yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] milky1112:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=950205

From droid forum

Doesn't appear to change the IMEI number at all from what i read on the Global forums. Just allows different radio access from what i can tell.

Here's another thread to bounce it off of Raja... Has step by steps of flashing to Boost (prepaid)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1473141
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] HQRaja:
Thanks a bunch. =) That makes it clear.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] milky1112:
No worries. Don't mind helping out here and there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] swordsx48:
so after i do this, I can go to verizon and ask them to activate this phone for my number and they will do it? wont they see that the imei was previously used or sprint? or they cant see it? or they just dont care?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand1001:
Quick correction. While verizon still uses cdma in their network their LTE phones use Sim cards unlike sprint.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lj27416:
No

There is way more involved in changing a phone from one carrier to another. Reading/Writing SPC is only the beggining.

If you send the 16-Digit Samsung Default Password you can pretty much do anything to this specific model.

Once i get a chance i will post how to get this model Fully Flashed to Cricket/PagePlus the "manual" way. (Via CDMA Workshop, QPST, etc.)

Would that be useful to anyone here?

lj

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Also the only carriers that accept foreign MEID (CDMA Version of the IMEI)

Are MVNOs or Cricket/Pageplus/MetroPCS etc....

to my knowledge Verizon does NOT accept MEID that are not VZW

LJ
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LordLugard:
Sprint's LTE uses a SIM card as well (just like Verizon), it's just embedded where you can't see it or get to it without taking the phone apart.

Sprint and Verizon are similar in their network, both are CDMA (use the same CDMA freq, can roam off each other for voice and 3G data) but use different LTE frequencies.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand1001:
Yes. I don't know why sprint decided to use embedded cards. Switching phones on Verizon is so easy and if the sim is bad you can just switch it out. On sprint if the sim goes bad they have to exchange the phone or take it apart.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Worked like a charm. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] seltzered:
Anyone know if this will assist at all in switching a sprint galaxy s3 to ting (sprint mvno)? From what I've been reading so far, the biggest issue with switching is potentially that sprint is blocking the user from switching any lte-phones to a sprint mvno (https://help.ting.com/entries/22352106 - scroll to bottom - "Actually, Sprint is not allowing their MVNOs to bring LTE devices through BYOD, even though they can sell the same model new devices.IF you can get the ESN moved to TIng, is should work, but I believe the Sprint system is blocking the move.")
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] itwhit:
Fully Flashed to PagePlus - 3g working?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bhavi_jp:
Why can't you flash the phone to other carriers if you know your phone's MSL? No need to change it to 000000 unless you are trying to make it easier to remember.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] WolfKaBaL:
This will NOT assist in the Ting BYOD process. I've been working directly with them as one of the S3 test dummies. The current issue right now is with Sprint releasing the IMEIs for the LTE devices.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Great tip. I did not change baseband. I used baseband LJ7. Anyway this works with baseband LJ7 if you first unlock the phone using the samsung 16 digit password. I used qxdm to enter the samsung 16 digit password.

Thanks a lot! Even though you don't need to change the msl to flash to pageplus or any other carrier it makes it easier to remember the msl. There is already a tutorial about flashing the sprint/verizon s3 to pageplus and other carriers. Really not that hard but you must have a donor phone. The best one is the HTC incredible.

16 digit samsung password 01f2030f5f678ff9
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] inst1029:
can't find the nv item 85:eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] TheMrVIP:
I'm a sprint store manager and have been a tech before...the Sprint GS3 does NOT have a dim card inside
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
Me either...anyone care to help us out a bit? I'm reading with EFS Explorer and I see the NV folder, and I've even checked the sub-folders but I can't seem to find NV Item 85. Thanks in advance

PS also tried the RF NV Item manager and it loads a lot of items but I still don't see 85
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Try nvm

Sent from my dumbphone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
I found several files there but none of them were 85. I'm very excited about changing this SPC to 000000. has anyone tried over the air programming with pageplus yet since changing? Theoretically it should work now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
First unlock with the master samsung password this is not the msl. See my previous post. You don't have to downgrade your radio if you use the master samsung password.

nvm->num->85

That is the folder structure on my phone.

OTA won't work for pageplus because the sprint phone does not have the correct keys installed for OTA authorization for 3G. You maybe able to add them. OTA will work with voice and text, but not 3G. Post if you can get it working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
Ok thanks I'll try unlocking it first. I am already on radio LG2 and I also have added the Verizon keys in to the phone already as well so it should catch 3G. I'll report my results tonight when I get home and let you know how it goes. I'm looking at this as an alternative to using a donor phone when I flash S3s to Pageplus.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] snekiam:
I have not found item 85 either. I am also wanted to get OTA programing to work, anybody able to report on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
I've unlocked the phone first and still can't find NV item 85. Not sure why my filesystem seems to be organized differently than others. To anyone who was having this same problem and has since figured it out. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong and also possibly a screenshot. I already use radio LG2. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Send a screen shot of file explorer.

