Flash Touch Diamond from Sprint to Alltel

[thumper01]

Got a Sprint Diamond and was able to unlock it, change the SPC and flashed it to conflipper's Alltel ROM. Had the MEID added at an Alltel store and everything worked except for internet/data. Checked all of the settings in the epst against my 6700 and everything matched up and it still didn't work. So I downloaded dcd's alltel carrier cab and installed it. After that, the phone no longer works on Alltel's network. I checked the epst settings and the SCM was changed from 42 to 58.

Is this what is causing the issue? If so, how do you fix this?

[conflipper]

give me some time, and later I will write down all the settings you need to change. You might want to check EPST and then security. that was my problem at first.

[bencurry]

To get the data working i had to change the settings on EPST under the security tab. for the HDR AN AUTH Password i had to put in an alternate ESN.

There is the ESN that is A100000****** that is on the box. That's what I had to give alltel to activate the phone, but to get the Data working I had to put in a number that starts with an 8 and is 8 digits long. I used QPST and it said that number was my ESN. I also looked at a stock Alltel Diamond and it had the number that started with an 8 in this tab.

I'm not sure how much help this is, but it's what worked for me. It took 3 days to get my Sprint Diamond working on the Alltel network, but now all is 100% fine! I'm flashing ROMs to it and it works great! Good luck, PM me if you want any help with anything. I'll try to be as much help as possible.

[madcapperx]

I am a total noob with a sprint touch diamond coming in a day or two and I need to make it work on alltel. Is there a write up on how to do this step by step? I don't want to brick my phone! I did a search but I am not sure what all I need to change and how to do it. Thanks in advance.

[bencurry]

If you're a total noob I would suggest finding someone who knows what they're doing to help. Since you have a 6800 it will go a little smoother. You need to run a program called EPST on your 6800 to get all of the settings off of it. I don't know of any big write ups, but I'd be willing to assist if you run into any bumps along the way. The order of the first few steps is very important.
1. Unlock the phone
2. Change the MSL (Sprint has a unique MSL to each phone and Alltel's is 000000)
3. Flash the ROM of your choice (I've heard Conflipper's is pretty sweet!)
4. Copy the settings from EPST to your Diamond. There are going to be a few different ones, because each phone has a unique ID (ESN).
5. Call Alltel and give them the ESN from the new Diamond (A10000 or A000000)
6. Enjoy!

[madcapperx]

Originally Posted by bencurry

If you're a total noob I would suggest finding someone who knows what they're doing to help. Since you have a 6800 it will go a little smoother. You need to run a program called EPST on your 6800 to get all of the settings off of it. I don't know of any big write ups, but I'd be willing to assist if you run into any bumps along the way. The order of the first few steps is very important.
1. Unlock the phone
2. Change the MSL (Sprint has a unique MSL to each phone and Alltel's is 000000)
3. Flash the ROM of your choice (I've heard Conflipper's is pretty sweet!)
4. Copy the settings from EPST to your Diamond. There are going to be a few different ones, because each phone has a unique ID (ESN).
5. Call Alltel and give them the ESN from the new Diamond (A10000 or A000000)
6. Enjoy!

unfortunately I can't get my 6800 to boot up. That is why I bought the diamond. it was working great then froze up and when I tried to reboot it I never got it to come back to life. I had a custom ROM on it for a long time. I did it myself thanks to some step by step thread on this forum. Thanks to people like you who know what they are doing. lol. So since I cannot get the epst settings from my 6800 is there another place I can get them? Not that I am wanting to use it... but if I did would sprints rom that comes on it work? I was reading about conflippers earlier and may very well go with it. I just want a reliable one. I saw in a diff thread (http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=36062) a list of roms and the stock alltel one was listed there. If I changed all settings and put that rom on the phone would that be the same as having the alltel version? I would like to have all the data and messaging and stuff working and not have things like the roaming triangle going.

I guess what I would really like to do is get the phone hooked up and stable with everything running on it like it should, and then play with some custom roms later. Thank you for your responce and help. I was scared to death when I put that ROM on my 6800 but it worked perfect and unlocked my GPS among other stuff. Thanks again.

