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[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
biggmax81, look at step 9 in the tutorial. You saved it when you opened it in IE9. It's in the folder called "Application Data> Volatile> Email Attachments> Attachments. I did have some feedback from another user who had a custom ROM and was having difficulty getting GPRS settings to load the StraightTalk.xml file.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cajenmom:
fatclue,

I have a Samsung Focus and just switched to Straight Talk to find out about this problem. I stumbled across your instructions...thanks!...and have been able to get through each step until I got to step 9. Have you run across anyone who wasn't able to save the file? I am stumped. I can open the file from my email but saving it is another story. When I look in root tools I cannot find it anywhere, not surprising since I can't save it. Any help would be appreciated.

Jen

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It looks like biggmax and I have the exact same problem. Sorry I missed that. I didn't mean to repeat. I do find subfolders in the email/attachments folder, but no Straighttalk.xml is in there or any file.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
When you email it to yourself you have to open the file in email. You'll see the progress dots and it should say "downloading" in the header bar. The paper clip will turn into an xml file signaling a successful download. Open the file and IE will show the xml data, close it and look in the folder and you should see it. biggmax has a custom ROM so I don't know if that's an issue and you didn't specify either. Good luck!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] cajenmom:
Thanks for the reply fatclue. I don't have a custom ROM. I am new to this, so please pardon my ignorance. Everything you said should happen is what happened on my phone (dots, downloading, IE, etc). The only thing is that I do not see it as a file in root, I see it as a subfolder and it is not xml. It is disheartening, to go through all of the steps and get this close, to come to a roadblock.

Jen
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
The xml should be in Application Data> Volatile> Email Attachments> Attachments as an xml file. From there you cut & paste to the provxml folder in root. Read step 9 carefully and start all over again if you have to. Get up, walk away and have a cup of coffee if you have to. As I mentioned, I'm a noob to this OS as well so don't feel bad. I nearly gave myself kidney stones and lung cancer from all the times I had to walk away for coffee and a smoke. Hang in there, a few more technically savvy people than myself have had difficulty but made it work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cajenmom:
Thanks, fatclue. Any excuse to have a cup of coffee, right? I went back and did it all over again. Deleted the email off of my phone, sent another email, downloaded it, looked for it in Application Data> Volatile> Email Attachments> Attachments... No xml file, just subfolders with no files in them. Is there another way to get that file on my phone? What about that QR code that you posted? If I went about it that way, where would it put the file in the root? I am trying to keep a cool head and not get frustrated. I would love to throw my phone across the room right now.

Jen
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
It just occurred to me, did you extract the xml file from the zip? You need to extract it and put anywhere, say your desktop, and email the extracted file. Maybe I need to edit my instructions if that's the case.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cajenmom:
I have good news! I got it. I found the xml file in an Internet folder in root. Don't ask me to find it again...I don't think I could. LOL! I just had to hunt EVERYWHERE in root for it. I almost jumped out of my chair when I saw it.

To answer your question... I did extract the file from the zip with WinRar and saved it to my desktop.

Thanks so much for the instructions. I couldn't have fixed this bug without them. Take care!

Jen :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] yxh5063:
thank u for the info, now my focus is working properly with straight talk.

