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[Hero CDMA General] smallfrys:
Well, it's settled, I'll root then. I always wanted the backup feature, since that's one thing I've missed since switching from iOS.

So, regarding Roam Control, is a hybrid PRL still necessary when you set the phone to "Roam Only"? Or will it force the phone to roam even if it has a Sprint PRL? I can't even try out the Roam Control app, as it's been pulled from the market and isn't hosted on the developer's site.

Also, I see some people doing 5+ GB/month of roaming data in here and not getting banned, but the OP said over 300 MB/month. Are they just being very lenient? I don't want to abuse it, since I like Sprint's prices, but in the past while their service has gotten horrendous in my area. All my friends with Verizon will have 4 bars while mine is on 0-1 :(
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
you have to keep in mind that they look at your data for months in a row just because someone used 5gigs one month they may have used less the next and so on i started this with oostah back in april and they really didnt catch on to me until mid june when i got the letter. now onto your question about roam control it dosnt really work it looks at what your default provider is witch would be sprint in your case so it would automaticly switch to verizon when u hit roam but you would only get 1x with sprint prls so even though your using a verizon prl roam controll would still think your on sprint so it would switch to verizon. also they dont just check for data they check for how much minutes/texts you use. oh and just some advice if your think about doing this just for data trust me its not worth getting kicked at the end of the day it would still be cheaper to just fork over the money for a dsl line and getting wifi.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
hey guys. Been linking folks to this thread that have been talking about signal issues, hope y'all are cool with that.

Side note, had been talking to a sprint rep about a month ago and asked him how much data I had been using since I'm on their unlimited plan. Guy gave me some god awful long number. Told him to give me a number I could wrap my head around. You could hear him **** himself when he told me 16gb. Asked if it was an issue, told me no.

***for anybody reading this, that he told me it was nothing doesn't mean anything, I only use this where my signal sucks, not, I repeat not, as an everyday thing ***
[Hero CDMA General] smallfrys:
Thanks for that. I have 25/5 connection at home, it's just that I have a terrible signal in a lot of places where I go (pretty much anywhere at school and inside most businesses/malls). Then, even when I do have a signal, my speeds have become atrocious compared to what they were even last year.

I just want to be able to get a signal (especially for phone) when I'm inside of places. I'll probably end up switching to Verizon eventually, since it's only an extra $18/mo for a similar plan (albeit with 4GB/mo and no texts, but I rarely use 1 GB/mo and use GV) and that's with only a 10% Verizon discount and a 25% Sprint discount.
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
thats the point u cant get carried away with this this is more when your at your grandmothers who dosnt believe in internet or something like that lol

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yea when i got my dsl line i barley use 1gig to mostly streaming music in the car so the 2gig plan is deffintly doable for me lol
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
We should be getting the house hooked up this week. Can't wait, hope to at least take one phone off unlimited. I stream movies like mad and the phone has been the only connection. figure I can drop data usage dramatically. Haven't gotten any warnings from sprint or anything figure I keep one unlimited plan in case sprint changes things. Got a buddy that had AT&T unlimited and when they changed he was grandfathered the unlimited. Will say though if it wasn't for this thread I'd have thrown my phone in the trash. Pointless to pay for what I wasn't getting. Even though sprint has been playing with it's signal since the last prl update. May have high signal numbers but it's been more "usable" than before. Heard they were compressing the data to try to make up for it.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
be care full i had one unlimited plain and 3 that was not one of the was not went over roaming more than not. before it was over i lost all four lines. they was under the same name and social security number so they shut them all down.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
I'll keep that in mind. Since I first found this thread though I've come across an open wifi signal that I can grab say 50% or so of the time. Think it had to do with the devs adding wireless n to the kernels. Didn't seem to be able to get it till then. So I really only use this trick when I just can't get any signal that's worth a thing.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
ok after a LONG time i have figured out this DROID 3 i pulled the newest Verizon prl 52644.prl

http://dev-host.org/ydx023hidjlk/52644.zip

so i should be able to keep up more on this thread with other prl's to if you need any ask and i will do what i can to get what you want.

