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[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
this phone is bought used by everyone so most of the time the ESN will be bad for Sprint but what about checking everything works on the phone when buying of from Craigslist or eBay, I've seen users using anycut and browsing to a shortcut called factory test and it will prompt for touchscreen tests, buttons, gps, radio, compass wtc

any suggestions on what to look out for when buying these phones either flashed for cricket or non flashed? apart from MMS not working sometimes
[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
ok just went to see a flashed Epic to cricket and he had service on it but when only using the 3G internet it sometimes dropped the signal to none, is this normal on your Epic's? it had Five Bars and it dropped; I just didn't buy it, I don't think it's normal.
[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
ok got a phone, these are my issues:

Can't get data working, after the reboot I get 3G icon but it looks like it uploads but I never see the download icon activity with arrow down blinking

QPST didn't ask me for a SPC before editing

On the MIP tab I edited the 2 profiles that sprint had to the settings on first post, after checking if the settings were right I noticed that "HA shared secret" and "AAA Shared secret" had Retain last value instead of enter text string, it didnt keep the text string on both profiles.

On the MIP tab also the Active User kept "1" instead of "0" like the first post says.

I have tried changing the "Mobile IP Behaviour" to the three available and still nothing.

When dialing *228 it says to stay on the line after I receive confirmation but the call hangs up before I receive one and the signal gets disabled until I reboot the phone.

DO I need to download the latest QPST? or do I need to download another cricket PRL file?
[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
Everything is working now! (not MMS)

I had the All in 55 but needed the Android plan, chrisngrod helped me out, if you get stuck don't hesitate to contact him and buy him a beer!!! in addition to use the Thanks button.
[Epic 4G General] yungdizz:
Is there a prl for nj? Cause rumor has it that's its illegal in nj and pa I wanna go to cricket but I wanna make sure this works in south jersey.
[Epic 4G General] johnnyboy14981:
MMS

He seemed to have abandoned us...lol
[Epic 4G General] johnnyboy14981:
MMS working

http://www.mobile-files.us/showthread.php?2942-Flash-To-Cricket-Samsung-Epic-Fascinate-NO-MMS/page2 check out post #12 won't get to try it for a day or two but figured someone else might give it a shot and see if it works. Just found it
[Epic 4G General] youngstix:
I had my epic flashed this week. I was wondering if I could flash a custom rom or would it wipe out everything they did to flash it. I had custom roms on my vibrant and going back to stock 2.1 is killing me.
[Epic 4G General] johnnyboy14981:
He seems to be the ONLY one that that worked for it has not been duplicated to my knowledge. But thanks for the link. WHAT ROM ARE YOU USING PLEASE SHARE
[Epic 4G General] scottyd035ntknow:
Dude if you are in NJ just flash to Boost. Not sure why anyone would want to flash to Cricket unless there is no Sprint (Boost) service around. Sprint has great service in NJ. I live in Ocean County and my Boost Epic flies. Not to mention the Boost $50 plan is cheaper than the Cricket $55 and the Boost plan drops in price by $5 every 6 months (as low as $35/mo) as long as you keep paying on time.
[Epic 4G General] youngstix:
Can you flash to Boost if it has a bad esn?
[Epic 4G General] terinfire:
Yep, had the same issue (for some reason, only with DK28). The solution is relatively simple. You need to find the MSL number and program your phone. MSL can be found by getprop ril.MSL or something like that from ConnectBot or some other similar application.

Once you have that, type ##3282# into the phone (##DATA#) and click edit. Type in your MSL. Go to Others. Go to Multimedia. You'll probably see a Sprint address in there -- clear it out. Clear them all out under Multimedia so that the value shows <not set>.

Should work after that!
[Epic 4G General] scottyd035ntknow:
That is one of the benefits of flashing to Boost, you can buy a display model or a "like new" phone with a bad ESN for half of what you'd pay for a new one with a good ESN.

