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[Epic 4G General] Thugzy Bunnie:
ok so ive been trying this tutorial for a week and followed every step. this is my 1st time trying to flash a phone and switch services from sprint to cricket but i have been learning a lot but i can not get this to work for the life of me. so here is my situation and what im working with. i have a cricket phone that has service and a phone number but the screen is broke so i cant see anything so i want to switch the cricket service to my sprint galaxy s2. now as far as i know i followed all the steps in the tutorial and tried a few different prls but everytime i try to call out it says "you are domestic roaming and charges may apply per plan press ok to place call" roaming and i get a message if i want to make a collect call press 1 to purchase a mobile card press 2 etc. now i dont know if there is something im missing or something i did wrong but it is not working. btw im also in the philadelphia area so if anyone knows the best prl for my area it would be greatly appreciated. PLEEEEASE HELP!
[Epic 4G General] jeffhutch.412:
after all the hair pulling, i checked wipe efs and repartition in odin and its all good again! up and running :highfive:
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
VICTORY!!!!!!!!!
[Epic 4G General] Jason03p:
I followed all the steps and even searched the thread. But my talk and text do not work but i have a 3g icon and y internet works when i try calling all those numbers it says stay on the line while we activate but then hangs up automatically and then i have a circle with a line through it instead og my 3g icon . I have a cricket number and account i tried to put that in instead of your10digitcricketnumber but still no luck please HELP.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Basic flashing worked perfectly, xD gotta get me set up now to move on to data thanks a bunch!!!

ALSO, can anyone direct me towards how I may remove the "hands free activation" that comes up every boot up, since I'm on cricket that doesn't work and it's just plain ol' annoying :)
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I've been trying to get MMS working with no luck. Not that I use it because most of my picture mails are sent via e-mail. Oh well.

We've also lost Visual Voicemail huh? I had to use:

which I found in another thread to notify me of voicemails so I could dial up the old style VM.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
I am unable to activate my phone with cricket, for some reasonactivation won't go through, the phone still says that it's connected to sprint when it's actually on cricket please help :D

EDIT: ok so I dialed ##000000# to edit number and msid to match but I still can't get the network to say cricket and texting doesn't work

I'm stumped, can you help me out please?? :)
[Epic 4G General] synnmox:
Not a problem...How far along are you? I take it you've already activated your cricket account, got your cricket prl uploaded to the phone and are now trying to use *228 to get it activated? Did you make sure that the PRL was written to the phone? And also verify the ESN number cricket has is correct. If it's not activating correctly try to dial *22804, not *228. and let me know if that works for you.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Ok so I still have to change the plan to the Android one since I first did the basic one to get an account setup. Now it is activatedand calls work fine and so do incoming texts but Idk about data just yet 'til I get the data plan. But activation did go through after I changed MSID. MMS are sent to mycricket online

edit:

and how can I remove Sprint's hands free activation it just won't stop trying, also, the network my phone sees is Sprint and not Cricket, can you shed any light on that?? Thanks Synnmox :)
[Epic 4G General] synnmox:
As far as the hands free activation goes...have you edited your data settings in qpst yet? The hands free activation usually goes away when the NAI username is entered in the phone. Let me know if you've already edited your data info and are still getting the "hands free activation" at startup. Also is your phone on the stock ROM or are you using a custom ROM?

Your phone still says you're on sprint? Do you mean when you dial *228? Or 611?
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Well, hands free activation is gone but my phone still displays that it's connected to Sprint under "about phone" and I'm on stock ROM with Di07 update but rooted
[Epic 4G General] makkonen:
You can change how it displays in QPST Service Programming. Under NAM Name, where it says SPCS, replace it with Cricket. Under display, where it says Sprint, replace it with Cricket.

There might be more to these settings that I'm not aware of, but that's what the guide I read said to do, and that's what I did.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
K great, got it all working now, Android plan and activation, just a quick question about mms and data i used the m.ip not the m.ipv6 will that block the service?

For some reason 3g won't show up, and mms not working oh dear. Is there any resolve on this?
[Epic 4G General] makkonen:
You'll definitely have to update your MMS server settings for MMS to work. I don't know what they need to be.

