Automatic service update - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

I just looked at my phone and it said auto service update complete. Uhhhh anyone ever heard of such critter? I haven't touched anything. Just searched thru the about to find what might be different, nada.
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Prl most likely.
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PRL or Profile update being done more likely...

mbaseball3 said:
I just looked at my phone and it said auto service update complete. Uhhhh anyone ever heard of such critter? I haven't touched anything. Just searched thru the about to find what might be different, nada.
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It was a PRL update
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Speaking of prl. Anyone figure out which apk does the prl updates? My next mission is to remove it so the updates stop killing my PRL.
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Not prl. Been on 24006 since when ever it changed. Earlier this week or whatever
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Cororate PRL for EVO 3D

Believe it or not the 11115 is not the business PRL for the EVO 3D. This is for the 1900 mhz devices only. EVO 3D and a few other devices have special PRL's with the codes 20XXX. Recently it was 20183 or something like that. There is a reason why the EVO 3D has a different PRL than all the older Sprint devices, and it's because it has been updated to include 800 and 1900 mhz towers.
The business PRL is slightly different, it is 21XXX. EVO 3D's do not get the 11115, instead they get the 21XXX for corporate. Does anyone have this PRL and be willing to share it? I want to do some testing on the Epic 4G Touch.
Thanks!
Source?
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PRL 21083
I have the PRL, how do I extract it and send to you?
bloodrain954 said:
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Im the source. I'm whosdaman.
Actually go to your local sprint dealer and ask to see their evo 3d device and check the PRL on it. The PRLs on the demo devices are the corporate ones.
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I have the PRL, how do I extract it and send to you?
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To be honest, I have no idea on the evo 3d
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21081 PRL
I can't post links yet because I don't have many posts, but follow these instructions to find it:
Go to Google
Search for this:
how to extract prl evo 3d
The first result is Stuck at 1xRTT on your HTC EVO 3D? Here's how to get 3G back ...
Click on it and the PRL is available for download.
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I can't post links yet because I don't have many posts, but follow these instructions to find it:
Go to Google
Search for this:
how to extract prl evo 3d
The first result is Stuck at 1xRTT on your HTC EVO 3D? Here's how to get 3G back ...
Click on it and the PRL is available for download.
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Excellent find. Unfortunately it's the 21081 and not 21083, but it'll do for now. If you do find a way to get the 21083 from your phone let me know! Thanks
Well now that I'm looking into it more it seems like 21083 is the default for EVO 3D. I guess I need to go check what is the corporate PRL on the EVO 3D is again. I know for a fact it isn't 11115 though.
11115 might not be the official one for the 3d but it works just the same as it did on the EVO 4g. It gets me 3g roaming when I force roam when needed. I have a corporate acct and got 11115 on the EVO but I never got anything other than the 2 prls you listed.
jstn76rs said:
11115 might not be the official one for the 3d but it works just the same as it did on the EVO 4g. It gets me 3g roaming when I force roam when needed. I have a corporate acct and got 11115 on the EVO but I never got anything other than the 2 prls you listed.
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Right but for non network vision devices.
Evo 3d has its own 11115 PRL
The 20xxx or 21xxx is the corporate PRL I'm pretty sure.
Of course the 11115 will work with the evo 3d
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Korey_Nicholson said:
Right but for non network vision devices.
Evo 3d has its own 11115 PRL
The 20xxx or 21xxx is the corporate PRL I'm pretty sure.
Of course the 11115 will work with the evo 3d
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21083 IS NOT a corporate prl. it is latest prl regular users get when doing a prl update. you want proof of this, find a friend with a 3d and have him update the prl for you. it was either stay 21083 or change to it depending on the area but most everyone will.
t3project said:
21083 IS NOT a corporate prl. it is latest prl regular users get when doing a prl update. you want proof of this, find a friend with a 3d and have him update the prl for you. it was either stay 21083 or change to it depending on the area but most everyone will.
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That's what I'm finding out. I'm going to go to a sprint store tomorrow and find out what it really is
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why not run 0001.prl that one gives me better result than the 11115 PRL in my area..
1107963 said:
why not run 0001.prl that one gives me better result than the 11115 PRL in my area..
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00001 is verizon only and it's severely outdated
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If you are going to use 00001, then you might as well use this updated one.
See attached
I'm pretty sure if I flash back to 3.0 sense and update my prl ill get 21083 which will not let me 3g roam... 11115 will.
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PRL 12117
I have a company-provided Evo3D and my PRL shows 12117. I always figured that was a corporate PRL. I have tried PRLs 21081, 21083, 11115 and 00001 and none gave me better results than 12117 although even that PRL is crappy here in South Florida...
mannytwotwo said:
I have a company-provided Evo3D and my PRL shows 12117. I always figured that was a corporate PRL. I have tried PRLs 21081, 21083, 11115 and 00001 and none gave me better results than 12117 although even that PRL is crappy here in South Florida...
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That's it! I knew it was something really strange.
Think you could pull it?
That is the 800, 1900 version of 11115
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How could I pull that prl off my phone?
I thought PRLs didn't affect signal quality. So how would this enable our phone to respond to a different signal frequency?

