Motorola Droid on Alltel
 

Can I buy a Motorola Droid on eBay or retail and make it work on the Alltel network?

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I did... :)
Seems to be working so far....

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I'm sure that you can do this. As I still have an Alltel plan but have a Droid. But I will guess that as long as the ESN is clean you shouldn't have a problem. But you can always check and see. Or check Amazon, I do believe they had the Droid for 20 bucks. But that would be with a new plan. And if nothing else you can always give Verizon a call and see if they would be alright with that. Never hurts to ask. Good luck, you will love the Droid. I know I have.

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Read through this thread:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=98048

In short, if you were formerly an Alltel customer who is now a part of Verizon due the the merger, and you're still using your old Alltel plan, you can purchase a Droid on eBay or for full reatail and activate it on that plan. That's what I did (the eBay route). If you go into a store or talk to a Verizon rep on the phone, they might tell you that you can't do it. But you can. The easiest thing to do is just to activate it online through your My Verizon account. No problems whatsoever.

But, if you're still an Alltel customer now who accesses your online account through Alltel, and you're not a Verizon customer, you can't do it by normal, legal means. Anyone who is still a part of the Alltel network (receiving Alltel bills and logging in through the Alltel websites) at this point was not included in the merger (or hasn't been incorporated yet), so it's a completely different company. It would be essentially like trying to activate a Sprint phone on the Alltel network.

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But you are now with Verizon. Huh?


My Alltel isn't going to Verizon. Didn't know if there was a work around.


Now this makes sense. Alltels phones just suck. I mean I love my TP, but c'mon. Get with it Alltel.

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Actually you can, but it's a huge pain in the ass. I live in an area where Alltel is still Alltel. After buying CDMA Workshop and hex editing certain parts of the phones memory, we've got one working almost fully. Trying to hash out the 3g connectivity issue. It works on and off... picking up an Alltel Hero to compare settings. When the 3g/EVDO actually works, it's fast and nice, but it just doesn't stay. I think it has something to do with mobile IP vs Simple IP settings. I honestly have no idea. I'll post back here if I figure something out.

Also, we were able to call our Alltel business rep who was able to add the MEID to one of our lines without issue, no illegal things happening here... :p

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So far, no dice on getting Alltel 3g/evdo working correctly on the Droid. Even went as far as cloning the Droid MEID to an alltel PPC6800 so I could get the HA and AAA shared secrets. Didn't help. :)

We're getting close to giving up, having the Hero didn't help us at all, the MIP settings were all the same. But with 1x data, it's good enough it seems.

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I had to flash mine through alltel. I can't link because im a nubb because I rarely post but just search motorola droid full solution updated. It will tel lyou how to do it. It is a bit of a pain to do and yes hashing out 3g is pretty rough. I had to remove 3g altogether and just use 1x right now until I can find a good ip/port.

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Don't know if you were having the same issue I had, 3g came on and off and 1x came on and off, but when 3g came it won't ping and eventually disconnects me. I had to dial *#*#info#*#* and go to phone info, and just use cdma only, 1x works constantly and without interruptions. 3g still seems to be the issue. To even get that to work I had to change the autostart.sh from whiterabbit initial IP addresses to an IP i found online from 2003. I really think the issue lies with finding a functional IP and Port for alltel to accept.

Did you check what ip and port the hero was trying to connect for its 3g(ev)?

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Yeah, that sounds like the same issue we were having, and forcing 1x seemed to do ok.

However, I believe I've found the answer, we're just going to test for a couple of days and make sure. The 3g icon is staying now though. :)

I've got screenshots of the process which I will throw up on my blog and then drop a link here... if it ends up being the real deal. It's looking good...

EDIT: I did nothing with the internal workings of the android software, all my changes were done with either CDMA tools or QPST. I'm going to google around for this autostart.sh you're talking about... I want to say we tried something like that early on but gave up on it very quickly. Also, MMS was not a concern of ours, so it has not been tested.

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Any luck on this? i have been doing many things and playing with APNs like crazy hoping to figure something out. I did reflash and ignore the autostart.sh and it seemed to work just fine. 1x seems to connect most of the time for me sometimes i get 3g, but mainly i just can't send mms, also when i recieve mms, it is always dropped down to 29kb (thumbnail size) for no reason.

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We're still working on MMS... it seems that the Hero uses a different app than android has built in. It looks like it's using an HTC app customized for alltel. So that doesn't help.

I'm not sure if our 3g solution is working or not, mainly because we get the same speeds up/down that we got with 1x. The only difference is the 3g icon in the bar stays.

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Been doing the same at

http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...6#post13983366

other stuff

Droid data on another carrier:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...lution-Updated

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WOW! Still, this would be soooooo awesome! Anyone figure it out yet bc Alltels phones still suck!!!!!!!!! I want a phone with a keyboard, and I like the Droid. Like my TP too, but it's getting old. Hoping for something here to materialize. :dontknow:

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Alltel now has the moto droid (called the moto milestone) but its the same phone

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I am a week behind but yes, I see that and picked up one today. Nice so far. Now, to get the hotspot feature working. Ideas???

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A little off topic, but how can Alltel offer an aged phone for the same price as the Droid 2? Screw you, Alltel! Get with the game! So tempted to bite the bullet and go to VZW just cause I'm so sick of having to spend hours tweaking a better phone to work with Alltel. I am, however, willing to give the Droid a chance if I can pick one up cheap enough. My tp is about to be thrown out the window and I need a new phone. I'll keep my eye on this thread and see how the Droid to Alltel is working out.

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Yeah I even tried to get the same telephony.db from a hero but for some reason couldn't get it. No idea. I even bought a Sprint hero and thought I might see if that would transfer over but it had the same issue. Oh well I think i got about a month before AT&T takes over I bought at&t branded Captivates and plan on switching to those instead of updating my plan i bought them on ebay.

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Anybody know how to get 2.2 up and running on an Alltel Milestone. I found this thread but didn't want to bump it.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/moto-droid...a-droid-2.html
Would this work with an Alltel phone?