[Droid Eris General] birdisthewordfella:
fascinate?!

so I was reading this and I saw someone post about a fascinate. I have some experience to share. I started flashing a friends phone and I was boasting about how easy it was. Since I have done a lot of phones, and I mean a lot, i thought no problem. I have never messed with a samsung before. I've done HTC Motorola some other ones but never a samsung. This thing was hell on earth.

Let me start by saying first off, to flash it, there are several guides and recoveries that are just incorrect. They kinda work but its just hell when you get it going. The recovery wouldn't flash backups that I just made, which I never saw before. It took me 3 whole days to actually get it onto cricket from scratch. When I did, it was on the $45 plan, and it worked for a whole day. Nothing was done, it just stopped. Now, we've been going back and forth and it just won't get on no matter what. I've tried stock (which worked before) I've tried cm7, miui, all that nonsense and nothing works. So now we are trying to tell them its a zio and get it on the 55 plan. Or else they want 60 for custom phones. He was saying it used to be 65. I feel kinda ****ty cause i told him it would be so easy to go. I've done it to the evo, eris, moto droids, htc phones, and some more but this is nothing like I've experienced... its cool but at the same time its hard to follow guides that dont work. Now I KNOW this one works because i got it going.

I'm thinking cricket is simply killing off those connections because it connects fine, settings are right via pst, and I know this for a fact because the easiest way to tell is if the 3G icon is on. If you have verizon settings for the phone, it will try to connect, flash send for a while, then disappear. then you will see it trying all modes even 1x, with the same stuff. If you have correct settings it should keep constant 3g icon. When your phone is all aligned you should see the sending and receiving flashing if you cant connect at this point, its usually a u2nl or apn problem depending on the plan.

So with all that being said, I think they are d/c us.. I've verified the settings are right and thats all that it needs it just wont go. so we are going to do 55 plan and apn edit this. Hopefully i don't need to fool with u2nl with the 55 plan. But I'll find out soon enough. I've had this happen before but a reflash seems to do it. Its like the phone does a OTA service programming and resets. I've even burned in the settings with CDMA WS 2.7 using whiterabbit's NV file with the telephone number. That sucker stays in there no matter what now.

I've done so many re-init's with ODIN, a program used to flash .tar files on the fascinate, its like recovery and a factory reset and every time it's kept the cricket prl and settings. Only a *228 resets this. So I told him not to do that. and we know not to do that. Its messed up man, cricket had a problem with me too. I've had a problem with ALL of the carriers. Every last one except virgin mobile has given me a problem. Right now, GSM on simple mobile, and they are limiting my service from full 3g to some 1x type 'stuff'. So as far as that goes, either just get something else and if you want a refund pay by credit card or debit card so you can dispute the charge if needed. They dont give refunds or credits. they are cold blooded bro!

But really, they want 60 bucks for your user devices so if you are on this plan, they might not cut you off at the system. But good luck finding someone to talk to about this. they hide out like cowards in the network closet cutting folks off.