Wondering if anyone here has flashed their LGOG to pageplus w/ 3g/mms.
It's time to retire my Fascinate and the LGOG seems to be a little more affordable than other quad cores on ebay. SIII flashes over, but resellers on ebay are demanding top $. May have to settle for a proven dual core like SNexus. The LGOG would be nice, you guy seem enthusiastic about the phone. Great reviews.
Plus, LGOG has a large and active group here. Big +
Thanks in advance.
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I haven't found anyone who has flashed this phone to any other carrier. I was able to flash mine to Verizon PrePay but the flash is incomplete for the fact that everything works except anything over 1x. In other words I can't get 3g to work because I can't seem to get into the EFS files to insert the "num" files. I'm not sure that the carrier that you want to use would require this type of flash but I think it will. I have a "real" hacker looking at it and I'm afraid until someone can figure out how to get into the EFS files you won't be able to get a full flash. I'll post it on my thread if and when it happens and ask you to do the same if you find success.
You're the first I heard from since posting my questions in a few forums. Howard Forum has a pretty active PagePlus thread, but no luck. A few email exchanges with some guys selling remote flash on ebay, neither have flashed the LGOG. Not sure I'd want to go that route.
It will be a month or two until I choose a new phone. Maybe one of those phone god types will have it figured out by then.
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I'm sure you guys get threads like this all the time but your site is freaking huuuuge and I searched around but couldn't see what I was after.
My Vario II decided to brake again... it's been white screening for months and this morning the touchscreen decided to stop working so it's going back to T-Mobile.
I flashed the ROM a couple of months back to the Black Magic ROM (thanks to the creator, it's an awesome ROM)... so now I gotta restore it to the T-Mobile ROM.
Anyone have a link to it for me?
Also, am I gonna be able to flash without having touchscreen capability?
Thanks for your time
Marcus
BTW - stupid AutoFill used one of my email addresses as my username.. shows how much attention I paid
Check THE WIKI for your original T-Mobile ROM.
Check THESE GUIDES for downgrade assistance.
Regarding no touchscreen, you will be able to upgrade fine BUT you will not be able to boot the phone, because it will want you to calibrate the touchscreen on first boot. It is probably better than sending it in with the wrong ROM though.
Cheers for that, I knew it would be here somewhere, the forums are just freakin huge though.
I'll drop by when I hear from them... no doubt they'll try do me over with it somehow.
Hi all, i know this is a well talked about subject as i have done numerous google/ask searches, i find an awful lot but don't really seem to get any answers, over the last week i must have read hundreds of pages so please anyone who is going to tell me to google this problem, please don't as i have until i could scream lol......anyway, this is the problem i am having......
Hubby bought the HTC desire on ORANGE but then decided he wanted an iphone4 so he gave his desire to me, i am a vodafone user, as we have teenage children and the freedom/family packs are such good value, i wanted to stay on vodafone so i got the phone unlocked with an unlock code at my local mobile fone shop...hubby had never used it as a phone, just as a gadget to mess about on so we weren't aware there was any problems.... the problems i am having are these...i can't get the phone to hold a call, if i use wmcda only mode, its slightly better and i can usually get a call out but it will drop out if i stay on the line to long, if i use gsm only then i can't get a call out at all, the phone stays silent for a few seconds and then just drops out......on both settings the signal is fluctuating like mad and often gives me a x where my signal should be, i love the phone as a gadget but at the moment im not getting much luck with it as a phone.....a few things i thought may be to blame are
could it be the way the fone shop unlocked it??
i have used the same sim card (voda) for around 4+ years, could i need a better sim???
could it be because all the settings on the phone belong to orange and arn't set up to use on voda??
i have read on a few sites where people have returned these phones only to be given another one that has the same issues where others have recieved another hand set and the problem is solved but some people say they have no call dropping/signal issues at all and love the phone....im confused, i have been looking around the site and seen peopl are using custom roms and/or debranding the phone, could that help with my issues??
if anyone can help me i would really appreciate it ...
thanks in advance
emma......ps sorry for such a long post
If your SIM is 4+ years old, I would suggest that a new one might be in order, so at the very least I'd request one if I were you.
