I've been having this problem of not being able to update my PRL/Profile no matter what ROM (even stock) I am one. Whenever I tried to update it, I was getting the "... Unknown error" message. Serendipitously, I found what seems to be at least a temporary solution.
Here's how to do it. Go to Settings -> About Phone -> System Updates -> Update Profile or Update PRL. Once the screen shows "The network is preparing your services. Please wait...", wait for about 5 to 10 seconds and then press cancel. If the timing was right, you will get "Session in progress..." Then, the update will finish off successfully instead of showing the "Unknown error" message.
The trick is to get the right timing for pressing the cancel button. If you do not get the "Session in progress..." message, the timing wasn't right so you might want to try it again.
I found out that once you successfully apply the method above, the Profile/PRL update will act normal. I'm not sure if it says like that permanently but for me, I started having the problem again in a few days. But I did the cancel button method to make it back working.
Note that the method above applies to only those who have problem with updating the Profile/PRL.
EDIT: Once you do the cancel method above, try updating the PRL/Profile again and there's a good chance you won't get errors this time.
EDIT2: Like others, this trick is not working every time for me either, but I did find out that if you keep on repeating the cancel trick and then the normal wait, the PRL/Profile eventually updates itself. I'm on 60676 by the way. Not sure why my PRL is not being updated to 60677.
I have this problem for about 2 months already thanks for this tip ima try it out
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Worked great for my profile!!! I updated prl manually on wed ill hit thanks for u!!
Btw how can I be sure it updated my profile?? I know I didn't get an error but just wondering
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davidrules7778 said:
Worked great for my profile!!! I updated prl manually on wed ill hit thanks for u!!
Btw how can I be sure it updated my profile?? I know I didn't get an error but just wondering
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Good that it worked. I don't think you get any confirmation message for the profile.
For the PRL, you'll either get "PRL updated" or "PRL already up to date" if successful.
Btw how can I be sure it updated my profile?? I know I didn't get an error but just wondering
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Good question beats me.........
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Just tried this with PRL, it acted just as you said but it when I checked the PRL hadn't updated. Perhaps all it does is actually cancel.
poit said:
Just tried this with PRL, it acted just as you said but it when I checked the PRL hadn't updated. Perhaps all it does is actually cancel.
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Now try the PRL update without cancelling. This time the PRL should be updated without any problem.
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Great stuff! Updated PRL to 60676. Thanks for sharing!
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Now try the PRL update without cancelling. This time the PRL should be updated without any problem.
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Hmmm.. tried again and it just errored out again.
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Great stuff! Updated PRL to 60676. Thanks for sharing!
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I thought 60677 was out?
davidrules7778 said:
Worked great for my profile!!! I updated prl manually on wed ill hit thanks for u!!
Btw how can I be sure it updated my profile?? I know I didn't get an error but just wondering
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ya it might of just cancelled it, i still get an error when updating profile.
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Good that it worked. I don't think you get any confirmation message for the profile.
For the PRL, you'll either get "PRL updated" or "PRL already up to date" if successful.
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poit said:
Just tried this with PRL, it acted just as you said but it when I checked the PRL hadn't updated. Perhaps all it does is actually cancel.
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ya i think it just cancelled it, and i still get the error no matter how many times i do it..
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Great stuff! Updated PRL to 60676. Thanks for sharing!
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Hmmm.. tried again and it just errored out again.
I thought 60677 was out?
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yes 60677 is the latest and its very easy to update manually in the devlopment section, i did it perfectly with the instructions, plus i add to fiddle around to find my connected device but worked perfectly,
i hope this error get fixed by sprint soon...
Yeah me too. I don't have a problem with.mine saying it updated the.prl but.I'm still at 60676
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idunno if I accidentally did this trick too... but now updating PRL doesnt give error, just says successful, but each time (5 times at least now) its back to 76... its like talking to a sales rep... 'oh yeah thats the way its supposed to be...'
