I bought there roam control app to use on my electrify(rebadged photon) only the home works. force roam just goes to auto. I guess when I got it, thought it worked cuz the towers were good that night andi stayed roaming on vzw towers. is there an app to force roam on u.s. cellular?..... if someone pulled this off I Witold repay for the app!
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I always thought you could only roam on a carrier that your provider pays for.
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yes, u r correct. I roam off verizon towers most of the time, but sometimes I get a wiff of us cellular tower signal, then I go from full service and 3g at -79db to 1x and no bars at -119db
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There are no apps. The best thing you can probably do is change your PRL.
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my owl is up to date. my home network(us cellular) sucks and roaming is perfect
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moparfreak426 said:
my owl is up to date. my home network(us cellular) sucks and roaming is perfect
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it has nothing to do with it being up to date. i'm telling you that you need to change your prl. not update but manually change it to a verizon one or something.
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it has nothing to do with it being up to date. i'm telling you that you need to change your prl. not update but manually change it to a verizon one or something.
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no idea how to do that. tried looking online.... I talked to a guy over the phone that helped me get in and change the prl.... I even wrote it down but that was when I first got this phone...
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Forced roaming on specific carriers sounds like a cool idea.
I want to make my u.s. cellular device stay on verizon towers when I'm home or I have no signal.... 1x and no bars @ -119db then when it finally switches to roaming... on vzw towers 3g, full bars at -79 db
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I want to make my u.s. cellular device stay on verizon towers when I'm home or I have no signal.... 1x and no bars @ -119db then when it finally switches to roaming... on vzw towers 3g, full bars at -79 db
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so does the app roam control work on us cellular??
im thinking about switching but i want to make sure a few things work first..
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Is there any way to roam at 3g Speeds on a competitors airwaves? for instance, I have zero coverage at work....but my buddy has perfect verizon. I can roam with really ****ty reception. Is there anything I can do to "force roam" at 3g speeds?
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Is there any way to roam at 3g Speeds on a competitors airwaves? for instance, I have zero coverage at work....but my buddy has perfect verizon. I can roam with really ****ty reception. Is there anything I can do to "force roam" at 3g speeds?
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I wouldn't exactly know how to this but I just wanted to let you know be careful with roaming on verizons network. Obviously in sprints eyes that's grounds for dismissal without an eta. It's only so much roaming you can do before you get the boot so be careful.
My "DU4L C0R3 SH00T3R" shot you down in 3D! -Security Off-
Search for Roam Control in the market
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Your not roaming at true 3g btw. Roaming sticks it in 1xrtt. I tried changing my epst settings to HDR and CDMA HDR only, which it stills says 1xrtt 99.99% of the time
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Look up change prl in of EVO board ..... It will give u instructions to install a Verizon or any other prl and will let u roam on 3g ...
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Your not roaming at true 3g btw. Roaming sticks it in 1xrtt. I tried changing my epst settings to HDR and CDMA HDR only, which it stills says 1xrtt 99.99% of the time
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Not always true. If you live in a former Alltel area, you can roam on Verizon 3G. I get about 700 kbps-1.2 mbps when roaming on Verizon where I live.
This is because Verizon is required to uphold the Sprint/Alltel roaming agreement terms until the agreement ends, and part of the agreement is EVDO roaming in Alltel coverage areas.
I also think that when roaming on US Cellular its EVDO but I'm not sure and I don't know from experience as Verizon (formerly Alltel) is Sprint primary roaming partner where I live.
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Look up change prl in of EVO board ..... It will give u instructions to install a Verizon or any other prl and will let u roam on 3g ...
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That's what I did. Prl 00001. Though its not as fast as sprints 3g for me where I'm at. It does work though.
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Your using Verizon for voice too but if you do it too long they will kick you to the curb ..... After a couple months you may get a letter that they are dropping u as a customer .... Hint if you want to get out with no etf ...
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Went to Yellowstone this week and couldn't figure out why my rooted 3vo would say 1x while my lady's stock 3vo would say 3g. Seems like this cleared up some confusion. Tnx
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All it says are you are on a custom ROM that is modified to show 1x and all stock roms will just show 3g , but will still be on 1x . I hate the way they do it I like to know what system I am on .
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I use roam control and it barely makes a difference. It roams on US Cellular, I barely have any signal and the data is s-l-o-w.
