Sorry if this has been posted before. I am looking for a way to change the carrier name on the lockscreen from Sprint to anything else. I have searched for eri.xml on my Sprint tab and I cannot find it. Any ideas anyone?
ezeuba said:
Sorry if this has been posted before. I am looking for a way to change the carrier name on the lockscreen from Sprint to anything else. I have searched for eri.xml on my Sprint tab and I cannot find it. Any ideas anyone?
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the easy way is use carrier name app from google play, phone/tablet must be rooted, compatible with froyo,gb, and ics.
Carrier name on GPlay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrier.name.holabalola
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Everything is looking great on the new 2.2 rom, crazy how fast it is. I just have one question how do you change where you go to the market and it says sprint where it usually says downloads? I am on a different carrier and would like to change it back to say downloads. Thanks.
Your PRI might be on sprint. Does your lockscreen say SPRINTIf you click menu it will have downloads in there.
No my pri is not on sprint. There is a way to change it but I don't know how. I know how to change the lock screen,just not it the market. I am thinking it coded in there for sprint.
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i've got the same thing on my after loading the CM6. how do you change the lock screen?
you can change the lockscreen message and provider in cyanogenmod settings. As far as the market, no luck, you're stuck with the sprint tab AFAIK, but you just hit menu to find downloads while in market.
danaff37 said:
you can change the lockscreen message and provider in cyanogenmod settings. As far as the market, no luck, you're stuck with the sprint tab AFAIK, but you just hit menu to find downloads while in market.
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where exactly can you change it? all i see us that you can change the color; and enable and disable it
Ok, I know that this is kind of weird "problem" to post about here, but my One doesn't have any of the Sprint bloat/apps. I suspect it might be because my Network Operator Name in the About portion of Settings is "HTC" instead of "Sprint". I'm running viperboy's stock odexed 1.29.651.10. My wife, who also has a Sprint One, is running 100% stock and has all of the Sprint crap and her Network Operator is Sprint. So is this because I'm running a rooted "stock" ROM? Or is there something else going on? In any event, I kind of wanted to check out the Scout navigation app and it apparently isn't on my phone and certainly doesn't show up in the Play Store when I search for it or under the Sprint category. How can I get my phone to believe that it is a Sprint phone? I'll worry about freezing or ripping out bloatware I don't want later, I just want the choice!
Where did you get the phone? It doesn't sound like it's a retail device.
ak074 said:
Where did you get the phone? It doesn't sound like it's a retail device.
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I got it at Sam's Club from the retail phone guy. I should add that everything else seems to work fine: Play Store access including paid apps, make and receive phone calls, 3g and LTE, wifi, GPS, etc.
GreyRogue said:
Ok, I know that this is kind of weird "problem" to post about here, but my One doesn't have any of the Sprint bloat/apps. I suspect it might be because my Network Operator Name in the About portion of Settings is "HTC" instead of "Sprint". I'm running viperboy's stock odexed 1.29.651.10. My wife, who also has a Sprint One, is running 100% stock and has all of the Sprint crap and her Network Operator is Sprint. So is this because I'm running a rooted "stock" ROM? Or is there something else going on? In any event, I kind of wanted to check out the Scout navigation app and it apparently isn't on my phone and certainly doesn't show up in the Play Store when I search for it or under the Sprint category. How can I get my phone to believe that it is a Sprint phone? I'll worry about freezing or ripping out bloatware I don't want later, I just want the choice!
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A lot of the "stock" rooted roms still remove bloatware apps. Check the rom's thread on here and see if they were removed. Sometimes the bloat apps are still there, but moved to a different folder. That way, you can add what you want.
There was a thread on this a while back. I believe the general assumption is you got an HTC demo unit. Its htc branded as opposed to sprint branded. No issues save for missing sprint apps. If you take it back, theyll exchange it for the simple fact its branded htc. Just ruu first. No need to exchange, though.
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youkosnake said:
There was a thread on this a while back. I believe the general assumption is you got an HTC demo unit. Its htc branded as opposed to sprint branded. No issues save for missing sprint apps. If you take it back, theyll exchange it for the simple fact its branded htc. Just ruu first. No need to exchange, though.
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I kind of wondered about that. I don't think it's really worth taking it back just for some carrier apps I'll probably end up pulling out anyway. I wonder why there seem to be so many demo units out there being sold as retail? Maybe the initial supply problems?
