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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
A small FYI to my fellow Sprint users that is slightly off-topic. Checked very carefully over Government taxes and fees and found out Sprint was charging me state and county taxes as well as 911 fees for a state and county I haven't lived in for over a year as well as the actual state and county I live in. They'll reimburse me (ended up a shy bit north of $82) but said it was because the addresses of two people on my family plan didn't update in the system when I did the address change for us. As many people here are using this PRL adjustment to get off of Sprint, thought I'd toss it out there for everyone to know. If you've moved at all, verify what state and county you are being charged taxes for.

Moral of the story: Don't pay them any more than you absolutely have to.

That said and back on topic, the 00001 PRL has been doing fantastic. I keep bouncing back and forth between it and 00003, both give some good speeds and I'm thankful we have them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tonyec7:
wait roam control actually works now?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 12manytimes:
i tried this app on a virgin mobile branded HTC One S flashed to vzw prepaid and it didnt work....its only 3.99 so i tried it again and yes it works! sprint htc one on verizon 35 plan w/google voice :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chevlar:
Yeah, but on sprint galaxy nexus' it hasn't worked since JB update ... Trying again now ....

Edit: still doesn't seem to do anything. Tried all the different Samsung phone options in the app. Switch from automatic to roam only reboots radio, but system, network, and base station Id all remain the same after reboot ...

Whatever, flashing vzw prl's with CDMA tools is a piece of cake. Just annoying that I paid for an app that stopped being supported after jelly bean.

OH WAIT, I PAID 50X MORE FOR A PHONE THAT PROMISED SUPPORT! at least the app dev made no promises .... Freakin toroplus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Is there ANY chance if i do this and sprint kicks me off, i'll get charged an ETF?? I read someone in another thread saying it was a case by case thing or maybe the newer sprint contracts (i've had mine since 2005 and re-upped about every two years since then, last time about a year ago).

Its so bad now though, that i pretty much have to be on wi-fi to do anything....I can't afford to pay an ETF though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Technically no. Your contract says that Sprint agrees to provide you service, that service CAN include data roaming but you'll have to check your actual contract verbage about it. If you roam on Verizon too much, Sprint can try and fix your phone by doing a remote PRL update or recommend you bring in your phone to get checked out but they can't make you bring it in. As part of the contract, Sprint has the ability to get out of their side and you have your own (though admittedly MUCH, MUCH harder) or you can pay an ETF. If Sprint is paying Verizon a ridiculous amount of money in roaming fees to cover you, then they'll terminate the contract to save themselves money. As they choose to break the contract out of their own self interest, they can't fault you. For all intents and purposes you are a customer just using his phone and everything is not your fault, so no blame can come to you as they are the ones choosing to violate the contract terms which frees you from the ETF.

Now all that said, people are people. You could end up having someone try to convince you of any number of things or someone smart enough to know what you're doing, but it doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day their hands are tied between paying Verizon more than you're worth or cutting you loose. So unless you give them your device so they can prove that the prl was modified, you're fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
OK I'm new to this stuff about prl. My question is can I use a Verizon prl and then return back to sprint prl whenever I want to???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sik-1:
Yes, all u have to do is update your prl like normal and it will revert back to sprints, they're honestly should be no reason going back to sprint, very terrible network
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
What app have you guys us top change the prl
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
I'm on the MMuzzy 4.2.2 french vanilla rom and he's got the Sprint Diagnostics app in there. That's what I use. But, i'm sure if you look around, you can find an apk for that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
I found the apk but when I try to install it faild
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mkuehl06:
You can't install the diagnostics app via apk. You have to get the .zip and flash it through recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CRIME INC.:
Here's the flashable zip, so you don't have to searchhttps://copy.com/93rxj
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
OK got it install how do I flash the prl? And which one you guys recommend so it won't report back roming
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mkuehl06:
Glad you got it but I don't think you understand the meaning behind this thread. This is for people who want to roam on Verizon so they get there service cut from Sprint without paying an etf
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
I know what the thread is for but I don't wanna my service off I just wanna use it when I'm out and about where I don't have lte. I have a WiFi at home but not at work. So I would switch back and forth when needed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crookshanks:
Which will get you the boot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
Even if I use maybe about 3gigs only
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Per Sprints terms and conditions, anything over 300 MB of data roaming and over 800 minutes of voice roaming per month is enough for them to boot you..or at least enough to warn you that they'll boot you if it continues. I've heard of people getting cancelled for a few Gb per month and some who roam tens of Gigs per month and have yet to hear anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jimlarck:
I would be part of the latter

