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I am wondering if there is a prl to flash for the evo 3d, sprint network is terrible arround here, I am currently using the verizon prl, although better, not as good as US Cellular in my area, expecially at work.
Thanks in advance
GGerk said:
I am wondering if there is a prl to flash for the evo 3d, sprint network is terrible arround here, I am currently using the verizon prl, although better, not as good as US Cellular in my area, expecially at work.
Thanks in advance
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No I don't think anyone has made one of those. Is us cellular a cdma network? Have you tried the 1337, or 3137(can't remember if this is correct but it does start with a3). Or maybe even that sprint business PRL 1115 I think it is.
The Sprint business PRL (11115) only allows for roaming on Verizon I believe. I don't believe they have any roaming agreement with US Cellular, unfortunately.
I tried the 115000 and it didn't work as well as the 00001
SolsticeZero said:
The Sprint business PRL (11115) only allows for roaming on Verizon I believe. I don't believe they have any roaming agreement with US Cellular, unfortunately.
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I checked into it, and one of sprints reciprocal roaming agreements is with us cellular. However the agreement is only for voice and 1xrtt, but no 3G. We could find out all the roaming agreements if someone put their sprint PRL into one of the PRL decoders floating around out there.
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I tried the 115000 and it didn't work as well as the 00001
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Yeah, that would make sense. 01 is a custom PRL, and its targets are to force roaming on to Verizon towers. 15 is a PRL encoded by sprint for business customers. Its main target is sprint towers, but directs the antenna to Verizon towers, and all the other company's that sprint has roaming agreements for. It only does the roaming though if it can't find a sprint tower. Also with 15 it will settle for roaming towers that only have 1xrtt, as opposed to the custom PRLs that aim for Verizon 3G towers whenever possible.
Try out the other 2 PRL
there is 01337 and 31337 PRLs. I have yet to test the 31337 but 01337 works well. 00001 targets Verizon towers by default before Sprint, and if that one doesnt help you much I dont think 01337 will either as it is just a modified 00001. 11115 Wont help either as you still have some Sprint service so it still defaults to that network.
Here are 3 US Cellular PRL files for you to try:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EFOKA16L
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O6JINILZ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9W7K02BI
15096 allows 3G roaming. Enjoy
Is it safe to install prl 15096? I have an EVO 3d with free roaming
sorry havent checked back in a while, I will give all 3 a try
Thanks
I just want to know if I'm gonna get extra charges from sprint if I use those 3 prls
mrjaydee82 said:
I just want to know if I'm gonna get extra charges from sprint if I use those 3 prls
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First off, it is too dangerous to use any of these unless you have a plan with unlimited roaming. However even so sprint has gotten very sneaky. They have advertised unlimited roaming, but just like their unlimited data if you do too much [voice or data roaming], or a majority of your usage is roaming [even if you barely use any] your contract states in fine print that they can terminate service. Now so long as you aren't tethering a ton, or using lots of data they don't seem to mind, but if you do they send you a warning, if it persists they terminate you. You should not get charged ever with the plan you have, and you shouldn't get terminated unless you hog data. Hogging data on sprint is bad enough but hogging data on Verizon via roaming is very wrong. They won't terminate you unless you are abusive, so I hope you have nothing to worry about.
Since Megaupload is down could you please repost the prls
Thanks
Check THIS thread. A guy here on XDA is testing all sorts of different PRL methods. Hope it helps!
GGerk said:
Since Megaupload is down could you please repost the prls
Thanks
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Here is 15094 and 15096. My roommate has u.s. cell and his prl is 15114 im gonna try to pull it later...
gunfromsako said:
Here is 15094 and 15096. My roommate has u.s. cell and his prl is 15114 im gonna try to pull it later...
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I have been searching for an EVDO US Cellular PRL for around a year now, and have never found one. I tried yours, and they work. How do you go about extracting them from a phone? I've never been able to figure that out. I really needed this since most of the places my Sprint phone roams in have little to none Verizon coverage, while there's perfect US Cellular 3G.
petarmarinov37 said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I have been searching for an EVDO US Cellular PRL for around a year now, and have never found one. I tried yours, and they work. How do you go about extracting them from a phone? I've never been able to figure that out. I really needed this since most of the places my Sprint phone roams in have little to none Verizon coverage, while there's perfect US Cellular 3G.