plus i have uploaded ICS gapps 4.0 to the downloads for any one that needs them. i have seen alot of people download the hero gapps. thought it may help.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL:cool:
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Thanks man, I'm a sucker for a new prl to play with. Had a couple of the older ones, older for me at least crap out then come back over the last couple months if that makes any sense. Happy Holidays to you too
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
they will do that when they are working on the network verizion is pushing LTE hard right now so it will jump around.

thats one rezone that i have added Cricket and telus prl's to the op. more options for people that may only get one or the other.

if you are board want to test one out try the cricket when i downloaded it said it was a combined prl. this is from cricket nothing i did just curios to how much change it would be.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
I'll take a look see. I've heard of cricket but not Telus. They sound regional. I'm way down in Southwest Florida
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
Cricket covers most of FL telus i put up had some ask for it before but telus is more out of the states.

thanks for giving cricket a try let us know what you find :D
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Ok, well, tried to give ya a screenshot. But having issues with that.

I'll explain as best I can.

Prl 42900 downloaded fine, put it where I keep all the others, extracted fine.

But when I go to choose it from the list after all the ##775# etc. I noticed something odd, which is why I wanted to show you. In the listing of prl's to the far right of the screen after all the folder info there is usually a number listed with each. That cricket # didn't have one. Actually had a "0" gave it a shot anyways. Now with most, after hitting "commit modifications" there's a second or so while the system does it's thing. This one went through very quickly, too quickly.

Rebooted, let everything boot up, then went into the phone menu to check the prl under "about phone" nothing, had the newest sprint # showing. I tried this several times to make sure it wasn't user error. Right now I'm on the 01337-mod prl so I can change it.

Don't know what it could be. if nothing else I hopeI've been able to give ya what ya need as best I could. Let me know if I left anything out you could use our if I missed something.

Either way thanks for your work man. If I don't hear from ya I'll try downloading again when I get a chance, to see if that may have been where the problem occurred.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Just downloaded again. When I moved the file to another folder it gave me a, 0 (bytes?) Moved message. I take it to mean there was no information in there?

Hope it helps...
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
i will pull the zips and look into them and see whats wrong thanks and sorry for the mix up
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
No problem man, I consider it to be part of having the ability to tweak the hay out of my phone.

Somebody needs to test these things. As long as I can go back to what I had or the phone doesn't melt in my hand then it's all good.

I'm more annoyed that I couldn't get a pic up there for ya
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
i believe i have them fixed not sure what went wrong but some thing did lol:rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA General] htc_inspire:
Thanks for the latest Verizon prl, I can't pull them because I am in a Alltel area that was bought by Verizon but I still get the Alltel prl's. If you need the latest non-divested Alltel/Verizon prl I can do that though!
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
this is a community all are welcome if you can get prl's from any carrier i will be more than happy to add them.

At times i get way to much going on. get 7 two 10 phones and 3 two 5 tablets going it gets easy to get lost lol. Its 6:30 am and i am just now going to bed i will sleep 3 to 4 hrs and do it all over agian. any help i get is great.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Do you have the 51807 Prl's ? I picked a couple up from another thread, one evdo and one not. Both with the same #'s . (they've been modded to work with sprint) I extracted them and tossed the zip though. So I'm not exactly sure how to get them to ya.

I'll poke around in my phone and see if i can find the thread where they're posted at and if nothing else give ya a link to them.

Edit; here's the link to the thread I was talking about.

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-tips-tricks/134629-i-found-prl-force-roaming-triangle-without.html[/URL]

Sorry man can't seem to get it to post as a link. Been having weird issues of this type when posting to xda through tapatalk. But then I guess it can be copied and pasted into a browser to get there.
[Hero CDMA General] RyAndoid:
PRL from RUU

Hey Guys does anyone know how to extract the PRL from an RUU. I have an off beat carrier in the middle of know where. The have all the towers so I'm hoping using there PRL will in crease my signal!
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Don't know if it matters. But I'm testing a new kernel atm, and have the phone severely underclocked.