I got mine on ebay for well under $300 (you used to be able to get a bad ESN Epic for closer to $200). Flashed it to my already active Boost service the day it came in and everything works except voicemail notifications (can't use Google Voice either) but you just take the 5 seconds to check it when you see the missed call icon so it really doesn't matter. Speedtest is showing data speeds on par with what my DX is showing on Verizon (since Boost IS Sprint) and apparently you can get it to connect to Sprint's 4G network if you are in an area with coverage but I have yet to put that to the test for myself.
[Epic 4G General] epofhouston:
I need some help, please. So I have a 55 android plan because I bought a zio. I flashed an epic to cricket using the tutorial. Now I tried to *228 to update the phone. The announcement told me that it is cricket and it would activate my phone but after 3 seconds it would say that it can't activate the phone and I needed to call customer service. I called them and they told me because it is a flash phone and I need to bring it in the store to get it "re-programmed".

I went to a reseller and they told me to go the corporate store. Well they close early so now I'm stuck till tomorrow. I am not so sure they can do it for me at the corporate store. Any suggestion? I tried to *22804 but it is something else. I wrote the prl down couple of times using QPST 2.7 build 355 and it looks like it makes it to the phone.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I never use *228 ever. In my experience it usually wipes some programing and only if I'm lucky does it give me the latest prl. You haven't changed the esn on your account to this phone yet?

-Sent from my DroidX flashed to Cricket.
[Epic 4G General] terinfire:
I manually update all of the stuff in QPST, myself. It's kind of amusing, because I feel like I really don't know all of the settings/parts of the phone, but I was able to take note and figure out where the MDN and MIN numbers were and adjust them. Worked like a charm. I saved the config from QPST then, so now when and if I need to flash, I can always go back to those settings.
[Epic 4G General] epofhouston:
I ended up doing that. I used QPST to pull off the settings and the prl from my zio and manually updated to the epic. It worked fine, well all except for MMS but to be honest, I don't think MMS was working in the zio. I just rooted and now I'm trying to put clockwork mod on it. One step at the time. Thanks for your input
[Epic 4G General] scottyd035ntknow:
Never try to activate a flashed Epic on the new service it is on. You activate the old phone first and then pull all the settings from it. If you do everything right you will see the 3g arrows dancing upon restart.
[Epic 4G General] medarj:
Internet and Apps are not working

Hi,

I have followed all the steps mentioned in the tutorial.

Talk & Text works fine. 3G icon is also present, but it doesnt connect to Internet.

Please help.
[Epic 4G General] medarj:
Internet and Apps are not working

Internet doesnt work if though 3g icon shows up. Could you please help?
[Epic 4G General] dannyxda:
i'm in the dc area, my epic is working on cricket
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I don't know how you're working in a tri band area but good for you.
[Epic 4G General] spykedvodka:
What are the settings for M.IPv6? Are they the same as M.IP? Because I see both settings....

Also, I have the 3G logo on my phone and the up & down arrows are lit up. It just can't bring up any websites... Does that mean its configured properly it just needs to be on the Android Plan? Or could something else be wrong?

Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] spykedvodka:
Yup mine is running perfect and fine now... It actually is better since I did this flash then the person who originally flashed it for me. the internet is quicker and i get service in a lot more places.
[Epic 4G General] chouston33:
Wow this was a great tutorial. I just have one problem. When I get a voicemail I don't get a notification or an alert or anything. I just randomly decided to check my voicemail and I had like 5 really important ones. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Search for "Voicemail Notifier" in the Android Market. This should notify you. Alternative is to forward your voicemails to Google Voice. Then you will have Visual Voicemail. This will require a data connection to check, however you can dial your number and check it over the phone also.
[Epic 4G General] youngstix:
What kind of download and upload speeds are you guys getting. When I run speed test on my phone my download spurred is only 69kbps and my upload is 462kbps I'm wondering if my settings are wrong
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Granted I don't have an Epic in my hands right now, and I broke mine a while back BUT download speeds aren't close to what they use to be.

I just tried my roommate's EVO I flashed and the Speedtest results are like yours. My Droid X never did well. My current Droid 2 doesn't either...
[Epic 4G General] terinfire:
Has anyone tried doing a flash to EB13 yet? I was considering jumping up to an EB13 ROM, but I didn't know if I'd be able to flash and detect phone with QPST. I noticed that when I was on DK28, I couldn't put the phone as a tethered modem... I'm assuming future versions of Android won't have this, including EB13?

