So a friend of mine bought a CDMA hero off craigslist and when he called to have it activated they told him they cannot because the previous owner has not paid his bill and had his account suspended. They told him that there is nothing they can do until he pays his bill. I told him ill look into ways to get it to work since the guy wont allow a return.
Is there anyway that I can manual program the phone to work?
Um. I think hes out of luck....the only thing i see you going to be able to do is a ESN change, Which is ILLEGAL and not one one person on XDA-developers forum is going to tell you how, and if you do find out how, your on you own...
He could olso flash the phone to cricket wireless and use it on their network, but thats if you have cricket service local to you,
*cough*cdma*cough*toolbox*cough*
... sorry... had something tickling my throat.
I stand corrected..
Here's the solution I'm working on for those who may run into a simular problem.
Sucessfully, i used QPST and QXDM in ways i cannot discuss on these forums and was able to get calls and texts working..
Currently im focusing on getting the Data plan to work correctly.
Any feedback in setting up data in ##3282# would be appreciated.
thanks.
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I recently bought an imported unlocked Diamond2. I have AT&T as phone provider. The first day I setup my data plan, it worked, since it stopped. When I call them they say that I can't have data plan with this phone since it's not an AT&T phone and that was the reason why I couldn't access internet.
My concern is: At the beginning, I worked!!! It's just a day after the activation of the data plan that it stops working; I have a feeling that they may have blocked my phone after detecting that it wasn't an at&t phone.
Also when I go do "Data Connection Setup", I can clearly select "United States" and "AT&T"...
Has anyone encounter this issue? Has anyone got a data plan with AT&T and got it to work with the Diamond2?
They killed mine too. I switched over to pay as you go for now until i can get another plan. I will not stay with a company that shafts you at every turn.
OK so it's not just an impression, they really did block the phone... Is this legal???
In any case, I'm going to call T-Mobile to know if this will work.
Unfortunately, yes they can. Most of the time they don't care but since they have contracts with the phone makers and some are exclusively with them, they don't want people to just go out and get whatever phone and use it on their network while they lose money with the contracts they have with the vendors they own. Its all about the bottom line for them and as a business its their right, although I am with you, I hate that; however, its understandable, they are out there to make money. Now I know for sure from AT&T techs that if the phone you are using is NOT on their hardware list BUT its made by one of the hardware providers they have a contract with, then they don't block it. If that helps any.
To give you an example, I have an iPAQ 910c, not a device they sell, but since they support iPAQ 6515, they don't mess with me. I had a Q9h (before my wife took it) and then my friend gave me his HK version I think known as Q9M or something crazy like that and it works fine because its still a Q. You get the idea.
OK.
So I actually got tricked by a d#[email protected]%ss at&t guy who ensured me that my phone couldn't work since it was not an 'at&t certified' phone, which made me suspicious since it first worked.
Then when I read the post of someone having the same issue, I got intrigued and I called AT&T again... with the intention to talk to a manager and to clarify the situation.
This time I ended up talking with a very nice lady, which couldn't help me much except by assuring that the problem wasn't on their side and that my phone should work if it ever worked.
So I started thinking and realized that I actually changed ONE thing between the time it was working and the time it stops working... Guess what... That ONE thing was actually the reason why I couldn't connect to the net anymore...
Back then, I was annoyed by the USSD notification message which kept popping up every hour or so saying: "Your last transaction costs you $0.00..." making by phone beeping every single time... I found that it was actually possible to disable them (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326851).
Well the problem by disabling them is actually you loose also you internet connection . I didn't realize it immediately since I had my wifi connection working.
Now I'm back to day one:
- internet work
- i'm still deeply annoyed by the USSD notification message mentioning a $0.00 transaction
There you have it. They might be money hungry corporate bastards and we may wish them to crash and burn but "sometimes" even they are not at fault and crap just happens. Glad you figured it out and its working for you and remember that although they can block the phone as long its by a manufacturer they support, its unlikely. Take care.
At least they are supporting the HTC Fuze which is a touch pro little brother of the diamond, father of the diamond2
They can't ban an uncle, right?
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At least they are supporting the HTC Fuze which is a touch pro little brother of the diamond, father of the diamond2
They can't ban an uncle, right?
