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Best Buy updated my phone, can i root?

ok, so while best buy was activating my phone (which took a litle shy of 3 hours) , they updated the firmware or the software (whatever it is that was updating at the time). when i had a touch pro 2 i rellied heavily on xda-wifi program to provide internet to my laptop. am i screwed now that best buy updated my phone? how can i get my phone to provide wifi to my laptop? i am in the dark, and even tho i love the evo's speed it still does not compare to a laptop and what it can do. Please help. i feel like if i am in the dark ages without wifi hotspot.

Like the hero when it first came out, wifi tethering in it's classic form doesn't work yet. HOWEVER: Go enable your sprint hotspot app...I believe I heard that haven't locked it down yet so even though you're not paying for the service, it should work in a pinch.

I seen i lot of this going on at best buy while i was waiting in line. They didnt get to mine though.

hmm ill try it, im guessing using the sprint hotspot "free" until they fix it will be uncapped huh?
but now that they updated me, am i going to be able to root? i saw a few post that people were able to get wifitethering after root but it was kinda of tricky.
i, for one dont mind the sprint tv, navigation and other sprint stuff. i actually enjoy using them (i mean im paying for em right?). but i would like a program like xda-wifi (the one i had on my tp2) where all i had to do was run the cab and it installed the program.
is there anything out there now where i can use the wifitethering abilities of the phone while keeping my rom "LIKE" stock with all programs that came out the box?

mrjeancw said:
hmm ill try it, im guessing using the sprint hotspot "free" until they fix it will be uncapped huh?
but now that they updated me, am i going to be able to root? i saw a few post that people were able to get wifitethering after root but it was kinda of tricky.
i, for one dont mind the sprint tv, navigation and other sprint stuff. i actually enjoy using them (i mean im paying for em right?). but i would like a program like xda-wifi (the one i had on my tp2) where all i had to do was run the cab and it installed the program.
is there anything out there now where i can use the wifitethering abilities of the phone while keeping my rom "LIKE" stock with all programs that came out the box?
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when i go to sprint hotspot and check the sprint mobile hotspot it gives me "error code 67. Registration failure. your pcs vision username and/or password may be incorrect. please try again"

The (temporary) free hotspot only works on 4G.

ah, that would make sense...seeing as how im in boston and 4g not getting here till 4th quarter 2010...this is insane...what do i do now in order to provide my laptop with internet from my phone? if someone could help me with the root or something. but my phone is updated, can i even do it now?

mrjeancw said:
when i go to sprint hotspot and check the sprint mobile hotspot it gives me "error code 67. Registration failure. your pcs vision username and/or password may be incorrect. please try again"
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I don't live in a 4G area. Last night I was able to tether my HERO, my iTouch (I know), my wife's PRE, and my laptop. But today, I get the "error code 67". Darn it!

You can root ur phone after the OTA if you go to http://unrevoked.com/m from your phone browser and download the .apk, then run it... seemed to work pretty good for me at least it appears I'm rooted now (I couldn't get wifi tether to work tho)
On a side note...anyone else use this method or know if this is safe and/or from a trusted source? I usually stick to XDA for mod stuff, I just happened to run across this, this morning someone on Twitter posted it
EDIT: I see the other thread, nvm

steb0ne said:
You can root ur phone after the OTA if you go to http://unrevoked.com/m from your phone browser and download the .apk, then run it... seemed to work pretty good for me at least it appears I'm rooted now (I couldn't get wifi tether to work tho)
On a side note...anyone else use this method or know if this is safe and/or from a trusted source? I usually stick to XDA for mod stuff, I just happened to run across this, this morning someone on Twitter posted it
EDIT: I see the other thread, nvm
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the only reason i would root is to get access to get access to wifi tether, otherwise i have no reason to root (im not into removing apps and stuff).
what other threat did you see that had to do with my issue?

the updates started the moment she activated my phone. saw the word 'firmware' and yelled "NO!", reached over her shoulder and hit cancel.

