ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
Is your phone prepaid?
Sent from my ERIS GSBv2.0 using XDA App
No its not prepaid
Ronoriot said:
ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
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Are you unable to make or receive calls? What ROM were you running before flashing GSB? Did you do a full data wipe before flashing GSB?
Ronoriot said:
ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
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FYI if this helps, or even if it doesn't, you can see the MEID number underneath the battery. I find that you usually have to use the HEX version on Verizon's website. I don't know if this will help you, however, because flashing ROMs does not affect activation status.
Is this the number you're looking for?
synesthete said:
Are you unable to make or receive calls? What ROM were you running before flashing GSB? Did you do a full data wipe before flashing GSB?
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i was running the factory default phone, i wiped everything and flashed the rom i linked on it, i can receive calls, voicmails, texts, mms, the internet is fine, but its not connecting to the towers near me, its picking up off different towers and the person at verizon said i need to change the SID number to 30730 which i know what one to change and i know where it is, i just cant access that part of the phone to change it because i dont know what program number to use.
flash the official RUU and start fresh possibly can fix the problem and re-root then flash new rom
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FYI if this helps, or even if it doesn't, you can see the MEID number underneath the battery. I find that you usually have to use the HEX version on Verizon's website. I don't know if this will help you, however, because flashing ROMs does not affect activation status.
Is this the number you're looking for?
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everything is active, thats not the issue and no i did not need the MEID number i can find that in the info on my phone, but thanks for the reply
dragon1018 said:
flash the official RUU and start fresh possibly can fix the problem and re-root then flash new rom
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ive dont this twice, once last night and once today, still cannot access programming menu
Ronoriot said:
i was running the factory default phone, i wiped everything and flashed the rom i linked on it, i can receive calls, voicmails, texts, mms, the internet is fine, but its not connecting to the towers near me, its picking up off different towers and the person at verizon said i need to change the SID number to 30730 which i know what one to change and i know where it is, i just cant access that part of the phone to change it because i dont know what program number to use.
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To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
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bftb0 said:
To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
bftb0
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i will try this but before i do i'll try to explain a bit more, when i call the normal eris programming number, it tries to actually make a call instead of giving me the option to go into edit mode, now when im on the stock rom i can do it but as soon as i flash any other rom on it, it doesnt allow me to do so. i had a rom from a droid 2 on it and when i used the droid 2 programming number it worked just fine and i could edit the info. hope this helps clarify a bit, and thanks for the help
bftb0 said:
To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
bftb0
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i did what you suggested, put the stock rom on my phone, then used my back to my custom rom and it changed all my connection settings in my ESPT menu, which i cant access for some reason
Ronoriot said:
i did what you suggested, put the stock rom on my phone, then used my back to my custom rom and it changed all my connection settings in my ESPT menu, which i cant access for some reason
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^This sentence confuses the crap out of me. I read it 5 or 6 times, and have no idea what sequence of operations you performed. I only have a vague idea that you can't get something to work.
If you can't access the EPST menu, how can you see what the settings are?
Here is what everybody has said so far (basically the same thing, but in different ways) :
- The EPST menus are generally not available in custom ROMs, especially any of the AOSP (Froyo/Gingerbread) ROMs. You need a stock, or near-stock ROM to be guaranteed that they will be available
- The same thing is true of "secret dial code menus". They don't exist in custom ROMs, unless those custom ROMs are nearly identical to stock ROMs (that is, directly derived from a stock ROM).
If you want to try it, you can flash either a RUU or PB00IMG.zip file - these operations flash a "nvram" file (*.nb0), which conceivably resets PRL and other non-ROM settings. After doing that, and fooling with EPST using a stock ROM, you will need to re-root.
As I mentioned, you should not run a "factory reset" procedure on your phone after you have configured what you want (with EPST) when there is a STOCK recovery on the phone.
Beyond that, I'm sort of mystified why you are unsatisfied with a phone that appears to be working normally. (What application are you using to determine cell phone tower? Are you inferring that from location services (Google Maps) with GPS and WiFi location services turned off?)
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Hey guys,
I'm looking for a safe way to RUU and re root my phone. I messed with some settings in the *#*#4636#*#* menu (the bands setting) and I was told the only way to make the settings not lock me to the bands I check would be to RUU or factory reset.
My goal is to be rooted at the end of the day!
Any help is much appreciated
I may be wrong, but I think if you reflash a rom those settings will be reset. I don't think you need to run the ruu.
Hmmm, I'll do some poking around after work this evening and share what I read on the forums. I think these settings are stored on a part of the device that doesn't get wiped when flashing to a new ROM. Much like (if not exactly the same) as where the PRL and Profile information is stored.
