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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
I never saw anything about esn either just esn from other carriers will be 3g not 4g according to emails I got and about the 2 buck thing also
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
No-One can just message you the PP AAA Keys. It is a little more involved than that.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
I just pm him explained it that each are unique
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ImLearnin:
Help with generating AAA key?

Since all are unique can anyone help me generate mine? Private PM please, dont want to upset the GODS here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
I got a little info today that Selectel will be getting 4G also within the next 30-60 days. Just passing along what I am hearing ;)

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Franzferdinan51:
Would it be expensive to half flash to PP and unflash when I can pay for sim?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
It is Free if you use the info all throughout the thread......

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Franzferdinan51:
Ahh okay 510pages of reading here I come lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Well my friend you are in the wrong post, this topic is about learning the process. (Which requires a little work, actually allot of work)

If you want the easy way out or do not have the knowledge and or want to obtain it then by all means that is your choice.

This topic has helped many people learn the process and have the tools needed regardless of your 3 post opinion here.

Good Bye ;)

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MACscr:
Think its possible to flash the phone to work with Verizon's Allset plan? I know it can supposedly work with Page Plus, but wasnt sure about the Allset program.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
What phone are you speaking of?

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MACscr:
I thought that was implied since we are in the sprint Galaxy s3 forum. :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Well Considering this post covers many devices ;P

Sorry that will not work with Verizon plans period.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
hehe,

I have about 100 Page Plus 4G Sim Cards coming ;)

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] samman82:
Two questions: will we have go reflash the phone or just switch to ruim/sim if we're putting a page plus sim into a Verizon phone? And.. How do we acquire/how much you selling those cards for?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
I know with my other carrier im an agent for ntelos here in va I just change to ruim only or ruim pref depending on phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Not always the case, and also not cleaning up other things in a flash could cause issues.......

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] samman82:
So then question still stands... Reflash?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Yes the proper way to do it and clean up is to reflash.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] samman82:
Odd thing happened. My dbm went up from - 87 to - 105 when I switched to 4g today. Not sure what that's about.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
Exactly depends on phone and what was used where it was etc. ,anyone else have fun when page went down yesterday trying to activate ?lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
us cellular note 3 on stock rooted official nab rom.

how do we disable hands free activation please?

i know there is a way and many people have had to probably do this....

especially if flashing to pageplus

to my understanding all we have to do is insert a used us cellular sim card BUT new ones are free from us cellular stores and this should be pretty easy to do on a rooted phone.

Viper32 i know you most likely know how to do this

could you please share your results as i get 3g working when i use a new unactivated sim card from us cellular but it keeps trying to activate automatically.

PLEASE SHARE :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
I have not had any USCellular new sim cards to see whats needed. I always get used ones when I do the flashes. I will see if I can get ahold of one and see what I find soon.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shmuel mordechai:
Unflash Verizon Galaxy S4

Will restoring a verizon galaxy s4 to factory settings be enough to get 4g or is there still more I have to do to get it to work with 4g and if there is what else do I need to do?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
sure would be awesome as us cellular gives these cards away for free

if you go on ebay and look for used us cellular micro sim cards there hardly is any.

i think there are 2 ebay sellers right now.

there are some that have the nano sim with the adapter but really not fond of those and they say for iphone.

there is also one more thing viper32

some phones are now automatically switching to ruim when a sim is inserted.

anyway to disable this from happening also?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
I have not seen this switching to Ruim, even so you can swap it back really quickly and it would stay.

Yeah The USCellular Sim cards are not that easy to get. I need a few new or used ones now myself.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] agapedisciple:
Sprint S4 working fine with SIM card

Got my PP 4G SIM in the mail yesterday. Activated the SIM this morning by doing a ESN change and giving PP a MEID from another Verizon S4 and the SIM's ICCID. The Verizon S4 activated, 4G, MMS, etc all worked great. Took SIM from the Verizon S4 and put into my Sprint S4 which was still programmed (I set the RUIM config to RUIMPref). Everything is working great! No need to deprogram!

For mobile data, 3G still comes up so don't think I'll get 4G data speeds, but good to know this is an option. Btw, when I first got the Sprint S4 I did use this unlock method here. Maybe that's why the SIM works... :victory:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boostedcx:
Very interesting.. just to clarify:

1. Your Sprint S4 was originally flashed to Page Plus

2. You activated your new SIM card by doing an ESN change from the Sprint S4 to the Verizon S4 with the SIM's ICCID

3. You took the SIM card out of the Verizon S4 and inserted it into the Sprint S4 and changed RUIM config to RUIMPref, and the Sprint S4 was getting 3G data again?

