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[Q] Can AT$T tell if you're running a custom rom?

I need to call 611 and gripe about some issues i'm having with my cappy. Does anyone know if at$t will run any sort of diagnostics remotely that will alert them that i'm running serendipity?

rpicaso said:
I need to call 611 and gripe about some issues i'm having with my cappy. Does anyone know if at$t will run any sort of diagnostics remotely that will alert them that i'm running serendipity?
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Nope. When they check up, it's usually just the IMEI. They ask what you're using (KB1, JH7...) but they assume most don't even know what that means or where to find that info.

I recently have called them from my phone and they didn't mention anything about it not being stock. When I look at my account online from my computer it still shows the captivate.
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I'd be careful with Cyanogen though. When I flashed Cyanogen, I received an e-mail from Google saying "Welcome to Nexus S!". I didn't check, but I wouldn't be surprised as AT&T started listing my number online as a Nexus S or some other random Android phone that isn't the Captivate.
In fact, that same question occurred to me today, because I'm running Cyanogen on my HTC Inspire and I need to dial in so they can set up my Voicemail (for some reason, whenever I switch phones my voicemail gets screwed up).

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I'd be careful with Cyanogen though. When I flashed Cyanogen, I received an e-mail from Google saying "Welcome to Nexus S!". I didn't check, but I wouldn't be surprised as AT&T started listing my number online as a Nexus S or some other random Android phone that isn't the Captivate.
In fact, that same question occurred to me today, because I'm running Cyanogen on my HTC Inspire and I need to dial in so they can set up my Voicemail (for some reason, whenever I switch phones my voicemail gets screwed up).
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Are you sure you got it on cyanogen, and not on supercurios port? Because the cm rom has correct model numbers, where as supercurios port is a direct rip from the Nexus S.
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The email you receive is not from at&t and is just because the rom uses nexus s market foot print.
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The answer is almost certainly no. There is a capability using device management tools to report back ROM details but right now the care reps don't have any access to it or any procedures that use it. They don't even have access to your IMEI so don't worry about custom ROMs unless you are physically returning the device.
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They cannot tell that your running a custom rom or even rooted.
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trell959 said:
They cannot tell that your running a custom rom or even rooted.
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What's more, based on my experiences with the Customer Service reps, most of them wouldn't care. The Front Office might, if you had to send in your phone, but every CS rep I've ever talked to has been mighty laid-back about the "rules."

TheEscapist said:
Are you sure you got it on cyanogen, and not on supercurios port? Because the cm rom has correct model numbers, where as supercurios port is a direct rip from the Nexus S.
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Hmm... now that you mention it, you may be right. Odd...
mcord11758 said:
The email you receive is not from at&t and is just because the rom uses nexus s market foot print.
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I realize that. But because of the fact that it uses the Nexus S market footprint, it would also (logically) use the same Nexus S footprint over the AT&T network. Otherwise, what you said makes no sense.
ianwood said:
The answer is almost certainly no ... but right now the care reps don't have any access to it or any procedures that use it. They don't even have access to your IMEI...
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Oh gosh that is so far from wrong it's not funny. "Care reps", otherwise known as technicians who fix your problems have every right to access your IMEI number without your consent. Your phone's IMEI is stored by AT&T as a ref number, and can be accessed from the AT&T database at any given time, even by the technicians.

