Well folks, I need help. If anyone could tell me how to bypass activation on a Droid Incredible with the latest (current) OTA, it would be greatly appreciated. Only other thread I could find was: (can't post the link as I'm a new user)
This solution won't work as I am not in a coverage area. Ok, so why do I want/need this functionality? I'm deployed to Iraq. My Incredible is under military suspension. After the recent OTA (yip, got it over wifi), I wiped my Incredible. I thought activation was a skippable step, but it's not. So, I'm hoping to get help with this. Worst case? I have a brick until I return stateside and re-activate the phone.
i think this might work, give it a whirl
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
Not sure how but I'm almost positive it is possible to manually activate. The only thing is you have to type in the correct MIN code. If you got access to a land line just call up Verizon and they should be able to walk you through it and give you the code. Here is what they will have you do: http://www.peteralfonso.com/2010/07/activation.html
Four Corners
When activation request screen appears, try the four corners approach. I read here on XDA and elsewhere - you touch in this order/sequence the top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left corners of the screen, and activation is bypassed.
Please post whether this worked for you - and, MOST importantly, thanks for serving!
magneticzero said:
i think this might work, give it a whirl
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
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This worked, thank you.
Now, a follow up. What's the ideal way to program the phone when I get back to the states?
-just dial #228?
-input the original numbers for those settings?
-factory reset than activate?
-something else?
jaykresge said:
This worked, thank you.
Now, a follow up. What's the ideal way to program the phone when I get back to the states?
-just dial #228?
-input the original numbers for those settings?
-factory reset than activate?
-something else?
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*22899 and press send. it will reprogram your phone number and data settings, i also beleive it updates your PRL all in one step. or just *228(option 1 to program your phone) then call again and do option 2 to update the PRL.
Thanks again, you've been a great help!
ive been following the #778 method, but it wont let me change the MDN.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Hey guys, I have a Desire CDMA that was on US Cellular. They claim that the ESN has been released from their network. I have rooted the phone with no problems. Page Plus was able to add it to their network fine but it just will not activate. Verizon, of course, is no help either. Should I find a stock 2.1 and re-flash?
I see people selling Page Plus Desires so I'm needing to know what I'm missing. I did get a guy on the phone who told me the phone needed to be "Manually Programmed". I also went to a Page Plus dealer and he gave me a DUH look when I asked him about it.
I have also installed CyanogenMod V7.0.0 RC2 without any problems what so ever... I just need to change the Network to Verizon instead of US Cellular.
[Edit] I have found out that I need to change the SID number, anyone know where to do this?
Any ideas would be very helpful!
TIA!!
[Edit] I have also discovered the *#*#4636#*#* trick but the OEM info at the bottom of the screen is grayed out... I dont know if this is where you change the SID #? The ##PROGRAM trick did not work but I have already flashed the CyanogenMod so maybe that is why this didn't work?
[Edit3] I found this but the ##PROGRAM is not working, is there another number to get into programming?
-Tap the Phone Icon and dial ##7764726 then tap phone icon
-SPC Password is 000000 and tap verify
-select User Activation
-Tap MIN Box and delete existing info and add your MIN *
-Enter MDN as well
-Find SID # and input it here **
-Press Done to save info an return to user activation and then press Home key and phone should reset after programming
so this does work? and do they give you the numbers you need to enter?
Msl reader isnt working for me gives me a error. I put it on modem for both. have dev mode disabled. I run cdma workshop connect to port 2 hit read spc an get a error "Phone ask for SPC. SPC (6 digits) is required. Check "security" tab - "SPC" section."
I really need my MSL to fix my mms and Update my prl because i get a error everytime i try to.
Idk if this is info thats needed but i am rooted 2.2 rom
Am i supposed to enter a SPC before hand... lol or am i just missing something.
Edit: I also have the samsung drivers installed and am using the same cable i rooted with last night. The error i get with MSL reader is "ERROR: /dev/smd0 does not exist. This phone is not compatible."
I'm guessing you already tried this
gokuman56 said:
EDIT: Easier Way to get MSL. Okay so you have to download connectbot from the Market
1. Open ConnectBot
2. Agree Next Next Yada Yada
3. Press SSH and select Local
4. type in whatever you want by local and press enter
5. ok once you see a black screen and to the left a cash sign, type in "getprop" without the quotes
6. You should see a lot of words, scroll up all the way at the top.
7. Near the middle of the screen until you see [ril.MSL]
8. It will be 6 digits and that's your MSL
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Are you trying to push a new PRL to the phone?
look here
Goto security, then send the default samsung password at the bottom left corner..
