Ok guys i know this may be entierly possible but heres the story, i traded my iphone for a nice s3, normally on trades i always finish activation before I EVER LEAVE .I called sprint gave them the dec esn rom under the battery they said its good it successully attatched to my line,so i was of on my way to finish the # # rtn reset on the s3 and hopes for the usual self activation. To my surprise it wouldnt do it ,so i called sprint they said yes its on my line we tried rtn reset scrtn reset update profile etc.. etc.. all the normal stuff even manualy edit the msid and mdn,Upon reset handsfree activation fails says retry retry, So i looked under the dec and hex under the settings in phone and compared it to the one stamped underneath the batttery they are different
I attempted and flashed stock shipped 4.0.4 through odin then did rtn reset again and all of a sudden i hear HELLO HELLO HELLO ,thats metros acgtivation crap. So as it stands it has a clean esn for sprint but whatever they flash to get it on a new carrier still exists.
I read about flashing evo back to sprint right from a few steps using qpst but thats htc.
Any ideas how i can get the right stuff back onto it so i can reactivate it thru sprint.Any way/program thryu my computer to do this?
Because it has a clean sprint esn it apparentally was bought new and the poeple wanted it on metro pcs.
Have you tried flashing a sprint PRL? And im assuming you made sure you flashed a sprint modem right?
Every Sprint PRL
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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.
Hi. I just got an evo from someone and unfortunately they had upgraded the system to 2.2 froyo ota. so right now the phone is stuck on digital roaming and there is no way for me to update the prl. I already tried with cdma workshop ver 3.5.5 paid, Qpst 2.7 build 355. on cdma workshop it says the new prl has been writen but the phone stays on roaming so is not writing the prl to the phone. on qpst it's giving me roaming list receive failed and it's failing to retrieve the phone's information. I also tried to update the prl from the phone settings but that's also failing. if anyone has any ideas please feel free to post them so I can try them thanks.
I was able to downgrade to 2.1 and root the phone using the new method but unfortunately my prl still says version 00000 and I'm still roaming anyone else has had this problem with the prl showing zero's and unable to change it.
Ok. Guys here is what i have tried so far. Cdma workshop. Qdxm qpst unicdma and ##775# to try to update the prl and all of there programs say the prl was successfully updated but once i check the prl version is 00000. Now i have 2 phones with the same issue, one working on sprint and the other on boost mobile i get all my phones from craigslist .. One of the phones became stuck on roaming after trying to repair meid with cdma workshop.. I have tried with several different prls. Tried to copy all the nv items from another evo that is not roaming but nothing helps i know the nam config is good because i compared with the evo that is working.. Everything on the phones work i'm able to make calls, mms,web browsing the only thing is that 3g is extremely slow and that i have the triangle on top of the signal bars..and on boost mobile once i drive a couple of blocks from my house and try to make a call it says verizon wireless your feature update was sucessfull and i'm not able to call until i return home. I'm sure the prl on these phones got corrupted somehow.. How can i repair a corrupted prl..i have done a least 10 android phones incredible, samsung moment,htc evo for family and friends and this is the first time i have ran into this issue.. If anyone knows ho to get rid of this corrupted prl please help me.. Also i have access to a couple of good evos and cdma workshop 3.6 i would like to try and copy the flash from the good working evo and put it on one of these with the corrupted prl but i have not been successful trying..thanks guys for all your help..
I'm assuming you have done the easy way already... ##786# for a factory reset, then battery out while the phone is at the white evo screen the SECOND time... leave the battery out for 15-30 minutes... battery in and power it on to boot. Should reactivate, update PRI if it needs it, and also update PRL. It is a factory wipe, but in your case, that should be no problem.
I am going back to sprint from metro. I have my sph-d710 on metropcs right now. Is there something special i need to do to the phone to get it to work again with sprint, or can I simply just update the phone with the newest stock rom?
edit: I have redone the phone. I flashed the original unrooted firmware, but the phone will not activate. It still gives me the error 67. I have reset the phone, rooted/unrooted, pulled battery over and over, but nothing. I tried to manually add the information, but the msid field is missing. I can only add my cell number to the mdn. other than chucking the phone, what else can be done? Am i missing a step to provision the phone to sprint?
ok my sprint s3 is flashed to cricket and eveything was working fine for months last night i flashed omnirom it was cool and all but when i went back to my nandroid i had no service my phone number shows unknown my min shows unknown and my prl shows 1 and somehow my msl changed so i odined back to stock and tried to reflash to cricket but QPST keeps giving me can not write directory number i think im screwed. Im not trying to bash the rom at all just looking for answers
problem solved i did ##72786# which put my device back to sprint then i was able to reflash to cricket using QPST al is well now
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.