Radio Issues...I think...

[laithis]

Originally Posted by edufur

what do you mean that you "swapped" esns? I dont think that is possible.

Sorry, that's a phrase we toss around a lot over at SprintUsers. Basically that means you can sign on at Sprint.com and activate a different phone by entering its ESN and following Sprint's programming instructions. It's all automated, which makes it easy to "swap" to another phone if you want to use a different one for a while. My husband uses his Apache on the weekends and his Katana most weekdays (until I get him trained, that is .

And it sounds like your phone is suffering from an identity crisis. So when you load the stock rom, what bootloader version do you wind up with?

Hmm.it's been a whil;e since I loaded a Sprint stock ROM on it That's worth checking into. Though if it's 1.00 *after* I use the kitchen to load 20755 with my selects, I cant imagine it's be anything elsse on WM5....

and what PRL? have you tried calling sprint support to FLAG for auto prl? maybe your manual load didnt actually take properly.

I thought about that, and used the "search" function here (tah-dahhh!) to read up on the latest Sprint PRL. I loaded it and voila! Suddenly the nice lady wasn't saying "welcome to cricket" any more. But still no-go on calling anyone but the folks at *2. I did ask them to push me an update. Next time I called in, I got the nice "Sprint is updating your phone..." but it never seemed to successfully complete the update Still says that every time I dial *2.

there is a wide range of possibilities. Stick with the stock radio though... 1.27... believe me, I have played with them all and you dont want those problems.

Honestly, I upgraded to 1.43.00 out of sheer despweration - and because I was out of options that I had tried Didn't seem to hurt the phone, but I still can't talk to anyone but Sprint....

Thanks for your comments, though. They were good cautions.