Flashing while away from home? Bad idea? - Page 2

**japper88** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BooDaddy

Japper, Now that I am on sprint, a provisioning cab takes care of everything for me now. After flashing my sprint phone, I just load up the provisioning cab, and hammer down. I usually go ahead and hit the prl download to be safe but it works fine without doing that.

Now, when I was on VZW, a provisioning cab wouldnt do that. I could make calls, but I wasnt able to get data unless I did a *228.

Wow that's a bummer for Verizon folks...

Sounds like the OP probably shouldn't mess around with flashing while away then...

**jmorton10** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by japper88

Wow that's a bummer for Verizon folks...

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First of all, it's not true & second of all who cares anyway??

Even if you DID have to dial *228 everytime that is a heck of a lot easier than updating the PRL on Sprint......

~John

**Rager02** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 11:42 AM

same here,i dont do anything and data works off bat..

**jmorton10** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 12:54 PM

Do you guys that have to re-activate flash from the card??

That may be the difference as I have never done it that way.

~John

**pimpsuprazx** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by wirecutter

General question about flashing. I'm guessing after flashing you have ro reprogram/provision the phone? So right now I'm out of the US so I'm roaming...I take it, it would be a bad idea to flash my ROM? i.e. my phone will basically be dead until I get back back on a VZW signal?

not to sound rude or anything, but why would you have to re-program the phone? doesn't the EPST settings stay the same? And for the mms and web, wouldn't a carrier cab fix that? Again, not trying to sound rude, just curious.

wirecutter · #6 (**permalink**) 12-02-2009, 09:28 PM

Thanks for all the input guys. I guess there is a bit of a debate on this, but I'll take the safe route and wait it out.

i360 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-02-2009, 09:55 PM

It's universally stupid....

miles_prower · #8 (**permalink**) 04-04-2010, 01:45 PM

I'm resurrecting this thread because it was the only one I found discussing the risks of flashing while away from your home network.

I was in Japan recently with my VZW TP2 running SSK 3.0 ROM. I'd taken the phone earlier to the UK and Germany on the same ROM; in those countries, I used my prepaid Virgin Mobile UK SIM for both voice and data service.

In Japan, prepaid SIM cards are difficult to obtain for non-residents (people without national health cards), and rental SIMs are costly. Therefore, I chose to stay with my Verizon/Vodafone SIM and rely on Verizon's unlimited international-roaming data plan at $2 a day with Skype Mobile for voice calls.

Unfortunately, with SSK 3.0 ROM, I was unable to connect to data once I landed in Japan, even after trying every network configuration/settings I could find here and at XDA, and verifying all settings with Verizon Global Support.

So... on the second day in Japan, after reading through this thread, I downloaded the official VZW 6.5 ROM and flashed my phone. For the remainder of my week-long stay in Japan, I had no problem getting service on SoftBank.

And then, when I landed back in the US, I found that I could only get data service, but no voice or SMS--even after dialing *22890 and *22891. So, I called up Verizon Global Support again, and the tech immediately understood the problem and walked me through the process of manually entering an authentication key. Once the key was added, all services were restored.