Hello there,
I flashed a Sprint HTC Touch Pro, and cloned ESN to MetroPCS. I followed this tutorial here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=571190
First time when I flashed it, I didn't do the cloning. It was just a simple flash and I was gonna take my phone to corporate store to get the ESN registered. It was working fine, I was getting the signal and when I dialed 611, the call would go to metropcs tech support. But I couldn't anyone else because the ESN wasn't registered. Since, Corporate store is too far from my place, so I decided to clone an ESN number of my other old phone and that's when it got messed up. There's is no signal on the device. I restarted it many times but is still said no signal. I manually turned on the device radio but it still says no signal. I don't know what I did wrong. I followed that tutorial exactly as it was. I even flashed the phone with "Telus V1.04.05V Radio R" radio but no signal. Now I've switched it to the stock rom but it still says no signal. stock radio version is 1.03.15F. So if anyone out there could help me out, I'll greatly appreciate it. Thanks a lot in advance.
what??? nobody knows.
no replies, does this mean nobody knows? btw, gps aint working either. I don't know if this rings any bells. Come on people help me out.
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Hi guys,
I'm new to the forum. I've tried searching for some answers but can't seem to find how to resolve the problem. I'm quite new to using PPCs so let me know if there's any information that you guys need.
So my phone works fine in Canada using Rogers... but everytime I go to US, I cannot detect a network for my phone and there's a "!" at the top. I tried searching for a network and it says "no network found" or sometimes it tries to register and then it fails in the end. In US, my phone automatically shuts off... I have no idea how this happens but everytime I go to look at my phone after leaving Canada, it's off. So when I go to turn it back on, there's no phone signal. I have no idea what to do as I'm not very familiar with PPCs.
Thanks for the help!
Which phone are you trying to use? Guessing Touch Pro?
Is international roaming or data roaming added to your account with Rogers?
Hey I have the HTC Touch Pro... yeah I've used this sim with my eten m700 before and it works fine. It just always seem to be searching for a network then it can't find any.
Thanks!!!
are you a prepaid customer? if so, Rogers doesnt allow roaming outside of canada.
Hey there... Just figured I'd pipe in here...
I am still using a TyTN (shopping for a Touch Pro today), and although I was able to always use my phone in the states, since my last firmware upgrade (WM6.1, new radio stack)....
....I can't get any service when I cross the border.
SOMETIMES I'll get 10 minutes of service over the course of an entire day. Very strange.
It is obviously firmware-related... Good luck with your phone...!
Thanks for all the help guys...
Nope I'm not a prepaid customer... should I be upgrading something on my phone to see if it works? Sorry... really don't know much about PPCs here!
just out of curiousty, have you called Rogers to ask for an updated OTA to be pushed to your SIM?
I've contacted Rogers and they said it has nothing to do with them... it's my phone! Should I contact them for the OTA? I'm sorry to be so noobie but... what does OTA do?
Thanks again!
Anyone help please!!!
so the short story is i have flashed a htc touch (and repaired the esn so it would work on metro) and a htc touch pro successfully without any problems.
the touch pro and the touch pro2 are both on metropcs without any esn work done to them.
i hardspl and load a rom to the tp2 and i set all settings to basically match the touch pro (except a diff #)
NOW this is what has worked perfectly on my touch pro.
it is not working at all on this one. the phone keeps prompting me like the network does not recognize it (like if you tried to dial out with only changing prl) i used *228 and tried to attach it to a new account but it is not working.
i am wondering, if there is something i have missed, because this is a sprint tp2 and it has the sim card in the back. i have tried with the sim card in and out and it made no difference to the message when trying to dial out.
i am no stranger to these phones, yet i am completly baffled on why i cannot get this tp2 to work.
anyone got some ideas?
Johnzm, i would post this on hofo see if metro's mafia can help you figure it out... http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/335-MetroPCS
You can also try to find your answer there as well. Read some sticky posts before posting.
im not 100% positive, but i dont think you can put a sprint (gsm only) phone on a CDMA service provider.
mattgrantlackey said:
im not 100% positive, but i dont think you can put a sprint (gsm only) phone on a CDMA service provider.
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Sprint is CDMA just like Verizon & Metro PCS
oh, well thanks for correcting me. i thought verizon was the only CDMA service provider other than metro. sorry my bad
I would assume that metro's rom has some carrier specific info in it... i'd do a dump, and see what settings are needed to make it perform correctly on the cooked rom. (only thing i could think of) or take it back to metro and have them reflash it. prolly want to flash it back to stock first... so they do it without suspicion..
OK, so I'm about to go crazy here.
