Basically the story goes that i recently switched from the Epic to the Sidekick 4G with T-Mobile. When i ported my # over to Tmo, the service on the Epic was automatically cancelled..... the account is in my girl's name, and she immediately calls up Sprint to reinstate service on the line, with a new #. Cool, so Sprint sets it all up on their end, but.... no service on the Epic. So we bring it in and see what they can do, and they say it is all set up in the system..... so the guy tries a factory reset.
Well I had midNIGHT 5.2 with the Honeycomb Fusion theme loaded on the Epic(the guy doesn't know the difference), and the phone gets caught in a bootloop on the boot animation, lol. i end up telling him that the phone was rooted, etc., so he says basically it's up to me to work whatever "magic" on it that i can. (Yeah, i considered playing dumb and trying to get a new phone from them, but i had bought the thing off Craigslist, and never had any warranty papers or insurance. plus, that's dishonest ) So i actually get my laptop from the car, and plop down on their couch, and Odin stock EB13 on the phone. The guy was super cool, and in fact was amazed at what i was doing..... he even whispers to me to ask if i would root his Evo!
Anyway, even with stock EB13, the phone doesn't connect, which i suspected because i already had tried that in the beginning. So i figure maybe the phone needs to be on DI18 for it to connect. i realize that i had gotten a new laptop and had only downloaded EB13 and EC05, so i was gonna need to download DI18 off XDA. After trying unsuccessfully to get internet service in the store(great advertising for Sprint internet service, lol), i head off the my doctor's appointment, and download it in the waiting room. While waiting for the doctor to look at my hurt back, I Odin DI18 and BAM, the phone number changes on the phone, and phone and texting work! No 3G however..... i did see 3G for a second but it dissappeared..... 4G worked great.
So i figure I'd bring it back to the store to let those guys see what they could do.... and to show them that it did indeed connect once back on DI18. The guy gives the Epic it to his female colleague who does another factory reset and successfully updates the PRL, and the 3G starts working.
So anyway, who knows.... maybe something is screwed with the whole Froyo thing, and the Epic can only be activiated on DI18? In any case, i think i made that guy's day, showing him in person what you can do with your Android phone!
+10 Bro points... i guess
iSaint said:
+10 Bro points... i guess
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thx lol, but naw, i just thought it was a potentially interesting story for the community.
Me and my brother had our epics both rooted the first day we got them.
By a sprint tech, not a store tech either. One of the writers for the actual codes.
Told us the factory set up was sh!t lol
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The guy was super cool, and in fact was amazed at what i was doing..... he even whispers to me to ask if i would root his Evo!
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You should have said "yeah, and I'll help you load this custom ROM by this guy Konikub... or Evokings... You may have heard of them. They're with this super-awesome team called ACS."
The more time I spend here, the more I begin thinking a whole lot of Sprint employees are XDA fans
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The more time I spend here, the more I begin thinking a whole lot of Sprint employees are XDA fans
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Of course they are - everyone knows XDA makes the magic that powers Android devices!
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You should have said "yeah, and I'll help you load this custom ROM by this guy Konikub... or Evokings... You may have heard of them. They're with this super-awesome team called ACS."
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Yep, I would have probably tried Kings ROM if he would have called me(I have a feeling he won't tho). My friend JohnCorleone put either that one, or another ACS ROM on his friend's Evo
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Of course they are - everyone knows XDA makes the magic that powers Android devices!
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VERY true! The Epic was WAY bloated, ran hot and drained battery like crazy, out of the box. Not to mention the keyboard lag, etc etc. Don't know what we would have done without you kOnane, as far as Carrier IQ discovery and removal, and everything else. Kudos to all the devleopers here!
And what's the deal with my Epic not activating until it was set back to DI18? Is that standard for the phone?
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They'll learn that developers run the market for mobile phones, we make them better, faster and more reliable!
