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[Q] Epic Flash to Boost Lost 3G

My Epic 4G was flashed to Boost and my 3G Data worked for several days and now it is looking for Sprint again and giving me USER ERRORS as I'm not on Sprint.
How do I get the 3G to work again on Boost Mobile? Novice here. Please remember that. Thanks

U have to reflash the nv items
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Has anyone flashed epic touch to another carrier

I would like to know if anyone flashed their epic touch to another carrier if so which one? How is the coverage/service and does your 4g still work
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yes it is possible,it could be with boost or metro from what I know of,boost uses sprint cdma towers so its basically the same coverage as 3g that you would get from a sprint device,and no 4g does not work yet as of yet once you flash that was something I was trying to get help with,check my sig I started a thread there about the subject

I flashed mine to Alltel it runs on Verizon and I am always roaming do u think it has to do with the fact it runs on Verizon my prl is 31011 but my 4g does work
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There is no way u get 4G on Verizon unless u installed a lte radio in ur phone.... because it has wimax and Verizon uses lte for 4G
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I have no reason to lie it still works no bull****
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But it was still working when I had the phone flashed odd enough though the phone wasn't on? Well I couldn't text or call but could surf the web and connect to 4g and surf while I'm on it
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My phone is flashed to Cricket. I don't have any good Cricket PRLs for my area, so coverage is horrible and my battery took a serious hit thanks to that. You'll never have 4G. My 3G speeds are completely abysmal.
Everything still works, though, barring 4G.

My native sprint hot spot app works also
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For everybody who doesn't believe my 4g works
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So somebody tell me how do u roam on 4g????
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So somebody tell me how do u roam on 4g????
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Idk y but you sir are very lucky
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Yea wish I had my 4g working

I bought it off Craigslist and da guy lied to me cuz the phone was still active on his account well I could still surf the net so I got it flashed to alltel and the guy told me 4g wouldn't work but I tried anyway and it worked flawlessly
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Very simple. It's been confirmed on another forum however, I have flashed my old Epic Touch to Cricket and it works like this...
Let me explain what I did. Lost phone, got my new one... A month later, found it. Flashed it myself to Cricket. However, I still have Sprint service for my replacement phone.
I sold the flashed phone, that person can use my 4G still. Because you can not flash the 4G wimax antenna or do anything with it for that matter, ( except disabled it with the toggle ) the 4G antenna can still receive signal from an active Sprint account. Only thing that is effected is the cdma portion of the flash including the PRL thus, 3G and talk/text is on Cricket's network (or who's ever network flashed to) however, the wimax antenna can still receive signal only if the Sprint account in which the phone came from is still active.
Problem solved. Anything else, I call BS. Consider yourself lucky whoever you got the phone from still has Sprint active. As soon as the line is disconnected, so will your 4G. Unless that person is you lol. I'm sure you bought the phone off craigslist, it was probably an insurance claim or the person switched to another 4G phone and wanted to make up cost.
On the other hand, the 3G antenna in the Epic Touch does not play well with Cricket's towers. Ive tried so many PRLs, it's not even funny. You will need to pull the PRL from an Acsend 2 or Mercury to get it working correctly and that's just my assumption.
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Ben's said:
Very simple. It's been confirmed on another forum however, I have flashed my old Epic Touch to Cricket and it works like this...
Let me explain what I did. Lost phone, got my new one... A month later, found it. Flashed it myself to Cricket. However, I still have Sprint service for my replacement phone.
I sold the flashed phone, that person can use my 4G still. Because you can not flash the 4G wimax antenna or do anything with it for that matter, ( except disabled it with the toggle ) the 4G antenna can still receive signal from an active Sprint account. Only thing that is effected is the cdma portion of the flash including the PRL thus, 3G and talk/text is on Cricket's network (or who's ever network flashed to) however, the wimax antenna can still receive signal only if the Sprint account in which the phone came from is still active.
Problem solved. Anything else, I call BS. Consider yourself lucky whoever you got the phone from still has Sprint active. As soon as the line is disconnected, so will your 4G. Unless that person is you lol. I'm sure you bought the phone off craigslist, it was probably an insurance claim or the person switched to another 4G phone and wanted to make up cost.
On the other hand, the 3G antenna in the Epic Touch does not play well with Cricket's towers. Ive tried so many PRLs, it's not even funny. You will need to pull the PRL from an Acsend 2 or Mercury to get it working correctly and that's just my assumption.
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Naw the person I got the phone from has a $450 unpaid phone bill on the account that's why I got it flashed. But like I said wen I got it I couldnt make/receive calls or text but the data worked. The phone is technically off for unpaid bills I figure the data would just work until the end of the billing cycle matter of fact I think he took his number to Verizon and just didn't pay sprint off either way I don't care. Only thing now is does flashing a rom affect your flash I mean like using Odin because doesn't it install sprint radios and what not I haven't rooted yet because I didn't kno
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What Ben's said sounds right. That 4G won't be sticking around.
And no, ROM flashing does not affect it. I've flashed several ROMs since going to Cricket. However, if you ever decide to change your phone number, you'll have problems.