My phone (NS4G) has absolutely no service. I get bars, but am unable to make or receive calls or SMS, nor have I data service. I've tried different radios, different roms, everything I can think of for the past two hours and nothing. It can't be the service in my location since my aunt has Sprint service and she's right next to me and can do everything just fine.
Any tips before I get on a rampage?
FWIW: When I dial a call, it rings twice and I get some weird message that isn't even from Sprint.
Did you flash a GSM Nexus S ROM? That's the only thing that I can think of right now that would cause that .
Nope. I've tried CM9, CM7, and stock Gingerbread (GRJ22) and nothing. I'm telling you, this is driving me nuts and there seems to be no explanation whatsoever...
What's your baseband. Also check you IMEI.
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Interesting. My phone number and MSID aren't showing right. What can I do about this other than calling Sprint, which I can't do right now?
I would flash completely back to stock, flash the latest officially released basebands and radios, then unroot. If you still can't get it to work, bring it into a sprint store and tell them your phone just stopped working and that you have no idea what is happening. Don't mention rooting or anything like that and I am sure they will help you out.
Another suggestion can you force your phone to roam with a program like roam control to see if anything starts working?
Also, any chance your service could have been cut off?
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Interesting. My phone number and MSID aren't showing right. What can I do about this other than calling Sprint, which I can't do right now?
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Sounds like your /efs folder got corrupted or deleted. Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098191
Hello all, hopefully somebody can help me with this, since it's making me crazy.
I have one 920 and recently got a new 1020 from Movistar (Telefonica), RM-875 with 64GB if storage. Everything was great until they launched their LTE network, and when I got a new sim card, I found out the ROM the phone has, comes with 4g-LTE disabled. Off course I did what anyone would do in this situation: I flash my phone with another ROM and I got my LTE working.
After a couple of days I noted that I was only getting SMSs telling me that somebody called me. Then I tried to call myself from another number and it went straight to voicemail. When I changed it to 3G again, calls worked fine. I know LTE doesn't support voice, so the phone should get a "notification" from the network to change to 3g to get the call, but my phone is not reacting to it. I tried the same SIM with the 920 and this one works as expected, when on LTE it changes to 3G to get the call.
I've spent the last two weeks downloading new ROMs to see if any of those can help me, with no luck at all. My last resort is to flash back to the original ROM and bring it back to the shop to see if they can help me. Oh and it's not hardware problem since a friend of mine with the same provider and the same phone, he is facing the same issue.
ANYTHING you can tell me to fix this, will be greatly appreciated, since is like a disappointing to not being able to be on LTE with my 1020.
Thank you!
Question about Selectel Flash. Selectel Sims etc. I apologize up front if this is the wrong section for this thread. I posted as a reply in the General Section Thread about MVNO's but I believe that thread is dead or closed. If this breaks any rules of XDA please let me know and delete this thread. If is is forbidden I apologize up front. And I know this is a TLDR post, but please if you know anything about these matters, please read this post if you might be able to help. And if you just need some info about someone's experience trying to get cheap android phone service keep reading. Maybe you'll learn something from me.
I let a local selectel "dealer" flash my phone to Selectel a while back in Jan sometime. About a month or so later he had to re-flash the phone. Because I couldn't make calls at all. He said this was because the guy working for him did the flash incorrectly and so he fixed it. After reading up on Flashing a bit but still not knowing enough about it, I decided to start using a partition backup tool from the store to backup a slew of partitions including EFS, and all the Modem* partitions. I backed up a bunch of others as well, just not data, system, or cache. He left the VZW sim in.
Now since then, I've flashed a number of roms. And sometimes I'd have an issue where my number and other info in status would be gone. At this point I restore EFS, usually just this one partition and everything would be back to normal. Selectel Number and everything else would work. Now I'm having this issue again but my info is in there. This time, I can't make or receive calls or texts in my home "roaming on a regional tower" area. This always worked fine before. Now at home it says Voice out of service / Data in service. This is at home. When I drive 20 minutes up the road to some different but still not verizon towers I believe, I can make and receive calls just fine. Also in the guys shop using his extender, I can make and receive calls fine. He gave me a T-mobile sim, for what I don't know, but this didn't fix anything. Now he's expecting to receive his selectel SIMS and says that might fix my issue. If not I'll have to do another flash. I can't afford to pay for another flash, being laid off work and unemployed I can barely afford the 15 dollar plan for selectel.
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else has came across this issue, and if so do I need to reflash? Is there a way I can fix it myself? I have downloaded a bunch of tools for windows mostly (I use linux mainly, but dual boot into windows for AutoCAD and other things that just don't work well in Linux). I've seen a ton of flashing tools online as well many of which seem to do the job automagically almost. Any suggestions? I was thinking PRL.. Of course, but after reading the first few posts of this thread, i saw the don't try to OTA program information. One guy at the store actually recommended doing that but I didn't. he said *22891 to update roaming which I think is the PRL.