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sometimes i find simply doing a hard reset by ##786# and enter your msl code this clears up weird issues as it returns the phone to out of the box and prompts the phone to be activated automatically.
hope this helps. i will do this right before i flash roms.
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i know of atleast 1
southparkeric said:
sometimes i find simply doing a hard reset by ##786# and enter your msl code this clears up weird issues as it returns the phone to out of the box and prompts the phone to be activated automatically.
hope this helps. i will do this right before i flash roms.
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Cool, didn't know that. Perhaps that could have saved some Odining.
yogi2010 said:
Basically the story goes that i recently switched from the Epic to the Sidekick 4G with T-Mobile. When i ported my # over to Tmo, the service on the Epic was automatically cancelled..... the account is in my girl's name, and she immediately calls up Sprint to reinstate service on the line, with a new #. Cool, so Sprint sets it all up on their end, but.... no service on the Epic. So we bring it in and see what they can do, and they say it is all set up in the system..... so the guy tries a factory reset.
Well I had midNIGHT 5.2 with the Honeycomb Fusion theme loaded on the Epic(the guy doesn't know the difference), and the phone gets caught in a bootloop on the boot animation, lol. i end up telling him that the phone was rooted, etc., so he says basically it's up to me to work whatever "magic" on it that i can. (Yeah, i considered playing dumb and trying to get a new phone from them, but i had bought the thing off Craigslist, and never had any warranty papers or insurance. plus, that's dishonest ) So i actually get my laptop from the car, and plop down on their couch, and Odin stock EB13 on the phone. The guy was super cool, and in fact was amazed at what i was doing..... he even whispers to me to ask if i would root his Evo!
Anyway, even with stock EB13, the phone doesn't connect, which i suspected because i already had tried that in the beginning. So i figure maybe the phone needs to be on DI18 for it to connect. i realize that i had gotten a new laptop and had only downloaded EB13 and EC05, so i was gonna need to download DI18 off XDA. After trying unsuccessfully to get internet service in the store(great advertising for Sprint internet service, lol), i head off the my doctor's appointment, and download it in the waiting room. While waiting for the doctor to look at my hurt back, I Odin DI18 and BAM, the phone number changes on the phone, and phone and texting work! No 3G however..... i did see 3G for a second but it dissappeared..... 4G worked great.
So i figure I'd bring it back to the store to let those guys see what they could do.... and to show them that it did indeed connect once back on DI18. The guy gives the Epic it to his female colleague who does another factory reset and successfully updates the PRL, and the 3G starts working.
So anyway, who knows.... maybe something is screwed with the whole Froyo thing, and the Epic can only be activiated on DI18? In any case, i think i made that guy's day, showing him in person what you can do with your Android phone!
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I'm having buyers remorse idk I was getting slow 4g on my epic...so while leaving it @ sprint I went t tmobile got a nice deal couldn't resist..so I keep going back and forth on what phone 2 keep. And I see a leaked gingerbread dropped for the epic sigh...idk its pros and cons to both devices and networks I don't know anymore
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bipoler said:
I'm having buyers remorse idk I was getting slow 4g on my epic...so while leaving it @ sprint I went t tmobile got a nice deal couldn't resist..so I keep going back and forth on what phone 2 keep. And I see a leaked gingerbread dropped for the epic sigh...idk its pros and cons to both devices and networks I don't know anymore
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Yeah, I hear ya, there are almost always pros and cons. The only thing I personally am missing is the Epic screen..... the SK screen is nice, but obviously a good amount smaller. Also, the Tmobile 2 gig/month cap on 4G speeds is potentially a bother. Other than that, I'm fine. Do you still have your Epic just in case?
When I swapped phones, we contacted sprint chat support and they walked us through manually updating the phone# from the service programming screens:
Agent (Jolly S): "At the phone dialer, press ## followed by 6-digit followed by an additional #.
Example: ##******#.
Last # entered will not show on display.
Service Program screen will be displayed, highlighted on View."
Agent (Jolly S): "Tap Edit."