for the guys that are using the custom rom. the xml file can be found in window\profiles\guest\temporary internet files................ it will be in one of the sub folders:) u just have to take you time and look through every one of them
[Windows Phone 7 General] BigJeff:
I have a Samsung Focus S windowsbroke with root tools installed and it's SIM unlocked with a Tmobile SIM in that works fine. I have unlimited messaging (no data) how do I set up mms on my device for TMobile?
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Grand Pooh-Bah:
This works awesome getting Straight talk working with MMS. Now has anyone been able to get tethering to work with this fix applied. I tried and lost my data connection and had to re-install the Straight talk xml file again.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Three things, first you will need to find the xml for T-Mobile. Second, why T-Mob? For $45 more you get real 3G and it's unlimited. I used to have T-Mob until I found out about ST byod, it's no contest. Third, without a data plan this is all a moot point, you need data for MMS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
The internet sharing should have been enabled when you did the windowbreak. I haven't had any issues with tethering and I haven't read any reports with what you're describing. I now have an Omnia 7 and I did the same procedure and it's working the same.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Grand Pooh-Bah:
No tethering for me. I still get the standard message "To enable tethering go to att.com.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] BigJeff:
Sorry I definitely should have been more clear and included all info, my bad. I WILL be going to Walmart to get the $30 monthly 4g plan with unlimited web text and 100 minutes of calling. So come Thursday when I switch services I'll want MMS working. From there how do I get everything working? (I don't want my parents paying a lot for my phone, I wouldn't even have this if it weren't for the challenge)
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
I'm not aware of any way to get the $45 unlimited plan through Wal-Mart. AFAIK, you can only get it through straighttalkgsm.com. My tutorial is based on this plan although I imagine any ST plan would work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] BigJeff:
dude I feel like such an idiot... I'm not using straight talk! I want to use the TMOBILE PLAN TTTTHROUGH WALMART.
[Windows Phone 7 General] WilsonRDFL:
Samsung Focus S

Has this method been confirmed for the Samsung Focus S as well? Thanks for all the hard work guys!
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Congratulations! You have just volunteered to be the first guinea pig on the Focus S. Seriously, give it a shot and report back, that's how this whole forum thing works. I don't see anything that would brick your phone or anything like that. It's not like you're writing a new image file or updating the radios.
[Windows Phone 7 General] WilsonRDFL:
Sweet! I'll give it a go and report back. My main concern was whether there was a possibility of bricking it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Papa Bear332:
Fatclue,

I want to say "thank you" for all your help with getting MMS to work on the Samsung Focus while using Straight Talk.

I got mine working about a week ago. I had some troubles getting things working right off the bat though. Nothing to do with your instructions, but more with trying to use my laptop to do everything. For some odd reason, I had a hell of a time getting Windows Phone SDK 7.1 to run on my laptop. Not sure why as its a Windows 7 machine, but no matter what I tried, couldn't get it to work.

No worries though....

as I have a great desktop in my rec-room also running Windows 7 and tried everything on it instead. Windows Phone SDK 7.1 loaded just fine, did the jailbreak, loaded the the root tools, sent your .zip to my phone and worked the magic. And I'm happy to report that MMS works now. Have some issues with MMS once in a blue moon, but overall, I'm completely happy with it.

The hardest part for me was finding the damn Application Deployment program as I couldn't find it through the "Start" button. But, a search through Windows Explorer helpe me with that. And once I got that going, the rest was cake following your instructions.

So, from one 50 year old to another, thanks a million.

For the rest of you that I trying this fix.....

stay at it. Fatclue's instructions really work.:D
[Windows Phone 7 General] slick_shoes:
Post #16

It works great on the focus s. I just recently got this phone for my gf and everything works now :)

http://forums.wpcentral.com/general-discussion/188659.htm
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Thanks To All

No amount of money can replace the gratitude that all of you have shown. I've received help on these forums many times and I had to reciprocate. This is what makes this community work and it can only grow stronger. Now, if we could only weed out the trolls... :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] jiraiya_s:
Thanks for this tutorial. But I'm having some problems with downloading the attachment. I'm on clean rom(mango 1.3) when pressing the .xlm file (attachment) it says downloading but it opens the file on the browser and when i go to the root tool i see the email attachment file but it's empty. Please can somebody help.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
You're supposed to let it download and open on the browser. Once it has completely loaded on the browser you can find it in the email attachments folder in volatile. Patience is king when messing with these things.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jiraiya_s:
Thanks that worked.one more thing I observed. When saving the straight talk in the diagnostic app (*#9908#) it says "loading straight talk pro"... should I wait for a message that it's done loading or just press close and restart the phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jiraiya_s:
It works. Thanks again for this post. One problem on my phone is that when I restart the phone the mms will not work. I read on a thread from wpcentral that on custom roms this will not work. The fix is that you save the profile and close the diagnosis app and do not restart the phone and it works perfectly even the Bing search works now on 3g(before it only worked on WiFi). So every time I restart my phone I just go to the diagnosis app save the straight talk profile(without restarting) close the diagnosis app and it works like a charm. Thanks a million times for this thread.:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] broryanschaeffer:
Not receiving MMS.

