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Since I can't ask my question here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929646 because of the 10 message limit on the site, I'll ask it here.
Does this apply to the USA Alltel CDMA version? I have the a854 and I've been getting mixed signals from forums all over the web, Motorola and Alltel as to whether I'll be able to get an official update to 2.2 on my device or not. I'm tired of waiting. Could someone tell me whether this will work for me or not?
Conner85 said:
Since I can't ask my question here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929646 because of the 10 message limit on the site, I'll ask it here.
Does this apply to the USA Alltel CDMA version? I have the a854 and I've been getting mixed signals from forums all over the web, Motorola and Alltel as to whether I'll be able to get an official update to 2.2 on my device or not. I'm tired of waiting. Could someone tell me whether this will work for me or not?
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Well the official is released long back for ther Droid(milestone) did you change it from verizon to Alltel?
And the link you have for is Milestone which is the GSm version, the CDMA version is know as Droid
Since I'm on Alltel, the name for it is Milestone. It's the same thing as the Droid (since it's CDMA USA version), just with a different name because Droid is exclusive to Verizon. The only reason I haven't gotten the update, to my knowledge anyway, is because Motorola isn't distributing the update to Alltel and a few other carriers.
But everyone I have talked to has said "Hmm.. you have the Verizon Droid.. that's the model number for it". But I didn't get it from Verizon, I got it at the Alltel store. I even had to argue with Motorola on the phone yesterday because they told me I didn't know what I was talking about, and that I must have gotten it from the Verizon store because Alltel doesn't carry that phone. I'm guessing they are releasing it out to other carriers and forgetting about it?
Now, I'm pretty confused as to what steps I need to take to achieve this. Everyone keeps telling me "No, you have this.. you have that......" and I'm actually just really confused.. no other way to explain it. Do I try to find something that will work with a CDMA Milestone, or will anything for the Droid be compatible? Or are they both just the same phone, but different name?
I have already rooted it with Universal Androot and installed Rom Manager (Premium). Now I guess all I need to know is what to do from there. I have allowed superuser permission to Rom Manager, I pressed Flash Alternate Recovery and then pressed Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Then I pressed Backup Current Rom. Where to from there?
I see a list of roms, so do I just find one and install it? I see a lot of tutorials on how to do everything, but most of them talk about how the MMS isn't working and you have to go into the stock rom to get the MMS settings and then move it to the new rom.. kinda confusing, but I think if I have gotten this far I'll be able to understand it better if someone could just explain the rest of it regarding this particular phone.
I figured it all out. Now I have a full on Droid.
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Conner85 said:
I figured it all out. Now I have a full on Droid.
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I don't get that part, lol.
Did you try going into system information and check the Baseband version?
If it's "3GSM.....09.04I" then I'm pretty sure that's a Milestone.
I'm pretty sure there is no Milestone that is CDMA, i can bet a $100 on that, you have the alltell CDMA droid
EDIT: ok i'm wrong, the phone is known as Milestone due to the fact that Verizon has exclusive rights to the name, but your phone is still CDMA and have to follow the Droid section, flashing a radio or anything with the GSM version will brick it
I didn't go with the GSM version since I have the CDMA. I downloaded Rom Manager and went with the Droid version. Had to mess with the APN but finally got everything working. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get my old market back cause I'm now on the Verizon market.
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Well the official is released long back for ther Droid(milestone) did you change it from verizon to Alltel?
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Well the official is released long back for ther Droid(milestone) did you change it from verizon to Alltel?
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Alltell released the Droid on Sep 2010 like almost a year late, when D2 was released
congrats
Thank ya. Now if I could only eat up 5 more posts after this one so I can post elsewhere. Stupid post limit rules.
Alltel Motorola Milestone A854 / Droid CyanogenMod 6.1.2.
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Thank ya. Now if I could only eat up 5 more posts after this one so I can post elsewhere. Stupid post limit rules.
Alltel Motorola Milestone A854 / Droid CyanogenMod 6.1.2.