.Candy said:
Hmm... now that you mention it, you may be right. Odd...
I realize that. But because of the fact that it uses the Nexus S market footprint, it would also (logically) use the same Nexus S footprint over the AT&T network. Otherwise, what you said makes no sense.
Oh gosh that is so far from wrong it's not funny. "Care reps", otherwise known as technicians who fix your problems have every right to access your IMEI number without your consent. Your phone's IMEI is stored by AT&T as a ref number, and can be accessed from the AT&T database at any given time, even by the technicians.
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The nexus s is available on at&t? No. So why would it have an at&t foot print?
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From my experience i had a problem and they started asking for the baseband version. They found out i was rooted but i acted like i didnt know anything so they just told me to flash back to stock. So it really doesnt matter
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I just replaced 2 captivates taking to both the tech department and warranty and was rooted running phoenix the whole time and they never said a word....replaced them both...of course I flashed back to stock before sending them back in though
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bluemoon1221 said:
From my experience i had a problem and they started asking for the baseband version. They found out i was rooted but i acted like i didnt know anything so they just told me to flash back to stock. So it really doesnt matter
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Ok so they asked your baseband. And you told them something other than stock? Why?
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.Candy said:
Oh gosh that is so far from wrong it's not funny. "Care reps", otherwise known as technicians who fix your problems have every right to access your IMEI number without your consent. Your phone's IMEI is stored by AT&T as a ref number, and can be accessed from the AT&T database at any given time, even by the technicians.
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There is an IMEI record for the device you purchased NOT what you are actually using on the network. There is also a TAC reference collected by OTA whenever the SIM goes into a new device, but the care reps (industry standard term, btw) have no scripts using it as far as I know. For example, AT&T still reports me as having a Bold 9700 on my 1st line when it has actually been a Cappy since August. Bottom line, AT&T generally doesn't give a crap what device you use.
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ianwood said:
Bottom line, AT&T generally doesn't give a crap what device you use.
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More accurate to say they don't care so long as they get their money...

mcord11758 said:
Ok so they asked your baseband. And you told them something other than stock? Why?
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That was because I didn't know a lot back then.... but it wasn't a big deal. They just told me to go back to stock and nothing else happened.
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TheEscapist said:
Are you sure you got it on cyanogen, and not on supercurios port? Because the cm rom has correct model numbers, where as supercurios port is a direct rip from the Nexus S.
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Happened to me....I never used supercurios...only CM7.
Fot the OP I doubt they can tell....even less they don't care. I used the sim from an old Sony dumb phone in my old unlocked Nokia N79...and used an unlimited data plan for $15 and tethered.
So yeah, don't worry.

Engadget loading really slow

For some reason engadget does not load or it is very very slow
this happens time to time on other sites also.
yahoo/google load up fast as anything but there are lags on other sites.
anyone else having this problem?

Hrm... Miren will not load anything for me right now,
I opened "web" and google/engadget/yahoo etc came right up. That is annoying...
Edit: wtf Miren working fine on Wifi. Tried clearing Miren data I can get to google and google stuff, but can't get engadget or newegg or yahoo to load.
Edit2: Well than I tried Web again and it didn't load so it appears I may be having data issues anyway at the moment.

crawlgsx said:
At the moment I can't even get google to load lol.
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yeah its really hit or a miss for me. and its frusterating for me.
i would like to see if there is a APN i can use for hspa so it stops trying to connect to 4g in a non LTE area

I had the same issue please change yourbapn settings from PTA to the original HSPA+ there is a post i posted named "change your apn" this solved my problem 100%
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crawlgsx said:
Hrm... Miren will not load anything for me right now,
I opened "web" and google/engadget/yahoo etc came right up. That is annoying...
Edit: wtf Miren working fine on Wifi. Tried clearing Miren data I can get to google and google stuff, but can't get engadget or newegg or yahoo to load.
Edit2: Well than I tried Web again and it didn't load so it appears I may be having data issues anyway at the moment.
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I thought you said you were not having any data problems? On another thread.
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Driggity420 said:
I had the same issue please change yourbapn settings from PTA to the original HSPA+ there is a post i posted named "change your apn" this solved my problem 100%
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there are so many of those. which one did you use? if you dont mind sharing your settings

Dxtra said:
I thought you said you were not having any data problems? On another thread.
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I wasn't, this is the first problem I have had but I typically have poor data at work (i work in a school, giant brick enclosure) and so far the Skyrocket has been wayyy better at work but today I had some data issues. I haven't had a chance yet to mess with it more.

djarpit said:
there are so many of those. which one did you use? if you dont mind sharing your settings
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Look in the skyrocket section here on xda i posted a link of what i did in the post called "Change your apn"
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Driggity420 said:
Look in the skyrocket section here on xda i posted a link of what i did in the post called "Change your apn"
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awesome speeds are def consistent now!

This is happening to the Vivid as well I was told ATT was working on a fix

hmm seems im not the only one with a problem, i damn near went to best buy to swap the thing for another.

