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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AlpineMan:
One way to get AAA key from GS3 is to downgrade the radio to LG2. Then use QPST'S EFS Explorer to copy NV Item 1192 from GS3 to your PC. Use HxD Hex Editor to view content of file.

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Error 16 is a Sprint security flag that was triggered in your account. To fix it, call any number, wait for the Error 16 message to finish, and a Sprint support person should answer. Tell them you did a factory reset of your phone (make sure you only mention your donor phone's make and model :D ) and then you got Error 16 ever since. They will then remove the flag on your account.

One way to fix Error 16 without calling Sprint is to temporarily activate another phone. Wait a few minutes to an hour, then reactivate your donor. You will need to run Update Profile on your GS3 and HTC One V after reactivating.

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Did you also enter the Samsung password in DFS when you started? Not really sure though why people choose to change the SPC/MSL to zeros. You can easily retrieve the MSL using "Get My MSL" app if you forget your MSL. IMHO, it is completely unnecessary to zero the SPC.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trim81:
People wrote all 000000 msl for Verizon network, or pageplus
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jmandawg:
Are you sure it's a security flag, because the old phone still works fine without the error 16. I'm thinking i didn't copy something over properly. Do you know what else they check? The meid is copied properly.

If i call them they will re-provision and then my current phone will stop working. I want to have both working at the same time so i can switch between them (but not powered on at the same time).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kalehua4791:
I have done a few hundred and of course you could switch between both but.......why would you want to...but to each his own......lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdaddy:
I've done this on mine several times now and it does as you say, however, there is no 3G.

Any ones help would be greatly appreciated, as I have been trying to figure out why it won't get 3G for the last week now.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jmandawg:
Thanks for the advice, i called sprint and sure enough my HTC one V started working. But I could not find a way to force update the profile on the one V, there is no options in the systems settings menu. I powered it down and powered on my S3 and updated profile. After around 15 minutes i powered the S3 off and turned the htc one V on. It worked for a couple minutes and then i got the "Error 16" code. Are you sure it's possible to have service on both? It seems like they are checking something. The service still works on the S3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Hawes92:
I know my MSL as well as the Samsung password, they both register as "unlocked" when I enter them.. The trouble I'm coming across is once the phone itself is rooted, if I don't have to change the MSL, where do I go from there?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] superman1979:
how to change telephone number after flashing to boost

i believe i did everything correct, but i have problem, after i flashed everything ( i think correctly) esn is ok, all those stuff...

but my telephone number is 0000001846 how to change that guys? how to change in cdma dfs? im used to changing it in qpst but qpst 2.7 build 37* is not working in samsung s3

any similar problems? pls help... thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jmandawg:
Can anyone that's successfully done this power off their S3 and power on their donor phone and toggle between them a few times and see if they get an error 16 when trying to make a call on the donor? I suspect sprint is checking the radio fingerprint now so that only one phone can be used on the account and you can't toggle between two phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] retailguy:
I doubt that is the case. We've got an epic 4G, an Siii, and the donor incognito set up the same way, and during the flashing process with the siii, I had all of them powered up many times, one at a time, and never got an error 16. That was in November.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jmandawg:
Did you try to make outbound call on any of the donors or only the primary phone? I think the donor will get flagged after a few calls but the primary phone will continue to work. I was able to make a few calls on my donor before it got flagged with error 16, but then my SIII still worked fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
I randomly get an error 16 just using the phone. it almost always happens during a REDIAL scenario. hit end and then hit call right away.

I just hit end and dial again and its fine. happens maybe 2-3 times a week. I am not brave enough to ever risk turning on the donor again.

BTW the S2 did the same thing. error 16 every once in a while.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wailer247:
Hello. I've got a US Cellular S3 and I cannot get the MDN MIN to stick in the settings. I know from previous posts that this has been fixed by sending the 16 digit password (01f2030f5f678ff9). However, this password does not work the US Cellular S3 that I have. Does anyone know the correct password? I'm pulling my hair out over this....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] retailguy:
Sure, made lots of calls. We had a lot of trouble making the internet work properly on the siii. A guy here named mudduq helped me a lot over six or seven days, and my wife switched back and forth with the epic and the siii for all those days. Some days she used the epic, others she used the Siii.

