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[EVO 4G Android Development] 1wingangel:
did anyone ever figure out the data roaming thing?

do you get charged for overages or not?

lso, what is the list of prl's to date and their diff.?
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
Yeah. Mobile-mobile doesn't matter... all daytime weekday calls are against the 450 anytime minutes. Except calling Sprint customer service... those are still toll-free.

It's not a huge problem for me... I would be surprised to ever see my total airtime used over 200 mins, most of which are night/weekend anyways, and if it becomes a problem, I have a note in my account from a confused Service Rep who told me that as long as I was in the US, even if I was roaming onto other carriers' towers, that would count as mobile-mobile instead of regular anytime minutes... I recommend everybody call in and confuse a rep, just in case. lol.

Nobody got charged for data overages... sprint will just get angry eventually. IMO... they can get as angry as they want until they get at least 3g into my area.
[EVO 4G Android Development] neilkarunatilaka:
##775# doesn't work for me.

neither does calling ##775 or ##778

:-( am i doing something wrong lol?
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1wingangel:
Just keep trying it, or maybe reboot. Mine doesn't work sometimes either.
[EVO 4G Android Development] neilkarunatilaka:
Yeah I tried it like 25 times, including rebooting the device multiple times. Blah lol. It hates me. I'm sure. :mad:

I'm assuming it doesn't have to do with the fact I'm on that baked rom v8 or w/e its called..??
[EVO 4G Android Development] jonhern:
Got my bill posted today and do not have any overages, used over 400mbs roaming over a few days but it does not show up on the bill at all, just total data. Switch back and forth with sprint and vz since the hack does not get a stable 3g signal. Also like others have posted, roaming no longer shows up on the website. I am guessing that was a glitch with the new website design and that was only meant for data card users to see, maybe they got too many complainants, I for one had a small amount of roaming on there before i even tried this hack. So i am guessing roaming is unlimited. Would post my bill but it is really high because i charged the purchase of the evo to the account and a couple accessories, and you know someone will look at the total without reading and wig out, lol.

Anytime - 05/28 to 06/05	450	31

Anytime - 06/05 to 06/27	450	133

Any Mobile, Anytime - 05/28 to 06/05	Unlimited	84	--

Any Mobile, Anytime - 06/05 to 06/27	Unlimited	269	--

Text - 05/28 to 06/05	Unlimited	175	--

Text - 06/05 to 06/27	Unlimited	1,198	--

Night & Weekend - 05/28 to 06/05	Unlimited	31	--

Night & Weekend - 06/05 to 06/27	Unlimited	49	--

Sprint Data - 05/28 to 06/05	Unlimited	406,153	--

Sprint Data - 06/05 to 06/27	Unlimited	4,486,778	--
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
If you took a little more time reading through the thread, you would know that that IS your problem. You have to have the stock dialer in order to use these codes.

Fresh 0.5.3 allows these codes to be used (I just flashed it and changed my PRL), if you want a different non-stock rom and still be able to use the PRL update features.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Uhm, what I did to get my PRL changed on EvolutionX was, I went to another rom like Damagecontrol 3.2.1 and flashed the PRL, then I flashed EvolutionX(I did wipe and everything) it works fine. Using 01337 prl.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nbakid2000:
I did this and I'm not getting any double beep before I make a call. However, *2 does not work anymore. Is there a definite way to see if you're roaming? I've got 3 bars now which NEVER happens here on Sprint, but no triangle telling me I'm roaming.
[EVO 4G Android Development] noxlo:
Are you by chance running off of any rom besides stock 2.1? When I first tried this I was having issues as well but realized that it was because I was using the Froyo rom which for some reason broke this feature. If this is the case just go back to a 2.1 rom then try it and it should work without a problem. Then update the rom back to froyo or whatever you desire and the prl will stay at what you changed it to.

I have managed to accumulate over 1.5 gigs in roaming now and my connection is still good but everytime i try to log into a widget or app that uses data it comes up with a error. This is BS because I am paying for unlimited roaming data in my contract. So Sprint does have its limits.
[EVO 4G Android Development] neilkarunatilaka:
Sorry. I read the OP, and went a couple pages in from the beginning, and a couple pages back from the last page. But there are like 90+ pages, and it's kinda hard to scroll through all the posts reading them trying to find if someone has a similar problem like me. I read the entire OP, which I thought may have mentioned a problem like this there, but it didn't, so that is why I posted my question.