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Well it depends on what brand of phone you have. The ultimate goal is get into diag mode and from there you can use QPST or DFS to pull the prl.
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i know these prl's pretty much tell the phone when and what towers to roam on.. i think i am correct. anyway the service at my house is HORRID on sprint! i mean absolutely horrid. is there a way to edit these prl's so that my phones roam threshold to roam will be more towards verizon.. because i pretty much have to actually lose service before it roams on verizon at my house.. and even then it switches back and forth, so service is pretty much a big 0000000000 ...
can a prl be edited to pretty much stay on the stronger roaming signal (verizon) until a fairly strong sprint signal is captured.. this would eliminate the need to keep switching the verizon prl i am using to a sprint prl when i leave home so i dont draw red flags for roaming all the time!!.
What ROM are you using?
no rom.. i am not rooted.. i am just using verizon prl to get service via qpst.. i am using 0001 prl..
i am actually using 0001 verizon prl while home and then switching to stock sprint when i leave.. it would be great to not have to do this crap!.. seems the prl could be edited with better thresholds to stay on verizon while im home with crap service.
slreno said:
no rom.. i am not rooted.. i am just using verizon prl to get service via qpst.. i am using 0001 prl..
i am actually using 0001 verizon prl while home and then switching to stock sprint when i leave.. it would be great to not have to do this crap!.. seems the prl could be edited with better thresholds to stay on verizon while im home with crap service.
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Try the 11115 PRL, it's a business PRL and Sprint won't kill your service for roaming on Verizon too much
any links to 11115 prl?
This is Sprint's 01115 PRL. I think its the same as what you are requesting. If its not, then disregard....
http://db.tt/DLuTxOer
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slreno said:
any links to 11115 prl?
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11115.zip
AFAIK, no PRL is going to do what you want. 11115 will allow you to roam on 3G more often but it won't change the threshold at which it switches over to roaming on Verizon towers. I wish there was a way to do that! I'd love to be able to tell it to switch to Verizon towers when the signal drops below 2 bars on Sprint or something like that. I think that's embedded in the radio software and not even the ROMs can access/change that. You'd probably need a custom radio update and I'm not aware of anyone "hacking" those.
Mike
I would call Sprint about an Airave
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189192&highlight=airave
Check out this link above from an earlier thread. They might give you a free airave and that should solve the problem you are having at home.
Be careful with Verizon prl, a lot of people are getting their lines terminated because they data roam too much.
The Airave isn't that great either. The one they are giving out now is pretty horrible for texting.
mikeyxda said:
AFAIK, no PRL is going to do what you want. 11115 will allow you to roam on 3G more often but it won't change the threshold at which it switches over to roaming on Verizon towers. I wish there was a way to do that! I'd love to be able to tell it to switch to Verizon towers when the signal drops below 2 bars on Sprint or something like that. I think that's embedded in the radio software and not even the ROMs can access/change that. You'd probably need a custom radio update and I'm not aware of anyone "hacking" those.
Mike
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If you're rooted there is an app called roam control that'll do it
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cniels01 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189192&highlight=airave
Check out this link above from an earlier thread. They might give you a free airave and that should solve the problem you are having at home.
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I had to call sprint 6 different times to complain bout service at home and finally they sent me one free. I have full 3g throughout my entire house.
The airrave wont work if you don't havea home internet connection right?
Rob the plumber said:
The airrave wont work if you don't havea home internet connection right?
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The AIRAVE requires a constant power and broadband Internet connection to
operate. In the event of an outage, your phone will automatically try to obtain
service directly from the Nationwide Sprint network if coverage is available.
what is the latest corporate prl for the photon? i have read at least 3 of the latest forums about 51084 but i couldnt find a straight answer on if it was the latest corporate prl or consumer. the photon already gets amazing roaming but there are some areas a verizon phone will have perfect signal and i wont. ive noticed prl's on other sprint devices using corporate prl's would allow them to connect to verizon towers consumer prls wouldnt allow.
AFAIK 51084 is a consumer, but yet allows *some* 3g roaming? Some are able to roam to Verizon with full 3g with the stock PRL, I'm assuming location is key here because in North FL I couldn't get anything over 1x speeds until I flashed a legitimate Sprint business PRL (01115) and now I have great 3g roam speeds.