Evo LTE PRL (24003)

For kicks, I used the stock PRL for the EVO LTE (24003) on to my Photon. Wow my data flies with it hovering around 1600kbps - 2300kbps down and 500kbps up. I attached the PRL file below with some screen shots. the first on is my status screen showing the PRL version. The second is my Sprint 3g speed. The last is my roaming. Feel free to try it at your own discretion and I'm not responsible if anything good or bad happens to your device.
Here are instructions to manually update your PRL. You'll need to be on a blur based rom and have your phone's MSL.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211157
Update. A friend let me update their E4GT with this PRL and their phone could not connect to a Wimax tower. My guess that this PRL is CDMA and LTE only with not Wimax tower info. We were able to fix this by flashing another PRL.
nice,ill try as soon as I can
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I wonder, how in heck does this increase the speed on this phone. I thought we didn't have a LTE chipset in our phone
Doesn't it have 800mhz capability?
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demonotaku said:
I wonder, how in heck does this increase the speed on this phone. I thought we didn't have a LTE chipset in our phone
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Most likely since lte is not on yet lte devices are getying priority.
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just one question.. assuming it won't work how do you go back to the old prl?
thanks
Reload the way you loaded the lte prl
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criptix said:
Reload the way you loaded the lte prl
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one more question..how do I back up the prl or will a manual prl update overwrite it?
A manual update should take it to the current Sprint PRL for your area.
Just flashed it and well my speeds are the same...
at least I tried lol
Update. A friend let me update their E4GT with this PRL and their phone could not connect to a Wimax tower. My guess that this PRL is CDMA and LTE only with not Wimax tower info. We were able to fix this by flashing another PRL.
demonotaku said:
I wonder, how in heck does this increase the speed on this phone. I thought we didn't have a LTE chipset in our phone
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You're still on 3G when using this PRL. What is adds it the tower info for the limited test towers for Network Vision and Sprint LTE.
donsh00tmesanta said:
Doesn't it have 800mhz capability?
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I'm trying to find that out. I can't find a changelog.
kbrn said:
just one question.. assuming it won't work how do you go back to the old prl?
thanks
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If you still have service just do as Kevets suggested. (menu>settings>about phone>system update) If not you'll have to flash a previous PRL version that you know was working or RDS to stock.
Here's a thread where you can download most of the Sprint PRLs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
pjree said:
Update. A friend let me update their E4GT with this PRL and their phone could not connect to a Wimax tower. My guess that this PRL is CDMA and LTE only with not Wimax tower info. We were able to fix this by flashing another PRL.
You're still on 3G when using this PRL. What is adds it the tower info for the limited test towers for Network Vision and Sprint LTE.
I'm trying to find that out. I can't find a changelog.
If you still have service just do as Kevets suggested. (menu>settings>about phone>system update) If not you'll have to flash a previous PRL version that you know was working or RDS to stock.
Here's a thread where you can download most of the Sprint PRLs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
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Nothing really special about this PRL. It just has the typical 800mhz scans for Chicago. Nothing else real special.
The wimax chipset does not even use a PRL. This PRL is for EV and 1X only.
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Its called QoS...I was expected something like this...wimax was never the issue ...it was the overall sprint bandwidth ...so now with lte coming how do hide that lte vs wimax was never the issue...it was the network behind it?...you set a network QoS to give most of the bandwidth to the lte devices and shortchange the non lte...even if you not using lte...the network will put the new stars of sprint lineup to the head of the line to make the look faster....wonder why you see all the reports of ever slower g3 on sprint for the other phones?...you just lower in the qos pecking order..you get what left of the bandwidth...you flying standby..the new first class phone fly first class on the backside of the network even if the local phone link to the network is just 3g
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noob question
im on a E4GT and with this PRL could i get LTE? no right because of missing hardware?
thanks
jamcar said:
noob question
im on a E4GT and with this PRL could i get LTE? no right because of missing hardware?
thanks
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This PRL is only used for the CDMA side, not LTE.
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jamcar said:
noob question
im on a E4GT and with this PRL could i get LTE? no right because of missing hardware?
thanks
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No lte is "hardware" (really a layer 1 & 2 radio & data link protocal) it would be like a gsm phone trying to do cdma with a software update...not going to happen if the cdma hardwares not there
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demonotaku said:
I wonder, how in heck does this increase the speed on this phone. I thought we didn't have a LTE chipset in our phone
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Probably a placebo effect.

