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[Thunderbolt General] jstubblefield:
This gets me hooked into CDMA.ws

(Found here on a Droid X tutorial thanks goes to Ericerk! But also working on Bionic)

Put phone in PC mode

Enable Debug and Mock Location via settings/applications/development

Install HW Virtual Serial Port on your Computer.

The password is admin, go to Settings and uncheck NVT Enabled as it will cause issues if you dont

-setup your Virtual Serial Port for Com 10

Ip address is 192.168.16.2

set Port as 11008

Click CREATE COM

At this point youre ready to open CDMA Workshop ( note: if you have a cracked version you may need to disable your antivirus to get it to work)

Once open Connect to Com 10

it should say successfully connected at the bottom if not go redo the steps above.

STILL NO DATA AND MMS

ORDERED 5 NEW VERIZON 4GLTE SIM CARDS

TESTING NOW TO GET WEB/MMS WORKING

WILL REPORT BACK YAY OR NAY...

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GOT THE BIONIC WORKING FULLY ON PAGEPLUS!!!

WOOHOO

Talk/Text/MMS/Web all working although the data connection is only 1x right now think I can tweak it to get 3G...

This is only on one the next one I do (I have 5 of them right now) I will do a step by step write up give me a day or two on that.

yay.

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Also sorry to the OP did not mean to thread jack and I will create a new thread with the write up for the bionic. I just figured these 4g phones are so similar that I would post updates here so we can all work together..

Thanks to everyones help including OP for leading the way for me to do this and share (freely) of course on here.
[Thunderbolt General] v1ral:
PM sent..

I think
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
Yes i saw that..Hes like im writing direction,then it will cost you..What a jerk.lol
[Thunderbolt General] bmurphr1:
Scratch last post - ended up figuring out I can use the 99000 MEID to activate with Page Plus.

I have everything configured as in the video, and now 1x data works...but talk and text still do not work. I have no idea what the problem is because these are the steps I followed in CDMA WS 3.7.5:

1. Put Thunderbolt into diagnostic mode, sent SPC and unlocked the phone.

2. Other tab, R-UIM, set to NV only (both NAMs).

3. Write Page Plus PRL to the device and reboot (also both NAMs).

4. Main Tab, insert MIN and MDN (mine are different numbers), use 310 as my MCC and 00 as my MNC. IMSI is 31000xxxxxxxxxx, replacing x's with my MIN. Write to both NAMs and reboot.

At this point I should have undoubtedly have talk and text, and at least 1x data. I have 1X data, but no talk and text...I am absolutely stumped. I should also note that when I go to dial a number, it says Dialing and then just hangs forever (never even gets to hang up). It remains this way until I reboot the phone. I have tried going into the modem settings and changing Rev. A to enable from eRHP and rebooting, and that disables my 1x internet. I have also verified that the phone is running in "CDMA only (prl)" mode as well. Any clues?
[Thunderbolt General] nobodyknow4569:
Ive been working on this for the last few days and I have been having the same exact problem. Not sure if it has anything to do with running stock 2.3.4. Would be great if someone could post some insight on this problem. Thanks again for any responses.
[Thunderbolt General] bmurphr1:
Glad to see that it just isn't me that is having this problem. I'm beginning to think that flashing the device really 'isn't' as simple as this video makes it look. I managed to get in touch with a distant relative that's in the business of phone flashing, and I was told that the majority of these cell phone flashers that do this for a living do actually infact modify the MEID and/or ESN so that these 4G phones can be activated on other carriers easier. Was also told that doing that kind of flashing isn't something you want to be caught doing, since it's a grey area and there are about ten different places in the phone's storage that need to be modified to accept the new MEID/ESN.

I tried several methods if activating my phone, such as the pESN, the 99000* MEID, as well as converting the MEID to decimal...all of the activations go through, but none of them have been able to activate my device. I have to take responsibility for buying the phone and CDMA Workshop, but this is one of those types of situations where there just aren't that many people willing to help you out without wanting some kind of compensation.