And you definitely DON'T need to worry about ipv6 -- no one else on earth seems to.

If 3G's not showing up, you're probably not authenticating correctly -- try rewriting all the data settings/passwords (m.ip, ppp an, and ppp um) in one go.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Ok everything is up and running perfectly, except mms and visual voicemail like stated by others here, has there been a breakthrough at least for mms, can anyone post any info on how to get mms working? Whenever I try to send or receive mms It doesn't down/upload
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I've tried a few different things in regards to the MMS. I've looked at what people have done for other devices and still no look. Gone back and forth between many things.

Updated to D18 and everything seems okay still (from D07).

I accidently turned on the 4g last night and it connected. I tried to do a Speed Test and it only uploaded haha.

I have loss my GPS from the network. I can only get my location from the hardware GPS. Has anyone checked that?
[Epic 4G General] BopChie:
if one was to start flashing custom roms would he need to do this each time?
[Epic 4G General] Leviuqse:
just helping here

the app that handles the "hands free activation" is called

System Updates 1.0.0 in titanium backup.

I have an epic flashed to metro..
[Epic 4G General] deathsled:
I was checking in here to see if you Epic 4G guys had any luck with MMS on Cricket, but it appears you have the same trouble that the EVO has when using an AOSP rom. All the HTC roms with Sense can do MMS, but something about the generic android MMS app is not jiving with Cricket.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Hey! Thanks for stopping by! I've tried just about everything attempted on other Android devices with no dice.

Yesterday I used your Jiminy rom for the Evo. It was my first time to flash an Evo or rom in general. I'm glad that I made it through the first one! Good work and thanks for the contribution you've made.
[Epic 4G General] Leviuqse:
mmhh..well the stock mms app in the moto droid worked fine with metro..

I think what is giving us problem is the apn settings..

i already tried backing up the apn settings from a flashed droid and restore them in the epic with no luck :(
[Epic 4G General] rlcsemperfi:
Hey guys...Please tell me this isn't true for the Epic 4G Galaxy S. 3 diff Cricket reps (probably in India) told me the Epic would work in Vegas so I bought the phone. Now I am hearing it will not work here. Bummed out to say the least. :(
[Epic 4G General] rlcsemperfi:
I'm bumping this thread in hopes to get a reply before I return this phone. PLEASE!! If there is anyway at all to get the Epic working in the Vegas Tri-Band AWS market PLEASE let me know.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
It looks like it won't work in most Las Vegas areas devil dog.

Check the Cricket coverage map at mycricket.com.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Deathsled, Would it be possibe to apply some of your work with other phones ROM's to this phone's to see what would work?
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Hey guys, I'm running into some trouble here. For a reason unknown to me my Epic on Cricket uploads faster than it downloads, where uploads reach 500kbps download only go as far as 400kbps tops, I'm in San Diego, CA. Anyone know anything I might have to do?, I followed all the steps in the guide.

Edit: never mind this post, it was because of where I was at at the moment, ;-)
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I'm trying to remotely flash a friend's Epic. Is there a reason why the port would show up on device manager, but when I try to add it to the QPST server that it can't see the phone?

Thanks
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
Need some help. I downloaded everything. I have my phone in "3g tethered mode". I then start up QPST and I don't see my phone on the active list. I have the red triangle poping up when I do the 3g tethered mode. Is that a problem? I can't seem to flasht the prl on to it. Any help?!:confused:
[Epic 4G General] kshah:
Disable degug on device.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Can someone d me a huge favor and post a working apn for the epic for use on cricket? I accidentally restored the wrong apn without saving the old one.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
No it's what's supposed to show up, now you have to find what com port your phone is on by right clicking my computer and clicking on manage then look under com ports. Once you know what com port it's on go to qpst configuration and add the com port(you might need to deselct show usb and....)
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
I figured out what it was... for some reason it had to be in com port 5. All other ports wouldn't work for me. Thanks you though!

