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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cchc1:
Flash Sprint to Boost in 5 mins

Though this forum is a great source of infomation it is also loaded with misinformation. I'm hoping it is put out by well meaning people who are just ill informed.

To flash a phone from Sprint to Boost all you really need is to change the meid number on the sprint phone to that of the boost phone you are cloning. For that matter you need not clone anything from the donor phone other than the meid and esn numbers.

Once the Boost meid is writen to the Sprint phone all you need to do dial ##786# for a factory reset. When you power the phone back up it will take you to the Hands Free Activation. The activation will put all the other info all these guides tell you that you have to clone from the donor. It's all bull, Hands Free Activation will do it for you.

If you have root access and a custom rom install be sure you to make a backup that you can blow back into the phone once you have it on Boost as the ##786# will wipe it all out. Once flashed to Boost and the backup restored your phone will work exactly as it did on Sprint minus roaming and 4g. Mine even worked on 4g for the first 3 weeks after flashing it but since then when I turn on 4g I get a message to call Sprint to fix the problem. Oh let me jump right on that....hahaha

One more thing, you are more likely to brick your phone flashing a custom rom than flashing to another carrier. I could write my own guide and sell it on Ebay but it would be like stealing and how much would someone pay for these few lines I have writen here. If you have any questions leave me a message and I'll try to help.:confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mhhd:
Update: TP2 donor to Epic on Sprint is working! Voice and 3G.

I was stuck in the "Account could not be validated" state when I tried to make calls or update my profile. This was after following this guide (and any other I could find): http://chris41g.devphone.org/blog/2011/12/08/epic-4g-to-boost/ . Then, I did the following:

1. Enter ##786#

2. Select "Reset". This restored the defaults for some of the programming data that I either entered incorrectly, or did not enter at all.

3. Add profile 0 and 1 info and PPP user in QPST Service Programming per the above guide

4. The phone automatically reboots. Hands-free activation started automatically after a minute or so, and for the first time, it completed successfully (i.e., the profile updated successfully).

Notes:

- Reading nvitem 1192 of my TP2 gave me 17 pairs. The first is "10", however, so I think pairs 2-17 are your AAA pass.

- I believe I only got my HA pass using this command in QXDM: spc YOUR6DIGITSPC <ENTER> requestnvitemread hdr_an_auth_passwd_long

- QPST SP first page show a different value in my Service Programming field on the first tab than my actual MSL\SPC. This other value worked for getting past some screens like ##3282#. Nonetheless, I believe I changed this to my actual MSL shortly before everything started working.

- I called Sprint just before doing the ##786# Reset. The rep did some kind of reset/remove and re-add my phone to their system. There was no indication that this had any effect, even after a reboot. Still, it could be something that the rep did that got my phone working.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
Just thought I'd follow up to my post from before - I do have Sprint EvDo working now, although the speeds are abysmal in my area (averaging around 40-50Kb Per second today, 150KB Per second being the record). I sent an email to Ericson and Sprint yesterday. Ericson has yet to get back with me, but Sprint said something about an outage in my area, so I asked them how widespread it was.

In the meantime, does anyone know of a way to force roaming without that useless "roam control" program?

- 2 Bunny
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LargePrime:
not with boost...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lviv73:
Man,i wish you posted this when I speed 4 days trying to flash mine,i even started $50 reward thread to help me and not one person could or even tried!!!I slmost smashed my Optimus anf Epic to peaces.

Well I finaly managed on my own.One thing though my youtube wont work on 3g for some reason,is it proxies or something?

So you mean to tell me that once esn and meid are coppied that green sprint activation will connect to virgin instead of sprint and activate phone?Because I deleted my sprint activation apk from my rom because I thought it was gonna reset meid and esn back to sprint.

UPDATE:

Lol,this is Boost thread and not Virgin Mobile.

