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Ok so I flashed my phone to metropcs but after seeing that this phone needs an steady connection to use it 100% .. I switched to Sprint, so they are going to send me some crappy phone this week, then I will attempt to activate my HTC hero .. take in consideation that I use it in metropcs, will I need to change some settings? Tower ? PRL?
Thanks
Wll i need to Flash to stock?
Your best bet would be to use the RUU here on the site and restore the phone to complete stock so activating it on sprint will not be trouble.
You can try to activate it first but i doubt data etc will work with sprint if it was flashed to metro PCS
will flashing RUU would set everything to default even the settings that i changed in Qpst / ##3282#???
Just RUU it back to sprint, it should restore the prl's and everything else without problems.
Go to the sprint website and do a ESN change to your hero whenever you are ready and click on manual configuration, it'll give you your MSL. You can use that number to restore the phone back to factory defaults. ##786# I believe is the code to reset the phone to factory.
Yeah I just checked. ##786# (Menu) (reset) (msl) ok.
Ok Thanks so much...Last question what RUU should i USE? there are 2 available 1.56.651.2 and 1.29.651.1... I am thinking in 1.56 but I want to make sure.
Ok I flashed to Stock...but It still on metropcs network...How can I configure it for sprint?
linkinx64 said:
Ok I flashed to Stock...but It still on metropcs network...How can I configure it for sprint?
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reverse the steps you took to configure it for metro pcs you should have took notes on what the stock setting were right
The thing is I did not do it myself.. i took it to a store and they "flashed it"
so take it back to that store and tell them to flash it back
I might do that.. L( do you know the SID NID for Sprint? or the settings? that make a phone be in one network or another?
Ok guys
Cellular South has root which you'll find here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581869) and works with the new [ROM] DamageControl v2.0r2 - FULL SPRINT RELEASE! which you all will find here(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653222).
I have not had the PRI issue because i am not a Sprint costumer, but for people that have issues like the CS does not show on the lock screen or on About phone/Network/Operator name is unknown then follow this steps to get everything straight (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5928625&postcount=7)dont forget to write everything down before doing anything and i mean this:
a. Dial ##000000#
b. Choose View Mode
c. Write down the two numbers shown. The first is most likely your phone number. The second may or may not be.
Dont call CS for your MSL coz they wont give it to you( you can try if you'd like)for us the default is 000000
But i had no problem finding it using the guide with the CDMA program which for me worked only on Windows XP.
More detailed info you can find here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653735) and here(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5928625&postcount=7)
Follow all the steps and you will have a freakish fast piece of hardware in your hands.
This is not something that i have done or posted, i have just followed the guides form our fellow freinds in this forum (markachee, damageless, johnsongrantr, TrevE, MrTrip, Avalaunchmods and anyone that i have forgotten to mention) I have tested and everything works for me.
If you screw up or brick you phone don't point fingers at anyone. So far i haven't heard anyone that had their phone bricked, but might happen.
Looks very hard but with patience and very little skill you will get there
In my opinion this is the most stable ROM for CSouth People
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663730
I wish this helps My CS friends
As far as I know, Cellular South phones aren't MSL locked.
Just enter ##786#, hit Menu->Reset, and enter 000000 if you're having a problem with the carrier name not showing up on the lock screen.