Strange.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Looks like you are missing some files. Don't know what that is all about. Here is my screenshot to compare with yours.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
I'm running the stock jellybean rom. How about you?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Same rom. I could be wrong but the rom is not supposed to change the nvram parameters. That is my understanding.

Anyway looks like you have a different nvram setup. Have you tried an nvram reset ##RTN#?

Don't really have an answer for you at all. I would have thought all the phones had the same nvram. Could the nvram be corrupted?

Just a thought.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
I guess it could be corrupted. Though the phone works perfectly fine. I'll try the reset and report back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
Well I tried the rtn reset and I still don't have the files that you do. Would you mind sending me your modified item 85? I want to drop it into my filesystem and watch what happens. I understand the risk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] motorhead_biker:
are SPC and MSL code same? or different?

If I reset the SPC to 000000 what would be the next steps I should be doing in order to use other carriers like cricket or metro?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Needs extracted from zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] devochka:
Can you provide step-by-step instructions for the LJ7 / 16-digit Samsung password method? What software do I need? Which steps do I need to take and in which software?

I have LJ7 and would like to change my SPC to 000000.

Thanks,

_erin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Below is the link to best instructions on howto enter the 16 digit password. However, only follow the part concerning entering the 16 digit password. The rest you do not need. Once you enter the 16 digit password follow the instructions in the first post. Note this is for a different phone but the procedure is the same.

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/epic-4g-on-virgin-mobile/

Read the section named "step 2" and only follow the directions for entering 16 digit password. You don't need anything else from this post. However, this is good reading for anyone wanting to learn about cdma cell phones.

Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] honest1212:
I tried your method too but unable to see item no 85 in EFS explorer!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
Interesting, I don't have a clue why 85 shows up for me. Try the method in the OP. You can see from the pic in my previous post that 85 is on my phone. Maybe sprint changed something.

Good luck.

Sent from my dumbphone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] allisonmagic:
i dont see anywhere in the forum how to downgrade to LG2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] honest1212:
Actually I have 2 phones with same ROM and same baseband. In one one, item 85 was there but strangely on other phone, it didnt showed up.

What I did in second phone is that I used rev skills(google it) and injected modified NV item 85 and it worked!

I would advice highest caution to those trying this method since it may brick the phone.

Here you go, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
Are you using the full version of revskills or will the trial work. I have the same issue, I've tried dropping someone else's 85 into my nv items using QPST's efs explorer but it always shows as 0 bytes when transferred and doesn't change my SPC
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
Hey billiard. For some reason when I extract the zip file you attached it creates a file called 85 that is 0 bytes. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] honest1212:
Its trial version only. Try the attached item no 85.

Try the attached item no 85.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stangboycic:
That one worked, Thanks a lot!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] revized:
the second best part (aside for the info on how to change the spc to all zero`s thanks!) is how its so easy a caveman can do it, but go here to downgrade your radio to LG2 , you have to search how to do it though lol, isnt that part of changing the spc =) just having fun
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chrischoi:
I just did this. It made my phone GSM. OH MAI GAH!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] revized:
thanks for all the help ...hehe

and for the nv item upload honest1212 =D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] revized:
Thanks!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] revized:
no dude no one wants to do that, it would be a waste of time LOL =D

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so you can just OTA program it , and well yes to make it easier to remember too, becasue using that mls apk is kinda well hard to remember to do as well too.LOL =D

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i loaded the nam and donor from a facasniate and it wont talk/text so i tried every setting possible except the one that works( i suppose) and no signal , so it must be a lot eiser to change the spc to 000000 , espically since the tutorial about flashing the sprint/verizon s3 to pageplus is non existent now. once i do this i will make a REAL video and not take it down later for profit =D

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i feel like such an idiot , i really did look though EVERY folder 10 times!!, seriously i thought i really did and then i seen your post (made me feel like such a idiot) there was the folder slapping me in the face!!

if only i would have read the 4th page of this thread i would not have been clowned :crying:

my update

i got spc to zero ,put raido to LJ7 (never check what the old one was figured it didnt matter or it would have been stated) and used my facinate as donor and dailed *22890 and it said welcome to over the air programming i got all excited (ok) and then said "we are unable to program your phone"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alphahere:
You will have to manually program your phone with software of your choice.

Sorry to hear that didn't work.