If he did port his number over to VZW, then the account would be for sure canceled and 4G would stop working. I've been in this exact position but its been me on both ends of the deal. He probably told you what his plan was but ended up keeping Sprint. That's the only way your 4G is working.
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So what's a good rom since I'm new to the E4gt I was looking for an Aosp rom stock Android can't find one though so whats a good rom
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Couldn't really tell you that; you'd have to try each one for yourself. I personally prefer Blazer, but Calkulin's has also been wonderful for me.

I have mine "flashed" to Platinumtel prepaid. I pay 10 cents a MB, 5 cents per min & 2 cents per text. It uses Sprint's towers so all calls, texts, web (3 g only) work exactly as it would on Sprint. Most of my usage is at home so my bill will be under $20 a month. I use grooveip for free calls over wifi from my google voice #. This setup worls for me as I do most of my calling amd downloading at home over wifi. I don't care about 4G as I'm not watching movies when I'm out. I leave my house to experience the outside world at large! BTW you can get Clear 4G service activated on ANY wimax capable device by changing some IP settings. It's not free of course. You can pay just for a day if you like though. Bang it!
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Flashing to boost?

Has anybody ever flashed there epic 4g touch to boost mobile or cellcom or straight talk?
If so is it worth it and how?
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I flashed it myself from a tut on here to boost. Its easy to follow just do everything that it says. Like I said I'm on boost and it works great 3g talk text everything.
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Does it got good servise....how much did it cost you to flash over?
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Yea service is great depending on where u are u get fast 3g. But it didn't cost me nothing I just got a boost incognito make sure esn is clean and any et4g bad esn or good it doesn't matter. But to flash it its free if you follow the guide I'll look for it and post you the link
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419488
If you keep looking there's also a link that let you get 4g working on boost
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Sweet thanks bro.....I just moved to shawano wi. And the sprint servise sucks.
So I figured I'd flash to different carrier,but I have to see what boost coverage is here before I flash lol.
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Yea that's true check how sprint is over there since boost uses sprint towers.
And good luck if u need any help pm me and I'll try 2 help u as best as I can. Because after I flashed the phone I got error 16. Also its recommended u use the incognito.
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ScubaSteev said:
Sweet thanks bro.....I just moved to shawano wi. And the sprint servise sucks.
So I figured I'd flash to different carrier,but I have to see what boost coverage is here before I flash lol.
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If you dont get good sprint service chances are you will get even worse service with boost. Boost mobile is a sprint company and runs off sprint towers and has no roaming.

timer1 said:
Yea that's true check how sprint is over there since boost uses sprint towers.
And good luck if u need any help pm me and I'll try 2 help u as best as I can. Because after I flashed the phone I got error 16. Also its recommended u use the incognito.
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Ok I will...thanks again bro
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brooksyx said:
If you dont get good sprint service chances are you will get even worse service with boost. Boost mobile is a sprint company and runs off sprint towers and has no roaming.
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Do you know of any other carriers I can flash too?
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timer1 said:
I flashed it myself from a tut on here to boost. Its easy to follow just do everything that it says. Like I said I'm on boost and it works great 3g talk text everything.
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both my donor phone and the epic 4g touch that i have wont respond to cdma workshop. i dont know whats wrong, but i cannot not get them connected to any port. its asks me for port number but when i go to device manager it doesnt show up, i was wondering if you can help me out since you had some success already flashing your phone.

miguelgarcia1993 said:
both my donor phone and the epic 4g touch that i have wont respond to cdma workshop. i dont know whats wrong, but i cannot not get them connected to any port. its asks me for port number but when i go to device manager it doesnt show up, i was wondering if you can help me out since you had some success already flashing your phone.
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I am having the same issue. ##8778# won't work for me. anyone have any ideas?

miguelgarcia1993 said:
both my donor phone and the epic 4g touch that i have wont respond to cdma workshop. i dont know whats wrong, but i cannot not get them connected to any port. its asks me for port number but when i go to device manager it doesnt show up, i was wondering if you can help me out since you had some success already flashing your phone.
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this thread has been dead for a long time. Please don't necro. There is a full tutorial with what you mentioned in it. Go find it in the general section.
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I am having the same issue. ##8778# won't work for me. anyone have any ideas?
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Do as stated above.
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samsung s2
timer1 said:
Yea that's true check how sprint is over there since boost uses sprint towers.
And good luck if u need any help pm me and I'll try 2 help u as best as I can. Because after I flashed the phone I got error 16. Also its recommended u use the incognito.
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hey there i need help flashing my samgsung galaxy to boost i followed the video and the post but when i get to the drivers for the samsung it wont install i have a sph-d710 and the download is for a sph-d700 and i tryed to get the drivers for mines but it wont show up in my ports but everything else is all right