Sorry if I came off as an arrogant newbie on the forums that didn't spend anytime looking. :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Just outa curiosity's sake, isn't there another way to change the PRL through adb with using the HTC overlay thing?

But the way I mentioned above also works if you want to use a custom rom.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yornotelppa:
Please step away from the phone!

I mean you no disrespect but you really shouldn't be attempting this because of you're lack of technical understanding of even the fundamentals.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Then just adb push it to your sdcard, or even just mount the sdcard in your pc and put the prl file.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
I don't know what's going on... after I did this, I have used like 700 megs and yet Sprint's website says I haven't been using any. It's been like a week too... same for texts.

Either A: There is a delay, and it thinks I am roaming.

B: LOL?

Using 01337 PRL.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sprockethead:
I've done this tweak and tested "before and after" a few different places in my city. In each case, the Sprint towers give me slightly better speed. So I'm one of the lucky ones for whom Sprint was always the better option.

This is the coolest tweak I have yet seen for this phone, so I want to thank everyone who helped me figure it out! However - and take this with a grain of salt because I am no expert - why is anybody expecting big, great results with this tweak? The assumption would be that ALL Verizon customers have blazing fast 3G speeds. In reality, the speeds are comparable to Sprint's. In my case, Sprint is slightly better.

Seems to me that the best that anybody could possibly expect from this tweak is slightly better 3G coverage/speed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
Simple, not all of us have Sprint 3g coverage. At all.

Like me... my speeds on sprint are like under 40kbps and over 800kbps on Verizon.

That's not a typo, it's a 20x increase in speed. But, I think I'm at about the far extreme of this.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Because, in some places I go to Verizon has better coverage, not all, I wish I could change PRL's on the go... except I can't, I am using a Froyo rom. So I would have to nand restore CONSTANTLY lol.

So I just leave Verizon's PRL, at my house Sprint's service I have much better speeds than Verizon, but at school, Verizon has much better coverage.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nghimai:
Just a quick question for those who did the PRL hack. After you have done the hack, does it show the PRL number (00001 or whatever PRL you used) when you go to the About Phone >Software Information? I did the hack and everything went through but the PRL still shows 60667.
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
Yes, it changes the PRL name in that menu, so NO, it didn't go through for you.

Did you remember to use the "commit changes" option?
[EVO 4G Android Development] tedmales:
I went from a crappy 70kb download speed to 890kb download speed. Here in Yuma, Sprint has the worst data service ever. I just hope I don't go over my minutes because of the roaming time using my anytime minutes.

I really wish there was an app that made it a one touch conversion back and forth. I would pay to have something like that for sure. Thanks to all the people who make this work. Your making this EVO worth having by getting me access to a decent internet connection while not in my house. THANKS AGAIN.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wickettaker:
So let me get this straight...at my house, I have (barely) 1-2 bars of Sprint's service..after applying this hack, I'll be able to use Verizon's towers, who have relatively good service where I live? (Tmobile, AT&T etc have failed me..no service). Just trying to make sure, thank you. :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] vedavin:
^ yes.......thats my understanding and its working awesome in my case
[EVO 4G Android Development] distortedloop:
Hmmm...I realize that it's all about location, location, location, but that 800kbp/s isn't anything to write home about here where I'm located. It kind of sucks that we're all paying the same for such wildly different levels of service.

I've been testing an iPhone 4 on AT&T vs a Nexus One on T-Mobile vs an EVO on Sprint for a couple of weeks now. Today I threw a couple of the PRLs from this thread into the mix.

My results here in the suburbs of Los Angeles are that AT&T consistently performs very well, with downloads anywhere from 1600kb/s to 2700kb/s...usually around 1800.

T-Mobile's consistently in the 1800-2200kb/s range in the areas it gets 3G, but there's a lot of EDGE areas around my house.

