So I got a verizon s3 4.1 using tmobile. Everything works but the stock rom really bugs me so I want to change it to CM. But then I also found out that my volume up button doesnt work either so am I stuck to the stock rom? I do not have a recovery yet and was hoping to flash one tonight until this problem.
Also does anybody know if I flash CM will I still be able to run tmobile on the verizon s3 or do I have to edit apn settings because so far I dont have to edit any apn settings for my phone to work.
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I am using the rogers captivate and i just flash my phone to the I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears(1). However, the phone works a little bit slower than before and I cant use my 3G function from rogers. Is there any way I can go back to the rom I had before? Or any way to find the 3g function back?
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You did enter the apn settings right? And you should of saved your rom before you flashed the new rom, otherwise flash with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
3G WORKS
I forgot to set up APN......Now it works. thx for the help.
Hey guys, ive searched and searched on here for the past 7 hours on how to get my skyrocket to work with tmobile hspa or 3g, and evertyime i try a combination of rom and kernel i alwways try to change my apn but it says my sim card is not in when it is and wont let me access those settings. so i flash with odin to stock and i can change apn again. can anyone let me know a combination that works for them and the exact steps they took as in which order they flashed the files in and weather they rebooted in between or not. thanks!
1. unlock phone.
2. flash cwm through odin.
3. flash tmobile radio through cwm.
4. ??????
5. enjoy 4G and less than great battery life.
Please bare with me since this is the first time having to post for an issue since I usually find an answer on your forums
So here's the situation.
I bought the photon q 4g lte from ebay and it came with the unlocked bootloader.
Needless to say it was with the stock ics and i tried to find a jellybean update because it wasn't taking the ota and ended up going with cyanogen since i had no problems before. However those phones i had before were with sim cards not cdma.
I found out i couldn't update prl or profile manually without having to do something on the pc.
So after searching left and right i found i could use rsl lite (I used 6.1.5) and eventually found the "stock" file from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095536&highlight=rsd+lite
I did the stock jellybean, got it to go through the process and it booted up with no errors.
However, when it boots into the os it pops up a force close on omadmclient_sprint_dataservice and eventually also on the process com.android.phone.
I tried putting it in airplane mode to see if the service error would go away but it didn't work for the process part crashing.
I tried re-flashing, deleting cache in recovery, doing a data/factory reset in recovery and the one time i was able to do a data factory reset within the settings menu.
I could not find anyone that said they had a rom that worked with sprint and updating prl within the rom, if anyone knows of one let me know and i will flash it through rsd.
Otherwise does anyone have an idea of what could be happening because googling the omadmclient part did not pull up anything specific and pulling up the process issue for other phones has not helped me either.
Was this a hacked GSM phone, or are you using it as CDMA?
I've never heard of people having FC issues after flashing a FXZ from RSD. Which one did you flash? Android 4.1.2 - Sprint US - 9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-5 (No simlock) ?
If you are on stock, you should be able to update the PRL within the ROM.
I was trying to use it with cdma network through sprint. and yeah that was the file i downloaded, had to remove the getvar to get it working but flashed with no errors after doing that.
As for updating the prl i can barely navigate through the phone, there is no home page loading and the process pop comes up often enough that its hard to go through the settings
crispy6 said:
I was trying to use it with cdma network through sprint. and yeah that was the file i downloaded, had to remove the getvar to get it working but flashed with no errors after doing that.
As for updating the prl i can barely navigate through the phone, there is no home page loading and the process pop comes up often enough that its hard to go through the settings
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Sounds like something went wrong mate. Are you already activated on Sprint? I don't know if that would matter, it might.
I would honestly redownload and redo the RSD process.
arrrghhh said:
Sounds like something went wrong mate. Are you already activated on Sprint? I don't know if that would matter, it might.
I would honestly redownload and redo the RSD process.
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I originally tried to activate the phone through cyanogen and then when the rep said he couldnt do it because of the lack of prl to update within the rom we just setup the activation back on the old phone/ That phone is working on the network.
I re-downloaded the file just in case and re-flashed but same problem. The only thing i thought of was maybe updating the radio but since its a stock rom it should work out of the gate. whats also weird is i tried turning wifi on but it didnt work either.
Anychange you know of a rom that works with sprint. I dont care if its stock since i would probably root later again.
crispy6 said:
I originally tried to activate the phone through cyanogen and then when the rep said he couldnt do it because of the lack of prl to update within the rom we just setup the activation back on the old phone/ That phone is working on the network.
I re-downloaded the file just in case and re-flashed but same problem. The only thing i thought of was maybe updating the radio but since its a stock rom it should work out of the gate. whats also weird is i tried turning wifi on but it didnt work either.
Anychange you know of a rom that works with sprint. I dont care if its stock since i would probably root later again.
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Which one are you flashing?
Try another perhaps...? I honestly have never heard of this. It sounds like the phone might be damaged, or the RSD process just did not flash correctly.