Hope so because my friend was testing my phone and when he gave it back it was doing the update. He told me there was an update available, but he made it seem like it was an update in the market place! Now qik force closes overtime I open it.
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Froyo and roaming

I searched but didn't find:
I'm running Fresh (which is great!) but I also have Froyo available through ROM manager and I can flash between them (which is awesome!). Anyhoo--I noticed that when I was in Froyo, my roaming indicator was on. This kinda freaked me out cuz of the roaming charges. I looked up info. online to see if it is only the indicator that is screwy or if I am ACTUALLY roaming and being billed for roaming. When I saw it, I quickly flashed back to Fresh. I'd like to keep Froyo just to watch Hulu BUT I don't want to be charged for roaming. Anybody know the answer to my dilemma?
Thanks!

pathtologos said:
I searched but didn't find:
I'm running Fresh (which is great!) but I also have Froyo available through ROM manager and I can flash between them (which is awesome!). Anyhoo--I noticed that when I was in Froyo, my roaming indicator was on. This kinda freaked me out cuz of the roaming charges. I looked up info. online to see if it is only the indicator that is screwy or if I am ACTUALLY roaming and being billed for roaming. When I saw it, I quickly flashed back to Fresh. I'd like to keep Froyo just to watch Hulu BUT I don't want to be charged for roaming. Anybody know the answer to my dilemma?
Thanks!
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Try this flash that works for 2.1. I'm using on the Carolina Hurricanes website and its been playing flash great..haven't tried it on hulu though. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695965

what froyo rom are you running exactly?

Froyo version (exactly): FrOyO-EVO-TeSt2-signed

alnova1 said:
Try this flash that works for 2.1. I'm using on the Carolina Hurricanes website and its been playing flash great..haven't tried it on hulu though. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695965
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Thanks, its awesom to have flash 10.1 on my Fresh!!! Unfortunately, when I tried Hulu (including doing the about:debug fix), it still says "your platform is not supported," or whatever.
Gotta keep searching for the solution! Thanks for flash though

pathtologos said:
Froyo version (exactly): FrOyO-EVO-TeSt2-signed
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So you're running the version 2 of the ROM in my sig that is all the way up to v7 now?
Sent from my EVO via Tapatalk

I feel pretty dumb now. Will try v7. Have u tried Hulu?

pathtologos said:
I feel pretty dumb now. Will try v7. Have u tried Hulu?
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No but I will if I don't need an account.
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MrDSL said:
No but I will if I don't need an account.
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You don't. BUT, I've read online that to get it to work, you must go into your browser, and in address bar, type: "about:debug" (w/out quotes). According to instructions I've read, nothing will happen when you hit GO--BUT, if you click on settings after hitting GO and scroll down to "UA string," click on it, and you'll see the option "desktop." You're supposed to click on that, and Hulu should work.
I'm gonna try also. Thanks for you help!
JUST READ: Hulu has blocked this method! Nevermind! I still flash v7 though.

Yeah the flash loads but they have it blocked..
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pathtologos said:
I searched but didn't find:
I'm running Fresh (which is great!) but I also have Froyo available through ROM manager and I can flash between them (which is awesome!). Anyhoo--I noticed that when I was in Froyo, my roaming indicator was on. This kinda freaked me out cuz of the roaming charges. I looked up info. online to see if it is only the indicator that is screwy or if I am ACTUALLY roaming and being billed for roaming. When I saw it, I quickly flashed back to Fresh. I'd like to keep Froyo just to watch Hulu BUT I don't want to be charged for roaming. Anybody know the answer to my dilemma?
Thanks!
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As crazy as it sounds you have several people like myself that actually WANT to roam. 3 sites that I know of where people are doing work arounds that still arent doing the job. Does this ROM give you the option to toggle between roaming and not roaming. Sprint has free roaming as long as its not abused. Trust me I been warned before when I had my Touch pro 2 and just let it roam a whole month..lol. I'd pay for a application like this and many other...

