lost data no internet! please help

[3rdson]

Grashoper, I can't thank you enough!
I have spent the past 1 1/2 weeks beating my head against the wall looking for a solution to this very problem. I have also searched the forums without success and have also been on the phone with tech support.
This really should be a sticky as I'm sure there are lots of us Bell users that could benefit from your efforts.
Thank you again,
3rdson

[grashoper]

your very welcome. im glad my posts were able to help someone. cheers.

[GT!]

Do we know what causes this problem to occur? I know I flashed the Sprint rom and had no trouble at all (didn't let customizations run), and I'm sure I'm not the only one ...

Would be nice to know what to avoid.

-GT

[djsmoisin]

Grashopper, I have been struggling with this issue, and have exhausted alll means of fixing this issue....

Reading your Topic gave me hope....cept, they didnt work. I understand that you were able to flash back/downgrade the radio to Recover to OEM ROM. How was this possible? Im not attempting with other stickys re: downgrading.

Everytime I attempt to return to OEM ROM, I receive an error on the Host PC "Invalid Command" ...This isnt meant for your type of device blah blah blah

Comments?

[grashoper]

Well, i'm not exactly 100% sure because i'm sure there are multiple reasons why this could occur. In my case, I tried putting a ROM that was supposed to have a 3.35 Radio, and i only had the stock bell rom on my blower, and it completely locked up during the transfer and I had a hell of a time getting anything to load onto it at all. I can't remember the sequence of events that i ran on the RUU, but somehow i managed to get the 3.35 radio, and a ROM that i fried up myself on PPCKitchen. At that point, my Data dissapeared. Went back to stock radio and ROM, and went from there. I have reverted back to the stock ROM twice sence with no problems. Now i'm back running another custom ROM i made myself, based on the latest PPCKtichen, and 3.37 Radio. Working fantastic.
Perahps sometime over the weekend i can try to help you with yours. I have learned alot from this experience, and there is a whole host of things that you can try.
In the meantime, i have been working on a glitch the past week or so. the time stamp on all my SMS (Text) message always shows 3 hours ahead on all incoming messages. All other times on the phone are fine. E-Mail accounts, MSN messages Etc. I'm, stumped. several people report this problem on various websites, but no solution yet. Chow for now...

EDIT- When your attempting to put the stock ROM back on, are you running the original .40 Unlocker? if not, this is a must.

[grashoper]

EDIT- When your attempting to put the stock ROM back on, are you running the original .40 Unlocker? if not, this is a must.

EDIT#2- oops. if somebody has the power to delete this post, feel free. My bad!

[Omerta6]

I changed my ESN to an old audiovox one and still luck re authenticating on the bell network

[God67]

grashoper... good thread here as I am having a very similar problem... I have an additonal issue though as my phone won't take my MSN when I do the ##778# thing. I just reran GETSPC and the MSN came back the same so I don't know what is up with that?

[God67]

Grashoper et al... believe it or not Bell helped me out with this one. I want to share it because it was an incredibly easy fix...

I had only called Bell because I was looking for the correct password (I obviously didn't want them to know that I had messed with the ROM and Radio).

In the process they suggested the following process to deregister and reregister on the network:

To use your terminology:

Hammer in ##MSL# <gets you to the "activation wizard">

Note your MDN and MSID
<they also told me that MSID is your cell number unless you have ported your number from another carrier as I have)

Change MDN and MSID to area code with 7 zeros after

Reboot and make a call (any call just so the network sees the phone - it won't work anyway)

Hammer in ##MSL#

Change MDN and MSID back to original settings and reboot...

and voila... back in business.

She said that we simply had to reregister the phone on the network...

[grashoper]

Originally Posted by God67

Grashoper et al... believe it or not Bell helped me out with this one. I want to share it because it was an incredibly easy fix...

I had only called Bell because I was looking for the correct password (I obviously didn't want them to know that I had messed with the ROM and Radio).

In the process they suggested the following process to deregister and reregister on the network:

To use your terminology:

Hammer in ##MSL# <gets you to the "activation wizard">

Note your MDN and MSID
<they also told me that MSID is your cell number unless you have ported your number from another carrier as I have)

Change MDN and MSID to area code with 7 zeros after

Reboot and make a call (any call just so the network sees the phone - it won't work anyway)

Hammer in ##MSL#

Change MDN and MSID back to original settings and reboot...

and voila... back in business.

She said that we simply had to reregister the phone on the network...

HUH! that is very cool. yah know, i really think alot of times with tech support staff, (with any company) it really shows who knows their job better, which perhaps comes from years of service with company your working for. Once in a while you will get somebody who truly knows their job inside and out VS reading information off the computer screen. I'm almost tempted to run thru your steps, just to see if it will make any other improvements <wink> not that my blower isn't working well, now.. who knows, perhaps there are glitches that i don't even recognize as less than perfect.

ya know, reading my 'lingo' in somebody's else's sentence made me laugh.. The GF even came in the room to see what i was lafin at. Thanks!
Maybe it's the way we do it here on the East Coast and don't even realize it. chow for now...