It might bre easier to flash to boost than vm.I wish I flashed to vm because my data speed is no as good as on sprint,thats the reason I went with virgin instead of cricket or boost.I thought sense virgin and sprint had samr towers and sprint owns virgin that my 3g speed would be the same but I was wrong.At least I got to return my donor Optimus V to Target ofcourse after microwaving it for 3 seconds,lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
Whups, I really need to update my profile. I'm actually with Sprint SERO now (I left Boost last October because they were turning into a sheer ripoff).

- 2B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dongatta:
Why would you say boost was a rip off
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pimpin oh boy:
Any way to get mms working on a ICS ROM
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
Can anybody confirm this method works?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AwesomeTurtle:
Unless I'm doing something wrong, nope.

Stock, rooted EL29. Changed IMEI, reset device via ##786#. Connection/username/password errors galore.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
ESN CHANGED Reply

Well, at first it was okay. I'd get unlimited data for free, but the catch was you'd have to pay $.1 for EVERY single minute talked or message sent/received. If I used messaging lightly, the price balanced itself out. Later, they made it so that you'd have to pay $.35 for a full day of data. Still not terrible despite the lack of roaming (which was a real killer), so I kept going. In late 2011, news was spreading of a new pricing scheme for boost that involved $.2 per minute/message (a slap in the face to an already bad slap in the face) and that they would be nearly doubling the daily data charge. This coupled with the lack of roaming was the last straw, and I bailed.

Sent from my Lenovo Laptop

Basically, you need only to change the MEID and ESN and also all the data settings. Use DFS to change the MEID and ESN, then dial ##DATA#, hit "edit" (even though we won't be editing anything), put in your MSL, find the username and HA shared secret and AAA shared secret keys for the "XYZ@sprintpcs.com" (with "XYZ" being specific to your account). You'll also need to use QXDM to find the HA shared and AAA shared keys for the first account (its username will be "YOURMEIDINHEX@hcm.sprintpcs.com"). (The post in the middle of this page with the pictures is a great resource to visualize this process better) After you have all that information, make your Epic match your old phone's settings, and BOOM! You're almost done. To finish the process, you'll need to call out to any phone number - it doesn't matter which one because you'll get an error. Just stay on the line after the error message and a rep will talk to you and "refresh" or "reprovision" your phone. Once you've completed that, restart the phone, connect a call, and BOOM! Now you're done.

That must've been a record short explanation of that, but if it was confusing, I can break it down a little further (maybe even do a YouTube video on it).

- 2 Bunny
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
The MEID and ESN actually are the same thing. Please verify your information posted above where you mentioned to copy only the MEID and ESN numbers.

I know Boost Mobile (also true for Virgin Mobile) uses a different server than Sprint to complete the initial registration process. I knew it won't work, but I gave it a shot ...

Before I begin, I want to mention that my E4GT has been running perfectly on Boost Mobile since mid January... Resetting the phone with ##72786# or ##786# does not change the current MEID (which is already active with Boost, as I previously stated), so I should be able to get the phone re-activated...

Just for fun, I did the following:

##72786# followed by my SPC code ... The phone erased all the DATA profiles, rebooted and started the Hands-free Activation. I received the following errors:

- ERROR 131: Sign-in failed. Your Sprint data service username and/or password may be incorrect. Please try again.

- ERROR 67: Registration failure. Your Sprint data service username and/or password may be incorrect. Please try again.

##786# ... SPC code ... phone rebooted and the re-activation process began...

- Same errors as above.

The only way the Hands-free Activation works is if you programmed the A-KEY from the donor phone into the new one... Have fun figuring out how to get the A-KEY out of the donor phone !!! There are ways to do it for a very few phones, but it's just not worth the headaches. Also in most cases, even if you got the donor's A-KEY, you probably won't be able to write it to the new phone. To make matters worse, such as for the Epic 4G Touch, you can't verify if the new A-KEY was successfully written.

You can perform a simple check on the donor phone ... try to read NV_ITEM 25 ... for CDMA phones, that's where the A-KEY is stored.