I took all the steps in order to get MMS working on my Focus. I'm glad that I can send mms, but for some reason i cant receive MMS. Any suggestions???
[Windows Phone 7 General] broryanschaeffer:
MMS working now!!

Nevermind i am now receiving MMS!!!! Thanks everyone for your posts! This was one of the deciding factors of using straight talk w/ Samsung Focus!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] time pilot aka:
Oh goodness gravies...

Thank you so much for this post. It's been a month laboring over my wife's LG Quatum - it was your post that finally put enough pieces together so that I could get MMS to finally work. I had to modify a few steps for the LG, build my own XML, so I plan to write a separate guide -- but thank you, thank you, thank you!

(Attached is the provisional file I built, in case anybody needs it)
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Man, I gave up on the Quantum. I had one with the Telstra ROM because I need some form of Internet Sharing but I could never get the MMS worked out. I tried installing and renaming the same xml I used for the Focus but I could never get it to work. I noticed that your file has an underscore in front of "PROV". Please don't tell me that's all I was missing. My file did not have that underscore in front. If you reply to me and tell me that is all, I'm going to have the biggest Homer Simpson moment in history. Either way, I'll be watching for your tutorial.
[Windows Phone 7 General] time pilot aka:
I don't think it was the underscore (though that might be part of it, who knows...) - I originally just renamed your Focus PROV file to match the format of the others on my Quantum (including an underscore) and as-is it didn't work for the Quantum - I had to pull the 310_410_ATT_ENG xml off the device, and copy your values into it when appropriate. There were some differences in flags set that were probably device-specific. There also seems to be some redundant code in the Quantum prov that must be necessary.

I just bought a Dell Venue Pro for myself - when I switch from Sprint to Straight Talk in a few weeks I get to start this whole process over again! From what I read there's a Dell App that will let me set the MMS settings though. Much easier switch than the Samsung and LG devices.

Now that you can just buy Straight Talk SIM's off the website, I can't believe more people don't make this switch. Especially AT&T customers - they already have a working phone, and Straight Talk will give them unlimited 3G for less half the contract price with no caps or throttling. No 4G I guess, but that has never been available on any carrier in my area so I don't mind. Over the course of 1 year I am going to save $500, and that includes the price of buying a new phone and paying an ETF.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
I have a DVP now as well. Getting MMS is such a breeze. Get the EM (##634#) and open the bottom option (MMS Settings). From there you'll just enter the appropriate settings (apn - att.mvno, Name - Straight Talk MMS, apn - att.mvno, MMSC - http://mmsc.cingular.com, MMS proxy - 66.209.11.33, port - 80). Keep "PAP" checked for both sets of settings and hit "apply". You're done! Don't forget to enter the correct apn in settings>cellular>add apn first and reboot. If you need a guide for USB tethering, I have one in the Dell Venue Pro section here. Good luck!
[Windows Phone 7 General] time pilot aka:
Thanks for the tips. I will definitely check out your guide for tethering, that is one of the features I was going to miss the most moving from Android.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Oops, my bad. The DVP tethering guide is on wpcentral (they're a little nicer over there). Getting a little senile in my late 40's. http://forums.wpcentral.com/venue-pro/191765.htm
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveHavok:
Success on HTC Titan 2?

Will this method work on phones other than Samsung?

I've got a new HTC Titan 2 on Net10 and was curious if this method would work for my phone or is it scripted to be specific to Samsung only?

