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Hey guys,
After rooting my evo about 4 months back ive neen through many roms, kernels etc. I have only updated the radio and pri once recently but never touched the winmax but recently ive noticed horrible signal strength sometimes texts wont even go through and im getting around 1-2 bars max no matter if im at or out somwhere.
So my question is what should I do to improve this would updating wimax help? Since ive never updated it since I bought this phone.
Im on cyanogen b2 supersonic mod which I flashed over a nightly because thats what da instructiins said.
Kernel: snap 7.6 turbo
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if its just recently i would see if any friends have signal issues in the same areas... could be a tower issue.
otherwise i would go back to a stock 2.2 odex (it will jave latest wimax and radio in it.) and see if that helps.
if nothing works... it very well could br your phone.
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Updating the WiMax radio will have nothing to do with your 3G/voice reception. That's a totally separate radio.
+1 on v_lestat's suggestion. See if anyone else is having problems, if they aren't I would try these steps (continuing on to the next if the previous didn't work).
1. Update profile
2. Reset profile in epst ##3282# (Need MSL) Edit Mode>Data Profile>Menu>Restore
3. Experiment with different radios until you find one that works best in your area.
topdawgn8 said:
Updating the WiMax radio will have nothing to do with your 3G/voice reception. That's a totally separate radio.
+1 on v_lestat's suggestion. See if anyone else is having problems, if they aren't I would try these steps (continuing on to the next if the previous didn't work).
1. Update profile
2. Reset profile in epst ##3282# (Need MSL) Edit Mode>Data Profile>Menu>Restore
3. Experiment with different radios until you find one that works best in your area.
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Thanks for thr reply but can you explain in a little bit of detail like what will the epst do? And whats "MSL" lol
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I saw someone post something today about a program on the market to get your msl. It's called MSL reader and will help you get that. You cannot edit details in the epst without it. If that doesnt' work, you can always call sprint and tell them you need it. There are a couple of threads on here for help if they aren't willing to give it to you.
In the epst you can change things pertaining to your data pofile, wimax settings, and misc advanced settings. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN HERE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE CHANGING. For what you need to do, just reset your user profile and then click OK to restart your phone.
I have a rooted evo using one of about ten roms depending and my gf is unrooted. Now we live in 3g only area and her phone probably has never been in a 4g area where mine is everyday when I go to work. I've tried everything I know to try. The media stream fix, the throttle cap fix on various roms, have the most recent radios and such. Even done the combo package to make certain i have the latest stuff. I'm using prl 01115, 1.90_003,3.70.651.1 and 2.15.00.11.19 on hardware version 0003. Used unrevoked and doesn't matter which bu clockwork up until month ago then used amon ra. I get almost an exact download speed after 100 tests over period of a few weeks at around 133kps. My gf unrooted evo using identical phone with at least week of tests she gets on average about 1Mps. My 4g speeds at work are awesome. Even during the busy period of the day I get 6Mps. I've got as many as 10 to 12 late at night. Get the standard upload as well. I'm out of options? Please help.....i'm past the nob stage i suppose to a rookie, but i catch on if explained as far as extensive stuff goes. Change roms, kernels, boot animations and basic themes and mods are where my experience ends. Any advice?
do you guys have the same PRL and pri? that could account for differences in speed
Yes....doesn't matter if they aren't the same we still get same speeds pretty much, but yes they are the same. A little more info for you. We have same settings as far as roaming etc etc. That isn't it. There is one tower specifically we use. Kinda small town and that tower covers city limits pretty much. There is another by the interstate way the other direction but i'm dead certain we use the same tower. Get about three quarters to almost full signal on both phones in same areas good or bad. Another issue is and I hate to say this, but dude I use my phone alot. I stay online with it god knows how much. Lets just say I use my no cap data like a mofo. My gf however is a sprint data dream. Pays for extra data never in 4g and most blackberry users use more data. Dunno?
anyone else?
I dont put much stock in speed tests, benchmarks etc.... My wife, daughterr and myself all have evos and I've tested all of them and they're all different. Of course mine is the fastest because I'm special...
Sounds like what happened to me. What PRL are both of you running?