Auto prl update.

My phone just automatically updated the prl when I opened the xda app even after I cancelled the update. My prl is now 24004
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Mine just did it too
Rolling it back to see if it does it again (hope not).
Yep, same here.
Why not try the new PRL before rolling it back?
Its not like a software update. Its not going to hurt your phone or prevent you from root/s-off. Sometimes a PRL upgrade can be a good thing.
jayjam99 said:
Yep, same here.
Why not try the new PRL before rolling it back?
Its not like a software update. Its not going to hurt your phone or prevent you from root/s-off. Sometimes a PRL upgrade can be a good thing.
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See the other PRL thread for more details, but the short version is that I'm seeing the best speeds on the PRL my phone was shipped with. (PRL 24003). I've tried all of the PRL versions I've seen come through on the phone and tested each one.
I'm in la area I'm wondering if this could be because of LTE?
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I got the update too, but I'm now on 25004.
shook187 said:
I got the update too, but I'm now on 25004.
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Same here. DC area. I haven't yet had a chance to check to see if it affected speeds, one way or the other.
I've got 25004. Got almost double 3g speeds than shipped. Though it may be different for each user.
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The PRL is for CDMA, not LTE.
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Those of you on the 24004 prl, are your phones corporate or personal lines?
Also can anyone post the 24004 prl please? I can only find 25004
Thanks!
Mine says 25004. Haven't had any updates.
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25004 is a latest one but so is 24004.
I thought I saw one person in another thread say 24004 is corporate ver of the 25005 but need more people to confirm that based on they account and what they have.
Corporate ones give better data speed on roaming is why I am wondering.
25004 here on a personal line as well.
I'm almost positive I've been on 25004 for awhile. I don't remember seeing or doing a prl update.
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For what it's worth, I am also on 25004 and I do not remember the phone updating on its own. I had been thinking my speeds seemed a lot better lately. I ran speed test and sure enough, it's somewhat better
magnus0322 said:
For what it's worth, I am also on 25004 and I do not remember the phone updating on its own. I had been thinking my speeds seemed a lot better lately. I ran speed test and sure enough, it's somewhat better
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Still 25004 here, even after a manual update attempt.
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I have a corporate account and 24004 is the most current prl for corporate.
chickut123 said:
I've got 25004. Got almost double 3g speeds than shipped. Though it may be different for each user.
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MIne changed the other night to the 25004 and now i hardly get a data connection to top off my already horrendous 1 bar/roaming all the time crap signal at home
Mine tanked pretty hard on 25004, down to like 14kbps from 700-800 downloads, my upload hasn't really changed.
I've been having issues all day with sms and mms, also been dropping to 1x and so I looked and my PRL is 25002..
Did a prl update and I'm back to 25004.. really weird. Only thing ive done is last night I ran the mod to remove the HTC disclaimer on boot up screen.
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PRLs and LTE

