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[EVO 4G General] youngchris29:
Sounds like you might need to do a prl update. Although, that is really weird because boost doesn't allow roaming. :confused:. But I would definitely try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps.
[EVO 4G General] alansupra94:
What PRL should you use? A sprint one? Boost Mobile one? I can't seem to find a new boost mobile PRL.

I suppose a sure fire way to get an updated PRL is to pull one using CDMA 2.7 from a activated and updated Boost Mobile phone?

I am running the newest Sprint PRL btw. Internet is pretty slow but my friend with Sprint at work told me it is pretty slow in this area.
[EVO 4G General] youngchris29:
Try updating the prl through settings>system updates. It should give you the latest boost prl 61008
[EVO 4G General] 9h0s7:
disabling roaming would stop that too. its under mobile networks, home only
[EVO 4G General] oodork123:
Does anyone have boost mobile mms apk?
[EVO 4G General] joerolando2701:
The update prl option always fails for me so maybe I'll update the prl with cdma I updated the radio and prl when I rooted it's 2.33_3 or something
[EVO 4G General] rigel1326:
Again I am asking if anyone has any trick to get the 1192 and 1194 eeprom to save. Using cdma 2.7 on a Sanyo Incognito. Can boot cdma to the both xp and win. Try over and over. Phone resets itself again and again.
[EVO 4G General] joerolando2701:
Also there is no system update in decks 44 unless I'm missing it only ever saw that in gb roms
[EVO 4G General] spyder3:
My Sprint contract is up on Sunday, and I'm leaning toward Boost to flash my phone to. Should I deactivate service with sprint prior to activating with Boost? Or does it not make a difference?
[EVO 4G General] youngchris29:
Doesn't make a difference because you will have to modify your meid which is how sprint/boost identifies what phone you are using
[EVO 4G General] spyder3:
From what I've read on other forums, I just have to find the right customer service rep to use my current one...is that not correct?
[EVO 4G General] youngchris29:
What phone are you trying to use on boost?
[EVO 4G General] spyder3:
2 HTC EVO 4g's (me and my wife's)

Mine is rooted, and hers is not...not sure if that makes a difference.
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
I just got finished flashing a phone for this guy and he had a week to go before his contract expires, but this was with Verizon. Still, the number was transferable and all went well after activating the donor when creating an account. The flash was stubborn (error 67) but fixed that with a profile update on the EVO.

With Sprint it shouldnt be an issue, you still will need to activate a donor when creating a new account at boost, then pull the info and flash it to EVOs, simple with CDMA 2.8
[EVO 4G General] New Optimus:
Wimax 4g uses a mac address, just like your computers ethernet and wireless adapters. You could spoof your mac address but you would need to use one that is active on the boost network, and if you are going to buy a new 4g enabled phone and pay the (slightly) higher monthly price why would you continue to use a 2 year old phone?

I could see if you wanted a better phone then boost offers, which the evo is but the new evo should be remarkably better then previous boost phones.

I have played around with the 4g on my evo and I can connnect to sprints wimax and even get a ip assigned but like any computer if that mac address is not recognized it will block it from accessing the net. I can open the browser and get a sprint selfactivation website but it ultimately fails and tells me to take it to a sprint store to activate.

The only Sprint branded phones that can go on boost are old NON-Android phones. And some of those non-androids wont transfer either. For any android phone that is NOT Boost labeled you can only do it the way listed in the guide. Or to put bluntly clone a boost phone.

The incognito is used by both sprint and boost and the sprint version can be used, but its not always going to work also some windows mobile phones like the touch pro and tp2 can be used with boost.

