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.
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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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hey guys, I bought an HTC HD7 phone off of a guy that brought his fone over from the UK and I'm on a rogers carrier so I can't get a 3G connection due to the diff bands I guess, so if I bought an HD7 phone off of a guy on a Bell carrier and I unlocked it, would I be able to get that 3G connection? cuzz this edge crap is driving me nuts! I have a great data plan and I wanna take advantage of it by streaming my fav radio stations and stuff like that....or is there a way of getting 3g on my current phone? cuzz I entered all the APN settings and still no 3G!!
ok so I'm guessing with the non responses that this cant be done, as I thought since the last 2 years bell switched to GSM AND CDMA to accommadate the iPhone users of their customers...which is why I was thinking I can use a bell HTC HD7 phone on a rogers account. CAN ANYONE confirm or deny if its possible? aaanyone?
ok thx for nothing guys...
as long as the 3G bands match, 3G should work.
couldn't find the 3G frequency bands for either Rogers or Bell Mobility in my quick google search.
but i believe AT&T and Rogers use the same 3G bands, so an HTC HD7S should work if you can find one.
I have a hd7 on bell. If I can find a friend on Rogers I will try swapping the SIM cards and seeing if that works.
wonderful! thx guys appreciate it...
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I have a hd7 on bell. If I can find a friend on Rogers I will try swapping the SIM cards and seeing if that works.
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btw is your phone UNLOCKED? if not then I dont see this working! LOL
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ok thx for nothing guys...
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quick google/bing search shows both Bell and Rogers use 850/1900..so yes, long as it's unlocked it should work just dandy
great sound kool, thx for the info
I'm using an unlocked Bell HD7 on fido (rogers), and 3G works great!
ahh kool! thx for the info
Hey everyone.. I've been combing through forums for the past 5 hours trying to help out a buddy. He picked up an unlocked Verizon XT862 a while back, but we're having a heck of a time getting it on Manitoba's MTS network (partnered with Rogers in Manitoba, Canada). I put on .890, then rooted, safestraped, and tried Steel Droid. It won't find the MTS gsm network. I even have tried screwing around with a 883 radio and modified build.prop. It would be great if I could just run the Bell XT860 firmware as that would probably do it, but I have heard that's impossible. So has Verizon just locked the ever locking crap out of this things GSM or what? Any way I can get voice/sms/data working up here on this thing? I desperately need some help. Thanks!
System version
5.6.890.XT862.Verizon.en.US
Model number
DROID3
Android version
2.3.4
Baseband version
N_03.18.29P
Kernel version
2.6.35.7-g790a33c
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Build number
5.5.1_84_D3G-55
ERI version
5
PRL version
58008
i dont think verizon locked anything.... Im using a GSM simcard in Lithuania without any problems, try switching your phone Network Mode to Global or GSM/UMTS
Hm.. Okay thanks. I'm just reloading the SBF to get it back to stock. It will find Rogers, but I can never get it to see MTS for some reason. I will keep trying.
So I reloaded the SBF and same issues. When this phone is on Network Mode: GSM/UMTS , it finds Rogers 3G and 2G. If I pick Rogers 3G, I don't get any service. It just has the red No over the signal bars. If I switch it to Network Mode: Global, it gets almost full signal strength, but in *#*#4636#*#* its using the CDMA network. If I change the preferred network type to GSM only, it never finds anything (assuming its only looking for Verizon?). If I try GSM auto (PRL), then it doesn't find anything either. I just don't get why its not finding our MTS 3G network in Network Mode: GSM/UMTS.
Try these apns
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1709183-MTS-APN-settings
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Yeah I have the apns from MTS already. It still doesn't seem to find MTS though. Only Rogers comes up after network scans. I'm going to try to modify the build.prop.
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Yeah I have the apns from MTS already. It still doesn't seem to find MTS though. Only Rogers comes up after network scans. I'm going to try to modify the build.prop.
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Does it use the Rogers network, or have its own? What spectrum does it use? Are you sure the d3 supports its spectrum? I didn't see that info in my good search, although I did see they have a legacy cdma network, can you find that?
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Endoroid: Thanks for the help. Yeah they used to be purely CDMA (EVDO and 1x), but they decided to partner with Rogers in Manitoba and share the HSPA+ (21Mbps) towers. As taken from their website: Please note that any unlocked device must support 4G North American Frequencies (850Mhz), older GSM devices will not function on our new 4G network. You can find out if your device is 4G compliant by reviewing the phone's settings.
So it looks like they operate on the 850Mhz spectrum, which should be fine for the quad band XT862. I'm not 100% sure if the network search should show up MTS 3G or not. I don't have an official MTS GSM phone to check it with. It does find the following two networls:
CAN Rogers Wireless Inc. 3G (302-720)
CAN Rogers Wireless Inc. 2G (302-720)
I would assume I should see something like: CAN MTS Wireless Inc. 3G (something here), but nothing ever shows up. If I select either of the Roger's networks, nothing ever happens. It just has the red block over the signal bars and it never grabs a signal. Then I randomly get the following popup:
Network Error
No GSM/UMTS networks were found. Would you like to switch to the Global mode?
I've had it pull the 1x legacy MTS CDMA network before. I think that might have been in Global mode.
So confused.
