as you all know we all had to put in our own custom settings and iptables into our android phones to get cricket working on our phones allowing us to access the marcket, internet, and apps.
it involves using autostart, u2nl, and replacing the APN's.
now all of that is to route all traffic trough the cricket proxy which only allows access to the internet trough port 8080.
but NOW as you all may know cricket offers an android phone plan which gives you unlocked 3G speed (yes my speed went up a little bit once i got the plan, to about 70KB/s) but i think it's not fully unlocked because i have all these things being routed trough their old proxy servers...
so does anyone know the new settings to configure your android phone with the cricket android plan?
supposedly on the plan description it says everything works, apps, market, everything!
I too am looking for these settings since I have purchased a Droid Eris and flashed new rom and put in most of the old settings for Cricket. If anyone has the Rio or Ascend that is on Cricket Android plan, hopefully they could list settings needed to make this work. I have the Android plan but the local shop wants to charge $45 to "check" my settings to make it work. Please help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762756
Hi everyone, I bought an Sprint HTC Evo 4g that had been flashed to cricket wireless. When it had no service the cricket "welcome to cricket" voice would answer, then one day it reverted to sprint. Anyways, I just got it hooked up with the $55 dollar android plan, only to discover that MMS (picture messaging?) and the mobile internet aren't working.
So my questions are:
1) Is there a solution to this problem? (I've searched for and tried a few things alerady)
2) Is it possible to simply re-flash the phone even though I have activated service. (also, my usb port is broken so I'd have to do it through a micro sd adapter if possible)
3) any other solutions I don't know about?
I have no idea what rom (or whaterver it's called) I'm currently running, but I can do the ##3283# (DATA) thing, and the menu and all those settings will pop up, if that helps at all. If needed, I can provide all of my current ##DATA# settings.
So please let me know if you can help, and thanks in advance!
are you sure data is actually activated on your plan? I know it took me about 10 phone calls before a tech finally realized that the android data service was not active on my account.
Also, you say the phone was already flashed to cricket? Did the person you bought it from preprogram it for your account? The phone has to be programmed via QPST with your phone number in various places in order for data to work properly.
If you don't have a functioning usb port then it is going to be impossible to program the phone via QPST and get it working correctly.
In addition, without data MMS is not going to work. You need to get data working first.
First of all, thanks for the reply! And yeah, I just called and they said it's on the $55 plan.
Yes, it was already flashed when I bought it. We actually just added it to our current account and the cricket rep. changed it to a new number. And in the ##DATA# settings, I put in my own number. Also, I have no idea what QPST is, sorry, I'm new to this whole phone flashing.
Its not possible through the sd card? because the usb port broke off... How could I get data to work?
Many of you are aware of a thread in the Focus S section of this forum about someone with their Focus S getting VVM to work. However, it wasn't the most helpful thread to replicating it. I have since replicated this on a different device (the Focus Flash), so I wanted to post something here to let more people know.
Thanks to davezaff for the idea.
Here is how I did it on my Focus Flash. You will probably need a way to edit the APNs.
1. Update to 7740
2. Update to 8107
3. Insert sim card into an AT&T Android LTE phone (I used skyrocket)
4. Go to att.com and switch plan to Data Pro 4g LTE plan. I had to call to switch since it wasn't working on the website.
5. Setup VVM on Android LTE phone (don't know if this is necessary, but this is what I did....make sure friend knows the VM password so they can re-add it when they put their sim card back in.
6.Insert sim card back into Windows Phone
7. Call Voicemail
8. Wait for VVM to show up on phone (mine showed up after calling voicemail).
9. If sync error, edit the APN as follows
APN settings (delete the internet_line APN)
Create a new APN
APN Name: pta
Profile Category: internet (always on)
APN: pta
Auth type: None
Username:
Password:
Proxy address: proxy.mobile.att.net
Proxy domain:
Proxy port: 80
I now have working VVM on AT&T with my Samsung Focus Flash. My internet tethering still works (applied the Interop unlock + tethering hack from XDA). I have not tested MMS since I did this, but the MMS APN was untouched.
So they have tied vvm with their stupid data plans, how nice. So I can pay $20 for 300mb + vvm or I can pay $10 for unlimited data and traditional vm... ATT is so dumb.
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This is not development, its more of a guide. Please post such threads in the WP7 General section
For the normal person, it is pay $30 for 3GB of data with traditional VM or pay $30 for 3GB with VVM. The only difference is one plan has the word LTE at the end.
how can one even get the 8107 update on the samsung focus s? i tried the old force update method (disconnecting the internet connection) with zune, and that hasn't worked...
simbadogg said:
how can one even get the 8107 update on the samsung focus s? i tried the old force update method (disconnecting the internet connection) with zune, and that hasn't worked...
