I'm a total noob at this but please cut me some slack.
I'm running the WTSB Hydro V2.4 ROM on my Evo 3D, Hboot 1.5, Sense 3.5
I live in a National Forest for my occupation and I'm roaming a lot but this rom wont allow data roaming for me. I can still call and send texts but the data refuses to turn on when roaming. It also displays my carrier on my lock screen and notification bar as "31000"
I did some research but I cant seem find a way to fix it in a manner that I would understand.
Can anyone help me out with this?
Any help is appreciated! :]
Id use the 00001 Verizon PRL, but don't go overboard on it and use it 24/7
kooks05 said:
Id use the 00001 Verizon PRL, but don't go overboard on it and use it 24/7
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Sorry for the noob [Q] but how do we get the verizon PRL?
I would just switch roms, if they dont have data roaming in settings thats kinda sucks. I recomend miui.
When I was running Warm 2.3 Sense 3.5 beta, in the Roaming part of the menu there is a check box for data roaming. it was unchecked by default. perhaps you just need to go into that menu and check the box?
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Don't know if this has been posted before or not sorry if it has, I will not retype the post but here is the link: http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1472011
Is it possible to make a program that when you click on it it changes the reg value to be able to switch to Roam Only and Back? I have no knowledge of doing this so I am asking
Thank you
What's wrong with choosing it from the Phone Settings menu (comm manager)? It's a few steps, but usually only takes me a few seconds.
smotrs said:
What's wrong with choosing it from the Phone Settings menu (comm manager)? It's a few steps, but usually only takes me a few seconds.
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That allows roaming (if I understand the setting you are referring to) not forced Roaming, I live in a area where there is a hint of Sprint Signal there is a 5 bar presence from US Cellular but my handset keeps jumping to Sprint I miss calls etc
My Palm 800W had a setting that would select Roam Only since it appears that we know which reg entry that needs modified I was hoping someone with software skills (not me) could write a small app.
found this over on ppcgeeks somewhere
marka2k said:
That allows roaming (if I understand the setting you are referring to) not forced Roaming, I live in a area where there is a hint of Sprint Signal there is a 5 bar presence from US Cellular but my handset keeps jumping to Sprint I miss calls etc
My Palm 800W had a setting that would select Roam Only since it appears that we know which reg entry that needs modified I was hoping someone with software skills (not me) could write a small app.
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Sorry, what I was talking about is after doing the hack and you have the Roaming Only ability, what's wrong with just choosing it from the Comm Manager settings dialog?
I actually switch from Sprint Only to Roaming Only on a regular basis, I've gotten very quick at making the change because I am used to to doing it.
tom6433 said:
found this over on ppcgeeks somewhere
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What exactly does the CAB do? On the Sprint Touch Pro, its a single registry change. Is this CAB for other phones like the Verizon version or does it do something else as well? Just curious.
it creates the option in settings\phone\roaming for you to select roam only rather than going in and editing code. makes enabling and disabling easy.
tom6433 said:
it creates the option in settings\phone\roaming for you to select roam only rather than going in and editing code. makes enabling and disabling easy.
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Oh, so it does the registry hack only? So a more friendly install for those not comfortable messing with the registry?
Exactly. I've done the mod several times on different devices. My home in Michigan is a Sprint dead zone. It teeters on Sprint and roaming all the time. When I came back this time I noticed my Roam Only option was gone. There must have been an OTA update that changed it back to my surprise.
Well this time I just used a cab and plan to use it on my wife's Diamond. Much quicker.
anyone know if sprint phones can roam on ATT towers? when i visit my parents there is a sprint tower 2 miles away and even when forcing roam i get no service. they all have full service on their ATT phones. that was the reason i installed this cab but either it does not work or i cannot use ATT towers.
Tom,
No you cannot roam on ATT. Its different technology. GSM vs. CDMA.
You can roam on VZW and Alltell etc.
