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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Before someone else flames you, the answer is no. Verizon LTE is in a different frequency band (700mHz) than Sprint LTE (1900 mHz to start with, then eventually 800 mHz). The hardware in the Sprint version doesn't have a 700mHz radio as far as I've been able to tell.

Verizon and Sprint shares the 1900 band for EVDO data and voice only.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Probably not :)

Just is just for voice/1X/3Gdata roaming.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I was pretty sure I got RC to work just this past weekend. I had it enabled to 'Roam Only' and it was in fact roaming. Sprint gets virtually no signal at my parent's place, but VZW gets pretty good signal and mine was in the VZW category with the roaming icon up there as well.

FWIW, I was using version 2.2 of Roam Control
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boboysdadda:
Yep worked just fine. Its a prl file not a modem flash. Flashing a Verizon modem would brick your phone but a prl file only tells it which towers to prefer
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
I haven't been able to get the current version (2.2) of RC to work on my SGS3 and the RC website states it doesn't work yet on the SGS3.

http://www.roamctrl.com/overview/

Perhaps you phone just roamed on it's own, since there is "virtually no signal" at the location in question. Try using it in an area where there is a Sprint signal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] piaa_nissan:
I'm hoping theres a fix in the works for Roam Control. It has yet to work at all for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I think you might be right. Problem is, I can't test it where I normally am. From what I've read and experienced, Sprint doesn't have a roaming agreement with Verizon in a few big cities, one of them being Chicago and the entire outlying area. I've been as far west of the city as Woodstock (about 1h45m west) and couldn't get my OG Epic to force roam when I could in other areas.

I don't know when I'll be in Wisconsin again, or far enough out of the Chicago area to test it out, but I'll be sure to do that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Hmmm......The Roam control website also has this message regarding the Chicago area:

I'm assuming it's because as you say, sprint doesn't roam onto verizon in Chicago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] amadib:
Curious, which baseband/modem do you have? That shouldn't matter too much correct?

Wish I could help :-/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I really hope this changes at some point in time in the near future as their coverage in Chicago is far from being capable without jumping to VZW now and then. And it's been this way since before NV started. Over near O'Hare airport is pretty bad. There's a conference center near there I'm at all the time and the signal inside the building and around it is pretty much non-existant.

For what it's worth, modem is LEN and PRL is 25005. I was never able to get PRL 11115 to work on my Epic, but mostly because I couldn't ever get QPST to work right and see my phone. I haven't taken that plunge yet with my GSIII although I'd really like to.

I'm hoping that not only will that give me the ability to roam with 3G speeds, but maybe, just maybe, also pick up VZW towers around Chicago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RPerry435:
Flashable zip ? ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Wow, I just spent a day in a Sprint dead zone, with data rates at 50 kb or under. Really could have used this or Roam Control. Wish I could help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
still trying some methods. all of which are failing lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Thanks. I see your name all over the dev section, appreciate all your efforts.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
and 11117 and 11119
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkManX4lf:
This would be sweet since roam control doesnt work. Trying to watch the olympic games on Sprints 3G network is just not happening lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Hmm so now the phone process force closes when switching between automatic and roam only instead of doing nothing.....looks like i'm getting somewhere lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
One step forward....two steps back. Thanks for the efforts!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
Can't wait till its working!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zeron89:
I'm looking forward to this allot too since roam control isn't working, thanks for all your work you do Freeza! You're the man!

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] evilvoice:
freeza, since MrGreg is the one who figured out the Roam Only hack waaay back on the HTC Hero, you may want to ask him for help. He was helping someone on these forums and on sdx to get it working on Samsung phones. Around the time it looked like they were finishing, the app Roam Control came out. I do not know if it is a necessity to have the app, but I could be wrong. I have done all the searching way back when my wife had the Samsung Moment. I commend you on trying this out and I wish you the best of luck if you want to do this by yourself, though I think you should try and get with MrGreg and see if he is willing to help get it working on Samsung devices. Yes, he is the one charging for Roam Control, but as Ive said before, he is really cool for leaving his initial instructions for the Hero up and not redacting them (though ever since he posted them, Ive had them in a txt file for safe keeping). I also suggest getting with MrGreg since it looked like they got it working for the Moment.