ME: "ok"
Agent (Jolly S): "Tap Touch Here, then enter Mobile Directory Number (MDN) and tap Return."
Agent (Jolly S): "*********7"
Agent (Jolly S): "Use virtual keyboard to type 10-digit MSID, then tap Return.
*********9"
Agent (Jolly S): "With correct MDN and MSID entered, tap Done."
Agent (Jolly S): "After phone reboots, update profile via Menu > Settings > About Phone > System Updates > Update Profile.
Once complete, phone is fully activated and ready to use.
After that it connected and activated immediately. The dialer codes and stuff were removed automatically from my transcript but I'm sure they can be found on XDA easily enough.
rocket321 said:
When I swapped phones, we contacted sprint chat support and they walked us through manually updating the phone# from the service programming screens:
Agent (Jolly S): "At the phone dialer, press ## followed by 6-digit followed by an additional #.
Example: ##******#.
Last # entered will not show on display.
Service Program screen will be displayed, highlighted on View."
Agent (Jolly S): "Tap Edit."
ME: "ok"
Agent (Jolly S): "Tap Touch Here, then enter Mobile Directory Number (MDN) and tap Return."
Agent (Jolly S): "*********7"
Agent (Jolly S): "Use virtual keyboard to type 10-digit MSID, then tap Return.
*********9"
Agent (Jolly S): "With correct MDN and MSID entered, tap Done."
Agent (Jolly S): "After phone reboots, update profile via Menu > Settings > About Phone > System Updates > Update Profile.
Once complete, phone is fully activated and ready to use.
After that it connected and activated immediately. The dialer codes and stuff were removed automatically from my transcript but I'm sure they can be found on XDA easily enough.
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Oh wow, they didn't do any of that at the store! Would have been much easier. Thx
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Hey guys(gals),
I have an interesting dilemma. I have had 5 hero's in a month. One was defective hardware (so we can rule that out, it was the green phone button) but the other 3 have had an interesting issue. I will have the phone for about 4 days (this is with stock android, and two rooted with MoDoCo) and then all data ( including texts, voicemails, incoming calls) will stop. They only way to retrieve said data is to make an outgoing call, then everything floods in. The local sprint store keeps replacing the phone, but I refuse to believe that I am that unlucky. Any thoughts? Anyone having a similar issue?
--Matt
27s said:
Hey guys(gals),
I have an interesting dilemma. I have had 5 hero's in a month. One was defective hardware (so we can rule that out, it was the green phone button) but the other 3 have had an interesting issue. I will have the phone for about 4 days (this is with stock android, and two rooted with MoDoCo) and then all data ( including texts, voicemails, incoming calls) will stop. They only way to retrieve said data is to make an outgoing call, then everything floods in. The local sprint store keeps replacing the phone, but I refuse to believe that I am that unlucky. Any thoughts? Anyone having a similar issue?
--Matt
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Do you have a significant other that could use your phone on their plan for a few days to rule out your account specifically?
Your issues sound strange, and not related to the phone. It's hard for me to believe (like you also) that its the phone since you've had four of them now with the same issue. Also, you've tried different roms, so that also makes it more difficult to be a phone issue. Are you just running a bone stock one? Or are you installing particular apps? you might see if you can't replicate it with no additional software for a few days.
@kmart
My Father and I are on the the same plan, (i.e. both on unl.) so that rules out service. The last phone, (no. 4) I left bone stock. No extra apps (except for Handcent SMS [ on a side note, I have run both ChompSMS and Handcent, so I do not think it is either]) and it still had the same exact issues.
27s said:
Hey guys(gals),
I have an interesting dilemma. I have had 5 hero's in a month. One was defective hardware (so we can rule that out, it was the green phone button) but the other 3 have had an interesting issue. I will have the phone for about 4 days (this is with stock android, and two rooted with MoDoCo) and then all data ( including texts, voicemails, incoming calls) will stop. They only way to retrieve said data is to make an outgoing call, then everything floods in. The local sprint store keeps replacing the phone, but I refuse to believe that I am that unlucky. Any thoughts? Anyone having a similar issue?
