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To make a long story short, I recently purchased a used HTC Hero (sprint). After purchasing I played with the phone for a day or two to see what it can do (my first android phone, after being a Windows phone user) and in the process noticed that my esn was correct but my meid was all zeroes.
Now to skip thru all of the unnecessary stuff, I've been trying to change the meid back to what it should be, the number shown on the sticker below the battery. I've read every guide I can find on the internet. I've googled a hundred different times, I've done everything I can think of but I can't get qxdm to allow me to write the meid to the phone! After I zero out all esn locations, I attempt to write my meid. Everytime I get the same answer: Error response received from target.
Let me recap... I've tried downgrading the radio to stock (and tried other radios as well), downgrading to android 1.5, it's been rooted, I've scanned and scanned and scanned in cdma workshop to be sure I have all esn locations, with airplane mode on and off, I've done memory dumps then went thru them with a hex editor to be sure I haven't missed any esn locations, etc, etc.
After more than a week of trying to get this phone usable again, I don't know what to try next. I've reached the end of my known options with this phone, and could really use some help!!!
did you ever figure out the problem?
No, not yet. This seems to be a nearly dead topic around here, but hopefully someone can help me out.
I might have something that could work for you. Pm me if you want to give it a shot.
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budgreen did you send spc/msl before using the meid write command? example: spc 000000 (your msl/spc)
and please keep us updated if you get it fixed, hopefully between myself and laie1472 we can get you back up and running
message me if you need any more help
whoshotjr2006 said:
budgreen did you send spc/msl before using the meid write command? example: spc 000000 (your msl/spc)
and please keep us updated if you get it fixed, hopefully between myself and laie1472 we can get you back up and running
message me if you need any more help
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Yep, I did all that every time. And still no go. But, exploring some other options...I DID manage to finally get it. Thanks to help from you and from Klown80. I appreciate it big time.
woot awesome enjoy your repaired hero
Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure how to try this out, since I'm not in the US, and that RadioComm doesn't work for my Droid 4 (it's been upgraded to ICS)
1) Install latest Motorola drivers and RadioComm
2) Launch RadioComm
3) When it RadioComm launches, Click Main -> MA -> Common -> MDM 6x00
4) Click Settings -> USB -> PST USB
5) Click on FTM Common 1
6) Connect the phone to the PC and wait for it to go green
7) Under NVAccess, find the following values:
4870, NV_GSM_850_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
4871, NV_GSM_DCS_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
4872, NV_GSM_1900_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
8) For each value, press Read, then replace all of the numbers with 0. Once done, press write. Repeat for all 3 values/
Let me know if this works!
Again, I mentioned a problem with RadioComm. I'm using Windows 8 x64, RadioComm worked fine with my Bionic on GB, maybe it's an ICS thing, maybe I need newer drivers, etc... Please let me know if this works!
I was able to get this going on my Droid Bionic (which also had a corrupted IMEI number) so if you want to see that post, view it here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32256347&postcount=780
danifunker said:
Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure how to try this out, since I'm not in the US, and that RadioComm doesn't work for my Droid 4 (it's been upgraded to ICS)
1) Install latest Motorola drivers and RadioComm
2) Launch RadioComm
3) When it RadioComm launches, Click Main -> MA -> Common -> MDM 6x00
4) Click Settings -> USB -> PST USB
5) Click on FTM Common 1
6) Connect the phone to the PC and wait for it to go green
7) Under NVAccess, find the following values:
4870, NV_GSM_850_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
4871, NV_GSM_DCS_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
4872, NV_GSM_1900_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I
8) For each value, press Read, then replace all of the numbers with 0. Once done, press write. Repeat for all 3 values/
Let me know if this works!
Again, I mentioned a problem with RadioComm. I'm using Windows 8 x64, RadioComm worked fine with my Bionic on GB, maybe it's an ICS thing, maybe I need newer drivers, etc... Please let me know if this works!