Sent from my MoKee'd Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crookshanks:
I got a warning letter without even using that much but the terms and conditions also say if the majority of your minutes/data usage are roaming they can end your service. Most of my minutes are roaming because service in my apartment sucks. I got the warning letter about a week ago and a text message yesterday telling me to watch my mail for an important account notice.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
It does seem that going over that roaming threshold for voice minutes triggers sprints scorn much quicker than data roaming... at least from the stories I read/hear.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NYYFan325:
That's EXACTLY what happened to me (for voice roaming as well). Just for laughs I called sprint customer service and asked what the important notice was (playing dumb). The rep basically said it was ANOTHER warning letter explaining the roaming terms and conditions. I'm hoping she's wrong and its actually a termination letter lol

I posted in the general forum about this and a good amount of people seem to think you would still pay an ETF if they are the ones to terminate you. I always thought this was NOT the case (from what I read on here). Can anyone 100% clarify...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigblue4life:
Does roam control just not work at all on the toroplus? What are toroplus users doing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigblue4life:
Anyone? I have the app from back when I had my S2 but cannot get it working on the nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chevlar:
No, roam control doesn't work for us. Fortunately, you can flash a stock verizon (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41195565) or hacked sprint (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35576100) prl using the CDMA tools app (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28803274) very easily without even needing to reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] n0ve:
Roam control works perfect for toroplus...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigblue4life:
I can't get to force roam at all. How did you get it to work?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] uplink.cu:
Hello, Can I use Sprint-Diagnostic apk to write a Verizon PRL.

Thank
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] n0ve:
Simply Use as designed...it will not snow you the R logo when roaming.... Best to set options to show in notification area
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] photec2:
When you are getting terminated are they terminating just your line or the account? I have a family plan that my wife and I share but I also have a SERO500 plan on the same account. I don't want to lose the SER500 plan if they terminate my account, I just want the family plan gone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
You're all on the same plan but each line has its own contract. They terminate the contract so it's just one line. BigRushDog confirmed it when he got terminated and a few others have as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
So, if I'm the primary number on my family plan ($140 or so for two lines) and it gets canceled due to roaming... do they just put my wife's (non roaming) line on a single phone plan for $70? Or whatever the going rate for that is?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
3 months of this now (takes some effort). Wondering if Sprint is going to release me soon. Oh well, finally some good service in the meantime.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
I just joined you in working this one. Hopefully they are faster about it in the Colorado Springs area. This is my .l.. to sprint for dragging their rears on the update for our phone....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
Question guys I have 3 lines if I change my prl do all my lines get cut or only the one that change prl
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AGoogleUser:
Can't find anycut on market. Not to worried but I can't stand Sprints network. Sure its unlimited...but what for?! I can't even open up my market on 3g with full service. Connection times out every time. Totally absurd. I can't wait to go to Verizon. Anyway is there another way to write prl or can someone give me a link to anycut? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CRIME INC.:
Use the sprint diagnostics app. Just flash in recovery:https://copy.com/ByfGA
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
As long as it is an ASOP build, and non-stock ROM you should be good to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] photec2:
Just the one that's roaming like crazy
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AGoogleUser:
Flashed diagnostic app. Put test.prl on root of SD and pressed write prl. Rebooted and still on 25061 prl and not the 11115 prl. Tried again with TEST.prl and same thing. Any ideas? I'm on slimbean 4.3 build 1 with Franco kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
Did you unzip the file out? Also, with the diag app, you can tell it to flash a particular .prl file in the prl manager.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Some people take root of sd to mean different things. The file needs to go in your storage/emulated/0 folder. Some people consider that root because they don't have root priveleges enabled on the file browser, it's not actually root but whatever. Move it to the 0 folder (which is where you'll see your DCIM and Download folders among others).

Then hit write PRL and do what you need to do and when you come back from the reboot it should be working. Also, I have personally seen once or twice where for whatever reason it didn't take and I had to do it a second time for it to take.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] uplink.cu:
Create folder on storage/emulated/0/ and put prl for name, them copy all that prl that you have inside that folder, remember that in unzip, no zip prl... And then go to diagnostic app and in prl manager set the prl folder, and give the place storage/emulated/0/prl and then in write prl option, down to prl manager you have all the prl and you can flash that you want. Is my way and I dont need to reboot the phone for nothing. Try and tell me how was.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DevilStrider:
Is there a sure answer on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
Blew through 6 gigs of data the last 6 days. Do they send notices monthly?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Not in my experience. I've been doing it for three months and haven't heard anything. Anywhere between 20-40 gig per month.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MonstaDriva:
Verizon talk sprint data

This is likely a dumb question but I have to ask . I'm on Ting which uses the sprint network . Ting allows call roaming but not data roaming . Is it possible to have a prl that would allow me to talk on Verizon towers but pull 3g or cdma off sprint so that I'd still have my feeble little trickle of data ? Maybe some hybrid prl ? thanks in advance .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blmvxer:
All sprint prl's. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1880781
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Got my termination letter today. They're just cancelling the one number (out of my 3 lines) that had excessive roaming. I see no indication that anything will be happening with my other two lines. (I blanked out anything personal beyond my name for obvious reasons.)