Sprint EVO I am lucky to ever get over 700kb/s and almost always get 400kb/s or less. I've seen a few 2000+ kb/s on the EVO, but only about 6 times out of at least 100 tests.

The EVO with the 0001 and 1337 PRL files didn't get any better than the Sprint stock PRL. Really frustrating. I'd love to keep this EVO, and thought this hack might convince me, but there's no way I'm keeping a 4G phone that doesn't have 4G in my area and gets 1/3 to 1/7th the 3G speeds of the two competing networks. :eek:
[EVO 4G Android Development] SCSweeps:
Does anyone know of anyway to switch the PRL files back and forth on-the-fly? It would be great to have this because I am constantly in areas with either poor Sprint reception or poor Verizon reception.
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
You might not be getting the PRLs fully updated if you're getting the same speeds?

400-700kbps is plenty enough for streaming audio/video (except hi def youtube apparently. lol), skype via fring, streaming qik live, navigation, quick web browsing, flash games and any multiplayer game on the evo from what I can tell... do you really need more?

I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't get the phone based on connection speed, I got my Evo based on it's features as a device. I could care less about 4g, but it's nice that I can at least get a data connection that's plenty fast enough for anything I ever need to do on the phone. A phone connection isn't going to replace my cable connection any time soon, so I don't need to worry about tethered speed and whatnot around my house. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] jonhern:
You can only switch back to sprint on the fly, going back to VZ requires restart. To go back to sprint just update PRL in settings/system updates. Does not require a restart, my experience anyway.
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1wingangel:
there's gotta be someone who can dev an "app for that"
[EVO 4G Android Development] distortedloop:
Well, when I updated the two different PRLs, the phone said the update was successful/complete and then rebooted itself ten seconds later. The about screen software screen showed the appropriate PRL number, so it seems like I did it right.

I'm pleased for you that speed is not an issue for you, but we all have different use cases that made us opt for this particular device. Data speed was one of the considerations or features of the phone that I considered. I knew 4G wasn't currently available in my area, but hopefully coming soon as part of the Los Angeles roll-out, but I figured Sprint's supposedly high speed 3G would tide me over until 4G ever came.

The speeds I am NOT getting are important for me. I am, after all, paying rates that aren't any better than T-Mobile or AT&T are giving me, and I am only getting a fraction of the bandwidth. That's just annoying. To add insult to injury, they slap an extra $10 on the monthly bill to pay for the 4G service. Sheesh. :confused:

It never occurred to me to start testing speeds except that I noticed web pages taking much longer to load on the EVO than they were on my N1 and iPhones. I also noticed that with my N1 I could start the download of a 30-40 minute podcast (say 50mb) as I left my office, and have it complete before I reached the car. With the EVO, I'll be on the road for a while before the download's complete. Small, but noticeable real-world concerns. Obviously your mileage may vary.

I have FIOS in my home, and the phone's never intended to be used for tethering in the house, but I certainly do tether while out and about for various reasons. With the EVO, it's noticeable that I am on a sluggish connection. When I tether with the N1, web browsing feels as smooth as my FIOS connection.

I suspect that your lack of interest in tethering is in the minority - one of the hottest selling features of this EVO was the built in WiFi hotspot and the fast speeds for tethering. Sprint sells this as the fastest network phone available, and has sold it's 3G service as fast in the past. It used to be, at least for the three years I had an EVDO datacard with them, it's not any longer.

If 3G speed wasn't an issue for many, this thread probably wouldn't exist... What brings you here if you're satisfied with your 3G speeds? :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] bwstonemd84:
I don't know where you guys live but my Sprint 3G and 4G speeds are very fast. When the Evo was first released I noticed that the speeds had drastically dropped off but they have came back up to normal now. With 3G I get 1500-1800 kbp/s down and around 700-800 kbp/s up. On 4G I get between 3800-4500kbp/s (top speed was 5100kbp/s) down and 1000kbps up (top speed was 1500kbp/s). I guess it is very dependent on where you live. I myself live in the Washington DC area. Sprint has a high speed and very reliable network. T-mobile 3g is very very spotty. T-Mobile's 3G is similar to Sprint's 4G footprint. T-Mobile is way behind the curve. Yes t-mobile & att may have spots where the speed of the data is extremely fast, but as a whole both of their services are crappy. I have had service with all the major carriers and Sprint has by far been the best, yes even better then Verizon. I had a lot of dropped calls with Verizon as well as pockets that the data did not work properly or was very slow. Sprint has came a long way, but it is a fast and reliable service.
[EVO 4G Android Development] axisofoil:
Simple, I don't get 3g from Sprint in my area.