I understand what your saying guy, but over a period of two weeks at least five tests per day and they all are within 100 kbs of each other in results and her phone avg is 1.2Mps and mine is 133kbs. Dude that is a HUGE difference. Either i'm being throttled or something is wrong with my phone, but what? I've reset and updated and done every possible thing I can to improve it and no matter what I do my avg speed stays around the same or is zero. I might add that i've done this using several different speed test sites. I range from 120 to 140. I'm out of possibilites. I need help from someone that knows more than me for sure.
We are both running latest. Both phones were updated to the latest prl couple days ago.
I believe some of us are being throttled, to heck with the naysayers! Do you have root explorer? If so try this....
Open Root Explorer
Select DATA
Select SYSTEM
Select THROTTLE, Delete this File/Folder and in a minute or so run speed test again (a few times).
Your speeds should increase, mine do, I go from .200 down to 1.3 down! BUT, the file will rebuild itself within 5 minutes or so, once it does my speeds are back to .200 down. The way around this for me was to use a Hacked PRL #00001 found HERE. This will have you as roaming, but if you use WiFi as much as possible, dont tether your PC to download Torrents, it should be OK. I havent seen where anyone has been canceled from using this Hack, yet anyway
cool....gonna give it a try. be back in few and give results.
Or you could just downgrade your prl like me. I went back to 60675 and dl speed s are back up
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Fix: I dont take the credit, but just letting you know.
First, I downloaded the sprint PRL's from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029900)(thanks to cordell12)
They should be in the second post. After downloading, unzip them onto the root of your SD cards.
Then, download the EPST.apk (I have attached it). In Android 2.2, they removed the ##775# PRL functionality, and this .apk will give the functionality back. Download the .apk and move it to system/app folder using root explorer. Tap to install.
After it installs, go to a dialer (you need to have a sense on I believe) and press ##775#. It will prompt you to enter your MSL.
After entering the MSL, it should take you to a screen with the "Update PRL" option. Click it. After a few seconds, it should bring up all the .prl files you have (you unzipped them earlier). Choose the 60677.prl file. Click ok.
Press the menu capcitive button, and click "Commit Modifications". The phone will automatically reboot.
P.S. Can you test your speed and tell me if it worked?
Sorry...Easter bunny showed up for my gf lil girl. Ok I'm here on my Evo on stock browser lil slow.
Just follow what I said earlier...it worked for me
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cordell12 said:
I believe some of us are being throttled, to heck with the naysayers! Do you have root explorer? If so try this....
Open Root Explorer
Select DATA
Select SYSTEM
Select THROTTLE, Delete this File/Folder and in a minute or so run speed test again (a few times).
Your speeds should increase, mine do, I go from .200 down to 1.3 down! BUT, the file will rebuild itself within 5 minutes or so, once it does my speeds are back to .200 down. The way around this for me was to use a Hacked PRL #00001 found HERE. This will have you as roaming, but if you use WiFi as much as possible, dont tether your PC to download Torrents, it should be OK. I havent seen where anyone has been canceled from using this Hack, yet anyway
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That's interesting. It totally did exactly what you said. I got about a 200 kbps increase. Now if only wer could keep that file from rebuilding...
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LyndenP said:
That's interesting. It totally did exactly what you said. I got about a 200 kbps increase. Now if only wer could keep that file from rebuilding...
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Mine will vary from a .200 to 1.0 increase (depending on time of day) just from deleting that file. I tried to change permissions on the file and when it went to do whatever it does I got sent into a never ending bootloop It took a nandroid to bring me back!
cordell12 said:
Mine will vary from a .200 to 1.0 increase (depending on time of day) just from deleting that file. I tried to change permissions on the file and when it went to do whatever it does I got sent into a never ending bootloop It took a nandroid to bring me back!
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i deleted file twice and it hasnt returned
Are the ROMs your running AOSP?
If so, flash to a sense rom and update prl and and profile.
I had a huge drop. from 1.3mb to 300kb, because id been on AOSP for so long and had ignored my profile, i was only two prls behind, profile can help alot
After updating my PRL my 3g data speeds were pretty bad, sounds the same as your problem. I did this and it fixed it right up, back to normal now.
Hello, As the titlle says.. I'm flashed onto Boost Mobile with everything functional.. (Except GPS, but that's a whole 'nother concern)..