I was also wondering if the ESN is still the numbers behind the battery or is it changed once this is done? And do I have to go into a store to start a new account? I thought you could just activate your phone online by calling in?
[Epic 4G General] drago009:
What abot Metro pcs?
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
So I got my phone up and running... 3g is just not working though. It shows "3g" is on but it won't connect to the internet at all. Always shows the internet going up but not down. Any ideas?
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
So I am guessing the store put me on the wrong plan. Thats why my internet isn't working. I will call customer service tomorrow and see if they can switch me.

Also after doing some searching I came up with this post from another forum about MMS for a Galaxy S Fascinate. (Not sure if I can post other forums on this one...) Can't imagine why our settings would be much different.

Err the APN doesn't even need to be botherd with to get Data working. It's only for MMS.

The settings I used were the same as the Droid1 to $55 plan topic

Name: Cricket

APN: internet

MMSC: hxxp://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms?X-Cricket-MDN=XXX_XXX_XXXX

(the XXX_XXX_XXXX = your phone number (MDN not MIN))

MMS port: 8080

MMC: 310

MNC: mine says 004

But I left the name to Verizon.

I used APN backup and restore from the market. First I backed up the current APN then made a copy, and edited it on my PC. Removed the unused things and changed the rest to cricket settings, then used APN backup restore, hit 'delete all apns'. then restore cricket APN.

Hope that helps some...I am going to try it once I fix my internet problems.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Let us know if it works please. I've tried a few different things for MMS with no luck.
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
Great they didn't want to add me to the Zio plan...sigh. Any ideas how to do it? They said go to a store in person.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
That's BS, but there is also a Smartphone plan that is specifically for customer provided equipment. It's pretty new, and that would work also.
[Epic 4G General] suzook:
I have the esn added to Verizon....I have talk working....could someone help me out getting data working? I can pull all my info off my fascinate....wondering if I'm missing anything?
[Epic 4G General] freakshow11582:
if u have problems getting web to work

here try this it worked for me on my epic

i took it from droid eris flashing guide to cricket

i dont take any credit for this it all goes to the person that wrote the guide (bigslanki) its the second part of the guide hehe lol

1. Connect Phone Via QPST and open Service Programming. (See steps 1-3, 10 above)

2. Once you have begun Programming, click "Read From Phone". It will ask you for an SPC/MSL code. That code should now be six zeros (000000)

3. Click M.IP (may be M.IPv6 and set Mobile IP Behavior as MOB + Simp...

4. Select any profiles (there should be 1 or 2) listed under User Profiles, and click edit. Do the following for all profiles.

5. Make sure that "Profile enabled" is checked and enter in the following:

NAI: your10digitcricketnumber@mycricket.com

Tethered NAI: your10digitcricketnumber@mycricket.com

6. Change home address, primary ha, and secondary HA to all zeros.

7. On both HA Shared and AAA Shared Secret, click enter text string and type in the following password (all lower case): cricket

8. click ok

9. Set active user as 0.

10. Click PPP Config

11. The "Um" Button

12. Under user ID enter your10digitcricketnumber@mycricket.com as well as for tethered NAI. If a text box is black with red lines in it, click it and press ctrl D. Enter cricket in the password box.

13.Click "AN" Button and repeat step 12.

14. Click "write to phone". Ignore any errors that occur.

hope that helps :D
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
I believe they just put me on the wrong iemi. I got switched to the zio by a store in person. Had to be a cricket store though...

Now its time to see how to fix mms!!
[Epic 4G General] synnmox:
I found it easier to speak with the "Smartphone department". When the customer service agent answers, ask em to speak with the "smartphone department". I've had luck by telling the smartphone department the exact situation...That I have a flashed android phone and want to be put on the "Zio android" plan. I also told them that I understand they don't guarantee anything with flashed phones, but I wished to be put on the plan anyway. They also have to change your equipment to the Kyocera M6000 (ZIO) in order for them to be able to get you on the ZIO Android plan.