One thing to note most sprint phone esn's can NOT be used to start a boost account. You can use a esn that did come from boost even if its old or you dont even have that phone, there are websites that keep a pool of esn's that can be used to start a boost account then your to put your sprint branded phone on thus freeing up that boost esn for someone else to use in the same way.
[EVO 4G General] spyder3:
I've read about that technique that you are referring to. I've also noticed that some of those ESN's are not available. Are people just writing those on their EVO's, and not freeing them back up?
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
Not sure about those shared ESN's, always have used a donor to do the trick, easiest.
[EVO 4G General] RuckusDecay:
Think about it like this you need to have service with 4g

Example: clearwire wimax thats a service you have to pay for, 4G is not free its like ISP you have to pay for it, its not "regular" data sprint charges $10 on top of unlimited everything data plan. Maybe use somebodys clear acount
[EVO 4G General] ariellestarchild:
and the only reason why I would use old Evo 4G on Boost with Boost's 4G is because my parents got me an extended battery for my for my birthday last month and I don't think it'll work on the Evo Design 4G
[EVO 4G General] New Optimus:
It could be possible, though most of those esn's are to phones so old and not 3g capable plus you would not have HA OR AAA keys so you would not get internet or even pic messaging. talk and sms text only.

I would never trust one of those esn's for a donor either. Always have my donor phone in hand so nothing happens like it or another clone is turned on while mine is.
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
yeah i dont think so either
[EVO 4G General] oc1990:
As anyone found a way to flash the evo 3D, I have flash 2 evo 4g's successfully but I was just wondering about the 3D. any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] gmzombie:
the evo 3d works the same way as all of the evos with that new flashing. look in the 3d forums to find that if you you dont know already. but to get 4g i asked a person at the boost mobile shop and even tried to activate over the website and it wont let me and i have a clean esn evo shift. i guess maybe getting a design thats broekn with a clean esn and doing the ol change around for that to work with 4g i think.
[EVO 4G General] oc1990:
ahh thanks! hmm I think the problem with 4g is that we are flashing our phones with the esn of 3g phones, I think the only way we can make them work is by getting a phone that is 4g on boost and using that phone to flash the HTC EVO but I want to say that is going to be expensive so there is really no point.

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lol I did the research and it basically brought me back here. so is basically the same guide? is there anything I need to know about the 3D, specific android version or anything like that. I broke my evo 4g so I was thinking of getting a 3D to flash but I just want to make sure is possible and that it is the same steps to those of the evo 4g or similar
[EVO 4G General] disazter380:
Since flashing my phone to boost I've been having very slow data speeds. My signal is always 1x. Can anyone help me fix this? Can i do a prl update even tho I'm on boost?
[EVO 4G General] draconx:
hey guys im having an issue with trying to open CDMA 3.8.5 on my Virtual Win XP system. when i go to open it it either restarts the session or does not start the program at all. it will open but only show the start up screen but then it will automatically close the program.

how do i fix this problem?.. please let me know! :)
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
hmm, just wondering why you have cdma 3.8.5 on V XP? I'm using it on W7-32, with the Sanyo Drivers installed, so no need for XP. Could be an XP thing, dunno... I tried installing VXP and then cdma 2.7 but didnt work for me....

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Sure the PRL update might be a good thing, try a profile update as well, it fixed an error 67 for me once.
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
ok then i have windows 7 64 i am guessing that mine wont work with my cdma 3.8.5? crap why? oh well will have to try with v xp and see if it works that way....i cant seem to find the second aaa password for the samsung rant so i tried it with the sanyo incognito.....the drivers wont work on 7 64 so i am at a standstill right now....guess i am going back to the rant atleast the drivers will work on a windows 7 64....

k
[EVO 4G General] draconx:
im on win7 64bit. do you have the drivers for win7 that i can use?.. it appears that my VXP just restarts now when i go to open CDMA :0/...

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alright well i unlocked my sanyo and now im trying to pull the NV Item's from the phone but it keeps giving me this

"Process is stopped. Phone does not answer"

error and its becoming very annoying.. how did you guys get past this? i'm on a virtual install of win xp if that helps.. please let me know. thanks!
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
Thats just it, V XP...

I was fortunate to have an old laptop laying around doing nothing so wiped it clean and installed Win 7 32 bit, no more problems.

If you can do the same, it would fix a lot of what you're going thru. I cant offer any help with Virt XP, as I said before didnt work for me so didnt bother.

