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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I'll have to check the imsi I have now is a 586 number and my phone is 248. I actually tried putting that number in my data tabs I still have data but still didn't help when I forced hdr. When i force hdr it will say evdo a as long as I'm on prl 3020 or 3022. Then after about a minute it will lose all signal I can toggle the radio and signal come back for a minute but i never have data when its connected to EVDO. Not that it would matter I need service for more than a minute. I think the problem is for us not getting it is the houdini esn metro gave us. The phone stores around me don't have anyone smart enough to het the esn in the system without houdini. I tried a bunch of stores I already had my phone programmed. But none of them could force that esn they said it had to be an esn that was part of metro s inventory. I hate to call metro about info though I always think its gonna raise a flag that I have data on a flashed phonne. Which may or may not matter but on my og EVO I felt like after i did that *228 call when i went to tennessee I never got a 3 g icon again. Cause i would get it before they started updating all the metro phones ota. Correction I would get the icon switching every so often but no data. But after that call and them pushing new prls to phones ota I never saw it again.

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JD,

I think ive devised a plan to get to the bottom of what phone get 3 g and what phones dont. Were gonna need two people to call metro and see what device they have listed for their account. For example on my 4g when i asked it was some crazy device i never heard of. So say if you call jd and ask since you get 3g it might say you actually have an evo. Im gonna call metro since i kow i have a houdini phone since no one could put the esn in any other way. Im gonna get the imsi like you said. But im also gonna just tell them that im an advanced user and that i have programmed the data. And that it will not connect to evdo. And by doing that im hoping that they either tell me that the pphone that was used to houdini was not capable of 3g. My bill is due in a couple days so even if they say my phone isnt authorized for data and try to cancel my service or something ill just geta new number and probably a new flash. Which if it come down to that im gonna by cdma 3.8 and write the esn of my choice to the phone. If i cant get 3g ill probably just try to sell the e3dvo for close tot the price of an esteem and buy that. Even though its not as nice of a phone but i will have 3 and 4g. I really dont wanna do that cause i really dislike metro branded phones and there is no custom recovery yet for that phone which means it will bring my flashing addiction to a halt. lol. So basically out of ALL this we need to see if the people that getting 3g if they are houdini phones or if they added the esn some other way.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
I'm pretty sure on mines it just says Houdini Flashed and not the actual model of the phone they could care less, because recently my mom got a new Metro branded Samsung phone and the lady told her we have 3 houdini flashed phones and one normal Metro phone on the plan.

Okay so now you have an HTC EVO 3D? or the OG EVO?

And you've connected to 3G in the past, but have not been able to use it for web?

Whats your location?

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Yea i found a 3d on cl for a hundred bucks so couldn't pass it up. Since I was having to many problems on my 4g I wanted to try and see if it was just how the other people flashed it . I'm in Detroit. But yea i would say back in October before the 3g was rolling out there was a few times in downtown at work it would say 3g but no data and bounce back if i opened an app or something. Also when i force hdr only it will say evdo a or zero for my connection(only on 3022 or 3020). But i won't get the 3g icon for data but about twenty seconds later ill lose all bars and have an x over the bars. If i toggle the radio it will do same thing for the. Same amount of time. My goal is also to see when i call if the msl I'm using is what they show since the meid and esn aren't for the same phone now. Meid is same but esn not. And since those generaters use an lgorythm to produce it maybe for houdini s its giving us the wrong metro msl.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Okay perfect let me know how that goes then. An EVO 3D for $100, That's amazing.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
i'll just say, that i have 2 evo's the first, was houdini flashed, but i did bloodys provision first, then flashed and bloodys provision settings didnt change, and i had internet and mms out the door..

then this 2nd i did bloody's provision, added the esn through ebay.... internet and mms as soon as it was activated..

but JD, i use DFS after bloodys to fix the passwords,:D

i still have the same problem, 3022 gets more hits from 3g, but i get no data, then when 1x comes back, so does my data...

3025 3026 nothing... i bounce back and forth on the prls to see if it will change..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deseo:
me retiro

hola todos lo sseguidores de este tread les comento que me retiro puesto que me e cambiado a boost mobile a sido un plaser compartir con ustedes estos dias pero cinseramente yo creo que metro no va a funcionar en evo para 3g aqui en dallas les deseo mucha suerte y sigan adelante ojala y encuentren la luz muy pronto en su camino
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
No entiendo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deseo:
no entiendes nada? lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Translation ;)

Translation from Spanish to English.