I dont know man. Maybe they got shipped out in retail boxes beforehand and some sprint stores never put them out on display and got them mixed up? Thats a mofo of a coincidence if so though
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I've poked around a little more in my system files to see if there is any reference to Sprint and found a few apks in /system/app: SprintDMS.apk, Sprint_Worldwide.apk, SprintInstaller.apk, and SprintZone.apk. If I try to install them using ES File Explorer, the installer runs and warns me that they are system apps and tells me about permissions, then fails with the message "App not installed." (Well duh, that's why I tapped on the apk....) So at least some of the Sprint stuff is on my phone, but it is dormant somehow. Is it possible that I just didn't get activated quite right after rooting? I sort of remember something called Hands-Free Activation running for several minutes on the first boot after rooting and cancelling it because it did not seem like it was going to complete. Maybe that has something to do with it?
You (or someone) changed something in your dialer settings. There is an option to turn off sprint branding in there. When you were on stock did you have any sprint animations when the phone booted?
You just have to change one setting to fix it if the problem is what I think it is.
easy fix...
1. install nova launcher
2. with nova launcher now set as launcher hold on homescreen to create new shortcut.
3. select new short cut > activities.
4. scroll down the list until you see "Update Device"... click update device then look for a "Branding" submenu.
5. Click on "Branding" and you will make a "Branding" shortcut on your Homescreen.
6. Click new "Branding" shortcut and set Branding to "Sprint"
Thank Autoprime for posting this fix. All your sprint apps will come back too. If that doesn't fix it PM me.
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When you were on stock did you have any sprint animations when the phone booted?
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I don't remember for sure (I booted maybe 2 times before I got around to rooting), but I don't think so.
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4. scroll down the list until you see "Update Device"... click update device then look for a "Branding" submenu.
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"Update Device" isn't in that list, and I didn't see Branding or anything like it in some other submenus I tried.
Just found this thread (not sure how I missed it when I was searching and reading thread titles before posting my thread). It is full of people with varying degrees of the same "problem" I have, but for some of them significant things are missing, like mobile network settings and so on. The fix is basically flashing the RUU and letting it download its Sprint package a few minutes after connecting to the network after that, then rebooting. I'm backing up all my apps now to give that a try.
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Just found this thread (not sure how I missed it when I was searching and reading thread titles before posting my thread). It is full of people with varying degrees of the same "problem" I have, but for some of them significant things are missing, like mobile network settings and so on. The fix is basically flashing the RUU and letting it download its Sprint package a few minutes after connecting to the network after that, then rebooting. I'm backing up all my apps now to give that a try.
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I suggest HTCs built in backup. It backs up apps, settings, evrrything minus autorotate settings and lockscreen password
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GreyRogue said:
Just found this thread (not sure how I missed it when I was searching and reading thread titles before posting my thread). It is full of people with varying degrees of the same "problem" I have, but for some of them significant things are missing, like mobile network settings and so on. The fix is basically flashing the RUU and letting it download its Sprint package a few minutes after connecting to the network after that, then rebooting. I'm backing up all my apps now to give that a try.
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PM me your serial number
Alright, I flashed the RUU, updated the profile and PRL and ... got the Sprint icons on the second home screen to show up! But mostly they are just links to the Play Store and the items are not available for my carrier as my carrier is still HTC. Does anyone know of a way to force my phone to get reprovisioned entirely? Maybe that would help....
And now confirmed not a demo unit, just a regular old Sprint One. So it must be something with how it got activated, right?
Have rooted TMo version with the latest update. The built in AT&T settings are acting up. Does anyone have a way to delete them? All options to edit are greyed out for me.
When I add the APN I need, the phone uses it for a while and then defaults to the wrong setting.
herzzreh said:
Have rooted TMo version with the latest update. The built in AT&T settings are acting up. Does anyone have a way to delete them? All options to edit are greyed out for me.
When I add the APN I need, the phone uses it for a while and then defaults to the wrong setting.
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do you use the stick sms app
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here is another thread with the same kind of issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2607476
Anybody know how to do it?
I think there is a CSC edit to do it (there's a thread in the apps subsection of ATT s6). Or what I do is run a weather app with an ongoing temperature notification - that hides it.
There is a csc edit let me see
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I searched but can't find it. Somebody please link me.
Couldn't find the thread to link you to. Get app "CSC features editor" from the play store. There's an entry for "VZWdevice info" that's set false (as would be expected) pretty sure if you toggle that to true it will go away, as well as switching to vzw icons. Try searching on that to see if you can find the thread. You may want to verify before trying this, as I'm going off very fuzzy memory here...
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Couldn't find the thread to link you to. Get app "CSC features editor" from the play store. There's an entry for "VZWdevice info" that's set false (as would be expected) pretty sure if you toggle that to true it will go away, as well as switching to vzw icons. Try searching on that to see if you can find the thread. You may want to verify before trying this, as I'm going off very fuzzy memory here...
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Just tried it and it didn't work.
Anybody?
Wish there was a way to do this besides using a weather program. I was in a custom ROM in the S6 forum that hid it, but with CleanROM, I have to deal with this again.
