Hi all.
My sister in law just moved back to the lower 48 from Alaska where she had a cdma milestone a854 with ACS. She switched to t mobile and said I could have the milestone. Considering I'm using an Eris that sounds good to me.
I haven't been able to dig up much info on this. Seems most people want to use an a855 on other carriers. I've tried the *228 thing and that didn't work.
Any suggestions? I'd really like to ditch the Eris if I can.
Thanks.
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I don't live anywhere near the coverage of this carrier but I am curious. They have released a CDMA phone which they have titled the Milestone. My presumption is that the hardware is more like the Droid, but they had to pick another name because only Verizon has licensed the use of "Droid". Has anyone tested out whether this phone has an unlocked bootloader (which would presumably make it compatible with Droid ROMs)?
This clarification may be helpful so that users of this phone will not accidentally follow any of the other "Milestone" instructions out there on the web.
Are you sure it's CDMA? The whole "Milestone" model is GSM based.
I imagine a CDMA Milestone would just be a Droid without all of Verizon's Droid crap all over the UI. Haven't even heard this but it'd be cool to know. Wonder why Telus didn't grab this too?
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Are you sure it's CDMA? The whole "Milestone" model is GSM based.
I imagine a CDMA Milestone would just be a Droid without all of Verizon's Droid crap all over the UI. Haven't even heard this but it'd be cool to know. Wonder why Telus didn't grab this too?
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Yes, it is a CDMA phone. Cellular South is a CDMA carrier. They have no way of operating any phone that isn't.
Telus didn't grab this because they didn't want another CDMA phone. They want pretty much all new releases to be HSPA phones. That's why they released the HSPA Milestone.
You can root it using universalandroot. It installs superuser and then install rom manager from market and flash recovery then you need to make a nandroid backup.you can now flash any Droid rom you want I am using sapphire 1.0 with 1ghz kernal and it is working. Just make sure you don't flash a different radio baseband.anymore information on this you can look up Droid forums/cellular south milestone/Droid.com
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Thanks, glad to clear that up! I wonder if the forums should be renamed to reflect the fact that this "Milestone" should be treated as a Droid.
And so it begins...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7926606&postcount=24
I just bought a motorola droid and i need to have it fully activated with alltel. i have a friend that works at alltel and she said it would be no problem but i dont know if data connection will work. can anybody help me get this fully functioning with alltel? thank you in advance!
well i know this should work. I did the same thing back when the BB storm 9500 came out. I was on alltel and had to do a little bit of changing some numbers and walla. you should get data.
How in the hell do you still have Altell? Verizon bought them out years ago.
Verizon had to sell off portions of Alltel in areas where the only main competitors were Verizon and Alltel. AT&T bought those portions but as of yet have not converted much, or any, of those areas. So they are still operating under the Alltel name.
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ok so i have a motorola milestone a854 on alltel network.... so about a week ago i accidently flashed a verizon rom on it.... then a person on here did alot of researh on here and other websites and was able to walk me through how to get alltel rom back on my phone... it makes calls and sends texts...but the 3g is not available...alltel told me it is b/c on the generic rom i have the network says unknown... i am very new at this and am terrified im going to end up bricking my phone
thanks so much in advanced
kristen
kristenh_131 said:
ok so i have a motorola milestone a854 on alltel network.... so about a week ago i accidently flashed a verizon rom on it.... then a person on here did alot of researh on here and other websites and was able to walk me through how to get alltel rom back on my phone... it makes calls and sends texts...but the 3g is not available...alltel told me it is b/c on the generic rom i have the network says unknown... i am very new at this and am terrified im going to end up bricking my phone
thanks so much in advanced
kristen
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I don't know about the alltell Milestone but how did you get back to your Alltell ROM? Did you use AOR? If so, you can just try changing the baseband in the AOR options.
Alltel milestone is a Droid. She flashed a sbf.
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So I was searching around XDA and found that they finally have found a way to unlock the AT&T and T-mobile bands on the Droid 2 Global. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057064&page=3 I was wondering if we could benefit from this thread in trying to get the Droid 3's U.S. bands unlocked. The reason I ask this is because those of us on AT&T don't have a great selection of dual core android devices and this would be a great feat. I hope with the power of the XDA developers we can get this badboy's bands unlocked
I believe TBH is/will be working on this for the D3. Patience is a virtue...
I have been looking into this but I am not confident it will ever work.
The band lock has been moved into the radio image itself and without the ability to sign a radio image ourselves we won't be able to alter that. It is no longer accessible in the NVM as it was on the original firmware builds for D2G and Pro. This was done at the request of VZW to make it more difficult, if not impossible to do.
This is just a thought and I doubt it even make sense but could the radio be stripped from the Droid 3's gsm cousin the XT860 4G. They are virtually the same phone besides the fact one is CDMA while the other is GSM.
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This is just a thought and I doubt it even make sense but could the radio be stripped from the Droid 3's gsm cousin the XT860 4G. They are virtually the same phone besides the fact one is CDMA while the other is GSM.
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I'd suggest you buy a XT860 from Bell, in Canada. They use the same 3G bands as the AT&T network. It would also make it easier for you to unlock. Cost me 20$ to unlock mine, got the code within 15 minutes.
Was wondering if anyone knew someone that can add my Bionics ESN to Metro. Ive been over to howard forums but noone responds. If so PM me
The Bionic and other LTE phones don't use ESNs for network registration- it's all SIM based. Combine that with the unique frequencies used by Verizon LTE and you have a phone that won't work on any other network. Sorry. :/
Weird, I can access the CDMA part just fine, ##program send. And there's a guy on another forum that has it on cricket? I'm not trying to get it all working just talk and text.
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are there a way to get a bad esn bionic phone to be able to activate on a verizon network?
of course besides from going to verizon store and find out what is wrong with it then resolve the issues either by paying the amount that is due on the phone or if its a stolen product
thanx in advance for your help