You seem to be the first person recently to put in work to getting a free option of Roam Only working for Samsung devices, and for that I applaud you. I hope you can figure it out. I know I couldn't and I went through every smali in the Samsung Moment apk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Thank you for the advice. I would love to have any help from anyone willing, and I will definitely try and get in contact with MrGreg. As I dig through this smali code, as still sort of an amateur at this, it is starting to look more and more difficult. If Roam Control isn't even working for it, that gives me little hope that I will find out how to enable it with my limited experience. Thanks again though. Hopefully I can get somewhere with his (or someone else's) help!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] evilvoice:
Yea, I know. Its mind-boggling looking at all the code and trying to figure out what does what. Looking through the work you talked about on the first page, it looks as though the S3 has another phone.apk which just adds to the problem of trying to find out where you want to be. I do know that in my attempts at getting it working on the Moment that some of the smali files didnt exist and the code is written differently. I never got to the point of actually flashing a file and trying it (wife would have killed me if she was left without a phone altogether). It does look like you are on the right path since the option shows up. Now you just have to find out in the smali where that option is referenced and tell it to do something else. I honestly do not think there is code to tell it to roam. As you said, it does not have the CDMARoaming...smali files (which is what I found on the Moment). It has to be in a "Roam" file, so these files look promising:

Roaming.smali

RoamingSettings.smali

Roaming$MyHandler.smali

I really know nothing about doing any of this, or I would try to help. I can tell you that you need to break away from trying to get things that match up on HTC (I only say that because that is how I attempted it, and it was wrong).

EDIT: Okay so I typed all that, im going to leave it for now. I had a thought, what if 0x1 is wrong? What if it is supposed to be 0x5 or something? We need to find cond_34 and see what options are available there. Or am I totally off base? I dont program, but usually code points somewhere. And it looks as it is running an if equals.

if-eqz v2, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x2

if-eq v2, v3, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x3

if-eq v2, v3, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x4

if-ne v2, v3, :cond_54

shouldnt it be something like this?

if-eq v2 v3, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x2

if-eq v2, v3, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x3

if-eq v2, v3, :cond_34

const/4 v3, 0x4

if-ne v2, v3, :cond_54

the first line has eqz and every line after has eq or is that just how smali is? also, the other 3 if statements reference v3, but the first does not???

Again, I am probably showing my stupidity, but I do not program, so could totally be off base.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Perceptive! I was looking at that as well, but didn't know what I should do with it. I am going to try exactly what you posted and see what happens. I found out fairly early in this quest not to bother trying to match up with HTC. But I was hoping that it would be as simple as it was on HTC phones, but it doesn't appear to be that way. Ugh. I do appreciate your input. It's ideas like this we need more of! Thanks a lot man!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jimieo:
This works out well in my head, but most things do even when they fail later on, but if you are doing all of this searching in the SGSIII phone apk file, perhaps there would be better luck using the phone apk from CM9 maybe.

I have no idea.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Bactine:
Thank you for putting the effort in to try and figure this out! When I had my palm pre the roam only patch saved me so many times.

If you need any help as far as testing I'd be more than happy to
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] burghfan3:
I appreciate the time and effort that you are putting into this. I know some people only want it to get booted off of Sprint, but I actually need it when I visit my mommy lol Keep up the good work. We all have faith in you

Sent from my Vaelpak Powered OG EVO
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LouRock:
I wish I had the knowledge to help and contribute on this great mod! Thank you freeza for your endless pursuit on making our devices more awesome! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
freeza, have you seen this? would this be of any help? probably not cause it's HTC but maybe

edit: I guess the link would help http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265763&highlight=finally
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Sadly, version 2.3 of Roam Control was just released and it still does not support the S3. Sounds like MrGreg is having some trouble with this one too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] beastmods:
Hope this works. My sprint service sucks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] e1allen:
Awesome work. I can't wait to see the outcome.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] burghfan3:
You can doooo iiiit!!!! :thumbup:

Sent from me and my SG3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sergioperalta81:
To the devs on this project just a though but have you posted in the att, verizon, and tmo forums maybe someone there might be able to help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dtr145r:
If anything only version Verizon forums will help...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] evilvoice:
I don't own this phone, my cousin does and I was just looking through the forums to see what ROMS where out and if he should root his phone. I saw this thread and thought I would look through it to see if it had been accomplished since Samsung phones have been a pain for me. If other carrier phones have this option enabled, it may help, even GSM because we really need to get the option enabled regardless of network.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
I wish I knew the first place to begin to have help. I'm in a dead zone for Sprint at work today. And their roaming options won't switch over to Verizon like my old roam control could do.