[Q] 4g/Wimax for boost/repair epic touch

Okay This has been an ongoing thing for me and others. Long story short I would like to have 4g/wimax implemented on my Epic Touch 4g. I have everything else working fine for my lovely phone.4g is the only thing missing.Now for those of those who are new to this topic or have questions this process has been done on the first epic. Either with launcher pro/activities/wimaxlinetest or with dialing *#147852# and accessing wimaxlinetest from there. Now with that also being said first step does not work on epic touch,when you go int eh ability to write epic mac address and save wimax mac id has been removed and that dialer code that I stated earlier does not work on Epic Touch.
Now for things that have been said already.
1."You cannot do it because phone has to be activated to sprint for 4G to be provision" Sprint 3g and 4g radios and provisioning work totally different.3g and 4g authentication works totally different. 3g talks to sprint,4g talks to clearwire.
As long as you have an active sprint account and you have a 4g device you can use same mac address on epic touch 2 that you have on boost.
2."You wont be able to use 4g because phone is not activated what so ever" Phone does not have to be activated to sprint or boost for 4g to work.Please dont tell me that it has to because I still have original 4g epic that is not activated and 4g data works just fine. I still can use youtube,gtalk,google voice,etc.AND AS I STATED EARLIER MY OG EPIC IS NOT ACTIVATED.
3."WHY DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS ANYWAY" I think the better question would be why not. Its my device I payed for it so why not use it how I want to use it. And I know its hard to do but please refrain from filling thread with unnecessary talk about being cheap,why I want to do this,its illegal etc. Because to be honest its pretty much the same principle for rooting and getting the most out of your device.And last time I checked free hotspot and changing roms and things like that are frowned upon to SPRINT so please save it lol. But then again I cannot stop no one for posting on the thread so hey. But please keep it positive or for the most part im just going to ignore you anyway. All I am asking for is help,And I would greatly appreciated it.Bashing is really not going to get us nowhere and sorry if Im coming off a little standoffish,but a great guy who does alot with helping people tried what im trying now,only for the thread to talk about things that had nothing to do with the subject. He got frustrated and decided to delete the thread. Hopefully we can get it resolved this time.
THANK YOU
LETS GET STARTED!!!!!!!!!!!

okay.... don't everybody answer at once lol

No interest whatsoever?

bhavi_jp said:
No interest whatsoever?
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Im guessing no..

info on this subject can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447615

Yes. 4G Boost action
Please message me about how you got that quad data to work. I am also on Boost Mobile with my Epic 4g Touch. I have already tweaked the 3G settings (minimal gain, if any) and have been through the "Full WiMax Settings" thread with no change. I can connect but the bits aren't flowing.
NOTE: If anyone needs help going from a Galaxy Prevail to their Epic Touch I can help.

i def need help
abw0046 said:
Please message me about how you got that quad data to work. I am also on Boost Mobile with my Epic 4g Touch. I have already tweaked the 3G settings (minimal gain, if any) and have been through the "Full WiMax Settings" thread with no change. I can connect but the bits aren't flowing.
NOTE: If anyone needs help going from a Galaxy Prevail to their Epic Touch I can help.
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So.....im just gonna straight ask if this is possible......i have recently flashed my e4gt using a prevail.now......me like a freaking [email protected]#@#
decided to try and update my data profile and dumb long story short sent my phone back to ffing "hands free activation" now i have nothing on my phone but the meid numbers and nothing else i mean NOTHING.......now my question to you is What do you suggest i should do?

No 3G data on my new SGS3

So I got a new SGS3 and it works fine, except when I am in 3G. When I am in 3G I can receive and place calls but no data. Att support was no help, so I figured I would check here. As far as I can tell it is either a APN, Gateway, or Account settings issue (the later being something I can not do anything about). I say this because my n1 gets signal fine here, and it seems to run fine, so long as it is 4g.
Any ideas? Also, does the SGS3 have EDGE support?

partyk1d24 said:
So I got a new SGS3 and it works fine, except when I am in 3G. When I am in 3G I can receive and place calls but no data. Att support was no help, so I figured I would check here. As far as I can tell it is either a APN, Gateway, or Account settings issue (the later being something I can not do anything about). I say this because my n1 gets signal fine here, and it seems to run fine, so long as it is 4g.
Any ideas? Also, does the SGS3 have EDGE support?
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Bump: And also I tried to set an old APN but that didn't help.

Have you rooted and flashed it or are you stock? If you are just stock...there is nothing this forum can do to help really.

tomtommy306 said:
Have you rooted and flashed it or are you stock? If you are just stock...there is nothing this forum can do to help really.
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I have not rooted or anything, I have tried some APNs but I was hoping other people might help me out with something else to try. I don't really buy the whole " if you are stock... there is nothing that can be done" What if I was trying to get help with a stock developer build of my n1 (which I have previously) or are you asserting that without rooting I will not be able to fiddle with the modem settings?

What I'm saying is the phone comes ready out of the box. Unless you have changed something then it is a network problem. You will have to take it up with AT&T.

U can only do so much stock....and thats not alot! Root and use stock rom so u will have root access to see whats what...and to be able to control what u do or dont want ur data to do
red s3 ocd 2.1

JB calhoun said:
U can only do so much stock....and thats not alot! Root and use stock rom so u will have root access to see whats what...and to be able to control what u do or dont want ur data to do
red s3 ocd 2.1
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Thank you guys for trying to help but I know all this. I am just in the period of time I can take it back and I don't want to risk that by bricking it while monkeying around.

