[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mschmidt33:
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All,

Just followed a 7 step tutorial given to me to flash an SGS2 to Boost using a TP2 donor. Everything went fairly smooth except the guide said to wait for the 3G icon before activating... it never came. I also cannot activate it. Please help. I have NO phone. I'm so close.

7 steps posted below. It does not mention anything about AAA and HA keys, perhaps that is where I went wrong?

Test call does not work either... needs activation!

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Step 1:

Connect your donor phone, in my case the Sanyo Incognito; check the "Device

Manager" for the phone's COM Port number. Open CDMA Workshop, select the COM

Port for your phone, click Connect and then Read; save the file somewhere handy as

we will need it for the next step. You should see your phone Information displayed

on the left. Next click on the Memory tab, under Memory/Eeprom put Start Addr.:

0363 : 0000, leave the Size at: 65536 bytes, now click read. This shouldn't take too

long at all anywhere between 15 and about 50 seconds. The Sanyo Incognito

sometimes can be very difficult to read the memory, if this fails don't panic just keep

trying over and over until you get a good read; you may have to turn off the phone

and turn it back on a few times that also helps.

Step 2:

Now with Win Hex open the memory file you just saved, click on Specialist * Gather

Text; Recognize text by "6" uncheck everything expect for "Numbers" press "OK",

save the file anywhere you like. You should end up with a .txt document with 1 or

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more sets of 6 digit numbers; one of them is the SPC for your phone, write it/them

down.

Step 3:

Go back to CDMA Workshop, "Security" tab, SPC write the 6 digit code from the

.txt file inside the box, click on SPC * Send. You should get a message saying that the

SPC code is correct and the phone is unlocked. If you have multiple codes, try all of

them. Once the phone is unlocked, click on the Memory tab, go to NV Items read and

save items: 465, 466, 1192, and 1194; they must be saved one at the time so for

example the First NV Item: 465 / Last NV Item: 465 click OK and save it as 465 then

move on to the next item and do the same. Remember to save it somewhere handy,

as we will need them later.

Step 4:

Close CDMA Workshop, and open QPST Service Programming. Select your phone

and press OK. Once you connect to the phone, click on "Read from Phone", enter the

SPC code and you should see the information from your phone populate the screen.

Next you need to write down the information inside: CDMA, CDMA 2, AMPS, System

and Roam tabs; I usually take screen shots makes it a lot easier. Once again save it

somewhere handy, we will need this information later. At this point you are done

with your donor phone. Turn it off or put it on airplane mode, whatever you do

don't ever have both phones on at the same time.

Step 4b:

***I suggest you do a factory reset on your Epic 4G before anything; you can

easily do it via recovery menu (power down the phone, hold the volume down

and turn on the phone). Or after you find the SPC code before you copy the NV

Items dial ##786# and reset it. ***

Step 5:

Close QPST for now, unplug the donor phone, first you need to dial ##8778# on

your Epic, under USB select "Modem" and then plug in your Epic 4G. Next we need

to do once again is find the SPC code for the Epic 4G, but this is a lot easier!!!! Open

CDMA Workshop, I suppose you already opened the "Device Manager" and know the

COM Port for your Epic, select the COM Port * connect * read and you should see

your phone info on the left. Now go to the "Security" tab, Password (16 digits)

delete all the FFFFFFF's and type (copy/paste): 01F2030F5F678FF9 then send. You

should now see your SPC code magically appearing inside the SPC box, write it

down. Next go to the "Memory" tab, NV Items and write the 4 NV Items we saved

from your donor phone earlier.

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Step 6:

Close CDMA Workshop and open QXDM, Options * Communications * Target Port /

select your Epic 4G COM Port, click OK. You should now be connect to your phone.

So you can actually see what's going on from the View drop down menu, select

Command Output. Now type the following commands one by one:

password 01F2030F5F678FF9

RequestNVItemRead meid

RequestNVItemWrite meid 0x00A00000000000 < MEID/HEX ID from donor phone

RequestNVItemRead meid

RequestNVItemRead esn

RequestNVItemRead scm

You are done here close QXDM.

Step 7:

Now open QPST Service Programming, select your phone and press OK. Once

connected, Read from Phone and enter the Epic 4G SPC code we got earlier. First

copy all the information you wrote down from the old phone (remember CDMA,

CDMA 2, AMPS, System and Roam.. Inside the CDMA tab don't worry about Channel

and EVRC Service Options), next go to M.IP tab and make sure the Active User is set

to 0. Once you done write to Phone, the phone will now reboot. If you put in all the

information correctly your phone is now functional the last step is to activate it OTA

to get the 3G to work, and change MMS address. Once the phone boots up it should

start the auto activation by itself cancel it, first make sure you get the 3G icon and

then proceed with the activation. Once the activation is complete, dial ##3282#, go

down to MMSC URL enter the SPC code, and change the URL to:

mm.myboostmobile.com