Sent from my dumbphone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] revized:
I've been working on this for over a month starting with verizon pre-paid, then I moved to page plus because I was worried about losing my number with verizon pre-paid. Can you please help me just to get talk and text working? I have it as b then a, a then b, automatic, cdma hdr and lte, And I have a little triangle at the top of my signal bar. Phone was working with talk and text only on verizon pre-paid, so at least I know it's not the phone, oh yeah and metro pcs with 1x power lol.

i just searched for another way to press 1 without being able to use your dial pad, and i found this and its cool it really works! (well the method really works ) although i dialed *22801 like the pageplus lady said it still said "dail *22898 for prepaid devices".lol.

so i used the method with *228 and it says the same thing.

the method is like this create a new contact and make the phone number do all the dialing for you. in the field where you woould put your net contacts phone number put" *22890,,,,1,,,,your-phone-number#,,,,your4digitcode# cool huh.

your device will automatically translates the commas into pauses =D i am on hold with page plus to say that the *22801 she said to dial did nothing. i have only been on hold for 30 minutes for someone to answer. they are telling my that i get what i pay for.LOL!

i thought for a minute that my prl is not correct although i saved it from my fascinate after programming to pp and loaded it to my s3?? where is the ruim to nv only option on cdmaws, oh its under cdma 2, and its already set to nv only.

i just got off the phone with the guy and he said just like you said dont OTA *22890 on a 4g device or it will reset all your settings, and i was convinced that if i dial *22890 and it says welcome to verizon wireless that the settingss are the same, and he said it is looking for the sprint towers, so i checked and sure enough the mdn and min were gone)(sys pref were still the same though) and so i changed it back and loaded the verizons fassy prl and rebooted and sure enough it makes calls now =) that is so crazy, i feel like a koook again. although talk/text is working the little triangle is still there.lol and still says no "sim card | emergency calls only"hehe

so who has been able to program their device using OTA ,without erasing the min,mdn, and prl?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blacksea1:
Hi, by any chance do you have a download link for EFS Explorer? Thank You.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
i have a SPH-L710 (Sprint S3) and I am on stock android 4.1.1 (official rom) and i am rooted and have CWM installed.

I have watched video on how to change from sprint to cricket/boost and i never see them change the SPC to 000000

I know for some carriers to complete the activation it has to be 000000 but i think that is just big carriers like vzv/att/sprint

the small carriers like boost and cricket (not sure about page-plus and others) i dont think it has to be set to 000000 does it?

you just give boost/mobile your imei and they give you the rest of the info you need to add it i think...

i think you give them your current unlock code if they need it but it dont have to be 000000 (i dont think)

please let me know exactly why we are trying to get this back to 000000

thanks

nice guide (i read prob first 10 pages but just dont understand why it needs to be 000000
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AaronJ:
For all the users who got stuck in this process early on like I did with getting QPST Explorer to detect your phone, and followed the link provided in the quoted post and then found more difficulty when the code did not work (if it didn't) give *#7284# and see if that allows you to change the device's USB mode
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BallMasson:
ok i did everything right, i have the nv item 85, but how do i change it! do i just right click and rename it?? pls help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] petersun21:
It did not work for me initially. I downgrade the rom to Sprint stock rom and it worked afterward. I was afraid of copying the item file back to the phone because it is a string. Copied any way and it worked.

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I have flashed an evo 4g tp vrigin mobile before. How more difficult is to flash a samsung s3 to vm? I am about to try it. Can someone shed some light?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] izdabombest1:
is there a tutorial for using efs? for some reason i cant get the program and the phone to connect.am i supposed to use a serial connector of some sore? can i use a data cord and connect to the computer? These might seem like dumb ?s but for some reason i can't get the connection together. i'm not sure what i am doing wrong. thank u for any help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chillassmfer:
HELP

Ok so i finally found the 85 file and changed it to

000000

30303030303030

re wrote it and now i cant do anything please help i just got my phone back today from writing an intonantional rom and paid 60 bucks to jtag repair it please help dont flame it says my password is wrong is there any way to reset it please tell me there is
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lexridge:
This worked like a charm! Thank you OP and everyone else who posted here.

I just purchased this phone from ebay, and needed to get it moved over to the nTelos network. I called Sprint, and they were kind enough to provide me with the MSL. I will try to get it connected to nTelos tomorrow, now that I have the unit unlocked.

The only odd thing after doing this, I no longer have adb access unless I toggle the USB mode to PTP+ADB. I had to set it to DM+MODEM+ADB for EFS Explorer to see it, but stock, it was set to RMNET+DM+MODEM. If somebody could explain the differences in these settings, that would be wonderful.

Any thoughts on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kalehua4791:
This worked great on 4 of my sgs3......thanks

K
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] apas100:
I didn't get NV item 85 , where is this file

see attach files
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kalehua4791:
Go into nv and then nvm file and look for the nv85 file and follow the rest of the guide.....