Enjoy your other phones... don't let me stop you.
[EVO 4G Android Development] distortedloop:
Like I said in a prior post, it's all about location, location, location. I mentioned I live in the 'burbs of Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley population 1.7mil) - certainly not a small town or rural area. In this area, I'd say Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint, have always been, in the past, for me, pretty comparable in terms of service coverage and dropped calls. I've had all three in the past, and have always carried two devices on two different networks, so I'm frequently comparing the services. I've had both Sprint/Nextel phones, and for three years carried a Sprint datacard for the laptop. I recently added T-Mobile to the mix to play with the Nexus One. T-Mobile does have a few more dead zones than the others (my house was one until recently), but in most of the area, it gets strong voice and the fast 3G. Still, the weakest of the four in terms of coverage here.

For the three years I had the datacard, Sprint seemed to have the best 3G speeds. I'm not sure what happened to their network.

There's not a chance in Hell you'd be able to stop me; you are, after all, just an anonymous bit of text on an internet site, but thanks for the well wishes. ;)

Enjoy your EVO as well. If the device pleases you and you can put up with what I consider substandard network speeds, more power to you.

I really wanted the EVO to work out for me. These PRL hacks were a last ditch effort to try to make the phone provide the level of data speeds I think is minimally acceotable. They didn't work. I'm pretty much out of time on testing, but I may try a few of the other PRLs scattered throughout the thread to see if they make a difference.

The EVO's got other issues as well. Mine has the separating glass and light leakage issue that's well publicized. The screen has a definite pinkish (light purple?) cast to it that I find annoying. There are some design issues as well - the home button is in the worst position for one-handed operation of the phone if you're a right-hander, and the top button is a bit hard to depress because it's sunk in so deep.

Other than those issues, it's a slick phone with some great features. As mentioned above, I wanted this to be a good phone for me. The defects might have been addressable with a replacement phone, but the real deal killer for me is the lack of 3G speeds, even when tapping into Verizon's network. I'm still not sure if it's the phone or the network. I can't believe that Verizon's network is so slow around here also - which points to the phone being an issue, but the fact that I've seen 2000kb/s a few times suggests the phone is up to the task. Oh well, I'm getting a Galaxy S for testing today if the shipping info is correct. Maybe I'll have better luck with it. /fingers-crossed
[EVO 4G Android Development] yornotelppa:
My Sprint service may not be the fastest but the service here in North Dallas is more then adequate and in my day to day activities I rarely even turn on 4G.

Here's an example of my speeds. . . .

3G

4G
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1wingangel:
Prl not updating in settings?

Lil help?
[EVO 4G Android Development] TurboX2:
damn that would be like going back to AT&T lmao
[EVO 4G Android Development] my95z34:
Well I don't know what is going on here, but this doesn't seem to help at all. In fact, it almost seems to make things worse. I am on Fort Lewis, and Sprint has TERRIBLE reception by my unit. VZW, AT&T, and TMo have great reception. I literally get between 0 and 1 bar. After applying this PRL, the signal strength doesn't change at all. Still just as bad, maybe stays in 0 bars a little more offen. Also, my speeds with the Speedtest.net app are 9.3 down, 20.4 up. Regular Sprint speeds are 26.2 and 3.2 with 0 bars of signal. Also, my IP addy stays as a Sprint IP. Is that normal? Seems to me that something isn't working properly here. My *2 gives me VZW, so that portion works.
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
What's the chance of making a prl that uses sprints 3g and will roam to VZW 3g if needed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] InfiniteReality:
That pretty much defeats the purpose of this thread
[EVO 4G Android Development] vedavin:
Thats what the default Sprint PRLs do
[EVO 4G Android Development] m3latino:
Thanks OP. My non existent service at home has 5 full bars.

