I ditched Verizon and went with T-Mobile pre-paid, only 2G data but its a temporary solution and I get service for 3 phones for $90.00 a month.
I so far have a stock t-mobile rom installed, android 4.1.2 with no porting needed and wireless calling and other such bells and whistles work just fine.
Now my next step is I would like to install a T-Mobile radio to complete the scene. Would this brick my phone? Or perhaps delete my IMEI?
How can I back my IMEI up, or any other sensitive info for that matter?
I know I may be chasing a dream but I am still trying to make HSPA data work on this phone with T-Mobile. Chances are slim but if I pull it off I can be somebody for 15 minutes. . I am in an area where every possible T-Mobile spectrum is floating around in the airwaves since they purchased MetroPCS.
Thanks in advance for any help and/or advice. I am working 16 hour shifts for a couple of days so I will be slow responding.
Rich3077 said:
I ditched Verizon and went with T-Mobile pre-paid, only 2G data but its a temporary solution and I get service for 3 phones for $90.00 a month.
I so far have a stock t-mobile rom installed, android 4.1.2 with no porting needed and wireless calling and other such bells and whistles work just fine.
Now my next step is I would like to install a T-Mobile radio to complete the scene. Would this brick my phone? Or perhaps delete my IMEI?
How can I back my IMEI up, or any other sensitive info for that matter?
I know I may be chasing a dream but I am still trying to make HSPA data work on this phone with T-Mobile. Chances are slim but if I pull it off I can be somebody for 15 minutes. . I am in an area where every possible T-Mobile spectrum is floating around in the airwaves since they purchased MetroPCS.
Thanks in advance for any help and/or advice. I am working 16 hour shifts for a couple of days so I will be slow responding.
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Flashing any modem except verizon and you stand a 99% chance of bricking your phone.
Rrason being is each provider has the radio hardware built to their specs/ system. Put different firmware in there and you have a brick.
Like loading a rom for an htc hd7 windows phone on an android...
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I saw that the Binaries for GSM/LTE were posted, but didn't see anything for CDMA. I can't find the thread now, but I recall reading a post where somebody mentioned that AOSP ROMS wouldn't be fully functional on N5 phones on Sprint's network. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If you do, please elaborate. I want to slap on AOKP or CM 11 once they are available. Since this is a Triband device, I hadn't consider AOSP ROMS would be an issue using Sprint.
It's disappointing isn't it ? Developers ignoring a genuine question because the lot if then don't care about CDMA even though it's a nexus and their supposed to improve upon the device and they completely alienated sprint users on aosp Roms. They refuse to even acknowledge LTE not working on aosp roms and don't even treat it as a bug.
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It's disappointing isn't it ? Developers ignoring a genuine question because the lot if then don't care about CDMA even though it's a nexus and their supposed to improve upon the device and they completely alienated sprint users on aosp Roms. They refuse to even acknowledge LTE not working on aosp roms and don't even treat it as a bug.
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I have had the ****s of CDMA anyhow -- I'm tired of the locked down mentality. I use Ting (and love their service), but they use Sprint as their backbone and, just once, it'd be nice if I could use any damn phone I want simply by popping in a SIM and adjusting the APN settings. I think I need to try a decent ATT MVNO for a while. I returned my nexus 5 and will try again in January. The audio issues caused by software and manufacturing goofs are unacceptable to me. I'm more than happy to switch to a GSM Gnex for now, to get away from CDMA.
Is there a list of AOSP ROMs that will allow full functionality on Ting (or any CDMA network, if they're all the same)? Are there viable alternatives?
On my Galaxy S3, I ran a Touchwiz-based ROM to work around the issue. I don't mind using the stock ROM for now, but I'd like to know if I should just look for a new MVNO that won't cause these headaches.
I'm getting terrible reception with my Sprint Edge at my house. I live in town and other parts of town I get great reception. Was wondering if there's anything out there for modem updates, not sure if it's possible to flash modems from similar devices like the Note 4 or not, or if there even anything out there yet. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hey guys,
I have been noticing, ever since the MM update came out earlier this year, development has slowed to a crawl for this phone. There are a few roms that look really nice, but are not really good as a daily driver, as some have missing functions such as Phone and Contacts, and other stuff is glitchy. But over on the international G900F forums they are overloaded with different great roms with tons of support and updates and all that good stuff. And looking at the difference between the Sprint G900P Galaxy S5 and the Unlocked variant (The G900F in particular) they have 95% of the same internal components, with the only difference being the Modem to communicate with the CDMA (Sprint) and GSM (every other carrier basically) Towers. This is the reason why the roms will boot, and everything will work perfectly hardware and driver wise other than picking up a signal for the Sprint Users.
