I'm in my cottage where I normally only get one bar of service and I look at my friends on Verizon who get full service and get jealous. Is there any possible way I could force roaming? I have looked at old threads and gathered the Roam Control app, but that isn't working on my rooted phone. Any help?
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you need to change your prl
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1521343
I almost always stay on a forced verizon prl
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No longer available in the market, but Roam control is the way to go.
http://www.roamctrl.com/
Used it to force roam in low signal areas, while on a 6,000 mile road trip. Requires root.
Yup....roam control. I was messing with it earlier and Prl 11121 working wonders
Good point, I forgot to add. Without a custom sprint PRL you cannot 3g roam. Use this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
and load up a corporate prl, buy roam control and you are good to go.
If you update your prl via settings after manually updating it, it will reset to a non corporate prl.
skandranon314 said:
Good point, I forgot to add. Without a custom sprint PRL you cannot 3g roam. Use this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
and load up a corporate prl, buy roam control and you are good to go.
If you update your prl via settings after manually updating it, it will reset to a non corporate prl.
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Thanks! And to all, thank you! This site has been very helpful on my Android adventures. I can't believe I ever wanted an iPhone... Dark times... Ugh.
had same issue, in ohio and sig was always hit and miss except when in columbus which was 5 min drive. was very frustrated with sprints data so i did the prl and forced roam and they shut down the e4gt line but was able to keep the 2nd line (funny cause it was a share business plan but they treated it as the 2nd line was seperate) either way they said i would no longer be able to use the roamed number w sprint at all, and the sad thing is they didnt even contact me to tell me they were going to do it....so much for showing they were in the communication business lol. anyway went to verizon w both and i couldnt be more thrilled although i dont care for verizon from the Envy flip fone days due to data plans were not unlimited. however w the new S4 and verizons LTE towers, i have AWSOME LTE DATA everywhere now (mostly) where sprint only has 3g with a pathetic at best 2 mb download speed, I now burry the speedtest.net app needle at 20+ Mbs and with the LTE which also means you can surf and talk which is great when you using the free wifi to go online w the computer and still call clients while doing so. Do what you need to do just switch back when your done so you dont go over 3 gb a month, even tho they say 300 Mb. Good luck and long live the E4gt and wimax hacks, But loving my S4....GO SAMSUNG!
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Sprint service is crap where I work (outer areas of Detroit), so I am using Roam Control for when I get near work. Most of the time I get a tower in the US, but every once in a while a Canadian Tower appears.
Sprint has told me to update the PRL (done 01115) and has tried to block the international roaming (didn't work), so now I am here to ask the experts.
Is there someway to prevent locking onto an International Tower?
I am running Syndicate Frozen ROM with Emotionless Beast Theme (which deserves more thanks than I could give, since this is how I figured out I was on international tower).
notmyepic said:
Sprint service is crap where I work (outer areas of Detroit), so I am using Roam Control for when I get near work. Most of the time I get a tower in the US, but every once in a while a Canadian Tower appears.
Sprint has told me to update the PRL (done 01115) and has tried to block the international roaming (didn't work), so now I am here to ask the experts.
Is there someway to prevent locking onto an International Tower?
I am running Syndicate Frozen ROM with Emotionless Beast Theme (which deserves more thanks than I could give, since this is how I figured out I was on international tower).
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I think that your best bet is to enable the Roaming Guard.
Now I would advise you download ROAM CONTROL (http://www.appbrain.com/app/roam-control/com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol) and force the network to HOME ONLY and that might work out for you
Let us know.
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I think that your best bet is to enable the Roaming Guard.
Now I would advise you download ROAM CONTROL (http://www.appbrain.com/app/roam-control/com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol) and force the network to HOME ONLY and that might work out for you
Let us know.
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I have and use Roam Control so that my phone will work at/near work which I want. I would say 95% of the time at work, I am on a US tower. I am just looking to prevent the other 5% from charging me International roaming charges.
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I have and use Roam Control so that my phone will work at/near work which I want. I would say 95% of the time at work, I am on a US tower. I am just looking to prevent the other 5% from charging me International roaming charges.
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To what setting you have it? Home Network or Automatic?
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To what setting you have it? Home Network or Automatic?
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When I am using it, it is on Roam Only.
When Emotionless Beast said "International" instead of its usual "Emotionless Beast" on the lock screen, I would think that somewhere in the programming it the phone knows where it is at, and am simply wondering if there is a way to block data while on international.
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(done 01115).
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what a weird prl number. ive seen others talking about getting a 01xxx prl lately too. whats up with that? mine is still 60676.
austin420 said:
what a weird prl number. ive seen others talking about getting a 01xxx prl lately too. whats up with that? mine is still 60676.