As far as putting this phone back to default mode, do I just have to erase all of my settings, go to the R-UIM space and switch from NV only back to R-UIM only? I'm assuming since the device uses the R-UIM card to assign MIN/MDN and other crap that everything else should be good to go.
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
How would i go about getting into my nam settings running CM7..

I mean straight into the settings from the phone.
[Thunderbolt General] Deepgtr:
Flashing thunderbolt to page plus

Hello, everyone I have been having the same problems eventhough I have fellowed every step in the video and I had to buy cdma workshop as well.

My first issue might be that I got the latest cdma software which has 2 different setting for MCC, MNC, Min. Both are under main one is called CDMA setting which says Phone number has MCC, MNC, Min or check box under it which says class 1 IMSI but it only takes 14 digits. Second says true IMSI which has the same settings and I have tired to copy them both same or leave one whatever loads or swap them no luck.

Also, on the phone you can dial ##Program the press SEND to manually program it, but I don't know all the settings needed to program I have tried to copy my Droid x2 settings but again no luck or I am still missing something.

My question is has anyone here successfully flashed the thunderbolt to pageplus and have spend to 2 complete days looking for answers but now am about to send my phone to one of these places, but I am not sure if their flashing is permanent even if I factory set the phone because after I write all these settings from CDMA workshop once I do a factory recovery everything is earsed, so I am not comfortable paying for something is not update or recover proof.

Please help your inputs are appreciated.
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
I am in the same boat as some are..i have the thunderbolt running on page plus

I have incoming&outgoing calls all working.Also have text in and out..Just cant get the data to work..I will try till i break the phone..lol If i get it all working i will for share what i did to get it all working.....:)
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
What i have noticed is if you have the sim card in the phone it will not have data..

But everything else works like text and phone call..But if you remove the sim you will only have data and sms no calling or text...
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
Would be nice if there was a toggle for sim on off if so it would work fine:D
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
OK i have the working fix to have everything working...

if you have the sim card out of the phone and you are getting data to

work..Thats good..All you need is a old sim from any phone. Put it in the

phone and power on..after the phone is on give it a few min and you will

see 1x and phone signal...Now you will have working talk,text,mms,and data

the only thing is you will only get 1x data no way to get 3g.If i find a way i will

report back..I think what the old sim does is take the phone out of no sim and

opens the part for regular service...This does work done it with 3 different sim

cards don't matter who the carrier is as its not really using the sim card for that part....
[Thunderbolt General] stangboycic:
Well almost everything I guess, my 1x is working now without the sim card, but has ANYONE actually gotten the 3g data to connect? 1x is painfully slow, if there were only a way to completely disable the LTE radio so we could use *228 again...
[Thunderbolt General] cappii:
Ok, I have been working on this for several days now. I have been able to get everything working on 4 out of 5 phones. Here is what I do. Change ESN to Thunderbolt first.

1. Master Reset the phone.

2. Replace 4g SIM with any other SIM

3. Type ##3424 in dialer and send.

4. reboot to Modem+Diag

5. Connect to com port in CDMA Workshop (I have 3.8.0). I use BITPIM to find my com port, as it seems to change for each phone.

6. In Security Tab, send 000000

7. In Main tab, change CDMA pull down to CDMA 2.

8. Change R-UM to NV Only

9. In Other Tab, load Pageplus PRL

10. Reboot phone with power button only (do not go out of diag mode)

11. Reconnect in CDMA Workshop, and resend 000000 in Security.

12 Read NAM 1 (use bottom read button, not top.)

13. In CDMA Settings (on main tab) under phone number, type the following: 310 for MCC, 00 for MNC and your MIN for the number.

14. leave True IMSI alone.

15. Under DIR_Number, put in your phone number.

16. Leave DIR_Pcs alone.

17. Write info to phone.

18 switch to NAM 2 and repeat steps 13 - 17 again.

19. switch to EDVO in the CDMA / CDMA2 pull down.

20. In EDVO Settings, change PPPUser to your number@vzw3g.com. PPP pass is vzw. Same for HDR User and HDR pass. Change Teth NAI to your number@dun.vzw3g.com.