You've not mentioned which ROM version or baseband you phone is currently using (see Menu->Settings->About Phone->Software Information). Try posting these so we can see if you are running a very early ROM and/or radio.
Regards,
Dave
P.S. Lastly, divorce hubby for being unfaithful to the Desire and buying an iPhone!
lmao he's an iphone fanatic, he has the 3g, 3gs and now the iphone4, oh and a macbook lol.. personally i love the desire but i'm having a nightmare using it as a phone, i called HTC up on friday and ups have actually just came and picked it up, i have been waiting on them, so i can't actually check anything now, i wish i had realised and put the stats of the phone in my post, they said it will take 7/10 working days to get it back and i feel lost already lol....i am hoping and praying that they can sort the problem out, i have also requested new sims from vodafone and they are on their way to me also, so if i get my phone back and i still have same issues with my sim i will try the new sim, if that doesn't work, then i guess i'll be back on here or trading it in
i think im right in thinking the rom is the software, but by radio are you referring to the FM radio or to the radio waves your phone uses??
I have an iMac and a Macbook, but I dislike the walled garden that Apple has put up around the iPhone/iPad!
When I referred to the radio, I meant the cellular radio - not the FM radio, but the point is moot now if you've sent it in for repair!
Regards,
Dave
yeah i forgot he also has the ipad, i love that like, he jailbreaks them himself so we get all the apps, better than the ipod, which he has also lol...he's a total apple nut!! once i get my device back i will check the stats an post them up here straight away......if the radio is old could that be the problem?? and do the newer ones help, i had to sign a fom to say they could erase everything and put the latest software on so im presuming they will also update the radio?? if so maybe that will correct the problem, i had looked into using a custom rom before i sent it back but i was scared that if i did that then they wouldn't repair/replace the unit also i was a little wary as the instructions seem a little complicated
.......i have since sent my desire of for repair/replacement and have contacted them today (since they have had it 3 weeks) and was told it is ready to be sent back to me and that it has had the mother board replaced...has anyone else had similar problems who had had a new mother board fitted and then the problems have stopped??? im thinking that when it comes back it will be as useless as a phone as it was when i sent it off
thanks
As far as holding calls are concerned, the Desire is bad... much worse than any iPhone I've used. That said in built up areas I never really have problems with voice, but in rural areas the reception is very poor... I struggle to make calls in my house, which was never an issue when I used Samsung phones.
3G reception is a separate issue!
Well the motherboard is basically the phones guts, so that coupled with the new rom/radio should solve your issues. I can't see them replacing the MB just for the sake of it!
Let us know how you find it afterwards. Personally, I've no bother with reception and love my desire
well i've been expecting my phone back for days and it still hasn't arrived, i was quoted 5 to 7 working days when i sent it off for repair 3 WEEKS ago, anyway when it comes back i'll see how it goes and let you all know....could it possibly have something to do wiht the fact that its an orange branded phone and im getting a code to have it unlocked to vodafone????
(which i will have to pay for again now i have a new motherboard)
First off, i would like to thank everyone who puts this awesome crap on the internet for us retards to try to do something cool with our friggin phones. Second, this is my first EVER post on a forum of any kind, so please go easy on me if i sound like a complete moron...
Im sure its important that i put what im working with here. Its an Evo 4g PC36100 Build 4.54.651.1 with Android OS 2.3.3 Kernel 2.6.35.1,
Not sure what other info you might need but let me know if you got anything else i gotta put on here.
Oh yeah... i found the phone outside a corner store about two months ago with nothing but the "owners number" and an email address on it. Dont think i just kept it though. I called the number and left several voicemails and even emailed the person a million times in hopes that i didnt have to throw away a brand-spankin-new phone. They never got back to me and instead i guess they cut off the service (which i only used to call its voicemail) about a week or so into having the phone. My brother had given me a charger that fit one of his old phones so i could keep it on incase some one called.
a few days ago, someone said that i could just flash the phone and use it with another provider. I decided i would prefer not to pay for a new phone so i would use this thing. another person told me that i would first have to root the phone before i could flash it. So i did. I rooted it with the unRevoked/revolutionary Tool method. i backed up the original stuff using this method and later installed Myns Warm TwoPointTwo because the guy online said it was a cooler rom. so i was like what the hell.