Any Help will be appreciated as always. If anyone here can fix it remotely cheap, let me know. Also, he's blaming my Kitkat rom. I've used this KitKat and others in the past with no Issue at all. But for ****s and giggles, I restored a TW 4.3, the latest Alliance Rom, to no avail. it does the exact same thing. I can use the phone in town or near an extender but not anywhere that I might roam.
Thanks a bunch.
griz
Update since my original post:
I've talked to both selectel and the local selectel dealer, the dealer said his selectel sims are in but won't be ready for a few more days. I'm guessing but don't know for sure, that this could fix my isssues. I doubt it.
I restored a nandroid of a stock based rom (alliance), to try to update the PRL over the air a while back while I was in an area where I knew there would be Verizon towers. It wouldn't update because I didn't have a sim inserted. The dealer took my Verizon SIM and gave me a t-mo sim which didn't help anything at all. I stopped by there Sat 05-23-15 and he gave me a verizon sim to see if it would update using his network extender. I do know he does activation over the extender because I've been there when he's done this. He activated a dumb phone in this manner. I'm very frustrated at this because I need a permanent number to use for job contacts and my home based business doing freelance IT work. I'm not 100& sure the PRL is the issue but it seems that way because I can make calls and receive texts as soon as I get near a VZW tower or extender. At home however where there's only a regional carrier called Appalachian Wireless, it just roams, and says Voice out of service / Data in Service. And as soon as I get away from a Verizon Tower the phone will say this in About Phone / Status.
All my original data should be there because everything show's up correctly in About Phone, My IMEI, MEID, MIN, and Number are correct. He did have to flash the phone to get it to have 3g, so the MEID that shows up isn't for an S3. My IMEI is the one that came with the phone. I asked him and selectel about the legality of flashing the phone and having a donar MEID number or whatever and both said that's fine. They acted like it was completely legal, I'm not so sure. But again, both Selectel and the Dealer told me it was Okay to do that.
I've found some software on here that I can use to update my PRL with a downloaded one but I didn't know what SPC to put in for Selectel I know that with VZW it's all zeros's. Selectel customer service couldn't tell me this and told me to ask the dealer, I did and he said I could use all zero's as well.
I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions at all, and if you think that once I get a Selectel SIM if it will work. The local dealer told me after I asked, that it would contain all my information, like those numbers I mentioned before and that it could fix it, but of course he says I've messed it up by flashing my phone. The thing is. I have lost all my info after flashing a rom in the past. However, I use a partition tool to backup EFS and other partitions and when I restore the EFS, (from when it was working and roaming), everything worked fine. Also, I know that I've used the rom he questioned in the past with success. I've tried Nameless, Slimroms, Liquid, and a few Lollipop roms with success as long as I restore the aforementioned data when necessary. Doing nvrestore (I had already done nvbackup long ago), doesn't help,. in fact it wipes everything out and I have to manually restore the EFS partition.
I understand that the PRL isn't the answer to everything but it's the only thing I can think of that would affect roaming. I have read that you shouldn't do any kind of OTA activation using *22890 *228 and so on but that I can use *22891 according to both Selectel and the dealer. The dealer wants to reflash the phone for 35 dollars which I can't afford at the moment. I can barely scrape up the 15 dollars for the cheap selectel plan.
On antoher note: I tried using an X2 with tracfone which worked great but wouldn't roam either. Kinda like what i'm experiencing right now. After calling Tracfone, I was told that none of the BYOP Android phones would roam. And one of their reps said their android phones like the Moto E wouldn't roam on non vzw towers either, because before I had my sgs3 flashed to seletel, I was going to get a Moto E Tracfone from Ebay with 2000 minutes and a year of service for 89.99 when they first came out. I didn't want to spend the money on it if it wouldn't roam. Does anyone know if this is in fact true, I can't see tracfone selling android's that won't roam. But I suppose they do. I was then told when I got a partial refund from Tracfone that only their Dumb phones would roam on non-vzw towers but again, this doesn't make good business sense nor does it make asnse at all. I've found a decent Net10 android at a dollar store (Moto E) I believe, for 79 on sale, but again, if it won't roam then it's worthless to me. Any Experience with this? I've searched and searched the internet for information on this subject to no avail. Especially the "Voice out of Service / Data in Service" message in Status.
Again, if I'm not in the correct section please let me know. Finally, I'm very sorry I'm so long winded. but those that know me know I'm long winded in every post I put up here. Sorry about that. I know I know TLDR, but I hope someone reads this and knows a thing or two about this.
Thanks once more.
griz