I was able to get this going on my Droid Bionic (which also had a corrupted IMEI number) so if you want to see that post, view it here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32256347&postcount=780
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This looks awesome -- I saw your post in the Bionic forum. I was curious if this worked for anyone in the states on T-Mobile? I was looking to get a Droid 4 and use it on Straight Talk. Currently have an Epic, but loved my OG Droid. 3G is fine enough for me -- just curious if anyone is also able to get MMS working as well, along with APN settings?
What version of RadioComm do you recommend? I've tried 11.9.0 and I get the error when I try to open it:
"Error in getting the pointer to CommP2K and/or CommQC. Error number: Exception of type 'System.Exception' was thrown."
If you can help me get past this error, I'd love to try this out...
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What version of RadioComm do you recommend? I've tried 11.9.0 and I get the error when I try to open it:
"Error in getting the pointer to CommP2K and/or CommQC. Error number: Exception of type 'System.Exception' was thrown."
If you can help me get past this error, I'd love to try this out...
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I'm using 11.12.2, and try to get the latest motorola phone drivers (different than the USB drivers) I think I'm running 5.9 of those.
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
danifunker said:
I'm using 11.12.2, and try to get the latest motorola phone drivers (different than the USB drivers) I think I'm running 5.9 of those.
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
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Awesome, I'll give it a shot when I get home. Out of curiosity -- I'm assuming this is similar to QPST. If I bork the modem, I should be able to go back to a prior group of settings, right?
SIM Card should be coming in on Saturday or Monday -- so should be able to get some news to everyone by then.
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Awesome, I'll give it a shot when I get home. Out of curiosity -- I'm assuming this is similar to QPST. If I bork the modem, I should be able to go back to a prior group of settings, right?
SIM Card should be coming in on Saturday or Monday -- so should be able to get some news to everyone by then.
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Cool, just to give you a heads up, someone tried it in the RAZR forum without success....
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
Shoot. I've read that you can get 3G on AT&T without any problems across forums -- did I misread and this was for international use -- not inside the US? I just want to get 3G on AT&T if possible...
Any thoughts? Or can you point me in the right direction?
terinfire said:
Shoot. I've read that you can get 3G on AT&T without any problems across forums -- did I misread and this was for international use -- not inside the US? I just want to get 3G on AT&T if possible...
Any thoughts? Or can you point me in the right direction?
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Still trying to figure it out... I don't think we have a solution just yet.
I'm a developer outside of all of this (C# primarily these days, but have an extensive background in C/C++) -- and I've flashed phones to cricket with QPST -- so maybe I can help you guys out with this. If you're up for discussing any background that might catch me up to speed on this (already have my phone), would be up for trying to help break into it and enable this. Just send me a PM if you're up for this. Thank you!
Hey all,
I've only used this program for a little bit but I was able to change the values to what the OP suggested however, I used the Motorola Factory USB cable. I couldn't get the program to recognize my phone w/o it.
I'm using stock rooted ICS too.
Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2
So, you updated it with that -- were you successful and does GSM now work in the US?
Did anything change?
Phone doesn't make calls now
I followed the steps above
Radio Comm v11.12.2
Motorola drivers 2.2.28
Whatever data card drivers came with radiocomm
This did not allow me to see t-mobile or at&t here in the states.
So, random question/thought... If we find another modem with similar chip in another phone -- say on AT&T -- would we be able to read some of these fields and stuff out -- and then push it into our modem?
it would be great if we can set the phone to just swap SIM cards very easily, especially in the US
terinfire said:
So, random question/thought... If we find another modem with similar chip in another phone -- say on AT&T -- would we be able to read some of these fields and stuff out -- and then push it into our modem?
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Hmm, might be an idea. I don't think that there were many AT&T phones with this capability though. My idea is to compare an XT910 vs an XT912, since that was a worldwide release.
Best idea, get an XT910, put your SIM into it, grab a full radio dump, then put your SIM into the XT912 that doesn't work and grab another full radio dump and compare the two.
You'd need an internation XT910, since AT&T didn't ship them down there, but that would be a great starting place...