I got the session in progress message but still on 60674
I hate "Top Flight Security Mods"
Doesn't work for me
Tried this method and still no prl update I get the scanning message but after that's done it just goes away and when I try to do it again without canceling, it gives me the error again.
Worked for me. Got it on my 2nd try, had to wait about 5 seconds after seeing the message pop up.
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idunno if I accidentally did this trick too... but now updating PRL doesnt give error, just says successful, but each time (5 times at least now) its back to 76... its like talking to a sales rep... 'oh yeah thats the way its supposed to be...'
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Same here, except now it just claims no update is available.
Don't know if this will help anyone having issues in this thread or not, but I was having similar issues after updating to EC05, and the 'cancel trick' wasn't working. I decided to flash back to EB13 and see what happened. After the EB13 retrograde was complete, the update to EC05 started, and was almost completely downloaded when I checked (guess I should have been more patient), like it was already partially there, and then after the automatic update was complete, within a few minutes (5 or 10, didn't track), I was able to update my PRL to 60677, and my PRL and profile update errors went away.
I had a similar problem after updating to EB13 that was fixed by a sprint tech that reset the switch.
Good luck!
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Yeah me too. I don't have a problem with.mine saying it updated the.prl but.I'm still at 60676
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It said that it was saying session in progress, but it still took me to 60676 as well. I thought when updating the PRL it lets you know it resets the radio by turning off and back on ? Thats what it use to do on my phone atleast. It did not say that this time.
Thanks for this idea it worked for me!
I *was* on -77 when still on 2.1, now that I have EC05 2.2 it took me back to -76 and updates don't change that even when it claims it did. Weird.
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Here's something weird....not sure if any of you have experienced this but....
I had downloaded PRL 60672 last week or so and it was working fine. The other day I receive a text from Sprint saying that there is an Important Roaming List update and to do a manual Update. Thinking that a new one came out, I did it and it put me back to 60671. Not sure why that happened. Its not really affecting me much, but just wondering if that happened to anyone else.
I haven't gotten that message.
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Here's something weird....not sure if any of you have experienced this but....
I had downloaded PRL 60672 last week or so and it was working fine. The other day I receive a text from Sprint saying that there is an Important Roaming List update and to do a manual Update. Thinking that a new one came out, I did it and it put me back to 60671. Not sure why that happened. Its not really affecting me much, but just wondering if that happened to anyone else.
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sounds like they are watching you. better wear a tin foil hat for a couple months.
I just went to manually update to confirm this and indeed it pushed me down to 60671...
weird.
Me Too
I got the message as well, I updated, but i am not sure what PRL i was on before but I am on 60671 now
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I just went to manually update to confirm this and indeed it pushed me down to 60671...
weird.
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+3. was just on 60672 and after manual update it changed to 60671. weird is right.
Same here
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rutter9 said:
sounds like they are watching you. better wear a tin foil hat for a couple months.
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from the responses so far....it sounds like maybe you should be wearing a football helmet
Earlier this week I was doing updates on my phone and the PRL would not get higher than 60671 (which is what I am still at), and this was back on Sunday or Monday.
Im thinking for whatever reason, they dont want that 72 out yet
not here and why is this here in the dev section ?
I live in kind a kind of crappy area for Sprint service, and after I flashed to Fresh 3.3 last week I also update radio and wimax (of course) and manually check for a PRL update too (I only update when I want to, and have the time to update everything, and fix it if I become stoopid, but so far XDA has saved my from myself)
Anyways I went from 60669 to 60671, is there a 60670 I missed out on? With my old Sprint phones (Treo650&Centro) I would usually jump PRL revision numbers. It's gotta be a Sprint thing.
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from the responses so far....it sounds like maybe you should be wearing a football helmet
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or a tinfoil hat.
Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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jkinnison90 said:
Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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Nobody likes you.
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well, I never could get 60672 anyway, so ha ha to all those who did, we're even again now.
