Verizon VX6900 - Altell ROM

[fredcatsmommy]

Originally Posted by FastRX8

Does anyone know what causes the problem w/ authentication on the XV6900?
I'm on Sprint, and I flash new roms everytime something new comes out.
This problem doesn't exist on the Sprint Touch.
I'm trying to get my friend into making custom roms, but if he has to talk to tech support after every new rom, I think it will get old, quick.

I had the authentication problem once, when I flashed one of the first custom roms before the Vogue kitchen. Since then I've flashed at least three custom roms from others, and many that I've built with the kitchen, without authentication problems.

[fredcatsmommy]

Originally Posted by darnoc

Hi, I flashed my 6900 to OMJ's latest ROM. I wasn't able to soft restart on the customizations so that went through. Had an issue with my phone authentication, but verizon customer service was able to fix that. So here's my outstanding issues thus far, the OS locks up often, my GPS is not working. Tried google maps and says my handset is not compatible with My locator. Tried Live Search and says GPS is not found. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there a way I can revert back to the Verizon image?

did you flash to a 3.37.+ radio first (after flashing the 2.31 unlocker)?

[dayrew]

okay so i flashed my phone as in hte original post...phone works fine but it will not come out of sleep mode, i have to do a soft reset is there a way to resolve this?

[arianhojat]

btw GPS Speed Sentry software seemed to work better for me than GPSViewer.
or at least better interface. Can get a lock consistantly within a couple minutes (and if not which happened once, a soft reset seems to help and finds satellites quicker again.).

i scratched my PDAs screen somehow after a couple weeks of use haha. I might try to use Scratch Doctor at circuit city to try to get it off as a verizon sales rep recommended for touchscreen, but i was a little scared to do this on touchscreen, hehe will this work?

and afterwards buy a protector... any regular ole photocamera screen scratch protector screens work well with touchscreens?

i read there might be a plastic/digitizer already on top of the LCD based on this post on similar xv6700, which scares me a bit haha, dont wanna buy a part and install it hehe...
"Having actually cut my screen, I think there's a protective plastic layer above the touchpad above the lcd. The top layer is bonded to whatever is under it, judging by pictures of internals. Also, I think the touchpad and LCD might be a single unit - but I have no clue. So, you could buy a replacement, spend an hour to replacing it yourself; send it to a service center for ($65?); or spend $3 and 30 seconds on a screen protector."

[arianhojat]

Originally Posted by dayrew

okay so i flashed my phone as in hte original post...phone works fine but it will not come out of sleep mode, i have to do a soft reset is there a way to resolve this?

not sure, Can you try flashing to one of the custom stable roms like OMJ or ghettoryder's one and see what happens?

[Doanut]

Hey Guys, I flashed the alltel rom and still can't lock up. I have the gps viewer and it says it found the gps on com4 at 4800. I just can't seem to get a sat. Is there another program i'm missing?

[ROKWELL]

did you try to install the gpskickstart program Doanut? that seemed to help me out!

[Quadman]

Hey guys I just purchased my 6900. I dunno crap about flashing roms. All i wanna do is flash my rom to enable the GPS. Can y'all point me in the right direction? I realy appreciate the help.

[night_of_dreams]

Originally Posted by FastRX8

Does anyone know what causes the problem w/ authentication on the XV6900?
I'm on Sprint, and I flash new roms everytime something new comes out.
This problem doesn't exist on the Sprint Touch.
I'm trying to get my friend into making custom roms, but if he has to talk to tech support after every new rom, I think it will get old, quick.

I think I may know why. The only time you need to re-authenticate the phone is when you mess with the radio. If you have the stock Verizon rom and hard reset, and letting customization run, a file call radio-refurb.cab will run and this will actually erase the AKey on the phone, this is one reason you have to re-authenticate after a hard reset.

Reason #2 is when you flash the Alltel rom, or the Sprint leak rom to update the radio to rev.A and gps. This will also erase the Akey and the phone will require to re-authenticate.

Simply flashing a different rom, or using the kitchen WILL NOT erase the Akey, as these do not touch the radio portion. So once you get the radio updated to a 3.xx version, you can flash whatever rom you like without re-authenticate again.

[fredcatsmommy]

Originally Posted by night_of_dreams

I think I may know why. The only time you need to re-authenticate the phone is when you mess with the radio. If you have the stock Verizon rom and hard reset, and letting customization run, a file call radio-refurb.cab will run and this will actually erase the AKey on the phone, this is one reason you have to re-authenticate after a hard reset.

Reason #2 is when you flash the Alltel rom, or the Sprint leak rom to update the radio to rev.A and gps. This will also erase the Akey and the phone will require to re-authenticate.

Simply flashing a different rom, or using the kitchen WILL NOT erase the Akey, as these do not touch the radio portion. So once you get the radio updated to a 3.xx version, you can flash whatever rom you like without re-authenticate again.

Makes sense, but I flashed to new radios twice (to the alltel 3.37.10, and then to sprint 3.37.15), but only had to get re-authenticated after the first flash. Just an observation.