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I've been looking off and on for the past 2 months to get my own CDMA Milestone A854 running version 2.2 or better, and this is the first success story I've come across. Please tell me you still remember the steps you took? (and that it doesn't matter who my carrier is? Mine isn't among those previously mentioned)
Hey there--longtime lurker, first-time poster. I've learned much from these forums. (perhaps too much, we'll see... heh)
I got a new Droid 2 Global (D2G) from Verizon Wireless this week, and wanted to see if I could get better battery time. I found a post on another forum with some settings in the testing screen -- *#*#4636#*#* . When I went in, I went to Phone information --> Select radio band. A screen pops up with "Set GSM/UMTS band" and "USA Band" only as a selection, and without knowing really, I clicked on USA Band.
This caused my signal to go away altogether. (as in, little red circle and slash through the radio bars.) No matter what I select in "Set preferred network type" on the main Phone Information screen, no signal comes up. (Tho it does think it's connected to AT&T or T-Mobile sometimes, but with no actual connectivity.) In network settings, selecting Global, CDMA, or GSM/UMTS doesn't work, either.
Resigned to my fate, I wiped the data & cache, and then flashed the stock SBF (v2.4.29) using Ubuntu and sbf_flash successfully. But this hasn't fixed the radio problem and now (get this), the Wifi is busted-- it just keeps showing "Error" as a status message. I suspect I needed the slightly newer SBF (2.4.33) but couldn't find a verified stable version, so I didn't go there.
Without any connectivity at all, I can't (or don't know how) to get the phone back to a bootloader screen, and can't get to any Market apps. Blargh.
Any advice is much appreciated.
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UPDATE:
I've figured out (duh) that I can load apk's onto the phone via USB, so I'm doing that now to get root and Droid 2 Bootstrap back.
Looking elsewhere this morning, I've found the recommendation in other threads to flash the radio image. Anyone know where I can find this file?
[edit] And, in the light of day, I found how to go directly to the bootloader screen. (In case anyone else landed here looking for that: Power down the phone; plug it into the USB port. Open the keyboard and hold down the up arrow. Turn the power on, continuing to hold the up arrow.
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UPDATE #2: Went to Verizon after removing all traces of root, CW, etc. Confessed to using 4636; guy scolded me, walked away, and came back with a working radio. Wifi wasn't working still; but when I did the OTA update to 4.2.33, it came back fully functional.
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coulda redid the test page and reselected gsm/evdo auto thats the default setting for global and enabled the wifi also.
Yeah, tried that. Nothing I selected worked. In the radio band, there was only "USA Band," and in "Preferred network," none of the options worked. There were no other options to mess around with. I'd love to know what the dude did to reset it; I was too worried about him figuring out all the warranty-breaking stuff I'd already done to ask.
You should've just said "My phone service stopped working". Most of the time, the Verizon drones are stupid, and have no idea what half of the lingo means.
Same problem here
New to this post and maybe a bit late to the thread. Dunno.
In any case, any help on this issue would be awesome. I did exactly as the poster said and now my phone is not connecting to any network. Reading through your lines gave me a spooky feeling of déjà-vu. Anyone knows here what this clerk did to that phone to make it running again? I live in Spain and can Not go to a Verizon or Sprint (in my case) shop.
I was/am using the Motorola Photon 4g with a Spanish carrier. The phone worked ok with GSM and data 3g was awesome. The only problem I had was that it said that it was always roaming although it wasn’t; that’s why I went to that 4636 testing screen. If I now go to Select radio band, I get USA band only.
Please help.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666 for the SBF image. You'll need to flash it to your phone.
Might help; usually helped people with their D2Gs.
I dont have a Sprint account and I doubt they will be willing to give me my MSL code. I bought this phone to work in EU as it is unlocked outside the USA, but it should be locked in the USA.
And reading to the thread you've given me, seems like I would need the MSL code.
To flash the SBF, you need RSDLite and the SBF image.
I'm not sure why would you need that MSL code, whatever it is.
Ok. I think I've seen that in you referred post, but I may be wrong.
In that case, that's great news. I'm downloading the file from your referred post and I will look into it.
Although I'm not sure of what an RSDLite and the SBF image are, but I will follow the steps mention on your referred post. Thanks a lot.
RSDLite is a program that lets you flash the SBF into your phone.
An SBF is a System Boot File, a factory image of the phone's firmware. It restores the phone's state to “brand new, straight from the factory” state (sometimes excluding /data).
Thanks again for ur answers. Just in case u know this one, does my pc needs to be a 64 bits or thats for the phone? Because my hp is 32 and that post says 64. I have read 30 pages of the 79 pages of ir referred post but didnt get that answer so far. In any case, thanks so much, its all downloaded and will quite sure end up flashing tomorrow.
