Anyone having issues with 4G after updating to ICS? The reason I am asking is this is a replacement phone and during the hands free activation it did the firmware update.. I am fully rooted with S-Off using the wire trick but I don't know if the 4G problem is the OTA or it it never worked on this replacement phone.
Anyone else having issues with 4G on Sprint after the update? Or do I just have a faulty phone for a replacement?
The only 4g issues I've seen people having is due to a bad kernel flash. Are you having wifi issues too?
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No wifi and mobile are working fine.. but 4G is not detected at all.
I'm a little confused as to your phone's status. You took the ota, but you are s-off? The only way that could happen is if your phone took the ota when you first got it and then you did the wire trick to get s-off.
The reason I ask is if that was the case, did you test 4g while you were still stock?
Not trying to pester you with questions; just want to make sure I understand your setup. Actually, could you go into bootloader and post what it says there?
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I did the wire trick. And I could not test 4G when I first got the phone as I had to be away from the airave for it to activate and when it activated it did firmware update.. so I than had to use the wire trick to for the S-off.
Maybe a bad flash. Try MeanROM. I also recommend you update the radios, etc as stated in the first post just to be sure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645211
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So first off, I normally just lurk here, gleam info and post answers where I can. Right now I'm in a bind and am hoping you can help me out, even if just posting links. I had to leave home suddenly yesterday and went to a place that is in the middle of a solid green area for 3G coverage for Sprint. However, I'm lucky if my speedtest results show 100Kb down. That makes extremely difficult for me to search for answers, and very time consuming to download files/apps only to find out they don't work. Also, the connection is apparently poor enough I can't access my work's VPN and thus poses a major problem.
I used OpenSignal to figure out where the nearest Sprint tower is (there's only one) and I'm only getting 18% signal. I would like to switch over to Verizon just for a couple days. I found some tutorials online but am running into the issue that, while I've done the HTC unlock, since I still have s-on I can't use apps like MSL Reader. The only way I've found to get s-off is to brick it, so I haven't gone that route yet.
I found this writeup http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529274 and want to make sure that is still the best method. I've downloaded QPST and the 0002 PRL. I'm ready to follow the instructions but if for some reason it doesn't work, I'll loose my connection to the internet and not be able to search for answers.
Would someone please confirm that's the best route? If it's not, a link to a better solution would be greatly appreciated. I spent a ton of time already just trying to get pdanet (which is finally installed and working.)
Thanks in advance.
I had to leave home suddenly yesterday and went to a place that is in the middle of a solid green area for 3G coverage for Sprint. However, I'm lucky if my speedtest results show 100Kb down.
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Not sure how long you have been with sprint, but these speeds have been normal on sprint 3g for over a year now. It's ridiculous that Sprint hasn't fixed this yet.
since I still have s-on I can't use apps like MSL Reader.
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You can get your MSL from Sprint. You can try calling, but I find that chat is the most effective. Sprint doesn't like to give the MSL out, but the chat reps are all from India and are easily persuaded. Just tell them that another rep told you to get the MSL so you can reprogram your phone.
I found this writeup http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1529274 and want to make sure that is still the best method. I've downloaded QPST and the 0002 PRL. I'm ready to follow the instructions but if for some reason it doesn't work, I'll loose my connection to the internet and not be able to search for answers.
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Post 3 in that thread is what I use to change mine. We used to be able to do it right from the phone by dialing ##775#, but since ICS was released we can't do this anymore. Just be aware that you probably will need to enter your msl and not the 000000 that the steps say.
As long as you don't change anything other than the prl, you won't have anything to worry about. Just make sure you Read from Phone, browse for the prl file, and Write to Phone, and nothing else. If you want to go back to a sprint prl, you can get one from that thread, or just go to your phone settings, System Updates, and update PRL AND Profile, and you will be back to sprint. Or you can just Write to Phone one of the Sprint prl's from that thread, just make sure it's one for the Evo 3d and not another phone.
Any other questions, just let me know.
Thanks much. I've been with sprint for ~10 years... 3G usually isn't this bad for me, but I live in a wimax area so I don't notice 3G a whole lot. I wouldn't be surprised if a class action lawsuit comes of this. Obviously one of the ways of limiting data is to control bandwidth... and that's what sprint is doing, yet advertising "unlimited data".