Didn't even realize this. Thread moved to General.
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Nobody likes you.
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I figured that was why :'(.
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Unless you guys live in an area where Sprint coverage sucks and you are roaming all the time, this is not a significant update that you need to worry about. PRL (preferred roaming list) updates local towers from another carrier (most likely Verizon) and tells the phone if certain towers have been added/removed or what not.
Perhaps the 60672 PRL had bad information that was causing people not to roam correctly and Sprint pulled it. I have a feeling another PRL update will be available sooner than later.
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Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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If your phone is rooted you won't get update notifications from Sprint. I have full root and have never seen an update message from Sprint.
I set my phone down for the nite then 5 minutes later I see my screen turn on by itself which I've never seen that before. I pick it up and on my home screen I get the message box that says updating prl just as it would if you went into settings>aboutphone>updateprl the funny part though is just yesterday I manual updated my prl to 60677 because of it not updating. I checked my prl version its still 60677. Just a weird freak thing I thought I would share.
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this happened to me about a week and a half ago after a hard reset....was on EC05. I updated my PRL to 60677 manually, and the "update" pushed it back to 60776....i'm like wtf?
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this happened to me about a week and a half ago after a hard reset....was on EC05. I updated my PRL to 60677 manually, and the "update" pushed it back to 60776....i'm like wtf?
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Same thing happened to me last night.
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I just noticed that now I'm on 60676 that sux.
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What is the status of your phone, rooted, rom, kernel, stock, Baseband version, Build Number, etc? Just curious. Never happened to me, still at PRL 60677.
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What is the status of your phone, rooted, rom, kernel, stock, Baseband version, Build Number, etc? Just curious. Never happened to me, still at PRL 60677.
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Still on 60677 here too. Stock rooted EC05
EDIT: Still unable to update my profile or PRL by going to Menu > Settings > About Phone > System Updates
I had to manually update my PRL to 60677. Also when I go into Sprint Zone > I need help > Update profile it says I have a profile and PRL update but they still fail.
srf 1.1 genocide 1.0 ec05 ext4
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Did this to me yesterday, still on 60676
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zanderman112 said:
Did this to me yesterday, still on 60676
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I suspect Sprint is recalling 60677. From what I've seen here, it appears to be a dud.
I had it do the same thing last night. Still on 76 here
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I suspect Sprint is recalling 60677. From what I've seen here, it appears to be a dud.
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Idk, my brothers instinct s30 and my mom's rumor touch are still on 60677
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My epic is still on 77, but I always get an error updating PRL automatically, so Sprint probably isn't able to revert me. LOL
I get that erroe to but it updated me.
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60677 has not been recalled, but they are having numerous problems with the PRL and the Data Roaming
Some people have reported not getting data at all since the PRL update on Roaming, which is the adverse affect Sprint wanted.
The PRL for some reason hasn't been pushed to the Epic or the Transform.
I had it for a short while on DI18, with no adverse effect, but nothing beneficial either. Since EC05, I'm stuck at 76, at least without doing some hack.
I'm not getting 3g roaming
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That probably explains my my TWS has spiked and my phone keeps dropping signal recently. At least I know what the eff is going on here. I just tried to update and it's holding steady on 76. My battery life has been sucking too. I wonder if it's all connected.
I was having a problem with my Epic where it wouldn't update the prl or profile. It was on prl 60677.
I wiped the phone with odin and formatted the sd card to no avail.
I took it in for service and no matter what they tried they couldn't get it update. It would get unknown error, error 34, connection error. They did a full reset on the phone and then it was having problems with the data part activating. I could make voice calls but not text or use the internet. If you tried to finish activating the phone it would just fail.
They ended up replacing the phone, the new phone has prl 60675. Now the prl/profile will update with no errors. Now that its updating without errors it not getting any newer version then 60675.
Happened to me last night as well. Was on 76 and still on the same one.