Roam control does not do the same thing as what he is doing .... When using Verizon prl the network sees your phone as a alltell phone and allows you full access to their network ... Full speed roaming
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So i was using not roam control the other day and i live in Ohio, i noticed it said i was roaming on revol not Verizon which i always assumed, because i didn't know revol had it's own towers which i guess they do. does any body know of a way to choose your roaming carrier through an app or a hack of some kind. Also i have seen people use 3g data roaming on Verizon with a Manual prl update but i don't know how to manually update the prl files on the photon. Or if there is an easier way to do it to get 3g data roaming.
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There is an app vaulted roam control but it was pulled from market. ... O couldn't purchase license out I'd be using it
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Yeah i have roam control but it doesn't let you pick the roaming network.
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abrcrmdl23 said:
Yeah i have roam control but it doesn't let you pick the roaming network.
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I don't whatever network I roam on except ifi get good signal.. How do you geta license?
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You have to use pay pal in his web site www.roamctrl.com
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After buying license, this app is my best friend..... Great app
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Yeah works great i helped him test it on our photons.
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... Neverbmind. Guess towers wereb just good today for roam only.... Appb only works to go to home only.... On electrify got u.s. Cellular... Refund?.... I was hoping to solve there issue of when going to us cellular towers force roam
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The app does let you force roam you can't pick your roaming carrier though. You can go to automatic but gone gets you back on the right network faster then just change back to automatic in the settings menu.
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abrcrmdl23 said:
The app does let you force roam you can't pick your roaming carrier though. You can go to automatic but gone gets you back on the right network faster then just change back to automatic in the settings menu.
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I keep hitting roam only on widget and in app when it jumps to us cellular tower and I drop to 1x and no bars.... Gotta turn off and restart my phone to get back to roaming
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Maybe us cellular doesn't have a roaming agreement where you live
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abrcrmdl23 said:
Maybe us cellular doesn't have a roaming agreement where you live
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maybe. How do you tell? Or maybe app is slow to respond? Would my prl have anything to do with it? I font even think my prl is up to date where its supposed to be
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maybe. How do you tell? Or maybe app is slow to respond? Would my prl have anything to do with it? I font even think my prl is up to date where its supposed to be
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roam control does not work on the electrify! so don't bother with it.
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So i was using not roam control the other day and i live in Ohio, i noticed it said i was roaming on revol not Verizon which i always assumed, because i didn't know revol had it's own towers which i guess they do. does any body know of a way to choose your roaming carrier through an app or a hack of some kind. Also i have seen people use 3g data roaming on Verizon with a Manual prl update but i don't know how to manually update the prl files on the photon. Or if there is an easier way to do it to get 3g data roaming.
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you edit the prl manually you need to run the stock rom and need QPST on a windoze machine. there's some info in another forum about obtaining the subsidy lock code that you will probably need to be able to do this. i'm feeling to lazy to look right now but it's out there.
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211157
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roam control does not work on the electrify! so don't bother with it.
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So how do I get refund:-/
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So how do I get refund:-/
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on their website it states "Refund requests made within 24 hours of purchase will be honored. Any requests made after that will be handled on a case-by-case basis."
If you wish to contact us, please send questions and comments to [email protected]. Make sure to include as many details as possible in your email.
So keep emailing them over and over and over..... Got it.. no where on site is there a section to make a claim for refund
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I couldn't get refund and nobody answers emails too so I gave up. The thing is this app works only in area where sprint has agreement with other providers and for me in Chicago area no such thing that's why it doesn't work.
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On my Moment, there was a Verizon force PRL that you could flash via CWM. I'll check to see if it was phone specific because I'm pretty sure the Moment folks 'borrowed' it from an HTC forum.
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I couldn't get refund and nobody answers emails too so I gave up. The thing is this app works only in area where sprint has agreement with other providers and for me in Chicago area no such thing that's why it doesn't work.
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It's all about your prl. It tells your phone what you can and can't roam on
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On my Moment, there was a Verizon force PRL that you could flash via CWM. I'll check to see if it was phone specific because I'm pretty sure the Moment folks 'borrowed' it from an HTC forum.
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I've never seen a cwm flashable prl. I don't see how that's possible. Maybe I'm wrong. Send me a link or more info if it does work.
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Hey guys,
I'm kind of new to android stuff, so bear with me .
About a week back I bought this Motorola Photon 4g for Sprint off craigslist and used the kddi radii trick to make it work on GSM networks, namely T-Mobile. Right now imeon the hybrid 2.3.5 rom, but even when I was in the stock sprint rom, the carrier name randomly shows up as T-Mobil instead of T-Mobile. Is there any way to fix this other than spoofing the carrier name? Thanks for the help!