Okay I'm RSD'ing VRZ_XT862_5.5.1_84_D3G-55_1FF_01.xml back onto this thing. That should get me back to stock, right? I don't know why it doesn't just work with the stock setup. I really should, shouldn't it? It's unlocked, just load the apns and go? Weird. Does RSD'ing that file reset the radios and everything? I'm not sure what all has been messed with on this thing. I'd like it back to virgin if possible.
Edit: So I reload that file and it boots up asking about international roaming. I agree and it pulls a network. It's MTS 1x CDMA though. I put it to GSM/UMTS and do a network search and the two Rogers networks show up again. If I pick one of them, I instantly get a notification bar error about no service and selected network unable... I have an MTS SIM in this thing and the mts apn entered. So weird.
My buddy said at one point while he was messing with it, he had it find the MTS gsm network. He can't remember what rom or what he had done, but he still couldn't get data working. Only voice/sms. Should I try a different rom? Any suggestions?
HiQ said:
Okay I'm RSD'ing VRZ_XT862_5.5.1_84_D3G-55_1FF_01.xml back onto this thing. That should get me back to stock, right? I don't know why it doesn't just work with the stock setup. I really should, shouldn't it? It's unlocked, just load the apns and go? Weird. Does RSD'ing that file reset the radios and everything? I'm not sure what all has been messed with on this thing. I'd like it back to virgin if possible.
Edit: So I reload that file and it boots up asking about international roaming. I agree and it pulls a network. It's MTS 1x CDMA though. I put it to GSM/UMTS and do a network search and the two Rogers networks show up again. If I pick one of them, I instantly get a notification bar error about no service and selected network unable... I have an MTS SIM in this thing and the mts apn entered. So weird.
My buddy said at one point while he was messing with it, he had it find the MTS gsm network. He can't remember what rom or what he had done, but he still couldn't get data working. Only voice/sms. Should I try a different rom? Any suggestions?
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I dont think rom will matter. You could try editing the build.prop. Change default network mode from 7 to 3 and verizon global phone from 1 to 0. These are the changes needed to get d3(cdma)roms to work on my xt860(GSM) .
You could add the apns to /system/etc/apns-conf.xml I don't think that will make any difference as it should read it from the sim, but never hurts to try.
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That's exactly what I've been trying in regards to the build.prop. Doesn't seem like it ends up doing anything thouhg. Not sure. I will definitely try adding the apns to that other file though. Thanks again!
Ya im sort of at a loss. I've only ever used my device on the bell network(the carrier I bought it from) so I've never had to deal with this issue. Hopefully someone with more experience in this will pipe up
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Ya im sort of at a loss. I've only ever used my device on the bell network(the carrier I bought it from) so I've never had to deal with this issue. Hopefully someone with more experience in this will pipe up
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For some reason I recall reading about XT862 users having to flash something like the XT883 radio to access GSM networks? Or am I mixed up...
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For some reason I recall reading about XT862 users having to flash something like the XT883 radio to access GSM networks? Or am I mixed up...
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Hmmm... That might actually make sense. It's supposed to be locked against us gsm networks, but I wonder if it extends to Canadian networks as well. Maybe take a look in the unlock for at&t thread
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Endoroid said:
Hmmm... That might actually make sense. It's supposed to be locked against us gsm networks, but I wonder if it extends to Canadian networks as well. Maybe take a look in the unlock for at&t thread
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Hey guys.. I had sifted through most of that thread and attempted the radio and build.prop flash, but I was still having troubles. Maybe I'll give it another go. Thanks!
I'm trying to follow this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24176930&postcount=176 because I've never put .906 on this thing. I can get the chinese ota to install with rsd fine, but I'm having troubles getting the XT883 OTA.zip to flash. It errors out while installing with safe mode on. Should I be running a different recovery? Also, whenever I try to launch recovery from startup, it just triangle ! errors and dies. Something must be missing. Should I have CMW recovery on this thing instead or any ideas?
Data connection DROID 3
HiQ said:
That's exactly what I've been trying in regards to the build.prop. Doesn't seem like it ends up doing anything thouhg. Not sure. I will definitely try adding the apns to that other file though. Thanks again!
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I'm having the exact same problem.
I have an unlocked DROID 3, which is working perfectly fine for voice and SMS, but no Data.
I've tried flashing the XT883 radio img, which did nothing.
I'm thinking I might just flash the whole XT883 ROM onto it, maybe it'll make a difference?
But, in regards to your case, I do recall that someone mentioned not being able to get a data connection in Canada, en they had to play around with the libmoto_ril.so file.
Here's the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406812&page=33
It's apparently been test fro Bells and Rogers.
Hope that helps.
Cheerrs.
I just read in another thread about the stock verizon rom screwing with gsm. Trust big red. Maybe try a custom. Eclipse of mavrom are the most stable gb roms
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+1 for both of those roms
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Endoroid said:
I just read in another thread about the stock verizon rom screwing with gsm. Trust big red. Maybe try a custom. Eclipse of mavrom are the most stable gb roms
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Flashed XT883 ROM. No luck.
Only change is that it's automatically getting the default APN's for the network. But no DATA.
At this point, Could it be a hardware issue? My voice and sms radio is working perfectly, are they linked? WIFI works fine.
Such a nice phone. pity.
Cheers.