Android running on US Cellular data service **Solved for most***
 

Cliffture post @ #86
Eval post @ #112 This whole post is a copy of eval's post. Thank you both and the people you worked with at getting this resolved. Please press thanks on their posts for their hard work.

STEP 1: find the right username@uscc.net for /etc/ppp/pap-secrets & options.smd1

Play around until you find your username. Usually it is your phone number, sometimes it can be your ESN or MEID number. Edit these files after dialing ##778 and pressing "View." If dude420420 is right, this should give you your account username. You might have to call USCC to find out.

pap-secrets needs to look like:
options.smd1 needs to have:
as the last line. (leave all the others)

After changing these files, try Airplane On / Airplane Off to test. If it works, move to Step 2. If it doesn't, try to figure out why. Try a different username. If you can't find one that works, look up 'adb' & 'logcat' in the forums and online and look for lines with "pppd" in your logcat.


STEP 2: Copy /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/options.smd1 into /init.etc/ppp
You may have to do this "as root" in a terminal or console after typing "su" (hint; the "cp" command copies... "cp /etc/ppp/options.smd1 /init.etc/ppp" would work for the first file... same step for pap-secrets)

STEP 2 should allow those files to be created on boot. So once you have found the right settings, and managed to copy them into /init.etc/ppp you should be good to go from then on. Please reboot and confirm this for me since I am not on USCC and cannot test anything I suggest.

NOTE: /init.etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /init.etc/ppp/options.smd1 may not have the permissions necessary for you to be able to overwrite them. This is why you might have to go into a shell and type "su" and "chmod a+rw /init.etc/ppp/pap-secrets" and "chmod a+rw /init.etc/options.smd1" before you can copy over them, especially if you are using a GUI file explorer to copy, and not running everything as root (after "su") in the terminal shell.


GOOD LUCK! And don't forget to thank EVAL posts if you found them helpful :p


PS: /init.etc is "persistent" UNTIL YOU CHANGE YOUR ROOTFS. If you do, you will have to repeat these steps. So it is probably a good idea to keep a backup copy of your working pap-secrets and options.smd1 until this issue is fixed in the latest rootfs, so that in case it is not, you can overwrite the /init.etc files again easily. Hopefully a new rootfs will fix this problem altogether, but current reports are inconsistent that the RIL changes do.

Above is all from eval post

For people that know how to get around in teminal in linux this is what i used to exit the rootfs.img straight. After i edited it i put the micro sd card back in my phone and booted android and it worked perfect. This may help with anything else that you may need to edit or try to change
mount -o loop rootfs.img /mnt/android

Re: Android running on US Cellular data service
 

man the progress is really cool.

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lol What?

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lol, exactly

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whew, thought it was just me.....

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lol, well i managed to break it to where it doesn't even work at all. i have been messing with the apn settings. anyone get mms working yet on USCC?

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I've been on Android with USCC all day. Voice, SMS, Data and WIFI all working great. I did have issues on the first bott because I keep an inactive sim card in my phone and it was causing Android to bug out in airplane mode. My only real complaint is the sensitivity of the screen. I can handle the weird landscape stuff but the touch sensitivity is driving me nuts.

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How is your data working, what did you do to get it working. I am on a touch pro 2 using mightyrom as my winmo rom but soon as i go into android it wont work.. soon as i get data working i may use android all the time even thogh there is no ringer

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I did nothing to get it working other than boot up Android. And I have the same setup as you. MightyROM TP2 on USCC. Don't know what to tell you. From what I have read, it appears it works for some USCC people and not others. May have to do with towers in your area, idk.

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located in madison, wi area and no cdma :(

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I have a Touch Pro on USCC in South-Eastern Washington State and no data. Nothing works. It absolutely refuses to work. I have the 3G icon and everything, if I do a netcfg the ppp0 lists what appears to be a valid IP address, but it won't load anything. WIFI works like a damn charm, albeit a power hungry, battery draining madman, but my USCC data connection is a no-go.

I wish some genius would find a way to get data working on USCC. I would stay in android forever...

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no offense but did you notice this is for the touch pro 2?

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sweet, beaver dam here, yah i mean we have the 3g/ev network here.

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not sure if it would work buthave you every tried to ping the ip address from your computer?

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not sure if it matters but what version of the hard spl unlocker did you use?

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Well, there's no TP1 subforum to discuss it in, and the issue is nearly the same for the two (using almost all the same files, experiencing the same failures). More eyes can't hurt.

And on the TP1, it does seem to be exactly the same. 1 or 2 people have gotten data working without doing a thing.. and everyone else can't get it to work no matter what they do.

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I have an interesting find. Found what the APN settings should be for USCC from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code#U. MCC 200 and MNC 066. I try to make the save but it will not let me. Keeps wiping out the whole APN entry. Can anyone try and make this change? 200066

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Figured I would throw an update as to what I have tried so far.

I have been trying to get the login and password in and here is what I have tried:

MSID

ESN (HEX)
ESN (DEC)

MEID (HEX)
MEID (DEC)

using any of those for the log in (#####@uscc.net) and just the number for the password hasn't gotten me anywhere.