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Hmm, might be an idea. I don't think that there were many AT&T phones with this capability though. My idea is to compare an XT910 vs an XT912, since that was a worldwide release.
Best idea, get an XT910, put your SIM into it, grab a full radio dump, then put your SIM into the XT912 that doesn't work and grab another full radio dump and compare the two.
You'd need an internation XT910, since AT&T didn't ship them down there, but that would be a great starting place...
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Only thing is that I'd have to go out of my way to do that and spend even more money. I just dropped some on the Droid 4 for an off-contract phone. I wonder if there's any way we could ping some of the other forums, i.e. the Razr and see if anyone can potentially get us full-reads, so that way we could compare/diff them?
In addition -- I wonder if it's possible (probably a long-shot) to potentially order a SIM card or something from another carrier in Europe or somewhere outside the US and get it into the phone, but then have it "added" or "roaming" on a US network or something -- if that might provide a workaround?
Just trying to take stabs at it. I figure I'll hold onto the D4 for another month and see if we have any exciting developments -- and if not -- just push it to Swappa.
So i could use this to unlock the radio for overseas teleco use?
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So i could use this to unlock the radio for overseas teleco use?
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D4 already has unlocked radio for most telecoms overseas.
terinfire said:
Only thing is that I'd have to go out of my way to do that and spend even more money. I just dropped some on the Droid 4 for an off-contract phone. I wonder if there's any way we could ping some of the other forums, i.e. the Razr and see if anyone can potentially get us full-reads, so that way we could compare/diff them?
In addition -- I wonder if it's possible (probably a long-shot) to potentially order a SIM card or something from another carrier in Europe or somewhere outside the US and get it into the phone, but then have it "added" or "roaming" on a US network or something -- if that might provide a workaround?
Just trying to take stabs at it. I figure I'll hold onto the D4 for another month and see if we have any exciting developments -- and if not -- just push it to Swappa.
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Not sure what you a proposing in your second paragraph. I have a UK SIM card, and when I plug it in two other phones (Samsung Renown, a CMDA/GSM basic phone) and a Motorola quad-band GSM phone, it works fine in the US. When I move the SIM into my Droid 4, no signal, although it sometimes gives the Unrecognized SIM message. So it's not a matter of non-US sims.
silver6054 said:
Not sure what you a proposing in your second paragraph. I have a UK SIM card, and when I plug it in two other phones (Samsung Renown, a CMDA/GSM basic phone) and a Motorola quad-band GSM phone, it works fine in the US. When I move the SIM into my Droid 4, no signal, although it sometimes gives the Unrecognized SIM message. So it's not a matter of non-US sims.
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I get the unrecognized SIM message also. That doesn't affect the phone one bit though, since I just press okay to the message and the phone connects to my carrier. Is your carrier one with a Verizon roaming agreement?
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
Hey I just got the Atrix HD today coming from Sprint. The phone feels very good. I'm having a problem trying to figure out how to get this phone working with QPST, I'm familiar with the Sprint dialer codes, but I don't take it they are the same for AT&T. I did a few searched with no luck. Anyone have any idea to push me in the right direction?
Thanks.
benman715 said:
Hey I just got the Atrix HD today coming from Sprint. The phone feels very good. I'm having a problem trying to figure out how to get this phone working with QPST, I'm familiar with the Sprint dialer codes, but I don't take it they are the same for AT&T. I did a few searched with no luck. Anyone have any idea to push me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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I'm not familiar with QPST but take a look at this for an app that puts us in the *#*#INFO*#*# menu.
Thanks for the reply, that's not necessarily what I was looking for, but I am sure that'll come in handy.
I semi answered my own question. You have the put the phone in BP Tools mode for the drivers to install, but the problem with me is the diag mode drivers wont install for me I have no idea how to get it going so I just gave up. If anyone knows where I could get the drivers specifically for the Atrix HD diag mode it'd be greatly appreciated.