Erik
Force roaming only on a Verizon touch pro 2
Dont get me wrong, Verizon Coverage is unbeatable, but I plan to live in Tijuana Mexico so that I can save some money on rent. The problem is that my phone (and every other phone I had) tries so hard to find verizon signal with no success as obviously there is no vzw towers in Mexico (only partner towers). On the phone menu there is only home only, automatic A, and automatic B. I need a hack so that I can have a "roaming networks only" so that I can freely use my phone without it switching automatically to a 1x one bar or zero bars. How can I do this??
I use automatic A to get EVDO service on Alltel's network b/c Sprint doesn't have EVDO where i'm at. Hell, I don't even know the difference b/w auto A and auto B. Anybody?
Anyways, Is there a mortscript or toggler that anybody has to do this easily? I've seen something like this on the titan forum before on XDA. The reason I ask is b/c I installed Iconsoft's Phonex and I lost the settings to change roaming. Pretty wack.
Thanks in advance.
Is anyone able to force roam to Verizon their Photon? I cant get roam control to work at all it grants SU permissions and never does anything.. And ive tried going to settings-wireless and networks-mobile networks-sytem select- and tried to change from automatic to "Affiliated Networks" but it wont let me select it. It closes the menu and as soon as i open it is shows Automatic again. This is on CM7 btw. Is there any way to force roam with my Photon?? It would really help a TON as im spending the weekend in an area with terrible Sprint service.
You should probably dig around for the Verizon prl which I believe is 11115. Only problem with that is too much roaming will get you kicked off sprint. Its around here some where if I find the prl ill come back and post it.
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not sure if this will work or not, but this is how i changed mine to automatic (since i don't have a SIM card and couldn't change it from the wireless/networks screen)
1. go to dialer
2. type in *#*#4636#*#*
3. navigate to phone information
4. scroll down to 'set preferred network type'
once again, i haven't tried this for roaming and such...
I tried to flash that PRL a while ago, but couldnt get QPST or whatever program was needed to read my phone for some reason. The PRL doesn't really help if i cant make my phone roam when i want it to, for what im trying to do atleast. I want to be able to manually tell my Photon to switch to roaming when I decide it may be better off on Verizons network. I eventually gave up on trying to get that PRL loaded since i cant manually tell my phone when to roam and when not to. Thats what im asking now, is there a way for me to manually select and force it to roam? That dialer menu doesn't allow me to choose roaming or not, just CDMA GSM and that, not to actually force it into roaming. Thanks though!
Get Roam Control. It's been pulled from market but it's on there web site Google it.
Download here.
http://www.multiupload.com/JJNVAO1RZQ
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Is there a way to license it?
you may also want to check with mrwrx here on xda - he's done a lot of developing for forced roaming. good guy.
w0lf215 said:
Is anyone able to force roam to Verizon their Photon? I cant get roam control to work at all it grants SU permissions and never does anything.. And ive tried going to settings-wireless and networks-mobile networks-sytem select- and tried to change from automatic to "Affiliated Networks" but it wont let me select it. It closes the menu and as soon as i open it is shows Automatic again. This is on CM7 btw. Is there any way to force roam with my Photon?? It would really help a TON as im spending the weekend in an area with terrible Sprint service.
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if you're rooted try this option out. it will allow you to force roam (verizon) when you select automatic in the settings. home only works as normal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422952
So when/if you do this, do you get charged for roaming?
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So when/if you do this, do you get charged for roaming?
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You shouldn't get charged for roaming, BUT roaming is limited and you will get warned and then kicked from Sprint if you go over. I have seen posts in other forums where this has happened to people. I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember that this happened to the creator of roam control and he warned others about it...
I realized that it doesn't tell me if I'm on wind home or wind away on the lock screen or when I pull down the notification bar.
For those who don't know how Wind Mobile works, they have Wind Home zones where talk, text and data are unlimited, and Wind Away zones which is basically roaming on Roger's network and I get charged for every minute/text/MB of data I use. Wind is a startup so their network is still kind of sketchy and has poor building penetration, so I sometimes go into Wind Away even though I'm still in their Wind Home zone.
