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Palm Pre Comprehensive Guide for switching carriers, Please Sticky
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NOTE: DO NOT UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF WEBOS UNTIL AFTER EVERYTHING IS WORKING CORRECTLY. Memory addresses can change with updates and Palm may add other provisioning checks as they develop this mobile OS. Be cautious when updating. First off I have to thank Tonycortes, GaKAsterman, Cleanser, xxRake, and Nickpl for all the wonderful information that has been contributed to this community. Please do not hesitate to look this guide over and suggest any edits or additions to this information, this is solely for the community and will not be distributed by sales, no one person put out all this information, so no one man shall profit from the work of others, therefore it is protected under creative commons licenses. From enabling linux to getting evdo working A start to almost finish guide to the palm prē Okay so you just got your first palm pre, you opened the box and decided it’s just not the time for Sprint. You pop in the battery and power on your palm pre and see a screen that prompts you that you must activate this phone before actually being able to use it, this is crazy! You think to yourself, why can I not use a phone that I paid for!? There are going to be a few things you need for this project: • Qinray’s 1.03 WebOS image: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z4R3Q7QX • Diagnostic drivers for the palm pre: http://mobile-files.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111201 • CDMA workshop and/or QXDM with QPST: Unfortunately I cannot tell you were to find these, as it would be illegal to upload these. Just google it and you will find it. There is CDMA workshop 2.7 out there, but I like QXDM and QPST more. The versions I used were: QPST_2.15_build_231 and QXDM31136. • Prl’s for the carrier you will want to use the pre on. They can be found here: http://corolada.com/prl/ • For Alltel use 40051, found here: http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/prl/index.asp Step 1: So you actually want to use the phone you purchased? (Activation Bypass) Flash your palm prē with the custom xxRake.treo8 WebOSDoctor rom, after clicking the link below click the green button to get your WebOS rom. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z4R3Q7QX --> This one may be a faster location. After it is downloaded connect your palm pre to your computer and choose charge only mode, if you haven’t done this before a driver installation will ensue, as soon as this is finished you should be ready to go. Run the jar file and once it’s done you should be good to go. Here are the instructions right off of Palm’s site: Code:
1. Run the tool on your computer. Now since we have bypassed activation it is time to open up the wonderful world of linux on our phone. This was known as “rooting” but has been amended to “accessing linux.” There is a newer way on the predevwiki, but I prefer the older method of accessing linux on the pre. Here is the way I did it: Code:
This comes directly from the predevwiki here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/...x_From_Windows On a sidenote you can continue with the “Next Steps” section in the wiki to install the optware packages for the pre, but they are not the main point of this guide. (However it may be in your best interest to install the optware packages if you are going to use PmModemFactory and TilIpcTest later). You will also want to look at the section about logging in via ssh, it’s very important for pretty much anything else you want to do on the pre. Step 3: So you want to get the pre on a different carrier? (Change the SPC) Well the first thing you are going to want to do is find the Palm pre’s SPC/MSL code, this stands for the Service Provider Code or Master Subsidiary Lock. This allows the provider to lock out certain features or makes it so the user cannot change certain items in the phone; say your mobile directory number or mobile station number, but more on that later. Here is the mini how to GakAsterman wrote up: http://mobile-files.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111201 Quote:
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Step 4: So you want to get your pre working on a different network? (Almost to the data part)
Since you now have your SPC code it is very easy to get the pre on a new network. • Connect your pre to your computer, login in via putty (you should have downloaded putty a while ago when rooting) login as root and type the command: mpt d, this will put your pre into diagnostic mode. You should see a driver install dialogue pop up and install some com ports, you will definitely be using this to connect to QPST. • Once you have those com ports available to you configure QPST to use that port. • Under Service Programming go to the Roaming tab and upload your PRL • After that the easiest way to change your MDN and MSID is to go into the dialer and enter ##SPC# (SPC == your SPC) • Then input your MSID and MDN and close the card • If in the case that you have Alltel or Verizon you are going to want to call their customer support hotlines and try to get them to add your pre’s MEID (I told them it was a Palm Centro and they gave me no hassle adding it) • Once that is done dial *228 for over the air activation. EDIT: Also for verizon you need to edit NV_ITEM 9000 from 02 to 01, this changes it from Sprint to Verizon. • If you don’t want to deal with getting them to add the MEID, just clone the ESN of a different phone already on the network. NOTE: This is very much illegal and I do not condone these practices in any way. The information on this is in the thread here: http://mobile-files.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111278 • Congrats you now have voice and sms working on your palm pre on a different network. • For a cosmetic change you can edit the palm pre’s banner by editing it with PmModemFactory. Just edit nv item 9047 and input the decimal equivalent of the word, use this tool found here: http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ Code:
PmModemFactory –p 000000 {<--spc code} • First off the information here is provided by GakAsterman here in this thread: http://mobile-files.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111961 Quote:
First you might need some settings, so these settings will be different depending on the provider, I will try to compile a list of them. Here are alltel's various settings, thanks to Nickpl: Quote:
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his is something I found over on PPCGeeks, could be of use: Quote:
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US Cellular
NAI: {your number}@uscc.net Tethered NAI: {your number}@uscc.net HA Shared Secret: Need to get this from a US Cellular device AAA Shared Secret: (haven't found this yet) MN-HA: 10E1 MN-AAA: 2 Rev Tunnel Preferred: enable Home Address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA Address: 255.255.255.255 Secondary HA address: 255.255.255.255 DMU Public Key: 41 Cricket NAI: {your number}@mycricket.com Tethered NAI: {your number}@mycricket.com HA Shared Secret: AAA Shared Secret: MN-HA: MN-AAA: Rev Tunnel Preferred: enable Home Address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA Address: 192.190.109.42 Secondary HA address: 192.190.109.43 DMU Public Key: PAP/PPP user: {your number}@mycricket.com PAP/PPP pass: cricket UPDATE 8/13/09 Verizon Profile Enabled: yes NAI: {your number}@vzw3g.com Tethered NAI: {your number}@dun.vzw3g.com (NOTE: This resets to myphonenumber after every write) Rev Tunnel Preferred: yes Home address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA address: 255.255.255.255 Seconday HA address: 255.255.255.255 MN-HA SPI: 12C MN-AAA SPI: 2 DMU Public Key ID: 10 DMU Mobile Authenticator: HA Shared Secret: AAA Shared Secret: Active User Profile: 2 Mobile IP Behavior is set to Simple Only PPP Settings UM Tethered NAI: {your number}@dun.vzw3g.com userid: {your number}@vzw3g.com password: vzw AN userid:{your number}@vzw3g.com password: vzw If anyone has anything else to share it would be very helpful, since I have not been able to find all the different carriers data settings. |
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I wrote this guide with a lot of help from the guys over at mobile-files.com. I thought I would share it here.
This is a fairly straightforward way of getting the palm pre on another network |
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Since most Pre's are using WebOS 1.1 and the new units out of the box have it loaded will these instructions not work?
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If the intent is to show users how to get the Pre running on other carriers I would suggest changing the title of the thread.
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What he said^^^^^^^^!
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