Does anyone have any ideas? Or is there another way to get the phone into programming mode via QPST that I'm not aware of? Would be particularly useful if I ever got to CM7, etc...
[Epic 4G General] JetKobayashiZala:
I wouldn't mind knowing as well. I have my epic on Cricket and recently upgraded it to 2.2 EB13. I then attempted to follow the instructions as my data connection has always seemed crappy and I could not get MMS and was hoping it fix them, but alas, no. My talk/text still seem okay, but I'm getting no data at all. I get the 3G icon, but it's grayed out for me. Any help would be or updated info would be much appreciated!

EDIT: I managed to get move working about a week ago. Took a few reverts with Odin and upgrades, but it finally took. I had to do the flashing mentioned on the first post before the upgrade and then it'd work for me. Mms still doesn't work (no surprise) and data seems slow, at least to me fort 3G.
[Epic 4G General] spykedvodka:
Ok, so I did everything perfectly and it was working fine... but I installed 2.2 EB13 and the internet won't work anymore. It was originally working fine and then the internet shut off.

I tried to rewrite it using QPST Service Programming to no avail. I also did a hard reset and it worked for like a second then shut off.

Anybody else having this problem or know how to fix it?
[Epic 4G General] dannyxda:
I flashed 2.2 what a big mistake. WHen i did that, it seems like tehy changed something so it woudln't be recognized as an android device, and i coudln't run

ADB.

I had to pull the battery, keep it out, plug in the usb and boot hodling the 1

button down, to put it in downlaod mode. Then I used ODIN to go back to

eclair.. then rerooted with joeyrkims one click root. Then I did a nand restore

and all was well again. well for the most part.. I'm still at 1x speeds

with teh 3g icon so i'm trying to figure it out.
[Epic 4G General] spykedvodka:
Ok, for anybody having problems with EB13 like I did with the data not connecting to cricket... This is exactly what I did and internet has been running for a day strong now....

1. go into that vol down + cam + power button thing mode and clear cache/wipe data thing a few times.

2. Go back to Android 2.1 using ODIN.

3. Clear cache/wipe data a few more times again.

4. I did the Upgrade.Zip file to EB13 and fully installed.

5. Did the clear cache/wipe data thing a few more times.

Left android load up, open QPST Service Programming and configured as this tutural says and then even tried sending a MMS to help jump the service and it's been running strong since.

Hope this helps you guys!!!
[Epic 4G General] Triketra:
I can confirm that EB13 is safe, I flashed my epic to cricket before updating to EB13. I used the odin method for updating to true EB13 and have everything working although I had to redo my internet with qpst.

If anyone is having problems with this contact me in private messaging and I will try and help.

if more people are having trouble with EB13 I am willing to make a step by step guide if more people post on here having trouble or enough people PM me.

good luck guys and if you need help I'll be here
[Epic 4G General] Sigkill-9:
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for your post! You ROCK! :)

I bought a Samsung Epic 4g with the intent to flash it to Cricket. A local cell phone flashing business had my phone for a week and all they could do was give me a "basic" flash (talk/text), claiming that they ran into too many problems giving it a full flash... I was very disappointed.

Thats when I started to research cricket flashing, and ran across your post. After an hour total (downloading & installing apps and programs + doing the steps in this guide) I had the phone working with talk, text, and 3G internet :)

It was very painless and quite easy to do.

The only issue I ran into was getting the 3G icon to show up. On the first "write to phone" the 3G icon didnt show up. I wrote to phone again, and viola! 3G happiness :)

My only issue now is getting the wi-fi tethering to work (the main reason I bought this phone). I hoped to use it to get my MacBook Pro / iPad online no matter where I was.

Any suggestions on how to get wifi-tethering to work with Cricket?

FYI: I installed the official Froyo 2.2.1 direct from Samsung, my phone is not rooted, and i'm not running custom ROMs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Epic 4G General] X-Kenshin-X:
is there a good rom for cricket, or a rom specifically designed for cricket out yet??
[Epic 4G General] Triketra:
fist guy: root your phone with z4root or the one click method, and don't worry this isn't gonna screw up your cricket flash, then rom over to the midNIGHT ROM v4.1 Byor Edition. I'm using this rom and everything i mean everything is faster, great battery life and your wifi tether will work on it, although you need to download the upgrade to standard pack as well or you won't have market place or any other apps other than the core android. also you can find the wifi-tether apps at http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

second guy: I don't know of any cricket roms but ALL epic roms will work with cricket service, and just as I told the first guy midnight is probably IMHO the best one out with everything working, although it takes a bit of work to get it up and running, which isn't hard.