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Dont think its not going to work due to W764, but with 32 bit its a whole lot better, CDMA 3.8.5 should work with 64 bit, but the drivers for the Incognito wont work, but they will in 32bit, as does CDMA.

Its either downgrade to 32bit or borrow someones laptop with it.
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
reply

ok will down grade my old laptop and then go from there...i am the one by the way who sent you a pm about flashing to boost and straight talk.....waiting patiently

k
[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
Yeah no prob, was writing it up just now, will tidy it up and send it, good luck with it.
[EVO 4G General] procter:
A little bit lost about two places:

1. What's the purpose for saving several NV files from donor phone (tutorial mentioned four different numbers, 465,466,1192,1194. Is this step the same for any donor phone, say even a HTC smartphone?

2. What's the purpose for searching phone memories on EVO? I mean, essentially you want to get EVO to be recognized as the donor right, so all the fuss about searching memory is just to change the M. E. I. D？Can't we just change it in CDMA workshop directly?

3. Do we need to deal with A-key at all?

Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
which version of cdma are you running?

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION

1. to answer your first question each phones information is unique.... ex. nv items and also nam items.....

second because of the rules of this forum which i support the second question cant be answered.....

what version of cdma workshop are you running?

if its the cracked version or the free one like the one in this guide, then you wont be able to do it WITHOUT following this guide.....IF ITS THE PAID VERSION WHICH IS CDMA 3.8.5 you wont have to search for it at all.....so it just depends on where your standing right now....there is always an EASIER way to do something.......NOT ALWAYS CHEAPER....lol

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[EVO 4G General] procter:
Thanks for your reply.

For Q1, if I use a Touch pro2 as donor, do I still save the same NV items following the guide, or it would be different and nobody would know which ones to save now. Q associated to this is, what do those NV items do and what info do they contain? Are they the essential files associated with network registration, or it's part of the "ID" of the donor phone.

Q2, I'm just curious, what will happen if I simply change the value in E. S. N in the CDMA ws and click "write" to phone? I assume it would not completely change everything associated in the memory, so you'll have to search the memory first?

Thanks
[EVO 4G General] New Optimus:
For Q1 you really only need the HA and AAA keys, they are found in the nv items. You should not absolutely need the actual nv items however you would have to do a profile update to change the nv items on the evo... after you have the HA and AAA keys correctly written.

As to the Q2 Which version of cdma workshop do you have? With 3.8.5 you just change the value and click write:)

However with earlier versions it will just error.
[EVO 4G General] procter:
Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have the latest 3.8.5 version. So for TP2, how would I define the memory scanning range in order to find all the associated places?

I used QPST and CDMA WS got most of the donor phone's info backed up. However, when using QXMA to read out the HA and AAA， I noticed that the AAA code were all zeros, while the HA is the normal string ("secret" I believe, starting with 73）. Do those code sound about right to you?

I also directly copied them from the M IP default profile in a txt file, however, the AAA code had some squares and unrecognizable characters, it copied fine. From my reading, some people said they could simply copy paste the backed up strings from the txt into the MIP profile using ##778# and edit.

Another thing is A-key, should we deal with that too? Using CDMA WS 2.7, I could not read out the A-key and SSDa SSDb items, all blank there, but the check sum 6 digit could be calculated from my ESN fine.

Again, thanks a lot.
[EVO 4G General] New Optimus:
in red ^
[EVO 4G General] tghtaclegend:
so I did everything in the guide and now the problem is that I get txt messages on my evo when my donor (incognito) is on and I get the same msgs on my donor as well. But I can not send txt from my evo. Also when I try to dial out from my evo I get "error 16, switch 394".........any help is much appreciated.

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also when I try to send a text I get "SMS Error" Cause Code: 97 Error Class 3
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
read carefully

did you read the part in the guide where it says and i quote

NOW TURN OFF THE DONOR PHONE AND REMOVE BATTERY AND NEVER TURN ON DONOR AND PHONE THAT YOU FLASHED TO FOR EXAMPLE THE EVO IN THIS CASE....AT THE SAME TIME

as for the error 16 message just stay on the phone and a representative for boost will come on the phone and verify your acct name number and passcode... just REMEMBER TO SAY THAT YOU ARE USING THE SANYO INCOGNITO not the evo.......this is very important and a step that most my customers FORGET TO MENTION...they will ask for a another phone number and call you from there and then reset your evo (INCOGNITO) AND then you should be good to go for voice and text....as for 3g you would have to either update your profile in the settings menu or reflash the ha and aaa passwords as well as the nam1 and nam2 files again....

usually the update of the profile fixes these things after you talk to the rep from boost...

best of luck

k

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[EVO 4G General] gellybelly:
yeah just like what K said, you did everything but turn off the Donor...I usually turn off the donor after I read all the NV and NAM files, I pull the battery and tape it all up.

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hmm, think I will get the 2.7 and try to flash one, see if I can do it lol, I mean using 3.8.5 is such a breeze, there's absolutely no need to zero out anything. I wonder if its the same with 2.7, i just may try it out and if they way I do it in 3.8.5 works the same I'll put up a better guide.
[EVO 4G General] jerebediah:
Help please

I have been trying to flash my htc evo shift to boost for awhile now and i have done everything in the guide... I get 3G data but no text or phone... every time I try calling it says that my phone is not in service and if i send a text i get an error code that says "Cause Code:97, Error Class:2" I have done ##rtn# and reset my phone but it never activates and then i manually put everything back in and i get 3G back but still no data or phone... I have done this 3-4 times and still nothing... Does anyone know what is happening or can help! Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] ViciousxGaruda:
A quick question, What if I get a donor phone from Craigslists that was used as a donor before, would that donor phone would activated the seller phone as well if the seller also have a flashed boost phone? Or is the setting in this guide will avoid that situtation? Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
stay on the phone with cust serv rep

all you have to do is stay on the line and a switch 16 operator will come on and verify you are using a boost mobile phone.....very important to say YOU ARE USING THE DONOR PHONE AND NOT THE EVO YOU ARE ON....and they will ask for another phone number and then tell you to turn off the evo and have you reboot it and then make a test call and everything should be fine...

i have done a few of these and have to go through that process about a 1/3 of the time.....at least you got the 3g working most dont.....

IF I HAVE HELPED PLEASE HIT THE THANKS BUTTON....};)

K
[EVO 4G General] jerebediah:
I ##rtn# then hit menu and reset, type in my code then it reboots. after a few minutes it comes up and it is activating then it stops... and says something like this "if you are working with a sprint representative wait, If not hit activate to try again" so i hit activate after 3-5 minutes goes by it goes to another sprint menu where it shows if data and talk are working... neither are in menu. then I back out and my 3G is working but not phone or sms. Then I check my settings and my profile 0 and profile 1 arent in the settings anymore. so i then put them in again do all the nv items and nam 1 and 2... then after this it hard resets the phone then the ota doesnt start up on boot anymore and my phones data work but no phone or sms... lol I have done this like 8 times its killing me... I have been trying to do this for weeks now... idk what is going wrong... I have read other posts where they just take the donors meid and esn implants and then put the mdi and msid in and it works right there and then... i have all that and then some but nothing but data.... which is kinda funny usually its the other way around people get the phone to work but no data... lol any insight would be great!

ALSO: just adding this in... when i go to send a text it gives me sms error "Cause code:97, Error class:2" which i was reading in another thread means its not activated, but it wont activate by itself... thanks again!
[EVO 4G General] tghtaclegend:
Thanks, for the info.........2 issues now........I looked at my baseband on the phone and it says 2.15.00.12.19.....could that be an issue? The other thing is that I read over the guide again and didnt really do "round 9" all the way. All I did was up to where it says to save as "scan1.bin"

I dont really get the rest of that round 9 -----------> Then open up Win Hex to find all your Meid and ESN locations (in reverse of course)

in your hex editor each address will have a offset where it found it

you need to use a hex calculator and add your starting address to that number to get location of you Meid or ESN

example"""

say you found an Meid at offset 2B710 in your hex editor on your 1st scan which started at 00FA

you add 00FA0000 + 2B710 which gives you FCB710 which is actually 00FC:B710 you just add the 00's in front. (You can load up windows calculator and add the offset and location together to give you the area to search for in Memory in Qxdm.

do that for all ESN and MEID locations you find in each bin file <---------

does my problem make sense because of that now? sorry, I'm a noob and havent boosted any evos before.

Thanks again for your help and guidance.
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
Almost there

OK let me help you with this....the next time you reset the phone......##786# it will ask for your code msl, unlock all the same thing enter it and it will reset the phone to stock........THIS IS THE PART YOUR MISSING ON AND WILL LAUGH ABOUT NEXT TIME......

DONT LET IT ACTIVATE WHEN IT FIRST COMES ON AFTER YOU HIT ##786# BECAUSE IT WILL ACTIVATE TO SPRINT!!!!! YOU WANT IT TO ACTIVATE TO BOOST RIGHT?......CANCEL THIS ACTIVATION ATTEMPT AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS.......

NOW go through the guide and enter your BOOST DONOR nv items and profiles 0 and 1 as well as your nam 1 and nam 2 and dont forget to copy and enter your phones prl as boost and sprint use a different one...

after all this is done it will reset the phone again NOW IF IT TRIES TO ACTIVATE AFTER ALL THE ABOVE HAVE BEEN ENTERED INTO THE PHONE JUST LET IT ACTIVATE IF NOT ALL YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO IS FOLLOW MY POST FROM EARLIER ABOUT SWITCH 16 OPERATOR AND UPDATE YOUR PRL IN SETTINGS AND ALSO YOUR PROFILE AND ALL SHOULD BE JUST DANDY..

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LIGHT COMING ON....I SAY THAT BECAUSE SOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPENED TO ME THE VERY FIRST TIME.. ;)

K

:cool:
[EVO 4G General] Klown80:
not true. I always let it do the OTA activation the first time and it activates on Boost, however I do some steps in a different order. I do not even copy nv items to the phone anymore, the OTA will program your phone number and MSID. First you need to do the unmentionable part (If you do not know what I am talking about, please google it). After that hit ##786# and reset, then you let it ota activate. That will get voice and text going (or possible error 16 which is quite easy to fix, I can do it without talking to CS) then for data, update profile would work but if you go into QPST and look at profile 0 NAI (username) it starts out A1 instead of A0, if not for this update profile would probably work on its own. Change username to correct info and try to update profile from within phone settings. If still no data then you need to manually program the profile 0 and 1 NAI's, HA's, and AAA's into the phone (its a crap shoot sometimes I have gotten it to fully activate on its own, others I have had to manually program) Finally update prl and do MMS fix in ##3282# menu.

I have found I almost always had problems if I do not do the ##786# after doing the first step somewhat mentioned above. If anyone needs further detail or would like me to help you, message me and I will do my best to help get you unstuck. Most of the guides out there are kind of old and there are much faster ways of doing it now, especially if you are scanning basebands!

Hope this helps!!
[EVO 4G General] kalehua4791:
you're correct also

not true. I always let it do the OTA activation the first time and it activates on Boost, however I do some steps in a different order

i was trying to let him or her know what their step was doing because obviously you and i know how to program the phone to do that step but they were resetting and then without changing anything trying to activate it which will go to sprint by default...unless you change some steps like you said.....which as we know puts you back at step one.....

so again i hope they get either step done before they lose their minds as i almost did till i bought the full version and then its a breeze....cdma 3.8.5 is the latest now.....

best of luck with it...

by the way any help on evo4g to straight talk which is where i am at now trying to pull items from lg220c and cant get it......some have said it has a block on it......

k

just as a side note if any are wondering if you want to flash the evo to straight talk you will need

an lg220c that has never been activated

....you can order it from straighttalk.com....have now 4 to straight talk as well as a few samsung gs3 and some note 2's........mms is a doosey but i use gosmspro......

peace

k