Nexus 5 and T-Mo, here I come!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Very nice, let us know how it goes.

So, you just port your number somewhere else, keep your phone, and boom... No more sprint? Nice.

If I get one of those I'll be tempted to see if I can get my other non-roaming line canceled too. But, I wouldn't want to push my luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AGoogleUser:
How long were you using the prl?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
I think all totaled about four months. Pulled 10 gigs first month, upped it to 35 gigs second, then 85 gigs third and haven't finished this month but am right about 68 gigs right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
How did you hit 85 gigs?!?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
I have a Mega.co.nz account, uploaded a 3.22GB file (Some of the DLC's for Dragon Age II on PC, just needed big files), also had a 3.02 GB file (More DA2 DLC's) and a 2.98 GB file (the rest of them). Each night I would select all 3 for download with the Mega app and let them run until I got up. They would never all 3 finish, sometimes one and a half, sometimes two would finish. I would just use a file browser to delete them in the morning and do it again the next night. During the day I would keep it off of wifi and whatnot, but at the end of the month that's only a couple hundred megs at most of regular usage.

I just really, really wanted off of sprint before the N5 dropped. Sprint had decent voice quality, but for what I do during the day, I can't have lax data and their failure to respond to repeated complaints and spotty 4G service where I live got me fed up. Their customer service was dismissive at best and straight rude a good deal of the time. I tend to want to give the benefit of the doubt to people, tend to be a straight arrow with keeping everything legal and fulfulling my obligations, but I feel nothing for a company that clearly feels nothing for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
Been doing something similar with my music library on google play, but only hit 20gigs. The DA2 dlc is a good one... Those are huge.

As for sprint... The data service is not my biggest complaint. It's the massive failure of participating in the nexus program for me. That and the requirement that you need to sign a new 2 year contract to get a military discount. THAT'S crap plain and simple.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Yeah, they screwed me when I got deployed while in the military, had the option to get out contract free but didn't take advantage of it, really should have. Now it's been over 10 years with Sprint and I'm just done with the false promises, slow speed and poor customer service.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MizzouBrent:
I complaiined on their website yesterday. I work about a half mile from their world headquarters in KC. I get horrid 3G service during the day (and for some reason, no LTE on the tower I'm connected to). I get 0.03 or so Mbps down on speedtests during the work week...so I can't stream anything to my phone. They claimed that EVDO is down in the area and LTE will be active in the next six months. I'm not holding my breath. I've heard the down tower/LTE in six months claim before. Well my data has been awful for much longer than six months. So either they're lying, or incapable of knowing when a tower is down. They obviously are slower than molasses with rolling out LTE.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Just curious how many months your line had left on the contract?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Was going to be done in June.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
Just an FYI... I doubled your largest amount and have yet to get my letter :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Not sure how long you've been doing it, but from hearing many accounts of people getting booted...it seems like you have to do it for a minimum of 3 months before you get on their "bad list".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
Won't be too terribly long for you now then, I've heard of it taking many months for some people, but I think with that large of a usage, you should be counting on it coming relatively soon. I suspect they give you a couple of months to make sure it's not erroneous but after the third month realize it's probably not stopping and start the process, but I can't be sure. I just know it took around four months or so for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Buceyes:
I received my first "warning" letter and phone call from Sprint in May. I continued with around 5-10GB per month roaming. In October it jumped to 20GB and almost 40GB in November while using Mega cloud storage for "backups". Got my termination letter yesterday and have until January 7 2014 to transition to another carrier (10 months earlier than my original 2 year contract and without ETF).