Alright, took me a bit to get it to download. Not sure if it's the server or me. But it's working, getting a signal. It's 1x speeds but a -90dbm 1x. Got roaming set to auto.

Now mind you I'm on the edge of the everglades in a place that's a black hole to sprint in a concrete bunker of a building. Even a stock sprint prl will on occasion drop into 1x territory here. The 60683 prl from sprint hangs at the high 80's to over 100 dbm in this pillbox of a building. I'll play with it a little more and see if it changes.

Like I said, could just be where I'm at. Got some traveling to do tomorrow closer in town, I'll see how she runs then and let ya know.

Just for a half assed reference. My moms locked AT&T iPhone 4 drags like a crippled goat here also.
[Hero CDMA General] dynamiclynk:
This is great thanks much! :D
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
can yall do manual prl updates on the droid x and d2 without having to use qpst or cdma workshop
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
sorry i haven't been on here my pc crashed. been down for two days. but im back up and running.
[Hero CDMA General] kurtosterhage:
3G Roaming

Do any of these PRLs let you have Sprint 1x & EVDO normally, but let you roam on Verizon 1x & EVDO?
[Hero CDMA General] waqasr:
Hey oostah

I trying out some of your sprint PRLs.

I will keep you posted, thanks once again.

Keep up the good work :)
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
yes the verizon 52299 and the hybrid ones
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
try the sprintverizon.prl in the modified. or like Bierce22 said the hybrid prl.
[Hero CDMA General] kurtosterhage:
Awesome. Also, is there a way to change your PRL without CDMA Workshop or a Sense ROM yet?
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
No u can use qpst if u want it's the same thing as cdma workshop but it's free
[Hero CDMA General] Hippie459MN:
I currently have 60678 on my Hero (Sprint) and wondering is 60679 the latest or should I stick with 60678? I am noticing some slow data speeds lately and was told to maybe update my PRL and was pointed tho this thread.

Awesome thread by the way. :D
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
60679 is about the same for me try the sprintverizon one it might help you.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
60679 shut down towers in some places. like this prl did

http://www.roamingzone.com/prl/#Sprint

or try the 01120.prl it should give you more home area it for business lines that use more data over more area.

some times older prl's are better. or a modified one.
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
i just made my first prl... sort off lol. What i did was i took the 01120 corporate prl and i gave all the towers the same priority in theory this should stay connected to the closest available sprint tower and not jump so i wouldn't recommend it for traveling but it would be good for tethering and gameing. so tell me what yall think about it thx.

the prl is 01130 and ill send it to oostah later so he can put it with the others
[Hero CDMA General] kyouko:
trying it now... if it sucks I'll let you know :p
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
haha thx... lol diale *18send to connect to the nearest tower and it should stay connected to that one
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
i will gladly add any prl as long as i now it works. i have 50 or more prls. that flopped out the gate.

if others can test this please let US know so i can add it.

ALL PRL'S ARE WELCOME HERE!!
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
i did the same thing but with the 52299 prl here it is lol
[Hero CDMA General] guiltyspark117:
So its safe to flash a Verizon prl? Cuz around here Verizon is king!
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
yes as long as your on a plan that has unlimited roaming you should be fine.