I'm trying very hard not to have to call Sprint, but I might just have to do that. I've been working on this for the last 5hrs straight. Biggest hurdle is getting the MSL. getprop ril.MSL didn't work. I can't get CDMA Workshop installed - every time I extract the RAR it has an unexpected end of archive. I've downloaded it on two different systems (OS X and XP), tried multiple extractors (unrarx and winrar)... same outcome.
I'm glad that just using the phone's UI to update the PRL will reset it to Sprint. One of my issues is the steps in that thread to pull the PRL don't produce a .r0l file. But now I think I'll just ignore that.
Thanks again.
Thus far, I haven't been able to get the MSL from Sprint. They're telling me they don't even have access to it
Finally got CDMA workshop extracted... crashes on boot on both my XP and Win7 VMs...
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Thus far, I haven't been able to get the MSL from Sprint. They're telling me they don't even have access to it
Finally got CDMA workshop extracted... crashes on boot on both my XP and Win7 VMs...
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If you are unlocked, you can flash a custom recovery using fastboot, then flash superuser using your custom recovery and then MSL Reader will work.
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I finally got someone at Sprint to give me the MSL number. Used it and successfully updated the PRL.
Unfortunately, with 0002 my signal was actually worse. ~1000ms ping, 60Kb... Then, a few minutes later it switched itself back to Sprint. I thought it was supposed to stay with Verizon. Will have to keep trying.
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If you are unlocked, you can flash a custom recovery using fastboot, then flash superuser using your custom recovery and then MSL Reader will work.
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Well, I did the HTC unlock but, unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't really do anything. I can't get s-off without bricking it and following that process. I haven't done it yet as I haven't had time to research just what bricking it takes. I have (well, mostly watched a friend) root a EVO 4G... that was a lot easier.
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I finally got someone at Sprint to give me the MSL number. Used it and successfully updated the PRL.
Unfortunately, with 0002 my signal was actually worse. ~1000ms ping, 60Kb... Then, a few minutes later it switched itself back to Sprint. I thought it was supposed to stay with Verizon. Will have to keep trying.
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Hmm, it might be a problem with your phone's radio. In my area, 80% of the places I use the Verizon prl, I get 5-6 out of 6 bars. Since Verizon uses a better frequency, it's much easier to get a full signal especially inside buildings. Speeds for me on Verizon average 1500kbps or so. It's pathetic that I can get these speeds on Verizon and not get above 100kbps on Sprint even with full signal.
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Well, I did the HTC unlock but, unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't really do anything. I can't get s-off without bricking it and following that process. I haven't done it yet as I haven't had time to research just what bricking it takes. I have (well, mostly watched a friend) root a EVO 4G... that was a lot easier.
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If you are unlocked (but still s-on), you can flash custom recoveries and ROMs (and mods and themes). You just cannot update radios, firmware, and hboots without first relocking and going stock. If you are s-off, you can. Have you heard of the wire trick to obtain s-off? It takes most people like five minutes once they are setup and does not require you to brick. Having said that, I downgraded by bricking since that was the only option at the time and it was pretty straightforward.
I just nandroid back to GB ROM & do the ##775#, change my prl & nandroid back. Running 00002 on cm9 now.
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I was finally able to try out several PRLs... turns out the nearest Verizon tower I can connect to is actually farther away and slower than Sprint's. There's a new Verizon tower that's nearby, but none of the PRLs I tried (eg 00001, 00002, 01337-mod...) would connect me to it.
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If you are unlocked (but still s-on), you can flash custom recoveries and ROMs (and mods and themes). You just cannot update radios, firmware, and hboots without first relocking and going stock. If you are s-off, you can. Have you heard of the wire trick to obtain s-off? It takes most people like five minutes once they are setup and does not require you to brick. Having said that, I downgraded by bricking since that was the only option at the time and it was pretty straightforward.
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Ohhh, for some reason I was thinking I couldn't flash recoveries with s-on. Can I use tools like superuser, setCPU... with s-on?
I haven't heard of the wire trick. I had been planning on following this guide when I had some time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695 but if you know of one that takes 5 minutes, please let me now where I can find it. (I'll search for it too.) Hopefully it doesn't require CDMA Workshop because on both systems I've tried (XP and Win7) it crashes on startup.
Edit: Ok, I found it. Will look into it more when I have enough bandwidth to watch video.