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They can try but you mess with my uncle, you mess with me
that's rough. Mine still seems to be working. Since I reset my phone youtube stopped working but me setting up VOiP might have jacked that up. make sure your connections are set to wap.cingular... other than that I'll let you guys know if mine shuts off.
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that's rough. Mine still seems to be working. Since I reset my phone youtube stopped working but me setting up VOiP might have jacked that up. make sure your connections are set to wap.cingular... other than that I'll let you guys know if mine shuts off.
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Don't sweat it bud, probably a setting got screwy somewhere, it happens quite easily actually. Hope you figure it out but all else fails, nothing more surefire than a reset although its overkill and hope it doesn't come to that.
WOW that really sucks. Have you made sure that you have the right settings? Don't know what they are for ATT. For T-mobile my settings did not work the first day and I was freaking out. The next day everything worked fine.
All I can say is switch to T-mobile. I have been with them since they were VoiceStream. In My 8 years with them I have only owned 2 T-mobile branded phones. The Nokia 3390 and a Rizr Beause my phone got stolen and I needed one bad. The rest of my phones have been Unlocked/Unbranded. I use the $5.99 Unlimited Data Plan Which now is $9.99 but is limited to the amount of data. I used to pay $2.99 but when I got the Rizr was stupid and signed a new contract. T-mobile has never blocked any of my services.
Wow that sound cheap! I'll definitively consider switching once my current pay-as-you-go stuff expire...
Really like the phone but no 3G and switching to Asus P835. At least will get 3G in 1900 frequency area.This one only got 900/2100. Same price..
For AT&T, don't pay the ridiculous price of a data plan, sign up for MediaNET, same exact internet and its much much cheaper. Just whatever you do, DO NOT TELL THEM you have a PDA and on the accounts page DO NOT update your phone to match the PDA, just pick a generic version of the bran you are using.
Which MediaNet plan are you talking about?
I m currently using (trying) the 20$ for 100MB per month as pay-as-you-go service; is there any cheaper one?
(I also notice that youtube doesn't work, even if everything else seems to be working fine (web access, mail, weather...))
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Which MediaNet plan are you talking about?
I m currently using (trying) the 20$ for 100MB per month as pay-as-you-go service; is there any cheaper one?
(I also notice that youtube doesn't work, even if everything else seems to be working fine (web access, mail, weather...))
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The one matching your usage habits. There is cheaper one, the last I checked they had a 5.99 for 500 mb I think. You can check but I can check for you if you want, let me know.
Hi
i own a htc touch diamond, which is the SPRINT VERSION, and
need to activate it with page plus for my MOM.
for what i understand both networks are CDMA so it should
work, right?
if that's the case, what's the best and cheapest way to go to activate it?
but first a little story:
i tried to go to with a multi-carrier cell phone location, but the guy tried to screw me
promissing to activate it this was the deal with the guy:
80 DOLLARS up front, 40 to activate and credit starter, and
another 40 for "transfer the ESN from an old forgotten page plus
non-smart phone" which i found very strange... so i said
NO DEAL, BYE.
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anyways, i need the phone to be PREPAID and i only want to
start with 10 dollars of credit to give it a try
if you know other prepaid CDMA service provider with GOOD rates per
minute i would like to know
please guide me
THANKS in ADVANCE !!
not going to be trivial, but may be possible... you will definitely first need the phone's MSL (lock code). And it is possible that you'll not be able to get data or MMS working. You'll have to manually program the phone... Go to www.howardforums.com and look in the PagePlus forum for more details...
It would be far easier to sell off this phone and get a Verizon phone of some sort instead, since PP is a Verizon MVNO...
It can be done, I did the same. I followed a tutorial I found somewhere, but can't remember where. Look around. Def need the MSL, that was the hardest thing for me to find.
i did the same thing years ago. i can sure that it can be done. but now my diamond is dead due to unknown reason .
anyway, try search ppcgeeks, i remember someone give me a radio prl for page plus. just run it , and the *288 can activated your phone.
sorry i didn't have the file u need.
the file u need is called Verizon Prepaid EVDO PRL 51214 Modified (01-13-09)
So, I'm working on my friends hero and he was unable to activate it because he boutght it used. The old account holder had a suspended account and sprint told him that they cannot activate it until he pays his bill.. so doing some work, I was able to get his calls\texts to works, but still no data, yes he has a data plan but the phone keeps getting error 67, could anyone tell me how to get his data to work correctly.