Never an error 16, or i'd have heard about it! My wife is on the phone all day, it wasn't like it was just a few calls, either.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trim81:
From my experience, manually programming info into the phone will not trigger and error 16

Only when you attempt a hands free activation will trigger it

... Also if you run a profile update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] E-POUND:
Tru!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wailer247:
Sorry for the double post, but I really need to figure out why I cannot get any settings to stick. It is a US cellular GS3. SPC is all 000000. The phone does not accept the 16 digit password posted in this thread. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

EDIT: Ok. So i finally figured out how to fully flash (NO MMS) the US Cellular Galaxy S3. I will post it here anyways despite not being helped in the forum. First I used cdma workshop 2.7 to send the correct password for USC GS3 (2010031619780721). Then I closed the program, and opened qpst 2.7 build 378 (Neither CDMA Workshop 2.7 or DFS would write to the phone even after using correct password and SPC). I read from the phone with the default USC SPC (000000). Then the program would successfully write to the phone. I proceeded to program talk, text, and data. The 3g symbol does not show up on the phone, but data does work correctly, and streaming video worked without changing any settings.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr_Banks:
i need to know if i could get 4g on my sprint galaxy s3 flash to boost. i manage to used an HTC Evo Design 4G as donor and for now i have everything working (voice/text/mms/data) any idea or advise???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kalehua4791:
The evo design is not 4g lte which is what the sg3 is..... the evo design is actually wimax..... so in short NO.....

K
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Hawes92:
I know my MSL and the Samsung password. If I don't have to change the MSL, what is my next step?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdaddy:
Voice Mail Notification

Does anyone have a ROM or solution to get Voicemail Notification working on this flash?

And if so, is it on leaked JB Rom?

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
Google Play store app called A Better Voicemail it works perfect. You don't have to have it constantly displayed in notifications for it to work either.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alando:
16 digit password

What is the 16 digit password? 01f2030f5f678ff9 does not work on SCH-I535

alando@yahoo.com
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdaddy:
01F2030F5F678FF9 is the correct 16 digit password.

What are you getting when you try and send it?

Also as I recall, all you need is the 6 (000000) msl for the verizon model.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] derrickmd18:
Does a better voice mail do it when it comes in?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alando:
16 digit password

What is the 16 digit password that works? alando@yahoo.com
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] styles420:
Did you consider the possibility that you weren't helped in the forum because you were the first to figure it out? In that case, you should be posting the answer here because no one else could help you, not despite that fact (if you hadn't posted, then it would be like saying, "no one knew the answer when I needed it, so I'm keeping it to myself now that I've found it"). You made it sound like you were exceptionally generous by sharing, but there's nothing exceptional or generous about doing exactly what this forum exists for, sharing information.

On the other hand, if you "figured it out" by finding the answer here in the forum, then you should know why you weren't helped - because all you had to do was search (but then you would have no reason to share the answer again in full instead of linking to the original, unless your goal was to add clutter to the thread and/or get credit for something that someone else figured out).

So thanks for sharing, but do try to be mindful of circumstances so that you can keep your attitude in check - there are a lot of helpful and knowledgeable people here (I know several from the OG Epic forum, so I can vouch), so if no one helps you then either no one has figured it out yet, or your question hasn't been seen yet by anyone who knows the answer. It doesn't matter if there are people here that enjoy not helping people, because they can't stop those of us who like to help from helping ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
I know every time I use an ASOP ROM I get a voicemail notification, try that out

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
Yes usually instantly when you get new voicemail if you where out of service then you might not know you have voicemail till the next "check" which you can set yourself from 1 minute to never I think.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
Hey since we can't use the visual vm app if your on any TW Rom delete the vvm once you've deleted the visual vm app reboot your phone and you should the have native vm working it did for me let me kno if it worked for you

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
What's this wm you say to delete exactly? I have removed the visual vm and all the sprint zone and other related sprint stuff but my voicemail never worked until I got A Better Voicemail app. Would be great to know how to get voicemail to work without an added app.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
I DELETED the visual voicemail and have no other VM notifier installed I rebooted my phone and I had the native voicemail working every time I get a VM I pops right up..

I get the native voicemail notification

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
Tested this and it works perfect. Much better than having to use an app just to know when you have voicemails.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
Cool...now if I could get my MMS to work I can receive pics but when I try to send them it just says sending and never does I've tried everything and still no luck maybe someone could help me out on this one

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
I don't have this issue it seems.

I LOVE the visual voicemail app (I turned off the transcribe crap no way I am paying for that) I love that it actually downloads the voicemails to my device and I can save them listen to them anytime anywhere and I don't have to dial out or anything. just hit play.

I get noticed just like I do for any regular voicemail except when I tab the notification it just opens in the app instead of dialing 1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
And our flashed to boost, how did you get the native vvm to work???

