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I'm seeking help in getting this resolved in hopes that my last resort won't be to have to change phone number. Ima try to make it short. While my data is running (3g or 1x) incoming calls don't go through.
Story begins........
Bought used samsung epic 4g (clean esn) and had it flashed by mailing it to some guy in craigslist. Received it back with donor phone. I had metro pcs, and had my number ported to boostmobile to have the flash done. As time passed, I noticed data was slow. After research, I come to find out it was flashed with wrong-non 3g phone. I then noticed I kept missing calls. Did a test call and found out that no calls go through while I'm on web/youtube/pandora/anything that relates to data connection.
Things I've tried
1. Reflash phone with another donor phone sanyo incognito. (Now I get 3g but still no incoming calls while using data)
2. Changed roms, tried about 6 different roms.
3. Changed prl 3 times.
4. Called customer service to refresh signal/phone number. (3 times)
5. Reflashed phone AGAIN using another donor phone.
STILL no go!
Ive researched but got nowhere. I'm hoping someone can give any type of advice.
Note: I havnt flashed the phone myself, always take it to a spot to get done. Had my wifes number also ported from metro pcs and flashed same type of phone, epic 4g but she doesn't have same issue. Her phone is flawless!
Please help me, I've had same phone since the first flash, my epic 4g. Another words, SAME MODEM. Can modem be the problem? Could my line be crossed, radio? Any comments, suggestions, questions for me, ANYTHING PLEASE!
Thanks to all in advanced!
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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?
So I've done everything, I hope, to get the evo working on the alltel network. I called yesterday and had the ESN entered into the network and it worked for several hours. I had full data, mms, calls. Then it stopped working out of nowhere. I called and had my old phone reactivated and checked all of the settings and changed the PRL. I'm not sure that helped? I call alltel again and ask for the evo to be reactivated but they claimed it couldn't be and would continue to malfunction. Is this true or an error on my part, having the wrong settings? Anything I can do to fix it? Thanks.
I flashed a used GNEX that I bought to Page Plus (I had a nexus s4g that I had flashed before with no problems) --Now after the flash, I can call *611 and get the PP prompt-make and receive calls but,settings show: In Service and the rest is Unknown..Phone#,MIN,PRL, ICCID only MEID and IMEI are shown.
When I reboot I have no signal or network until I go into tools/DATA Menu/others/more/ HDR/1x and click Hybrid or CDMA only and I get a signal again. Sometimes using different scripts-autoprime and unhuxable the info shows up but on the reboot its gone again.. Makes me wonder if there is a ghost in the machine or some default setting that is resetting the values or I got a bum phone. I do like the GNEX and would love to have the flash stick. Any help is appreciated..thank you.
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.
so I have the galaxy i747 on att unlocked.
a few weeks ago it bricked itself trying to over the air update. I couldn't fix it so I had it jtagged and it came back. I also paid for an imei repair.
everything was fine, I could make calls and stuff but eventually lost signal.
I sent it back as I ended up bricking it trying to restore to stock rom (it was on philz touchwiz)
he fixed it, said the network problem was due to my simtray.
I replaced the simtray today, I had full signal but when I tried to make calls there was no dial tone and ive lost signal again, this time its running a hyperdrive rom. my simcard is TESCO which shares a network with O2.
it picks up the simcard and stuff im just not getting any signal, when I try to register on the network it says unable to connect.
if anyone could please help me with this I would really appreciate it! alex
cookiealexd123 said:
so I have the galaxy i747 on att unlocked.
a few weeks ago it bricked itself trying to over the air update. I couldn't fix it so I had it jtagged and it came back. I also paid for an imei repair.
everything was fine, I could make calls and stuff but eventually lost signal.
I sent it back as I ended up bricking it trying to restore to stock rom (it was on philz touchwiz)
he fixed it, said the network problem was due to my simtray.
I replaced the simtray today, I had full signal but when I tried to make calls there was no dial tone and ive lost signal again, this time its running a hyperdrive rom. my simcard is TESCO which shares a network with O2.
it picks up the simcard and stuff im just not getting any signal, when I try to register on the network it says unable to connect.
if anyone could please help me with this I would really appreciate it! alex
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I would check your IMEI/baseband. Make sure they're correct.
Also, could check your APNs.
BWolf56 said:
I would check your IMEI/baseband. Make sure they're correct.
Also, could check your APNs.
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ive tried both those, the weird thing is I get signal and can make a call and receive texts when doing a gps check. something is blocking it but im unsure what.