I went to the cricket store and they said they would charge me 65 bucks to flash a friggin phone. i was like "naw *****es" because my brother said i could do it at home. Most of the descriptions for Flashing say i should have Jiminy V installed BEFORE i flash my ****.
I tried that on this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784776
Every link send me to some site called MassMirror And that site doesnt let me do Jack ****. I signed up an account on the site but still nothing. then I uploaded a 21Mb program so it might let me. But still nothing. So i cant download it anywhere. And now im stuck.
Can someone help me access these files that u guys put on here? is there something wrong with my PC that is not letting me download them? i hope not.
If i end up being unable to get the ROM can i just try to flash this phone with the Warm2.2 Rom that i have on it? it is pretty cool and i would like to keep it, but if it wont work, Can someone suggest an alternative that i can easily find that is either similar or at least moderately user friendly? i know im asking a lot, but i really suck at this phone crap and am looking forward to not giving a some dude my money if i can do this **** at home.
BTW I intend to get the phone connected (Full $55 Plan) with Cricket next week after i get payed. I just dont have the money today to do it, and would like to have the phone flashed and ready to connect, hopefully with a fully functional ROM, by the time i go to the cricket store.
Any help is VERY much appreciated and sorry again for the huge ass post.
Characterman said:
First off, i would like to thank everyone who puts this awesome crap on the internet for us retards to try to do something cool with our friggin phones. Second, this is my first EVER post on a forum of any kind, so please go easy on me if i sound like a complete moron...
Im sure its important that i put what im working with here. Its an Evo 4g PC36100 Build 4.54.651.1 with Android OS 2.3.3 Kernel 2.6.35.1,
Not sure what other info you might need but let me know if you got anything else i gotta put on here.
Oh yeah... i found the phone outside a corner store about two months ago with nothing but the "owners number" and an email address on it. Dont think i just kept it though. I called the number and left several voicemails and even emailed the person a million times in hopes that i didnt have to throw away a brand-spankin-new phone. They never got back to me and instead i guess they cut off the service (which i only used to call its voicemail) about a week or so into having the phone. My brother had given me a charger that fit one of his old phones so i could keep it on incase some one called.
a few days ago, someone said that i could just flash the phone and use it with another provider. I decided i would prefer not to pay for a new phone so i would use this thing. another person told me that i would first have to root the phone before i could flash it. So i did. I rooted it with the unRevoked/revolutionary Tool method. i backed up the original stuff using this method and later installed Myns Warm TwoPointTwo because the guy online said it was a cooler rom. so i was like what the hell.
I went to the cricket store and they said they would charge me 65 bucks to flash a friggin phone. i was like "naw *****es" because my brother said i could do it at home. Most of the descriptions for Flashing say i should have Jiminy V installed BEFORE i flash my ****.
I tried that on this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784776
Every link send me to some site called MassMirror And that site doesnt let me do Jack ****. I signed up an account on the site but still nothing. then I uploaded a 21Mb program so it might let me. But still nothing. So i cant download it anywhere. And now im stuck.
Can someone help me access these files that u guys put on here? is there something wrong with my PC that is not letting me download them? i hope not.
If i end up being unable to get the ROM can i just try to flash this phone with the Warm2.2 Rom that i have on it? it is pretty cool and i would like to keep it, but if it wont work, Can someone suggest an alternative that i can easily find that is either similar or at least moderately user friendly? i know im asking a lot, but i really suck at this phone crap and am looking forward to not giving a some dude my money if i can do this **** at home.