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Not sure what it is all about. The last link in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13153111 talked about this PRL, so I manually loaded it.
Bumping, since my phone is seems to go into International roaming anytime I am at work now.
Staying on Sprint Network only is not something that I want to do. After paying a lot for the 4 phones I have with Sprint (and the fact I do not leave the US) I do not think I should have to pay for the Canada Roaming addon.
Sprint told me update the PRL ("to one that is greater then 64" was actual quote from the rep) and this will end me getting an International tower.
My PRL does not update automatically (don't know why, maybe due to Syndicate Frozen rom), so I manually updated to 60676 and still get the international tower.
Does anyone have any other ideas on what I can do?
If it is only at work you are concerned about maybe you can talk your boss and Sprint into setting up an Airave there so you won't roam at all.
Do you BONSAI?
Didn't think about that. I will have to talk to them about it.
So after many conversations with Sprint and many bill adjustments, we came up with the solution of turning off Data while roaming on my phone. This still allows me to be contacted by texting and voice.
Allthough still not happy that International towers cannot be turned off completely, at least my kids are able to get a hold of me.
I just went through all the necessary steps to get my shiny new Epic 4G to work on MetroPCS. I realize that LTE 4G wont work because of differing technologies but was willing to settle for 3G.
I got to the metro store to have them add my ESN to their database and they told me they do not have any 3G network whatsoever. Is this true? What is a good course of action here? seems like my only two options are get an LTE phone or try Boost Mobile instead.
My more important question is are these guys yanking my chain to avoid work or sell me something?
Thoughts?
3G is only in a few cities and when I say a few I do mean a few that can be counted on one hand I believe. Dallas and Miami I think were of the few that were supposed to recently have reactivated the 3g temporally to relieve some traffic in other areas.
Flash to boost or cricket I was Able to get my Epic on cricket with there 45 dollar plan with working 3g cane it to a lil under 50 a month with taxes
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thanks guys, I'll look into what's available in my area!
Also are those Metro guys just lazy as hell or can they really not add an ESN to the Metro inventory without flashing it themselves? They claimed that their flashing program did the adding and they had no other way to do it. Sounds like a hard sell or a lazy excuse to me
I would lean more towards they are not as experienced in that area. I think any opportunity to provide a service for a customer within your ability that would lead to the customer returning to receive more services from your store should be an automatic move to make. No brainer. I'm sure if they knew other methods they would.
Well the manager was who I was talking to about it at the time. I figure if anyone in the store knows he would :\
They do have 3g, I just manually updated my prl and its blazing fast. Not capped right now either. Although I havent left the house so not sure how the differnt towers are going to work. I just downloaded 2000kb in 2.83 secs, prl 3022 evdo rev a moto droid 1. Daytona
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They do have 3g, I just manually updated my prl and its blazing fast. Not capped right now either. Although I havent left the house so not sure how the differnt towers are going to work. I just downloaded 2000kb in 2.83 secs, prl 3022 evdo rev a moto droid 1. Daytona
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Why did you revive this old thread? Lol.
so i have been thinking about this a while now, my 3g speeds are between 100 kbps to 400 if i am in a very strong area and my 4g speeds are like 1-6 megs most of the time though are around 3. my buddy has 3g and he is consistantly getting 3 megs. keep in mind that is tmobile. thinking of changing to them even with a cap after they throttle my speeds i believe i still will be faster than sprints "unlimited data" anyone else feeling this.
Welcome to the "now network". When i first got my evo last June, I would easily get 1.5-2mbps down all day. Sometime around November of last year, speeds began to drop. Since then, I have NEVER got above 100kbps up or down ever. I have full bars at my house (tower one block away) and still cant get above 100kbps. When I switch to the verizon prl, at home I have 0-1 bars on verizon, and I can still pull 2mbps easily. Sprint's network is just ridiculous.
how to use switch to verizion prl is it safe how does it work any links would be helpful i would love to at least get a meg or so lol... a bit rediculous and sprint wonders why i will never pay my bill on time.
their towers may be down since they are "trying to upgrade" their network to EVDO revB, i have the same issue however the past week there have been "Sprint Rapid Response" Trucks working on the Tower in my area
i have had that issue about a month ago i couldn't make a phone call, recieve a phone call send a text mesage nothing for a 6 days and they told me that it would be up soon and chatted with them and they told me to call a sprint customer service rep and i told them how the hell am i supposed to do that with no phone lol.. bright ass customer service reps we have to work with here on the "now network" NEVER OPERATING NETWORK IMO.
how to use switch to verizion prl is it safe
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Not exactly. When running the verizon prl, you are ALWAYS on verizon, for calls texts and data. Use it too much and Sprint could charge you and terminate your service.
how does it work
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Flash the 00001 prl, reboot phone.
