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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Go back through the thread, re-read everything and write down notes as you go. Trust me, a second time through is not a bad thing to do before you start. I would also recommend reading the Epic to VM thread too and the meid tutorial..

A step by step do this is almost impossible due to various rules and the sheer variety of circumstances. Every phone, rom operating system and radio changes the procedure. What you are asking for is an entire book, parts of which will get the author banned and the thread closed/deleted. This is not some simple 2 hour procedure like root and rom.

If all this seems like too much, stop and go back to your old phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I'm already almost done with a guide for flashing over to evo 4g. I won't post it because of forum rules but I'll provide it to whoever would like it. Only down side is I'm coming from an optimus v and the intercept has a kind of different procedure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Really the only thing one needs to get from their old phone is the AAA passkey. Should be very easy to get talk, text, 1x data, and MMS working. The ESN, MIP usernames, etc can be generated from the MEID. The MIN and MDN can be found in about phone. The 1x password is vmug33k. So really the only "hard" part is getting your AAA password to unlock 3g.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
The hard part is getting the meid and esn to zero out without CD a tools 3.7 or whatever version is the latest.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Well yeah sounds like the evo is a pain to add that stuff. I was more referring to reading the old phone to port it to any other phone. All of the cdma galaxy s phones should be cake to port over to virgin (fascinate, epic, nexus s). I really want to try getting my hands on a galaxy nexus and see if I can get that flashed over :p. Not trying to spend over $300 bucks on one though.

Anyways sorry I'm not trying to crap on the evo, just sounds like there is a bit more challenge getting stuff to work than galaxy s phones.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] constrictor25:
A bit more challenge is an understatement lol. Took forever to clear the MEID and ESN. Other then that though it was cake.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
See I work for a guy that owns a cell phone store. He's a reseller and he literally deals with every company: page plus, T-Mobile, Verizon, boost, at&t, virgin, etc. And compared to all the phones that pass through my hand, the EVO is kind of dissapointing to me lol. Especially the day I had to flash 3 galaxy s lls. I was thinking of other phones that might work like the galaxy nexus as you mentioned but, luckily, I have the "hook ups" to get it with a nice discount. Only problem is the MMS path I'm guessing?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtowngs4g:
OK, I MISSED THE HINT "DIALER CODE ON STOCK ROM FOR OPTIMUS V" so back to removing Backside IHO then i can go from there
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
The ICS from that was posted a while ago just released build 24, just thought it'd be nice to give a heads up.

http://goo-inside.me/roms/edt/supersonic/aokp_supersonic_build-24.zip
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Odds are the patcher I made will still work, but when I have a chance I will see about another. Some are saying it has issues anyhow.

Also working on some others.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
The rom did have issues to begin with but this one seems a lot smoother to me. So far the only thing has fc'd is Nova launcher and that was only once.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Actually the odds are it SHOULDN'T work. That's because we have to edit the framework.jar which is where a majority of the changes are made in an update. So if u use the old fix its going to overwrite all the updates and overall will probably get a crash on boot (happened to me at least)

Theoreticaly we should be able to port over any cdma Android phone, and if those phones have a solid cm7 or cm9 port my fix should work for mms. Only problem with the galaxy nexus is no one seems to know how to get it into diagnostic mode so that we can edit the meid and stuff with qpst and other cmda software on the PC.

Anyways if they figure out how I might switch to the galaxy nexus. You should hook me up with a deal :p haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Actually my boss knows, he had flashed one onto metro the day it came out. Now the fun part is getting my ex gang Banger of a boss to spill how he did it lol.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Well shoot thats good to know. I haven't looked real hard but 15 mins of searching the web didnt turn up any results.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I'm thinking maybe corporate told him the procedure
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Well if you find out make sure to let us know. I don't plan on getting this phone now but maybe this summer when it drops in price a little bit.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
AOKP 24 Virgin Mobile MMS patch - based on Brooksyx's work. (this version works on CWM and AmonRa)

Install Android Open Kang Project (links to blog since the thread doesn't mention 24), then install the patch. For prior installs, it shouldn't effect any data, however, things happen. Do a backup first.

AOKP 24 Direct download.

Warning:

Do not enable torch in the power button menu, it will reboot when you hit the power button. Not sure if that's due to the patch or the rom itself.

Still no luck in getting any Sense roms to work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
He was telling me today that he received an E-mail with specs of the galaxy s III. So now I face a decision: bite a bullet and go for the galaxy nexus or swallow the whole gun and wait until its expected early July release.