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mercado79:
a few years ago, roaming was included as a selectable option for most phones. then carriers decided that was a bad idea...particularly if roaming was offered free of charge (Sprint).

i wonder if the same happened internationally as well or if some of their roms still come with roaming available as an option. in that case, you'd think it would help point freeza and the other devs in the right direction.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
i remember CM7 for the OGEvo had a "roam only" option. CM9/10 don't for this phone. It seems everyone is having trouble figuring this one out
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] beastmods:
about to flash one of those modified prl's to my sprint s3.

hope it works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dtr145r:
i dont think roam only option is on any cm9-cm10 build actually..

pretty sure it wasnt on cm9 for the gs2.. i could be wrong.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Unless it's the one that is Verizon only, it won't make a big difference. In order to roam, you need to be able to force roaming, which no one has seemingly been able to do yet. And if it is the Verizon only PRL, then you're seriously putting yourself at risk from getting a 'friendly' letter from Sprint telling you to take your service elsewhere.

Your phone won't show roaming, but to Sprint it will...and they'll see it as 100% roaming.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkManX4lf:
The roam control app was updated and it too does not support the Galaxy S3. Is this phone not capable of force roam?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
It's probably capable. Someone with the knowledge just had to figure out out.

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I'd agree with this. If the phone can roam, there has to be a way to force it to. No one has been able to figure it out yet though.

Freeza seems to be one persistent dev, so I'm happy he's the one on it. I don't know how much time he's dedicating to it currently, but hopefully someone will figure it out in the near future.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RocStar629:
I emailed the guys at roam control to ask for an update there as well, I'll let you guys know if I here anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mercado79:
Don't hold your breath man. The dev is not very good with communication. On his site, via Twitter, or email. More often then not...crickets. That's a huge pet peeve of mine. His app is so damn useful though...

Sent from my Touchpad
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
yup, I emailed him several weeks ago and haven't received an answer. He did post an update to the website saying roam control didn't support the S3 yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RocStar629:
Hopefully someone gets this going.. I have high hopes for the OP. I remember my original sprint razor (flip phone not smart phone lol) had the option to roam only straight out of the box!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cusp:
Could be this post is a waste of space and time to read because I don't know enough about the issue to be helpful. That said though, it occurred to me that instead of trying to force roam one may be able to adjust the thresholds to where roam occurs. Say from stock home signal to some value greater than the stock value. That would make the phone roam in marginal signal areas instead of just no signal areas and may provide most of the benefits of being able to force roam.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dtr145r:
That would probably be a little easier.

You would need to edit the prl.

I've opened a prl already and the info in there is just huge. I would know where to start messing with a prl..

I've done a bunch of reading and it's still very cloudy..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RocStar629:
I wonder if the corporate prls and hacked prls provide something like this already. I thought about flashing one of the corporate ones but never got around to it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
yes... but not a toggle. And not worth it on an ASOP ROM
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RocStar629:
Pretty much why I didn't do it. I only want to roam when I need to. But it is when I need it that forcing it is nice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Still working on this a little bit every day. As I gain more knowledge about smali, I'll figure it out.....hopefully.

Right now, my Phone.apk doesn't force close when switching to roaming only like it did before, but as of now nothing happens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
I'm sure you probably noticed when you change your device in roam control and select roam it shows the icon that you're roaming, but nothing happens. Glad to see you're still on the case, you were starting to get as quite as Mr. Gregg
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] autoprime:
here's the long way to force roaming. connect phone to QXDM. Send SPC. Open NV Browser. Scroll to item 00442. Hit the "Read" button. QXDM will show 0x0001 or 0x00ff.

ff is "automatic" and 01 is "home only". Write 0x0002 and reboot. You will be roaming when the phone comes back on.

We need a way to write the 0x0002 without QXDM ;)

is there anything in the roaming code that has it writing ff or 01? could we switch ff to 02? then instead of automatic it writes roaming? prob crazy talk. :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Khaaaan:
Dunno if this matters but Roam control seems to work on the stock rom. Maybe you can take a look at the app and see what it does? I'm no dev but maybe it can give you a little help :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
I'm on the stock rom and it doesn't work for me. The roam control icon pops up claiming to be in roam, but the network status shows it's still on Sprint. I've tried version 2.2 and 2.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Khaaaan:
Dunno. Works great for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] autoprime:
freeza.. what if instead of adding roaming only option.... you replaced "auto" with forced roaming. that way you wouldnt have to add an entirely new entry.. and just change whats already there.. to write something else.

for example.. for all the 0x2's that link to "Auto".. you change 0x2 to 0x1(or whatever it needs to be for roaming).