Can someone point me to a "how to" so I can change my PRL manually?
FernBch said:
Can someone point me to a "how to" so I can change my PRL manually?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211157
Has anyone else had their data speed crap out on them after updating from 21089 to 21090? After updating this morning, I'm seeing a "1x" above my data icon now and even SpeedTest is timing out. If your data is fine, are you on a custom or stock ROM?
I'm on MeanRom v4.5, s-off with HBoot 1.4.
Not in my area its actually a lot faster now
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Once again, stock PRL's have no effect on data speeds when you are on the Sprint Network. Stock prl's only affect what towers your phone connects to when roaming.
sitlet said:
Once again, stock PRL's have no effect on data speeds when you are on the Sprint Network. Stock prl's only affect what towers your phone connects to when roaming.
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I believe you but it seems like such a coincidence that my data totally crapped out immediately after I updated the PRL. And a few others in the forums were reporting the same thing.
ur right
clankfu said:
I believe you but it seems like such a coincidence that my data totally crapped out immediately after I updated the PRL. And a few others in the forums were reporting the same thing.
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i noticed the same thing man 1x all over the place..soo angry.... then i switched roms to venom teams and it came with 85 and boom everythings speedy again......so yeah =D
unslav3d said:
i noticed the same thing man 1x all over the place..soo angry.... then i switched roms to venom teams and it came with 85 and boom everythings speedy again......so yeah =D
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Changing the ROM changed the PRL?
sitlet said:
Once again, stock PRL's have no effect on data speeds when you are on the Sprint Network. Stock prl's only affect what towers your phone connects to when roaming.
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Do you have proof of this? Seems to me the prl tells the phone which towers to connect with, Sprint or otherwise. Why would they bother updating it so often, if it is just used for roaming? I seriously doubt they spend that much money on man hours just to update roaming towers.
Preferred Roaming List. Sprint phones will automatically connect to sprint towers. The PRL is only used to tell the phone what towers and frequencies to connect to when roaming.
Then explain prl 00001 that only connects to Verizon.
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bcarter2000 said:
Then explain prl 00001 that only connects to Verizon.
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The PRL affects every tower the phone connects to. ON network or OFF.
The list contains data about every access point on or off network that the phone can connect too. It then has priority set for on network access points so those will be chosen over an off network access point.
Roaming two definitions
1. When a wireless device associate automatically with a different access point.
2. When a wireless device connects to another providers access point.
bcarter2000 said:
Then explain prl 00001 that only connects to Verizon.
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Because it sets the Sprint towers as the roaming towers, thus the phone thinks Verizon towers are the towers it should be normally connecting to.
sitlet said:
Once again, stock PRL's have no effect on data speeds when you are on the Sprint Network. Stock prl's only affect what towers your phone connects to when roaming.
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YOU MIND PROVING YOUR STATEMENT?
Everyone that got the update did a profile update. SINCE THEN EVERYONE IS HAVING THE SAME SLOW DATA ISSUE! SPRINT PURPOSELY DID THIS!
Sprint's data network is crap anyway. And I highly doubt Sprint would purposefully release a PRL to limit phone's data usage.
There was a prl pushed last year that everyone got and everyone was stuck on 1x data. I think this might have been when I was on the lg Optimus s, can't really remember... But either way, I traveled quite a ways back and forth to work, data never changed from 1x. Reverted to an older prl, I got 3g back. I know prl is meant to control roaming... But I think there's more to it than that. I've seen first hand it affect more than when I roam. But I will buy that it won give anyone faster or slower speeds from the same network other than affecting HOW it connects to the network.
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tws101 said:
The PRL affects every tower the phone connects to. ON network or OFF.
The list contains data about every access point on or off network that the phone can connect too. It then has priority set for on network access points so those will be chosen over an off network access point.
Roaming two definitions
1. When a wireless device associate automatically with a different access point.
2. When a wireless device connects to another providers access point.
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That's what I thought. Thank you.
sitlet said:
Because it sets the Sprint towers as the roaming towers, thus the phone thinks Verizon towers are the towers it should be normally connecting to.
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By that rational you prove my point. The PRL does tell the phone which towers to connect with. Which in turn could effect data speed.
