[Q] Just got service, already have MMS and internet issues - EVO Cricket - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone, I bought an Sprint HTC Evo 4g that had been flashed to cricket wireless. When it had no service the cricket "welcome to cricket" voice would answer, then one day it reverted to sprint. Anyways, I just got it hooked up with the $55 dollar android plan, only to discover that MMS (picture messaging?) and the mobile internet aren't working.
So my questions are:
1) Is there a solution to this problem? (I've searched for and tried a few things alerady)
2) Is it possible to simply re-flash the phone even though I have activated service. (also, my usb port is broken so I'd have to do it through a micro sd adapter if possible)
3) any other solutions I don't know about?
I have no idea what rom (or whaterver it's called) I'm currently running, but I can do the ##3283# (DATA) thing, and the menu and all those settings will pop up, if that helps at all. If needed, I can provide all of my current ##DATA# settings.
So please let me know if you can help, and thanks in advance!

are you sure data is actually activated on your plan? I know it took me about 10 phone calls before a tech finally realized that the android data service was not active on my account.
Also, you say the phone was already flashed to cricket? Did the person you bought it from preprogram it for your account? The phone has to be programmed via QPST with your phone number in various places in order for data to work properly.
If you don't have a functioning usb port then it is going to be impossible to program the phone via QPST and get it working correctly.
In addition, without data MMS is not going to work. You need to get data working first.

First of all, thanks for the reply! And yeah, I just called and they said it's on the $55 plan.
Yes, it was already flashed when I bought it. We actually just added it to our current account and the cricket rep. changed it to a new number. And in the ##DATA# settings, I put in my own number. Also, I have no idea what QPST is, sorry, I'm new to this whole phone flashing.
Its not possible through the sd card? because the usb port broke off... How could I get data to work?

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NEW Settings for Cricket Android Plan??

as you all know we all had to put in our own custom settings and iptables into our android phones to get cricket working on our phones allowing us to access the marcket, internet, and apps.
it involves using autostart, u2nl, and replacing the APN's.
now all of that is to route all traffic trough the cricket proxy which only allows access to the internet trough port 8080.
but NOW as you all may know cricket offers an android phone plan which gives you unlocked 3G speed (yes my speed went up a little bit once i got the plan, to about 70KB/s) but i think it's not fully unlocked because i have all these things being routed trough their old proxy servers...
so does anyone know the new settings to configure your android phone with the cricket android plan?
supposedly on the plan description it says everything works, apps, market, everything!
I too am looking for these settings since I have purchased a Droid Eris and flashed new rom and put in most of the old settings for Cricket. If anyone has the Rio or Ascend that is on Cricket Android plan, hopefully they could list settings needed to make this work. I have the Android plan but the local shop wants to charge $45 to "check" my settings to make it work. Please help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762756

Bypassing T-Mobile's "Subscription Update Required"

So here's what I did:
Some 4-5 months ago, I purchased Tmos month-to-month plan. I did not sign any contracts. I simply got a SIM card and put it in my Nexus One and voila, everything worked just fine (data included).
The other day I decided to take advantage of TMos G2 for free and sign a contract. However, since I wanted to keep both SIM cards BUT use the old phone number (old SIM card) in the new phone (G2), I simply put the old SIM card in the G2. Guess what? The internet doesn't work. No matter what address I try to go to, I get "Subscription upgrade required" message. ('your data plan does not work with this device').
NOTE: I rooted my phone and am running CM7
So, what I was thinking of doing is the following:
1) Change the DNS to OpenDNS in resolv.conf (is this possible)?
OR
2) Change the IMEI code somehow (with gfree?) to match my N1's IMEI code. Is this possible?
OR
3) Call TMobile.
I'm at school right now so I'll try those, in that order, once I get home, but I would appreciate if anyone could tell me whether any of the aforementioned options would work.
Thanks!
edit: nvm, called tmobile, they just had to activate "android feature" on my plan, which is free.
what is this android feature you're talking about? is that the 20 dlls for android phones plan?
Deusdies said:
So here's what I did:
Some 4-5 months ago, I purchased Tmos month-to-month plan. I did not sign any contracts. I simply got a SIM card and put it in my Nexus One and voila, everything worked just fine (data included).
The other day I decided to take advantage of TMos G2 for free and sign a contract. However, since I wanted to keep both SIM cards BUT use the old phone number (old SIM card) in the new phone (G2), I simply put the old SIM card in the G2. Guess what? The internet doesn't work. No matter what address I try to go to, I get "Subscription upgrade required" message. ('your data plan does not work with this device').
NOTE: I rooted my phone and am running CM7
So, what I was thinking of doing is the following:
1) Change the DNS to OpenDNS in resolv.conf (is this possible)?
OR
2) Change the IMEI code somehow (with gfree?) to match my N1's IMEI code. Is this possible?
OR
3) Call TMobile.
I'm at school right now so I'll try those, in that order, once I get home, but I would appreciate if anyone could tell me whether any of the aforementioned options would work.
Thanks!
edit: nvm, called tmobile, they just had to activate "android feature" on my plan, which is free.
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Newer android phones need an android web plans, even if u have those web on your sim the G2 IMEI reads your web plan and it doesn't recognize it.. so wat I'm trying to say is purchase android web plan
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I think #2 on your list is illegal.
Since you got the G2 on contract, they automatically added the data plan. You need the data plan ported to your old number instead of the new one. Call T-Mobile, they will fix it.
Yeah, changing the IMEI of your phone is quite illegal. I highly recommend that you don't do that.