Then top right of the the tab click read spc.. the spc is the msl
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Send the defualt password? just leave it on the toshiba or select a specific one? also just tried the connectbot way it gave me [ril.msl]: [000000] which IDK if thats right :\
lgevo said:
Send the defualt password? just leave it on the toshiba or select a specific one? also just tried the connectbot way it gave me [ril.msl]: [000000] which IDK if thats right :\
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Doubtful but not impossible
Try this then see if it works
excerpt from 4g signal mod
1. Dial ##3282#
2. It will open a menu, click WiMAX and enter MSL. Note: 4G radio must be on.
3. Go to extensions and Hold EntryRX and Write Extension
4. Change the Value from -89 to -110 (The Lower the weaker the signal can be for the phone to connect.)
5. Change EntryCINR to 0004
just get to step 2 and see of it accepts your MSL
Lol wow it did thanks guys!
Hello, I purchase an Verizon Incredible from ebay, it's ezn thingy is clean but I live in the UK. I need the phone activated but can't activate it here as the number it dials doesn't connect since it' cdma. I was wondering if there was a rom or mod that can remove the activation and/or the phone functionality as I would just like to use it as a media device?
any help on this, would be greatly appreciated,
thank you
If you are wanting to install a new rom just skip the activation. Take cyanogenmod for example when the activation screen comes up with the android on it, press the four corners around the screen and it will skip activation. I think the skip is pretty standard across rom but I'm not 100% on that. It does work on Cyanogenmod though.
-xipher- said:
Hello, I purchase an Verizon Incredible from ebay, it's ezn thingy is clean but I live in the UK. I need the phone activated but can't activate it here as the number it dials doesn't connect since it' cdma. I was wondering if there was a rom or mod that can remove the activation and/or the phone functionality as I would just like to use it as a media device?
any help on this, would be greatly appreciated,
thank you
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Is the phone rooted and s-off?
*NOTE: you need to be using a ROM that has EPST.apk (Sense or stock based) in it for this procedure to work.
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
Hope this helps. Worked for me with no issues.
Sent from my ADR6350 using xda premium
CondemnedSoul said:
*NOTE: you need to be using a ROM that has EPST.apk (Sense or stock based) in it for this procedure to work.
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
Hope this helps. Worked for me with no issues.
Sent from my ADR6350 using xda premium
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Do you have the original numbers for verizon in the US? i had it written down but can not find it.
is there any way to wipe your number off the device? i'm talking about from the status section in settings, is it possible, i've run the ruu, flashed roms etc, and nothing my number sticks on to it...
Wouldn't you have to activate another phone before your number is removed from this phone?
SlimSnoopOS said:
Wouldn't you have to activate another phone before your number is removed from this phone?
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I'm using my gnex as my primary
*NOTE: you need to be using a ROM that has EPST.apk (Sense or stock based) in it for this procedure to work.
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
Hope this helps. Worked for me with no issues.
Sent from my ADR6350 using xda premium
CondemnedSoul said:
*NOTE: you need to be using a ROM that has EPST.apk (Sense or stock based) in it for this procedure to work.
1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
Hope this helps. Worked for me with no issues.
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This worked for me, thanks. To commit changes though I had to hit the menu button and then select commit.
To further add to the thread, if you want a few more options of what to change and clear then check out
http://www.cdma-ware.com/workshop.html
CDMA Workshop. It'll let you change ESN's, phone number, carrier name, push custom PRL versions, etc. Of course changing the ESN doesn't mean it'll work.. because it needs to be activated through the carrier and it also has to be a valid ESN -- but if you bought a used phone off eBay or whatever and are looking to have it as a music player/camera, this is best.
POQbum said:
To further add to the thread, if you want a few more options of what to change and clear then check out
http://www.cdma-ware.com/workshop.html
CDMA Workshop. It'll let you change ESN's, phone number, carrier name, push custom PRL versions, etc. Of course changing the ESN doesn't mean it'll work.. because it needs to be activated through the carrier and it also has to be a valid ESN -- but if you bought a used phone off eBay or whatever and are looking to have it as a music player/camera, this is best.
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Isn't changing your ESN/MEID illegal?
anekdotos said:
Isn't changing your ESN/MEID illegal?
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Just looked it up and it looks like the law that everyone is pointing to saying it's illegal is very vague. But it still remains that yea, it's potentially illegal (which I didn't know before)
So use at your own risk if you're going to do that.
