-init. -Mitsuho

Mr. Pedro Veloso who packaged the installer for CWM on the older defy has his source code at github under the directory /pedronveloso/DefySndInit if someone wants to modify it for the Defy XT.

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If you're talking about the Defy XT for Republic Wirelesss, best not to miss around with it. We do not have a stock rom yet, and if you restore another rom... You won't be able to use it with Republic Wireless as they have certain customizations which make it work on their network.
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what is needed to make the stock image?

May Have stock recovery
I made a nandroid backup by manually installing the required scripts (with a newly factory reset phone) and have recompiled that nandroid into an update.zip using android kitchen. it may serve as a stock rom to be able to revert to if things get messy.
dropbox.com/s/yg4weeatlsgiioc/Deft_xt_557_RW_stock.zip

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I made a nandroid backup by manually installing the required scripts (with a newly factory reset phone) and have recompiled that nandroid into an update.zip using android kitchen. it may serve as a stock rom to be able to revert to if things get messy.
dropbox.com/s/yg4weeatlsgiioc/Deft_xt_557_RW_stock.zip
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i used Online Nandroid Backup from the play store to make my back up, i haven't been able to get a working recover menu to see if it actually works tho

awilson122637 said:
i used Online Nandroid Backup from the play store to make my back up, i haven't been able to get a working recover menu to see if it actually works tho
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Well i managed to brick my phone.. flashed a bad recovery and can't figure out how to restore it..

Random info on Defy XT557
poixninja said:
Well i managed to brick my phone.. flashed a bad recovery and can't figure out how to restore it..
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Did you get CWM working or a custom/updated ROM?
If the only thing that stops working from a custom ROM being put on this phone is WiFi calls, I would do it. Only reason I have this service is the $19/month and truly unlimited Data, came from Straight Talk and got throttled to 10 kbps down/up for a month for 'Unlimited Data' usage don't regret it. Not a bad phone spec wise either (used a Sprint SPH-M580 with Google Voice calling/texting on wifi only for a while, that was slow).
Anyways, if you get any progress please post, I would give-up WiFi calling/texting for a custom ROM and reflashing anyday.
P.S: I use the "EvDo Only" network mode for 3g only at full bars constantly anywere I go (incoming calls don't work though till you turn it back on CDMA auto (PRL) which I could care less, set them both on widget toggles from the Testing Menu codes), so yes this service is amazing.