--Matt
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Sounds like a problem with you account's provisioning or something. Mostly, it just sounds like a huge pain in the ass.
27s said:
Hey guys(gals),
I have an interesting dilemma. I have had 5 hero's in a month. One was defective hardware (so we can rule that out, it was the green phone button) but the other 3 have had an interesting issue. I will have the phone for about 4 days (this is with stock android, and two rooted with MoDoCo) and then all data ( including texts, voicemails, incoming calls) will stop. They only way to retrieve said data is to make an outgoing call, then everything floods in. The local sprint store keeps replacing the phone, but I refuse to believe that I am that unlucky. Any thoughts? Anyone having a similar issue?
--Matt
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I had this exact same issue with my phone, it is definitely an account issue, get your msl number from them, mine was fixed after I did a ##786# menu then reset
they disabled texts and reenabled them on my account before they did this, and then they worked ever since
Have you changed your mode of operation setting? I haven't ever changed this but had a co-worker who changed it on his hero and it stopped getting text messages and voicemails until he made a phone call, once he changed it back it started working fine. Mode of operation needs to be set to Hybrid. You can find it under Settings->Wireless Controls->Mobile Network Settings. Hope this helps
Hey guys,
Thanks for the help, so no dice. I have left my Mode of Ops. in Hybrid (although, if you leave it on Ev-do is is kosher) and doing a reset does not work...It is a huge pain in the arse....
Well sh*t. I thought the last phone was the key, but here we go again. I got my MSL and did a reset, no dice, got Another phone....phone No. 6...Sprint has no idea what the hell is going on. Personally, I think something in the phone is crashing software. I have no idea what could be, but wtf.
I've had similar issues before. It's definitely an account issue - not on your billing account, but your specific phone number in the carrier's system.
What I did was fight for months with Sprint, kept talking to retarded tech support reps who know absolutely nothing, fighting with their managers, fighting with their 2nd and 3rd level tiers, and been told 1000 times my issue was fixed, just to have it reoccur in a month.
Honestly, unless you feel like fighting like that, I suggest you call your carrier and ask for a new number. When they create a new number for you, your account is practically changed, and everything will work like new. You just have to suffer with a new number, which is only annoying for a month or so until everyone updates to your new number.
Good luck man, I hate when that kinda crap happens. Not so much because of the issue, but mainly because no carrier has any sort of good tech support and would rather hang up on you than try and troubleshoot anything. They're completely stupid.
Well, to be honest, I have to keep this number, it is my business number..So, what I am going to do is keep going to into the headquarters store here in omaha. Then. Once I get to about phone no.7/8/9 I am going to call sprint retention services. At that point I will have 7/8/9 phones on record, and they will fix it and give me the 3 months free, or I will walk. I like sprint better than others around here, but damn I am getting pissed...
27s said:
Well, to be honest, I have to keep this number, it is my business number..So, what I am going to do is keep going to into the headquarters store here in omaha. Then. Once I get to about phone no.7/8/9 I am going to call sprint retention services. At that point I will have 7/8/9 phones on record, and they will fix it and give me the 3 months free, or I will walk. I like sprint better than others around here, but damn I am getting pissed...
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Yeah dude. I was pissed too. Good luck man, I know how you feel. Sprint is great, but when they f**k up they really f**k up and it's a pain in the ass to get things fixed.
27s, this isn't a retention issue, this is a Tier 3 tech support issue. They need to go into your account and completely deconstruct it, and put it back together again. Basically, it's a glitch in the system causing your provisioning to bork itself. I've seen it before, and yes, it's a pain in the ass to fix, but if you get a caring/dedicated tech, it's not even close to impossible.
Frankly, call into sprint, get on the line for tech support. As soon as you connect, ask for ADVANCED tech support. Don't give up until you're on the line with them. They'll be your saviors in this issue, mark my words.