You should be able to reset that setting by doing a wipe from the ##786# menu, assuming you're on a sense rom. (Ran into the exact some problem myself)
Just type that code into your dialer, hit the Menu? button at the top right, tap reset and enter your MSL and you're good to go. The phone will reset itself and reactivate with Sprint.
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cbaronne said:
You should be able to reset that setting by doing a wipe from the ##786# menu, assuming you're on a sense rom. (Ran into the exact some problem myself)
Just type that code into your dialer, hit the Menu? button at the top right, tap reset and enter your MSL and you're good to go. The phone will reset itself and reactivate with Sprint.
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What exactly does this code do? Will this factory reset my phone? I don't want to do that because it might make me lose root, right?
If you're running a rooted ROM, it shouldn't make you lose root. I ran it many times on the Stock w/Goodies ROM with no ill effects. It reboots and runs a script that erases data/cache (basically a factory reset) as well as resetting all the Sprint stuffs, including that band thing you were talking about.
It doesn't touch system, so the rom itself and root aren't affected.
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If you're running a rooted ROM, it shouldn't make you lose root. I ran it many times on the Stock w/Goodies ROM with no ill effects. It reboots and runs a script that erases data/cache (basically a factory reset) as well as resetting all the Sprint stuffs, including that band thing you were talking about.
It doesn't touch system, so the rom itself and root aren't affected.
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Okay, I'll try this when I get home. I pulled up the code and it says something about erasing ALL data but I'll try it anyways! Haha, can't blame me for for being worrisome for my baby
cbaronne said:
You should be able to reset that setting by doing a wipe from the ##786# menu, assuming you're on a sense rom. (Ran into the exact some problem myself)
Just type that code into your dialer, hit the Menu? button at the top right, tap reset and enter your MSL and you're good to go. The phone will reset itself and reactivate with Sprint.
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Thank you! You were right! I did this while at work and i instantly noticed my bars jumped from 2 to full bars because it was able to switch the bands by itself. Thanks for the tip! Glad I didn't have to RUU haha
so i got this phone on ting. i think it was flashed to cricket at some point. works great on lte. rarly 3g no 1x.
so i was wonder if its hardware or a setting problem. customer service wasn't helpful just had me reload profile.
any suggestions?
What ROM are you on? You have to change your APN settings. I can advise you further once I know what ROM you're running.
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What ROM are you on? You have to change your APN settings. I can advise you further once I know what ROM you're running.
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stock 3.17 android 4.1.1 hboot 2.09
when i dial ##3282# passcode 000000 gets in not carrier msl
solved
##786# commit mods reset.
reboot
##data#
msl
enter msid commit mods
I'm using L-Droid with 4.4.4 and I can't open my WiFi settings anymore. I'm not sure what caused it but in the beginning the settings were working.
It might be caused by my Titanium Backup data restore.
Now only the message "settings stopped" pops up.
I already tried deleating wpa_supplicant to get a new one, a dirty flash and restoring the wifi settings again with different settings, nothing helped.
What else could I try to avoid a factory reset?
You broke your firmware by restoring system settings from a different framework version.
Try reflashing your rom first, without a wipe, but you may have to factory reset to solve.
that's what i meant with dirty flash.
thanks anyway, looks like i gotta reset than
Can someone help me understand provisioning for this phone? If I flash a custom ROM the Update PRL / Update Profile buttons are missing. I also tried ##MSL# and that doesn't do anything. I'm trying to update my settings so that the phone works with Ringplus. Is there some trick?
rocinante1984 said:
Can someone help me understand provisioning for this phone? If I flash a custom ROM the Update PRL / Update Profile buttons are missing. I also tried ##MSL# and that doesn't do anything. I'm trying to update my settings so that the phone works with Ringplus. Is there some trick?
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You will get a better response and answer in the Q&A, HELP & TROUBLESHOOTING section.
I would suggest reverting back to stock to activate your phone with Ringplus and then flashing to the newest Rom/kernel.
I think I have seen your post in a few Android N roms so be sure to flash the correct GApps(Arm and 7.1.1) and the ZVC Modem just to be sure.
all stock Sprint/Boost roms should give you the settings back....those settings seem to be added either by LG or Sprint...so it would be neigh impossible to add them to AOSP/CM roms
I am in the same boat. But your case might be different. You can try:
Carrier Reset:
##72786# (##SCRTN#)
or *#*#72786#*#*
If that doesn't work, do Factory reset from Recovery. If you use TWRP, default is wipe = factory reset. After that reboot and wait 5-10min for update. I think it will kick off only if your phone idle during that time. This seems to work if I flashed 7.1 ROM
Hope it helps.