Back to Verizon for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rb3:
So did they cancel just the 1 line or were able to get all 3 out? I am in a similar situation where I'm on a plan with 3 lines and we all get horrid reception. I roam like crazy but I'm wondering if I need to get my brother to start roaming too. We both want out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Watcher07:
They only cancel the 1 offending line. My wife and mother-in-law are both still on Sprint until June at which I'll move them over. Trying to orchestrate the same massive data usage I was on my phone with my very non-tech savvy mother-in-law who hardly uses her phone anyway and my wife who is a manager and on her phone constantly would be far more trouble than it's worth. I'm happily on T-Mobile with a Nexus 5 and everything is grand though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rb3:
Thanks. I figured as much. Yeah he is all for it. We went and priced Att and verizon last week and were surprised how similar the monthly price would be. T mobile is not very good here. I'm going to root his phone tomorrow and let him start roaming too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nexism:
I got popped cause every time I rebooted my phone it was downloading 318mb of updates from play services (that was like a GB a day cause I'm a neat freak and always restore). Got my first notice and modified services perms and fixed the massive data usage. We'll sew what happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigmoneygrip23:
Got my letter about a month ago. I had been roaming data for 3.5 months. Roughly 15 Gb in month1, 43 in month2, and 68 in month3. I got the letter during month 4, but I had already used almost 70 for that month. I have some movies on Google Play and I would just download them onto my internal memory every night and delete them in the morning. All while roaming of course (just make sure your LTE is turned off, in case youre in an area that is turned on). They did try to charge me the ETF on my last bill. But, I just called the number that was on the termination letter and they credited my account the amount of the ETF and associated taxes.

I've got a Nexus5 now and I love it. I have to say I did like my galaxy nexus a lot, though. Its my wife's phone now. But, I don't miss Sprint.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CRIME INC.:
Nexus 5 welcomes you, but there are some things i miss about the gnex

sent from my HAMMERHEAD neXus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bluefalcon13:
Got my freedom papers as well... Similar to the rest. 4th month of roaming. Yadda yadda yadda...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adio201:
Anyone help me out I know how to change my prl but when I do it so shows I'm on sprint and my Download speed us below 1mb what prl can I use
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I don't think I reported in here but I'm pleased to say that this trick worked for me. Roamed for like 3 months, totally forgot about it and switched back to Sprint LTE and got my termination letter like another month later.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drkcreator:
Do u guys have the sprint diagnostic apk? Or is there another way to change the prl?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jnoles07:
So how do we know if this worked or not. It rebooted but in about phone, status, it says I am still on sprints network.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigrushdog:
The prls are all good. 00001 is old school. I work in a remote location where sprint just fails hard. 00001 gave me a dramatic increase in connectivity and bandwidth.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fantsay777:
I mean in Verizon Gnex it is posible to write custom prl in that way
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] digitalfiz:
How can you tell its changed? I don't really see any speed improvements so I am not sure if Verizon has crappy service where I live too or I didn't do it right lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jesusice:
Check in System Settings --> About Phone--> Status
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mattallica76:
So far this method is working out very well for me. I'm using the 52644.prl so I'm constantly on Verizon 3G with speeds well above 1700 kbps up and down. This is 6 times faster than what I get on Sprint 3G in my hometown. The down side to this is that I'm probably going to use more than 300 MB at this rate.

Has anyone had success using one of the other PRLs with Roam Control? I would like to be able to switch back and forth between roaming and Home mode but so far Roam Control doesn't seem to work on my Nexus. If I set it to force roam it seems to put me into 1x Sprint mode (at least with the 11115 PRL).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] walkeryan:
I just updated the OP with my method for switching as I do a lot of Streaming.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] walkeryan:
I updated the OP with all of the discoveries in the Thread guys, I posted what ROM / Kernel I'm using. If you have one that worked with this method send me a PM with the name and version and I will update the OP so people can have more options if they need to reflash.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mkeller96:
How do I extract the original prl from my phone and also when I write the modded prl and under network it says unknown but others have been saying it says Verizon please help!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] autoprime:
I've put together a new thread which will try to detail all advanced editing of our phone using VIA software. Flashing to other carriers and reading/writing PRLs are just the tip of the iceberg...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1696621
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] walkeryan:
Are you trying to hijack my thread? Why would anyone want to have to tether their phone to a computer to update their PRL information. I understand VIA software does more but this post was unnecessary in this thread as this is only pertaining to Changing your PRL. If you had a better method than mine that is fine, please share, but please don't post in my thread trying to hijack users for your own.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] autoprime:
alternative method that always works... as well as a way to now backup your current PRL in case you cant do an OTA PRL update to get your Sprint version back. No hijacking here... just mentioning additional features which would be too long and detailed to post in this thread.. which would THEN be hijacking.

Also.. this PRL trick isnt YOUR method. It was first referenced in our very own Sprint Gnex forums here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1639839 but then removed most likely due to the OP not wanting the info falling into the wrong hands. Over a week later and your thread pops up restating what someone else had removed...

regardless... stop being a baby.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] riggsandroid:
wow - do you want to request autoprime include a donate button for you in his thread? The guy is just trying to share another way to do things, and you act as if he's stealing from you.

Get over yourself.