Edit: For the record, I'm a former Sprint tech. I've had to do this before for customers, so I've had experience in the issue.
Hey thanks for the advice....I will do this first thing tomorrow....I don't suppose retention will give me anything will they....The sprint store in omaha is like 100 blocks from my house....gas$$$...haha
I have the most perfect running Hero on Damage Controls 2.08.1 rom. Last night I plugged it in for charging and this morning when I unlocked the phone I was greeted by "Error Code 67 - Registration Failure - PCS Vision user name or password is incorrect". I didn't change a thing. The phone half of the device still works but the data half has quit. What happened?? Anyone else have this problem?
Love some help.........
Thanks for your time........
Lisa
mslisaj said:
I have the most perfect running Hero on Damage Controls 2.08.1 rom. Last night I plugged it in for charging and this morning when I unlocked the phone I was greeted by "Error Code 67 - Registration Failure - PCS Vision user name or password is incorrect". I didn't change a thing. The phone half of the device still works but the data half has quit. What happened?? Anyone else have this problem?
Love some help.........
Thanks for our time........
Lisa
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Have you tried any of the following:
1. Reboot?
2. Update Profile in Settings->About Phone->System Updates
I received that error when attempting to USB tether.
Let us know what you find.
toggle airplane mode on off
Yes I tried to shut the phone down and rebooted and then I shut the phone down and took the battery out, put it all back together and rebooted and same thing. I just followed you directions and tried to update profile and while I have done this one thing in the past and it has taken some time, this time it was a five second check and dumped right back with the code 67 again. It's definitely not seeing the data information.
Plus it said "profile could not be updated - call customer service with code: 1012
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Plus it said "profile could not be updated - call customer service with code: 1012
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I've received that before and it sort of fixed itself over the course of the day. Have you tried the Airplane mode on-off?
Could just be a Sprint thing, and not necessarily something on your end.
I just tried toggling the airplane mode on and off and then on again and still the same problem...........
If I have to call Sprint, what software do I tell them I'm running?
I would hate to go back to 1.5 to get this worked on.........
mslisaj said:
I just tried toggling the airplane mode on and off and then on again and still the same problem...........
If I have to call Sprint, what software do I tell them I'm running?
I would hate to go back to 1.5 to get this worked on.........
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Like I said, try waiting it out for a little bit. If Sprint asks tell them 2.1 (just don't mention its not the official one!)
Plus from all my reading don't do the new OTA update either.............
I hope running DC would prevent them from running something on my phone in the background. I really love my phone the way it is - when it's working of course...
How's this for weird gentlemen? I activated my wifi to just check the device as I have that in my home. The device worked fine and had internet access and did it's thing via wifi. I decided to do the "Update Profile in Settings->About Phone->System Updates" and it worked through that method. Apparently I just needed to up date my profile. The Hero is back working perfectly like it always has.
This was a scare for me as this Hero works so well on DC compared to the horror stories I have read about official stuff. But thank you guys a million for your help and I owe you all a beer..........
Thanks so much........
Lisa
mslisaj said:
How's this for weird gentlemen? I activated my wifi to just check the device as I have that in my home. The device worked fine and had internet access and did it's thing via wifi. I decided to do the "Update Profile in Settings->About Phone->System Updates" and it worked through that method. Apparently I just needed to up date my profile. The Hero is back working perfectly like it always has.
This was a scare for me as this Hero works so well on DC compared to the horror stories I have read about official stuff. But thank you guys a million for your help and I owe you all a beer..........
Thanks so much........
Lisa
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While it is odd, sometimes phones just love to test our patience and knowledge. I always remind myself it is just a phone.