and i would use the 52299 prl i was doing further testing on the verizon mod i made and it has trouble connecting sometimes.
[Hero CDMA General] youdug:
anyone in the pittsburgh area? or recommend one for that area?
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
ryan what carrier is it i might be able to find one online somewere u cant really extract a prl from an ruu u have to load qpst or dfstools and do it from there.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
+ 1 im sure we can find one or close that will work for you.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
I can't say that I have but I was on alltel and we didn't have to set are data or spl I think that's what it was on sprint. But I have heard others with that issue on sprint.
[Hero CDMA General] RyAndoid:
I use golden state cellular. They allow verizon to roam on there tower but without data. So I'm guessing a verizon PRL is my best bet. I was asking about the RUU because I have an update from them. the towers don't change a lot in my area so i would guess old PRL may work just as well!
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
Have you tried the verizion-mod.prl or the other modified or even the hybrid prl's they may give you what you need. We can look for the golden state cellar prl's and see what we can come up with.
[Hero CDMA General] RyAndoid:
I haven't actually tried any PRL's yet. I just swapped roms and was sorting out some issues when I cam across this thread! I want to try but haven't had a chance yet!
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
just note that if u try an actual verizon prl you will have 3g regardless, carriers cant block 3g roaming if your using another carriers prl so your carrier might get mad if u use to much data
[Hero CDMA General] RyAndoid:
I'm not sure I understand! I know that my carrier blocks all data to verizon customers but allow phone and sms traffic through! I only know this for sure because by brother has verizon and his data connection does not work at all when mine does. So if I use a verizon prl will my carrier think I'm a verizon phone roaming? Or is the PRL only use internaling on my phone?
[Hero CDMA General] LancerEVA06:
Most likely you'll still have data because of the secure connection your phone makes with the carrier.

Example: My carrier is Sprint, but if I use a VZW PRL, my IP address will still be Sprint, not VZW.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
golden state cellar is owned by Verizon. there coverage map is the same as Verizon

http://www.goldenstatecellular.com/coverage/

so they do block there data.

be careful of roaming your roaming agreement witch is out there lol

You are "roaming" whenever your wireless device uses a transmission site outside your Coverage Area or uses another company’s wireless network. Sometimes roaming happens even when you’re within your Coverage Area. There may be higher rates and extra charges (including charges for long distance, tolls, or calls that don’t connect) for roaming calls, depending on your Plan.

Restrictions on Roaming: Customers must on average over a three month period use no more than 50% of the minutes they use during that period of time off the Golden State Cellular network. Off network usage is indicated by the “roam” symbol on your phone. If your average off network use is over 50% during any three month period, your Service with Golden State Cellular may be terminated upon 30 days notice

can be found here

http://www.goldenstatecellular.com/support/terms-conditions/

they will cut you off with a 30 day notice. sprint did this to me it sucks trying to find a new carrier and phones for a family of 4 in 30 days.

but this is good for people that want out of there contracts early with no fees :p
[Hero CDMA General] pas4227:
Having no luck getting a Verizon PRL working on my Sprint HTC EVO 4G. Which Verizon PRL has been working for those of you with Sprint service?

After doing the PRL update thing to a Verizon PRL and rebooting, do you have to change your roaming mode (on my phone = menu > settings > wireless & networks > mobile networks > roaming)? If so, what setting do you choose for roaming mode? I have options for Sprint Only, Roam Only, and Automatic.
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
just make sure u alow data roaming the other modes dont really matter
[Hero CDMA General] autoprime:
hoping someone can help out.. i have a somewhat unique setup..

i have sprint/republic wireless on my epic 4g touch with verizon 3g data profiles. so no more worrying about too much roaming. right now im using the 52644 prl and set all the vzw home towers to a roaming indicator of "1" so it wont show as roaming on my phone. i left the other sids untouched for now. i was working on a 2nd prl.. using 52644 as a base and adding all the sprint home towers from 11115 and setting them as roaming. in theory it sounds great... i could use all the verizon towers.. and in the few bad areas where sprint has better coverage.. force "roaming" and hop right on sprint.

now i have a few issues.. #1.. the prl is unfinished but i did add the sprint tower for my area(philly).. yet when i force roaming it just wont switch. tho i have a feelign this might be an issue with the app "roam control" and not with my prl building.