After reading around and searching to no avail, if I need to update my Profile, I get an error.. Something along the lines of ""Error: Cannot Update! Client Authentication Error".
Does anyone know if it's my Boost Mobile affecting this.. Also, anyway to fix it?
Is there a way to manually flash a profile on there?
Leejin said:
Hello, As the titlle says.. I'm flashed onto Boost Mobile with everything functional.. (Except GPS, but that's a whole 'nother concern)..
After reading around and searching to no avail, if I need to update my Profile, I get an error.. Something along the lines of ""Error: Cannot Update! Client Authentication Error".
Does anyone know if it's my Boost Mobile affecting this.. Also, anyway to fix it?
Is there a way to manually flash a profile on there?
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Your Profile is looking for Sprints server so of course it wont work. If I am not mistaken its a Sprint profile you are updating so if you are on Boost why would you want to do that?
your on boost thats why its giving you that issue... look on the development page for "how to manually update your PRL".. don't remember the name of the op for it on epic touch but i remember it was created by Leviusque on the epic 4g. follow the steps on there and you will be able to update your prl.
edit: found the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
May i ask how flash your device to boost mobile? a friend was asking me for my epic and how to flash it to metro
youngace look in the development page as well theres a thread call "flash epic touch 4g to boost mobile step by step"
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heres the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419488
OTA update and 3g speeds
playya said:
Your Profile is looking for Sprints server so of course it wont work. If I am not mistaken its a Sprint profile you are updating so if you are on Boost why would you want to do that?
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I am having the same Error: Cannot Update! Client Authentication Error problem on my e4gt as the original poster. I know it is possible to have a sprint phone on boost and be able to use the update profile. I original put a sprint mogul on boost and could update profile, then I switched over to a Samsung sph I-350 simply by calling boost. They had no problem activating it, Update profile, prl worked fine. Then I went to a evo 4g, real pain in the ass phone to get on boost. I had to find the esn in multiple places then zero and change. That phone can update profile, prl too. I used the sph-I350 as the donor. Now I have a Epic 4g touch on boost. Piece of cake to switch over and get everything working, prob the easiest esn change then the rest is simply nv items and copying stuff from qpst and qxdm.
BUT I am still having a problem with updating profile and prl... I updated the prl manually with qpst to make it work on boost right but I want to have the ability to update the profile and prl OTA.
Also I have the weirdest thing happening with 3g speeds when I am home I get great speeds on evdo.A anywhere from 1-2mb down and 300-500kbps up. But when ever I go anywhere else in houston, the speeds take a dramatic change for the worse. I hit around 30-150kbps down and 10-60kbps up. Its really wierd. I have tried every 3g speed fix possible. From zeroing servers, to evdo mode only and loosing the ability to send texts, everything. I think that fixing my ability to update ota will fix this issue.
FYI My evo 4g gets super fast 3g speeds all over houston and it has the ability to update ota.
Where as my e4gt cant ota and only gets good speeds in one location.
Does anyone of the senior devs have any clue on how to fix the ota issue, or 3g issue?
it depends a lot on the rom, Ive always been on boost, and on GB i could update profile and prl but on ICS i cannot..
chris41g said:
it depends a lot on the rom, Ive always been on boost, and on GB i could update profile and prl but on ICS i cannot..
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Im on the stock sprint GB rom with el29. But unable to update it just makes no sense. Last night I tried to put the donor NV items back on the e4gt and it took, But still same problem no ota update ability.... Something weird about the e4gt I can write the nv 1192 and nv 466 but I cant read them from the e4gt its says access denied.
If i root will It unlock the nv items 1192 and 466? I want to read them to makes sure it took the info from the donor phone.
Google my blog for how to do it properly
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i found this web site
chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch%2F
is it the right one? If so where are instructions i just see alot of files mainly for roms to flash... I was trying to avoid that and stay stock but what ever works will be great
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chris nvm my last post i found it. I have a question??
If i go into qpst and delete my profile 1 do you think it will be able to ota update? because as of now I filled in profile 1 and 0 with all the correct info. I know my sprint and boost ha and AAA I got them from the donor. I filled all that in as hex in qpst. I am going to try and delete profile one and set everything up the way your guide wants then hopefully it gives me a hands free activation prompt
Not a something i will talk about on here.. But feel free to email me or comment on there, or pm
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okay cool got it, well either way i tried then end part of your guide thing as that was what i needed. But to no avail I had a different error and it said connection error. So i was forced to put all my settings back to what I had to get 3g back.
