Here's my situation, I'm on Epic Experience 1.2.07 Eclair. And I've been wanting to Update to either the newest custom Rom of Epic Experience, as well as try to update to newer custom roms who are updated often. It's very frutrating to have payed a 75$ fee for a Metro PCS programming Fee, without having the freedom to change my rom because they say the service will stop working. I use to own a Touch Pro 2 and I had programmed and flashed that phone on my own. But coming to a smart phone is a slightly different ball game. I now live in Oregon, where MetroPCS doesn't even exist! So, I'm roaming with only talk and text working. Having said that, the 75$ fee I had payed in the past has become worthless. I've already done a Nandroid backup using clockworkmod, and I've noticed while booting into recovery that the advanced backup and restore shows single options like 'restoring data' and etc. Theoretically, if I flash to a rom and things don't get worked out, (like service) I know I can restore back to my working eclair and rom with my Profile Phone Data working or whatever. Can anyone help?
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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here and I hope I can find some help on this issue that has been bothering me. I recently jumped on a great deal for an I/O HTC Evo for $300 on Craigslist that is still active on Sprint. I went ahead and decided to have a shop that I also found on CL flash my phone to a Cricket Wireless account I had.
The phone was flashed and the talk/text/and 3G data were all working, but not very reliable. Calls were dropping, texts took forever to send/receive and data on everything besides the browser was slow or not even working. I severely regretted going through with the flash at this point.
I've tried clearing the storage by holding the vol. down and pressing the power button in attempt to reset the phone back to factory conditions, but when it boots up, the phone is still associated to Cricket. The person at the Sprint store was also unable to get the phone working back with the HTC Demo account and said the phone was made to automatically associate itself to the sprint network but it wasn't doing it.
My question now is where and what do I look for in changing my phone back to Sprints settings? I'm thinking that they physically flashed some kind of firmware or flashed PRL file to the phone but I don't know how to update or revert this change.
What are my options?
Thanks for reading.
flashing a evo stock rom should do the trick. gives u all the settings. all the apps. basically everything if im not wrong
I'm gonna try this with the file posted at geekforme and see what happens. Thanks for this advice, didn't think of this.
So far I've rooted and unlocked nand then flashed the Stock EVO ROM but it's still associated with Cricket...
When I go to About Phone > Phone identity , its showing my current username @mycricket.com, how do I change this?
I wanna completely clear any cricket connection off the phone.. Is there any deactivation code I can dial?
I updated the PRL using techknowfiles 00001.prl with no luck. What else can I try to undo this cricket flash?
I've already flashed it with the stock Evo rom and it is still working through the cricket phone number.
I have had this problem before, with no clear resolution, but I think I have narrowed down the circumstances.
When I am running stock or stock rooted, I have full sms capability. When I flash a ROM, I lose it. I have had full capability on it with custom ROM's but not anymore. Sprint told me it's probably a network thing, update prl, profile etc.. That doesn't work.
I always use Calkulin's format all tool and I always stick with Gingerbread ROM's.
I do no use GVoice, at all and I refuse to. The one time I tried, and it allowed me to receive texts but phone calls wouldn't work.
I found this thread -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284092 --- but it gives me FC's and I think I even lost root with it. It didn't solve my problem so I flashed after 5 minutes with in.
Any suggestions?
Personally what I would do is one click Odin back to stock el29. Odin a modem of your choice with clear phone efs checked, and allow it to reactivate with Sprint. Then try a ROM again after updating profile. Do it at your own risk of course. Clear phone efs wipes your nvram. NVRAM contains lots of low-level settings for your phone, including your Sprint phone #, Sprint data login, etc. It reactivated fine for me but SFhub said that it didn't work for someone else. Good luck.
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See if you can get into recovery, if you can then reflash the rom and see if that helps
I had rooted my Galaxy note 2 but kept stock rom on it. Everything was working beautifully, no problems with anything. Then I flashed the rom: 4.3 MK4 DN3. What I didn't realize at that time was that it wasn't for the sprint network (had pulled several all nighters studying for finals so I wasn't paying much attention to the roms details unfortunately). For obvious reasons, the phone was stuck at the samsung boot screen. So I tried to flash a stock rom back on, this time the rom loaded but I had no service to sprint at all. I then used Oden to put my phone back to factory rom/settings. I updated to the new 4.3 OTA and since then I cannot connect to sprint's data service. I went into a sprint store tech center and they said everything checked out hardware wise and software wise but for some reason still wouldn't connect to the network. Then they gave me some BS answer about how its probably the sprint network messing up. I know that somewhere between flashing the wrong rom and the update something went wrong.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this problem? I know sprint is going to be of no use in resolving this matter =/
Any help ASAP would be great as I rely on data for communicating with my professors as well as members of my National Guard unit on a daily basis.
Thank you!
Hi. I am hoping that someone is able to help me with this situation.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 d710 from Virgin Mobile, and I flashed it with all the info from my old sprint phone to use on Ting. I finally (after 15+ hours -_-) got it to work on Ting acting as my old crappy phone. I had flash back to a sprint rom because I could not connect with a modem connection (for dfs cdma tool thing) on cyanogenmod. After I got it to work, I promptly flashed back to cyanogen and pulled from a backup that I had made earlier. Boom. It seems like all the crucial pieces needed to make my phone connect to the network were erased.
Then I decided to flash back to the sprint rom. After spending another few hours (I kept having small problems and ended up calling technical support for some stuff) I got it working again. It is nice, I can text and call perfectly fine (haven't been able to try data yet) but I hate the stock roms with a passion. I NEED cyanogenmod back.
If anyone knows how to flash back without disrupting my frankenphone service, please help! Or, if you have info on how to fix it once it is flashed, that would also be sweet. Any help is veeeeeeery much appreciated!
Thanks,
Josh
Alright, well it looks like I found a fix. I had to completely wipe the phone and do a fresh start on cyanogenmod. It seems to be the only way to do it :/
Hello!
I've recently bought an L710T Galaxy S 3 that was already custom-ROMmed by the previous owner.
I am trying to push in my new Boost account number onto it. The general advice for doing so that I've seen on the internet is to flash stock/TouchWiz back onto it, program it and flash custom back, but every time I try to flash stock through TWRP the stock goes into a bootloop during the Samsung logo. Same with other TouchWiz roms that I've tried.
Yes, I have fully wiped the device before flashing stock and wiped cache/Dalvik afterwards too.
Attempting to flash stock through Odin gives me "fused 2 > binary 1" error.
So, I went for the diag mode + CDMA Workshop method. I managed to successfully change the device number, but Boost wouldn't cough up the proper MIN for my account, all the customer reps seem not to know what I am talking about.
Is there another way I could return the device to stock or is there a way to push a SCRTN reset using CDMA Workshop/DFS or similar? How would I go about getting this phone to work?
After a lot of meddling and talking to Boost employees, I finally managed to get them to cough up my MIN by going to a store and having the store employee call them.
Technically solved.