if none of those work work for the wifi use this one that's included, (see attachment

also will include z4root, this rooted my epic with no issues and you should be fine as well

if this helped either of you please hit the thanks button
[Epic 4G General] epicalex:
cricket syndicate frozen

Was wondering if anyone has used syndicate frozen with cricket and how they like it. also I was wondering if anyone was willing to list a rundown of the process of re-moving fixing rom manager. It keeps giving me an error when trying to downgrade it to the flash of clockworkmod that is running on my phone.

thanks

Great thread right now I have xtreme kernel and data seems to be spotty, kinda want to start from scratch but haven't been able to find a clear rundown of that process that includes kernel Rom and clockworkmod. still pretty green though.

Thanks again
[Epic 4G General] Sigkill-9:
Thanks Triketra for the info. :)

I'd like to try this. I searched for this rom, but couldnt find any download links, just forum posts about it... Could you please post a link to it and to the upgrade to standard pack as well?

Thanks!

***EDIT:

I'm having an issue with z4root. I downloaded and installed it, but when I run either a permanent or temporary root I get the same result:

"Running exploit....." "Aquiring root shell..." then one buzz, 10 seconds pass, then 3 consecutive buzzes, then it exits to the applications screen where I started it.

I pulled the battery, rebooted the phone, and ran it 3 more times with the same affect.

Any ideas? I'm running the official OTA Samsung release of Android 2.2 (Froyo) if that helps.

FYI, yes I do have USB debugging enabled.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
You can always find the latest release of Wifi Tether here:

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

WiFi Tether for Root Users 3.0-pre11 is the current latest release. I like 3.0 because it has added a one click widget to start and stop.

Note for z4root and this seems to be for all phones I've used it on. If it takes a long time (3-4 minutes) and says the same thing on the bottom when you try to root, reboot the device and run it again. Seems to run better after a fresh reboot.
[Epic 4G General] dannyxda:
I flashed stock eb13 lost root big mistake.. went through 24 hour of trouble, anyway

in the end, I'm using bansai 's eb13 rom and like it a lot.

I need to get MMS working though. guess i'm going to use apn backupand restore
[Epic 4G General] epofhouston:
:o

I never gotten my MMS to work on mine. Do you mind posting a guide on how to get it working? TIA
[Epic 4G General] JetKobayashiZala:
I admit I've not used z4root, though if you're trying the midNIGHT ROM that Triketra suggested, I recommend the one-click root link with CW3 that is mentioned in the install for midNIGHT ROM (I think midNIGHT 4.2 BYOR is the latest version out).

Both can be found here:

[ROM] midNIGHT ROM v4.2 (BYOR Edition)/ (FULL Standard Edition) 3/13/2011 and

[MOD][One Click Root] Clockwork Mod version 3.0.0.5/6 - UPDATED FOR EB13!

I tried it out the other night and it worked nicely for me. My base was 2.1, so I had to update to EB13 then apply them, but they worked fine for me. I did have to try twice if I recall. I chalked it up to my inexperience with flashing ROM's, though. I also tested ViperROM and am currently trying Syndicate ROM - Frozen now to see which I like best. Hopefully, those will work for you, though.

On that note, the Syndicate ROM does seem to validate my suspicion that I'm getting slow data; it shows I'm on 1x. Anyone have a clue what I might need to do or what information I can provide (my settings or what-have-you) to enable actual 3G? I've double-checked my coverage area to ensure we have 3G coverage (I'm in El Paso, TX, so we're pretty low on the coverage upgrade priority list). As far as settings, they match the ones provided in this thread (PRL and all).

I'm also working on MMS as well. I grabbed an app called APN Manager from the Market and tried to copy the same info that my brother's Huawei Ascend had, but it still wouldn't work. I'm sure this method was tried by others, but I thought I'd add that in there in case to help out the research on that topic.
[Epic 4G General] autoprime:
just got my epic working on cricket. im a sprint user but got a cricket account yesterday to play with.

you can always check the status of 1x/evdo in the ##DEBUG#

after programming profile 0 in the qpst mip tab..

then i programmed profile 1 using derp@sprintpcs.com and derp@modem.sprintpcs.com for modem nai. hit write... phone reboots and then comes online.. at least for me. im using nationwide evdo prl i believe.. 47700.