I wonder if there is a proxy setting that we don't have that might open it up for us.

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I tried this and it did the same to me (wiped the APN out).

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in TN... data also working for me without messing with anything, android also pulled some contacts from somewhere, but i have no contacts in my phone so no clue how that worked lol

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I think that the 310, 995 numbers are hard coded in the build, and so when you set the MCC to 200, the device ignores it. There's a couple hundred other default APNs in the apns-conf.xml, but they all have MCCs and MNCs that don't line up, which is why you never see them.

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hey guys... i cant try this cuz im at work and dont have time nor did i bring my sd card with andriod on it. I wonder if we load a sprint or verzion prl if that would work ? if someone cares to try it and post back or i will when i get home in the morning ?

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ok for anyone that has it working do you have a national plan and are you in the home uscc area?

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yes sir

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where are these apn settings, all I see is a table with carrier providers..
am I missing something, Ive been looking for USCC apn info for weeks now..
can someone post it here?
thanks
byte

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also want to note, I have no data either, in chicago, not on a national plan
everything else works great...no data...not even 75% DL in market...I cannot simple connect, unless im on wifi
byte

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Interesting i am not on a national plan either. I may call uscc to change my plan they've been trying to get me to move to a national plan anyway.

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To get to the APN settings, tap the windows key on the android desktop, tap settings. Tap Wireless settings, tap mobile networks, and tap APN. The default is CDMA Generic.

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so far its is doesn't matter national or not. i have a national and in my hime calling area and my data doesn't work.

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I know this already. but thank u for the reply I do appreciate everyones help :)
where is the info for USCC that someone posted a few posts back exists on this page, I cannot find any APN info this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code#U
thanks
byte

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This is correct. The voice plan you have has no effect on the settings for the data network. Unless of course you are on prepaid, but then you wouldn't have data when running winmo either. So don't bother switching to a nnational plan for this. However, most people not on a national plan would benefit by switching to the current national 1000 promo plan but that's for another discussion.

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As Makkonen said, I didn't see a subforum for TP1, and figured since TP2 users were having the same issue I would post under here.

I spent the majority of the evening last night trying pretty much everything I could possibly think of. All I've been able to accomplish is making the 3G icon change to an E icon, and then back again. IP still seems legit, but it's like it doesn't want to download. It's evident that the phone is sending a request, but never receives a reply or any data back from the tower. I tried a *228 to update the tower list, as a last desperation, and like I said earlier, all this managed to do was change the 3G icon to an E icon, and then back again. So obviously it's sending and possibly receiving some kind of data.

In winmo when you first try and access data you dial out to the #777 or whatever it is, and it receives a request for a user and pass. Even though the inputs are blank, a reply is made. This makes me think that it's a simple issue of the tower needing a response, even a blank response, of the user and pass. My reasoning that this isn't required in some areas is that a) they never had to do a blank user and pass in the first place, or b) the towers in that area for some reason recognized and saved the phone's user and pass...

Like I mentioned before, this is all well beyond me and I wish some genius would figure it out, but this is what I'm guessing.

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i was just on with USCC on the phone and they were waying that this summer they are more than likely going to have android phones. YES!!! If data isn't working by then maybe that will help us out on getting our data work

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yeah you dont work for USCC do you? they have 4 devices in testing. rumor is droid eris, moto droid, hero, and something else.

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My RAE told me about a week ago that there should be an Android released within 2 months. One thing about USCC is that they test devices for much longer than the average carrier. I asked what we are getting and was told that wouldn't be released just yet but what they are looking at is a high end device with a 2nd, mid level device shortly after if not together. Of course, anything that they release will be better than AT&T's first Android device. Motorola Backflip? Really AT&T? Way to suck.

EDIT: Not sure where you get your info on the devices, but the Moto Droid has an exclusive deal with Verizon. You won't see that exact device anywhere else for quite some time. And once the exclusive is up, it will be outdated and old news.

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Well, tested Android on a TP2 on US Cellular. No go here with data. Voice is great, and Wi-Fi works just fine.

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yah this blows, i want data service, lol, guess we will have to wait unless someone figures out the right apn settings. I think the problem is android as it is because want you change the mcc and mnc the apn settings disappear.

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I wonder if someone can contact someone at USCC and see what the APN settings are for the devices they are testing? Would that possibly be of some help?

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I was PMing with Earmuffs (who has USCC) and we were comparing data from EPST, specifically the Security tab. Under PPP USER ID and PASSWORD, my phone (Sprint) is just blank, while USCC uses <TenDigitPhone#>@uscc.net for user id, and <TenDigitPhone#> for password. Right now in Android, PPP doesn't use any username/password, and I think this might be the problem.

I'd like to test out this theory--could a USCC user PM me their phone #? I'll put the username/password into a rootfs and send it to back to you.

If anyone wants to try it themselves, you need to put the username/password into the rootfs in init.etc/ppp/pap-secrets, like so:
<TenDigitPhone#>@uscc.net (tab) * (tab) <TenDigitPhone#>

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PM Sent.. I will post info and results as they come.
Alex