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
quick question, i have my et4g connect to metro pcs, is it still possible to use boost mobile if i get the metro disconnected on my et4g?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lviv73:
I got a key and other key from Optimus v,it was easy.I would try activation but doubt it will work because vm has their own activation apk,maybe if I put vm apk on epic it might.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
Your donor phone was different (as I remember :D) but the method you used involved the .dll file to unlock the features. Try to read other phones in QPST, CDMA Workshop, DFS and you'll see that you can't get too far ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
Bump!! Anybody?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
You mean that you want to use your Epic 4G Touch on Boost mobile ? Of course you can... just follow the instructions.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
But coming from metro pcs, someone told me it was impossible to flash to boost mobile due to changes made from metro!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
If your Epic Touch was made for the Sprint network, then you should have no problems. What kind of changes were made on your phone in order to work on Metro PCS ? Let me see where you got that info ...

Maybe that person was trying to tell you that you can't activate your phone on a Sprint plan (probably due to a bad ESN) but that shouldn't stop you from following the steps to activate it on Boost.

Before you start the process, you should restore your phone to factory default, then proceed from there ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jkhrist:
I believe AAA keys are stored in NV item 1192. With an incognito as donor it is as simple as writing NV items. At least was the case with OG Epic the operation for 710 is the same as flashing OG
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ismellrice:
Ive been having problems after the flash where i dont get 3g at times and have to switch to and from airplane mode and recieve the " error 104 " ...after that it will work ok for maybe 2-5 minutes then cut back off, if i leave it off a couple minutes and i turn my phone on to check online/facebook the phone has to be thrown in and out of airplane mode to get everything working again

any solutions to this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] youngchris29:
This usually means your AAA password is incorrect. Try re-writing your nv items from your donor phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] intrepid1:
I have epic touch 4g from Sprint. I cant get the 1192 & 465 nv item. Every time I read 1192 from CDMAworkshop 2.7 the file say access denied. I tired 16 digits password, msl, change computer, change driver, airplane mode, 3g data off, I tried every combination but no luck. The radio of the phone is EL29. Please help me out. Thank you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
I don't think that you can read those NV Items from the Epic 4g Touch, but if you find a way to do it, please post it in here. There are ways to get the HA and AAA passwords but you can't read NV Items directly, at least not that I know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LargePrime:
what?

those items Do Not Exist if the phone is not a boost phone.

So what are you trying to do?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
On the original epic, you can get the second set of keys by typing ##data# into the dialer.

- 2B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AwesomeTurtle:
Does it display characters outright? Every phone I've known will show asterisks/dots.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
Aah, you are right - it does just show dots. I must've been thinking about the Diamond. Other than that, I really don't know what to do to back 'em up. From what I've heard, you can do some magic with "nvitems" in cdma workshop, but I've never done that before myself. I did read some of the keys from the Diamond in QXDM because one of the keys was in characters that could only be produced as HEX.

- 2B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjstallion:
I've had voice and texts working, but haven't got data to work despite following a ton of different tutorials and doing ##786 resets...

Now I'm getting Error 131, Invalid Sprint login or password. Even though I know that info is right.

Another thing I noticed, is when I read 1192 from my Epic Touch in CDMAWS, I get access denied. I didn't get any errors when I wrote the donor's 1192, but I'm unable to read it to confirm it went through. 465,466,and 1194 are fine.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
2 things here one maybe help guy above me ad 2 voicemail notification for me.

ok when you get to the part for data make sure you have the HA and AAA keys for the sprint profile and the HA ad AAA keys for the boost profile and make them HEX when input the passwords, thinking thats where you are stuck.

Now to me, I do not get any voicemail notifications when I have one so wondering what that could be?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peryp9:
Voicemail notification does not work for Boost Mobile because Sprint uses the "Voicemail" application ...