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I just nandroid back to GB ROM & do the ##775#, change my prl & nandroid back. Running 00002 on cm9 now.
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I started to do that, but it just takes WAY too long to do all that. It's much quicker to do with QPST on a computer. However I will do that once in a while if I'm stuck away from a computer and need to switch PRLs.
I was finally able to try out several PRLs... turns out the nearest Verizon tower I can connect to is actually farther away and slower than Sprint's. There's a new Verizon tower that's nearby, but none of the PRLs I tried (eg 00001, 00002, 01337-mod...) would connect me to it.
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Yea, the 0001 prl is a few years old, and the 00002 one is probably over a year old now. Hopefully someone will make a new one.
k i got cdma workshop paid..... i have been using the same imei for all the evos ive used... never had a problem till i did this update... im still s-off and also now im htc unlocked.. right now im on hboot 1.58 cuz i have to be on coolrom 1.1 so i can use the espt .. when i flashed this evo 3d i never had the 465,466, 1192, 1994 nv items cuz i lost the donor phone long time ago.. i still changed the imei and never had a problem till update now seems like if i do a complete wipe and install new rom it resets my imei to the evos original.. the last few days ive been having data problems like 3g down to 1x and sometimes no data but still have service.. im thinking maybe prl will help but fails my usernames fine and same with the ha pass and ect.. does anyone know where the 11 locations are in the evo for the imei so i can zero them out for good? also why now outta nowhere is my data f n up
Hey guys, I am on an S-off Evo3d and running Meanrom. All of a sudden today, Every time I make a call, it says that the number is invalid. i thought that may be Sprints way of saying my bill is late, but the other unrooted phone on my account works, And besides, I paid the bill 2 weeks ago.
Is there some radio Update that I need to do?
My PRI is 1.24_003 and my PRL is 21094 if that helps any?
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Hey guys, I am on an S-off Evo3d and running Meanrom. All of a sudden today, Every time I make a call, it says that the number is invalid. i thought that may be Sprints way of saying my bill is late, but the other unrooted phone on my account works, And besides, I paid the bill 2 weeks ago.
Is there some radio Update that I need to do?
My PRI is 1.24_003 and my PRL is 21094 if that helps any?
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If your radios are up to date, it probably is sprint.
Or, you're dialing/not dialing a +1 in front of the number.
unlocked, on the htc 3d, 2.95... I could connect to wifi but it was really slow where my GF's phone with the same version, but truley stock would DL at 15mbs while mine only .3mbs.
I did the wire rick for s-off and I flashed a 1.13 ruu signed. Then I ran the software updates to get me to 2.95. I can now DL at 2mbs, but that is no where near the 15mbs she can DL..
Any thoughts on this? Sorry for the lack of detail, just ask if yall need more
Thanks
more info
bootloader listing: note, it did say un-locked before I did the RUU
**** LOCKED ****
Shooter XC SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.58.0000
RADIO-1.09.00.0100
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.226.00.0217
eMMc-boot
May 17 2012,15:06:44
I am curious why it says May 17 2012 when today is 10-29-2013 ... Maybe its the time stamp of when this was written?
Phone model PG86100
Android version 4.03
Sense version 3.6
software number 2.95.652.5 71ORD
kernel 3.0.16-g3a7b522
baseband 1.09.00.0108
build number 2.95.652.5 CL560640 release-keys
browser version WebKit/534.30
PRI version 1.56_144
PRL 32030
any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks
now I am where i started before the s-off. Can hardly connect to wifi, and when I can, there is no connection to the internet, just a network error.
I found this link, seems that it might improve something. Any one try this?
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/595109-fix-everything-turning-your-phone-into-evo-3d-thread.html
does the wifi use the radio? Seems like a silly question
Okay,
Seems that no one has replied. Maybe this bit of information will help.
I can obtain the desirable speeds if I am right next to the wifi router. If I am 10 - 15 feet away the speed greatly reduces, while my GF phone that is a true stock phone, has the same speed.
Any ideas? I am losing faith in this forum...
NOTE:
I did reset my router, leading to more reliable connections ( to literaly connect to the wifi or not )
after the reset my GF phone is still fine, mine has i geuss 'bad signal' ... i can connect but it is slow if I am not right next to it. while my GF phone is fine being far away from wifi...
Any ideas?