On a brighter note I've just about finished with the tutorial I mentioned I was working on earlier.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Ha well either will be nice phone. I would personally go with the galaxy nexus for the pure google experience unless the galaxy 3 was way better.

Anychance you could PM that guide. Id like to have a copy for my personal collection of phone modding files. Never know, I might need it for a friend or something :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] constrictor25:
Just a random thought but suppose someone were to get a dump of the original sense rom for the HTC Wildfire S on Virgin Mobile we could possibly compare files and see what we could do on getting a sense based SMS fix off of that phone. Just a thought.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
I had that idea a while back and have been working on it off and on since I got my phone going. My first attempts were failures for various reasons. I can tell you that if you use the CDMAdispatcher from CM7, you will get constant FC's (big surprise), so much that it's hard to reboot to recovery, the same happens with MIUI.

Recently though, I got a copy of the stock rom, and pulled the CdmaSMSDispatcher.smali from it and threw it into SOS along with the build.prop mods, but without the apns file, which Sense doesn't use. On boot, it throws an error every so often (and restarts the radio).

Using APN backup, I put in the proper settings, which settles the radio until an MMS comes in, at which point the radio fc's then restarts (the radio not the phone) and runs stable again, unfortunately no mms. It does appear to inform Virgin that the MMS was received. It also will still throw the error on boot.

Adding the APNS-conf file it no longer errors on boot, but everything else remains the same.

Here is the deodexed wildfire rom I pulled from

http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-wildfire-s/149586-rom-stock-wildfire-s-custom-stock-rom.html

Here is the dispatcher.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8ya6xvxjcb0shyb

I used the newest Swagged Out Stock 2.0.2 for the Evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
Sorry for changing directions here but did anyone ever figure out Ykman1's issue with the 3g? I flashed from an intercept to a fascinate and was having the same issue the 3g icon was on but no data arrows, and no data.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Make sure to flash nv items 1192 and 1194 from your donor phone. Your data profiles should also be DONOR MEID@data.vmobl.com for the profile 1. Profile 2 should be meid@prov.vmobl.com
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
how are those pulled from an intercept, i can't get that phone read by any program?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Nv items are read in cdma tools and the AAA password is read with dfs tool. The ha passwords are vmug33k by default. To edit the data profiles you use QPST configuration toll
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
Ok had a hell of a time pulling the NV script off the intercept, if anyone is having the same problem this tutorial by kev helped immensely.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1310886

Edit: Oh yeah and if you think you are going to be cute like i thought i was and just switch back and forth between the intercept and the optimus for flashing purposes, apparently VM only lets you switch esns once in 24 hours. Just an FYI.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
AOKP seems to be pulling builds out their ass. This build pretty much only fixed the torch and nav bar fixes.

http://goo-inside.me/roms/edt/supersonic/aokp_supersonic_build-25.zip
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
i was able to pull the nv items off the intercept, but when I wrote to the fascinate it said 0 nv items written :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I'm guessing you'd have to read it with a service tool.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
did you put in your spc first? Use your intercept and follow this video exactly!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-9TkakjqI&feature=player_embedded
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
Yeah ive followed both shinydude and that video exactly, problem is everytime i write in qpst when the phone reboots, it automatically puts back in the vzw settings under the ppp settings and the mip settings this phone is killing me very slowly this week
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I remember that problem! When you wrote to phone just disconnect it without rebooting and do a battery pull. It fixed the problem for most people.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
Ok, here's the irony that makes people go insane. Girlfriend's galaxy s II literally flashed in less than 4 minutes 3g was up and running in less than 30 seconds of rebooting phone!

Edit: Ok may have spoke to soon 3g icon is up but speeds are crap.

129k down / 151k up

---------- Post added at 02:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 AM ----------

permanently or until next reboot?

I think those sneaky fu*ks over at verizon hard coded into their rom to always try and connect to the network, I mean hell after a return to factory settings it takes you to the activate screen and won't let you go anywhere else without putting in the softkey code
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
A few in the thread looked at the changelog and say it has nothing significant, though apparently video works. Meh. If I get bored I will crank out a new patcher. I'm happy with how things are at the moment.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Look for the hybrid prl that's floating around the forums, I usually get like

1.3mbs down and 970kbs up.