21 Click on M.IP profiles.

22. Change NAI to number@vzw3g.com and T.NAI to number@dun.vzw3g.com.

23. Change HA Shared Secret and AAA shared secret to vzw.

24. Verify that P.HA address is 255.255.255.255

25. Click on X

26. Write to phone (from MAIN tab)

27. On phone, hit menu, then reboot to embedded mode.

28. once rebooted, dial ##program, 000000 as the SPC.

29. in CDMA Nam settings, scroll down to sid/nid pairs 0.

30. change the sid to whatever it is for you (all page plus if you don't know yours). Leave the NID at 65535.

31. Commit changes via menu key.

I've not had to move the number off of and back onto the phone. There has been a massive amount of trial and error. This seems to work on 2.1 and 2.3.4.

I'm not responsible for you bricking your phone. Also, the 2.7 version of CDMA workshop that is floating around will not work. Pony up the dough for CDMA Workshop. it costs $108.

Notes: Outgoings calls do not work without a SIM card. The dialer freezes up. Data will not work with the 4G LTE SIM card. You only get a 1x data icon, but the speed seems to be on par with any other phone. You will receive a message at boot about the SIm not being registered, or being unknown. Ignore it. If it works, it works.

Hope this helps all of you.
[Thunderbolt General] sinewaves:
you have to drop the "open sesame door" hack into the file system of the 9k modem then reboot the phone via adb shell, then log back into the modem/radio with qpst service programming, highlight the right modem should be two of them you want the one that says MDM9600, read then go to the m .ip and ppp config and write the nams, this will give you 1x. If you can find someone that will write in the nams with ws 3.7 or above then use this as a reference..

ppp user: phonenumber@vzw3g.com

ppp pass: 2618560F9EAC7232341CC4 - MAKE SURE you write in Hex

theres a tab you can switch on ws 3.7 above from H/S Hex/text

NA:918F5CFC5097AD0C3EB9064505C86572

AAA:3466A134861121F7B96C03D8352F66EB - and with both of these need to be written in text in the M .ip profiles.

After you get the modem edited then reboot via adb shell and when you reboot you should have 3g.. this will only work for pageplus if your flashing to cricket you can do the same thing if you have the correct na and aaa. and ppp pass...

enjoy !!

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My method you have to run a R UIM card in it or 3g will not work, what i do is the least amount of editing on the phone is possible, after i get all the settings on then i add the phone to pages data base.. only doing this if the programming is correct or you will have to swap esns againg until you get the programming right. Then once this is accomplished your 3g will be up and working along with all the apps, including MMs.. I have ran into problems with phones that have bad esns, the mms takes a little more to figure out like apns settings and some nv items depending on how many times the phones been programmed the best phone for this flash is one that has a good esn and never programmed to anything but verizon..
[Thunderbolt General] adam3rd:
problem solved bionic running on pageplus 3g stable simply switch the settings to cdma and evdo in *#*#4636#*#* and use a fresh lte sim card
[Thunderbolt General] rob318us:
Very good info..Thanks for the heads up..;)
[Thunderbolt General] sinewaves:
yes sir, let me know if i can help..
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
I got talk and text working but like some others i can't get any data working at all. Is there a way to do this in DFS or another program? I don't have ws.
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
Going to be trying this tomorrow when my phone gets here, it's a droid bionic, tired of paying 130 a month for a phone, bought it off of contract with a clean ESN so should work? I hope.
[Thunderbolt General] yungwunn911:
Got this to work on a bionic. GREAT phone. good luck!
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
I got talk and text working with my thunderbolt and currently on a new number with pp. I'm just trying to get the data to work and i don't have WS 3.7. I just don't wanna spend the money to use it only once. Is there a secondary method someone else used that can help me?
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
isn't there a demo version you can download to flash your phone to work with pp?

try that.

Mike,
[Thunderbolt General] cappii:
I wanted to correct some info I listed in my earlier post. 2.1 doesn't work. you have to do an upgrade via sdcard to 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) in order to get full capabilities out of this phone. For what it's worth, I only had success with the stock 2.3.4 Verizon rom. None of the custom roms worked for me. I tried several. It should be noted that CM7 doesn't have the ability to go into diagnostics mode.