Apparently I am wrong and I will admit it. From everything I saw and read it looked like the PRL did not have anything to do with LTE or the PCS G block.
Driving through Houston or should I say riding through Houston, with an EVO LTE and Galaxy 3. The Sammy is fully stock. EVO LTE is not of course. It has the latest firmware and base with a 12124 based prl. I couldn't get a 4G connection on the evo. I tried everything until the last thing I tried, PRL update to 25xxx. Boom.. 4g.
It makes total sense now. It's based on the MCC MNC records in these prls. Although it has nothing to do with the acquisition records themselves. Maybe it is just hard coded to g block. And later if another carrier is added it would get pushed or hashed to the other carrier like evdo does.
I want to confirm.. Has anyone been able to pickup LTE with a non 24xxx or 25xxx prl?
On another note.. The scanning is fixed on the EVO. I found I had a 4G indicator more on the evo than the galaxy 3. Shocker there. Would have thought it was the other way around.
Need to change my sig to read wimax 4g signal now but technically it is still correct as it will not give you a better signal
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digiblur said:
Apparently I am wrong and I will admit it. From everything I saw and read it looked like the PRL did not have anything to do with LTE or the PCS G block.
Driving through Houston or should I say riding through Houston, with an EVO LTE and Galaxy 3. The Sammy is fully stock. EVO LTE is not of course. It has the latest firmware and base with a 12124 based prl. I couldn't get a 4G connection on the evo. I tried everything until the last thing I tried, PRL update to 25xxx. Boom.. 4g.
It makes total sense now. It's based on the MCC MNC records in these prls. Although it has nothing to do with the acquisition records themselves. Maybe it is just hard coded to g block. And later if another carrier is added it would get pushed or hashed to the other carrier like evdo does.
I want to confirm.. Has anyone been able to pickup LTE with a non 24xxx or 25xxx prl?
On another note.. The scanning is fixed on the EVO. I found I had a 4G indicator more on the evo than the galaxy 3. Shocker there. Would have thought it was the other way around.
Need to change my sig to read wimax 4g signal now but technically it is still correct as it will not give you a better signal
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Still testing s3 and evo side by side myself. Unfortunately the evo is currently bricked
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So nobody in an LTE area can confirm this too?
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digiblur said:
So nobody in an LTE area can confirm this too?
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Dang I should of loaded one to test whole in Atlanta the other day...
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digiblur said:
So nobody in an LTE area can confirm this too?
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In the one day I had both running here in Dallas the s3 grabbed LTE sooner and held it further. In most cases the evo never connected.
This is where I started playing with radios and firmware and unfortunately bricked my Evo . The store replaced the Evo with an s3 so other than single location side by side testing with a friends evo I won't be of much help
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00mred00 said:
The store replaced the Evo with an s3....
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How did you get them to do this?
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00mred00 said:
In the one day I had both running here in Dallas the s3 grabbed LTE sooner and held it further. In most cases the evo never connected.
This is where I started playing with radios and firmware and unfortunately bricked my Evo . The store replaced the Evo with an s3 so other than single location side by side testing with a friends evo I won't be of much help
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So you could get and hold a LTE connection with the S3 while running 12124?
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digiblur said:
So you could get and hold a LTE connection with the S3 while running 12124?
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Oh no both were on 25006
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00mred00 said:
Oh no both were on 25006
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Re read his post from earlier and ill see he wants the diff PRLs tested...
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sgt. slaughter said:
Re read his post from earlier and ill see he wants the diff PRLs tested...
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Thanks... And yes I was hoping someone had more time than just passing through a town like I did.
Something like.. With 25006 you test lte. Then load 12124.. Now test in same spot. If no lte then hit, update profile, toggle lte cdma mode, reboot etc. Still no lte? Then hit update prl. Do you have lte now?
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I'd say it's pretty well confirmed.. I've had S4GRU test 12124 on his S3 in an LTE area and it would not connect to LTE.
Any other EVO LTE users in LTE areas, I'd like to see a test or two as well to set this as 100% confirmation.
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I'd say it's pretty well confirmed.. I've had S4GRU test 12124 on his S3 in an LTE area and it would not connect to LTE.