Using stock sense and sprint/gv integration and i can receive texts in gv as well as send them from the stock messaging app and gv.
i've contacted sprint on the phone a couple times and got to the highest level tech support and they couldn't fix it. also tried the sprint store and they just want to give me another evo. they have one on order, but i'd much rather keep my rooted evo! the new one will likely have 2.3 installed stock and i'll need to wait for root.
this really doesn't seem like a hardware issue anyways, seems like it's a network side problem.
i've made sure sms forwarding is enabled to my mobile number on gv, tried factory and hard resets multiple times. tried unintegrating and reintegrating my sprint number with gv.
the weird thing is even when i'm unintewgrated and using just vanilla sprint i don't receive texts at all. i can send them, make and receive calls too but never does a text come to my phone.
there doesn't seem to be anyone else reporting this problem i8n my area.
phone is rooted, stock rom, the problem started after iu hard reset my phone. i was hoping a hard reset would fix some buis i was experiencing with the GB update. i can't say for sure this was because i hard reset, buit it's a huge coincidence that it happened at approximately the same time. i can't think of any logical reason the hard reset would affect my sms this way.
btw i installed a rooted version of 2.3.3 as well as the latest combo radio pack. that was over a week ago though and this issue just cropped up yesterday.
hopefully this post wasn't too jumbled and i gave enough info, any ideas?
edit: crap, should be in the Q&A forum, please move if necessary :/
Try updating your profile
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i've done that a bunch of times, so did sprint.
[Q] If you call one of the people you text, does the return text from them show up after the call?
dpilcher said:
[Q] If you call one of the people you text, does the return text from them show up after the call?
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No it doesn't.
Brandito said:
No it doesn't.
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Not what I was going through a few months back then, but I could make calls but not receive calls. I don't use GV either so probably not the same issue. Just thought I would ask, turns out those issues for me was my 3G going out on my phone. Ended up getting it replaced.
Hope you find a solution, I know how frustrating it is.
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Not what I was going through a few months back then, but I could make calls but not receive calls. I don't use GV either so probably not the same issue. Just thought I would ask, turns out those issues for me was my 3G going out on my phone. Ended up getting it replaced.
Hope you find a solution, I know how frustrating it is.
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sprint is ordering me another phone, hoping against it being a refurb, though then i likely have to wait for a new root method for gingerbread.
preferably they'd get it working on my current evo. i really think it has to be a network issue.
Brandito said:
sprint is ordering me another phone, hoping against it being a refurb, though then i likely have to wait for a new root method for gingerbread.
preferably they'd get it working on my current evo. i really think it has to be a network issue.
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You should be good, I had two replacement refurbs as early as last week and they both had 3.7 on them. Watch for the sunspot on the screen when it boots initially (bright white spot in the lower half towards the middle), both of the refurb replacements had the bad screen. You can't see it if it boots all the way..you'll have to go to a bright screen to see it but it will just get worse to where you will see it all the time. Finally the rep gave me a NIB 004..also 3.7. Just make sure they don't update it, I would ask if you could do the activation as well so you can look for the screen issue on initial boot. Good Luck! Guess I didn't have to quote due to it being right above mine...lmao
Think they'll give me any trouble if I turn in my phone still rooted? I don't feel like unrooting it, not to mention if the new/refurb doesn't fix my issue I'm going to keep my current evo anyways.
I mean they've already approved me for the replacement.
I had the same problem
I had the exact same situation happen last weekend. All I did to fix it was to flash back to a Stock Sense 2.2 ROM, Update Profile/PRL, and then open EPST and Reset Data connection using THIS little tutorial.
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I had the exact same situation happen last weekend. All I did to fix it was to flash back to a Stock Sense 2.2 ROM, Update Profile/PRL, and then open EPST and Reset Data connection using THIS little tutorial.
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can't even get it to do anything after entering ##3283#, never even pops up a dialog.
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I had the exact same situation happen last weekend. All I did to fix it was to flash back to a Stock Sense 2.2 ROM, Update Profile/PRL, and then open EPST and Reset Data connection using THIS little tutorial.