And could anyone give me the settings set in ##778#? Also ##3282# I do not need your esn info and username info,
Thanks, any help and advice is appreciated.
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So, I'm working on my friends hero and he was unable to activate it because he boutght it used. The old account holder had a suspended account and sprint told him that they cannot activate it until he pays his bill.. so doing some work, I was able to get his calls\texts to works, but still no data, yes he has a data plan but the phone keeps getting error 67, could anyone tell me how to get his data to work correctly.
And could anyone give me the settings set in ##778#? Also ##3282# I do not need your esn info and username info,
Thanks, any help and advice is appreciated.
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Hey man, I had that same error when I swapped phones with a friend. I called sprint and they had me enter one of those codes (can't remember which one), enter msl when it asks<press menu<edit<profile<press menu<then restore. I don't have my phone with me here at work so i'm just going off the top of my head but hopefully it helps. Just in one of those codes try to find where you can restore the profile and that worked for me.
Well I can't call sprint because I had to do an e$n change to his old lg rant.. but do to legal issues, I cannot discuss that on these forums..
I just got an HTC one a few days ago off ebay. I love it so far but I am having some issues. Running OMJ's sprint one rom. Flashed multiple times with full wipes, etc.
I keep getting invalid sim messages, sprint self service keeps opening randomly (even when in pocket, which then leaves phone unlocked and i start pocket calling)
It's starting to drive me nuts. Anyone else had these issues? Is my phone possibly not activated correctly? Lady i dealt with on phone activating seemed like a rookie... Is my sim card bad? 4g works at times, calls work, everything seems ok..
This happened to me on Stock non rooted after I activated my replacement.
Just contact sprint via chat ( I did LITERALLY 5 mins ago). It's caused by a Sprint error while inputting your UICC or something.
The chat guy just gave me a service update and a profile update, and voila! I'm getting my 4G back, all 1.25 Mbps of it!
I realize that you do get 4G sometimes, but would NEVER get it. Other than that, our problems are the same.
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This happened to me on Stock non rooted after I activated my replacement.
Just contact sprint via chat ( I did LITERALLY 5 mins ago). It's caused by a Sprint error while inputting your UICC or something.
The chat guy just gave me a service update and a profile update, and voila! I'm getting my 4G back, all 1.25 Mbps of it!
I realize that you do get 4G sometimes, but would NEVER get it. Other than that, our problems are the same.
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sprint chat, gave me slowest agent in world. took 25 mins for them to tell me to remove the sim and put it back in. Finally, they said my sim wasn't paired to my phone and I had to go to a store to fix.
So today, I go to store, wait around forever. I am told my sim is active on another account (uhh? no.. ) and the only way to fix is a new sim. Ok cool, give me a new sim and lets do this!
They dont have sim cards.... Corporate store, no sims. No way to order them, no way to get them, nothing. The only "solution" they have and I can't even do that. Driving me effing nuts. On phone again now trying to figure something out.
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sprint chat, gave me slowest agent in world. took 25 mins for them to tell me to remove the sim and put it back in. Finally, they said my sim wasn't paired to my phone and I had to go to a store to fix.
So today, I go to store, wait around forever. I am told my sim is active on another account (uhh? no.. ) and the only way to fix is a new sim. Ok cool, give me a new sim and lets do this!
They dont have sim cards.... Corporate store, no sims. No way to order them, no way to get them, nothing. The only "solution" they have and I can't even do that. Driving me effing nuts. On phone again now trying to figure something out.
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going on over an hour on the phone. Transferred from customer support, to tech support, to SALES, back to tech support, now waiting for who knows who. About 10 mins away from not having Sprint service anymore
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going on over an hour on the phone. Transferred from customer support, to tech support, to SALES, back to tech support, now waiting for who knows who. About 10 mins away from not having Sprint service anymore
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That's some bull. Demand a solution or a free early termination. I would punch somebody if I got service like that.
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That's some bull. Demand a solution or a free early termination. I would punch somebody if I got service like that.
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Sprint Technical Support "do you mean the memory card?" NO idoit. HTC one, one of your flagship phones, does not even have a memory card!!! She also told me to remove the battery, then decided wiping the phone was the way to go. I refused.
The guy at Sprint Corporate store told me to move my sim from old Note 2 into my HTC One to fix it.
Every person I talk to is clueless.