Called AT&T, they asked me if I can try that sim out on a Vivid at the store to see if I get the same problems. If it does, they'll swap out the sims or if it doesn't, they'll swap the phones. I know it's not the phones. They even said themselves that the "pta" network is brand new so they're still working out the kinks.
I wouldn't have called if the "change your APN" settings had working MMS capabilities. It doesnt, and I really do need that.

Just went and swapped out for a new vivid and LTE sim card. Same problems. Me and the rep checked the 4 phones on display, 2 skyrockets and 2 vivids , all were showing the same problems.
This is in Frederick, MD.

ARHD 10.1 Help with constant data switching

Maybe someone can help me. Clean flashed to ARHD 10.1 a week ago and am having an issue with constantly dropping my data connections. My phone is pretty much constantly going from LTE to 4g to no data connection when not on WiFi. I'm on AT&T. Anything I can do? I'm not a pro at anything beyond basic Rom flashing. Thinking of just going back to stock. Thanks for any help!
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what is arhd?

BAMxi said:
Maybe someone can help me. Clean flashed to ARHD 10.1 a week ago and am having an issue with constantly dropping my data connections. My phone is pretty much constantly going from LTE to 4g to no data connection when not on WiFi. I'm on AT&T. Anything I can do? I'm not a pro at anything beyond basic Rom flashing. Thinking of just going back to stock. Thanks for any help!
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Is this a dev edition phone or ATT phone?

Originally Posted by BAMxi
Maybe someone can help me. Clean flashed to ARHD 10.1 a week ago and am having an issue with constantly dropping my data connections. My phone is pretty much constantly going from LTE to 4g to no data connection when not on WiFi. I'm on AT&T. Anything I can do? I'm not a pro at anything beyond basic Rom flashing. Thinking of just going back to stock. Thanks for any help!
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Is this a dev edition phone or ATT phone?
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It's an ATT phone.
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BAMxi said:
It's an ATT phone.
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I had this happen before. I turned off my HTC One, used the SIM tool, removed the SIM and reinserted the SIM and it fixed my data issues. Maybe that'll work. Hope that helps.
Edit: I did this to fix a data connectivity issue on my HTC One when I flashed an RUU.
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igglesphilsfan said:
BAMxi said:
It's an ATT phone.
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I had this happen before. I turned off my HTC One, used the SIM tool, removed the SIM and reinserted the SIM and it fixed my data issues. Maybe that'll work. Hope that helps.
Edit: I did this to fix a data connectivity issue on my HTC One when I flashed an RUU.
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Thanks. I gave this a try and am still having the issue. WiFi works fine, though. Maybe I'll just try another Rom.
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I just flashed the newest version of ARHD (that's android revolution HD, for the person who asked) 10.2 and don't seem to be having the issue anymore. I'm not sure if it had something to do with only being able to select the international version during Aroma install on 10.1, or what was going on. Might have also been a combination of things. At any rate, i figured I'd post in here, as I'm trying to get my post count up, so I can post in forums actually dedicated to the Roms. Cheers, everyone! :good:

ha! I'm doing the same thing. This is what I get for getting an iPhone. Glad you got it squared away.
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igglesphilsfan said:
ha! I'm doing the same thing. This is what I get for getting an iPhone. Glad you got it squared away.
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Haha I also came from iPhone to the HTC One. I'm seeing a lot of former iPhone guys on here. I always said that the day an android phone had the build quality of the iPhone, I was switching. And here I am!

[MOD][FIX] T-CDMA 64 instead of Verizon Wireless fix

I have been having problems with the stupid T-CDMA 64 problem and being OCD-ish I wanted to fix it.
This zip is for the peoples who were having a hard time figuring this out..
It flashes the correct file needed to fix the Verizon Wireless banner.
I have tested it on AOSP and Stock and it seems to work just fine.
It happens whenever I use a custom kernel, try it out and see the results.

je2854 said:
I have been having problems with the stupid T-CDMA 64 problem and being OCD-ish I wanted to fix it.
This zip is for the peoples who were having a hard time figuring this out..
It flashes the correct file needed to fix the Verizon Wireless banner.
I have tested it on AOSP and Stock and it seems to work just fine.
It happens whenever I use a custom kernel, try it out and see the results.
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I'm not familiar with this issue. Shed some light?
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BreakingVZW said:
I'm not familiar with this issue. Shed some light?
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I'll revert back and take some screen-shots shortly...
but in short it would show T-CDMA 64 in a phone call or on the banner
instead of Verizon Wireless