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Ya..did all that and then some to mine..no dice. But good advice. Hardware issue won't be solved by software no matter the method I found out. Believe me..even went as far as unrooting and seeing if stock would be the same..it was.
The unrooting process is very easy and with the replacement coming in, why not. Sounds like hardware anyway. Here is what I did to go back and forth:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113620
You can also look at the stickies at the top of general/Q&A for options.
Good Luck.
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Ya..did all that and then some to mine..no dice. But good advice. Hardware issue won't be solved by software no matter the method I found out. Believe me..even went as far as unrooting and seeing if stock would be the same..it was.
The unrooting process is very easy and with the replacement coming in, why not. Sounds like hardware anyway. Here is what I did to go back and forth:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113620
You can also look at the stickies at the top of general/Q&A for options.
Good Luck.
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doesn't seem like hardware at all to me though. and if that's the case and I unroot and end up keeping this phone i just shot myself in the foot by locking my bootloader.
i wish i would have had them try activating another phone today to see if another phone would be able to receive the texts.
No need to unroot! Go to voice.google.com, click on the "gear" icon to go into Voice Settings. Find your gv/sprint phone number, click Edit and check the checkbox for "receive text messages on this device." Hit save, and enjoy.
jesuspgt said:
No need to unroot! Go to voice.google.com, click on the "gear" icon to go into Voice Settings. Find your gv/sprint phone number, click Edit and check the checkbox for "receive text messages on this device." Hit save, and enjoy.
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that's only the FIRST thing I tried, along with unchecking, rechecking, removing integration, readding it..twice! and about a dozen combinations of applying settings, checking and unchecking boxes and finger crossing.
Brandito said:
that's only the FIRST thing I tried, along with unchecking, rechecking, removing integration, readding it..twice! and about a dozen combinations of applying settings, checking and unchecking boxes and finger crossing.
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Apologies, but you didn't mention that you did this in your post. Had no way of knowing that you've already tried this.
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Apologies, but you didn't mention that you did this in your post. Had no way of knowing that you've already tried this.
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I actually did in my first post, though that post is a bit of a mess I realize, it's hard to really put everything I've already tried in any neat order.
No worries either way, any suggestions are welcome at this point.
I had downloaded 1 of Mik's roms a while back (version 2.0.1 to be exact) and saw this 3.0 as his latest work on his website so figured I would give it a try. I see that he is aware that there are still remnants of this ROM that was made for Sprint EVO devices apparently, but I'm having a unique issue.
Whenever I attempt to make a call it alerts me that I am in roaming mode (which I double checked and i have it checked OFF so my DINC will dont roam) and if I would like to continue anyway. When my lock screen comes up it says "Verizon Network" on top and I am receiving and able to send text messages just fine. I have not seen anyone else having this issue in the forums and the last thing I want is to receive a higher bill from Verizon at the end of the month because of a new ROM. Also, the alert is simply annoying.
Please help.
manthis22 said:
I had downloaded 1 of Mik's roms a while back (version 2.0.1 to be exact) and saw this 3.0 as his latest work on his website so figured I would give it a try. I see that he is aware that there are still remnants of this ROM that was made for Sprint EVO devices apparently, but I'm having a unique issue.
Whenever I attempt to make a call it alerts me that I am in roaming mode (which I double checked and i have it checked OFF so my DINC will dont roam) and if I would like to continue anyway. When my lock screen comes up it says "Verizon Network" on top and I am receiving and able to send text messages just fine. I have not seen anyone else having this issue in the forums and the last thing I want is to receive a higher bill from Verizon at the end of the month because of a new ROM. Also, the alert is simply annoying.
Please help.
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Sounds like you need to update your prl. You do this by dialing *228 and selecting option 2.
I forgot to mention that that's the first thing I did. I even accepted the alert and went with it anyway knowing it wouldn't take but a minute. It programmed the phone successfully.
Still occuring obviously.
manthis22 said:
I forgot to mention that that's the first thing I did. I even accepted the alert and went with it anyway knowing it wouldn't take but a minute. It programmed the phone successfully.