To make a long story short, see my previous post and you will find an application attached to my that will give you Voicemail notification http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24008138&postcount=39 ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Thx... Working now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
One more question, I believe that the epic touch will be receiving ICS for a stock ROM. Will we be able to update to that once someone is able to link us to the stock version once it is realesed?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Yes of course we will.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Another topic, is 3g speed. I live in Washington and around the Kent area which is between Seattle and Tacoma area and my 3g speeds are like 100kbps. Dunno what a good 3g speed should be was wondering if maybe if with the 3g icon showing maybe its only operating on a 1x speed.

Also if someone could help me, I accidently deleted my LiveWallpaper off when I was deleting some Sprint apps. So if someone could go in to there system folder and copy it out link it to me would be much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjstallion:
The problem is I am putting the Epic Touch on Verizon prepaid. And Verizon has profile 0 active, but profile 1 inactive. So when I try and read profile 1 in QXDM I get an error.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Do you mean read in QPST? Shouldn't be reading in QXDM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjstallion:
I write the passwords in QPST, but I read them in QXDM in the logs. There is no way to see the passwords in QPST.

The problem is, I'm able to read the donor's profile 0 HA/AAA in QPST, but when I read profile 1 I get an error.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Try using dfs 3.3.0.7 to read the data settings.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
I am assuming you dont read any NV items from the donor, ie: 465, 466, 1192 and 1194 like you would for boost donor to get the keys? What phone are you using for a donor?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjstallion:
I did read and write all those with cdma workshop 2.7, but it didn't get data to work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Don't know how else to crack the passwords for the 1st profile. Did you try using the same pass keys for profile 0 with profile 1? Make sure you use HEX when you write them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fufurufuu:
Successfully flashed 2 Epic Touch. On both text/talk/data are working fine but 3g speeds are horrible. Best speed I gotten has been 120 kbps. How can I fix this?

Should I try Chris41g last part.

"under the M.IP tab, fill in the Profile 0 information, NAI, HA pass, and AA pass, as well as IPs

then under the PPP tab, press the AN button, and the username should be the same as Profile 0 NAI

Write to phone.

Open CDMAWS send SPC, then goto memory tab and click write and choose the file you saved 1192 in.

Goto the main tab, hit mode then reset.

When the phone comes back on it should OTA program everything else. If nothing comes up, choose "Settings > About Phone > System Updates > Update Profile”

Then what happens to Profile 1? Should that info be put in when you fill in Profile 0?

I also wanted ask the Donor's meid should be 14 characters including the first character A? On my donor I have 14 characters and a space and 2 characters more. Should I add those to last characters to the first 14? To get a total of 16 characters.

Hopefully someone can help me to get get real 3g speeds.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
If you are getting talk and text you should be fine on the meid side. As for 3g make sure you flashed the correct Nv items and try updating the prl.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fufurufuu:
Thanks for your reply.

If its not too much to ask. What should I do exactly. This is my first time flashing a phone, a step by step would help a lot. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
That's Sprint data for you. I get as low as 20KB Per second down and as high as 400KB Per, but it usually averages around 130 and is never consistent. Today, I did a little travelling and found a spot where I was able to get 1,300KB Per down. It'll seem like it's a problem on your end until you try to use it somewhere that they actually have a working tower. I'd recommend dumping Boost, getting Sprint and trying forced roaming. Boost's plans suck after all.

- 2B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Ya 3g speeds where horrible 1st few days like around 50 to 150 kbps then all of sudden they went up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
quick couple of questions, im on akop ics rom w/ working 3g data on boost mobile but mms is not working, only works when running touchwiz version, can i use something like go sms to manually input the apn setting? will it work? and what apn settings to use?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildzcardz:
Ok what u need to do is go phone dailer and punch in ##3282#. After that hit exit and then input your spc/msl. After that go to others and then mmsc. Input Http://mm.myboostmobile.sprintpcs.com/ and save that and you should have mms working
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jaysmi32:
wildscardz, im talking about cm9 and aokp roms, i believe that method works on the touch wiz version on ics where u can access mmsc settings!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fufurufuu:
I guess ill wait a couple days more hopefully my speeds pick up to normal.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fufurufuu:
Ok more than a week has gone by after I flashed and my 3g speeds are the same. I just checked the speeds with another boostmobile android and the speeds are much much better. Loaded a youtube video in the same area and on the boost android loaded up quick and on my epic touch loaded for 3 seconds and then stops and waits for another 5 seconds to load 3 seconds more. So I now that the problem is on my end.