This error has nothing to do with your phone, as far as I know. Actually, you know what? Do another Sprint chat and ask for Corey N. If they ask you why, tell them someone else had the same problem and Corey fixed it a couple days ago.
Yeah, but keep at it. It's nothing to do with your phone. I told Corey that my phone was able to receive a 4G signal before I activated it. That is what triggered him to check the service info. Otherwise, I too was going to have to get a new SIM card. Tell them they have to use your UICC ID to give you a service update.
Good luck man. You'll probably need it.
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This error has nothing to do with your phone, as far as I know. Actually, you know what? Do another Sprint chat and ask for Corey N. If they ask you why, tell them someone else had the same problem and Corey fixed it a couple days ago.
Yeah, but keep at it. It's nothing to do with your phone. I told Corey that my phone was able to receive a 4G signal before I activated it. That is what triggered him to check the service info. Otherwise, I too was going to have to get a new SIM card. Tell them they have to use your UICC ID to give you a service update.
Good luck man. You'll probably need it.
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i became aware it wasnt the phone pretty quick. I spent 30 mins explaining that multiple times only be to told i was being transferred and notes would carry over, then new person wouldnt have any clue what i was calling about. I finally gave up and hung up on phone. Got on chat, and i told the lady how to fix it.
She was having me do reboots and stuff and I just said, listen... Here is my sim card #, can you tell me if that sim is activated on my phone or someone elses. She looked and said it was active on another account. I said ok, THAT is the problem. I told her to either send me a new sim, or get it off the other account and on to mine since it was obviously a mistake. After another 30 mins she got i working finally.
I have a Sprint flavored V40 on Cricket's network. It was bought from Amazon Renewed and it was advertised as a carrier free phone, but on first boot that Sprint logo slapped me in the face. I contacted the seller and he offered me a full refund, but since the same sim card from my V30+ (US998) received better signal by far than ever before, I decided to keep it. I input Crickets APN settings and it stuck but the Sprint settings are grayed out and cant be deleted or edited. I can receive MMS messages but can't send one at all. I can be in and receive group messages but can't send a reply. I assume it's because of the Sprint APN settings conflict. I'd like to flash a different firmware but am lost with the countless vague and confusing tutorials. I knew my way around the V30+ better than Joe Biden knows his way around his basement. But with this V40 I feel like Sleepy Joe does when he tries to make a complete sentence. Any help would be very appreciated.
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I have a Sprint flavored V40 on Cricket's network. It was bought from Amazon Renewed and it was advertised as a carrier free phone, but on first boot that Sprint logo slapped me in the face. I contacted the seller and he offered me a full refund, but since the same sim card from my V30+ (US998) received better signal by far than ever before, I decided to keep it. I input Crickets APN settings and it stuck but the Sprint settings are grayed out and cant be deleted or edited. I can receive MMS messages but can't send one at all. I can be in and receive group messages but can't send a reply. I assume it's because of the Sprint APN settings conflict. I'd like to flash a different firmware but am lost with the countless vague and confusing tutorials. I knew my way around the V30+ better than Joe Biden knows his way around his basement. But with this V40 I feel like Sleepy Joe does when he tries to make a complete sentence. Any help would be very appreciated.
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You sound like the kind of person that would call others losers and suckers? Why would they help you?
Look, I'm just trying to make my phone great again. If some sucker or loser is against that idea then I don't want their help anyways. I'm needing to Trump this one problem I have on an otherwise great phone. I'm determined to build this mobile device back bigger and better than ever before. So good you just wouldn't believe.
Well good you don't want their help, cause u ain't gonna get it.
Just like any other rumster, always thinks is smart but at the end it always shows how dumb it is ...
Political nonsense aside, I've got the same issue - but with a Sprint locked phone on Tello. Phone works fine on stock ROM but I'm unable to use a custom ROM because I lose 4G. Any attempt to change APN is unsuccessful, it reverts to default and I lose 4G. Is there any way to get APN to "stick"?
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Political nonsense aside, I've got the same issue - but with a Sprint locked phone on Tello. Phone works fine on stock ROM but I'm unable to use a custom ROM because I lose 4G. Any attempt to change APN is unsuccessful, it reverts to default and I lose 4G. Is there any way to get APN to "stick"?
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The only thing I can think of is to flash the USA unlocked rom, it will not sim unlock the phone but it will open some other options (Like the APN).