Verizon XV6900 upgrading tutorial and troubleshooting!!! GPS enabled!!!

[arianhojat]

i been jumping around roms for a while. mostly to get GPS working. settled on ghettos is most stable, JDs seems to be good at gps but was buggy sometimes, and OMJs was filled with nice stuff and gps worked sometimes, kinda in the middle of the other 2. Gonna try out the new radio and see what happens with those roms. GPS has always been buggy. get quick locks usually at home, and only at home lol. anytime i really need it i wait forever and give up. a couple times its locked within 5 minutes outside of home. home is a bad place to test cuase of hot starts which get quick locks after first time get lock i think.

[jesrush]

Originally Posted by arianhojat

i been jumping around roms for a while. mostly to get GPS working. settled on ghettos is most stable, JDs seems to be good at gps but was buggy sometimes, and OMJs was filled with nice stuff and gps worked sometimes, kinda in the middle of the other 2. Gonna try out the new radio and see what happens with those roms. GPS has always been buggy. get quick locks usually at home, and only at home lol. anytime i really need it i wait forever and give up. a couple times its locked within 5 minutes outside of home. home is a bad place to test cuase of hot starts which get quick locks after first time get lock i think.

Definitely flash to the new Sprint ROM and then to OMJ's clean ROM. You'll notice a WORLD of difference on the gps. Mine was just like yours before and now I get locks anywhere within 60 seconds... even when actively driving. I can't believe what an improvement it is!

-j

[dg747]

I can't get BuildOS to install properly on my computer, I've done it before but had to format HD. Any suggestions? The error is application failed to initialize.

Thanks for any help or ideas!

[arianhojat]

Originally Posted by jesrush

Definitely flash to the new Sprint ROM and then to OMJ's clean ROM. You'll notice a WORLD of difference on the gps. Mine was just like yours before and now I get locks anywhere within 60 seconds... even when actively driving. I can't believe what an improvement it is!

-j

you using the latest OMJ.3.03.Custom.Sprint.Clean.exe, tried it with no luck. maybe ill backup and try some other roms next week.

btw which arcsoft you guys using? i remember there were reg settings everyone recommended. i have 5.0.31.16 and couldnt get it to work with settings from orig post. ill try the reg settings from before, but that hasnt worked lately.

[negamann]

Originally Posted by dg747

I can't get BuildOS to install properly on my computer, I've done it before but had to format HD. Any suggestions? The error is application failed to initialize.

Thanks for any help or ideas!

Go to ppckitchen.org and chat with them

[ka911]

Happy 4th of July to all

[arianhojat]

cool..... tested via real world today driving into city and back home. worked good. lost signal for a second a few times. but overall consistant. locked usually within 30s-1 minute while in car driving trying to get a lock. and a few seconds if closed and trying to relock.

[spl120]

Wow - after 2 bricked phones I have negamann to thank for his thorough and complete instructions. My VZ6900 now has 6.1 and working GPS.

Reading the threads posted since his instructions were also very helpful. I didn't understand going in about what the Kitchen was all about ... more options than I could have imagined.

Personal experience - my first RUU build did not allow the "Settings" tab to work. The second attempt is working perfectly but I lost my authentication (which was maintained through the 6.1 and RUU updates). The Verizon rep took 5 min to regenerate a new AKEY since it could not do OTA authentication. All set!

[alcatec]

Great news for anyone who allows Sprint customizations to run on a Verizon XV6900: I got mine working on Verizon again without bricking it! My thanks to drellisdee and verizon tech support (negamann thanks for your suggestions but I waited for a safer method). Here's the basic outline of events (from the beginning of letting sprint customs run):
1. I loaded ImCokeMan's unlocker ver 2.31.
2. I loaded the Sprint ROM and MISTAKENLY let customizations run.
3. I re-ran the Sprint ROM and soft-reset before customizations ran again.
4. I called Verizon to re-authenticate my phone to get phone calls and sms working again. I regained phone calls but my data connection was broken (wrong user-name and password) and my phone also looked like it was "roaming". My GPS radio worked (so-so, took a long time for a lock).
5. I re-flashed a multitude of other custom ROMs (thanks to PPCKithen's BuildOS) to test various things but still had same results (good phone and so-so gps but no data and still looked like i was roaming).
6. drellisdee helped me with the rest. For the "roaming" problem, he directed me to the following post (http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...o+refurbishand ) and that fixed that.
7. For the data connection problem I had a high ESN number (following the guidance on drellisdee's post at http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...174#post202174) so I SIMPLY had to call Verizon and ask them to re-provision my phone for data connectivity. I explained a hard-reset wiped me out and now I can't reconnect. They had to escalate the call but within 15 minutes on the phone they had me connected again. I had to pull the battery out while they re-provisioned my network profile (i.e., re-authenticate). They also explained that when using *228, I should only select option 2 because that will both update and re-associate with the towers - she said it does more than activation option 1.
8. Now after testing a bunch of PPCKitchen ROM variations, I think I'm settling on OMJ's Custom Verizon ROM. IMO its the most complete and using it my GPS locks within a minute inside my house.

BIG sigh of relief after recovering from Sprint custom's running on my Verizon phone.

[negamann]

That is awesome alcatec! Nice to see there is a fix. Sounds complicating but it definately is a fix. I will post this in the tut. oh and the "roaming" link you have doesn't work. can you get me working a link? thanks much