Hi to all the followers of this thread, I'm here to comment to you guys that I'm retiring from this thread as I have changed my service provider to Boost Mobile. Its been a pleasure to share with you guys all these past days, but I sincerely think that Metro isn't going to function on my EVO for 3G here in Dallas, Best of luck to all and keep looking forward, hopefully you guys will find the light in your road soon.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Does anyone know where all the meid locations are? Im thinking when they houdini thee phones and write the new esn. That they arent writing it to the nv items that contain the phones original meid. which is why when we force hdr we can connect to evdo but no data then lose all signal all together. Theres something in our radios somewhere that isnt matching up right and causing it i just wish i could find it. Its quarter after three and im sitting here going through nv items blah. time to go to bed tommorows another day.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
My evo is listed as houdini phone.

Really interested in the things you are investigating mteezey...can't wait to see what you find.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killa57:
Mines listed as Houdini aswell I get no 3g ill ask Monday what my imsi number is see what they give me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I wanna try to get my hands on a wildfire . Since its an HTC phone its probably the most similiar to ours . I wanna get the system file apks like telephony provider apk ..... Ect. And crate an update zip With the necassary system apps for metro . I still need to find all the meid locations to see if they change em all doing the magic trick(houdini) LOL . The way it seems is that they don't and that's why we lose signal when forcing hdr.

Shot from my shooter e3dvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
I haven't gotten into the NV items for the HTC EVO, but you seem like your on the right track. :D

Mines is also listed as a Houdini phone and I'm getting 3G.

Perfect, call Metro and find out if the imsi number written on your phone is different from the one they give you.

That would be cool if you could extract the Metro System files from the wildfire. I expected Metro to release a more high end HTC phone, the Wildfire only has a 600 mhz processor.. Which really sucks.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Sweet. I just made a guide with links to all the threads to get mms and "try" to get 3g going for the EVO 3d I linked your page on it jd hopefully it gets you some more hits. And hopefully the mods at af don't get mad LOL.

Shot from my shooter e3dvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3ja-Vu18:
So, I called MetroPCS by dialing 611 on my phone. I told the guy I wanted to know what my IMSI is because I was experiencing bad service and needed to re-programmed the phone. He says "sure it is my plesure to give you that information!" I was like happy :D. Then he asked me for my account information. It suddenly he told me I have a Houdini phone and he had to get support from other assistant and made me wait. After 3-5 minutes, he said, "Well, I am sorry for that incovenience but since you have a Houdini phone it is not possible to provide you with that information, you will have to go to the store where you got your phone flashed. Ugh! Really man haha. Well guys that's what they told me. Someone else should try this and see if they give out that info. :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antonio794:
wild fire

i like the idea of the wild fire a lot,i believe the company return policy is,that you can return it for a full refund within 24 hours if you havent made calls that exceeded a set limit. questions is ,will the meid converter work to read all files or and is there a way to root it or temp root out for that phone???:confused:and when returned can they tell it was rooted???!!

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root for wildfire:confused:

http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-wildfire-unrevoked-method/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I still haven't. Had a chance to try we need to try to skip over the Indians that answer first not meant o offend but that's who we always get. And try to skip over them and get a smartphone support team member.

Shot from my shooter e3dvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
That's what I'm waiting to find out I don't know if that phone even has a locked hboot or if they have achieved root. My buddy has one that lives in grand rapids thats two hours away. He doesnt even know how to text so when I ask him things about it its a foriegn language. He will be in town next weekend . So unless we can reach out on here and get someone to dump the system files ill have to wait till next weekend.

Shot from my shooter e3dvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antonio794:
wild fire

i would love to help,i believe i found a root link for it,i havent found a unroot or ruu link.when i do i will dish out the $200 for take what we need from phone and take it back to metro!!!or your friend which ever comes first.

and like i said just trying to help.:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Appreciate it. I think our best bet is to either try to get someone one one of the forums to do it or ill just wait for my buddy. just in the chance there is no way to flash it back to stock with s-on to return it. He said he doesnt care what i do to the phone especially if its gonna make it faster. I reached out to a guy i know from AF in the ascend forum well hes in the esteem now but he gets his hands on alot of metro phones so he said he will see what he can do.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
Guys i work at a metro store, i have access to the wilfire, what do you guys need me to do.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Do you know how to unlock it and use adb? Or root it and do a dump of the system files. You might be able to help some without that . Are you familiar with the houdini software?