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This is the process I used:
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2012/01/06/windows-phone-7-build-7-10-8107-79-roll-out-started-get-it-now-and-update-manually/
Any idea if this works with the ATT Titan?
mmian said:
Any idea if this works with the ATT Titan?
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Yes, and just download the English only language pack.
i already updated to 8107, but im asking if the vvm works for the titan, i also don't know anyone with an LTE android phone
Does this work if you don't setup VVM on the android device first? I was thinking of just calling AT&T and asking to be switched to the 4G plan.
Get it working without an LTE device
OK, I got this to work on my Lumia 800. Furthermore, I didn't have an LTE device.
What I did have however, is an AT&T store that caters extensively to my place of work (a software company). They are really nice, understand unusual requests, and try everything to help.
I did the following:
1. Upgrade the OS as per the original post.
2. Call the nice AT&T store that I mentioned above. Asked them to put me on an LTE plan. (I was already on an enterprise plan, so I was moved to the same enterprise plan but the LTE version. Cost of my plan remained unchanged).
I explained that I was doing some app development, and planned to be swapping phones from time to time, some of which are LTE phones. (I also have a microsim adapter, so moving between phones that take microsim and regular sim is not an issue for me).
They asked if I'd like VVM provisioning. I said yes.
They told me that they would change my listed phone to a blank IMEI (basically change the IMEI listed on my account to a blank IMEI that's associated with an LTE phone for provisioning purposes). I don't know if this is something all stores would be willing to do.
3. In the APN settings, I changed my APN to pta. I did NONE of the other settings mentioned (proxy, proxy port, and everything else are BLANK).
Now I have Visual Voicemail on my Lumia 800!
Hmm so why is vvm only available to LTE phones/network I want to get this.
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Hmm so why is vvm only available to LTE phones/network I want to get this.
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...because AT&T wants to sell LTE devices.
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They told me that they would change my listed phone to a blank IMEI (basically change the IMEI listed on my account to a blank IMEI that's associated with an LTE phone for provisioning purposes). I don't know if this is something all stores would be willing to do.
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I wonder if this blank IMEI is a special IMEI that at&t has to test LTE devices on accounts or something. I wonder if this IMEI would also work on other accounts as well. Hmmm.
I don't suppose that IMEI is something you could share possibly? I mean if its not a real phone, and can work on multiple accounts, it would be very nice to (selectively) share it so that some of us can get VVM.
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I wonder if this blank IMEI is a special IMEI that at&t has to test LTE devices on accounts or something. I wonder if this IMEI would also work on other accounts as well. Hmmm.
I don't suppose that IMEI is something you could share possibly? I mean if its not a real phone, and can work on multiple accounts, it would be very nice to (selectively) share it so that some of us can get VVM.
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I agree, since I just called asking for essentially this setup and they deniened any special IMEI.
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OK, I got this to work on my Lumia 800. Furthermore, I didn't have an LTE device.
They asked if I'd like VVM provisioning. I said yes.
They told me that they would change my listed phone to a blank IMEI (basically change the IMEI listed on my account to a blank IMEI that's associated with an LTE phone for provisioning purposes). I don't know if this is something all stores would be willing to do.
3. In the APN settings, I changed my APN to pta. I did NONE of the other settings mentioned (proxy, proxy port, and everything else are BLANK).
Now I have Visual Voicemail on my Lumia 800!
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So i also have an 800 and asked them to provision me for HSPA+ recently, so they switched my data plan to one that was supposed to be able to access it (i have no idea if it really can - that's a whole different can of worms). What did they switch your plan to? If you look online and hit "recent usage", you can see under "Additional Data Purchased Usage" your data lines with the plan code. My code is "HSSMTD4O" Just wanted to see if i could skip the "call att" step.
Thought I would share my experience also..
I was able to get VVM working on my Focus Flash. Luckily I have a friend that works at the ATT store. He just took a Samsung Note scanned the IMEI and added that as my phone. Then he enabled LTE and VVM. I rebooted phone and went in the the phone tile, and VVM prompted me for password. I put in password and all has been good.
The easiest way would probably be to borrow a friends VVM supported phone and put your sim in it, then have them add VVM to your account.
I did not have to add any APN's or make any changes to the phone.
Getting it working without a LTE device and without AT&T in your pocket
So, I decided to try and get VVM setup on my Focus S today, but I have no friends with AT&T and the local store was unwilling to help in the fashion outlined above.
So what to do? Well the main thing you need for this is the IMEI number from an Android LTE phone. So I asked a couple friends that don't live close by, and none of them had a LTE phone.