I (Maybe) have isolated the problem, they said that I was set up for LTE and there are some issues with proper propagation of properties. Anyway problem "May" only effect people on ATT with Samsung S3s bought at BestBuy locations and the upgrade includes unlimited data. Still working will update tonight....
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Jellybread & cricket

someone could copy and paste their apn text in this thread that has Jellybread rom running on their EVO 4g on cricket or metropcs. I dont get how internet could work but not mms. Ive tried all sorts of apns from all sorts of cricket phones and this is the ONLY thing stopping this from being the absolute best mod ive found! so fast and stable!

Calbha said:
someone could copy and paste their apn text in this thread that has Jellybread rom running on their EVO 4g on cricket or metropcs. I dont get how internet could work but not mms. Ive tried all sorts of apns from all sorts of cricket phones and this is the ONLY thing stopping this from being the absolute best mod ive found! so fast and stable!
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I have a metro/cricket apn.xml somewhere on my laptop at home, as soon as I get there, I'll post it to pastebin for you.
http://pastebin.com/QB2bmc7G
Not sure if it works at all, but I had it on my sdcard so it must have worked at one point

_thrasher_x said:
I have a metro/cricket apn.xml somewhere on my laptop at home, as soon as I get there, I'll post it to pastebin for you.
http://pastebin.com/QB2bmc7G
Not sure if it works at all, but I had it on my sdcard so it must have worked at one point
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Thank you so much! To make things even more confusing when I was using cyanogenmod 10 rom mms was working perfectly, however I found the rom to be buggy, VERY SLOW and all around confusing. So I figured if I used the apn-conf.xml from that and put it in jellybreads apn-conf.xml (despite cgm's being sprit) ot should work! No dice. Ill give yours a shot n let you know how it goes. Thanks again.

Calbha said:
Thank you so much! To make things even more confusing when I was using cyanogenmod 10 rom mms was working perfectly, however I found the rom to be buggy, VERY SLOW and all around confusing. So I figured if I used the apn-conf.xml from that and put it in jellybreads apn-conf.xml (despite cgm's being sprit) ot should work! No dice. Ill give yours a shot n let you know how it goes. Thanks again.
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No problem. I have another one still at the house I'll dig up. If the one above doesn't work, let me know.

_thrasher_x said:
I have a metro/cricket apn.xml somewhere on my laptop at home, as soon as I get there, I'll post it to pastebin for you.
http://pastebin.com/QB2bmc7G
Not sure if it works at all, but I had it on my sdcard so it must have worked at one point
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If i wasn't straight I'd kiss you! If I wasn't broke and disabled Id send you money for that! I've been trying for 3 DAYS to find a fast stable simple rom that worked with this phone on cricket with MMS and internet! Thank you sooooooooo much!

Calbha said:
If i wasn't straight I'd kiss you! If I wasn't broke and disabled Id send you money for that! I've been trying for 3 DAYS to find a fast stable simple rom that worked with this phone on cricket with MMS and internet! Thank you sooooooooo much!
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If that APN is what got you hot and bothered, lol, be certain to link back to it in other threads for other users to be able to configure their setup as well. I don't even use my Evo for anything more than a music player, so I could very well not be capable of much more here.

_thrasher_x said:
If that APN is what got you hot and bothered, lol, be certain to link back to it in other threads for other users to be able to configure their setup as well. I don't even use my Evo for anything more than a music player, so I could very well not be capable of much more here.
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well that apn work specifically for jellybread. Ive been searching for as i said 3 days for a simple custom rom that was stable and fast and fully functional (Minus 4g :,-() . all of them seemed to have major flaws, slow and bloated, threw my phone in a loop, far too many options confusing me.
but for wimax I'm convinced that since I have 4g included in my plan for cricket if i could figure out the right settings in qpst I could get on 4g too. Id probably get a heart attack though from excitement. Ive seen youtube videos for it but i could only hope. ill try posting a new thread for that though.
bless you!

Calbha said:
well that apn work specifically for jellybread. Ive been searching for as i said 3 days for a simple custom rom that was stable and fast and fully functional (Minus 4g :,-() . all of them seemed to have major flaws, slow and bloated, threw my phone in a loop, far too many options confusing me.
but for wimax I'm convinced that since I have 4g included in my plan for cricket if i could figure out the right settings in qpst I could get on 4g too. Id probably get a heart attack though from excitement. Ive seen youtube videos for it but i could only hope. ill try posting a new thread for that though.
bless you!
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The other cricket users of JellyBread and Kendallc123 herself may be as ecstatic as you if you can get 4g working with cricket, but you should link to this in the JellyBread thread so that the cricket users there see it. Also I'd thank user/dev Wambo_Bomb, since he is the one who left me that APN when he gave me his old Evo.

i spoke too soon. my phone said the message was sent, which before it wasn't even doing that but they aren't getting the pictures on the receiving phone. back to trying out different roms :,-(

though i despise having 2 different numbers for messaging and despise having a app for text and another for mms i suppose i can just use my text free account from pinger for images and my phone for text. obnoxious but it is a work around i suppose.