CDMA workshop is still great for many other changes though.
Earlier today I had a successful attempt at installing FXP's CM9 126 build. As a requirement I had to flash the R800x_4.0.2.E.57_Verizon.ftf via Flashtool to my phone before I could flash the Rom. My phone's provider is Cspire(formally Cellular South), and after the ftf my phone is trying to make contact with Verizon for activation, leaving my unable to call or text on my own provider. I've tried flashing a nand backup I had of one of Codename Andriod that I created when everything was working perfectly, but it didn't fix the problem.
Thank you for your time and please let me know what I can to fix this.
Sincerely,
Frag_Bag
Frag_Bag said:
Earlier today I had a successful attempt at installing FXP's CM9 126 build. As a requirement I had to flash the R800x_4.0.2.E.57_Verizon.ftf via Flashtool to my phone before I could flash the Rom. My phone's provider is Cspire(formally Cellular South), and after the ftf my phone is trying to make contact with Verizon for activation, leaving my unable to call or text on my own provider. I've tried flashing a nand backup I had of one of Codename Andriod that I created when everything was working perfectly, but it didn't fix the problem.
Thank you for your time and please let me know what I can to fix this.
Sincerely,
Frag_Bag
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You'll need to change the build.prop and apn settings. Found this from a quick search with someone that has a working verizon build.prop that is said to work on cspire
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dgteu3ziweifix8/build.prop
and his working apn settings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cs5tqwdlcstt3s/apns-conf.xml
Also found this:
You could push the apn with ADB but i just edited mine with root explorer in /System/etc and restarted the phone.
As for CDMA Workshop is a service software for CDMA phones it is used for flashing phones to different carriers to put it plain as possible in my mind but it can be used for countless useful tasks, just Google it to read more. But the below method was much easier.
Dialing ##7764726(##program) is used to manually program your phone.
After dialing ##7764726 press call it will prompt for a SPC password it should be 000000
Then click User Activation
MIN1 I put the last 7 digits of my phone number.
MIN2 put the first three of phone number(area code).
MDN is your 10 digit phone number.
CDMA Sys ID put 1996
IMSI_11_12 put 12
Then hit back and click on SID/NID Pairs:
SID_1: put 1996
NID_1: put 65535
After this hit back till you exit all the way back out of the menu the phone will reboot after it reboots i dialed *22801 it didn't say anything just sat at the activation screen for about 30sec. Then it said reprogramming the phone then rebooted agin after that i was back on C spire.
Links are a little old but this is all I could find:
SID Database if you need to find a different carrier
http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/index.asp
Also the SID/NID I used was found in this PRL breakdown:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1700374-New-PRL-60575-50575
The Second post of the page explains a lot more about PRL and SID/NID just good to understand what your kinda messing with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19537266
Also i don't know if this is the best way to accomplish this task but it took me awhile to figure out this fix it worked for me but i can't guarantee anything also im not responsible if something goes wrong and you brick(its always possible) but i am willing to help to the best of my abilities
Good Luck and sorry for such a long post.
agraceful said:
You'll need to change the build.prop and apn settings. Found this from a quick search with someone that has a working verizon build.prop that is said to work on cspire
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dgteu3ziweifix8/build.prop
and his working apn settings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cs5tqwdlcstt3s/apns-conf.xml
Also found this:
You could push the apn with ADB but i just edited mine with root explorer in /System/etc and restarted the phone.
As for CDMA Workshop is a service software for CDMA phones it is used for flashing phones to different carriers to put it plain as possible in my mind but it can be used for countless useful tasks, just Google it to read more. But the below method was much easier.
Dialing ##7764726(##program) is used to manually program your phone.
After dialing ##7764726 press call it will prompt for a SPC password it should be 000000
Then click User Activation
MIN1 I put the last 7 digits of my phone number.
MIN2 put the first three of phone number(area code).
MDN is your 10 digit phone number.
CDMA Sys ID put 1996
IMSI_11_12 put 12
Then hit back and click on SID/NID Pairs:
SID_1: put 1996
NID_1: put 65535
After this hit back till you exit all the way back out of the menu the phone will reboot after it reboots i dialed *22801 it didn't say anything just sat at the activation screen for about 30sec. Then it said reprogramming the phone then rebooted agin after that i was back on C spire.
