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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtowngs4g:
I disagree. I read this thread and several others. Are we to assume everyone who has a question didn't read? Not true. There aren't concise instructions cuz of rules. But Brook, Leslie and Civil have helped a lot. Thanks to Weinerwad for his advice with meid and winhex - part which I'm getting stuck at. SIGH.

It works better if you pm to avoid the "go back and read" response. Jmho
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I know a better way that takes less time. Pm and we'll set up a team view session.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
So I found my old evo I thought I lost months ago, crammed up under the seat of our suv, so naturally it's flashing time! Problem is I am having a terrible time getting the phone to be assigned a com port. I have used every diag driver I could find. Uncivilsavage, the ones you provided I can't even get installed, win7 won't recognize them. The only ones that will install are the "HTC_drivers_64" which I can't even remember where I got em. Just wondering if there's anything I am missing?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weinerwad3000:
I said threads. If you look at the boost thread there is exact instructions on how to put the phone on boost. You take those instructions and combine them with the instructions on this thread and you should have no problem.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Agreed.

I used the thread for swapping the Epic to VM, one regarding just ESN and CDMA, and a few regarding Boost to fill in some of the holes and get a better understanding. All the little answers are out there, it just takes a little digging.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtowngs4g:
Personally, I have ALL those threads: Evo to Boost, Epic to Virgin, metro, Cricket, etc. Civil, Leslie, Brook and Neider'S tips all helped. But what really made my phone work was someone's tip, can't remember which forum, was to hook up donor, read and then write that info to evo.

my only question is in ##3282# should mms server url be different? i have mms.sprintpcs.com and WIMAX realm = sprintpcs.com? i am still searching.

thanks to all of u!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Haha my tip as well, the mms has to be patched with either cm7 or a AOKP rom so those settings shouldn't affect you.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
Possible Protip.

I won't be able to test this till tonight or tomorrow but what I plan on doing is getting a lg optimus today putting my old meid on it and mdn number. Then hitting the activate app to see if it will update and write the correct aaa password itself. I don't see why this won't work but if you got one make sure you got a good backup.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjenkins09:
So, i was thinking.. the metro pcs flashers for the evo have their own custom rom and forum just for it, would any dev or rom maker, think of starting something like that?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
Well I went out and got a optimus v but this doesn't work I had to enter the aaa password. I may try a couple of things but it's not looking good.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Easy method is to read it with LGNPST Lab and then connect it to DFS tools, navigate to tge programing tab, then to data, and the password in the little boxes to the left are your aaa key.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
I been done that ;) what I'm talking about is taking the meid from say rumor touch or whatever and putting it on a lg optimus v then hitting the activate app to see if it will calculate the aaa key for me. That way instead of spending 100 on an optimus v or intercept you only have to spend 10 to 40 bucks on the cheaper phone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I tried that but you can't activate a MEID that's already active

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I have a question! See apparently most of my texts and phone calls aren't reaching my evo. My donor phone is off so I don't know if I'll have to zero out the donor or not?

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meowdib:
What?! You don't know? :D I would like to know this as well.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] constrictor25:
Virgins SMS network went down. It's slowly coming back I believe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
here's a video on how to erase the htc evo meid for repair reasons

Lol you have no idea what I'm talking about. Each phone has an meid and an aaa password which is required to access the virgin mobile data services. The aaa password is generated using some sort of calculation based off the meid just like the metro spc calculator. What I'm trying to do is to find a way to calculate the aaa password that way we can use cheap phones as donors instead of optimus v and samsung intercept.

What I did was changed the meid of a newly bought optimus v and ran the activate program thinking that it would calculate a new aaa password for me but after it ran through the steps still no 3g. So the phone so the phone does activate but it doesn't calculate a new aaa password for the device.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cwa542:
Sprint has a 4g prepaided plan, just get that?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
Video on how to pull the aaa password off lg optimus v

here

Download links in the comment section
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meowdib:
UncivilSavage mentioned that the MIN and Dir_number also has to be written to calculate the AAA password.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
You can actually have both phones on and both will ring (not recommended!) so either you have something wrong or there an outtage. I know text messaging has had a big outtage.

As for the donor, keep it just like it is, remove the battery and put it somewhere safe.