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60677 has not been recalled, but they are having numerous problems with the PRL and the Data Roaming
Some people have reported not getting data at all since the PRL update on Roaming, which is the adverse affect Sprint wanted.
The PRL for some reason hasn't been pushed to the Epic or the Transform.
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PRL 60677 has worked great for me, with no errors. Improved coverage. Maybe it didn't work on some phones. Still can't update at all with settings, PROFILE, PRL, FIRMWARE.
When did the system updates start working with no errors or issue popping up? I just ran all of them and everything is a go being stock EC05 rooted.
Everything has always worked for me. Profile and prl update fine
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A month ago...it was all over the threads regarding PRL.
Do you BONSAI?
i'm still getting Internal error. good thing a PRL update hasn't come down since this started
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i'm still getting Internal error. good thing a PRL update hasn't come down since this started
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Last I heard Sprint was replacing phones that stii errored out for PRL. I was on my way to the store with my phone the day it started working.
Do you BONSAI?
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Last I heard Sprint was replacing phones that stii errored out for PRL. I was on my way to the store with my phone the day it started working.
Do you BONSAI?
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Really... well, if I ever get a scratch on the screen or the keyboard gets too loose or something now I know how to get my phone replaced easily. I still get the error (as of 30 seconds ago when I tried after reading this).
honestly i'd rather keep my phone.. stable at 100mhz and still looking pretty pristine. i guess if it gets beat up i'll use that as an excuse
Sorry in advance, I couldn't find the thread this goes in, but I got my PRL update issue resolved today over the phone with a rep. Like many of you, one of the ota updates to froyo screwed my over the air ability to update my profile or PRL. The sprint rep assigned me a new msid and had me manually program it into the phone, did a reboot and bam. Over the air updates working flawlessly now. Just a heads up for you guys.
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Sorry in advance, I couldn't find the thread this goes in, but I got my PRL update issue resolved today over the phone with a rep. Like many of you, one of the ota updates to froyo screwed my over the air ability to update my profile or PRL. The sprint rep assigned me a new msid and had me manually program it into the phone, did a reboot and bam. Over the air updates working flawlessly now. Just a heads up for you guys.
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Thanks! I'll try this, I'm still on PRL 60676 LOL.
I have 60679 this latest? I can't seem to update
But it keeps telling me to even after I click update
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I'm on 01120........is THIS the latest?
Yes, 60679 is latest for standard accounts, 01120 is latest for business and corporate discount accounts.
I'm on 01120, yay.
Im on 60670.. Theres a newer one?
Time to break out QPST...
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Im on 60670.. Theres a newer one?
Time to break out QPST...
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Yeah thats really old like more than 3to6 months old i believe
I believe that 60679 is the latest consumer PRL. 01120 is the latest business PRL. Whosdaman started and excellent thread in the general section about 01120 that compares them. Its probably 3 or 4 pages down.
EDIT: Here's a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125536
I've scavenged xda and google, tried the few method's of fixing prl update error's, including the custom activity shortcut one. I still receive "Unknown Error."
Anyone else in this same boat? I'd perfer to NOT manually update it. =(
oh and i'm still on prl 60676
Shoulon said:
I've scavenged xda and google, tried the few method's of fixing prl update error's, including the custom activity shortcut one. I still receive "Unknown Error."
Anyone else in this same boat? I'd perfer to NOT manually update it. =(
oh and i'm still on prl 60676
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Up, I am. When I had my screen replaced I mentioned it to the Sprint tech. He told me not to worry about it because updates come OTA. I couldn't say much after that obviously.
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JohnCorleone said:
Up, I am. When I had my screen replaced I mentioned it to the Sprint tech. He told me not to worry about it because updates come OTA. I couldn't say much after that obviously.
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He's full of bs, I've had this damn prl since I bought this Epic. Same for a friend, who's had it since release date.
oh and it seems I get both internal and unknown error's.
