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

dfgas · #1 (**permalink**) 03-08-2010, 08:17 PM

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:

Code:

username@uscc.net * username

options.smd1 needs to have:

Code:

user username@uscc.net

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

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

ps3evader · #2 (**permalink**) 03-08-2010, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by dfgas

looking for a way to get data service to run for longer than 5 seconds. People say its nor going to work cause the way USCC is but they get it to work for 5 seconds. I have had mine load 75% of a page.r

man the progress is really cool.

**CellGuy** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ps3evader

man that the progress is really cool.

lol What?

dfgas · #4 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 11:37 AM

lol, exactly

**00_MACKIE_00** · #5 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 11:39 AM

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

dfgas · #6 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 11:54 AM

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?

Afton · #7 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 03:01 PM

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...

LiquidX · #8 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Afton

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...

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

Afton · #9 (**permalink**) 03-10-2010, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LiquidX

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

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.

dfgas · #10 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afton

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...

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