Verizon VX6900 - Altell ROM

[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.