Well i know
But for people that have flashed their phone with different ROMs they might have problems. ##786# wont come up so thats what i meant
uraganone said:
But for people that have flashed their phone with different ROMs they might have problems. ##786# wont come up so thats what i meant
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Um, I think you are making a simple task complicated. If you are running RedawMODv2.0, Then all you have to do is get your MDN and MSID by dialing ##000000# and clicking View Mode. Write these 2 numbers down. Now power off your phone and do a Nandroid backup. Now reboot your phone. When fully booted, dial ##786# and press menu, then Reset. Confirm that this will make you lose all of your data. Now your phone will reboot into recovery and it will formart 2 (I think CACHE and something else). After that is done, just restore your Nandroid backup. Now reboot your phone. When it is fully booted, dial ##000000# and choose Edit Mode. Replace the MDN and MSID with the ones you wrote down. Click Menu and then Save Modifications. Your phone will reboot, and you will then have the Cellular South on the Lockscreen. I have tested this and works %100 with no problems. (If you FORGET to get your MDN and MSID then you will NOT have data!!! I REPEAT, You MUST get your MDN and MSID BEFORE RESETING or you will NO LONGER HAVE DATA ON YOUR PHONE!!!) ***I am NOT held responsiable if you mess up and BRICK your phone!!!***
I currently have a sprint HTC Vogue and I am trying to flash the Verizon PRL onto it so I can use it on the PagePlus network. Everything I have seen says to dial #775#, but when I do that, my phone just tries to dial the number. I was using NSFAN's rom, and I even tried other roms and it does the same thing. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
opivy224 said:
I currently have a sprint HTC Vogue and I am trying to flash the Verizon PRL onto it so I can use it on the PagePlus network. Everything I have seen says to dial #775#, but when I do that, my phone just tries to dial the number. I was using NSFAN's rom, and I even tried other roms and it does the same thing. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
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Which rom are you using now? If you are flashing a custom rom, more than likely you have a folder called "Phone Codes" somewhere in the Start menu. In there, you will have one that is called PRL. You have to have the MSL code to change this value though.
Get the PRL that you need and dump it somewhere in your phone. When you open the PRL program in phone codes (and you enter the MSL code), simply tap and hold where it says the PRL version and click on "Edit" (or whatever option you get), look for yours, and presto! Save, exit (you will be asked to soft reset).
Hope this helps.
Thanks. I have the MSL. I am flashing the official Sprint WM6.1 rom right now out of desperation, but I can put whatever on there. Do I need a custom rom in order to use the "phone codes" folder?
opivy224 said:
Thanks. I have the MSL. I am flashing the official Sprint WM6.1 rom right now out of desperation, but I can put whatever on there. Do I need a custom rom in order to use the "phone codes" folder?
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To get it in folder format, yes. But if you are going for a stock rom, then simply use the codes and you'll be in good shape.
I want to change PRL in my HTC.
I can access to ##775#.
But I can't find anywhere to PRL file in my phone.
I want to change PRL by myself.
Sometimes, I can use my phone.
But most of times, it shown searching and if i got signal, it shown antenna only. So how should I do? Please help me.
thihaminhtun said:
I want to change PRL in my HTC.
I can access to ##775#.
But I can't find anywhere to PRL file in my phone.
I want to change PRL by myself.
Sometimes, I can use my phone.
But most of times, it shown searching and if i got signal, it shown antenna only. So how should I do? Please help me.
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Have you tried to use the *228 (or whatever Sprint's equivalent is)? It should automatically provision your device.
opivy224 said:
I currently have a sprint HTC Vogue and I am trying to flash the Verizon PRL onto it so I can use it on the PagePlus network. Everything I have seen says to dial #775#, but when I do that, my phone just tries to dial the number. I was using NSFAN's rom, and I even tried other roms and it does the same thing. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
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When I flashed my Sprint Vogue for Verizon usage... I first had to flash the newest stock Verizon ROM (You can find it on NuAngel's goodies page at the bottom! Yes the radio change one!), then flash a Verizon PRL to the phone. Nu told me I would have to reunlock the phone afterward, but I didn't need to.
I was then able to dial *228 and program the phone! After the phone was programed, I could finally flash ROMs onto it and still have working service. This phone didn't like NuVogue 5 (even though most of NuVogue's development was done on this phone.. wtf). Nu cooked a Verizon specific NuVogue 5 and it worked a bit better, but I remained on stock until I was able to cook my own build (still working on, I have plans on posting it after conferring with Nu and stealingz some of his ideas).