BreakingVZW said:
I'm not familiar with this issue. Shed some light?
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Example would be: on the lock screen at the bottom it days Verizon wireless. On some Roms it will say T-CDMA instead.
Data works as intended, just looks different/annoying.
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No T-CDMA 64 banner

This is what the OP is talking about.
Didn't work for me
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Everything is stock (battery is xposed)

Let me dig deeper, there is nothing else changed...
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if you actually put "Verizon Wireless" instead of blank "" you could submit this to CM gerrit for inclusion. another note, their file includes some other content that should remain in the file, so you'd need to add your lines to theirs

iXNyNe said:
if you actually put "Verizon Wireless" instead of blank "" you could submit this to CM gerrit for inclusion. another note, their file includes some other content that should remain in the file, so you'd need to add your lines to theirs
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It already shows Verizon Wireless on CM11. It used to say "PREFERRED NETWORK"

woah op not to derail the thread but what rom/theme is that. it looks awesome

Ejames991 said:
woah op not to derail the thread but what rom/theme is that. it looks awesome
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Stock with Sense 5

je2854 said:
Stock with Sense 5
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could you point me in the right direction of finding that?
EDIT: Nvm found it! Thanks though

Thanks for sharing but it didn't work for me on 12b stock with Dorimanx 2.8 kernel.
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garywojdan81 said:
Thanks for sharing but it didn't work for me on 12b stock with Dorimanx 2.8 kernel.
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+1
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Not at the computer right now, I'll check it at work tomorrow morning.
Written so fly like a G2

I had the same problem. When I install the cloudy flex rom, the signal bars would say i was roaming. I tried to do *228 option 2 and it worked. But after that it would show t-cdma 64. Then I tried the mahdi rom and the same thing. I reverted back to stock, 10b first, then 11a, then 12b. Took it back to the Verizon store and they said it had the wrong prl. They put in a new sim card and everything back to normal. Also when this happened, my 4g wasn't working and I would not get all text and calls. All is working now after the new sim card. The prl version for verizon 4g lte is 15287.

Different people will have different PRLs for their geographic location.
Written so fly like a G2

bashall said:
I had the same problem. When I install the cloudy flex rom, the signal bars would say i was roaming. I tried to do *228 option 2 and it worked. But after that it would show t-cdma 64. Then I tried the mahdi rom and the same thing. I reverted back to stock, 10b first, then 11a, then 12b. Took it back to the Verizon store and they said it had the wrong prl. They put in a new sim card and everything back to normal. Also when this happened, my 4g wasn't working and I would not get all text and calls. All is working now after the new sim card. The prl version for verizon 4g lte is 15287.
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The *228 is probably what fried your SIM card. That is not recommended with the 4g SIMs because they're already initialized when you register your device on the network. Anything you do after the fact will only create an opportunity to corrupt the SIM data.
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I have uploaded and looked into the problem...
flash the new file in recovery and wipe dalvik and cache.
Give me your results please.

[Q] no data on at&t running tweakedn3

I apologize if this is covered somewhere else but i have been looking at the forums for some time with no luck. I installed tweakedn3 2.0 Rom on my AT&T GN3 and everything works but for some reason no data connection. Any help would be greatly appreciated, love the customization of this Rom.

Gar76 said:
Any help would be greatly appreciated, love the customization of this Rom.
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I do not know anything about the ROM you are running but when I hear people say they have no data my first thought goes to APN settings.

CodeNameRedNeck said:
I do not know anything about the ROM you are running but when I hear people say they have no data my first thought goes to APN settings.
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Thank you for help. i have tried to change the apn settings but nothing. i wonder if im setting them correctly.

Make sure you have mobile data enabled.
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graydiggy said:
Make sure you have mobile data enabled.
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Thank you for your reply. I have checked and moblie data is enabled. I tried these apn settings from Galaxy Nexus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting, APN settings for AT&T ??? I found the second set of apn settings giving by daystrom for phones on smartphones on 4g to work. thank you again I really do appreciate the help. :good: