yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexFG:
That's the first thing I tried with mob/simple IP but it still didn't authenticate. I'll give it a shot again later today because that makes more sense than the MSL.

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My radio is 0.97.10.0530. Did you have a stable 3G connection at your current location before? Maybe metro hasn't rolled out the service 100% in your area yet; I used to have that problem at my house a few weeks ago. Sometimes I would get 3G for a few mins and then it would go back down to 1x; I had the same issue with PRL 3022, 3024 and 3025.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
There is 3g at my house but it would flip flop between the two. Metro.phones get it steady. But whatever changed when I wrote the prls f.d me up. I was in a full 3g area last night. Holding a optimus in one hand with full bars 3g and mine with 1bar of 1x and it wouldnt switch to 3g I'm about to do the start from scratch thing I think.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macklin345:
Hey guys i tried this on my Fascinate but its a no go. I changed to mtezzy settings.

Hey mtezzy everything was working fine til your PRL update? If so try resetting your phones data settings flashing a rom again and redoing the settings to see if the 3G comes back stable
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I reset everything I'm actually out right now going towards where I know there is more steady 3g so hopefully it comes back
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
Hey, so what did you use for the HA/AAA Shared secret field values? If the msl doesnt go there, then Is there a way to get them? Ive read you need to get them from a donor metro branded phone but is there any other way? I mean, if thats the case, what do you tell the people at metropcs to get those keys?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I had the msl in there when it started working. I don't know what's going on now I can't get it back. One thing I know I had different than the guides on dfs show was my sid cause detroits id is 6504. I think Dallas is 6503. There is a list of all the city ids on Howard forums. Which may help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey mteezey,

Still no luck getting 3G again?

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
fyi...That hofo post says metro is adapting 6503 nationally.

Here's the other info:

Sacramento CA 5007

San Francisco CA 5037

Miami FL 4815

Atlanta GA 4273

Tampa FL 5109

Dallas TX 6503

Detroit MI 6504

Los Angeles CA 6509

Philadelphia PA 654545

(credit to Smakd40)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chincua987654321:
hello just want to share my experience of present day

I live in grand rapids michigan

and the map appears with 3G coverage but only once change to 3g a few weeks ago but only for a few hours and return to 1x

but this day was a trip to detroit michigan and most of the time had 3g

was fast and worked pandora and youtube without problems but when

back to my city, he returned to 1x seems not yet to and 3G in my city

I have a htc evo 4g and used, kyocera melo as a donor and non-3G model

so the problem is not the esn

and the AAA / HA shared secret phone I have the MSL of donor

and apologies for the bad English but I speak only Spanish

and use the translator to translate this

thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Thanks for the info mexigga :D

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey chincua987654321,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Hopefully one day Metro will expand 3G coverage to the area you live in.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Nope. I don't get it. I've reset everything went in 3g areas and nothing. I just reflashed the same ROM over. I might retrace my footsteps from that day. Cause the first time it switched was actually when I lost coverage in IKEA. So maybe if I do that again I will come out with 3g LOL.

I just was reading chinicua post sorry if i spelled that wrong. Now I'm confused if he is using donor msl. Since I actually did get 3g with my msl. I wish someone could explain to us exactly how the houdini program gets our esn in the database. I'm sure that would solve the issue. I know they use another phone. But all my info is still the info from the phone . Confused...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsho31:
Do those numbers affect anything in particular? Just curious. And another thing, my mom and sister both have metro phones. Next time I go over, ill take my laptop and get the setting off both. I ran a speed test on my sisters phone and the ping was at 113. I did mine from my EVO and it was 657. But her dl speed was 89kbps and mine capped at 133 everytime. I bought my mom an Epic so ill have here phone to use as a dummy not too long from now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
No sabes que es lo que tiene que ir en AAA y HA ? Osea, que valores tiene que ser? Es su msl? Porque yo cuando lei el telf. via el prog. DFS estavan vacios esos valores....Trate de poner mi msl pero no sirvio, no se conecta 3g. Y segun las tores usan esos numeros para identificar cada cell. Estos dicen que no, pero asi sirve la technologia, pues puede ser diferente para metro pero no lo creo. Por eso muchos cells no estan ciendo identificados por el systema de metro. Es lo que yo pienso....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexFG:
The home sid is 6503 for everyone, Houdini soft doesn't actually do anything other than reset the SPC to 000000, upload PRL 2004, set the home sid and most obviously add the phone's MEID/ESN to metro's inventory. Other than that it doesn't mess with the web or mms settings at all.

I've been testing a few EVOs I have here and I've come to the conclusion that MetroPCS does not need HAA/AAA athentication; I was able to get 3G with any value in there.

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The most important settings you need to have in there are the user profiles. So get on DFS and on the NAM tab under preferred setting make sure the mode and band are set to automatic don't force the phone into any specific mode. Try the latest 3026 PRL.

Now the Data tab goes like this:

PAP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: yourMetroPCSmsl

PPP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: yourMetroPCSmsl

HDR AN:

NAI: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: yourMetroPCSmsl

HDR AN Long:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: yourMetroPCSmsl

HDR AN PPP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: yourMetroPCSmsl

Mode settings

HDR SCP Force AT config: RevA_EHRPD

HDR SCP Force Release 0 config: EVDO_RevA

Now on the mobile ip tab

If you have it set to SimpleIP only try setting it to Mob/Simple IP

Number of profiles: 2

Active profile : 1

Retries Interval: ms1750

Dormant handoff: Checked

Now open up QPST

Go to the M.IP tab and you should see two profiles there 0 and 1.

Make sure both profiles are enabled NAI and tethered NAI are: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Rev Tunnel Preferred should be unchecked.

Home address is: 0.0.0.0

Primary HA address: 0.0.0.0

Sec HA Address: 0.0.0.0

make sure you have the same settings on both profiles.

On the PPP Config tab under the Um subcategory you should have yournumber@metropcs.com for ur user ID and your MSL for the pwd same goes on the AN tab. That's all you need, if for some reason you are still not getting 3G after that try playing around with a few different PRL files.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chincua987654321:
ya lei mi htc evo 4g con dfs y en el ((AAA shared secret tengo el MSL de mi telefono donante kyocera melo pero en hexadecimal son 12 digitos

y en la ((HA shared secret tengo esta clave (( 46454631463046414442414434444144 ))

que es de mi telefono donante

pero ahora mismo revise el lg optimus m de mi esposa y en ha sared secret tiene la misma clave 46454631463046414442414434444144

y en un samsung sch r350 de metro tiene la misma en (AAA tiene msl 12 digitos en hexadecimal) y en (HA tiene la misma clave

46454631463046414442414434444144

y en un samsung Samsung-Stunt-SCH-r100-MetroPCS

tiene la misma configuracion

y en todos los telefonos en el HA sared secret es la misma clave 46454631463046414442414434444144

los 3 telefonos que tengo tienen el mismo HA sared secret

iba a poner unas capturas del DFS pero no me deja dice que a usuarios nuevos no se permite poner links fuera para prevenir el spam

copia y pega en la barra de direcciones el enlace para ver las capturas

andro3gp.es.tl/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsho31:
Anyone else in Dallas go into digital roaming with the 3026 prl?? It just started happening 3 days ago..... I reverted back to 3025.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blayznaz:
With these settings:

MMS, WEB, GPS & 3G, should ALL work great.

If these settings don't work for your android 2.1 - 2.3.X phone...

then I don't believe the problem is within these settings.

It very well may be in the make-up of the installed ROM itself.

That's my 2-cents worth - now for the gravy...

THESE settings work on my phones as well as many

other HTC phones W/SENSE ROMS, I've used them on...

*****In DFS*****

PRL: 3026

PAP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: 6-Digit MSL Code

PPP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: 6-Digit MSL Code

HDR AN:

NAI: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: 6-Digit MSL Code

HDR AN Long:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: 6-Digit MSL Code

HDR AN PPP:

UID: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Pwd: 6-Digit MSL Code

Mode settings;

HDR SCP = RevisionA

Hybrid mode = Enable

MDR (HSPD) = SO33_Pref

Service option = IS707

*****In QPST*****

RFC2002bis MH-HA: Checked

Reregister only if traffic since last RRQ: Checked

Mobile IP: SimpleIP

(SimpleIP is so you get 1X

ONLY

if there is no 3G signal detected.

Active profile: 0

Number of profiles: 2

Retries Interval: ms1750

NAI and tethered NAI are BOTH: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

HA & AAA shared secret are BOTH: metropcs

MN-HA SPI: 12C

MN-AAA SPI: 2

DMU Public Key ID: 0

Rev Tunnel Preferred

IS

checked.

Home address is: 0.0.0.0

Primary HA address: 0.0.0.0

Sec HA Address: 0.0.0.0

Same settings on BOTH profiles.

On the PPP Config tab under the Um subcategory is the 6 Digit MSL code for user ID & AN tab.

Optimized Dormant Handoff: Checked

Mms.apk from MetroPCS Wildfire S

APN:

Name: Production

APN: internet

Proxy: wap.metropcs.net

Port: 3128

Username: yournumber@mymetropcs.com

Password: ****** <-- 6-Digit MSL

Server: wap.metropcs.net

MMSC: http://mms.metropcs.net:3128/mmsc

MMS Proxy: wap.metropcs.net

MMS Port: 3128

MMC: 310

MNC: 027

Auth Type: 2.0

APN Type: mms

Hope this helps someone(s) out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Alex you said in your post above that in the profiles on qpst to put our msl for.the nai and tehthered nai.? Is that right we put that instead of our number@mymetro?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexFG:
My bad that was a typo on the nai and tethered nai you are supposed to type in yournumber@mymetropcs.com.

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Yo hiba a hacer lo mismo que tu hiciste pero te me adelantaste.lol.

Esto confirma mi teoria de que metropcs en realidad no necesita HA/AAA para establecer una coneccion 3g.

Gracias por subir esta info.

Now for those of you that don't speak spanish:

Basically he checked the HA/AAA settings on a few different metropcs branded phones and all of them seem to have the same default value.

Like I said before HA/AAA authentication is not required to establish a 3G connection on metropcs.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I thought that was a typo. What difference the the reverse tunneling not being checked make? What is reverse tunneling? He didn't share that default value I take it?

Alex what ROM are you running on your 3vo I wanna try to run that with your settings and see if that helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
Im here traveling to DR. I'm in Miami Evdo which is 3g. Can't wait for Tampa... Haven't seen 1x for over 1 hr. No I haven't seen 1x since my arrival at 250.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
So I use my MSL as the user id and pw for the PPP config tab (um)?

:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
Msl code is from whiterabbit, user id is 10 digit #@mymetropcs.com
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
I understand that, I was asking regarding the instructions to use your MSL as your User ID (see above post)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexFG:
I'm using the Olympus Titan HD 3.0 ROM( It's awesome I haven't found a bug in it yet) here is the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1327237

Reverse tunneling is only needed for Mobile IP, if you wanna get more details on it check out this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP

interesting read.

Hope you get it working.

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No, the user ID is yournumber@mymetropcs.com and the pwd is your MSL. Sorry for the typos I wrote that last night at almost 3 a.m so I could barely see what I was typing. I'm gonna go ahead and edit it before I get more people confused.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Some one thats getting 3g hook your phone up to dfs and while you have a 3g signal see what channels it is scanning through if you look on the equipment tab. I wanna make a custom prl that has only channels that connect to evdo. still no luck with the 3g but i was just in my dfs and realized that each of my profiles had different settings one was set to metropcs and other to msl so that probably wasnt helping.

@alex ive been running olympus pretty much the whole time ive had my 3vo. with the exception of testing out some others. I actually just downloaded the updated odexed version im trying to make some chages to it now as far as the telephony apk and odex and replacing with the wildfire stuff ill let u know how it goes.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
What does it mean when you get a 3g signal for about half a second and then connects back to 1x? It kept switching back and forth like if they were fighting each other on who stayed, of course 1x won since after about 10 seconds of that 1x conn stayed steady all throughout the day. It was like it wasnt authenticating properly/completely to the 3g tower. That was happening today when I was out and about with prl 3022(first time ive seen the phone actually with a 3g signal). I only had my work laptop with me and not my personal laptop so I couldnt switch prls while being out but I will def switch prls and try some settings from posts above and maybe something will finally work!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
No worries. I appreciate your help. Just wanted to be sure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
IF I were you I would just leave it since its getting close. I messed with my prl and haven't seen 3g since. Jmo but if you do play with settings and it works please share ; )
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey mteezey,

Let me help you out,

I currently have my EVO hooked up to DFS with an active 3G connection and its scanning through Channel 1100, and Channel 925. Also the Band Class is PCS 1.8-2.0 GHz.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey,

If your switching back and forth from 3G to 1X, it most probably means that you have the correct settings but in your current area 1X signal is stronger than 3G. Try moving around until you find an area were 3G persists and is stronger.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Still nothing was downtown today too. I'm super confused. I'm gonna update my radio and reset everything again and see what happens.

On another note though I think the reason we get no service when we force hdr is something to do with the telephony apk not supporting it. Cause if I change my build prop from 4 to 2 which is wcdma it does the same thing plus ill get force closes. I've noticed all metro phones are set to hdr preferred.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] packer001:
Any chance of a re-up of Advanced Settings? Its no longer available in the market and the link that was provided earlier in the thread is expired. any help is apreciated :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Just dial *#*#4636#*#* it will take you to advanced settings.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey packer001,

I was about to respond to your PM, This app has been removed from the Market. But as soon as I get my hands on the APK I will post a direct link.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Here's a link:

Advanced Settings App

http://db.tt/FYjWFV2Z

Some roms don't have the *#*#INFO#*#* working and that's were the Advanced Setting app comes in.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
Doesn't do much for me... I am beginning to think 3g in L.A. is fake... :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
LOL I was thinking the sane thing about Detroit but then got it for that one day LOL. But changing the settings in *info* menu doesn't seem to work like on other phones. On my old metro phone if I changed to evdo only I would lose service because there was no evdo yet. But on EVO and 3d when I change it doesn't change anything. I just made a new prl that had only the hdr channels and the ones jd said above. And still no dice. If we could get a telephonyprovider apk from a metro phone that works on ours we might be able to change the build prop default network type and be able to force hdr and not lose signal. Cause I think the signal loss (forcing hdr) is somthing to do with telephonyprovidrr apk not supporting that mode.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
I'm still puzzled.. You got 3G for a day and now its just gone.. Their has to be a way for you to get it back, Double check all your settings!

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Sorry to hear that, Don't loose hope :)

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I've double triple quadruple checked, hard reset then set again probably twice tried metropcs instead of msl you name it I've tried it. I still think it was something to do with when my phone tried to roam in IKEA. I need to go back there. LOL.

I just don't get it cause its not like its just my phone my girls EVO won't get it either. Another thing I found doing reasearch metro doesn't even have 310mcc and 027 mnc anymore listed for fcc its 311 and 660 I have my phone set to that now but it didn't help everything works still though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Thanks for that info man, Well if you got 3G in IKEA the best thing would be to go back their and see what happens, lol.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
LOL the thing was i didn't have service in there. I just happened to see on my open signal widget(since I'm always watching it) that it said evdo0 while I had no service but once I left and got to the city again that's when I started getting it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
You gotta try and create that whole situation again, Have you tried forcing HDR Mode?

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Yea no matter what when i force hdr it will have an evdo signal for about a minute at boot but no data. Then just lose service all together. When you force hdr on yours does everything work like normal?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Nope, No text messages... Lol, but 3G works :D

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
That's strange.. I wonder why some of us lose signal all together? Wierd. I tried leaving in hdr only while I slept to see if I got service back. It must of been going in and out of service all night. Cause it didn't have service when I looked at it in the middle of.the night but I woke up this morning and had a signal but still no data.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeuriah:
i have 3g on mine 95% of the time,but then in certain areas and it goes down to 1x
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
That's how mine should be. It's 3g everywhere within a half hour of ne in every direction. I cannot figure it out. I've played with the settings on every program on both my 3d and my girls og and can't get 3g on either. With the exception of having it a couple hours one day then lost it when I changed prls.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
hey guys, just wanted to report about the 3g.. after the reset the other day, i did the provision all over, then changed a few settings from the OP from JD's settings.

then I did lose 3g after the reset, which in fact I believe its just not complete everywhere.. then when I got to Miami the other day, on my way to the Dominican Rep. my 4 hour stay.. I did not get 1x.. that was awesome.. but the speed test was a tiny bit faster,

I have to tell everyone, if ur settings are correct, just be patient.. METROPCS is getting better.. we should be seeing 3g soon in area that dont have it.

i was changing settings and trying all sorts of things with no luck.

but once I SEEN it was working in Miami, i will just wait, and will stop trying to change settings..

hope this gives everyone some hope. WE WILL HAVE 3G SOON..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I think that's all it is. I got it that one day, and I hadn't messed with my phones settings for days prior to that. I think our phones leave shadows in a sense and picks things up ota which after time I think allows us to connect. I'm not gonna mess with mine for a while and see. I'm flashing a EVO for a friend tommorow if that gets 3g right at flash it.might be a different story though. LOL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Yeah its true, Many of you guys have all the correct settings already, but for some odd reason it just won't connect to 3G, so like I've said many times in the past just wait for MetroPCS to update its coverage or maybe a new PRL that extends 3G to more areas, who knows we just have wait. Only time will tell. :D

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I was just told there is a bunch of xml files that contain the mcc and mnc codes so those aren't matching our build props it could be part of the problem. The person who found this lives in cali though I just gotta wait for him to get up to find out the files. I'll update if successful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
In that note, does the MNC and MCC codes go inside of DFS under the NAM tab? If yes, how come there is 3 spaces for MCC but only 2 for MNC? Also, the OP states they should be 310 and 004 for MCC and MNC respectively but looking at the wiki page for mobile codes, it says they should be 311 and 660 for metropcs in the states.....?:confused: Sorry am I missing something?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexFG:
I have 310 for MCC and 00 for MNC. The first one is the country code which is 310 for U.S.

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For those of you that still haven't been able to get consistent 3G service with the settings posted here; I'd recommend you just wait for another couple of weeks like someone suggested already. MetroPCS is slowly expanding their 3G service in most major markets so it's just a matter of time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
Yes 310 is for US but for many different carriers including Sprint, ATT, T-Mobile, and many others. 311 is metro. I guess where it differs is the MNC, 004 is Sprint btw and 660 is metro. But hey, if it works for you, it works.

How true is the list on the wiki site,..... own judgement.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
All the new metro phones have 311 and 660 I tried them out with no luck. Everything worked still though. Just not 3g. All the 310mcc aren't even listed as being for metro anymore. I don't even know what they should be anymore I tried so many. But 310 27 is what mine was set at when i did get 3g that one day.