BTW I intend to get the phone connected (Full $55 Plan) with Cricket next week after i get payed. I just dont have the money today to do it, and would like to have the phone flashed and ready to connect, hopefully with a fully functional ROM, by the time i go to the cricket store.
Any help is VERY much appreciated and sorry again for the huge ass post.
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that link you listed is for a rom that you flash AFTER you get setup with Cricket. In the OP of that link there is a guide that tells you how to reprogram your phone for Cricket. http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...o-Flash-to-Cricket-with-Talk-Text-Wap-and-MMS that was in the OP heres a note from the link you posted to the JimmyV rom
It might be a good idea to use a newer PRL than the one suggested in that guide (since it's old). I am attaching the most recent PRL I have to this post. Also found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002910. Im not on Cricket so i cant really help and IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE . There might be someone on Cricket that can help you more but im not that person
Also OP means original post
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sorry this is the link i meant to put there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784776 my mistake for putting something else... thanks for help Im realizing that i may be spamming at this point, but is there a link you could share with me where i might be able to download the Jiminy ROM directly or something? im kinda lost at this point and dont know how to find my way back to square one.
Characterman said:
sorry this is the link i meant to put there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784776 my mistake for putting something else... thanks for help
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I was talking about the first post in the thread for the link you posted it had a guide on how to.setup your phone for Cricket I simply just posted the guide . Just follow those guides I posted and you should be good to go . I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AJYTHING YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE. if you run into any problems pls post it someone might be able to help
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Characterman said:
sorry this is the link i meant to put there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784776 my mistake for putting something else... thanks for help Im realizing that i may be spamming at this point, but is there a link you could share with me where i might be able to download the Jiminy ROM directly or something? im kinda lost at this point and dont know how to find my way back to square one.
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Well you won't need the jimmy rom until AFTER you have succesfully been setup with Cricket. So reprogram phone for Cricket then flash Jimmy rom. Also I'm not sure where to download the rom I'm pretty sure those links might be dead
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FYI Jiminy V is over a year old at this point and is based on Froyo. I don't even run it any more.
Follow the flashing guide I provided in the Jiminy thread to program the phone to work with Cricket (this is completely independent from flashing a rom and flashing roms will not overwrite any of the "cricket" flash). It is the same guide I used to flash my personal phone.
No custom rom magic is required at this point with all the roms that have come out in the past year. I myself am running MikG. I like Sense roms (aside from their poor bluetooth support). I've never been able to get MMS working with Cricket on an AOSP rom unfortunately. I'd run AOSP if I could but I receive far too many pictures via MMS to give that up.
Flash a modern rom and if it is Sense based then use the dialer to enter into the EPST settings and change the MMS server urls and everything should be working as long as you set the MMS size limit to 500k.
I'm editing the Jiminy thread now to advise people that it is obsolete.
relatively recently I acquired the Samsung Galaxy S3 from metro pcs. Ive been registered with you the fine people of XDA for all of about an hour now and hopefully this first question I post will be by far the most remedial of any I post.
I have the SCH-R530M and am unable to find a "correct" forum for my device. With the upcoming merger between t-mobile and Metro it made the most sense to post here and ask if there is a forum for me that i have overlooked and just missed or if this is indeed where i should post for the closest approximation of information for my device.
any help would be greatly appreciated
Bam9 said:
relatively recently I acquired the Samsung Galaxy S3 from metro pcs. Ive been registered with you the fine people of XDA for all of about an hour now and hopefully this first question I post will be by far the most remedial of any I post.
I have the SCH-R530M and am unable to find a "correct" forum for my device. With the upcoming merger between t-mobile and Metro it made the most sense to post here and ask if there is a forum for me that i have overlooked and just missed or if this is indeed where i should post for the closest approximation of information for my device.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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Yes you should come to the T-Mobile forums, but I would limit my posts if you mess up on anything, ie flashing ROMs/etc., and if you have any knowledge when it comes to ROMs about the whole S3 family it's that the files for each carrier are shown as dat&t, dtmo, dvzw, so if you flash any ROM you should dig into the files and change those values to Metro.
