[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] musashiz:
Flashin-scapades

It all began one lowly night in a dark rehearsal studio... I fell in love with the galaxy nexus and dreamed of putting one on vzw prepaid service with 3g and mms. So I set out to see if i could do it myself. after being overrun with the whirlwind of information about this phone and its dreaded via chipset i figured better leave it to the pros... ets looked scary not to mention the endless forums and other people pulling their hair out with this phone. so i paid some dude ninety bux to do it. he did it but didnt leave me my old meid and the meid that is on there is one from an extravert... oh well no harm done good to go forever...

everything was fine and dandy until a week ago my 3g quit connecting... this is where my story began. its been quite a journey. I have not left my studio except for a quick bite and bathroom breaks learning and cramming as much as i could...

I went and got me a donor phone, the gusto. got it activated, logged into dfs, pulled keys, mdn, msid, meid and esn and programmed them all onto my gnex with help from autoprime's scripts. this took about 1.5 days as the whole process was still being absorbed by my measely brain. much to my surprise when i booted up my gnex i found myself with 3g! hallelujah! i had done it! except... i couldnt make calls... or texts. i could recieve calls and the phone would ring for the first second, then the call would immediately drop. i tried to deal with this as long as i could but then realized i really need to be able to make and recieve calls for work. i reactivated the old meid and returned to calls/txt but no 3g. phone wouldnt pull them from ota either. i then reactivated the gusto meid to the gnex without doing ota. I noticed this gave me calls/txt with the gusto meid but not really sure how to pull the keys. i could pull them from the gusto OTA but the process of OTA itself changes something somewhere that dosent allow me to make calls or txts with the gusto meid... hmm....

i though about it and concluded that the gnex is not able to get programmed correctly and pull keys because it wasnt meant to do such a thing. so i went and picked up a fascinate. seemed like the best of both worlds, could be ota'd in the correct way (or so i thought) so that it would have both the 3g keys and talk/txt. that bubble burst when i put the meid from the gnex (originally an extravert meid aka dumb phone) onto the fascinate, activated, and ota'ed it. wow talk/text/or 3g didnt work.

after that i tried some last resort comparing of the gusto and the fascinate nam/sid/etc values. then i watched a guide of someone who had flashed a evo onto vz prepaid with a gusto. after seeing that i decided that this is completely over my head as he was changing things in efs, nv data, and other things ive never ventured into. bear in mind i graduated with a comp engr degree but cdma prog is really out there. wow im blown away by those who can do this.

figured someone would enjoy my story and it makes me feel like i documented my 5 wasted days and whatever 'legacy' i might have made for myself. help would be really awesome if anyone would like to give help but im about 99.99% OVER IT lol

this puppy is goin on cl in the morning. but i must say thank you xda once again you amaze me.

peace and blessings