that would lead to figuring out what value needs to be set first? then add the extra roaming only option later(if at all).

im only assuming you havent tried this yet.. but maybe you have and it didnt go so well.

also.. do we know how to decompile libril.so? maybe we'd have more answers if we could see what was going on in the RIL?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] autoprime:
ok update. wanna make a new post to bump the topic rather than editing my last one.

speaking with some team epic devs.. it seems by default.. our device will not support a forced roaming mode even when the phone.apk is edited correctly.

we can see with this latest update - http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/22193/1/overlay/packages/apps/Phone/res/values/system_select.xml

only 0, 5, 6 and 8 change modes... 2, 3, 4 ,7 do not work.

so what does this mean? AFAIK... editing the secphone.apk(touchwiz) or phone.apk(cm10) will most likely have no effect. I'd also guess that editing the RIL is our only hope. i'm not going to pretend to be an android dev.. so i'm not sure how we do this exactly. I do know that libril.so is at least one of the files we'd need to decompile and edit. how this is done... i've got no clue. I have seen people doing it for other devices so id assume it's possible.

i'm not 100% sure about anything ive just suggested... just trying to piece it all together.

can anyone decompile our RIL?? Edit RIL so that setting "CDMA_RM_AFFILIATED" no longer defaults to home. then we set the arrays.xml to add Affiliated(forced roaming only) to the network options. simple right? ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RocStar629:
Hopefully someone can do this because this would be very handy, but WAY OVER MY HEAD! :-[
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RandomKing:
I attempted this same idea a month ago shortly after I got my phone. I was excited by the feature on HTC phones, and located the coding in our phone... but no values would work.

And as of 8/5/2012, this is the note on Roam Control:

"Note: The Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC EVO LTE are not supported at this moment, sorry!!"

I guess that means he's working on it? I really need this feature, as I have only roaming at work. But currently, the phone will regularly 'search' for the nonexistent Sprint signal and drain the crap out of my battery. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I've needed to do this a few times too, and the best way is a workaround:

*Take the 00001.prl and rename to TEST.prl and place on root of internal SD card.

*Type ##DATA# into the dialer, click View, click PRL Write, then click the button

*Phone will reboot (worst part of this method) and will come back on with you being on VZW network

I've had to freeze system updates so it sticks on reboot, then unfreeze and Update PRL through the System Settings when I want to go back to my regularly scheduled programming :(.

It's certainly not ideal like Roam Control, but it does work, and can also work in areas where Sprint may not have a roaming agreement, like Chicago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stretchwookie:
im pulling for ya, man!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daftlush:
Im counting on this. Till then, can someone please post the All Verizon PRL. TYIA.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daftlush:
Got it, thanks.

In case anyone else is feeling lazy:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660740

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brendan802:
Try this on any aosp roms. The scripts with s manager allows you to enter and exit diagnostic mode. Then write your pro as needed

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1833622
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] geargamer:
I use this same method but I do it with (any cut). I have a short cut i click, my phone rebooted and done. It's not a pain at all. I just have to turn off data before I hit the short cut then turn it back on after the reboot. (I don't know if that part is just me. It won't write if I don't.)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] reinbeau:
Thread cleaned

The childish bickering needs to stop. Post relevant information, or don't post at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
Having to use the version prl for now.....

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Looks to be not possible at this time

Freeza if something new develops PM me to reopen this

Thanks

FNM
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkrull:
Does anyone know whether having video flagged as a music video has different functionality on the windows phone than regular video files? Obviously it is nice that you can choose to see just music videos in the Zune music . But here are a few things that would be useful...

Having music videos play when the screen is off

Having a playlist of music videos

Having the video start from the beginning every time, rather then where it left off

Also, does anyone know of a utility on the Windows platform to change the "music video" flag?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
I don't believe WP7 treats "music videos" any different from normal videos. If you want just the music (play in the background, make playlists, etc.), then using music video files (which are huge, plus require a lot more RAM and battery to decode) is silly. There are tools that can extract the audio tracks from a video file, allowing you to save them just as audio files, if or some reason you don't have the audio file already. It's been years sisnce I used any such tools though; a web search will help you more now than I can with finding them. As for the "music video" identifier, it's probably just a metadata tag on the file. Windows Explorer should be able to edit it just fine; right-click the file, go to Properties, then Details, and remove the tag.
[HTC Inspire 4G] arod08:
I'm running gingersense4 v1.0 I'm trying to change the dialer and contacts apk but can't find any compatible or working.

Can anybody point me into the right direction? Thanks in advanced.!
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