Thank You
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
The windowbreak procedure is Samsung-specific. You're going to have to check the HTC forums to see if there's any guides for your model. Long story short, you may need to dev unlock before you can do anything else if your model doesn't have any built-in provisioning capabilities.
[Windows Phone 7 General] time pilot aka:
IIRC, HTC has an App for setting your MMS settings, so you probably don't need to go through all this rigamaroll - at least thats what I remember from digging around forums trying to figure out my LG.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveHavok:
Unfortunately, the HTC Connection Setup App has not been updated for their newer HTC phones like the Titan 2. Pretty awesome of them huh :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] GoodDayToDie:
Does it need to be? It should work on the Gen2 HTC phones just like on the Gen1 phones. Only Samsung thought it would be a good idea to change the OEM drivers between generations; I have seen no indication that HTC did so. I haven't checked on a Titan 2 though, yet.
[Windows Phone 7 General] turbulent28:
4g Speeds?

Ive managed to get my samsung focus S with working MMS on ST. Ive notice my phone says 4g At the top. Is this possible? I read somewhere 3g is the highest speed ST offers.

I ask because Ive noticed i only get 2 bars (signal) at home...even though coverage map is lit up in lime green
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Straight Talk is up to H+ (faux G)
[Windows Phone 7 General] turbulent28:
Hi,

Yes, Straight Talk supports 3G speed. We have not set any limit to data access. As long as you will follow the rules stated under the Terms and Condtions, the data service will not be disconnected.

Thank you!

Stephanie_ST

Okay this is a response from a rep on the straight talk forum (re: 3g/4g and data caps)
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Hey guys, thanks for all the positive replies. I've let go of my Focus and Omnia7 for a Quantum (can't deal with the virtual keyboard) so I'm not going to be able to really answer any new questions. Gonna try getting MMS and Internet Sharing on that device as well (I'm pig-headed that way) with Straight Talk. Be watching the Quantum boards within the next week or so to see if I succeed or rue the day I let go of the Focus. Peace, love and soul.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jojo12411:
Sweet heck yea thanks a bunch for in instructions for the focus. :D I know im a noob but after reading and fallowing along with the instructions i got my LG Quantum to work on ST without a hitch. Only hard part was finding were the .XML files were located lol.

To do it on the quantum its all the same except for part 2 and part 9.

In part 2 you dont have to go to the site on your phone since you can developer unlock it and keep it from re-locking just by using the MFG menu. Theres step-by-step instructions for doing so. steps 3-8 and step 1 are the same.

In step 9 you still go to the same Email Attachments folder to get to the xml to cut and move. BUT you dont move it to a provxml folder and you dont need to create one at all. You cut the .xml and then go to Explorer/Windows. It will take a min to load and then when you scrol down you will see all the xml files that the phone has. Thats were you paste the xml you cut from the attachents folder. Then back out compleatly go to the MFG menu/engineer menu/other settings/set network profile. In the MCC put 310 and if everthing is all good you should see the xml file you pasted recently for ST. I did it to mine and my friends phone and both times it worked flawlessly.

Sorry if anything seams our of place or not to descriptive.

THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERTHING IT WORKS PERFECTLY!!!:D
[Windows Phone 7 General] indec01:
Thanks m8

Thank you. Worked like a charm.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AlgorithmX:
Net 10

Thanks for the info Fatclue!

I was able to add one more step and get MMS working using a Net10 sim.

Follow all steps from the OP substituting the Straight Talk XML with the Net10 XML attached below, but stop after #9. Before doing #10 follow all of the steps here to enable "Auto Configure Sim Setting" then finish with step #10 from the OP

My Focus is now perfect at half the price. :D

Mega Props to Fatclue, sandrobber and BigWaveMx

You guys rock!
[Windows Phone 7 General] riverzedge:
airfire mobile

I've tried to change the net10 xml to work with airfire mobile but can't get it to work. Has anyone made a file that would work with my samsung focus on airfire mobile? It's located in Wisconsin.

I am now able to receive mms messages but still am unable to send them. If you want to look at the file and see what I may have done wrong.

This is the info I got from airfire:

Name: AirFire, APN: internet.air.net, MMSC: mms.airfiremobile.com/+1(your 10 digit number), MCC: 310, MNC: 640 and the rest is blank.