I can update the phone roaming via *228 only with the stock Verizon ROM (does not work on ANY cooked ROMS I have tried!!), but because the phone still has a Sprint PRI (feel free to message me instructions on switching to a Verizon PRI, cause I haven't found them yet), I get the roaming triangle. I used the latest moded PRL found in this thread here (51831) and I've been great ever since.
I try to avoid Carrier generic ROMs (or cooking my in development "XevRev" [tentative name] as generic) since they reflash the PRL, which is just a pain in the butt imo. I plan on trying NuVogue 6 when Nu and I go to hang at his place sometime this coming week, I want to see if its improved over the previous release on this phone. Can't explain why the release ran so waked out in v5 on this phone..... anyway...).
*links removed because I haven't been validated by the mods. I recommend site admin get a Stop-forum-spam (Google to find since I can't link) plugin for his vB forum. XD It's a lot easier then manually chasing down spam.. trust me.*
Well, I was trying a few roms a few days ago and later i decided to go back to stock, I accidentally let the customizations run, and it went back to verizon, but i flashed the 0068 (or something like that) PRL file to the phone using EPST, after that I dialed *228 and updated the PRL to 02004 (latest MetroPCS PRL file), but i still cant use it, (i realized just 5 mins ago, 2 days after prl flashing -_-) I called the customer support just now and they said they just reset the device and I should shut it down and restart it, so anyways my question is:
I can't use my phone, I cant call, text or use web, and no one can call me, it says service not activated when i try to connect to the internet, and I cant use my voice mail either(LA 01 message something error) What should I Do?
Thanks guys.
taha1112 said:
Well, I was trying a few roms a few days ago and later i decided to go back to stock, I accidentally let the customizations run, and it went back to verizon, but i flashed the 0068 (or something like that) PRL file to the phone using EPST, after that I dialed *228 and updated the PRL to 02004 (latest MetroPCS PRL file), but i still cant use it, (i realized just 5 mins ago, 2 days after prl flashing -_-) I called the customer support just now and they said they just reset the device and I should shut it down and restart it, so anyways my question is:
I can't use my phone, I cant call, text or use web, and no one can call me, it says service not activated when i try to connect to the internet, and I cant use my voice mail either(LA 01 message something error) What should I Do?
Thanks guys.
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The only thing that comes to mind would be for the VZW customizations to actually modify more than just PRL (but mess with other EPST settings as well). Just to confirm, did you have your phone working on Metro before this?
yes, it was working perfectly, even the mms and web were working :|
EDIT: I can call *611 and *228, oh wait i think i said that in the first post...
taha1112 said:
yes, it was working perfectly, even the mms and web were working :|
EDIT: I can call *611 and *228, oh wait i think i said that in the first post...
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If you had 2.31 installed, the device should still be unlocked. Try running a hard reset/flashing another rom and see if that helps. I have a feeling that you will need to go into EPST and play with your MSID and MIN values and a few other things as well.
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If you had 2.31 installed, the device should still be unlocked. Try running a hard reset/flashing another rom and see if that helps. I have a feeling that you will need to go into EPST and play with your MSID and MIN values and a few other things as well.
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I hard reset on stock rom and didn't let the customizations run, then flashed 3.42.30 (alltell rom i think) and with out resetting the device I just put the nfsfan's rom in the sd card and flashed that, it still didn't help, can someone give me the settings for the PST.
Thanks for the reply
taha1112 said:
I hard reset on stock rom and didn't let the customizations run, then flashed 3.42.30 (alltell rom i think) and with out resetting the device I just put the nfsfan's rom in the sd card and flashed that, it still didn't help, can someone give me the settings for the PST.