And LeslieAnn flashed the build and tested it out, torch still is buggy and the video works most of the time but it won't some times.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
I wouldn't really consider those speeds slow. That's about what I get on a good day.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
When I reset the galays s II it reset the AN user id now to the sprint login. Now I'm getting the same speeds as you, just was super tired and didn't post.

now back to the fascinate. I think I'm going to flash a new rom on there and see if I can't get those user id's to stick permanently, but I got class all day today so try this later tonight.

On a side note as well, I use google voice and wanted to use Groove IP with 35 dollar a month plan and use all data for calls. On the optimus it worked terribly and I could never figure out why. My assumption was processor speed, since that program 'can' be very resource intensive if it is doing on the fly audio encoding. I tested with the galaxy s II (which has a beast of a processor) and it seemed to work well. I am going to test more today when there is more network traffic and see how it does.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I think the 35 dollar plan isn't worth it honestly. I rather just go with the 45 but I'm on the $25 so whatever. All ranking aside, how is that fascinate going?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Agreed the $25 plan is what makes virgin awesome. I am kinda sad I didnt upgrade to the $40 min plan before it went away. Oh well if I had the $35 plan I would probably go with boost for $50 unlimited over the $35 plan since after so many months you can get it down to $35.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deathsled:
It's a little different then flashing the phone to Cricket or MPCS since you need the valid ESN of a Virgin Mobile phone (presumably an Android one and not a basic phone). It makes the buy in a little more costly but the potential for savings over time are definitely there.

I've been on Cricket for a while but have been thinking about moving to Virgin to cut my monthly bill in half yet again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houboy123:
I see, I already have an intercept I just want to know how to switch the ESN and hopefully get internet and mms working.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deathsled:
cdma workshop to change the ESN and for the internet and mms settings go track down the "how to flash phone to virgin mobile" threads on howard forums that was alluded to in this thread already
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houboy123:
So has anyone gotten internet to work on the Evo on Virgin by using the setting from the howard fourms post? Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srtpusher:
did you try yet?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houboy123:
No I havent found cdma workshop yet... anyone know where I can find a free copy 3.4.5 or higher?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Not through an legal method that I know of.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StrictNine:
I have a LG Fathom I'll be getting in the mail in a few days, I'm going to try to get that working on VM.

I bought the Fathom since it was the cheapest higher end LG phone I could find, $81. I own the latest version of cdma workshop and lg's seem the easiest to work with. If I get this working maybe i'll bite the bullet and buy an evo to try.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5318008:
I thought about doing this with a Droid 2, because I like huge screens and I like keyboards, but I ended up shelving the hassle and am just going with the Intercept for now. $25/month unlimited data helps swallow the regret a little, #amirite
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Don't go with the Intercept. My mom and sisters have them. HORRIBLE phone. Trust me. First off, the Virgin Mobile version doesn't have 2.2 like the Sprint version. Secondly, the 2.2 update bricked all 3 Intercepts in my house. I had to unbrick them myself. Thirdly, the build quality is pure **** and the phone is laggy as hell. Its 800 MHz processor is as fast as the 528 MHz processor in the G1.

Trust me, go with the LG Optimus V. MUCH better and it comes with 2.2 out of the box.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5318008:
Sorry, I'm a qwerty-only kind of guy, though I appreciate the advice. Not sure how much difference there is from Sprint to VM, but mine feels solid so far, not laggy either, compared to Rhodium on OC. I know it's only 2.1 but 2.2 is rolling out in March. So far I really only use it for texting, light games, and $25/month all-you-can-eat laptop tethering.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OhSoNique:
I didnt know metro pcs had the evo. Is it 4g too?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
They don't. This thread is about hacking it onto Metro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emission:
Anyone make any progress with this? Looks like it should work but has anyone actually tried yet?

Looks simple in theory. Change the Evo ESN to a legitimate Virgin Mobile phone ESN and then fix the data settings to match virgin mobiles data settings.