Phone Fixed!
Yes M8! Thank U, THANK U, THANK U SO MUCH!
AFTER FLASHING PHONE WITH YOUR LINK, MY PHONE IS BACK TO LIVE!
I had contacted my carrier, Motorola USA, Motorola Spain, Motorola USA again, Motorola Spain Again, Mi carrier again, Motorola Forums, Mi carrier again... Nothing worked. Now!, thanks to you, it's working again.
So Have a great day in Japan and let me know if you need any help from Spain!
I have an Evo 3D fully flashed to metro and I heard your internet is a lil faster with a sprint hybrid prl and a possible way to use the 4g. There is a hybrid sprint/cricket prl but not one for metro. If someone could make one for me or give me a guide on how to make one would be highly appreciated.
Thank you!!
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Any one?
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Ok I started off with the latest metropcs prl, then what I think is the latest sprint prl. Then using QPST, Start Clients, RL Editor (RL=Roaming List=PRL=Preferred Roaming List), Then File, Concatenated PRL, Join.... Then I selected the 9033.prl as the first and 25006 as the second. Joined Successfully. Then I used Service programming to send the prl to phone. Use this site to generate SPC code http://www.whiterabbit.org/android/. Surprisingly I went from 1 or 0 bars where I am to like 3-4 bars. I was shocked that it worked. I made a call and it worked fine, but I have to test more for sure. Another thing, I used the Galaxy 3 prl. Also my phone is the Huawei Verge, on the 25$ a month plan. This is their most basic phone and does not support even 3g, so I'm curious how it works on a real phone with 3g/4g/lte... HAVE FUN.
Any questions, email me at [email protected]
I NEED REP PLZ
I'm not sure if I'm going to find an answer to this question since there are at most a dozen Photon Q's being used with Bell Mobility up in Canada, but you never know until you ask right?
Just got CM 10.1.3-RC2 (Android 4.2.2) up on my phone, and it's working great with one exception: I'm not being notified when a voicemail message is waiting for me.
I've been looking around and haven't seen anyone else posing this question in relation to the Photon Q, though there have been a few other post around for other phones. However, the suggested answers seem to vary by phone: the HTC Desire Z supposedly needs a radio update, many phones (all?) had issues with CM7, the Inspire 4G apparently needs a bit of specific code., etc...
Does anyone have a solution to this for the Photon Q?
I would love to know how you managed to get Bell's service on your phone, as it doesnt show up properly in their MEID database and they cant give me a straight answer before I use my credit card.
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I would love to know how you managed to get Bell's service on your phone, as it doesnt show up properly in their MEID database and they cant give me a straight answer before I use my credit card.
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Hey unfortunately I never got this sorted out. I'm now running 4.3 and still having the same problem. For me it's not too much of an issue as people rarely seem to make phone calls these days, but I just kind of check my voicemail manually every few days just to be safe.
But you still have voice/text working? I tried bringing it to a Bell store today and they couldn't activate it without a certain hexadecimal 11-key number that's unique to the device.
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But you still have voice/text working? I tried bringing it to a Bell store today and they couldn't activate it without a certain hexadecimal 11-key number that's unique to the device.
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I do have voice, text, and all the other stuff working just fine. I didn't even talk to Bell about "activating" my device, I just took the sim card out of my old phone and put it in the new one, and voila. However, I believe it depends what rom you're running... I'm using CyanogenMod and I believe they include some specific settings to get the phone up on various carriers.
Sorry if this is an obvious question, but you've done the hardware mod needed to use a Canadian (or other) SIM card right?
Basically everything I did I found in a single thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929143 It's a long one but chances are you'll find what you need to know somewhere in there!
Ah, I thought you were using their CDMA network. Trying that route before having someone do the mod for me. I'm thinking the key might be the MIN.
Starting this October, PagePlus is offering 4G/LTE. Initially, I was assuming that all I need to do is plug in an LTE SIM card and activate account, and all will be peachy. However, it seems that by flashing phone to pageplus when it looks like a 3g device, I have messed up some radio settings, and verizon provisioning doesn't work, phone repeatedly keeps trying to call *228. Contrary to that, the other S3, which I didn't flash does not call at all, but instead pops up message box stating that the phone is being programmed, and after a couple minutes it's online . I do not remember what exactly did I program, it was awhile ago . Pageplus support knows that problem, and they are advising anybody who wants to go LTE to bring up an unflashed phone, saying the flashed one won't work
There are folks on kitty forums who offer remote de-flashing for 30 bucks, but no description what actually they do. Does anyone know what the process is? I can get my phone into QPST/DFS. Anyone knows what to do next?