Calbha said:
well that apn work specifically for jellybread. Ive been searching for as i said 3 days for a simple custom rom that was stable and fast and fully functional (Minus 4g :,-() . all of them seemed to have major flaws, slow and bloated, threw my phone in a loop, far too many options confusing me.
but for wimax I'm convinced that since I have 4g included in my plan for cricket if i could figure out the right settings in qpst I could get on 4g too. Id probably get a heart attack though from excitement. Ive seen youtube videos for it but i could only hope. ill try posting a new thread for that though.
bless you!
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Cricket 4g will never work on the og. The reason is simple cricket 4g is lte while the og is wimax. Now as far as mms that will work but you have to make changes to the apn. I have attached one that I know works but you will have to edit the username in the apn. Unlike most carriers each cricket user has a unique user name. It is your phone number here is an example ( [email protected]). Easiest way way to do this is get apn backup and restore from playstore. Backup your current apn and then copy this one into the apnbackup folder that was created and edit the username. Turn on airplane mode delete apn then restore the cricket_sprint.XML file. Reboot phone and turn off airplane mode.
As long as your settings are correct in qpst then this will get your mms working. If you need further help feel free to pm me.
http://db.tt/IfOBZ2K7
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jlmancuso said:
Cricket 4g will never work on the og. The reason is simple cricket 4g is lte while the og is wimax. Now as far as mms that will work but you have to make changes to the apn. I have attached one that I know works but you will have to edit the username in the apn. Unlike most carriers each cricket user has a unique user name. It is your phone number here is an example ( [email protected]). Easiest way way to do this is get apn backup and restore from playstore. Backup your current apn and then copy this one into the apnbackup folder that was created and edit the username. Turn on airplane mode delete apn then restore the cricket_sprint.XML file. Reboot phone and turn off airplane mode.
As long as your settings are correct in qpst then this will get your mms working. If you need further help feel free to pm me.
http://db.tt/IfOBZ2K7
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thank you for the link ill give it a shot. as i said before I've tried MANY apn settings so i do know how to do it. every apn ive tried for cricket or metropcs though has had different numbers in the other lines. (NOT the MDN line, i know you have to put your number in the mdn line) My settings in qpst have to be correct or internet wouldn't be working as well, because as I said the cryogenmod 10 rom was the only rom that mms, (and everything eles worked) for even though the apn was set to sprit. (makes no sense to me but it worked) But the rom was pretty much unusable on my phone with how much battery it drained, (2 and a half hours and the batter was gone) how slow it was, (cpu usage was constantly at 998mhz) and the rom was all around confusing for someone SOMEWHAT new to this stuff with too many options i didn't understand.
I think its something other than apn settings because the cryogenmod rom worked for mms and internet though the apn was set to sprint. all other roms ive tried has had either sms not working and/or mms not working and/or phone not working and/or contact lists not working something for the basic phone functions causes force close errors with all other mods.

once again it didn't work. the pictures say sent but are not being recived by the person im sending them too. SMS that are too long and converted to MMS come arcoss as code to the person they are sent too. I dont understand why one rom with sprint apn settings would work but this one wont. is it possible for roms to change qpst settings? i cant tell anymore though as i cant enter diagnostic mode.

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once again it didn't work. the pictures say sent but are not being recived by the person im sending them too. SMS that are too long and converted to MMS come arcoss as code to the person they are sent too. I dont understand why one rom with sprint apn settings would work but this one wont. is it possible for roms to change qpst settings? i cant tell anymore though as i cant enter diagnostic mode.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19774995
This post has a quick how to on enabling diagnostic mode on aosp/miui roms.
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ive tried messing with settings in ##3282# ive tried manually setting things in the settings menu in the messaging settings, ive tried restoring correct apns. nothing seems to work except a buggy bloated rom for mms.

Calbha said:
ive tried messing with settings in ##3282# ive tried manually setting things in the settings menu in the messaging settings, ive tried restoring correct apns. nothing seems to work except a buggy bloated rom for mms.
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BTW i switched back to the stock htc sense rom.