Verizon VX6900 - Altell ROM

[ROKWELL]

ok, i got a problem and any help would be appreciated!
i flashed to the revA alltel rom with no hassles thanks to the great guide posted (had to call vzw like the rest of you)! i immediately checked out pie speeds and they were RIDICULOUSLY quick! i mean really quick=) ! impressed!
so then, i flashed to jaks rom and started to load my apps on there and do a speed test through oprea 9.5! i load it up and go to cnet speed test and every thing loaded like it was back onto regular evdo revB?!?!? came back with speeds up 150 kBs!!!! WTF!
then i flashed back to the alltel rom thinking it would make a differece, but speeds were still reallly slow! google maps cannot even find me through GPS!??!!
any suggestions would be appreciated!!! =)

[soccerman821]

Originally Posted by ROKWELL

ok, i got a problem and any help would be appreciated!
i flashed to the revA alltel rom with no hassles thanks to the great guide posted (had to call vzw like the rest of you)! i immediately checked out pie speeds and they were RIDICULOUSLY quick! i mean really quick=) ! impressed!
so then, i flashed to jaks rom and started to load my apps on there and do a speed test through oprea 9.5! i load it up and go to cnet speed test and every thing loaded like it was back onto regular evdo revB?!?!? came back with speeds up 150 kBs!!!! WTF!
then i flashed back to the alltel rom thinking it would make a differece, but speeds were still reallly slow! google maps cannot even find me through GPS!??!!
any suggestions would be appreciated!!! =)

i am having the same gps problems. it was working great for a daa
a day...i get 800kbps tho

[jesrush]

^^bump^^ Rok / Soccer -- any updates since your posts on the 26th?

[ROKWELL]

BRICKED! =(
got replacement yesterday!
its hard to do anything without verizon putting out an official rom!
if you do flash, stick with alltel's rom! thats what i wished i did!
im fienin' for rev.a now tho!

[jesrush]

Originally Posted by ROKWELL

BRICKED! =(
got replacement yesterday!
its hard to do anything without verizon putting out an official rom!
if you do flash, stick with alltel's rom! thats what i wished i did!
im fienin' for rev.a now tho!

yikes--so it was jaks GPStest2.1 which bricked you? Were you able to get GPS running on the alltel rom before going to GPStest2.1?

Verizon didn't give you any trouble with the brick eh?

-j

[soccerman821]

i have flashed my phone like 7 times now.. no problems at all .. i went from that alltel one to jd's test.. worked perfect.. then i wanted more so i went and updated to the titan radio rom and to jd's hybrid rom.. no problem at all. i havent seen that much improvement with rev a speeds.. . but i do get gps lock within a min of me being outside. right now im goin to flash again to jd's rom he jus put out... ill update you when im done

but right now im
titan radio rom 3.35
Jd's hybrid rom

[jesrush]

wow soccer -- seems like you've been a lot more successful than others.

If I wanted to start with the alltel ROM, which version would you suggest (from what I gather there are several alltel's floating around now... at least one of them should only be applied to true alltel phones) ? Thx

[soccerman821]

Originally Posted by jesrush

wow soccer -- seems like you've been a lot more successful than others.

If I wanted to start with the alltel ROM, which version would you suggest (from what I gather there are several alltel's floating around now... at least one of them should only be applied to true alltel phones) ? Thx

i might have worded that wrong i actually started before alltel rom.. the one with gps and rev a .. but thats the one that i was most scared about.. that is the only alltel rom i have loaded.. ill give u a list of the roms i have tried in a sec.. most of these custom roms have no problem being loaded just make sure they dont change ur radio and read the directions at least one time through before even starting to do it.. if u follow word from word.. u prob wont have any problems

i havent even got around to flashing to jd's new lite rom cause im messin wit ubuntu hardy heron right now..

[jesrush]

Well I took the dive and went ahead and flashed the altell ROM on my vzw touch. It went smoothly.

After the flash, had to call verizon CS like the rest of you and re-authenticate the phone.

Afterwards went outside and flipped on google maps. About ten minutes later - bam - GPS found my location. TOO cool!!! Drove home with GPS on and had no problems.

The only thing not working is MMS... it had all of the altell MMS server settings programmed in. I tried replacing those with some verizon server settings I found on google but no luck. Then I tried installing this and it screwed things up further (now I can't even find mms settings).

How did you guys sort out the MMS issue?

[soccerman821]

Originally Posted by jesrush

Well I took the dive and went ahead and flashed the altell ROM on my vzw touch. It went smoothly.

After the flash, had to call verizon CS like the rest of you and re-authenticate the phone.

Afterwards went outside and flipped on google maps. About ten minutes later - bam - GPS found my location. TOO cool!!! Drove home with GPS on and had no problems.

The only thing not working is MMS... it had all of the altell MMS server settings programmed in. I tried replacing those with some verizon server settings I found on google but no luck. Then I tried installing this and it screwed things up further (now I can't even find mms settings).

How did you guys sort out the MMS issue?

i never really used the mms.. so im goin without it at this moment.. but verizon uses arcsoft.. which i heard will fix the problem but i havent really got around to using it.

fyi im using jd's ultra lite now with the 3.35 titan radio, gps works but i might not be in a rev a area cause my dl speeds are still like 700.. ill try arcsoft today... i was googling all about it yesterday but no luck yet