What is the exact contents of the APN file you're trying to import?
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
I needed the Internet APN beacuse it messed up my internet access but I just reset the ROM and it worked again....what's the reasoning on that?
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
I just copied what someone posted on an other site concerning how he got mms to work on his Verizon Fascinate on cricket. I was hoping someone more experienced would have a better clue on how to make it work.
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
Any luck anyone?
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Still hoping our savvy and knowledgeable superiors or contributing members might find new info to help us out :]
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Is this perchance in the wrong section? Should it be moved to general? Maybe someone there can help us better?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Someone posted on Craigslist that they have a fully working Epic including MMS... Hmmmm..
[Epic 4G General] suzook:
Do you guys running the epic on epic have the roaming indicator? I have my epic on verizon, with the latest prl.....I'm curious if there is something I can edit to not have the roaming triangle...not a biggie, but was just wondering...thanks
[Epic 4G General] Leviuqse:
hey, i moved to boostmobile i now have everything working

thanks to chimstar in the mo-fi forum, dial ##3282# go to edit mmsc url, type your msl, and edit the mms server to the metro or cricket one

hope it helps..after i change it to the boostmobile mmsc server it worked. no further changes needed, can someone test that in metro or cricket since im with boost mobile now
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
No luck here on Cricket...
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I'm glad to say I now have MMS on my Epic which is on Cricket.

It is also because I used DroidFlash to fix that one last thing, so I can't really share that with the rest of you.
[Epic 4G General] suzook:
nevermind.....
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
It's still a development. Not everyone knows about DroidFlash. I didn't for the longest, and then after that I didn't want to pay for it. However, I've flashed a few phones so in the long run I guess it'll come in handy.
[Epic 4G General] drago009:
How can I get the Msl? Can you post the guide of what to do to use it in boost mobile? Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
It's probably just about the same thing but you have to use a Boost PRL. Obviously you won't have any @mycricket.com. You'll replace that with the appropriate one.

You can get connect bot from the market, sign on to LOCAL, using whatever username (doesn't matter)..... Then type getprop. Enter and look for ril.msl or something. It's a 6 digit number...
[Epic 4G General] drago009:
I got the number now how can I get the boost prl. Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
[Epic 4G General] Leviuqse:
Boost mobile uses Sprint's prl

no need to change the prl.

To everybody, I been working in a guide to have it working with boost mobile, but I might not publish it, at least not in this forum.
[Epic 4G General] drago009:
So where can we see your guide?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
If anyone really needs MMS, I can do a mail in phone service. Just please donate a little more than it costs to send the thing back to you haha.... I'll stay up all night if I have to.

Oh this requires changing over to the Epic Experience rom also. I'd have to wipe and will probably use the Phoenix kernel.
[Epic 4G General] suzook:
Why not just help people out and post how to do it?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Oh okay. Yes... Go buy DroidFlash for 100 dollars if you want it for one phone and 500 if you want to do all phones.

It's at autostart.sh.

This is why I was offering to do it for some. Anyways it's pretty much a PITA because I don't have access to Cricket's systems. Dealing with them has been the biggest problem. I can never tell if it's me or them that isn't doing things right.
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
So I got a great deal on a phone plan on Sprint. How do I switch everything back so that it will all work on sprint again?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Killer... You live in Austin right?

I'd flash the di18 or whatever the last update was... Then find a Sprint PRL. I think I saved my settings on my Epic before it was flashed over (QPST).
[Epic 4G General] Vadimd:
Ok so I've been trying to get my phone flashed to enable the internet and I can't seem to get it working.

3G icon is up but I'm having the same issue someone else was having, its only uploading not downloading.

Called cricket to make sure im on the Zio 55 dollar plan and everything checks out.

And for some reason now my phone/text stopped working as well.