So I searched the internet for those "Get unlock Codes" websites, specifically for tutorials on LTE phones, and some of them show the IMEI number.
So I went into chat support and told them I needed a LTE plan with visual voicemail, and they asked for the IMEI number, I gave it to them, and then 2 minutes later VVM is now provisioned and working properly.
Yeah so I ended up adding the IMEI of a random Galaxy Note that I do not own. It was dead simple to do it online through tech support chat. After that, just called up voicemail, waiting a second or two, hung up, and then my phone prompted me for my voicemail password and automatically enabled visual voicemail. I realize that AT&T's system does not check for duplicate IMEIs across the network, so you can throw the same IMEI onto any number of phones and AT&T wouldn't know a thing (until they start looking of course).
I did have to change my APN to "pta" to get it to sync properly, but after that it was all smooth sailing.
Now I've got Visual Voicemail on my Titan and Lumia.
I am glad some of you were able to get it to work. The big issue I had before starting this thread was getting the APN settings. After getting VVM enabled, it couldnt connect until I messed with the APN. Glad I was able to help y'all!
Just got my new TMO M8 direct from HTC and I love it..... except for one problem which is not exclusive to this phone but I've searched everywhere and can't find a solution. Since this is not my every day phone I don't need a regular phone & texting plan. I only need a data plan... so I signed up for T Mobile's $10 data match plan which gives me 5GB/mo.... seemed like a great idea except apparently TMO doesn't allow smartphone devices to use this plan only tablets or hotspots. I've searched and searched and tried every combination of APN's but none of them work... when I'm changing the apn settings either data is totally disconnected or when it connects and I try a browser it prompts me to "Sign into Network" and sends me to the "upsell" site. Is there any way to spoof a tablet or hotspot? I know there are browser plugins that change the user agent but this seems to be happening on a system level. Is it possible to edit a system database entry, etc? Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.
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Just got my new TMO M8 direct from HTC and I love it..... except for one problem which is not exclusive to this phone but I've searched everywhere and can't find a solution. Since this is not my every day phone I don't need a regular phone & texting plan. I only need a data plan... so I signed up for T Mobile's $10 data match plan which gives me 5GB/mo.... seemed like a great idea except apparently TMO doesn't allow smartphone devices to use this plan only tablets or hotspots. I've searched and searched and tried every combination of APN's but none of them work... when I'm changing the apn settings either data is totally disconnected or when it connects and I try a browser it prompts me to "Sign into Network" and sends me to the "upsell" site. Is there any way to spoof a tablet or hotspot? I know there are browser plugins that change the user agent but this seems to be happening on a system level. Is it possible to edit a system database entry, etc? Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.
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You're not going to be able to trick the carrier into thinking you're using another device. Continually attempting to do so also will get you flagged and you may come under scrutiny with the carrier so I'd suggest you pay for a rate plan like the rest of the android community, or utilize WiFi hotspots as much as possible.
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You're not going to be able to trick the carrier into thinking you're using another device. Continually attempting to do so also will get you flagged and you may come under scrutiny with the carrier so I'd suggest you pay for a rate plan like the rest of the android community, or utilize WiFi hotspots as much as possible.
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I am paying for a rate plan... for 5 devices which are full unlimited plans but for this one I only need data.
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I am paying for a rate plan... for 5 devices which are full unlimited plans but for this one I only need data.
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Enable WiFi Tethering on the device you use as your primary phone and let your data only devices utilize it's unlimited data plan. That way, you don't have to pay for anything for your data only device.
So on my last couple computers I was able to use PdaNet 3.50 to bypass my hotspot cap of a weak 2.5Gb (which I can use in a couple hours) but now that I got a brand new laptop that sadly has windows 8.1 I can no longer get pdanet 3.5 to function... It's installed and all, just for some reason it won't connect to my phone
So I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion on what app I can use besides PdaNet+FoxFi that I can use to bypass my carriers crappy hotspot plan? I did use the search function, but I bet I overlooked the answer somewhere in the thousands of threads out there... I apologise if I have.
Phone & Carrier info:
Phone: LG Optimus F6 rooted
Carrier: MetroPCS
All right. Here's what I would start with, 86eightsix.
You'll need:
WiFi Tether Router, available from the Google Play Store ($2.50)
A User Agent Switcher for your favorite web browser(s) to mask your user agent string with an Android user agent string, so that it appears you're using an Android device when browsing the web, thus bypassing the tethering restriction imposed by your carrier (or) a VPN tunnel if you'd like to hide your traffic from your carrier - to minimize the risk of having your service cancelled. As for which service to use, I can highly recommend Private Internet Access.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if you need further help with any of this, 86eightsix.