Any other EVO LTE users in LTE areas, I'd like to see a test or two as well to set this as 100% confirmation.
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I will see what I can accomplish tomorrow. I am sure I can find one in the store on 12124.
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digiblur said:
I'd say it's pretty well confirmed.. I've had S4GRU test 12124 on his S3 in an LTE area and it would not connect to LTE.
Any other EVO LTE users in LTE areas, I'd like to see a test or two as well to set this as 100% confirmation.
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Next week, I'm flying from Atlanta to San Antonio, which are both supposed to have LTE. I'll test and report back.
I can confirm that LTE does NOT work with the 12124 prl. I went to an area in my neighborhood that I know has LTE and it only picked up Sprint 3G. However, when I updated the PRL through the settings to 25006, I immediately got 4g LTE.
This is outside the Atlanta perimeter btw.
Prl has no direct impact on CDMA (Sprints own) services nobody ever said LTE was a CDMA service. It makes sense to me that they would need to some how update the phone when more LTE upgrades are finished but that's just me
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Prl has no direct impact on CDMA (Sprints own) services nobody ever said LTE was a CDMA service. It makes sense to me that they would need to some how update the phone when more LTE upgrades are finished but that's just me
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So are you saying that PRL doesn't affect LTE on our phone's?
Lol I'm saying it could, lte is a gsm based technology as far as I know, using a prl system to update LTE info makes sense to me
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Prl has no direct impact on CDMA (Sprints own) services nobody ever said LTE was a CDMA service. It makes sense to me that they would need to some how update the phone when more LTE upgrades are finished but that's just me
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PRLs definitely impact any CDMA service. That's the driving force for your phone to pick up channels/SIDs.
I've already confirmed with my phone and several other users and including documentation that PRL entries are required for LTE to work. It doesn't work the same as 1X and EVDO scans. If the Geo area in the PRL does not have the MCC/MNC record then LTE will not work in any of the SIDs in that GEO. The LTE is controlled by the MSPL and MLPL files.
Now for the folks that want 12124 but want LTE, you should be running 56006. Here's my analysis on the new range of PRLs:
54006 - is close to 24006 except for about 21 international SIDs removed (includes international LTE records)
16006 - almost exactly like 12124 except for the LTE records included and 800SMR SIDS are higher priority over PCS band (does not include international LTE records)
56006 - very close to 16006 except some international priority changes (includes international LTE records)
and the post with the PRLs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30881283&postcount=14
Cool! Finally a PRL that give VZW 3G roaming and Sprint 4G LTE. I will have to test for full LTE coverage tomorrow when I'm in Atlanta though. So far I have a little 4G near the end of my neighborhood. Also it wouldn't recognize 4G until I cycled through CDMA and CDMA/LTE mode then it picked up 4G.
But prls do not directly affect sprints own CDMA services, they use prl primarily for roaming. Now they have begun to use it for lte as well, lte is a derivative of gms/utms which is also not a sprint cdma service

UPDATED: forced a sprint update

It happened about 10 minutes. But can't seem to find what changed. Has anyone else gotten one recently?
nickmus said:
It happened about 10 minutes. But can't seem to find what changed. Has anyone else gotten one recently?
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Was it an HTC software update? I don't have one... Unless you just now got the Jelly Bean update.
It was probably this:
http://www.htc.com/www/support/content.aspx?id=191316
It may have been an HTC update. The pop up was generic. I checked the link posted, that wasn't it.
The pop up said the an update has been downloaded and will be installed.
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It may have been an HTC update. The pop up was generic. I checked the link posted, that wasn't it.
The pop up said the an update has been downloaded and will be installed.
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Probably a PRL update
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Prl doesn't update itself
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I've had my prl update itself. You get a self service update screen from nowhere then new update.
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Prl doesn't update itself
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Deff can.
Sprint can force a number of things to update. PRL, and just a profile update are the most common to come through as they deal with your connectivity to towers and with all the tower upgrades they are likely to be needed more often now to ensure everyone is the most up to date.
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Every prl update I've had on this phone has been pushed by Sprint
Out of the three years of being with android not once has my pro updated automatically.. strange
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