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It seems like many Page Plus dealers are no longer activating Sprint ESNs. Are they now officially banned?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wpcprez:
hmm, so does this mean that other verizon s4 can't be activated on verzion anymore?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boostedcx:
And the $2.00 free credit is no longer given?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
I've activated a sprint and a us cell s3 today with no issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Wait...........

This is absolutely not true....

You can activate Non Verizon Devices still on Page Plus.

I just flashed 5 Sprint phones and activated them no less than a hour ago.

Also a Sprint S4 will not work with a Page Plus sim card, I am not sure where this is coming from but it does not work on Sprint Devices. Completely different technologies.

Futhemore do not post links to Dealer sites here. XDA prohibits that, not to mention that Dealer is wrong anyways........

I guess I need to keep a better eye out hear after all ;)

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
I just plain out asked and I done two today with no problem but yes it's not true
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Understood, I was not directing my post at you....

It really irritates me that people start posting things without backing up the information.

When this happens my inbox blows up with messages with people panicking.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
No sir I wasn't thinking you were going against I was backing what u said sorry it came out that way LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boostedcx:
All of the Page Plus dealer websites that I have visited today say that they cannot activate my Sprint ESN. Is there another way to activate a Sprint phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Sure call Page Plus directly or use other Dealers.

Not a issue here I can tell you that.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SimplifyLife:
I have literally spent 8hrs trying to figure out how to flash this Cricket branded Galaxy S4 over to page plus.... this thread is 513 pages!?

I will admit to being a noobish android-er..but, in that many pages shouldn't I be able to find the answer to the following question I have been wondering for about 6hrs worth of reading..?? LOL

-Is the first step for me to Flash via Odin a stock VZW firmware onto this phone? -because it seems/seemed like that is/was the case, until I read contradictory statements regarding whether this will/will not brick the phone.

I could swear my neurons are in fact firing.. but wow, after 8hrs I literally got nowhere other than to root the phone, enable hiddenmenu (to access diag mode) -but then come to find my diag mode is missing qualcomm usb settings button..?? -I even failed 2 different ways of retrieving my MSL, lol! =perhaps I am suffering early onset dimensia xD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wewk584:
It took me days to do it my first try (and actually to this date im still at 1xRTT) ... I rooted mine and did the things for mms and changed the mdn etc. I did my daughters by only changing the mdn etc. She also obv only gets 1x but her mms doesnt work but she wont let me hold the phone long enough to fix it. Shes happy as is and pageplus is cheap so Im happy. I followed mainly a youtube video by brodwell "How to flash a Galaxy S3, S4, Note 2 and Note 3 To PagePlus! Talk/Text/MMS/1x Data" (i cant post links yet) and read through many of the pages (but not 500) of this thread. I think things are intentionally tough to weed out the feint of heart. Plus flashing is a business for many people and also some of the steps you MAY take (i didnt) may be questionable legality wise and also against the forum rules. But anywho the info is there if you are patient. (I had another phone during the time I figured this out so no real rush)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JUSMEJOSE:
I just Came here to see how is everyone doing with the new pageplus crap .... Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] agapedisciple:
Viper, Explain... I've been using my Sprint S4 SPH-L720 since yesterday with the Page Plus SIM card activated using the exact method I described above. I've got 3G mobile data, not Verizon 4G LTE. I realize the 4G technologies are different and honestly... I'm surprised it works too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
I am mobile now and don't want to get into all the reasons why it should not work, In theory yeah I could see maybe talk working but not data, but if you say it does who am I to argue with you. I could not duplicate it here is all I will say.

I don't want people confused and running out buying Sprint Phones thinking this will work also.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
sup viper32 :)

i used to have that sph-l720 and there was a domestic sim unlock for it.

i did it and i could use that phone on any gsm network.

i also flashed it to pageplus (i believe) subscription mode = nv_only

i never had a pageplus but had a sprint sim and i think i got 1x or maybe even 3g working (which this isnt saying anything new) EXCEPT....

i did the domestic sim unlock.

maybe his phone has already had it done to it therefore allowing the pageplus sim???? im just going out on a limb.

anyhow now back to my problem with the (not having a us cellular sim card and not many on ebay either) but do have new unactivated us cellular which us cellular gives out for free.

how do we stop that hands free activation from coming on?

i also asked on teamuscellular forums in the note 3 section but its not to lively over there anymore.

i also asked on freenode in #cyanogenmod but dont seem like anyone there is interested.

im trying to get them to make it an option in cm11 to turn it off (manual setting)

the sim auto detect i was talking about a few posts back was in cm11 on the phone

which i also am going to try to get them to stop and have a manual setting.

when i told you that before i was thinking touchwiz did that (us cellular rom) but i guess it dont

anyhow if you know these services that can disable those 2 things sure would be great

if you dont know i bet you find out because you da man!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bugsiemarie:
Desperate to have my mms back.