People do that all the time like flashing an AT&T ROM on their TMO version, just change the values.
I dont know about the Metro s3 as its a CDMA but check out PureMotive guide on the verizon forums. It may help you. Also Check Android Forum they have a lot of metro pcs phones listed in there. Its like xda
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Yes you should come to the T-Mobile forums, but I would limit my posts if you mess up on anything, ie flashing ROMs/etc., and if you have any knowledge when it comes to ROMs about the whole S3 family it's that the files for each carrier are shown as dat&t, dtmo, dvzw, so if you flash any ROM you should dig into the files and change those values to Metro.
People do that all the time like flashing an AT&T ROM on their TMO version, just change the values.
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Um....you should limit your posts since you don't know what the hell you are talking about, you are encouraging this dude to brick his phone.
As the previous poster said it is a CDMA phone (no simcard) so you have the potential to brick your phone by flashing something that's not made for it. What I would do, is google it. "Metro PCS Galaxy SIII XDA" see if you find a section for your phone.
thanks for the input guys, right now my plan is to unlock and possibly root the s3. With it being cdma I'm then going to have it flashed over to a far cheaper service running off the Verizon network, this way I will have a fully functional s3 fully unlimited and service in virtually everyplace I choose to roam. right now the "sister carrier" doesn't have the ability to flash the S3 to their service. so im just waiting it out for now, figured maybe i'll tweak my 3 and possibly root it before I switch
metro pcs GS3/ sprint GS3 and shutter sound
just in case anyone else who got their GS3 through metro i thought i would through up a small helpful hint i figured out a while ago. I know alot of people myself included hate the shutter sound on their camera and with most phones you can willingly shut that sound off for capturing images. on certain carrier models of the GS3 the carrier locked this option so you aren't able to shut the sound off ( sprint has done just this) and it can become quite annoying.
you could get another camera app and just use that and it being the awesome app that it is ( whatever it is) has the option to shut off the shutter sound. this is one option, but one that I surpassed in favor of an app that can handle my little shutter sound issue and do more quite conveniently.
the app is called AUTOMATEIT. with this free app you can set triggers and rules for when those triggers are optioned. i use this app for a great many things, but i found it quite hand for silencing the camera. the rule i set was that when the camera app was activated the entire phone went to vibrate mode. when my camera app is launched the phone vibrates and this signals that indeed my camera is up and ready which is quite handy for the quick pictures that catch you off guard. when the camera app has ceased usage, i set it to go back into normal volume mode and my phone and I live happily ever after.
hopefully this post helps someone else as much as this knowledge has helped me.
I have a SGS3 from ST my sons friend thought he was some kind of genus phone god and was gonna, so he said make it faster. all he did was soft brick it. moral there is never forget your phone at home while at work.
It took me almost two years I believe but I got a rom on it. I went with wicked sensations 5 and anaconda as a theme. It made the phone fast and looks awesome cudos you guys, great design. There is just one problem its on sprints atm's and I cant for the life of me figure out how to change it. I tried every trick I could think of. it wont allow me to use any program off Google store and it wont allow me to do it manually. The mobile settings arnt even even there and there is no manual place to manually change any thing please guys I am begging for help. mean while I am wasting my $45.00 card and money does not come easy to me I am disabled for the time being while my neck and back heal. So please please tell me how to change to ST numbers I have the numbers it just doesn't give me a place to put them.
I'm thinking that you are talking about APNs not ATMs. I have placed a link in the post that may help you out. I see you are posting in the Sprint forum and the link is for the Verizon S3 so this is mostly a "here is basically what you're looking for." You will need to flash the ZIP file while in recovery for the APNs to work. In my experience I have always had to flash right after I initially flash the ROM but before I reboot, other people may have had other experiences. You might try a google search for: Straight Talk APN S3 Zip verizon/sprint/at&t/etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2411554
On a side note, your post has some errors with the terminology and grammar used. The biggest part here is using the proper terms. I think you would have better success if you did that.
I'm sorry if I come off like a mean person but I want to be helpful. I really do wish you the best.