So I've had this DROID Bionic stoed away for over a year now since the company I worked for closed down and never asked for their phone back.
I was using my LG Revo (rooted) for the time being until I started to have some issues with it. So I booted up this phone, put in the VZ sim card and just realized that I've been missing out on so much!
I've been doing some research here and elsewhere and It's a bit overwhelming.
I'm currently on 5.5.886.XT875 and an OTA notification just came up saying "Update (5.5.893.en.US) has been downloaded and is ready to install."
Any help would be great on where to go from here.
Should I do the OTA update or should I just FXZ to ICS or JB? Is there an order I have to do this (Eg. 5.5.886 to 5.5.893 to 5.7.893 to 5.9.902 etc.) ?
It seems like the easiest thing would be to use SamuriHL's House of Bionic. But again, do I have to incrimentally update or can I just jump to a more recent version?
Also, the 5.5.893 OTA update that's on the phone seems to be downloaded from the last time I was in the US. I'm currently in Puerto Rico and the CDMA here only gave me 1x coverage on the LG and no data on the Bionic. So not sure if OTA updates would work here.
I would like to try to use GSM and/or use a SIM from a local carrier. I'm guessing root is needed for that.
Well, thanks in advance.
-Dan
mofongoloco said:
I was using my LG Revo (rooted) for the time being until I started to have some issues with it.
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My wife has the Revolution and I have the Bionic. I can't stand her phone and hating trying to fix it. I feel your pain!
mofongoloco said:
Should I do the OTA update or should I just FXZ to ICS or JB? Is there an order I have to do this (Eg. 5.5.886 to 5.5.893 to 5.7.893 to 5.9.902 etc.) ?
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When you use the FXZ you can always jump ahead to the image you have. You just may not always be able to get back. Use the FXZ to upgrade directly to ICS or JellyBean (See next answer first)
mofongoloco said:
I would like to try to use GSM and/or use a SIM from a local carrier. I'm guessing root is needed for that.
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Yes, you need to be rooted, and the root method for ICS and JellyBean are very different. Functionally, there is no difference in flashing to ICS, rooting, using Voodoo root keeper, and then going to Jelly Bean instead of FXZ to JellyBean and then using the Easy Root image. I founf rooting JellyBean slightly easier for me, but I am familiar with using virtual machines so your experience may vary.
Once you are rooted and on Jellybean, use these directions to enable GSM support: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42437715
Following those directions I have had no problem with using my Bionic on T-Mobile. I have read that some hardware Verision other than Version A have issues with GSM, but I don't know what those are. Be sure to thank the original poster of that GSM Guide if it was as helpful to you as it was to me!
Bionic FXZ locations
For convenience, the Bionic FXZ thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240725
And the direct link:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_targa/list.php
So, I went ahead and did the OTA update to 5.5.893
This basically didn't do much, so I tried to use SamuriHL HoB to update to ICS. This did not help either, kept getting black screen w/ phone vibrating. I was hoping to use that method to save my data, oh well.
Then, I saw Andy's response (you rock, btw) and I went ahead with the FXZ and was able to get to ICS. This worked great! Best part is, I now have a working Bionic with a Data connection! It is still only 1x speed, but so far the connection here in PR has been more reliable than the Lg revolution.
Right now, Network type and strength shows 1x = -89dBm, data connection is good.
Sometimes, once or twice a day for a couple minutes, it will show 1x = -96dBm and 3G = -32dBm. When that happens there is no data connection on the phone. I have a theory that the local carrier blocks verizon users from using CDMA 3G, because once I'm back on 1x everything is fine.
I'm wondering if maybe I could get Verizon to activate global data services. If I do the RadioComm edit, does anyone know if that would allow me to use the GSM portion of the phone on the Verizon global network? Since technically I'm out of the Verizon area, I would use the local carrier that Verizon leases services through. Is that thought process correct?
The local carrier uses GSM for their 3G network, and they do offer LTE for their own devices.
Again, thanks so much for your help with this.