Let me know if this is the procedure that brooksyx is suggesting to the fix the 3g speeds.

Connect phone in CP mode. Open CDMA workshop click connect and then read. Go to Memory tab and write NV Items 465, 466, 1192, and 1194 from the incognito. Close CDMA workshop and disconnect phone. Then on the phone go to settings->About the phone->System updates->Update PRL.

If this is correct let me know, so I can go ahead and do it and fix my 3g speeds because they are horrible.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Unknown Zone:
As for me, nothing changed I still have bad 3g service even when I was on Sprint, this area were I live is just bad around dialup speed and I expected it no big deal I just wanted a lower service plan. Since Boost is Sprint little brother in a way we are still using the same Sprint towers like living in the same house all I did was change carriers kinda like having different parents.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fufurufuu:
Update: I went ahead and wrote the NV Items again and update the PRL like it was suggested. Wrote the NV Items but couldn't update the PRL. Restarted phone and what a difference. My 3g speeds are much better, getting around 400-500 kbps in the same area I was getting around 100 kbps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjstallion:
I'm getting loss of signal quite often, where my fascinate doesn't get this problem at all.

What's the fix with this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kainppc6700:
It's easy: get rid of Boost Mobile. You can spend less and get better signal if you play your cards right.

- 2B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] derrickmd18:
Cool thread. I have a Samsung transform ultra from boost that's activated. I also have a epic 4g that's on boost i had flashed. I'm hoping to get a used galaxy s2 and use my transform ultra as a donor phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] machingun:
Mi epic 4g touch in qpts is w5-fixture 6650 not ass the epic 4g touch what is missing so the qpst read it rigth help!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] whitmerray:
So i followed this guide step by step and I ended up getting a weird error can anybody fix this?

I am having a problem updating my profile and prl OTA with my E4gt. When I try it I get this message:

Error: Cannot Update! Client Authentication Error

I know it is possible to have a sprint phone on boost and be able to use the update profile. I original put a sprint mogul on boost and could update profile, then I switched over to a Samsung sph I-350 simply by calling boost. They had no problem activating it, Update profile, prl worked fine. Then I went to a evo 4g, real pain in the ass phone to get on boost. I had to find the esn in multiple places then zero and change. That phone can update profile, prl too. I used the sph-I350 as the donor. Now I have a Epic 4g touch on boost. Piece of cake to switch over and get everything working, prob the easiest esn change then the rest is simply nv items and copying stuff from qpst and qxdm.

BUT I am still having a problem with updating profile and prl... I updated the prl manually with qpst to make it work on boost right but I want to have the ability to update the profile and prl OTA.

Also I have the weirdest thing happening with 3g speeds when I am home I get great speeds on evdo.A anywhere from 1-2mb down and 300-500kbps up. But when ever I go anywhere else in houston, the speeds take a dramatic change for the worse. I hit around 30-150kbps down and 10-60kbps up. Its really wierd. I have tried every 3g speed fix possible. From zeroing servers, to evdo mode only and loosing the ability to send texts, everything. I think that fixing my ability to update ota will fix this issue.

FYI My evo 4g gets super fast 3g speeds all over houston and it has the ability to update ota.

Where as my e4gt cant ota and only gets good speeds in one location.

****If no one believes I can OTA update with these other phones I will gladly upload a few vids to prove it.****

Does anyone of the senior devs have any clue on how to fix the ota issue, or 3g issue? [/B]
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
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