Hit thanks if this helped.......

K
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
i have SPH-L710 with official stock lj7 rom

i wiped it ##72786# and ##786#

i then rooted it as i have so many times with "Samsung_Galaxy_S3_ToolKit_v7.0"

i chose CWMR and Super SU (as i usually do)

everything worked fine and i verified i have root by installing triangleaway.apk

i installed qpst 2.7.374 ( i did have 2.7.378 so i uninstalled it to follow the guide 100%)

started up qpst and it found my phone (phone was in diag mode and "DM+MODEM+ADB" was selected)

i started up efs explorer and entered my spc (all files loaded up fine)

i dragged file 85 to desktop without any problem

i then used winhex to verify it was my current spc (and it was) so i changed it to 303030303030 (spc 000000) and saved it.

re-opened it with winhex to make sure it took and it did

i then dragged it back to efs explorer and i get "error code (222): invalid argument"

i googled it and other people did have this error also and fixed it by down grading qpst to 2.7.366 (but that version dont work with galaxy s3)

i had been using the stock LJ7 firmware with no cust recovery or root and i just used the samsung 16 digit password "01F2030F5F678FF9" and i would enter that in dfs 4.6.4.1 and then exit out of dfs and then open up qpst 2.7.378 and change other files with no problem (dragging and dropping)

anyhow i did change my system to reflect your way so i could accurately do it the way the guide was and im still getting this error and cant change the spc

could there be some kind of special write permissions that need to be un-done or something?

im on windows 7 64bit and i also have another windows xp pro 32bit that i run in a VM for things like qxdm that i couldnt install in win7 64bit

anyhow any help would really be appreciated

thanks

---------- Post added at 05:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:38 PM ----------

your 85 is a white text icon (see all the other red icons surrounding your 85 in your picture in post #39 of this thread?)

that is what my 85 looks like

what does that red icons mean?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
anyone gonna jump in on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
why is no one answering anything on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
come on peeps

i try to help people here too

i really need to change my msl/spc and this guide is not working

there has to be something that im doing wrong or wrong in the guide

someone help me troubleshoot please
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] das_webos_transformer:
Have tried running the program as administrator?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
thanks for your reply to actually help.

yes i had ran qpst as admin, in compat mode and sometimes a mixture of both.

neither ways helped me to be able to overwrite the original file when dragging file from my desktop to the /nvm/num/

but you making it sound like it shouldnt be any problem doing this made me think even harder why cant i get this done....

when i originally was trying to "copy file to pc" by right clicking in the /nvm/num/ area on the file i wanted would cause me an error when moving the file to the desktop pc.

i had learned by actually clicking the file and dragging it to the pc desktop would actually work.

everytime i tried to copy the file from the pc desktop back to /nvm/num/ i would click the file and drag it to there getting this error.

i finally "right clicked" in the /nvm/num/ area and there was 2 options (not just "one" single option) to copy that same file from the pc desktop to the /nvm/num/

"copy data file from pc" and "copy item file from pc"

grrr i knew right then the problem was solved

when dragging the file from pc desktop to /nvm/num efs explorer couldnt figure out what kind of file it was (data/item) so that is why you have to right click in /nvm/num/ area and select what kind of file it is.

grrr

you cant just drag ot off desktop back to efs explorer /nvm/num/ area "EVENTHOUGH" that is the only way to copy it to the desktop (at least in win7 64bit)

maybe the OP will see this and add it to the original post to help other people or maybe the other people just arent as dumb as me and will try it the correct way first.

lol

problem = fixed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shashe:
Why does the SPC have to be 000000 to do OTA activation? I haven't heard of that so I'm wondering why and in what situations?

Thx for the guide. I zero'd mine for simplicity more than anything.

I used PSPad instead of WINHex for this one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
It works!

Thanks for this. Now my Sprint GS3 is truly 'pwned'. But one question: are all the SPC details on CDMA phones on NV item 85? I discovered that one method for getting SPC on blackberry devices entails reading NV item 85. Just a thought...

Thanks again for this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sc76873:
When I try to use QPST EFS Explorer 2.7 Build 378 with my Sprint Samsung S3, I keep on getting this error message.

"You entered an incorrect service programming code. The phone may not respond for up to 10 seconds."

I tried to change the SPC from 000000 to a 6 digit # from MEID Converter and I get the same error message.

When I use cdmaDev Term 2.85, it shows the SPC as 000000.

Can somebody tell me how to resolve this issue?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sc76873:
I was able to fix my problem. I downloaded an app called "Get MY MSL" and it gave me the correct SPC #.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kalehua4791:
Glad you got that one done.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ugabuga:
Quick question: Can't this be done using DFS vs using QPST/EFS?