I am happy to let everyone know, I have my GS3 flashed to VZW prepay. Of course, its a Sprint version phone that has been flashed. (talk, text, and 3g) Currently its rooted, CWM Recovery 5.5.0.4 and running a Blazer Rom stock base off of LG8 L710VPLG8. It has the sprint bloat which i can do without. Since it is actually on VZW network, I would like to know....
Can a VZW ROM be flashed to the device that has a stock VZW feel and still very useable due to it being a Sprint phone? I would love to have a stock, rooted, unlocked rom that has all the apps out of the box.
Please help... Ive only gotten as far as changing the boot animation to make it a fully VZW ROM!
If you check the build.prop, see if it says d2vzw.
Sprint version is d2spr.
I changed my vzw to spr one time and was prompt me to do some Sprint stuff at startup. It was weird. Not sure if it can be done the other way around.
I don't think you can flash vzw roms. If the phone is Sprint based. You can always flash a generic Rom like aokp or slim.
And then manually install the Verizon apps?
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Does anyone else have any suggestions? Really need help cause 3g data jumps back and forth at times to 1X.
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I bought a used Nexus S 4G from Sprint and I'm trying to activate it. Apparently the old user had rooted it and it can't be activated while rooted. So I UNrooted it back to stock and they still can't seem to figure out how to activate it. What are we missing?
Did you flash it back to stock un rooted gingerbread? If not do that. Then report back.
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Did you re-lock the bootloader, and go completely stock? or just flash a stock rom?
You can try this, im pretty sure it locks the bootloader and goes completely stock as if it were out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393210
i bought a rooted CWM 4G with some GB mod on it
i put a ICS rom on it just to figure it out
after a couple of days i couldnt stand it
[was still waiting on the OTA for my original 4G]
i went on line and activated it on my account
by entering the esn without issue...
your problem is not 'cause it's rooted
radio?
mismatched rom maybe?
i'd look elswhere
I am assuming there is not a line of service still attached to it?
If not try to swap the esn online as the previous poster suggested. When I bought mine used I tried to do it online and it said it worked but it did not complete the activation. I had to call Sprint and they walked me though a factory reset. Worked like a charm.
Hello, this is my first time posting on the forums here.
Recently I flashed the latest version of MIUI on my Verizon Galaxy s3. I decided that I preferred my previous rom; Jelly Bean's Build 10, and I restored it to my phone. After restoring the rom, I got a message saying that I was roaming, even though I am still in the same area where service has been working flawlessly. The first thing I tried to do was change the network type under network settings to LTE/CDMA but that choice was already selected. Thinking that I had no other options, I restored the stock rom that I had backed up on my device and I got the same issue. Thinking I could just send the phone back to Verizon, I unrooted the phone using the built in unroot tool in SuperSu Pro. I am now unrooted, but forgot to reflash the stock recovery (I am still using TWRP). I am just wondering what I should do about the issue, and if I were to send it back to verizon, would they be able to tell that I have a custom recovery. Sorry for being a noob and any help would be much appreciated.
Update: I rolled back to my rooted stock ROM and I used triangle away to reset the custom flash counter. I have also reflashed the stock recovery onto my device. Even though my phone appears to be unmodified I still have the same issue.
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there are SOOO many threads about how to fix the roaming issue it's not even funny....
^^^^^what he said!
This happened to me and what I had to do was ODIN to stock ICS rom and enter the code to reprovision sim. Google/forum search is your friend.
This is why Verizon locks down their phones! People who are not willing to search for a way to fix something that they screwed up is unacceptable. The bad thing is this phone is completely fixable with very little effort! Some people should not be allowed to flash anything!
I've dealing with so many issues ever since the DroidX so if there is one thing I've learned is there is ALWAYS a fix you may just need to do a little search if you can't find the resources your looking for on any of forums a simple google search will help you out.
Hi,
i have a used mytouch 4g which i rooted, s-off and gfree for my mom. she does not need data. i was able to pop in her att sim card and i had to manually select AT&T as a registered carrier. but every now and then, it would unregister itself and i would have to manually go into settings and select at&t again. i did this for my friend awhile back and it was fine for her. the only thing different is the rom. she was using CM7 and my mom is using slim bean 4.2.2. could it be the rom or did i mess something up while unlocking the phone? the phone had 2.3.4, and i had to downgrade before i can s-off and run gfree. though it looks like everything completed sucessfully, her phone keeps getting unregistered.
Try a different rom. I would recommend the last cyanogen nightly; or someone else had compiled a newer version of it.
If not try Stepps AOSPx; its a stable ICS.
Definitely ROM issue as I gave my glacier to a friend who has att and its on the double shot ROM with no problems
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Okay so today I just flashed my phone from Sprint to PagePlus on the SM-G900P and I am curious to know if I can still install a different ROM without screwing up the flash to PagePlus? I paid PagePlusRemote to do it for me for $40 and they were pretty solid.
I would like to get rid of crappy Sprint stock ROM and put something better on my newly flashed phone. My phone is already rooted before the flash to PagePlus.
Any info on this would be great.
Thank you
marsfan89 said:
Okay so today I just flashed my phone from Sprint to PagePlus on the SM-G900P and I am curious to know if I can still install a different ROM without screwing up the flash to PagePlus? I paid PagePlusRemote to do it for me for $40 and they were pretty solid.
I would like to get rid of crappy Sprint stock ROM and put something better on my newly flashed phone. My phone is already rooted before the flash to PagePlus.
Any info on this would be great.
Thank you
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Yes, but if you receive error 7 or updater assert failure in recovery, you must then remove assert lines from ROM zip. READ HERE to show you how to remove them. Also theres a possibility of issues arising with mms and 4g.
So, I'm buying this to replace my evo 4g and I was wondering how I would go about using a custom ROM for this and having the apns and data working correctly.
I plan to activate it on Ting.
To be a bit clearer, I want to use a custom ROM and I want to be sure that it'll work. So first, can anyone on Ting confirm that they're running a custom ROM (preferably KitKat) with no problems?
And I assume I'd have to activate the phone first, then install a custom ROM. Would I have any problems doing that? Would the apns be messed up? Or should everything be fine as long as I activate the phone and update everything on stock before installing a ROM? Reason I ask is because I know some Roms don't allow the *#*# thing needed to activate a phone on a new network.
Thanks!
I am using mine on Ting. I had used my first Q as unrooted stock JB, which worked pretty well for a year, but then it reached a near--bricked state where it wouldn't boot past the yellow Sprint screen. I couldn't resolve this in a timely fashion, so wound up buying a second Q which runs stock ICS, but failed to download the stock JB update.
In the meantime, I unlocked both phones' bootloaders, and tried a few kItkat ROMs on my original phone before settling on CM 10.2, which is a JB ROM. I then switched my Ting activation (back) to this phone. The lack of #*# commands isn't really a problem with respect to re-activation, but it is a problem with respect to PRLs and (perhaps) APNs. I recommend Ting activation and a PRL update prior to installing your custom ROM.
Like others, I would like to learn about a stable kitkat ROM where bluetooth, wifi, and phone data/sms/calling all work reliably. My other primary requirement is the ability to play DRM'd downloaded Amazon Prime Music, which didn't work on the kitkat ROMs I tried, but does work on my JB ROM.
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