UPDATE: see post #3 for solution
Can't help you with deflashing, but I will tell you that my local page plus vendor did mine for free and it only took him about 5-10 minutes. Maybe yours would do the same. Just a thought.
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I guess it indeed is simple once you get to QPST mode. I used DFS to program, and the only setting I had to change was RuimConfig = RuimOnly (from NV_ONLY), see screenshot attached. Did not work on 4.0 firmware which I tried to use first, but worked fine on 4.2.1 and 4.1.2.
I got a sim card for my phone. All I did was verify that my phone was on RuimOnly (it already was), then I contacted PagePlus to activate my simcard (you're supposed to do this before you put it in your phone, they say) and they remotely programmed the phone, everything went smoothly. I have 4g data now, no "unflashing" required. Pretty easy. :good:
You put it on your phone before, you want this set up, then you can use the phone, so no problem.
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I can confirm this works. I switched 2 samsung galaxy note 2 SCH-i605 from 3g to 4g.
The phones were originally flashed over to pageplus using wireless workshop. This puts them on pageplus as 3g phones. They drop the last digit of the MEID so it is a 14 digit code (3g) instead of 15 digit for 4G.
Here's what I did to get 4G LTE working.
Ordered a pageplus SIM card from pageplus
put the simcard in the phone
Used DFS to change RUIM from NV_Only to RUIM_only
Contacted Pageplus on chat and had them change my phone from 3g to 4g. I'm not sure exactly what they did, but I gave them the 15 digit MEID and the SIM ICCID (printed on the sim card you get, or look in settings, about device, details or something like that, you know where to look. ) The customer service rep said that what you need to tell them is you want to change a 3g phone to 4g. I told them it was back to standard firmware just to make them happy. It seems the RUIM changes is all you need.
Voila! Reboot the phone, give it a minute - it connects to 4G and then disconnects and looks like it has failed, but give it a minute and it comes up with 4G LTE and speedtest.net confirms it is blazing fast.
Loving it!
This is only required for a verizon phone that has been flashed in the past to make 3g work on Pageplus. Not needed on contract phones from verizon that are originally 4g.
Happy downloading!
galets said:
I guess it indeed is simple once you get to QPST mode. I used DFS to program, and the only setting I had to change was RuimConfig = RuimOnly (from NV_ONLY), see screenshot attached. Did not work on 4.0 firmware which I tried to use first, but worked fine on 4.2.1 and 4.1.2.[/QUOTE I did that but i do not have 4g and imwe in a 4g coverage area. using a mxx xt912. any help is appreciated
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Gift for a friend
hi everyone,
I have a few questions based on my circumstances. I just deactivated a S3 Verizon from PagePlus which was flashed to 3g. I would like to hand my phone off to a friend as he's running a Droid X (!).
1. From what I understand to "unflash" I need to use DFS (cdmatool.com) and set Ruim config to RuimOnly. However, I believe the phone needs to be in QPST mode? I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
2. Since I already deactivated the phone, when my friend tries to re-activate on pageplus (with a new SIM), do we need to contact PP and tell them this device is now 4g?
3. Does it matter that I have a custom ROM running 4.3? I don't think so, but would like confirmation.
I really don't want to mess up this gift.
Thanks for any and all advice!
Dapeche said:
1. From what I understand to "unflash" I need to use DFS (cdmatool.com) and set Ruim config to RuimOnly. However, I believe the phone needs to be in QPST mode? I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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In general, this is done via USBSettings dialog, see if this thread helps you to get this menu enabled: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227576
I have a i605 currently flashed to page plus 3g can't write with dfs without spec and I can't seem to get it can anybody point me in the right direction
I'm dumb figured it all out except page plus they keep saying I have to go to a dealer I said I am no longer flash but they keep telling to have a dealer manually flash it.....?
Update got everything working once I was in ruim only I called them at told them I had two phones and gave them the full imied as my second phone then the iccid and voila activation was a breeze