First off this is my first thread post and im very excited to share the findings with the big help of jhr. So a BIG thanks to him helping get this off the ground. Now, mods, i wasnt sure the best place to post this so please feel free to relocate to a spot that has the greatest chance for people who need this fix. THANKS!!
Second this is going to be a long post. im going to explain the steps i took in as much detail as i can to prevent misscomunication so that everything is as clear as possible. ALSO, there are still a few minor issues that i want to get cleared up and im hoping some senior members/mods read this and can help sort these out. So i want them to see what the steps were. So bear with me.
Alrighty, this fix is for everyone who is using a CDMA Touch Pro 2 that is SECURITY UNLOCKED on a GSM network. if your not sure this applies to you then do not ask. there are PLENTY of other threads that will explain that. If this does apply to you then im sure you are having problems getting ALL of the data services to work. ive seen threads with users saying no data is working, only internet works, or only/part of mms works. In my case i was able to get phone,text,internet, and SENDING an mms but never could recieve and mms. i would always get the notification "message not found" when trying to open the picture. if you are having this problem, then you are in the right thread my friend!!!
so with all that said, here are the steps we took in getting this to work...
obviously first thing to do is sec. unlock, HSPL, and flash edited radio. GREAT now your able to insert sim and use GSM! i went through several roms trying to find one that i liked. NRG's standard sense was the best that suited my needs and worked great. flashed it and when it started, first thing it would say is "sim detected, phone will switch to global mode" so i would immediately change that to GSM ONLY. next is that his rom had the "autoconfig" app built in so i would run that and the phone would retreive all the settings from att automatically. after doing that, as i said before, everything worked except receiving mms. this bugged the hell out of me (as im sure it did others) so i tried all kinds of different att settings cabs and even manually putting them in and nothing seemed to work.
so about 5 days ago i noticed NRG's rom was having several glitches and i thought id try a new one. so i searched and searched and finally found EXPRESSYOURCELL'S XYC squeaky clean roms. i personally like to have a clean rom and to install all the apps that i know i will use and not have a bunch of others taking up space. and i wanted a 6.5 with the 235xx build because i love the finger freindlyness. well this rom had all those features so i thought id give it a try and i downloaded it.
at that time i remembered reading in the past about task29. so i looked it up and thought this would be a good idea to use at this time seeing as i have flashed several roms already and wanted a clean slate to start on. so i ran task29, and when it finished, i flashed squeakys rom. everything went smooth. i now set the network to GSM/UTMS ONLY. I then needed to apply my data settings but this rom doesnt come with autoconfig. what to do, what to do?
this is where i decided to finally try an idea i had contemplated since i got this sprint phone working on att with the mms problem. but i never tried it thinking i might brick it. my previous phone was an ATT TILT 1 (kaiser). i flashed a barebones titanium rom on it last year and no data worked either. but in the rom thread there was a fix that included an arcsoft cab and an att mms and internet settings cab. unfortunately i do not know which thread it was as it was a long time ago but it was on XDA's forum. installed those on the tilt and all was well. so i thought id give it a try on the TP2. acrsoft didnt install due to not enough permissions. so i then tried the att internet and mms settings cab and it did install but said "may not display propperly because it was designed for an older os" or something like that. so i tested interent and IT WORKS! tested sending mms and IT WORKS!! now for the real test, recieving an mms.....and..... low and behold IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at this time jhr and i had been trying several diff things already so i PM'd him IMMEDIATELY and he did some testing and we have come to the conclusion that it at this point will only work on squeakys rom with my cab. he decompiled it and compared it to another settings cab and this is what he found (from a message he sent me).......
"it turns out (just like I suspected) that there is a thread in the registry that tells the network that it is a HTC8500...Hermes
<parm name="User-Agent" datatype="string" value="HTC-8500/1.2" />
<parm name="Profile" datatype="string" value="http://www.htcmms.com.tw/cingular/Hermes-1.0.xml" />
<parm name="Accept-Language" datatype="string" value="en" translation="filesystem" />
the other one
<parm name="User-Agent" value="Vodafone/1.0/HTC_Kaiser/3.08.161.0" datatype="string" /> <parm name="Accept-Charset" value="us-ascii,utf-8,iso-10646-ucs-2,ISO-8859-1" datatype="string" />
<parm name="Profile" value="http://www.htcmms.com.tw/cingular/Hermes-1.0.xml" datatype="string" />
see the other one says its VODAFONE....that is not on the USA Network.....,on the third strin it then has the same string that its hermes, but if you read above it reads HTC_Kairser. no model number
this is my conclusion that the ATT network gets confusted what device is it sending it to. Is it a Hermes the 8500 or the Kaiser (ATT Tilt 1)
so I remember that I asking is there a GSM cab out there that will fool the network that is only a GSM device and not a CDMA.
So the cab that you have tells ATT that it is a GSM Hermes and not a Vodafone Kaiser. "
that being said, this cab does not work on NRG's rom. we suspect it has to do with the arcsoft clients being used on either rom. so we think that if somehow my cab and squeakys version of arcsoft can be combined into ONE SINGLE cab that will overwrite an exsisting arcsoft on any other rom, that this should be a fix for anyone wanting to use another rom. so we are asking anyone who has the know how to help look into this and make this
happen. obviously it is possible to have all data working so i know there has got to be a way to do this.
but as of now you need squeakys rom ---->
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...ht=xyc+squeaky
EDIT: APARANTLY ANY OF XPRESSYOURCELLS ROMS WILL WORK SINCE HE USES THE SAME VERSION OF ARCSOFT IN ALL OF THEM.
my cab is in the attachments...
and if you want to do task29 (although we are not poitive it is nessasarry) you can find it here ----->
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=116571
so there you go. sorry this was so long but i hope everyone is clear on everything that had happened to make this possible. GOOD LUCK!!