Can't post the link but I am getting 2.6 mb/s down.
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
You are both incorrect.

Sprint's PRL will only roam on Verizon's 1x network, not their EVDO.

It would be nice to have a PRL that would be more lenient in allowing the phone to roam and then use Verizon's 3G network. I know personally, if I am in buildings such as Wal-Mart and the like, my phone will have 0 to .5 bars (yes .5), not enough to make a call or use the internet and takes forever to decide to roam.

This would allow us to us with decent Sprint 3G coverage to benefit from anymobile and benefit from 3G roaming.
[EVO 4G Android Development] InfiniteReality:
Ummm.... Re-read the thread title...if it did like you want, it'd be of zero use for all us in this thread...according the reason for this hack.

Just an idea, why not just find the PRL that works best on Verizon's network for you and just update the PRL when you're in walmart? Principle of this thread would be the same, just different reason for changing PRLs. ;)

Not sure if this would apply to you in metal buildings, but I have horrible Sprint service in my office (metal roof) even though my office is 20ft from the glass door, it would go from 1 bar to no service (sometimes roam, mostly just searches for service). With this hack, it helped me very little yet just enough to at least keeps it from searching for service all day long and killing my battery by noon. BUT outside of work, I FINALLY get true 3G speeds, not the typical < 1X speeds (40-60) I use to have. If it wasn't for this hack, I'd returned the phone before my 30 days was up.
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
I totally agree and have been updating my prl based on the locations of where I am. It would just be nice to have the prl allow the phone to auto switch when needed. This way when you are inside with nothing but "searching" the phone would jump over and use Verizon's and when you are outside it would jump over and use Sprint's.

I am just thinking ease of use here.
[EVO 4G Android Development] InfiniteReality:
For your case, i think it's completely possible to do just that so that it hooks up to Verizon's 3G instead of 1X. It seems as easy as combining the newest PRL with the one we're using but got to find the person that knows how to read the PRL file to do so.

I'd give my left *** to have an app that would automatically swap stock PRL with one of these in the thread (user's choice for best coverage) and back again. just to eliminate the steps and one/two click swap (and a reboot if necesasry).
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
I am going to take a look at the prls using qpst later when I'm home and maybe we can get something going. If anyone knows of a better prl editing program let ne know.
[EVO 4G Android Development] arozer:
How do I perform the 'Handcent SMS off stamp' trick mentioned in the OP?

I'm unable to use 00001.prl because of the terrible reception I get with it - which I understand fixes the incoming text time stamp issue.

So I'm using 01337.prl, which works great, but the time stamp is still wrong on it.

Tried messing with every setting in Handcent SMS to fix the time stamp and can't figure it out. Any help?
[EVO 4G Android Development] my95z34:
Any ideas?
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
Does verizon have good coverage in the area?

Are you inside a large metal building? If so you may be SOL either way.

Try this one, this one and 00001 work fine for me.

try alltel 40057 prl
[EVO 4G Android Development] my95z34:
VZW has great coverage here, that's the sad part. The building isn't metal, it's an old concrete barracks. Do you have a link for that PRL?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Lyvewire:
hey I was wondering how you downloaded the 01337.prl I noticed the zip 00001 downloads directly to the phone but when you click the other PRL's a bunch of scrambled letters and words come up?
[EVO 4G Android Development] arozer:
I d/l'd them using my comp and manually put them on my sdcard

I had that same issue.
[EVO 4G Android Development] snood123:
cant post links but google corolada prl

also, does anyone you know with verizon get a good signal next to your phone?

the concrete could be causing the issue.
[EVO 4G Android Development] dashed:
Anyone else having good luck with the 31337 prl? I tried the other two but this one increased my dl by .9 mbps! thanks OP
[EVO 4G Android Development] arozer:
TO ANYONE WHO'S STILL NOT SEEING RESULTS:

You can try visiting this page and finding a PRL file that might work for you.

http://www.corolada.com/prl/
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
There are newer alltell prl files here, http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/prl/

Is it possible to use a Verizon PRL? I would test, except I can't because my phone doesn't have the sense dialer, and I have to do a nandrestore...