[GUIDE] How to change your APN in AOSP based ROMs - HTC EVO 3D

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Here recently there has been a wave of less experienced users (noobs like XDA likes to call them) who have a problem. Either they've spend their entire custom rom life on sense ROMs or they're new to rooting, flashing ROMs and that kind of thing and don't know how to change their APNs in AOSP based ROMs.
Well, in an effort to keep from answering the same question (how do I go about changing my APN's?) over and over again, I created this thread.
Please keep in mind that this guide is for less experienced users BUT that does not mean it takes any responsibility from you as the owner of your phone.
What you do to your phone is on you and you alone! I, nor XDA takes any responsibility for what you do to your phone!
If you read the above and fully understand, then let's begin!!
1. Open your app drawer and find the Voice Dialer app
2. Tap on the app and wait for the microphone to fully show up and then say the letters A P N
3. If you said it correctly, a menu should appear like below. Click on Open APNs
4. Once you click on it, you will see a page like what you see below
5. Hit your menu hardware button or navbar button if you don't have a menu hardware button. Once you do that, you should see a menu pop up like below
6. Go ahead and press New APN
7. After pressing New APN, this will bring up an empty APN sheet where you will be able to plug in your carrier's APNs as pictured below.
8. After you plugged in the necessary fields as per your carrier's APNs then go ahead and hit the menu hardware button or navbar menu button and hit SAVE as pictured below
9. After you hit save, you should see your APN slot and if is not selected then press on the circle the right of it.
10. Reboot your phone and ENJOY!!
I said it before I started this guide BUT just to make sure it didn't go without notice, I will state it again.
I, nor XDA takes any responsibility for what you do to your phone! You're the owner of your phone and by doing ANYTHING to your phone, that is a choice you made and only you made!
This guide is only for educational purposes. I will try to answer as many questions as possible BUT I will not go into ROM related questions.
Thank you and once again, I hope this guide will at the very least cut down on the questions that asked in several development threads about APNs.
Developers, please feel free to link to this thread in your OPs if you wish!

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i wanted to mention the build.prop and apns-config.xml for flashed phones like mine
i have to edit the build.prop from sprint to cricket and 310016
and paste my own apns-config
and somewhere i found a reworked mms.apk that gives me cricket mms (from and to a cricket phone)

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Voice Dialer is driving me nuts...
Hi guys
I've got a Sprint Nexus 5 running Dirty Unicorns Hammerhead. I know this is an EVO 3D board, but this thread is directly relevant to my issue.
Apparently there is an issue with Sprint and DU having trouble downloading MMS messages. This was supposedly fixed in a prior DU release, but I'm still having the issue.
According to this thread, it's an APN issue (need to reset APN to default), which brought me to this thread.
However, when I try to use my voice dialer to get to the APN settings, my voice dialer never fully starts up. Supposedly, this is due to LG not pre-loading the voice-to-text software in the rom. However, I have no idea how to find Text-to-speech settings in Dirty Unicorns.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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schleima said:
Hi guys
I've got a Sprint Nexus 5 running Dirty Unicorns Hammerhead. I know this is an EVO 3D board, but this thread is directly relevant to my issue.
Apparently there is an issue with Sprint and DU having trouble downloading MMS messages. This was supposedly fixed in a prior DU release, but I'm still having the issue.
According to this thread, it's an APN issue (need to reset APN to default), which brought me to this thread.
However, when I try to use my voice dialer to get to the APN settings, my voice dialer never fully starts up. Supposedly, this is due to LG not pre-loading the voice-to-text software in the rom. However, I have no idea how to find Text-to-speech settings in Dirty Unicorns.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't know the answer to your question
But I use textra from the play store on ROMs I have trouble with apns...you can manually configure them in app settings
Sent from my Evo V 4G using XDA Free mobile app

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hossman said:
I don't know the answer to your question
But I use textra from the play store on ROMs I have trouble with apns...you can manually configure them in app settings
Sent from my Evo V 4G using XDA Free mobile app
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Thought I'd chime in with an update. My issue was that Dirty Unicorns is very proactive with its privacy permissions. By default, apps are opted out of all your phone functions. You have to use the DU privacy manager to specifically give your phone permissions, and yes that includes allowing your SMS/MMS software to send messages and pics.