Still occuring obviously.
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Hmm not sure then. I know sprint ported roms tend to be touchy on the verizon network. I gave up on using them after synergy rom awile back, because my data connection would constantly break, requiring a compleete ruu and factory reset to get it working again. Just flashing a new rom wouldnt fix it.
Have you tried flashing the .0808 evo radio. I know it works on the incredible and mabey since its a sprint ported rom the evo radio would work better, or mabey not just a sugestion.
Its in call settings or wireless and networks. It's called roam guard. Unchecked it and you'll be fine.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
watt9493 said:
Its in call settings or wireless and networks. It's called roam guard. Unchecked it and you'll be fine.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
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I actually had to turn ON data roaming to check off Data Roam Guard. It didn't work. But out of desperation I checked OFF Call Guard and that fixed it. Maybe that's the option that you meant. Either way, the alert has stopped and my outgoing calls no longer give me that message while I have roaming OFF.
Thanks for the replies.
cmlusco said:
Sounds like you need to update your prl. You do this by dialing *228 and selecting option 2.
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Doing this on sprint ROMs have a tendency to break data. I don't recommend doing this. Also other development don't recommend it either. If you start having data issues, you may need to go back to stock, redo *228, the reflash what you want. I'm currently running my port of MikG 3.0 and have not had the warning. I did what you have done and its fine. I've made sure that the NETWORK thinks we are in fact Verizon, but the ROM somehow thinks we are Sprint.
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manthis22 said:
I actually had to turn ON data roaming to check off Data Roam Guard. It didn't work. But out of desperation I checked OFF Call Guard and that fixed it. Maybe that's the option that you meant. Either way, the alert has stopped and my outgoing calls no longer give me that message while I have roaming OFF.
Thanks for the replies.
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Yes. Sorry. That's what I meant, my girlfriend had more attention at the time then my phone. We all know where that goes.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
I bought my housemate a used epic to replace his palm pre until we can look at the note or galaxy nexus later this year. So far registration with sprint has gone fine - they said the ESN was clear and it's been bound to his account without a problem.
The issue is that the data connection is stuck saying 'error 67: username/password may be incorrect'. Looking through "phone settings -> about phone -> system status" shows his phone number and MSID according to what sprint told us, but the 'user name' is still apparently the previous user and a factory reset via the menus and even a full wipe/repartition back to EC05 via odin doesn't get rid of this.
Is there anything we can do here at home or is the only option going to be to go into a sprint store directly?
Try updating Profile. If that don't work then Sprint will have to walk you through a hard reset. You will need advanced tech support for that.
The profile update failed twice on the phone with tech support, took about 5 minutes and timed out with username/passwd failure. We also tried dialing in some numbers on the keypad ##somenumbers#, edit the phone number and MSID by hand, saved and rebooted.
It is definitely a provisioning error. Make sure you are in a strong 3G signal area and try the profile update a few more times. If the tech can't make it stick you probably have to bring it in to a store.
Nevermind.. it's been about half an hour since the last attempt, we tried again with updating the profile and it went through that time. We're all good here! Thanks for the feedback though :]
tigerknight said:
Nevermind.. it's been about half an hour since the last attempt, we tried again with updating the profile and it went through that time. We're all good here! Thanks for the feedback though :]
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Glad you got it working.
Make sure is old device is powered off. Power his new novice off for more than 60 seconds to clear the VLR (this is network side). Power device in and then dial ##72786#, follow on screen prompts. You will need your msl. You used this to program your msn and MSID earlier. This will clear your device radio without wiping all user data. After it is done it will try to iota. If it times out again, esn swap to another device wait 5min and the swap back to his epic. You can do the swap on the website. This should get you going. Hopefully you won't have to do the swaps. Also make sure your signal strength is better than -101dbm.
Edit - guess you got it before I finished typing. Glad it's working.
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