I dunno its just really weird being unable to ota update. Its funny though after all that tinkering I just ran a speed test and hit almost 2.5mbps down its crazy. But i know once i travel away from this tower ill be stuck with crap speeds again...
oh and now it is saying unknown error after changing setting and setting it back to what i had originally..frekin weird
When I try to update my data profile (because of VERY slow 3G speeds on my E4GT converted to Boost) I get "The profile update could not be completed. Error: Unknown error". Sometimes, I also get the Error 67, that my Sprint data username and password are incorrect. The E4GT is on a stock GB ROM.
The 3G symbol and arrows take several seconds to appear after I take the phone out of airplane mode, sometimes requiring a restart, and even then, once they appear, they sometimes stay greyed out even though apps are asking for data. When the arrows do go green and orange to indicate active data transfer, it's VERY slow, almost 1x like.
Also, sometimes, far far more often than my Galaxy S1, the signal bars will drop from very good signal (full or almost full) to half or to almost none, then come back up.
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In testing my 3G connection speed with the Ookla Speedtest.net app right now, my first test got a 962ms ping, a download of 121kbps, and an upload of 152kbps. Two further tests resulted on "network communication issues) with the 3G icon's arrows being greyed out. It was on the Witchita, KS server. I could not get it on the San Francisco server that my Galaxy S1 tested on, as the listbox to choose the server would not scroll to server more than about 1,000 KM away.
For reference, in the same spot, my Sprint/Samsung Galaxy S1 (on Boost, with the same account that's now on the E4GT - Neither is on the network at the same time as the other) scores thus: 126ms ping, a download of 470kbps, and an upload of 797kbps. It was on a local (to me, as in, in my city) server, San Francisco.
Help!
Not saying I know anything about being on Boost but found a couple of XDA threads that talk about Profile/Prl updating on Boost and tweaks for speeds on 3g/4g and wifi.
I'm sure there's a better/quicker answer from the Boost folks here but this might help get you started if you haven't seen them.
Also, saw some outside threads on the same issue you had via Google.
If you've seen these, sorry, just was looking into it.
This post talks about 3g stops working but the method, the poster believes, reset the radio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30389012&postcount=3
Tweaks, general. May help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506199
MoHoGalore said:
Not saying I know anything about being on Boost but found a couple of XDA threads that talk about Profile/Prl updating on Boost and tweaks for speeds on 3g/4g and wifi.
I'm sure there's a better/quicker answer from the Boost folks here but this might help get you started if you haven't seen them.
Also, saw some outside threads on the same issue you had via Google.
If you've seen these, sorry, just was looking into it.
This post talks about 3g stops working but the method, the poster believes, reset the radio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30389012&postcount=3
Tweaks, general. May help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506199
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Thanks. I saw the first thread you linked (In fact, that's how I got my OG Epic onto Boost) and did use it (and others) to get my S2 onto Boost. But where in there do you see talk of resetting the radio?
As far as the second thread, I haven't done those tweaks on my OG S1, and it gets MUCH faster data than this S2, so it must be something else.
SweetBearCub said:
Thanks. I saw the first thread you linked (In fact, that's how I got my OG Epic onto Boost) and did use it (and others) to get my S2 onto Boost. But where in there do you see talk of resetting the radio?
As far as the second thread, I haven't done those tweaks on my OG S1, and it gets MUCH faster data than this S2, so it must be something else.
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Sorry, check the link again. I had posted the wrong link originally. Hang on, I'll copy it over to here in case I linked it wrong.
:edit: Here's the post. Sorry about that. And this was taken from a Boost user post on 3g stops functioning.
peryp9 said:
I fixed the problem. Here's what I did, just in case someone else's phone experiences the same symptoms.
-from the dialer, type ##3282# ...
-click EDIT and type your MSL code
-select EVDO from the menu
-I waited about 3 seconds while the signal bars and the 3G icons disappeared ... then I waited another couple of seconds for the icons to re-appear
-then I pressed the back button until I was back in the Home screen
NOTE: I didn't change any settings during this procedure, the 3G restored itself just by entering and exiting this menu
It looks like the radio resets during this procedure and everything restores back to normal. It's interesting that updating the Profile and the PRL did not help, even though the radio resets itself after performing said updates.