im in aws market with $55 android plan.

dont have mms working.. have tried to fix. not sure a free method is out there?
[Epic 4G General] JetKobayashiZala:
Wow, I think you may have solved for me. I went into the ##DEBUG# and changed Others -> HDR/1x Selection from Hybrid Mode to EVDO Mode Only and it's finally giving me speed. I don't know if there are and side repurcusions, but I'm testing it now. Thanks for the help!
[Epic 4G General] autoprime:
interesting... well setting to evdo only mode means you'll probably have some issues with calls/text.. mostly incoming. u also wont have 1x.. itll just always stay in evdo mode. has some pluses and minuses depending on what youre doing with your phone.

im unable to get internet working at all if i set my phone to evdo only.. tho im in an AWS area so i think all the rules are different here.

anyone have mms working? its really bugging me that i can receive them but not open the picture.. i dont know if its a aws network thing.. or a settings thing.. ugh :/
[Epic 4G General] JetKobayashiZala:
Indeed, setting it to EVDO Only does seem to disable incoming calls and texts though data speeds increase by a lot. I was able to get speeds of 50k - 80k vs the 5k - 12k I usually get. But no calls and no texts makes me a sad boy.

As for MMS, I think that's the experience most seem to have. I can receive them, but not send or download them.
[Epic 4G General] autoprime:
if you switch back to hybrid mode.. then go to ##DEBUG# > Data status.. does it show an evdo or a 1x ip? maybe you can trick your phone into staying on evdo.. while having 1x working? or maybe you need to try a different prl.. def weird that youd have to force evdo.
[Epic 4G General] JetKobayashiZala:
Yeah, maybe I should try a different prl. It shows that it's in 1x whenever I switch to hybrid and check Data Status. Very weird indeed.
[Epic 4G General] autoprime:
so mine got weird the other day and started doing the 1x only thing.. even when i set it to evdo only(which now works on my phone)... makes no sense. i think data gets corrupted easliy on the epic.. at least in my experience.. and all this flashing/apn editing/messing with settings etc causes issues at times.

my current "fix" was to flash a sprint prl... it works and im always on 3g again. but who knows if im roaming.. lol. ah well.
[Epic 4G General] t_rell08:
I have done all the above steps but when i press *611 from my phone it still says sprint can someone help me out
[Epic 4G General] t_rell08:
OK I got it figured out I had not changed my MSID so I just called cricket and got the MSID and it works great....
[Epic 4G General] t_rell08:
What was the fix for this problem because my Epic is doing the samething
[Epic 4G General] t_rell08:
Did you change the MSID?
[Epic 4G General] demon5399:
Ive been working on this phone for a couple days followed synnmox solution but i cant get 3G icon to show up any help would be appreciated
[Epic 4G General] atinder:
I did something which shows me that I have mms, but wont let me download. Please let me know how far ru?
[Epic 4G General] atinder:
I want to buy droid flash, where can i buy it
[Epic 4G General] carlitos287:
YES YOU CAN! YES YOU CAN! flash in AWS market and use EVERYHTING

This is true up to a point. The exception is that you wont get EV-DO data, i think only 1xRTT.

Please see the videos bellow

DATA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkMHLbT4ZwQ

OLDER VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98MvyhEBsA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak14Idyf8F0
[Epic 4G General] spykedvodka:
Ok... So I have the EC05 rom or whatever its called and I'm having a problem...

My 3G icon shows up on my phone, but it won't connect to the internet... The only way it connects is if I "jump start" the connection by sending a MMS (which obviously fails) but that gets the internet rolling again...

Anyway for me to fix this problem? I did multiple things and I just cant figure this out... its driving me nuts. Thank you.
[Epic 4G General] terinfire:
I have the same issue. Cricket is a little funny where the data will die every now and then.

The solution I've found is to either flip on airplane mode or turn it off. If that still doesn't work, try a reboot. I'm hoping that as Cricket becomes a more widely accepted service that they'll become a little stronger than they are currently. Would be really nice to have Google Voice mail.
[Epic 4G General] neonline69:
Everything works in the AWS?

What rom, PRL and/ or settings did you use to get the phone working in the AWS market place?
[Epic 4G General] MichelHodges:
i am having trouble loading the prl file and gettin the talk and text on my phone i have the internet but some how the service hasnt switched over help?