Shot from my shooter e3dvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
Nice! Getting closer & closer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
i have used adb with all of my other devices, but no expert. i can follow step by step directions.

rooting.... haven't even tried yet...but will tomorrow. I have used Houdini before but am no expert. Our stores Houdini has been suspended though.

I also have a flashed evo on metro that i use personally and everything works but 3g, i see it intermittently but then goes back to 1x after a few seconds.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I've been doin a lot of research for that phone and even devs are getting errors when trying to dump sys I'm gonna try to find a guide that puts it in simple terms if not illl type it on my pc later. Knowing the device will make a big difference . Does HTC provide you guys with a pc76img or whatever it is for that phone? Cause if they do that's all we need.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
i think we will need the mms.apk from the wildfire,
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
Not sure how that helps with 3g...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
The mms apk itself won't. But I'm hoping the telephony provider apk will. Plus i wanna see what other HTC apps are different from the ones in these sprint roms. Also to see if there is any other differences in the build prop.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
got the metro wildfire in my hands and have been doing research on how to root all day.... and it seems to be a *****.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3ja-Vu18:
Has anyone found anything on how to root the wildfire S? Because I found a step-by-step guide on how to root it..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
ok after many hours i was finally able to root this thing, here is the mms apk from the wildfire from metro.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mawq5eraimalm6p

let me know what else you need, and maybe tutorial on how to do a sys dump.... nandroid backup maybe.

here is the telephony provider apk and its odex

http://www.mediafire.com/?t9mb3gfrn8qbc49

http://www.mediafire.com/?p9wt73k8jj4z8d8
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Take a look at the build prop see what the default network is also see if there is any other areas that specify metro pcs. Btw thanks. Did you wanna try to tackle the sys dump?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
build prop

http://www.mediafire.com/?41wyfwcqhhs21ai

Ill give a dump a try.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Thanks. That's mms apk works like butter on my 3vo. Gonna try it on my old lasys evo when she gets home. Hey fast one more thing take a look at the dfs settings and see if they have much different. I noticed a few differences in the build prop that m ight help us. Im gonna play with the build prop right now ill let you guys know if it makes the difference to let us connect. Super big thanks fast i didnt wanna have to wait on all that stuff. Ill still get everything when my buddy comes but whatever you can get us is great.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey Guys,

Nice development on the Wildfire,

Have you guys thought of maybe connecting it to DFS CDMA Tool and reading it's settings, then maybe comparing it to the HTC EVO's settings?

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
yes I'm hoping fast reads that soon I'm curious cause the build prop has different mobile network codes so wondering If the dfs is too

EDIT** Ok guys the mms apk works alot better you cant just install and expect it to work though. If you already have flashed the proper zips and have working mms just use root explorer and move the new mms apk to the system app folder. When you hit paste it wil tell you mms apk already exists do you want to replace select yes. in order to do this sytem must be mounted as read write. Once you have moved the mms apk to system app folder scroll down to it and select it and it will ask if you want to install. And guess what hit install lol jk. but yes install. after that you will have in my opinion much fast mms and mine also worked with wifi on. Ive changed a few things in the build prop after i did this im gonna see if it helps the 3g when im out later. Im not getting anything at home right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Great, At least were beginning to make new progress :D

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
I think I'm gonna change the mnc in the build to 311?? (Whatever the wildfire is) from the 310 we have it at now and also gonna change it in dfs and see if it helps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
heres the dfs stuff

http://www.mediafire.com/?obfsvgwu5ee8xkf,y6oxn1n205twn2m,78t30ba0ngmcj1y,7g3jw7wfvs1taty

you can download all four
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
i tried the mms.apk last night, im not able to send over wifi...

and the font isnt correct on the mms.. i cant find names or phone numbers, i have to put the phone in landscape to see names and numbers,
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
That's wierd. I guess I should of clarified I'm doing this from my 3vo the font is smaller but everything works. I'm gonna test on my girls phone when she gets home.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killa57:
one small thumbnail lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
try to photobucket the pic and if you can do the nam data and profile screens data and profile especially. thanks this is much appreciated im sure by more than just me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
u have to hit read when in dfs for all the features,, i looks blank, to tiny to look, but looks like the fields are empty

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r u running sense rom... or aosp....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Disregard Post. LOL

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Thanks man :D

It's kinda small but I can see it.

