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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.
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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.
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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I have flashed my phone by following a guide on here. After doing all the proper steps, it doesn't mention how to make it activated on my already active cricket account. I called the stores but they said since i flashed it myself they wont activate it unless i had it flashed by the person at their store. So I called the tech support and all they did was put the DEC 268********* number on my account. I try making calls on the flashed phone and nothing but busy signals. I can only call cricket customer service but thats it. So I know it has to be a good flash. So how do I activate and i was also told not to use *228 because it would erase the flash settings.
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I have flashed my phone by following a guide on here. After doing all the proper steps, it doesn't mention how to make it activated on my already active cricket account. I called the stores but they said since i flashed it myself they wont activate it unless i had it flashed by the person at their store. So I called the tech support and all they did was put the DEC 268********* number on my account. I try making calls on the flashed phone and nothing but busy signals. I can only call cricket customer service but thats it. So I know it has to be a good flash. So how do I activate and i was also told not to use *228 because it would erase the flash settings.
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What guide did you follow? Also just a little advice, it's usually not a good idea to let the company know you've rooted, flashed, or altered the phone in any way.
I spent a long time setting up a jelly bean rom on my epic 4g only to realize that i had to activate it on a stock rom first
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I spent a long time setting up a jelly bean rom on my epic 4g only to realize that i had to activate it on a stock rom first
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Yup. Have to make sure you have the bootable FC09 in the multiboot in order to activate, as the Sprint commands won't work from Cyanogen Mod (10, not sure of 9, 10.1, etc.). Beat my head against the wall for a bit there last night.
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I had this same problem, but on Ting.
What I realized though is this. Once you are on FC09, update PRL and Profile in phone settings, you can flash radios and ROMs all you want and it doesn't forget that it is activated. I still get 4G too, when I'm in a 4G area.
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I am not new to rom's, flashing roms or anything of the sort..... I am however having issues with a brand new epic 4g, that had mtd stock rooted rom which I put on it, for some reason whether I flash the SlimBean rom or another rom I always get the phone being unable to activate being stuck on airplane mode, yet I can toggle airplane mode off and it still says the same thing..... Can I just use odin to flash the modem to fix this or what would be my best resolution here? Also if all I need to do is flash the modem in Odin, which modem would I need? Or can this be fixed via adb?
My issue is on the Remics rom and on the SlimBean rom specifically.
Thanks for help
Perhaps I am not doing something correctly in twrp? I haven't had an android device in about 7 months so its nice to be back!
Hello all,
I tried searching for a similar scenario but wasn't able to find anything so I thought I'd try posting here.
I purchased a flashed Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 from ebay about 6 months ago. I'm assuming the phone is rooted, I had my number flashed with page plus service to the S3 without problem and it has worked fine since then. Apart from the initial flash to page plus by the ebay vendor I've used the phone daily without flashing anything else, just using apps from the store and basic daily functions like email, social media and camera use. Today while using the phone it randomly shut off. When starting up the phone again it gets stuck on the "Samsung" logo, it does not reboot either.
I know that a hard reset can fix this issue but the problem is I believe a hard reset might break the page plus flash and I'm afraid of losing the number I have on this phone. Has anyone experienced this problem with a phone flashed to page plus and has successfully fixed this? Or will I just have to buy a new phone to flash my page plus number to?
Write down your flashed page plus number to external paper and after hard reset flash it again using dfs software.
Or if you don't want to hard reset... Flash the tar file via Odin to repair the stuck boot then root it.
But i recommend to flash a new rooted ROM from recovery after wiping data/factory reset.. It will not wiping your flashed status.
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Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I don't really flash on my own and didn't quite want to experiment just yet.
What I ended up doing was esn swapping the page Plus number I was using from the Sprint s3 to an htc rhyme that was also activated on page Plus in a hope of salavging my #. I then went ahead and factory reset the s3 and that fixed the stuck on boot problem.
My question is now this, would it be possible to esn swap the number back to the s3 and have it function on page plus once again. from what I can tell in the settings it still has the 65002 prl I believe is uses to flashthis model and my orginal phone number still appears in the s3 device settings (and 3g username aferrad) despite my swapping the number to the rhyme.
I would be happy to provide addtl info and appreciate any help you can offer.
I've got a lot of problems actually. I have a Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) with 4.4.2 that I rooted yesterday, but I didn't back up the stock ROM before trying to flash Cyanogenmod. I lost data, eventually I lost wifi, and then I think I bricked it trying to flash various things to fix it. I then tried to flash stock firmware but ended up with a phone that thinks it's on the Sprint network (still no mobile data). I haven't had any luck trying to find stock ROMs and kernels for Virgin Mobile (assuming that's what I need to fix it?). I'd like to be able to go back to the out-of-the-box unrooted ROM until I can do more research.
I'm completely new to the entire process and clearly got in over my head. I hope you guys can point me in the right direction.
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So I think my problem is resolved. I used Kies to update the firmware, which seemed to successfully return the phone to unrooted stock. I reactivated my network via the VM website. I can send and receive calls and texts. The only thing is that I don't see the VM logo screen at startup. Should I be worried?
If everything is working as it should then no worries about a missing splash screen... Sounds like you're good to go