I was just about to start a thread about this. I even went back to di18 let it do the ota update and I'm still getting the error. It's really starting to piss me off.
The next MR will correct this issue.
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The next MR will correct this issue.
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Its so funny that this doesn't affect everyone. My prl update to the newest one just fine 2 days ago.
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zanderman112 said:
Its so funny that this doesn't affect everyone. My prl update to the newest one just fine 2 days ago.
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Maybe its funny to you Zander...lol
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Maybe its funny to you Zander...lol
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I didn't mean "haha" funny lol. I should've said something like interesting.
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stupid ass sprint. I decided to update via QPST. It was actually easier than it looks =)
though error is still persistent.
I had the same problem so I followed the steps to manually update the PRL myself.
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I didn't mean "haha" funny lol. I should've said something like interesting.
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Oh, I know. I was just playing. I actually have good data speeds and full bar 4G service so I don't have much to be complaining about.
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Oh, I know. I was just playing. I actually have good data speeds and full bar 4G service so I don't have much to be complaining about.
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I live in an area with no 4g, and at my house i get 2-3 bars 3g. Needless to say, I'm on wifi 95% of the time.
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I've had the PRL and profile update error since it first started 3+ months ago? I've tried everything on the forums to fix it, flashed every stock ROM release etc but nothing fixed it.
I'm leaving for a cross country trip next week and wanted to make sure I had current PRL while going cross country. I ended up putting stock EC05 back on it and took it in to Sprint and they tried several things to fix it but couldn't. Because i was leaving so soon they swapped me out for a brand new unit instead of making me wait a week for a refurbished unit. Cost $35 for the swap and has fixed my PRL/Profile issues as well as my sensor issues so I'm pretty happy.
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I live in an area with no 4g, and at my house i get 2-3 bars 3g. Needless to say, I'm on wifi 95% of the time.
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call sprint tell them you have crappy coverage in your house they will send you a Airrave for free did wonders for me.
I had this issue occur about a week ago. I noticed it after I Flashed EF02 and upgraded my radio to EF10, then downgraded to EF02 and I couldn't upgrade again.
- Then I started getting the PRL and profile error. I called sprint support and they tried to rebuild my network profile but it still didn't work.
They told me to take it in to a sprint store to have a tech look at it. The tech said the reason it errors out it because there are network issues here locally and the towers are down. He also said that i will get that error when there isn't a PRL to update to.
I know both of those are bull**** because I have updated my PRL many times and it doesn't give an error when there is no update.
How to downgrade PRL?
I manually (using Settings>About Phone>System Update) updated the PRL from 60676 (whatever it was earlier) to 01120. I am having a lot of issues with 3G connection now. I haven't come across a way to downgrade my PRL back to the previous one, or manually flash the previous PRL. Does someone know how to do that? Googling this issue did not lead to any ehlpfl threads. Thanks.
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I had this issue occur about a week ago. I noticed it after I Flashed EF02 and upgraded my radio to EF10, then downgraded to EF02 and I couldn't upgrade again.
- Then I started getting the PRL and profile error. I called sprint support and they tried to rebuild my network profile but it still didn't work.
They told me to take it in to a sprint store to have a tech look at it. The tech said the reason it errors out it because there are network issues here locally and the towers are down. He also said that i will get that error when there isn't a PRL to update to.
I know both of those are bull**** because I have updated my PRL many times and it doesn't give an error when there is no update.
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My wife's phone has done the same thing since it was new, won't update the prl or profile after all the stuff happening to my Epic and being on the 4th one I wonder about the Epic. I think Sprint tells everyone they have towers down in their area. I called them Saturday because my epic got stuck in roam and I had no data connection and the first idiot I talked to told me that. After the wife got home with her epic and it wasn't roaming I called back and the second person said they had no idea why they told me that, anyway long story short the repair center I had to go to said the same thing, which is total BS. Maybe thats their standard answer to not knowing or admitting they have no clue.