Consolidated DUAL NAM and SPC Finding/Changing Tutorial!

[tobeychris]

Firstly I have to say that the cell phone companies don't like you doing this. They probably gave you a nice subsidy on your phone, and now you want to activate it on another network! It is not my fault if you brick your phone, have your services terminated, are arrested, or any other crazy event that is the result of you reading this thread.

This has not actually been tested, but hopefully we can get some confirmation that this will in fact work.

Required:

HTC Touch (Vogue)
USB Cable
CDMA Workshop ($99), Free demo available here.
Windows XP (have not tested on Vista)

Setting Up Your Dual NAM!

1. Connect your Vogue to your computer with the usb cable. This is also an excellent time to back up anything, just in case.

2. We need to put the phone in diagnostic mode. This is done by running dmrouter.exe, similar to epst.exe by calling ##DIAG and pressing send. This may not work for everyone, it may be your rom, it may be the code, there are a couple other forms, one being ##DIAG#, search around for what works for you.

3. Let windows install your new hardware. There will be two dialogs that come up. The first one should install after you click next. The next will require a file called qcmdmxp.sys and says it can't be found. As luck has it, your computer already has this file, and it's located here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.
Simply tell the wizard to look there, and it will show the file, click on it, and the installation will finish.

4. Launch CDMA Workshop. You've probably started using the demo version, this is pretty good. The full version has a few more features enabled to let you change things like that Banner displayed at the top of HTC Home, and other fun things like that. There are also some other 'versions' available if you search.

4.5. Marvel at the beauty of this program and all the hard work that went into it.

5. Your phone should now be on COM Port 4. On the main tab on the right, choose Com 4, then click Connect. In the bottom right it should tell you it Connected to Com4 successfully.

6. We now want to read the info from your phone! Simply click Read and now all the information on the left fills up.

7. Goto the NAM tab at the top. This is where everything we need is. At the bottom in the middle, you can select which NAM you're trying to configure, since this should be your first time, leave it on NAM1 and click on Read.

8. All of your information should come up for your current phone. Look over it and see if you can try to understand some of it.

9. Do #7 for NAM2, and this is where you will enter in the information for your second line.

10. Make sure your phone can actually switch between NAM1 and NAM2.
Press the green button to bring up the dialer > goto Menu > Options > Services Tab > and there should be a Switch NAM option. If there isn't, you will need a registry editor in order to goto:
HKLM>Software>OEM>PhoneSetting>HiddenNAMSelectPage and change it from 1 to 0.

QPST and QXDM are also in the ftp as they are excellent programs.
After looking through them, you can also use the Service Programming to do all of this and more!!! This leads to this nice section:

Finding and Changing Your SPC (MSL)!

1. Download the MSL Generator from the FTP.

2. Save the GetSPC.exe and PPST_KeyGen.dll files to your MicroSD card.



3. Now you need your HEX ESN. You have a couple options with this.

a) Take out your battery, right down the Decimal ESN and convert it to HEX.

b) Go into your Start>Setting>Device Settings and right down the Decimal ESN and convert it to HEX. (thanks to clockcycle)

c) Open up the CDMA Workshop, Choose Com4, Connect, Read, and your ESN should be on the Left. if it says : : failed : : , goto the Security tab, and under ESN click on Read. This is your HEX ESN. (should have some letters in it as well as numbers)

4. Run the GetSPC.exe file on your phone (from your memory card) and then enter your HEX ESN in the input box.

5. Click Go.

6. Enjoy your SPC!

**If you only wanted to get your SPC, you can stop here. If you want to get into the Service Programming files, or change your SPC, keep going.

7. Install QPST if you haven't already.

8. Run the Service Programming program under the QPST start menu.

9. Double click on the little globe at the bottom right of your screen.

10. Click on Add New Port, and add COM4 - USB/QC DIAGNOSTIC.

11. Close the QPST Configuration window, and go back to the QPST Service Programming window.

12. Click on your phone, which should now be there, and then click OK.

13. Click on Read From Phone and then enter your SPC and click OK.

14. You should now see your SPC in its box, all you have to do is change it to a convenient six (6) digit code of your choice, then click on Write to Phone!

15. Done!

Thanks to everyone who's posted information on these topics.

My Sources and other good info sites:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1326576
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...102#post297102
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=26691

Please post improvements, problems, or other thoughts below, but try to leave out the "thanks" or "you're an idiot, why would you want to do this" comments, and just click the thanks button.

[kaeslumz]

can you clarify what the use of a dual nam is for..
because i get it a little..but how could you use it and all that good stuff

[tobeychris]

This would be most useful for people who travel from canada or the states or vice-versa, as roaming charges are very high, you can *hopefully* have your canadian number and plan on your NAM1, then a prepaid US number on NAM2 and use that when you goto the states so you're not paying roaming fees.

[tobeychris]

Updated to include SPC Finding and Changing.

[clockcycle]

Without having to take out the battery you can just go into your "device information" screen and read off your Hex ESN.

-CC

[tobeychris]

Mine appears as Decimal, but I added it to the options.

[kaeslumz]

in order ro write to phone in cdma workshop i just figured out that:
u need to open ##778# on ur phone and put in ur spc code..then as service programming loads..bring up the dial pad and go into ##3424# diag mode..connect to cdma workshop...now u can write to ur phone without cdma workshop saying put in your spc code..

[dannyppc6700]

so this wouldn't allow two lines on one phone then, like 2 sprint lines?

[LauraAmerica]

Originally Posted by dannyppc6700

so this wouldn't allow two lines on one phone then, like 2 sprint lines?

I don't think so, since they'd have your ESN duplicated. But probably you could have two lines at different carriers (like Verizon and Sprint).

[kaeslumz]

unless you have two seperate lines on a account..i think that might work..im just waiting to test it out already