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
you know something. I have had my S3's back and forth so much I am not 100% I ever actually "GOT" a voicemail on my BOOST S3. so I just left myself a message we shall see what happens.

ahh thats why I stopped getting them on boost I shunted my vm over to youmail !!

ok figured out some of my vmail woes. my boost number was going to youmail but my sprint number was not working right (voicemail wise) turns out youmail got greedier now only 1 number unless you pay.

paying is fine. its a good service. $60 a year for personal voicemail? no. so unsubbed both. just left a message see if the stock system picks it up.

Interesting. No voicemail notification on the Boost S3. I guess I always had Youmail on it so I never "noticed"

uninstall the VM app now see what happens

yep now I get a normal VM notification.

is there a good SUPER TINY super simple just download my VM's in the background app like the stock app? all I want to do is download play delete my VM's from the handset with no data connection (except when it downloads it in the background of course AS they come in)

does such a beasty exist?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tonyespo99:
Everything works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
I don't know that would be cool tho, hell I hardly check my voicemail anyway...lol

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] derrickmd18:
How are you'll speed? You getting throttled?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] barcafan6:
Just flashed my S3 over to Boost and having trouble getting any kind of SMS texting to work. Voice and 3G data both work fine. Updated profile/PRL multiple times.

Followed the guide near the beginning of this thread to use DFS to flash all the relevant info and that got me working on the Voice/3G data. At that time I could send texts OK, but didn't receive any incoming SMS.

I then re-flashed everything and re-updated profile/PRL and now I can't send OR receive any SMS texts.

Tried searching in this thread and the web and couldn't find anything on this.

When I try to send a text, I get: Error 34. Message not sent. Network not responding.

If I go to device status, it shows the following info:

Mobile network type: EvDo;rev.A:8

Service state: In service

Roaming: Not roaming

User name: (myname)@myboostmobile.sprintpcs.com

Mobile network state: Connected

Going crazy trying to get this working and would appreciate any insight.

Thanks

EDIT: Problem seems to be resolved now. Redid all the steps for a third time, and this time when I tried to test voice was working, made an outgoing call and got the "Error 16". connected to Sprint and they sent the reset from their end (or whatever it is they do) and after rebooting the phone this time, everything seems to be working (voice/3G/SMS)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
Glad you got it working if you can't get MMS working it should be in this thread somewhere a download for a file to move to system/etc and then just fix permissions in recovery and change the mms url and then you should be set.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] akaKJB:
Flashing Non-Activated Sprint Galaxy SIII

First, many thanks for all of the great information shared here. It's been a life saver on more than one occasion.

I got a deal from an online store after Thanksgiving on two Sprint GSIII's. I activated one on my wife's account but go out of town and didn't activate mine. We've since changed carriers and although my GSIII tries to activate every time I turn it on, it comes back with an error message and therefore no MSL. I want to flash it over to Virgin (actually Assurance but that's same thing and I do have an activated donor phone). Do I really need the MSL if I'm not going to use it on that network anyway? If so, is there some way to fool the activation and somehow generate an MSL code for the unit?

Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
wow i think i finally found a thread that might have some actual people who know what they are doing.

I have the SPH-L710 (Sprint S3) running Stock Android 4.1.1 (im rooted and have CWM installed)

first i dont have any cell service at all as i usually just use google voice or skype over wifi with my laptop

with this phone i got off craigslist i installed groove ip and i now use it over wifi with google voice

anyhow before i get into any of this (and i want to)

what is the proper way to back up the EFS and IMEI areas?

i have tried with qpst .378 and it always fails 47% the way though (software download > Backup)

i have the phone in the correct mode and i enter my spc and like i said it actually starts the backup process and all looks good until 47% each time

anyhow saying i get that resolved and im ready to continue to try to flash from sprint to boost can anyone tell me the relevant pages in this thread that should be of interest to me?

right now there are 55 pages
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 12manytimes:
Boost flash is easy depending on what cdma tool u r using 2 extract info...share that I could prob throw a quick 123

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
qpst dont seem to work with this phone (ive read that in quite a few places) so i use DFS 4.3.1 and it seems to work pretty good for reading and writing info but for some reason it dont let you "save" the info you have read otherwise its a nice tool
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 12manytimes:
Yeah DFS is ok..I use cdma ws....