I may be interested in doing this, $25/mo for unlimited data/text + some talk time is very nice.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamari1084:
Even better idea

I know I'm new to this forum and haven't had any post, but I wanted to put a little insight on the possibilities with this type of situation happening. I'm sure there is a way to set up an EVO to the Virgin Mobile service. If you have an EVO already, and have it rooted, most custom Roms now days have an option under there call settings which allows for internet calling. If you have a Gmail account, you can go into Google and set up a free Google Voice account. Google voice allows you to place out going calls and receive/send free text messages. They let you choose what ever phone number you want from a list of available numbers once you sign up. You download your Google voice app on your android based phone, and you can now place phone calls with that new Google voice number absolutely free, as well as free text messages. There is an option under the Google Voice settings where it allows you to port your phone number you have to the Google Voice account you have. It cost a very low $20. So lets say you want to keep your current phone number to make things less complicated with everyone in your phone book. You pay that $20 and now your original phone number so you do not have to give your phone number out to the **** load of people you have in your phone book. The thing is, it cost to receive calls to that Google Voice phone number. It will ring on the end of the person calling you, but your phone will not ring. So then you go to a free SIP site that let's your create an account. Most of all of the SIP accounts allow you to receive incoming calls. You create that account and add the phone number you get with what ever SIP account you choose to go with. You take that phone number and you go to your Google Voice account. Under the Google Voice settings you go to Forward calls. You add the phone number you just got from the SIP account you just created and any phone call made to your Google voice phone number will be forwarded to that SIP account. Under the call setting that most custom roms come with, there is the option to add SIP account settings. Under there you add your user name, website in which your SIP account receives calls, your password and any other information that is needed and voila, you have unlimited minutes, text and web for $25 a month. I don't know if anyone else has come up with this theory already. I mean I know it's already been thought up to have it just for kicks, but with the thought of a $25 unlimited web and text plan, you can expand that usage a hell of a lot more because now you will have internet every where you go rather than only being able to make calls with a wifi spot available.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cchris81:
So i have voice and text working on the $25 plan. Can't get the internet going, I tried looking at that thread how to flash to virgin but can't get when I need out of it. Anyone have data working please Contact me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenixjn:
You need to find the APN settings for virgin mobile as well as all information related to your data profile. The best way to do this is to find another phone that has the right data settings already and copy over to your device on the appropiate fields using your information. I do not have access to this info but it used to happen to work when people bought 'unlocked' phones...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weinerwad3000:
you have to use qxdm

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=689303&page=10
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krayvon:
!

i have been curious about getting EVO on VM for some time now. i read the whole thread but didnt see any success stories of people getting it done. any final thoughts?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdfajkldfkwfj:
You cant be serious.... SIP over 3G is not a replacement for voice minutes.... at least for Sprint. On a overloaded 3G network you can get like 4KB/s.........
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
It was by far the greatest marketing technique I've ever seen. It wouldn't of mattered anyways, my boss received an email from VM and they said they're zappin all accounts from the prior $25, $40, and $60 plans to the newer plans. If any of you receive an email saying your vpin has expired then I suggest logging in through their mobile site to renew it or they'll zap you then.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
oh yikes i did get an email about that. I think I am going upgrade to sprint eventually this year but hopefully later than sooner.

edit: now that I think about it, it was that my security question expired. Would that be the same thing?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I think they email you saying they both expire. Awww really? What a shame, seems everyone is giving up on virgin mobile. Their data speeds are pretty much the same, my dad has it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Well I just changed both.

Well we shall see. I am graduating college in may and hopefully I will be able to get a corporate discount if I get a job. I might stay with them for another year or so if I can keep my $25 account. I know I am at least staying for 2 more months as I have $50 worth of credit on my account :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
If it doesn't happen in 3 days looks like you slipped under their nose so just keep an eye on our account until then and Congrats! I'm finishing my general Education this year thank god, hopefully I'll have my masters in computer science by the time I'm 22.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
pretty soon republic wireless will be out at 19.99 a month which equals awesome!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
AOKP 25 Virgin Mobile MMS patch - based on Brooksyx's work.

Install Android Open Kang Project (links to blog since the thread doesn't mention 25), then install the patch. For prior installs, it shouldn't effect any data, however, things happen. Do a backup first.

AOKP 25 Direct download.

Torch in power menu has been fixed.

Also, no Adobe Flash.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
late reminder: I've finished the full flash tut and is available upon request.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brooksyx:
Nice well hopefully I won't have to pay more.

I am getting my degree Business Administration with a specialization in Managing Information Systems. I do plan on going back to get my masters of business administration in the next 5 years though.

Thats irrelevant..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
???????????????
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
This is a Virgin Mobile thread, not boost, metro, page plus, etc.

I'm just thinking of which school to go to for my masters degree. I also want to study statistics or writing because I want to be a sports writer but hey, I'm only 16 I got years to decide what to do after I finish the general ed.