[bencurry]

Well i'm pretty sure you'd still have to tweak the phone with the sprint rom to match your epst settings. If you don't have those settings it may be an uphill climb to get the phone working. If you're thinking about running the Sprint ROM and configuring it to work there's going to be a lot of bloatware on there that won't work at all (Sprint TV and so on).

If you unlocked the phone, changed the MSL#, and flash the Alltel Stock ROM it would work well. That's how I did it the first time with my Diamond. But you will still have the Roaming Triangle.

From everything I understand the roaming triangle is from the Sprint Radio. If you want to get rid of it you may need to flash and Alltel Radio, which I haven't seen yet. From everything I understand there's a good possibility of bricking your phone when flashing a radio. The triangle is a little annoying at first, but I've learned to live with it.

[thumper01]

OK. I checked the EPST and compared it back to my 6700. These were the differences:

• SCM was 42 on the 6700 and 58 on the Diamond
• The Software and PRI version numbers were different (phone specific versions I assume?)
• The Preferred Serving System was different on the Modem Settings. On the 6700 it had "Standard" and on the Diamond this option was not available. The Diamond had "Sprint Only" instead of "Standard".
• In HDR AN AUTH Password, I have the MEID instead of the hex ESN. Before I used the DCD Alltel cab, I had tried it with both the hex ESN (the 6 digit number beginning with an and the hex MEID (A10000*****) .
• In Data Parameters Rev. A is enabled. This option is not on the 6700.
• In the M.IP Default Profile, there was a string in the HA Shared Secret. I tried the Diamond both with and without the string from the 6700. It is currently blank.

Otherwise, both phones have the same EPST settings. I did try the suggestion from the internet problems thread of changing the Active User Profile Index from 0 to 1 but that didn't work either.

After I used the DCD Alltel Carrier cab, the phone rebooted and could not make phone calls (We're sorry but we cannot process your call....). When I went in the EPST, the SCM had changed from 42 to 58 and the MEID fields were gone. I reflashed it with conflipper's Alltel ROM and the MEID fields returned, but the SMC stayed at 58.

Thanks to all for any advice or assistance.

[madcapperx]

thumper, does your phone work correctly now? Does alltel use the same epst settings state to state? Thanks for checking the 6700. bencurry are you using a sprint phone on alltel or did I read that wrong? If so is yours working well? What rom are you running?

If I unlock my diamond, and install the alltel rom or conflippers will that rom have the settings I need already? Will it automatically change all the settings from sprint ones to alltel ones? or do I have to change them manually? If I call alltel is there any chance they will tell me those settings?

Thanks for responding to my dumb questions. I want to do this right and be able to enjoy it. Not want to throw it through a wall. thank you both.

[thumper01]

Originally Posted by madcapperx

thumper, does your phone work correctly now? Does alltel use the same epst settings state to state? Thanks for checking the 6700. bencurry are you using a sprint phone on alltel or did I read that wrong? If so is yours working well? What rom are you running?

If I unlock my diamond, and install the alltel rom or conflippers will that rom have the settings I need already? Will it automatically change all the settings from sprint ones to alltel ones? or do I have to change them manually? If I call alltel is there any chance they will tell me those settings?

Thanks for responding to my dumb questions. I want to do this right and be able to enjoy it. Not want to throw it through a wall. thank you both.

The phone does not work correctly right now. It did at first, except for internet. I don't know if the settings are the same state to state, but I believe that most all of them are. Of course, the MEID/ESN's will be different. I was browsing some threads on unlocking the Titan and the settings I was seeing in those threads were the exact same as mine. Someone with more experience with this coud tell you for certain.

When I was going through unlocking the phone, I was not able to use getSPC to get the SPC. I had to use the registry hack. After it was unlocked I flashed it with conflipper's ROM and then had to edit the EPST to add my phone number and home SID/NID (126/65535). There were a few other settings in the M.IP settings/profiles and Security settings that I had to change as well. I just used the values that were in the EPST on my 6700. I can post those settings here or e-mail them if you need them.

bencurry: I tried to send you a PM , but it wouldnt let me for some reason.