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I'm wondering if maybe I could get Verizon to activate global data services. If I do the RadioComm edit, does anyone know if that would allow me to use the GSM portion of the phone on the Verizon global network? Since technically I'm out of the Verizon area, I would use the local carrier that Verizon leases services through. Is that thought process correct?
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I am glad I was of help!
I am not sure about activating global service in Puerto Rico: That is something you will need to contact Verizon about.
If you change the RadioComm and buildprop setting to allow GSM, it will not work with Verizon until you change them back. Also, you will need to to a data wipe from recovery to avoid a problem with the phone rebooting over and over again so you can't just switch this from one to the other by replacing SIM cards (I was personally bummed by this).
Not all LTE is created equally: your Bionic is not likely to be compatible with the other phone companies LTE because they use different channels per company.
So I have a Sprint Moto X that is stuck in cdma-ehrpd mode. Because of this I can't connect to LTE.
I've exhausted all of my attempts at fixing this including factory resets, APN editing and flashing SBF files using RSD and manually flashing.
I'm just wondering if any other Sprint users or Moto X users have ever experienced this or know what can be done to get my LTE back before sending it to Sprint to get fixed.
I am rooted and using Xposed (only for Gravity Box). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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So I have a Sprint Moto X that is stuck in cdma-ehrpd mode. Because of this I can't connect to LTE.
I've exhausted all of my attempts at fixing this including factory resets, APN editing and flashing SBF files using RSD and manually flashing.
I'm just wondering if any other Sprint users or Moto X users have ever experienced this or know what can be done to get my LTE back before sending it to Sprint to get fixed.
I am rooted and using Xposed (only for Gravity Box). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I have the same issue on Verizon Network, any expert could help us?
I'm going to bump this just because I'm still stuck with no 4g and Sprint is no help.
*#*#4636#*#* won't let you select LTE? Do you never get LTE / 4G or do you just lose it alot?
gchase23 said:
*#*#4636#*#* won't let you select LTE? Do you never get LTE / 4G or do you just lose it alot?
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I haven't gotten 4g for a few months. The problem is that any fix that involves the hidden menus requires me to have my msl number which Sprint would not release.
Anyone know of any method that works to get an msl number of the moto x?
I also noticed that my APN is different than my wife's. This wouldn't be a problem but I can't seem to edit or add my own APN and have them stay.
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I haven't gotten 4g for a few months. The problem is that any fix that involves the hidden menus requires me to have my msl number which Sprint would not release.
Anyone know of any method that works to get an msl number of the moto x?
I also noticed that my APN is different than my wife's. This wouldn't be a problem but I can't seem to edit or add my own APN and have them stay.
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There is a apk called like My MSL or something to that effect, and it will give you your MSL code immediately, no calling Sprint or anything, but I'm pretty sure its not freeware, so Google will help. If I remember what website I found it through (there are numerous sources lately I believe), I will try to point you in the right direction. I try to keep my phone from ever falling back on to 3G, and without the code I'd be very frustrated, lol.
eeriikk said:
There is a apk called like My MSL or something to that effect, and it will give you your MSL code immediately, no calling Sprint or anything, but I'm pretty sure its not freeware, so Google will help. If I remember what website I found it through (there are numerous sources lately I believe), I will try to point you in the right direction. I try to keep my phone from ever falling back on to 3G, and without the code I'd be very frustrated, lol.
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That would be cool. I'm going to do a little googling for it right now.
Edit: like every other msl finding app in the playstore Get My Msl doesn't work for the moto x running 4.4.4.
VerneVerne said:
That would be cool. I'm going to do a little googling for it right now.
Edit: like every other msl finding app in the playstore Get My Msl doesn't work for the moto x running 4.4.4.
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I went and dug the apk out of my Google drive, and I apologize for mis-labeling it in my previous post, but it is actually called "MSL Utility", the apk is "MSL Utility_1.0.apk". So, with that being said, I believe that I probably downloaded it off 4shared or GSM Arena or some similar site that disregards software license rules etc.