Once you have 2.3.4 installed the entire process takes about 3 minutes. I've done at least 1/2 a dozen Thunderbolts now. All working properly. Next on my list is the Samsung Stratusphere, LG Revolution and Pantech Breakout. Once I get them running, I will try to write up tutorials, if someone doesn't beat me to them.

Also, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who has added to these posts. Having a place to share ideas, information, and knowledge makes my job easier, as well as making the community as a whole better!!
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
Just got my droid bionic today still charging it, havent even setup my google account yet, for me to get it working on pp without flashing it, would I get my text/calls/mms and just 1g data thats without flashing it? and how I go about doing that, just want to get it up and running for now, and do I keep the sims card in or no? plus, would the demo version of cmda workshop be good enough to flash it or I would need the full version? thanks for any help.

Mike,
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
No CDMA WS Demo version won't work to do the full flash as it won't write certain things. And no you can't get this on page plus without flashing it.. If you activate it via ppc it'll just say it's activated but your phone won't work without flashing. I think it requires the 4g sim card in to work but i might be wrong. That's how my thunderbolt is. Still trying to get data on this thing...

@ cappii: Did you use CDMA WS?
[Thunderbolt General] vk4559:
hello i have a thunderbolt that i want to get flashed to pageplus....i dont know if having this rom will work...2.3.4..BAMF remix 1.0.4 with 3.0 htc sense....ive tried to get my phone into diag mode and just cant...it keeps saying "no network or sim card is not ready".....any ideas??

btw...phone is rooted
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
yay! got my bionic working on pageplus no 3g yet, but thanks to Adam3rd got it up and running, thanks again man!! your the best, now to get 3g going, and to the other person who said the demo version wont work, it does for the bionic, thanks again man for all your help.

Mike,
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
Like i said it won't work for a full flash, it'll flash it partially which it seems like it did with yours. You can get talk and text but you cannot use the demo version to write the EVDO which is the data part. If you get 3g or 1x working let me know, i'm trying to get it to work on the Thunderbolt and only did it on a test number which got me 1x but when i ported my number in it needed to be flashed again and of course it's not working for me. I'm not using WS because i don't wanna pay for this one time flash and i don't know what i did in QPST that allowed me to get 1x but i'm trying to replicate that again without any success.
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
yea it did work the demo version got 1g right now with everything else working, and once in awhile it jumps to 3g, and the only reason why it is 1g is cause where i am living, not in a city or anything like that, way out in the woods where the closest town is 15 miles away, but get a solid 1g all the time, Adam3rd got it going with 3g but drops being it keeps looking to connect to 4g then just goes to 1g, but he has been having it <long as he doesnt reboot the phone> to stick with 3g for a good week, he is still working on getting it to stick to 3g even after a reboot. But yeah, the demo version works with the Bionic, don't know about other phones, when I did it, it wouldnt write at first try, then tried again and it wrote the file to the phone.

Mike,
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
Hmm that's odd, did you follow the video? What did you do exactly, i'm still trying to get any data on mine.
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
I can cut and paste what Adam3rd sent to me in private message, don't know if it'll work for the phone your trying to get it to work with but it's worth a try, just know it's working for the bionic, Can't wait to get 3g working though.

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This is what I was told in private by Adam and it worked for me, Thanks again Adam3rd.

Hi mike4824, it is no problem to get the bionic on pageplus, cdma workshop demo will work just fine. factory data reset the phone and you need to install cdma workshop demo first. download a pageplus prl. you can find one at http://www.4shared.com/file/qryS5x4T/51720_EVDO.html

download motorola usb drivers from motorola website and install them. power off your computer

you power down your phone and put it in diagnostic mode by holding down both volume up and down buttons and pressing power on button at the top.

use the down button to toggle down to bp tools at the bottom and press the volume up button to select it. your phone will power on in diagnostic mode.