#2... i noticed verizon doesnt use many sprint home towers on their prl's... i think i saw 4 or 5.. texas.. florida.. kansas city.. yet i am able to sometimes get 3g when using prl 11115... so thats sprint tower on sprint phone.. but with verizon 3g profile.. but usually it flips to 1x.. so its possible to get 3g but it certainly doesnt prefer it. is it possible to mess with the association tags to maybe give it some steady 3g?

as im mainly a sprint user and always have been.. im not seeing thru the eyes of a verizon user. does verizon have a 3g data roaming limit like sprints 300mb limit? what happens when you start roaming on towers that have no roaming agreement.. such as me 3g data roaming on sprints philly tower yet thats not in the average verizon prl at all...

i will upload the prl i am working on.. you can tell me if im nuts for bothering.. perhaps give me some pointers. ive seen prls made in here that say they will pick the nearest tower? is that just by switching any sid that says "pref more" to just "same" ?

whats the "ultimate" prl for verizon users? usually these hacked prls are for sprint users(which ive used in the past).

sorry for rambling.. so much to talk about! :X

as for my prl.. the acq tble is still unfinished. ive only added what was needed for the 0000:0000:0000/26 entries.. and my philly sprint tower. what are the 0000:0000:0000/26 hybrid channels all about? some much info i have to research still :X
[Hero CDMA General] ajrty33:
tldr. This is the sprint heroc forum.
[Hero CDMA General] autoprime:
ok so replace e4gt with hero and the exact same things apply.

this is a PRL thread... with prl's from every cdma carrier. this is well within the topic.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
yes it is for any phone or carrier it started as cdma hero but clade it has gone beyond that.

i will look at what you have today or tonight and see if i can do any thing to help.

thanks to all that has helped this grow and expand
[Hero CDMA General] autoprime:
it seems that samsung cdma phones have a bug where they will not roam on the PCS band. so me trying to force sprint on the roaming side of the prl would be ineffective whether the prl was correct or not. at least from what i've read/been told. i'm going to keep playing though.

association tags have me interested.
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
there maybe a bug.but looking at the prl you have is the same way i started. i tried to isolate towers and networks. i think thats what you are going for. i found that i some places you have repeaters antenna's that maybe other carrier's you miss the signal. i like where you are at with this prl. you can look to see who owns the towers in your area and there fcc license to what frequencies they can use. that way you could have the perfect prl for you.
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Interesting... do y'all have a link or something to any info about this "creating a prl" business? I think that'd be a very informative read.
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
theres no real turorials about it u just have to figure it out for your self
[Hero CDMA General] Ken C:
Lol...ok, well one question then?

What do you use to view the prl file? I understand about extracting it from the zip, what are y'all using after that to view the things. I'm thinking that would be the first step in figuring it out for myself.. :) I know oostah said a ways back in the thread that he could put together a prl for folks location. But I'm not the type to ask somebody to do something for me that I could very well try to do for myself..
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
i use QPST to view and edit prl's. links like this

http://www.roamingzone.com/sid/sid1.shtml

http://www.roamingzone.com/faq.shtml

for starters alot of reading lol
[Hero CDMA General] htc_inspire:
Anyone have the latest Verizon prl to host?
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
52644 is the latest I have what are you looking for

I just updated mine to 52686 I will try and pull it and post it by tomorrow
[Hero CDMA General] htc_inspire:
Thanks, there was just an update a couple days ago and was trying to find the latest. I get pushed Alltel prls but the native Verizon ones work better for me.
[Hero CDMA General] htc_inspire:
I have 40087.prl file if anyone wants it, but I can't post the link yet because I am too new still.
[Hero CDMA General] AcIdSaMa:
Anyway I can get a edify script for the Alltel rom I have never had any luck getting diag mode working with CM7
[Hero CDMA General] oohaylima:
And you never will since that requires some form of Sense.
[Hero CDMA General] AcIdSaMa:
Pretty much why I'm wanting the Alltel rom to be converted to edify
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
I use this for cm7 and cm9

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1162091

im dealing with a bad tooth right now so i have not been able to work on getting the newest Verizon prl
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
hey oostah its been awhile lol
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
Ya man it has! Glade to see you still around. :)
[Hero CDMA General] oostah:
Verizon 52707.prl uploaded
[Hero CDMA General] Bierce22:
nice to see that one of us is keeping the dream alive lol