Hoping I can get some help! I have a Sprint S2 on Boost for my pop. had someone flash it for me. worked perfectly. now i have no data. I am 99% sure I know what is wrong but don't know the KEYS to fix it.
OK from the top. everything worked. but a few hours later voicemail went poof. dial into vmail says invalid number. Grrr nothing I do seems to make it reset then I remember that changing ESN resets voice mail.
SO I activate a boost android phone. it activates fine but no data. it did not "activate" right (boosts end I assume) anyway the automated support provides instructions if you get no data as a last resort kind of thing if you tried everything else.
it has me punch in a ##xxxxxx# string and the phone reboots and intiates activation and data comes on! yeah.
Voicemail is now working again as well.
OK so I swap ESN back to the flashed S2
voicemail properly resets. its working now. calls and text are working but no data now.
I think I know what I need to do. I need to do some similar ##xxxxxx# thing (no its not ##MSL# tried that already) to get it to reset the data connection like I did on the other phone.
BUT .... HOW do I do it? what is the ## code I need to do this on the S2? I can't use automated help since that system "THINKS" I have a different phone so the instructions are wrong (sanyo 3810)
so what I need is the ## code or whatever the procedure is to force the phone to reset its data connection and get 3G back.
....

can I flash a vzw modem on my stock rooted sprint note

As the title says ..I flashed my note 2 sprint version to pageplus 3g is working yet it is recieving week signal causing it to drop to 1x constantly .. wood flashing a vzw modem on my note be smart or brick worthy lol

Lmao now That is a neb question. Modems will brick your phone dude. Only flash stuff from other carriers if it is confirmed working. In this case is a big no no
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juggamonkey said:
As the title says ..I flashed my note 2 sprint version to pageplus 3g is working yet it is recieving week signal causing it to drop to 1x constantly .. wood flashing a vzw modem on my note be smart or brick worthy lol
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you need to read up on how to change the prl. download dfs demo version and that will allow you to do it. I am on a sprint note 2 with full bars and 3g on pageplus. you need verizon 3g keys to get full 3g if not then you will go in and out of 1x. for dfs to work you need to go into your phone and dial ##diag#.tap on qualcomm usb settings then click on DM+Modem+adb then connect phone to computer and open dfs. lots of info doing this so use google to help.

Oh tgabks for the info but ive aldready did all that I was up late last night flashing it and I think I got a little crazy minded . .all is well now I just had to flash a different prl apparntly rhe the one I was using was old thanks for the help mod please shut down the thread
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[Q] Flashing SPH-L900 from Sprint to MetroPCS?

Hello all. I'm currently attempting to flash my SPH-L900 (Samsung Note 2) from Sprint to MetroPCS. I've been looking 'round the net for information on doing this and I'm kinda spinning my wheels. I'm getting info that the MEID need to be changed to ESN, I need to obtain the SPC (and the MSL would be nice to have as well), Does anyone have any links to a good tutorial or information they could share on this? I've gotten quite a bit of information already, but I want to be sure I don't brick this phone, and I want to keep full functionality (4G data, text, ect.). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

@fhaq While this is not exactly for metropcs it will cover the basics. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35753067 I used it as a guide to flash my sprint note 2 to cricket. You just have to use metro's info in place of the other.
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Thanks!
That info was right on point. Now I have a solid base knowledge to work off of. Thanks jlmancuso!

4G speeds?
Anyone know if I'll keep the 4GLTE on the Metro network? I think that it would now that they do 4GLTE.

Doubt it. Most providers use different frequencies for LTE. If they are the same the next issue is our LTE/gsm card is integrated into the board. Not completely sure but think only sprint companies can use the LTE (virgin, ting, etc..).
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Doubt it. Most providers use different frequencies for LTE. If they are the same the next issue is our LTE/gsm card is integrated into the board. Not completely sure but think only sprint companies can use the LTE (virgin, ting, etc..).
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Well looks like I wont be flashing to Metro then. I didn't even think about different frequencies for LTE.

If the ESPN's are good then you could use one of sprints sister companies. I use cricket and 3g is not bad get between 800k and 1.5 mb. Yes a long way from 4g but if you have WiFi you won't notice the lack of 4g most times.
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