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So lovin the phone so far. I purchased the unlocked version directly from samsung. Activated on sprint no problem however being unlocked I dont have any of their bloat ware on my phone kinda nice. However I also do not have their visual voicemail app. I found a copy .apk from this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-sprint/themes-apps/modded-sprint-visual-voicemail-apk-t2994978
Loaded it however it does not seem to work app starts up but does not show the existing voicemail in the voicemail box. states activation message could not be sent check connection. I contacted sprint they were of no help and claim they do not even have visual voice mail. Any way was hoping somebody here far smarter than myself figured out how to get this to work. Its not the end of the world but would be nice to have the visual voicemail back.
Lee
leedawg said:
So lovin the phone so far. I purchased the unlocked version directly from samsung. Activated on sprint no problem however being unlocked I dont have any of their bloat ware on my phone kinda nice. However I also do not have their visual voicemail app. I found a copy .apk from this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...s/modded-sprint-visual-voicemail-apk-t2994978
Loaded it however it does not seem to work app starts up but does not show the existing voicemail in the voicemail box. states activation message could not be sent check connection. I contacted sprint they were of no help and claim they do not even have visual voice mail. Any way was hoping somebody here far smarter than myself figured out how to get this to work. Its not the end of the world but would be nice to have the visual voicemail back.
Lee
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In order to get the Sprint VVM working on unlocked you need to edit t he build prop and flash required files like done on earlier Samsung devices...the problem is root....which is on its way....until then install Google voice...get a separate Google voice number...dial in phone app *73yourgooglevoicenumber...to put it back to Sprint dial *730 alone
BlueFox721 said:
In order to get the Sprint VVM working on unlocked you need to edit t he build prop and flash required files like done on earlier Samsung devices...the problem is root....which is on its way....until then install Google voice...get a separate Google voice number...dial in phone app *73yourgooglevoicenumber...to put it back to Sprint dial *730 alone
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ah yeah I was afraid of that figured stock OS might not have to do all that stuff. Thanks so much for the response ill probably do what you suggested with google voice.
sorry about necro
BlueFox721 said:
In order to get the Sprint VVM working on unlocked you need to edit t he build prop and flash required files like done on earlier Samsung devices...the problem is root....which is on its way....until then install Google voice...get a separate Google voice number...dial in phone app *73yourgooglevoicenumber...to put it back to Sprint dial *730 alone
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I've tried using search, and cant seem to find my answer... My carrier is sprint, note 8 snapdragon rooted rev1 bootloader. I am not getting a single voicemail notification, nor is there any vvm app. I really only need the notifications. After being on the phone with sprint for a long time, their solution was to use google voicemail. Now that root is achieved how can I install and use sprint VVM? Do you have a copy of the apk you can share?
purchasedPhone said:
I've tried using search, and cant seem to find my answer... My carrier is sprint, note 8 snapdragon rooted rev1 bootloader. I am not getting a single voicemail notification, nor is there any vvm app. I really only need the notifications. After being on the phone with sprint for a long time, their solution was to use google voicemail. Now that root is achieved how can I install and use sprint VVM? Do you have a copy of the apk you can share?
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I don't but you can get the voicemail to work...but if you root! Both the rooted system and the Sprint ROM have working VVM...
BlueFox721 said:
I don't but you can get the voicemail to work...but if you root! Both the rooted system and the Sprint ROM have working VVM...
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I used the files from samfail to root, I didnt get any voicemail apps at all
What device model is it? Does it have the U (unlocked) or P (Sprint) at the end?
I use Instavoice app.
purchasedPhone said:
I used the files from samfail to root, I didnt get any voicemail apps at all
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Flash DevDigitel's Sprint ROM
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Flash DevDigitel's Sprint ROM
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I appreciate the response, but I'm looking for an app solution. I really don't want to flash something and wipe again. It was months before I rooted because I couldn't find the time to re-set up the phone. Is it possible to just install the apk and edit build.prop like you suggested in your earlier post?
purchasedPhone said:
I appreciate the response, but I'm looking for an app solution. I really don't want to flash something and wipe again. It was months before I rooted because I couldn't find the time to re-set up the phone. Is it possible to just install the apk and edit build.prop like you suggested in your earlier post?
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Yes...you can...just Google Sprint VVM for rooted ROMs and extract the app from your Sprint folder in csc directory or from DevDigitel's ROM...you can edit the build prop to designate greatltespr or something like that...you will see what others have done for ROMs before...I am going to try this with my ROM in the coming week...if you need, give DevDigitel a pm as he did this for his ROM....sorry I don't have the specifics at the moment...It has been a while since I had to do it and it was a Note3....if I get done with my ROM and come up with a clear method I'll let you know how I did it...but it may be a week or so...
I actually flashed your unbranded a long time ago, and I lost voicemail notifications then, so I can wait another week. Thanks for your help