*It doesn't work at all if I put my phone number like it says above.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ziffler:
ok need some help no mms

ok did the straight talk unlock have all the files ran it, however ive noticed now wait let me back up i have a samsung focus 1.3 on it not sure if its a S ok sorry, have data plan unlimited text ect. however ive noticed lately i can not recieve pictures from anyone it says click mdeia content i do nothing happens so help greatly appreciated.
[Windows Phone 7 General] turbulent28:
do you have the wireless managger app?

IF not, get it and check you APN settings. When you load/run the straight talk xml file thats linked in the first post, all the setting should automatically change for you.

Maybe you need to run it again.

Also,

Make sure you have signal stregnth
[Windows Phone 7 General] _m35:
thanks

Has this method been confirmed for the Samsung Focus S as well? Thanks for all the hard work guys!
[Windows Phone 7 General] turbulent28:
Yes,

Ive had my FOcus S working for a month and a half.

Confirmed data and MMS working
[Windows Phone 7 General] rorrr:
big thanks

Just to be clear, for those who don't use MMS, fatclue's instructions will also enable the use of Bing's built-in services--Search, Maps, Local Scout etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sdkswk:
good one, good day
[Windows Phone 7 General] Homeryz:
Thanks

Can't thank you enough fatclue

I have a Samsung Focus and for 4 months since I've been using NET10 $50 unlimited plan, I have basically had half a phone. That straightalk.xml just made my phone whole again. Today I was able to send and receive pictures with mms again.

Thank You, and all that gave suggestions.

Homeryz
[Windows Phone 7 General] 0zzy1013:
Re:

Nice thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] milestide25:
This has yet to work for me. I just came from Android with T-Mobile and switched to Straight Talk at the end, but my phone quit working. I've been through every step, but it simply doesn't work for me. Do I need to change the apn? By the way, I don't know if this is why, but the sim card I'm using was compatible with T-Mobile phones. It's not the AT&T sim card. Straight Talk assured me all I needed to do was set the APN settings as if it was an AT&T compatible sim, but I find their customer service to be total morons. They had to call and ask someone and I think they told me something just to get me off the phone. I asked them how to handle the situation before I ever purchased this phone and that's how they told me to go about it. Just put in the APN settings like it's an AT&T compatible sim. Anybody know if I've done something wrong or if I need to buy a new sim?
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
Sorry dude, this only works on the AT&T SIM. The T-Mo card has completely different settings, trust me I have both types of cards. Don't call those idiots at ST, go straight to their website and buy the SIM.
[Windows Phone 7 General] stratax:
Thank you! i can confirm this working on wp 7.8 on samsung focus.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justen7723:
I put this rom on my fiance's evo and thought the install was very nice had lots of options straight from the install from kernel ver. To boot anim. Was just wondering if something like this could make it to the epic.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1258932

I'm no Dev or themer or anything i just know my way around androids some. Just trying to bring new/different ideas to the right people.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ÜBER™:
Marcusant was working on something like this a GUI for recovery and flashing. At least to my knowledge he planned on releasing it but... didn't hope I didn't give out info I wasn't supposed to.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justen7723:
Hope he chimes in on this thread then. Thx for your help bigG.. uber I think you are almost always the first one that answers me lol. Thx
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
I think this is similar to the miui configurator
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justen7723:
Honestly I thought u would have more to say than that lol.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
The reason that mods like this are not popular is the same reason that we do not have CWM Touch and TWRP2. Our touch drivers in recovery are "off" and possibly need to be recalibrated. They hardly even work at all along tthe edges.
[HTC One X] LiquidSolstice:
Hey guys.

I'm an Evo 3D user that's looking to upgrade to the Evo 4G LTE when it hits Sprint, but something is worrying me. Every Android device I've ever owned has had a removable battery, and of course, the 4G LTE won't when it comes out.

It's not that I care about replacing the battery, but how would you deal with a bootloop if you can't pull the battery to stop it? Is there some sort of interrupt sequence that forces it to boot into the bootloader?

I get there's ADB, but what if you're bootlooping so badly that ADB can't even connect before it reboots? (My 3D has done this to me before).