Please, I beg of you, help me.

Back in the late spring of last year, 2013, I bought for full retail cost a brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 from Sprint. SPH-L900

I took it to a corner cell phone store in the inner city and had it put on my existing page plus number.

short version of the long story behind that: I needed a working phone in 2 hours or less after tearing the cable to my last digitizer for my beloved HTC Incredible 2, and I wanted the Note 2.

It worked great for several months. Then it did some kind of Sprint update without my permission and the mms broke. The talk works, sms works, and 3G data works. Well, the 3G did until it took the last Android update. It is now on Android 4.4.2 and the 3G ... i don't know if it doesn't work or if it's always so slow that you just can't do anything with it. I use WiFi most of the time anyway, so that isn't the end of the world, although it would be nice to fix that too.

The store is gone and I had no luck when trying to find a dealer in my area that will fix this for me.

I just want mms to work again.

I have installed Odin 3.07 and the appropriate Samsung drivers to work with my Windows 8.1 OS. They work, I even used the usb cable to store music on my sd card while it was in my phone.

Since the Sprint update last year (15 months ago) I've been suffering without mms.

I periodically come to this thread or another one started by viper i found on a different site and read for a few hours before i fall asleep or go cross eyed.

I probably have a combined total of 20 hours of reading in. I have wasted a lot of time re-finding sites and threads and pertinent software.

Between yesterday and today I have 8 hours of reading in and I still don't feel confident that I know what half of the terms you all use mean. :silly:

I can't be without my cell phone during the day, and I don't have a backup phone, or the means to get one right now.

I've thought about restoring the phone to factory defaults and starting over, but i haven't found .tar files to download or instructions for creating my own. I have tried all kinds of apps and settings adjustments that haven't fixed anything, thankfully I haven't broken it worse either because I don't even know what all I've done anymore.

I'm actually a fairly intelligent person. If you have problems with a computer, I'm your girl. I can get viruses out of anything, rebuild most Windows OSs remotely without re-installing or re-imaging. I can replace the glass on an iPhone and the digitizer on pretty much anything. I can solder with the best of them. I can get your 80 year old grandmother to manually remove Norton from her computer over the phone, including the registry keys, all so she can browse to the website with the kitty pictures and crossword puzzles, :highfive: but I am still a n00b when it comes to the software of smart phones.

Can someone please share with me the links or tell me what obvious thing I'm missing? I will put in more time, or spend a small amount of money to resolve this issue. I just can't live with it anymore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] agapedisciple:
FYI - I only did the unlock that Autoprime provided in the link I gave earlier for international SIMs. I am very familiar with the domestic unlock, but it's not a very refined procedure so I avoided it since I only wanted international unlock anyway. The previous phone owner only used it on Sprint. I flashed it to PP as I've done to other S3 devices. But I did downgrade the OS to MJA so that I could use Autoprime's unlock solution. I've stuck with MJA too.

What OS was the phone using? Did you try Autoprime's unlock solution? (It simply issues a programming CMD that I believe he found on a Chinese forum that is specific to this phone and certain Android OSes.) You can issue the same single programming CMD with DFS, but his program automates it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
Honestly it does not matter, I just want to make sure we clarify that if this works, which as I stated I could not repeat. We need to give all the details, the thing is when someone post something that works and it does not for soem reason my inbox blows up with messages as if I posted it. I am just wanting people to understand that I was not able to repeat the same results you have got. I also have no reason not to believe you. I just don't want people running out and buying Sprint S4;s or other devices thinking they will work is all.

Besides, most of the ones you will find will be the 720t models anyways and I know they can't be unlocked.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wpcprez:
do you have data and working phone?

---------- Post added at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------

the problem is the different frequencies the phones support for LTE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks

sprint and verizon don't use the same frequencies for LTE. And yes I've heard you can use a verizon pp sim that's activated in a sprint phone and most things work, but not all
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
my data plan is out but i still have mms and 3g and 1x notifications show up

this is with an unactivated us cellular sim card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wpcprez:
well, you can't have mms without data. I was asking because if your data is working you just need to install 8sms and configure it as it says earlier in this thread. If not you have data issues which need to be resolved with a new flash with or without 3g keys

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:56 PM ----------

sounds like you didn't install 8sms and configure it like viper's post at the beginning of this thread
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
the problem im having is it keeps activating with a new unactivated sim card. data and mms work fine but it completely resets my radios when it tries to activate.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wpcprez:
I read somewhere you can freeze "app quarantine" the sprint activation and you are set. I've never done it but that's what the other website said. YMMV
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bugsiemarie:
1) I absolutely did do that. It is still installed and configured as described in that post.