Activating rooted Evo 4G on Cricket

I have a rooted HTC EVO 4G with Jiminy V rom installed and was going to flash with CDMA workshop, but before that I went to cricket to ask for a new line( I wanted MIN/MDN numbers). I have never been a cricket customer before.
My question, How do I open an account with a flashed phone? The guy at the store simply looked at my evo and said he could't do it. Am I suppose to use the model number of a cricket android to pose as mine in their database? He said he couldn't open an account without an esn of a cricket phone.
Thanks for any response
-edit-
I guess I need to have an existing phone line in order to port over the information and plan onto the EVO phone.
Is this correct? anyone
they're just being lazy and also want you to buy their stuff.(they tecnically dont support that phn cause they dont sell it and dont have a working rom on it)
you can activate online, over the phn. or goto an authorized dealer. (not a cricket corporate store, if they're the ones giving you trouble)
you need to fully flash your phn for cricket. and with cricket, your min/mdn numbers will be your 10 digit phn. number.
Yeah, thanks I ended up being able to activate with the android plan. Only problem i have is that the calls are sometimes sent directly to voicemail without my phone ringing and since there's no visual voicemail for cricket I miss calls for hours/days

Tmobile troubles with minutes/txt.. help?

Hey guys,
I was using my dinc2 in Europe all year and it was great. No troubles there.
I did some research since i've come back to US, and learned that people have been able to use tmobile with their phones. I've only read about some troubles with data plans ... but i'm not trying to use data at all.
I simply want to buy the 1000 prepaid minutes for 100$ from tmobile and pop it in. My plans is to use Wifi with google voice (groove IP) pretty much everywhere, and use the minutes from tmobile only when i'm on the move.
I tried getting a friends tmobile SIM to work just to make sure that there would be no problems, and i failed. It simply doesn't recognize the service.
My phone is S-OFF, hdboot .97, clockworkmodded, and runs Skyraider Zeus.
Is it a matter of running the correct ROM?
rpn377 said:
I was using my dinc2 in Europe all year and it was great. No troubles there. I did some research since i've come back to US, and learned that people have been able to use tmobile with their phones. I've only read about some troubles with data plans ... but i'm not trying to use data at all.
I simply want to buy the 1000 prepaid minutes for 100$ from tmobile and pop it in. My plans is to use Wifi with google voice (groove IP) pretty much everywhere, and use the minutes from tmobile only when i'm on the move. I tried getting a friends tmobile SIM to work just to make sure that there would be no problems, and i failed. It simply doesn't recognize the service.
My phone is S-OFF, hdboot .97, clockworkmodded, and runs Skyraider Zeus. Is it a matter of running the correct ROM?
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We have 2 DI2 and running both AT&T Prepaid and T-Mo Prepaid on it - no trouble with voice with Skyraider Zeus v1.3 or Nitsuj17's Stock Sense rom - APN settings for AT&T was auto-updated as I recall and being provisioned with a data bundle in the plan, it works. For T-Mobile, there are no default APN settings under GSM mode pre-loaded, but as you know, it's not required for voice & SMS to work on the DI2, you will get a "redirect" screen if you launch the browser to sign up for a data plan for it to work (and, that's indication of a working Sim card)
With the sim inserted & switched over to GSM, does it identify the "T-Mobile" network on the lockscreen or homes screen at all? after a reboot ? If you're running SR Zeus in Europe - then, there's no reason for it to not work here in the U.S.- recheck your settings for Mobile Network ...

[Q] Problem activating re-built phone

I broke both the screen and the USB port on my D710, so I got on eBay and ordered another phone. The replacement one I found has a broken camera and SD card reader, which is no problem since mine work fine. The ESN is advertised as being clean.
Upon receiving the phone, everything looked great and I replaced the broken parts with my own working ones to make a fully functional D710. I got on Sprint's webpage and activated the phone using the MEID and Sprint's page says the phone is activated. However, the phone won't acknowledge that it has been activated, and always says it's roaming and on 1xRTT. PRL and profile won't update. I did a one-click wipe and reinstall of GB27 and that didn't fix it either. Lastly, a Sprint tech took his swing at it and couldn't get it to activate either after a couple hours of trying.
Does anyone know any tricks for getting a stubborn phone to activate? Or, does anyone know what is happening that is preventing it from updating?
Thanks!
It turns out that whoever had the phone before me had loaded an unusual PRL. I realized this when I discovered that I had to enable international roaming in order to get a connection, then checked the PRL version to find a really weird (custom?) PRL had been loaded.
I used this link to upload a Sprint PRL: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
Note that the MSL on the phone is 000000 since it was a clean ESN and unattached to any account (that it knew of, at least.) After loading a Sprint PRL and activating the phone online, I was able to get voice and 4G but not 3G and the phone still showed an MSL of 000000. I took it to Sprint, and they did a hands-free activation which fixed it right up.

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