So what I am asking is if there is a Developer out there who can compile a flash-able zip or something alike that includes the drivers for the Modem and sprint Libs. Or even if there is someone who has a background in this that could point me into a good place to start, I would be glad to do it. What does everyone think about this?
my question for you is why do you want this? I only ask because i was running MOAR 7.0 for my trip to Romania and Bulgaria this summer. I spent 2 weeks in a town 5 hours northwest of Bucharest and tons of town around Transylvania and a week down by the black sea in Bulgaria and my S5 was working perfectly on vodafone, never had an issue at all. Im domestically sim unlocked, but that shouldnt matter as the SSU apk should get you internationally unlocked and ready for use abroad. That being said, none of the international ROMs would give you an unlock for international or domestic use.
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my question for you is why do you want this? I only ask because i was running MOAR 7.0 for my trip to Romania and Bulgaria this summer. I spent 2 weeks in a town 5 hours northwest of Bucharest and tons of town around Transylvania and a week down by the black sea in Bulgaria and my S5 was working perfectly on vodafone, never had an issue at all. Im domestically sim unlocked, but that shouldnt matter as the SSU apk should get you internationally unlocked and ready for use abroad. That being said, none of the international ROMs would give you an unlock for international or domestic use.
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I think you read the question wrong (perfectly fine, i didnt really word it very well on my part). What i was asking is if there could be a universal patch to make the Sprint LTE and Messaging and all that good stuff work on an international rom. I think it is possible as there is currently something that is exactly that, except for Verizon (the G900V variant).
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I think you read the question wrong (perfectly fine, i didnt really word it very well on my part). What i was asking is if there could be a universal patch to make the Sprint LTE and Messaging and all that good stuff work on an international rom. I think it is possible as there is currently something that is exactly that, except for Verizon (the G900V variant).
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Oh, my bad. Well, sprint lte isn't going to work overseas. To get lte, you'll need to do quite a bit of finagling with an nv calculator, qpst and qxdm. You'll first need to fine out what bands the carrier you'll be using utilizes, get the nv figures that they run on and make some changes to the modem you have installed on your phone. That involves getting into the diagnostic port of the device and, well, there's a whole thread devoted to exactly that. Anyways, hspa+ will work without too much effort, and hspa+ is pretty dang snappy. Messaging will work right out of the box after registering on the GSM network(+1 to gsm ) MMS and data will work also once you've entered the correct APN settings. If you REALLY need lte, then you're relegated to some tweaking, but if you can live with 5 to 7 Mbps(which is all a phone really needs, unless you're tethering for a laptop or several tablets or something like that), then just do the hspa+ thing. I was happily able to tool along quite well on that streaming YouTube, Netflix, Google map navigating, etc etc without issue. The reason there isn't a universal fix is because it would take quite some doing to maintain an app to have all those apns and so forth, but that being said, the idoneapps apk does do that for the available gsm carriers in the states. I didn't use it abroad, but might be worthwhile to ask in their forums. The admin of that site "nodial" is an Android genius! Their app costs $35, and it won't add the lte bands, but if the lack of hassle is worth it to you, it couldn't hurt to ask him. He's on XDA also with the same nick. @Nodial, does your app do the APN fix abroad too?
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Hello!
I seem to not be able to get mobile data with ANY custom rom I have tried except HavocOS on my Moto X4 with sprint, HavocOS seems to get really slow 3G.
I did a bit of searching the forums here and see a few posts saying its impossible to get anything but 3G on sprint with a custom rom.
I installed LineageOS but I don't even get 3G. I tried HavocOS and I get 3G but it doesn't display sprint in the top corner it says something like 30001.
Why is it so hard to get data working on sprint? If I restore the stock rom i get 4G LTE. Am I doing something incorrectly or is it really impossible to get working data on sprint?