Links are a little old but this is all I could find:
SID Database if you need to find a different carrier
http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/index.asp
Also the SID/NID I used was found in this PRL breakdown:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1700374-New-PRL-60575-50575
The Second post of the page explains a lot more about PRL and SID/NID just good to understand what your kinda messing with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19537266
Also i don't know if this is the best way to accomplish this task but it took me awhile to figure out this fix it worked for me but i can't guarantee anything also im not responsible if something goes wrong and you brick(its always possible) but i am willing to help to the best of my abilities
Good Luck and sorry for such a long post.
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I was able to enter all the values for MIN2, MDN, CDMA, and IMSI, but the MIN1 Keeps telling me "Unable to set new parameter, I made sure there was a 1 before my 7 digit number. Thoughts?
Frag_Bag said:
I was able to enter all the values for MIN2, MDN, CDMA, and IMSI, but the MIN1 Keeps telling me "Unable to set new parameter, I made sure there was a 1 before my 7 digit number. Thoughts?
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I don't think you'll need the 1. Just the last 7 numbers. Try that to see if it works. And just so you know, I'm on verizon so all my answers are coming from google at the moment lol
I left the number the way it was and finished the steps, everything is working as it should and I can call and text. Thank you very much. Now i just have to find a fix for Mobile data. I really do appreciate it.
Frag_Bag said:
I left the number the way it was and finished the steps, everything is working as it should and I can call and text. Thank you very much. Now i just have to find a fix for Mobile data. I really do appreciate it.
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Mobile data would be in the build.prop and the apn settings, You should be able to use pieces from the build.prop I posted to work whatever rom you're on. I got to assume verizon and cspire are close to identical since they're both cdma. Half way there right?
agraceful said:
Mobile data would be in the build.prop and the apn settings, You should be able to use pieces from the build.prop I posted to work whatever rom you're on. I got to assume verizon and cspire are close to identical since they're both cdma. Half way there right?
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Are these settings still current cspire settings... I lost 3g connectivity and would love to troubleshoot to figure out whats wrong with it... I did the ##Program and here are my settings
USER ACTIVATION MENU
MIN-my number with area code
IMSI_11_12 =23
MDN - my number with area code
CDMA system ID - 1996
EXTENDED NAM MENU
MIN = another local number
TRUE IMSI - 000000000007809
IMSI_11_12 = 23
MDN - my number with area code
CDMA system ID - 1996
Country code - 311
CDMA network - 65535
1st channel A - 283
1st channel B - 384
2nd channel A - 691
2nd channel B - 777
Access overload class 0
URGENT
im having the same issue when i use ##program and dail it does nothing but act like a collect call HELP
on cm9
Thanks...
agraceful said:
You'll need to change the build.prop and apn settings. Found this from a quick search with someone that has a working verizon build.prop that is said to work on cspire
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dgteu3ziweifix8/build.prop
and his working apn settings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cs5tqwdlcstt3s/apns-conf.xml
Also found this:
You could push the apn with ADB but i just edited mine with root explorer in /System/etc and restarted the phone.
As for CDMA Workshop is a service software for CDMA phones it is used for flashing phones to different carriers to put it plain as possible in my mind but it can be used for countless useful tasks, just Google it to read more. But the below method was much easier.
Dialing ##7764726(##program) is used to manually program your phone.
After dialing ##7764726 press call it will prompt for a SPC password it should be 000000
Then click User Activation
MIN1 I put the last 7 digits of my phone number.
MIN2 put the first three of phone number(area code).
MDN is your 10 digit phone number.
CDMA Sys ID put 1996
IMSI_11_12 put 12
Then hit back and click on SID/NID Pairs:
SID_1: put 1996
NID_1: put 65535
After this hit back till you exit all the way back out of the menu the phone will reboot after it reboots i dialed *22801 it didn't say anything just sat at the activation screen for about 30sec. Then it said reprogramming the phone then rebooted agin after that i was back on C spire.
Links are a little old but this is all I could find:
SID Database if you need to find a different carrier
http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/index.asp
Also the SID/NID I used was found in this PRL breakdown:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1700374-New-PRL-60575-50575
The Second post of the page explains a lot more about PRL and SID/NID just good to understand what your kinda messing with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19537266
Also i don't know if this is the best way to accomplish this task but it took me awhile to figure out this fix it worked for me but i can't guarantee anything also im not responsible if something goes wrong and you brick(its always possible) but i am willing to help to the best of my abilities
Good Luck and sorry for such a long post.
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Thanks for copying and pasting all this from my thread you could have atleast acknowledged me since it's basically word for word
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624990