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What matters is we need to downgrade our PRL TO 21089
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I DONT' THINK you guys are getting it. how many people in here did a PROFILE UPDATE TO GET THE PRL!? IT WAS IN THE PROFILE UPDATE THAT KILLED THE SPEED! I want to know WHAT THEY PURPOSELY DID TO SCREW WITH OUR DATA!
runcool said:
I DONT' THINK you guys are getting it. how many people in here did a PROFILE UPDATE TO GET THE PRL!? IT WAS IN THE PROFILE UPDATE THAT KILLED THE SPEED! I want to know WHAT THEY PURPOSELY DID TO SCREW WITH OUR DATA!
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Use qpst or flash back to a gb Rom & change your prl then.
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Well, it would appear that something is amiss here with the PRL. I am running a custom rom, and when it was loaded, it had 21089 as the PRL. Data speeds here and places I travel were acceptable. Now this past week I was on the road to a location that according to the sprint coverage maps should be "best" for the coverage, but the entire time I was there the phone only had 1X connection at what could be described as sucky speeds at best. The fact it indicated 1X would tend to tell me it was actually roaming and not actually on a Sprint network. So is it possible that due to agreements they have in place with other providers, they show coverage in areas they actually have no towers and are using other providers towers? I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that those of us who do not have the "corporate" PRL are downgraded to 1X when roaming. Now that I am back in my home area, 3g is back and everything is back to normal.
By the way, I did not do a profile or prl update, so I am not sure when or how 21090 got loaded.
I do plan on contacting the folks at Sprint and see if they have any explanation for this level of service. Do not have a lot of hope here, but can't hurt. I will post an update if they give me anything actually useful!
Have a good weekend everyone.
Will flashing a Verizon radio to my Sprint Note 3 cause me any problems with Sprint?
I'm up in the mountains every weekend and have 1xrtt when standing next to my neighbor who has a Note 3 on Verizon, he's pulling 4gbs on 4G. I cannot connect to a server when trying to do a speed check.
I was thinking of flashing a Verizon radio for use on the weekend and re-flashing back to Sprint during the week.
What will the ramifications be? I won't be streaming or doing anything data intensive, just want to be able to use browser etc. I'm on the unlimited plan and unable to use much data due to the poor network build out in the area's I'm in.
Anyone have any experience with doing this that cares to share some insight?
I've done that using per helper from the at store and worked just fine. Shouldn't have any problems from sprint as long as you're not downloading movies or streaming large amounts of data
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loumoli said:
I've done that using per helper from the at store and worked just fine. Shouldn't have any problems from sprint as long as you're not downloading movies or streaming large amounts of data
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Thanks for your input. How long did you have your phone's radio flashed for? A couple of days at a time or did you have the radio flashed for an extended length of time? Thanks again for your help.
If you flash a VZ radio more than likely you'll get no connection at all. You can cause your phone to force roam utilizing PRL Helper and doing a search for the "00001 PRL" this will cause you phone to ignore Sprint towers unless there is no VZ coverage. Just be aware Sprint's getting more aggressive on off network roaming data. I got a warning email after utilizing half a day of 3G roaming
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If you flash a VZ radio more than likely you'll get no connection at all. You can cause your phone to force roam utilizing PRL Helper and doing a search for the "00001 PRL" this will cause you phone to ignore Sprint towers unless there is no VZ coverage. Just be aware Sprint's getting more aggressive on off network roaming data. I got a warning email after utilizing half a day of 3G roaming
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you dont change radios . dont listen to the second poster. you'll end up with a brick. run freezas rom has prl flash built in. i run a prl that has lte but allows roaming of 3g on Verizon towers. run it for a few months on and off no issues or letters from sprint.
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If you flash a VZ radio more than likely you'll get no connection at all. You can cause your phone to force roam utilizing PRL Helper and doing a search for the "00001 PRL" this will cause you phone to ignore Sprint towers unless there is no VZ coverage. Just be aware Sprint's getting more aggressive on off network roaming data. I got a warning email after utilizing half a day of 3G roaming
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Thanks everyone. I use prl helper and roam control currently. I have not used the 00001 prl yet. I know there's some custom prl's for switching to Verizon with your sprint note3. I have my phone on roam all weekend but am using a sprint corporate prl and am usually getting 1xrtt and occasionally with find 3g. I just need to be able to access google etc to find/look up things. Will 0001 prl let you roam on 4g also?