You have to have all of those in before you mess with data in any way since they can be erased while messing with the other stuff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Turned out to be an outage but thanks.

Edit: 3g is blowing my mind since I flashed 011210 prl.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjenkins09:
Can u shoot me a link of that prl?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjenkins09:
can some one explain to me, why exactly we cant have a sense ROM work with the mms? i reallyyy want my sense back, cm7 gets old quick.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Because Sense has some weird programming that messes with mms, bluetooth and other systems.

I've tried all sorts of stuff and closest I got was swapping out some things I thought would work without crashing the phone. Still didn't get mms working though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjenkins09:
Damn:/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
So would I be correct in thinking the mms works by default in Deck's latest pb8?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Nope, mms is set for Sprint not VM. It's not that difficult to patch though.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
Mind giving me any pointers? I'm willing to get my hands dirty and see what I can do. As I understand it so far, just like the Optimus V, the evo needs to be patched in the mms dispatcher as well as the framework.jar? And there is no need to change the mms gateway on the phone?

And BTW, thanks for all your tips in these 40 pages or so. I just got everything except mms working on my new "virgin mobile" evo 4g :D

And here is a little tip for those wanting to do the same.

Instead of editing the memory directly after dumping it, there is a much simpler way to "change the 2 main things you need to change" on the evo. Now lets say you were to open a new tab, go to the address bar, and type xdaforums.com/wiki and follow that with /HTC_Supersonic . Then maybe you were to accidently scroll all the way down, you might see what I am talking about :D It works perfectly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insink71:
a decent place to get your hands dirty

Try this guy's github.

https://github.com/JerryScript/android_frameworks_base/blob/gingerbread/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/cdma/CdmaSMSDispatcher.java

Seems like carriers throwing some proprietary bins into apks [worked into open source framework] Tis why Google pulled support for CDMA if you read carefully between the lines, but alas, always a way around ;)

Rob
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Top of page 30 details how to get CM7 MMS working, and a couple posts down contains the needed file for CM9. The next few pages discuss some of the roms I got it to work on.

I don't see what you are talking about on the wiki, but I suspect you mean the Qmat method. It works, somewhat, but it doesn't always. Also it requires a specific radio, recovery and the files to make it work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Just send me the ROM and I'll patch it for ya if you'd like.

EDIT: here's a link to the guide I made, I'll be updating it soon with pictures.http://www.mediafire.com/?4jpf5j6ud6yy5yd

http://www.mediafire.com/?5qc26fccgwh58as

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
LeslieAnn: I was talking about the "open sesame door" folder creation method to change the nv files. I didn't even try using the QMAT method even though my radio was compatible. And I'll be sure to try out your instructions on ICS.

UncivilSavage: I would greatly appreciate if you could do that. I'll try to do it myself with LesliAnn's instructions probably but I doubt I can get it to work lol.

The thread for the rom is here and the download link is here. You want the ota version since it includes gapps. This is the only ics rom for the evo 4g that has hw acceleration working and its the smoothest rom I've used by far. An mms patch for this rom would be amazing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
The open sesame door method is simple, make the directory, rebbot the phone and then set default directory to /nvm/number and change 1943 and 0 to 0s

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
New Guide updated with pictures, "open sesame door" method and samsung galaxy method.

For some reason I can't donwload Decks files of Dev-Host, never can.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
Nice guide :D

That's weird, it's working fine for me. I've repuloaded it to mediafire just for you but xda wont let me post the link so just type mediafire dot com, add a forward slash and then paste the following: ?2vn9nkg7rm36ew4
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Thanks! I'll get it back to you tomorrow around lunch time (:

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
You don't know how much I appreciate this. Thank you so much.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
I was going to ask you about this but i showed up a day late and it already happened. You wouldn't believe how long I have been staring at the different codes trying to figure out how to modify different roms. Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Decks ota PB9 ROM Patched for VM

Based of Brook's work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meowdib:
You guide with pictures is great. I like how you included the old way and the open sesame way. This has been done on an Evo 4g. Anyone interested in the Evo plus donor, let me know.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I tested on a completely full wipe and while I recieve the message and its not all 9s, the picture wont download when I hit the download button. And yes, I am on 3g that works perfectly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
It should work, patch worked fine for me.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insink71:
guide

+1 for awesomeness of guide :)

I'd be interested in doner = htc wildfire s

I still have trouble pulling the aaa key... shows up all zeros in qxdm. [ex. 0x00 for all values, all profiles]

It's not a LG; so that part I don't believe applies... I've heard cdma tool [this guide says cdma tool [[I have trialware on; also referred to as DFS]] but pictures cdma workshop [[I have purchased cdma workshop]]] allows you to pull them, but I need someone to take me by the hand like an elementary school kid and explain it to me sometime.