From what I know, the name is stored in SIM card, try to replace it with carrier.
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm actually planning on doing that soon anyway . The strange thing is it sometimes shows the full name T-Mobile, I'm still trying to figure that out haha
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Where is the trick?
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My phone does this too, I'm not sure why. To me it seems like it says 'T-Mobil' when signal is pretty weak, but i have overall weak signal in my apartment so it could just be me making a bad guess.
same thing
i also have the same thing, but i haven't noticed it till you have mention it.
i guess it belongs to 2G/3G. coz when you are having connected to 2G it tells you T-mobil
while when you are connected to 3G it tells you T-mobile.
pleas tell me if i'm right
Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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MeanJellyBean said:
Can you not get tmobiles 4g or is it because bootloader is unlocked?
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Tmobiles 4g is HSPA+ which is technically 3g
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You guys must be in the refarm area cause the 3g frequencies are the same as the iPhone's. I'm still waiting on that . Btw I got a new SIM and it hasn't said T-mobil yet so maybe it's just a certain kind of sim that does it?
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I'm in an area with decent Verizon coverage and I force roaming and all I get is 0-1 bars of 1X. Is there a trick to getting 3G while roaming?
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1. Don't do it.
2. No really, don't do it.
Sprint will give you a nice fat boot for Christmas if you try to force roaming.
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You would need to flash a Verizon prl and like its been mentioned, not a good idea. Sprint throttles first, send a polite warning and then terminate if you continue to roam.
I was more talking a setting I'm in PA hunting and I know Verizon gets good service here. If we're supposed to be roaming on Verizon, why do I get nothing?
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I was more talking a setting I'm in PA hunting and I know Verizon gets good service here. If we're supposed to be roaming on Verizon, why do I get nothing?
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You would need to flash a Verizon prl and like its been mentioned, not a good idea. Sprint throttles first, send a polite warning and then terminate if you continue to roam.
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Like he said, you'll need to manually install a Verizon prl to do it But in all seriousness, I wouldn't try it... Once upon a time I tried a mod to force Verizon roaming on my old HTC Hero and promptly got a letter from Sprint less than a week later. It's just not a smart thing to do.
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I have my rezound on the leaked Global update rom on Simple Mobile $40 plan. I am in Indianapolis, Indiana and moving soon to
Denver Colorado... I want to have speeds better then Edge. Does Indianapolis, Indiana or Denver Colorado areas have the ability to use something better then Edge speeds for data? Do I need to wait for the ATT spectrum that Tmobile got as part of the break up of the merger? Tired of edge....
I'm from Denver, hope you like it! I don't think we have simple mobile, but it'll work with straight Talk sim Idk about data for that though. All I know is Verizon 4G lte ran at about 45mbits a second
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Squirrel1620 said:
I'm from Denver, hope you like it! I don't think we have simple mobile, but it'll work with straight Talk sim Idk about data for that though. All I know is Verizon 4G lte ran at about 45mbits a second
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I already have a denver phone number from simple mobile. In indianapolis i only get edge speeds. If i knew someone with a straight talk sim i would test it that way to see if straight talk supports 3g or better.
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I already have a denver phone number from simple mobile. In indianapolis i only get edge speeds. If i knew someone with a straight talk sim i would test it that way to see if straight talk supports 3g or better.
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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That is what i thought. I will just have to wait and see when tmobile will refarm. Anyone want to trade?
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You well get no better than edge speeds on T-Mobile or att networks due to the resound not supporting the frequency band they operate on. Unless your in am area T-Mobile is refarming 2g spectrum to HSPA+
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Might have some luck with att using this edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32331786
Don't know how much it would help with tmobile though, as no confirmed successes with tmobile yet.
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Might have some luck with att using this edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32331786
Don't know how much it would help with tmobile though, as no confirmed successes with tmobile yet.
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does anyone have simple mobile in Denver Colorado and have a rezound on it? Are you getting any 3g or better speeds. If so how did you get the better speeds? I read that Denver has been refarmed as someone with an iphone 5 has 3g service. I will be moving to Denver on March 1 so just wanting to see... I am in Indianapolis which so far i only have edge speeds... unless i need to edit something....
The only way it would work is if you could get a plan using att network through simple plan and do the radio edits described in the link above. Otherwise, gl until T-Mobile launches there new platform.
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