any links would be helpful
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073
Again, be careful with it. I only use it once in a while when i'm at work and need to use my phone for things like youtube and such.
don't use that prl, i I used it for a month and my bill came out to 250 dollars, just call sprint data support and have reset your data or to reactivate your handset through their system. it works they did its mine. I was just getting around 200 to 400 kb Max. now its from 1.2 to 2.5. something happens to the phone when you install different rom to ur phone. slow 3g mostly happen to rooted phones....let me know if this work for u
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thanks dude i am not getting about 1.4 megs or so and about 400 down hope this stays steady
it will just don't mess the update profile or flash new rom or you will have to call again
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I have asked this several times and the thread either moves too fast for anyone to notice my question or avoids it all together.
Without using the app "roam control" is there another way to force roaming in this device?? It finally roamed the other night on the tower just a few hundred yards away from the house for about an hour with full service and 3G at amazing speeds. It was a cricket tower. I have the prl 11115 but have yet to connect to the tower sense or before that hour. Cm9 on other devices including the photon that I have has built in force roam. I am on stock now for the epic with every roam setting set and before that hour I thought it was impossible for this phone to roam that tower. Now that I know its possible I want to be able to connect to it every time I'm home. What can I do? I can't buy the roam control app because it requires a PayPal account and mine is locked.
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tsdeaton said:
I have asked this several times and the thread either moves too fast for anyone to notice my question or avoids it all together.
Without using the app "roam control" is there another way to force roaming in this device??
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Try this thread, it may help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
Cricket tower, lol. If there ever existed such a thing.
Sunsparc said:
Cricket tower, lol. If there ever existed such a thing.
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Cricket is actually pretty big here. I had no idea they had their own tower. Figured they shared cdma towers considering cricket is just a prepaid service here. But next time I'm able to connect to it I'll screenshot it. Also to the other guy that directed me to the prl thread. I read that thread from start to finish and did everything it asked and I am still having the issue. Can someone verify if cm9 for the e4gt has force roam or not? Its an internal feature not an app. It was built in to cm9 for the photon, mytouch 4G, evo, and atrix. I guess I could flash to verify for myself but I don't have access to the epic as a daily phone. Its being used by my brother atm who lives a few hours away. I am only able to go there once a month so testing is limited.
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tsdeaton said:
Cricket is actually pretty big here. I had no idea they had their own tower. Figured they shared cdma towers considering cricket is just a prepaid service here. But next time I'm able to connect to it I'll screenshot it. Also to the other guy that directed me to the prl thread. I read that thread from start to finish and did everything it asked and I am still having the issue. Can someone verify if cm9 for the e4gt has force roam or not? Its an internal feature not an app. It was built in to cm9 for the photon, mytouch 4G, evo, and atrix. I guess I could flash to verify for myself but I don't have access to the epic as a daily phone. Its being used by my brother atm who lives a few hours away. I am only able to go there once a month so testing is limited.
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Which PRL are you on? If you are trying to force roaming, use one of the hacked PRL files at the bottom (00001 or 01337). "Your phone won't say its roaming but it is."
Of course, the carrier has to be listed in the file to roam.
I'm not sure if everything on this phone works the same as my old s2, but it doesnt seem to. I fly to the same city 5 days/week, and it is outside of sprint service. On my s2 i just ran the 60675 prl which got me phenomenal speeds and no roaming indicated (using old alltel towers). I don't get the same speeds now with my s3, maybe 1/3-1/2 if I'm lucky. Using 25005 yields me no data coverage, 12124 and 60675 seem similar but 60675 is marginally better. Is there any downside to using it? I can swap back and forth if needed for my home area
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The only thing to be concerned about is getting in trouble for using too much roaming data. Using an old PRL doesn't change anything other than possibly telling your phone to look for service on frequencies that may have changed. I would try to find the 00002 PRL for a relatively recent Verizon/Alltel only PRL.
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I recommend PRL 11119. You can see my guide on changing PRLs if you need instructions or download links for PRLs.
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been using 60675 for the last year in this area, i don't actually use that much roaming data, i use wifi whenever possible, but if i'm in the car or away i need to have 3g access (navigation primarily). 60675 makes my phone think I am still in a home area which allows profile updates if i need to (especially if i am changing roms)
i used the Anycut method and it works great to change the PRL's but it is a lot of work trying to find them.
The downside would be that as Sprint makes new roaming agreements, your phone won't be set up to use the towers added by those agreements. It might also try to roam onto towers Sprint no longer has agreements to roam to, so you may end up with dropped calls. PRL lists won't affect your non-roaming coverage at all.
Im using 111115 corporate prl, its working good. I get dropped calls on anything else.
12124 seems to be working ok now
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