connect your phone via a usb cable to your computer and power on your computer. after your computer is powered up wait for the computer to install the device drivers for your phone

open up device manager and find the modems and look for your phone (moto something or other or or xt875) and see which com port it is on by looking in the advanced tab or one of the other tabs. open up cdma workshop and select the com port your bionic is on and click on the connect button. click read to make sure your phone is connected and go to the security tab and SPC /User lock click send and send spc 000000 to your phone to unlock it so that you can write to it. go to the main tab and at the bottom you will see a drop down menu that says cdma click the drop down arrow and click on cdma-2. go to the r-uim configuration and click on nv only go to the bottom and click write click on the nam-1 and click nam-2 and click write again. now go to the [Bcdma-2[/B] tab and click cdma and go up to the tabs and click other go to the prl and click write and find the location you downloaded the prl file and select it and the program will write it to the phone. now you can power off the phone. activate the imei number by dropping off the last digit to make the number one less (14 instead of 15), power it up normally and the phone will program normally with the 4glte sim card installed. to get 1x data with mms go to the dial pad and *#*#4636#*#* go down to the turn off radio button and click it. it should now say turn on radio go to the gsm\cdma\prl auto drop down menu and select cdma only and then click turn on radio button back button out of there and you now have 1x data with talk, text and mms. painless
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
Seems like your way was a bit easier but i think the settings on the thunderbolt is a bit different. So i'll try it.. The way i did it was following the video and the Workshop won't let me write on EVDO, but for some reason you didn't even need to write the EVDO part on your bionic. The part where he told you to activate the IMEI with dropping the last digit, that's through page plus correct?

I've gotten 1x working twice on this phone before but that was with a test number that wasn't my main, when i activated this phone with my main it changes the phone number and MIN so i had to reprogram it, the call/text part was easy but this data part is so stubborn and i can't figure out what i did before that got it to work. I followed the exact step but just kept doing it over and over similar to the video and boom all the sudden it worked but i can't replicate it again after i got the other number on this phone.
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
Well I wish you luck don't see why it shouldnt work on your phone, and Yes after you do all of that you call up pageplus and drop off the last number and tell them it is the ESN, when I told him the imei he right away said *No thats a 4g phone wont work* and i had to lie and say *No it isnt it's a droid X* and we did the rest of the programming, at first it wouldnt work with the number he was telling me to put in and we tried the other one and it started to program the phone, so you might have to lie if they tell you it is a 4g phone and we don't work with those phones, I just want to get 3g to stick and work now, and also, to root my phone, but scared if I root it, it'll lose everything I got working so far, But again, Good luck to you.
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
Yea i didn't want to deal with the customer support rep so i just activated it online through a dealer. I can get voice/text working quick and easy but data gives me endless hours of nonsense. So much that it's starting to get old, i had 1x working before i got my number ported in. When you did the 4636 thing and changed your LTE/CDMA to CDMA only and turned on the radio it worked immediately?
[Thunderbolt General] adam3rd:
i turned the radio off and changed it, then turned the radio on and hit the power button like turning it off and waited for the 1x to pop up then hit the back button and solid 1x after that no need to reboot for 1x
[Thunderbolt General] adam3rd:
what is the open sesame open door hack?
[Thunderbolt General] uEih:
All i know is it opens the NVM folder which is locked. Not sure what you can do after that but that's another way to make data work i heard. Also maybe that's the only thing different on the bionic from a thunderbolt, the changing of the CDMA options and turning radio off, etc. Because i tried but it didn't work for me.
[Thunderbolt General] gomobility:
I got my Thunderbolt working with incoming/outgoing talk/text/mms and 1x data, still trying to get 3g working though, I had to do a combination of the tut vid and the instructions posted in this thread, mine works great, about to try a Revolution and a Bionic and a Razr.

Edited this post on my PagePlus Thunderbolt. Still no 3G though
[Thunderbolt General] mike4824:
I lost servies with pageplus after the OTA update today does anyone know the fix? called them up and they said it shows my phone is still in servies, this is pissing me off, anything I try doesnt fix it, maybe I need to flash it again? hmm wonder if thats what I need to do.