Thanks for the reply
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3.42.30 is a radio and not an actual rom. My guess would be that, unless you have them stored somewhere else, you will need to call Metro and ask them to help you re-program the phone. Couple of pointers:
a. Don't tell them that you have a Vogue (let alone a Vogue running 6.5) since they have little/no experience with WM devices.
b. Using BAFMSL, get your MSL from your device (you will need this to unlock and edit the EPST parameters. My guess is that you read the ESN to the Metro rep, who calculated an MSL, which of course did not work (here I am assuming that the ESN on your device has been cloned from another phone)).
c. What you want to get out of the rep are the numeric parameters for:
MIN (normally your phone number)
MSID
HomeSID
Don't assume that he/she will be able to guide you through the editing process because they simply won't know how. A simple "yes, go on" every time they tell you to change something will suffice. Just make sure you write the numbers down in a piece of paper.
Do this and get your numbers. If they are any different from the ones that are currently loaded, then your issue will be solved.
Just thought of one other thing. You said you went back to stock Verizon. Which radio did you have before that? And what radio did the Verizon rom take it to?
well, I had it metroflashed, and i can't do it again as i don't have any money now (only 15 years old xD), it has original ESN, does this change anything?
and btw, i can edit the epst, (the code is six 0s) or i may be wrong )
taha1112 said:
well, I had it metroflashed, and i can't do it again as i don't have any money now (only 15 years old xD), it has original ESN, does this change anything?
and btw, i can edit the epst, (the code is six 0s) or i may be wrong )
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Nah, Metroflash via Houdinisoft does two things:
1. It will add the ESN into Metro's database and will link it to your account.
2. It may provision your phone. I say may because I have seen, more often than not, that Houdini fails to provision any device that runs WM.
Asking you again about the radios. What radio did you have prior to flashing to Verizon stock and what did the stock flash the radio to?
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Nah, Metroflash via Houdinisoft does two things:
1. It will add the ESN into Metro's database and will link it to your account.
2. It may provision your phone. I say may because I have seen, more often than not, that Houdini fails to provision any device that runs WM.
Asking you again about the radios. What radio did you have prior to flashing to Verizon stock and what did the stock flash the radio to?
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well I had 3.42.50 (bell i think), with super froyo 2.2, when I installed verizon stock rom it changed back to 3.37.(something), does this answer your question?
Thanks for helping me btw.
taha1112 said:
well I had 3.42.50 (bell i think), with super froyo 2.2, when I installed verizon stock rom it changed back to 3.37.(something), does this answer your question?
Thanks for helping me btw.
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Yes, I was asking because I was afraid that you went below 3.xx.xx on the radio as this has been known to cause issues, including leaving phones completely useless.
Did you get the parameters from Metro as I suggested earlier?
well I got rid of the phone, as the representatives were not helping me at all (I talked to 5) so I am just going to buy a LG rumor touch (virgin mobile) and my other choice is Tmobile G1 but can I get it without a data plan?
taha1112 said:
well I got rid of the phone, as the representatives were not helping me at all (I talked to 5) so I am just going to buy a LG rumor touch (virgin mobile) and my other choice is Tmobile G1 but can I get it without a data plan?
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Only if you buy it without contract (the G1, that is). Sorry that you couldn't get it to work. I am sure that it was only a matter of re-programming the device.
Does anyone know how I can flash my Hero from the phone itself? I update the PRL and when I dial *228 it says I entered invalid SPCS 15 times and freezes. I'm running the newest Fresh Hero ROM. Thanks in advance
xizzmatt said:
Does anyone know how I can flash my Hero from the phone itself? I update the PRL and when I dial *228 it says I entered invalid SPCS 15 times and freezes. I'm running the newest Fresh Hero ROM. Thanks in advance
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Yes it could be done, but it wouldn't be a 100% percent flash, after you load that PRL, dial ##YOURMSL# and edit the MSN and MIN to match what would be given to you by Cricket, and there you go for Talk/txt for SMS and DATA, dial ##778# enter your MSL and change settings in there to match cricket settings then edit the APN for SMS, I don't know the cricket settings off the top of my head, but just google for "Provision Hero Cricket" . 2 links down is a thread for the settings.
if settings don't stick that way, then you have would to use a computer to finish the provisioning for data