2) MMS used to work with the default app.

3) I do have data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SimplifyLife:
Hi Viper32 and other flashing gurus!

I have a Cricket branded GS4..and drove an hour to the closest PagePlus dealer only to find flasher dude couldn't figure out how to get it working. Pardon if I sound noobish, but the problem was described to me as:

*After flashing, when he used N_V only and no sim inserted the phone had no service (no bars). Then he flashed again with different settings and used the cricket sim card..this time it was connecting to the VZW towers, but when trying to make a phone call "You are roaming" message.

BUT, he had no access to a PP/VZW sim card to try that..wondering if that's all that is needed to get this working (I also found some threads about sim-unlocking..so it seems to me that should work 'chainfire regionunlock app')? Or, did the guy not flash it quite right and I should be able to use it on PP with 3g and no sim card?

1) If I need a sim, is my best bet to contact Kitty and try to get one from them? OR, 2) If I don't need a sim... Viper, do you have experience with flashing these cricket gs4..and/or willing to try remotely? -pm me if ya like :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
found out from PP on "The 12 Plan" you get 250 sms/mms but if you have no data left then mms dont work.

there is a mms fee based on the size of the mms message that comes off the data plan.

this is a DOUBLE Charge.

one for the mms that comes off the 250 and again for the size of the mms message.

pretty stupid if you ask me.

on top of that say your mms = 30KB then the amount of data they charge for that is not 30KB it is less.

they couldnt tell me the ratio or formula to figure out data usage when using mms.

anyhow has anyone took a look at what needs to be done to stop an unactivated us cellular sim card from going through hands free activation all the time?

thanks

Viper32 said he would but if anyone else with knowledge can figure it out that would also be great
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
With blank sim it'll keep trying to activate no matter what at least my s5 and note 3 have since last update, my Verizon will say sim from unknown source but data will work on page plus if its another carrier sim, us cell on other hand certain models won't even read sim from other them uscell it'll show prl as 1 and zero signal unless it's a mega or s3.you can use a nano uscell sim but u need to make an adapter those I have plenty of micro sim down to 1 left. I can get more most times (used ones)I can like I said before mail 1 to u or you can also try ebay I've gotten a few from there in a pinch before too.pm address I'll mail to u
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shelnian:
Under post #2 there is a section titled "The Best MMS Apk by far fully Flash Compatible". Follow this section and you should have MMS. You should never let your phone perform updates, this should have been disabled by the person who flashed your phone. If you don't have 3G after you let the phone performs an update you will need to flash the phone again. Viper can help you with that. This time make sure system updates is disabled in settings after it's flashed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Viper32:
To disable future updates the phone would need to be rooted, no flasher would do that by default as most people believe it or not do not want a phone rooted.

8SMS is a Great apk to use and I am sure newer versions are out now, I will try to update the post.

Viper
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wewk584:
Not to nitpick (OK maybe ;) ) but from what I understand, when an mms is sent.. while the media part is sent through the mmsc (where PP makes the data connection), there is a control message sent via sms. So since data usage AND an sms are occurring, I disagree with the double charge claim. It is rather 2 separate single 'charges' for 2 things that occur.

[MENTION=220241]Viper[/MENTION] - I have wondered why there are so many PRL files in the OP. Perhaps for each original carrier.. (1) latest modded (2) if really necessary, latest unmodded (3)and 00002.prl for sentimental reasons. Just curious.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
two single charges = double charge.

dont forget they wont even tell you (pageplus) how they determine how much "DATA" is charged per picture even when you tell them the size of the picture (mms)

say you have "the 12 plan"

250 (talk), (250 sms / 250 mms) and (10MB data)

you send a 1MB picture (mms)

they take away -1 on the (250 sms / 250 mms) AND charge you (less then 1MB data)

to me that is a double charge and no way of telling how much data you are going to be charged (before you send the 1MB mms)

Viper32 whats up with the research on disabling Hands Free Activation with new uscc sim card in note 3?

cant wait

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] catnapped:
Wow rly...I'd figure many of them don't even know what the heck 'rooting' is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
im rooted.

ok now what do we need to do to disable hands free activation (HFA)???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XDM inc:
hey, so i flashed the verizon PRL to my sprint galaxy s3 via DFS CDMA TOOL, and so far it seems good. calling 611 says Welcome to verizon wireless and the PRL number is now 60009. but i dont think 3g/4g is working, i get unable to establish a wireless data connection. MIP:67

please help soon im selling the phone to a verizon user.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
Even if u get data going if u sell to someone with a different number it'll stop working data keys after mdn specific
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XDM inc:
oh so ill have to re set it up again after they activate?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] njdan30:
Yes it's actually number and ESN specific