Make sure you have useable boost donor phone (able to retrieve ha aaa passwords)(lots of threads for that)

Have the 16 digit password for the sprint sgs3 (needed 2 repair you know what)(lots of threads for that)

have MSL for sprint sg3 (needed 2 fix mms)

Use terminal app command: getprop ril.MSL.(if it doesnt work u need 2 downgrade firmware)

Boost prl

Thats pretty much it, its one of the easiest flashes out..read from one write to the other and presto yiu have talk text and 3G..then just fix the multi media and u have urself a fully flashed evo...thats 4 3G...2 flash and get 4G is a little different and quite expensive if u dont know whay ur doing ;)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
for the boost donor phone i have to be able to read its important data to transfer over its settings right?

whats the cheapest phone they have that would let me be able to do that and still get mms and 3g?

should i look on craigslist or ebay for one of these or should i actually get a boost account and phone then do it?

if i get a used boost phone i can call boost up to have then activate it right (i mean cheaply) like hopefully no fee for activation.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
I personally use a Sanyo Incognito I have heard of Samsung Rant's being used also. You have to get a boost version of the donor. You then add the donor to a boost account or change your existing account to the donor handset. It can all be done online which I highly suggest because once you go through the process online it gives you the donor MSL/SPC which will save having to get it by other means later. The only real problem you might have using a Sanyo Incognito is you can only use a 32 bit install of Windows there is no driver that works for 64 bit versions at all. Once you have the donor up and on Boost just make sure you update profiles and everything you can on it and use the internet on it some before doing anything with it to get the SIII working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Blakroc:
To bad no LTE with boost.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
so the reason for the donor is because boost is just like verizon or sprint where the original esn has to be in their database to begin with?

i mean they do not allow esn's from outside their database?

every boost branded phone has an esn in the boost database and they dont allow non-boost esn's?

i think i worded that right...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] saeker:
My S3 is flashed to boost

No 4G, everything else is working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 12manytimes:
Only way 2 get 4G is 2 use a 4G donor phone

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
Basically yes you can sometimes use Sprint branded phone with Boost but only the phones that Boost actually offers in their "line-up" of phones as long as the ESN is clean and even then it is sometimes difficult to get them to let you use it.

The easiest way I have found is either craigslist or ebay and make sure the seller will let you verify the ESN with Boost before you purchase it. You can call Boost up and read the ESN to them and they can check if it is clean and ready to use.

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You would still not get 4G the 4G phones that Boost offers do not use the same kind of 4G that the SIII does so there is no way to get 4G on a flashed phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 12manytimes:
Yeah it only works on the older sprint 4G phones for the reason u mentioned, wimax is out and lte is n..I didnt even check which forum this was when I made the comment...verizon prepaid 3G is the way to go if ur gonna flash 3G! Waaaaay faster 3G..why boost has a new data cap is beyond me :(

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Carfanatic:
I never really looked into it since using two tin cans and string a better quality than Verizon where I live how does the price plan for pre-paid on Verizon? I really haven't seen anyone with unlimited everything even if it has a data limit that can beat the $35 a month....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
Hey I just got my note 2, can't u do it the same as the s3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 12manytimes:
Yup

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Yeah you cant beat 35..boost just happens 2 suck where I leave. I guess all networks have there highs n lows..Verizon prepaid is 50 per month with no data cap..its just good 2 have an alternative...

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xcalibur_123:
Does someone know which is the phone to get verizon prepaid. And plan?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hupo224:
Yes I'd like to know this as well. Big thread was just curious if I can flash my s3 to something like boost.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jameztownbarber:
I figured that, thanks tho
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Unknown Zone:
Not really, I used a 3g incognitio donor for my sprint S2 and used the xda 4g wimax hack to piggy back to the Sprint 4g network.

As of right now there is no hack for LTE to piggy back on to Sprint network
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cjen1987:
This is a big help.

****UPDATED****

Allinone torrent (root and flashing software):

http://kat.ph/galaxy-s3-full-root-and-flashing-kit-rar-t7106750.html

Just download utorrent

Click and get this torrent

Then unzip the file.

Includes:

ROOT:

Samsung_Galaxy_S3_ToolKit_v7.0

Flashing:

QXDM 3.12 Build 714 (Change ESN)

QPST 2.7 Build 366 (Mip Profile editing)

CDMA WORKSHOP 2.7 + Demo (flashing nv idems)

DFS 4.3.1.0 (To get SPC)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JUSMEJOSE:
I heard that boostmobile is slowing down the 3g speed is that true?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nigpeen:
Stumped

I have a sprint gs3 donor phone info from ebay and all the programs i just dont whats the easiest way to do this. Ive looked through the forums but my dyslexia makes it hard. any help at all would be appreciated thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] J_apa_n:
check your original post, i gave you the keys to the city