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MoHoGalore said:
Sorry, check the link again. I had posted the wrong link originally. Hang on, I'll copy it over to here in case I linked it wrong.
:edit: Here's the post. Sorry about that. And this was taken from a Boost user post on 3g stops functioning.
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I tried the radio reset procedure you quoted, but it had no effect. Here's a video (4m, 14s) showing me trying the reset procedure and a speed test afterward, as well as my profile update difficulties.
Take a look. My apologies for the focus issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MMh4gD7sGA
Have you manually set prl or tweaked anything on any settings?
And is this new or always after you changed it to boost?
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MoHoGalore said:
Have you manually set prl or tweaked anything on any settings?
And is this new or always after you changed it to boost?
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I have not set a PRL. The only thing I tweaked was to remove the Sprint proxy in ##3282, though this did not help my speeds. When I bought the phone it had a bad ESN, so I never activated it on Sprint, only on Boost.
SweetBearCub said:
I have not set a PRL. The only thing I tweaked was to remove the Sprint proxy in ##3282, though this did not help my speeds. When I bought the phone it had a bad ESN, so I never activated it on Sprint, only on Boost.
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Only thing i would think to try is flashing a one click, since I've seen others on boost that says it doesn't change keys etc, and seeing of that helps.
Wish i had more experience with boost to be of any help.
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MoHoGalore said:
Only thing i would think to try is flashing a one click, since I've seen others on boost that says it doesn't change keys etc, and seeing of that helps.
Wish i had more experience with boost to be of any help.
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I tried a one click back to EL29 (Gingerbread) last night since I read that I must be on a GB ROM to install CWM and proceed from there. No change in speeds, still have the error 67 registration failure.
Further, I rolled my OG Epic 4G back to stock so that I could get at the dialer codes and get it recognized in QPST, read its settings and saved them to a file, then opened up my E4GT in a window beside it. I then duped all the M.IP and PPP Config settings. I also checked the NAM settings to make sure they agreed.
No luck, I'm still having the same issues, while my OG Epic 4G is not.
I'm trying to flash newer roms and I can't get data going anyone have any success
Up until a month ago everything was fine but not so anymore
Am I the only pageplus customer on these forums?
Can you update PRL and Profile via Wi-Fi? Report back your results
I did not try to update the prl when I tried these roms but I will
erickr13 said:
Can you update PRL and Profile via Wi-Fi? Report back your results
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I updated the prl but I'm afraid I don't know what it means to update profile
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the results of updating the prl were promising... I'm just downloading speedtest to see if I'm getting the speed I should
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You are the man!!! I still don't know what profile is about but my speeds are what they should be thanks
Sorry that was a false alarm I accidentally flashed an old rom
Im glad it worked for you! I am not sure what updating PRL and Profile does but it works for data issues
Can you post your speeds that you mentioned you were measuring?
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Im glad it worked for you! I am not sure what updating PRL and Profile does but it works for data issues
Can you post your speeds that you mentioned you were measuring?
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actually it didn't work for me
Data is really weird for me right now... (a month ago it was fine) I'm constantly flashing new roms
I go between the pacman, liquidsmooth and cm remix
I actually thought it was a radio/prl/ programming issue but now think that it is a rom issue
My house gets horrible data about .4 megs (enough for streaming spotify)
My work gets awesome data about 2.2 megs
I'm about to flash the newest cm remix (because cm remix has been the most reliable when it comes to data
It is hard to believe that there are only two pp customers on this board
Actually I am on RingPlus so I guess that the stuff I do to fix my data issues after flashing a ROM will work on any Sprint network- based company.
Can you try flashing the latest Sprint radios? This link contains all the radios: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/sprint-develop/sprint-radio-collection-t2195481
I recommend flashing the radio GA02, report back with results please.