Any soloutions or things I should try out? I've followed the steps listed(multiple times) and went through all the posts in this thread with no success
[Epic 4G General] suzook:
try sending an mms message and see if it makes web work. I have to do this on my epic on vzw. I need to do this after every reboot. The message wont go through, but web magicly works!
[Epic 4G General] KillerFu:
Yeah... mind helping me out? PM me.
[Epic 4G General] drago009:
can you do the same for metro pcs?
[Epic 4G General] lilladyo2cute:
anybody find anything new with getting mms to work?
[Epic 4G General] gijoey1980:
Working on it, editing mms.apk and some other files, got epic recieving but not sending yet. Will post when 100%
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
You are great! Will do-nate!
[Epic 4G General] johnnyboy14981:
Is there any update. I have edited the telephony.db file. different mms.apk, different settings everything I could think of and nothing. Hope someone got it figured out without having to use the droid flasher...
[Epic 4G General] eLLizD:
I've got a sort of strange question for you guys though, So, I'm using this ROM on Crickets network with no problem other than one. Every time I go to boot it up I keep getting a network error. The funny thing is after I get the error I can get on Crickets 3G network just fine so obviously the error is coming from some sprint apk in the phone that keeps trying to connect to their network for verification. Any clue as to which apk this might be? I've already removed the browser (since I use dolphin anyway) as well as the cm-android.apk because I was getting a nag from that as well dealing with setting up my visual voicemail (which obviously I cant being on Cricket) Any advice or pointers on which apk to look for to remove this annoying network error nag would be greatly appreciated.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Same Here ^

I am experiencing the exact same issues as eLLizD, but I don't have mms working at all, still hoping that someone will crack that biotch.
[Epic 4G General] Dpryvd:
Has anyone got the mms to work on the sprint epic? If so, can someone post a copy of their apn backup file? I somehow screwed mine up and now it won't restore. For security, replace your number with 0's ... Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] johnnyboy14981:
it's the visual voicemail

If you uninstall the visual voicemail that will take care of that error message then if you download voicemail notifier from the marketplace that should str8ten out your voicemail issue. It worked for me.
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
For returning to a functional apn just reflash your ROM tht fixed mine when I screwed with it and as to the mms still hoping for that knight in shining chrome to save us....lol
[Epic 4G General] dcorn619:
Has anyone else been having problems with you tube and not loading videos, my phone displays video cannot be played can anybody else confirme this or is it only my phone doing this error

Sent from my awesomely-3P!K buddie d;^]
[Epic 4G General] cftrap:
another question

Would this be possible to do on US Cellular since they are also CDMA?
[Epic 4G General] Leviuqse:
yes but its kinda "difficult"

I have seen epics in verizon too..
[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
Quick question:

I know how to flash roms but on my nexus one only, very easy, I'm looking to buy an Epic and try to flash it to Cricket, should I install a rom first or flash it?

or let the cricket guys do it for me? I'm not 100% sure but my guess is that when I delete data on the phone the carrier settings are not deleted, right?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
Getting talk, text, and web to work is easy. You should be able to get that done on the stock rom.

It's MMS that you probably won't be able to get full functional. I've fully flashed a few Epics. The program I used fixed that MMS portion, and it did require a different ROM. Just the ROM won't get you MMS though so I can't just give out the solution.

When you delete/wipe the data from the phone, the carrier settings remain.
[Epic 4G General] eLLizD:
Wow, thanks so much for the help on that one..lol, whats the point of posts like this? I mean really. :confused:
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
"I know how to flash roms but on my nexus one only, very easy, I'm looking to buy an Epic and try to flash it to Cricket, should I install a rom first or flash it?

or let the cricket guys do it for me? I'm not 100% sure but my guess is that when I delete data on the phone the carrier settings are not deleted, right?"

The point is now he knows DroidFlash is the only mms solution. What is the point of your post? I answered his question. Not some question you made up in your mind that you thought should be answered.

No, I didn't make DroidFlash, but I purchased it from someone I don't know. So I'm just stating a fact. DroidFlash 2 for a large number of phones costs 500. For a single phone it costs 100.

OR you can have someone that already has it, do the whole thing.
[Epic 4G General] giodelgado:
thanks for the replies!

and how about buying a used EPIC with a bad ESN? do I have to change the ESN so I can use it with cricket or they just don't care?
[Epic 4G General] chrisngrod:
I am 99.9% certain the ONLY thing they care about is that it IS NOT already assigned to a CRICKET account.

As long as no one has that Epic on their Cricket account you should be good to go.