I guess I should ask, was the phone modified at all for the GSM SIM slot mod? I wonder if having a non-Sprint SIM in is messing with it... That is just a shot in the dark.
arrrghhh said:
Which one are you flashing?
Try another perhaps...? I honestly have never heard of this. It sounds like the phone might be damaged, or the RSD process just did not flash correctly.
I guess I should ask, was the phone modified at all for the GSM SIM slot mod? I wonder if having a non-Sprint SIM in is messing with it... That is just a shot in the dark.
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so far the only rom i tried was 10.1 cyanogen and the stock rom for jellybean. However for the stock rom it doesnt let me downgrade to ics with rsd 6.1.5 do you think if i downloaded an old version i could downgrade to a lower stock rom?
Also I honestly had not looked for the cdma roms since most of what i saw was troubleshooting related for this phone but i just saw this rom -AOKP 4.2.2 (Android Open Kang Project) (CDMA&GSM) that you created - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293892
I re-rooted and installed that one and it looks great, just wondered how you got sprint to activate the phone or if you had done it before changing the rom? Also how would the prl and profile be updated.
Lastly the wifi wasn't turning on this time either, it did work initially when i got the phone so that has me stumped.
crispy6 said:
so far the only rom i tried was 10.1 cyanogen and the stock rom for jellybean. However for the stock rom it doesnt let me downgrade to ics with rsd 6.1.5 do you think if i downloaded an old version i could downgrade to a lower stock rom?
Also I honestly had not looked for the cdma roms since most of what i saw was troubleshooting related for this phone but i just saw this rom -AOKP 4.2.2 (Android Open Kang Project) (CDMA&GSM) that you created - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293892
I re-rooted and installed that one and it looks great, just wondered how you got sprint to activate the phone or if you had done it before changing the rom? Also how would the prl and profile be updated.
Lastly the wifi wasn't turning on this time either, it did work initially when i got the phone so that has me stumped.
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To downgrade to ICS, you need to remove some additional lines. See this post for more information on that.
However, you should be able to update the PRL on either stock ROM.
I think I said this before, but I will say it again. You need to do PRL updates, activate the phone, and get EVERYTHING working on stock BEFORE you flash ANY custom ROM. This is just standard practice - you don't want to put the cart before the horse! Get the phone working, then play with custom ROM's.
Hi,
i tried to flash cm 10.2 on my photon Q today.
I had the latest official rom working for half a year but i was missing some features i couldnt get with stock.
Anyway its a simcard modded unit i use in germany i was running stock jellybean (rooted, motochopper method) until today.
First i unlocked the boatloader, flashed latest open recovery and then flashed CM10.2 latest nightly (GSM) + gapps, after that i did a factory reset with open recovery.
After i configured the new firmware i noticed that i had no gsm, it didnt even ask for the pin of my locked card. I tried to switch from CDMA to GSM but with no effect. I also tried several reboots but i couldnt change the mobile network or get gsm to work.
I then tried to flash the latest cm snapshot but it doesnt work as well, the only difference is that the phone service always crashes when i try to change the network method.
Doesn anyone else have a idea? The thing is currently useless to me...
Thanks in advance.
Sonic-NKT said:
Hi,
i tried to flash cm 10.2 on my photon Q today.
I had the latest official rom working for half a year but i was missing some features i couldnt get with stock.
Anyway its a simcard modded unit i use in germany i was running stock jellybean (rooted, motochopper method) until today.
First i unlocked the boatloader, flashed latest open recovery and then flashed CM10.2 latest nightly (GSM) + gapps, after that i did a factory reset with open recovery.
After i configured the new firmware i noticed that i had no gsm, it didnt even ask for the pin of my locked card. I tried to switch from CDMA to GSM but with no effect. I also tried several reboots but i couldnt change the mobile network or get gsm to work.
I then tried to flash the latest cm snapshot but it doesnt work as well, the only difference is that the phone service always crashes when i try to change the network method.
Doesn anyone else have a idea? The thing is currently useless to me...
Thanks in advance.
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Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47978878#post47978878
i looked at the build.prop and those options except:
ro.telephony.default_network=3
dont appear in the file...
Also this talks about GSM Data problem, i cant even do phonecalls/sms, its not even asking for my sim code..
I then tried to flash back to stock but now RSD Lite 6.1.5 wont show my device... (all drivers installed).
Im really getting frustrated.
EDIT:
ok tried another PC with Win7 (mine runs 8.1) and now RSD Lite seems to work
Update: Now back to stock... GSM Works fine after i activated it... i now try to reflash cm10.2 and see what happens
Ok its working now
everything out of the box...
i dont know what went wrong the first time cause i did exactly the same as far as i know...
Sonic-NKT said:
i looked at the build.prop and those options except:
ro.telephony.default_network=3
dont appear in the file...
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Indeed this line was likely the relevant one
If missing just add it.
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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