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I am not sure what updating PRL and Profile does but it works for data issues
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I've got a toroplus on Page Plus, and unfortunately the 'Update PRL and Profile' trick is no good for us. Page Plus uses Verizon's network, not Sprint's, so our phones have to be manually flashed using ETS and PRLs can be updated using a neat little app called CDMATools. (It's on the forum here somewhere, needs to be a system app) I'm thinking that 'Update Profile' is similar to *228 OTA programming on Verizon's network. That of course doesn't work either for us. The nearest equivalent involves setting up a donor phone, running *228 on that, then pulling the authentication keys from that and writing them to the Toroplus - not exactly something you want to do every day or two to get data working again. .
Do you have your 'preferred network type' set to 3G? May not help, but it's a thought. There are also some more involved network mode settings exposed in the CDMATools app., may be worth poking around in there. It sounds like you're getting good 3G speeds at work, not sure why it would be so slow at home.
Oh I see, I thought PP runs on Sprint network.
Also you mentioned that he need "CDMATools" right? Well installing VanirAOSP (A KK 4.4.2 ROM) will give you CDMATools as a system app if you cant manage to get the app by itself.
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I've got a toroplus on Page Plus, and unfortunately the 'Update PRL and Profile' trick is no good for us. Page Plus uses Verizon's network, not Sprint's, so our phones have to be manually flashed using ETS and PRLs can be updated using a neat little app called CDMATools. (It's on the forum here somewhere, needs to be a system app) I'm thinking that 'Update Profile' is similar to *228 OTA programming on Verizon's network. That of course doesn't work either for us. The nearest equivalent involves setting up a donor phone, running *228 on that, then pulling the authentication keys from that and writing them to the Toroplus - not exactly something you want to do every day or two to get data working again. .
Do you have your 'preferred network type' set to 3G? May not help, but it's a thought. There are also some more involved network mode settings exposed in the CDMATools app., may be worth poking around in there. It sounds like you're getting good 3G speeds at work, not sure why it would be so slow at home.
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**EDIT** To start, I'd like to say that once you've configured your phone properly you can flash whichever ROM you'd like with no problem. I flash mine all of the time, it's great.
PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List. It's a bit of firmware(?) used to program the phone and tell it which cell towers to use. So far as I know, the newer the better.
The profile is the data profile. When you update this, it fine tunes the data settings and includes the information your phone needs to communicate with the network to negotiate your Internet/MMS access.
If you're on a Sprint-based provider, you'd normally be able to provide the information to the best of your ability (following a trustworthy guide) and then connect to wi-fi to have the final configuration updated. This is what I did, I had no data access until I did this part.
But... since you're on PagePlus(which is Verizon-based) I don't know how simple or difficult this is. It may be as simple as flashing a PagePlus PRL and a Verizon radio. It may be more complicated. There are guides like this one available that should be of some help. Just remember to follow the direction to the letter, a single screw up can result in you not having data or cell service, and even worse you may end up on the phone having to lie to PagePlus.
thanks so much for all of your responses
to be clear, Profiles are not for verizon based /PP users, correct????
Yeah I kind of figured out that Data was independent of rom after about a 2 day freak out session. I have activated data and mms through the long process which involved a donor phone etc.. hence the freak out session (about the thought of doing all over again)
That being said I think some of the newer roms are messing with the data somehow... maybe its the switching between wifi and data... I don't know but I'm on the newest cm remix which I like for a lot of reasons and get data
btw I have it set up on my phone (to save battery) that when my wifi is on my data is off and vice versa does anyone think that the constant switchin on and off is causing problems???
erickr13 said:
Also you mentioned that he need "CDMATools" right? Well installing VanirAOSP (A KK 4.4.2 ROM) will give you CDMATools as a system app if you cant manage to get the app by itself.
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You can grab the .apk from a ROM like Vanir and push it to /system/app/, or use a flashable .zip like this one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48083686&postcount=150
For bonus points, add CDMATools.apk to the list in /system/addon.d/70-gapps.sh and it will stay through flashing ROM upgrades, just like your gapps.
MoseIlla said:
PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List. It's a bit of firmware(?) used to program the phone and tell it which cell towers to use. So far as I know, the newer the better.
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Not firmware, just a list of towers and networks - but you've got the idea. Here's a fairly recent PRL modified for a Sprint phone on PP, works well for me:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...ing-problem-Ver-53078?p=15256795#post15256795
But... since you're on PagePlus(which is Verizon-based) I don't know how simple or difficult this is. It may be as simple as flashing a PagePlus PRL and a Verizon radio.