Normally I would be able to see if I'm roaming or not just by checking out the lock screen or the notification bar, but it seems that Speed Rom 5.1 doesn't display that information on me and I don't want to accrue roaming fees by accident. I really like this rom a lot, so is there a way for me to check if I'm on wind home or wind away, or am I just better off flashing another ROM?
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I realized that it doesn't tell me if I'm on wind home or wind away on the lock screen or when I pull down the notification bar.
For those who don't know how Wind Mobile works, they have Wind Home zones where talk, text and data are unlimited, and Wind Away zones which is basically roaming on Roger's network and I get charged for every minute/text/MB of data I use. Wind is a startup so their network is still kind of sketchy and has poor building penetration, so I sometimes go into Wind Away even though I'm still in their Wind Home zone.
Normally I would be able to see if I'm roaming or not just by checking out the lock screen or the notification bar, but it seems that Speed Rom 5.1 doesn't display that information on me and I don't want to accrue roaming fees by accident. I really like this rom a lot, so is there a way for me to check if I'm on wind home or wind away, or am I just better off flashing another ROM?
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You'll have to request your Rom dev to include the feature from the original wind ics update, seems it's a unique feature built specially for wind.
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IsThatBbq said:
I realized that it doesn't tell me if I'm on wind home or wind away on the lock screen or when I pull down the notification bar.
For those who don't know how Wind Mobile works, they have Wind Home zones where talk, text and data are unlimited, and Wind Away zones which is basically roaming on Roger's network and I get charged for every minute/text/MB of data I use. Wind is a startup so their network is still kind of sketchy and has poor building penetration, so I sometimes go into Wind Away even though I'm still in their Wind Home zone.
Normally I would be able to see if I'm roaming or not just by checking out the lock screen or the notification bar, but it seems that Speed Rom 5.1 doesn't display that information on me and I don't want to accrue roaming fees by accident. I really like this rom a lot, so is there a way for me to check if I'm on wind home or wind away, or am I just better off flashing another ROM?
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I'm on Wind myself and I travel between London and Toronto on a weekly basis so I go in and out of their WindAway Roaming zones.
If you go to 'Settings' then 'Mobile Network', you can un-check the Data Roaming option. This way your phone should throw up a message box that asks you if you want to connect to roaming data every time you're in a WindAway zone. It works great for me when I'm in between cities with WindHome coverage.
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You'll have to request your Rom dev to include the feature from the original wind ics update, seems it's a unique feature built specially for wind.
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Ah, I just always though that it was a feature in all of them. I've been using other custom ROMs too and never encountered this problem before (BeastMOD, BlissSense, GoSense...etc). It would always display Wind Home or Wind Away for me.
Thanks for the help, I'll send the dev a message!
@derpTastic - I've done that, but sometimes it doesn't alert me even when I'm Wind Away. I've read on howardsforum that some Amaze users have had this problem as well, where the phone doesn't recognize Wind Away as roaming. Also, I don't want to be texting and calling people on Wind Away. Do you know if there's a way for the phone to warn me not to make a call or text when I'm roaming?
I was able to get my Evo onto PagePlus without too much trouble. I have voice/sms and 1X data. I even managed to get the stock messaging app to send MMSs fine. I'm not able to get 3G working, I have a donor phone but its a Droid 2 and I have no way of getting the ESN changed so I can do the Donation. If anyone has had luck getting 3G to work any other way please let me know. The only other oddment I have going on is a message that pops up very often saying "Unable to establish Data Connection". Its obviously looking for a Sprint LTE or 3G connection which I cant do anything about, but does anyone know how make the message go away forever?
I have also noticed that while I am at home, I can send SMS to anyone, but when I am at work, 30 miles away, some I am unable to send SMSs to certain contacts.
Have you tried changing your prl and roaming?
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Jeffrey4Free said:
Have you tried changing your prl and roaming?
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I have updated my PRL to one that turns off the roaming triangle, and set the options under data to roam data and voice without asking. If I fiddle with the roaming settings too much things stop working and I have not found a combination that will avoid the message.