I think I got all the other necessary components, understand the process...

perhaps the aaa key is all zeros for wildfire s.. I just [highly] doubt it.

On the nv items which I couldn't find necessity of in the writing to Evo 4g section... I can pull and read 1194 but 1192 remarks access denied [for Wildfire S].

Hope that doesn't come across as a complaint, needy, or what-have-you. I'm happy with my lil crappy Wildfire S until I figure the aaa key thing out.

And again I say FANTASTIC guide.. best I've seen.

Rob
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Thanks for the kind words rob! I think if you read the wildfire in DFS it should display passwords under "data" in the password line, have you tried it?

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
I tried using the default messaging app. Is this what you used as well?

Also I did not change the mms gateway on the phone. Perhaps this is the problem? Did you?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Ahh forgot about that one. It's a bit newer.

Probably the easiest method now.

Let me know the ICS or CM7 roms you want, I can make a patch for them pretty quick. I have it partly scripted (batch file) at this point.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insink71:
Tried but no love

Under Programming -> Data in DFS:

No pwd's are shown

I get my MEID@mdata.vmobl.com for both HDR AN & HDR AN Long, but no pwd's.

Under Mobile IP [where I think it might show up]

still blank for all three profiles for both AAA Shared Secret & HA Shared Secret

thats with the DFS trialware.

Heard about an Any Cut method [with Intercept], but it said there were a lot of Data shortcut options, [Wildfire S has 3 and doesn't need the PC Studio 3 drivers].. perhaps I'll try all three of those and see if I get lucky with it popping up on an adb logcat, but I fear VM has locked this lil bugger down.

Another possible oddity.. on WFS MDN is my actual number... MIN is some other number.. but I can pull all that... everything but the AAA key, and I've heard.. but not 100% sure that the HA key is still vmug33k for WFS [though I've been unable to pull it either].

I do get a OTKSL everytime I send my SPC.. but I suppose that's just SOP ;)

Rob

EDIT: Wait a sec... on the Qpst/Qxdm I get ha and aaa spi's... are those my passwords perchance?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
Decks ICS is the best ICS rom for the evo by far and away, so it would be the prime candidate. UncivilSavage posted a patched version a few pages back but unfortunately it didn't work for me. The link to Deck's unpatched rom is here (the thread is here, ignore the outdated title). You wanna use the latest pb9 ota (ota includes gapps).

Also I myself tried to patch this same rom according to your instructions on page 30 but I must have screwed something up because after patching it I can't get it passed the android boot logo. It just sits there forever lol. I'll keep trying a bit. Also another thing I've found that may be of note is the virgin mobile mms patcher for the epic 4g here. I've looked at the .zip and it appears as though it is adding entries to some files rather than replacing them completely. Perhaps this can help us somehow?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
It's not what you are doing, I've noticed some Decks roms refuse to take the patch. Mazwoz roms as well.

Patch-wise, AOKP works about the most consistent of the ICS roms.

Unfortunately, I get random reboots and lockups not often, but occasionally.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Actually you're right, tried downloading and wouldn't do it.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
I think we should look into patching Sense Roms, I love sense UI but I use mms far too much to justify using it.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
What rom are you running currently?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
AOKP ICS, the only ics rom with working camcorder, panorama, and can with the fix.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highhacker:
I just want to comment on "scanning" for the id's . the Paid CDMA will "repair" it without all that headache. :) Just copy and paste and hit write..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
There's not really any need to scan anymore, efs allows you to change eco esns and meids, and every other phone can be done with qxdm

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
Do you mean DFS?