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Not Verizon radios, you need the Sprint one. Much more programmable. In fact, the only way to reprovision a Verizon GNex is to flash a modified Sprint CDMA radio. A Page Plus / Verizon prepaid PRL is needed though - that and the authentication keys which must be pulled from a donor phone.
uconnpat said:
thanks so much for all of your responses
to be clear, Profiles are not for verizon based /PP users, correct????
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Correct. Mine tries to update its profile every time I reboot, maybe because I don't have the shared secrets for 3g data? The profile update always fails, says "can't connect to server." I say "OK" and move on. My 1x data works fine (if you're familiar with PP plans, I'm on the 12, so 3g would just let me chew through my 10Mb/mo. data a bit faster.)
musical_chairs said:
You can grab the .apk from a ROM like Vanir and push it to /system/app/, or use a flashable .zip like this one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48083686&postcount=150
For bonus points, add CDMATools.apk to the list in /system/addon.d/70-gapps.sh and it will stay through flashing ROM upgrades, just like your gapps.
Not firmware, just a list of towers and networks - but you've got the idea. Here's a fairly recent PRL modified for a Sprint phone on PP, works well for me:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...ing-problem-Ver-53078?p=15256795#post15256795
Not Verizon radios, you need the Sprint one. Much more programmable. In fact, the only way to reprovision a Verizon GNex is to flash a modified Sprint CDMA radio. A Page Plus / Verizon prepaid PRL is needed though - that and the authentication keys which must be pulled from a donor phone.
Correct. Mine tries to update its profile every time I reboot, maybe because I don't have the shared secrets for 3g data? The profile update always fails, says "can't connect to server." I say "OK" and move on. My 1x data works fine (if you're familiar with PP plans, I'm on the 12, so 3g would just let me chew through my 10Mb/mo. data a bit faster.)
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Thanks so much for this... right now I can get data but it takes a little longer to get working than I'm used to. sometimes I cant get data and about a few weeks back (at about the time my data problems began I did do #228 sel2 which I think updated my prl to 53401 (I didn't check it before hand. I'm flashing the prl you posted I'll report back soon
oh and I'm noticing horrible battery life on my cmremix but that would make sense because it is searching extra hard for towers ... right???
Thank you so much for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I downloaded vanir, changed the prl, backed up cdmatools so I could use it with any rom if need be and am flashing preferred rom now
will report back soon
says I'm on sprint... cool
the 3g icon works quickly and consistently
but there are two problems
one is that it is showing a '?' with a small version of the four bars
asking me to sign into the network
and speedtest is showing me network communication issues
I think its a 4g thing
I really think that is it... It is trying to get 4g and for the life of me I can't figure out how to tell it to stay away from 4g and just stick to 3g
uconnpat said:
I really think that is it... It is trying to get 4g and for the life of me I can't figure out how to tell it to stay away from 4g and just stick to 3g
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Settings/Mobile Network Settings/Preferred Network Type/3G. At least that's where it's at in CM. Or, in CDMATools, Data Menu/Advanced/LTE off.
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uconnpat said:
Thanks so much for this... right now I can get data but it takes a little longer to get working than I'm used to. sometimes I cant get data and about a few weeks back (at about the time my data problems began I did do #228 sel2 which I think updated my prl to 53401 (I didn't check it before hand. I'm flashing the prl you posted I'll report back soon
oh and I'm noticing horrible battery life on my cmremix but that would make sense because it is searching extra hard for towers ... right???
Thank you so much for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wait...*228 worked for you? I thought that was a no-go for us? But if it updated your PRL it must have at least sort of worked. I always thought I was never supposed to do a *228 as that would mess things up.
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Settings/Mobile Network Settings/Preferred Network Type/3G. At least that's where it's at in CM. Or, in CDMATools, Data Menu/Advanced/LTE off.
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Wait...*228 worked for you? I thought that was a no-go for us? But if it updated your PRL it must have at least sort of worked. I always thought I was never supposed to do a *228 as that would mess things up.
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Yeah it worked and screwed things up!!! I think that is where I went wrong I did the *228 and got a new prl that didn't work well
But thanks to this thread I think I'm good again... I think I'm on the newest Pacman and so far so good but when I reboot it takes a while to normalize