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsho31:
Hey JD, I been out for a while, I had an Epic but came back to my Evo so ill be back n the loop again tryin to help the 3g issue in dallas. Idk how I ended up gettin it and no one else could. It jus sucks that its not where I live.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD2589:
Hey man,

Glad to see you back :D

Well one thing that you've missed is that I created a website with all the information from this thread and a PRL download section which will be updated everytime a new PRL is released.

MetroPRL.blogspot.com

Click on some ads from your PC everyonce in a while in support to this thread :D

JD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsho31:
Ive been keepin up with the thread, I jus didnt have anything to feed since I was usin the Epic. Lol.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Sense on my 3vo and EVO until I don't have to play with data settings anymore

That mms apk will only work on sense. Since the wildfire is sense.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
From what I can see for the nid numbers are all the same I might give it a shot . I'm really curious what the data profiles are. Did you hit read ? Or is that phone not using profiles
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
IT didnt work, with sense 1, and sense 3.5 for me..

it did work for 2.1 and 3.0 sense, but for the evo, some fonts are small, in settings icons are big,, i dont think it would be for our evo, unless someone fixes something...

I also changed some setting in build.prop that said sprint, nothing,,, or no difference...

i changed settings in dfs to match the wildfire settings, i lost data, i had to do the provisioning over again, to put the settings back... i had to do bloodys first.. then jds... this time i saved the bin from qpst.. i had a virus last week, i had to delete my partitions due to that... :mad:

8131234567@aaaf.mymetropcs.com noticed this setting,,, but when i lost data... i didnt know what setting messed it up,,, i will try this again later...

just flashed to NRG rom, epst dont work, i'll try that later..... when i flash to something else...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Those aaaf ones work the same as what we got. I think in getting closer with the changes I made to build prop when I force hdr only its an evdo signal like usual but it normally will lose all signal after 30 seconds or so. But now it will stay for a minute or two and go off and back on a few times. And ill get an error that comes up that says unable to connect to mobile data connect manually. I've tried the apns but nothng I'm gonna try to see if there is anything else in the buildprop we can change. With what I changed it must be starting to think its a metro phone and that's why it stays longer. One thing I'm gonna do.but don't think it will help is change the Google client to HTC instead of sprint. Btw guys bloodies thread says metrodroid 3.0 uploading and fixed scripts.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killa57:
is it possable for two different phones to have the same IMEI? cause i just seen mine on your pic.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
after flashing NRG... dont know what i did different,, i did this with this rom, and every other rom, i try all my mms.apk from all the versions i got...

i think i flashed my script 2 times... but the mms.apk crashes... so i put the one from 3vo, which i used on this rom before, and others..

my mms is working with wifi on, every pic i send myself come in with an attached messaged, "The application file smil.xml was deleted...

i dont care about the message, it is working.... :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
With wifi...damn that's great. Hope you figure out what you did. If not, still great.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
im gonna do 2 backups.. then try that again,, sometimes it works, i can send 4 or so pics, and after a reboot... nothing...

but i rebooted a few times, and its keeping...

but when i send a pic from my email to the phone, its not going through... but i can send to my email from the phone.....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edgeez25:
For some reason when I download the apk I get a parsing error... Any idea what I'm doing wrong??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
Copy it from download folder to system/app when it asks to replace say yes then make sure your mounted as read write (r/w) after you paste it to your system app folder scroll to it and select it then it will ask you to install. That error is from trying to install a system app to the data app folder

Shot from my Shoot3Rvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mteezey:
We should be posting this in the metrodroid thread since it doesn't relate to 3g. Or start a new thread for this. I'll take the blame for it getting off topic though since I had fast get me those files. : )

Shot from my Shoot3Rvo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
I totally agree...

we will move over to bloodys thread...

sorry JD, we will keep u guys posted, on mms....

but yes, we still want 3g... haha...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edgeez25:
I did put it in the system/app folder ... Problem is the apk is empty... For some reason not downloading correctly for me...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fastwanabe:
Im gonna have to sell this phone in a couple of days so please let me know what you need from it ASAP.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdiaz33685:
i cannot duplicate it.. its happened 2 or 3 times before where i works,

i saved the backup, it works everytime i go back to it, but cannot duplicate it.

edit:

12/20 i have been getting alot of 3g signal on prl 3022 today,, i have left it since rel of 3026.

3022 has been the best for me, sometime i can get data on 3g but slowly, other times no data till it drops back to 1x,

been using different roms throughout the day, testing the new scripts from bloody.. but the 3g is more constant...

finally,