The apn settings like port and so fourth are in the mms.apk also I don't remember offhand where but I think in framework.jar there are some settings that need to be taken care of
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Excuse me I was in a hurry and my Evo decided to play iPhone. I meant qpst efs explorer allows you to zero out the and Evo meid and esn easy such as, 3d, Shift, 4g, and any others. As for mms the current patch requires you edit build.prop, framework.jar cdmaSMSdispatcher, and apn-config. (Thanks to Brooks for that info btw.)

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorlee:
not sure what the deal is here but i keep getting a corrupt file with winrar?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highhacker:
virgin mms patch

That would be nice . A bit off topic but i am working with Eris's using the information in this thread and thought i had everything working when i discovered mms don't work . tried the two line edit in build.prop and tried to copy apn from donor but no go . xtrsense501 and gbs on little eris is way better and faster than the clucky 2.2 on optimus and we get lots more options and program memory. Old brain here cannot relearn stuff i knew 25 years ago including assemblely language and recompiling;) Dont use it then i lose it,,If anyone comes up with a sure fire method to patch any rom i sure appreciate them mucho .
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highhacker:
Thats becuase it does not use OTA propramming like all the other carriers use . Simply put the information in the Virgin mobile phones are set at the factory and do not change from activation . There for no OTA programming occurs . They dont roam so no need for ota because they all use the same prl .. all they do is register your phone number with the meid at the center . anything else that may need changing would be the ota upgrade and i hear the 2.2.1 cannot ota this update . it has to be downloaded to a computer and flashed to the phone .
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
They have flash able zips for some cm9 and cm7 roms.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtowngs4g:
UR a genius Civil! That hooking up both phones was quicker and easy!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Thank you! Looking at my guide I forgot to include that.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astig_king24:
hello!!!

hi... pwde ba sa x8 yan..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Look further ahead and I posted a PDF for the guide if that's what you need, I'll check the DL once I get home.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexgrip:
So is there any advantage to being on virgin?

My evo was moved to Verizon last year because sprint kicked me off for excessive roaming (it was my fault they have ****ty coverage, apparently)

So i went through this whole qpst / dfs roller coaster and ended up with a fully functional straight talk phone.

The biggest hurdle was getting data working. But now I have all the data and mms and my bill is $35/mo unlimited everything (from the Xmas special). I'm sure there is a limit on the data but I generally stay under 2-2.5gb anyway.

Plus with Verizon I always have full coverage. Is virgin any good? I'm scared of the crappy sprint towers in my area.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weinerwad3000:
Well if you use less then 350 minutes a month then yes. It's only 25 bucks a month. They cap you after 2 gigs but like you said you don't use that much. What straight talk phone did you use to do this by chance?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
Any way we can get an MMS patch for MazWoz's latest ICS? I tried existing patches posted here as well as the epic 4g touch ones and neither work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncivilSavage:
Mazwozs, decks, everlov are a few ics apps that won't take the mms patch.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeslieAnn:
Patches and a rom

Flash these just like a rom (wipe Dalvik and cache at most).

AOKP 28 patch

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lta4anv80u4x25e

Dark/Light1 Patch

http://www.mediafire.com/?a7fvv544yl3wep3

This is based on AOKP but not identical. I have been having MMS issues (even with my OV), so I can't test it. It was a request, so here it is, it may or may not work.

CyanogenMod Official 7.2.0 RC1 patch

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?782frz7fup583xc

Harmonia 2.06 for Evo4g on Virgin Mobile Rom

This is based on the CM 7.2.0 RC1. and seems to run well.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bju33h260q1me71

MD5: 56dc97e01cf819db0d18362f02d188a0

If you know Harmonia, you know what to expect from it. This is really just a private build for me/us, since it's patched for Virgin's mms.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] constrictor25:
If you go in and take the rom apart yourself the patch works just fine. I'm currently enjoying MMS on that new MIUI rom w/ HWA that was built on top of decks rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjenkins09:
Thanks a bunch!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c6comp:
I haven't tried patching that particular rom but I attempted to patch Decks pb9 myself and all it did was get stuck in a bootloop. I tried the .smali posted on page 30 as well as the optimus v ics .smali from tdm's repo.

Mind posting a link to your patched framework.jar? Or better yet, the entire rom .zip you patched?