Upgraded phone now it thinks it is roaming
 

I upgrade my rom to dcd’s 2.2.6 and radio 2.27 and it all went fine and the phones worked as it should expect the phone wouldn’t always wake up when the power button was pushed, trying to fix this I then flashed the unofficial Sprint roam, my phone now thinks it is roaming ( I live outside the states). When using the phone I also see that the phone indicates International instead of our local provider.

Any ideas on how to tell the phone it is not roaming, I have copied the epst from a good phone over to my phone but that hasn't worked and relashed with dcd’s rom and radio but no joy.

It appears that the loading of the unofficial Roam caused this problem, not dcd's rom

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Mine does this too. I forced mine to Sprint only. It takes a few seconds after resetting to aquire signal. Not sure why

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Try doing a hard reset...if not try reverting back to the stock rom. I am having issues with roaming as well...if my phone is roaming, it can not be authenticated blah blah blah and it disconnects me.

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thanks guys for the info, a bit stuffed here as I would like to go back to a stock rom but can't get hold of one.

Telecom New Zealand

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set it to be forced to your carrier only. Then you can go back in and turn roaming back on and it will generally connect right to your carrier, it just takes a minute for the radio sometimes.

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Thanks for the suggestions.
I tried putting the phone into Home Only mode but even there is still indicated it was roaming. It is almost like the phone expects to be in the USA and if it isn't it roams.

Any other ideas guy's ?

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Check your PRL... make sure its not a Sprint PRL.

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It is the sprint PRL, but I thought the PRL was only used when roaming not to tell the phone it's home location and when to roam.

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Sounds to me like your phone thinks it's on Sprint, but your carrier is not Sprint...correct?

Did you check your MSID and MDN?

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Thanks all, I found that all I need to do was down load a new PRL file from Telecom (over the phone). So this can help other people it appears that the PRL also tells the phoen which provider is their normal provider and when to roam and not only whcih provider to use if roaming.

One other thing I also had here was that my data wouldn't work when I was using the incorrect PRL.

To downlaod a PRL in NZ dail *22800

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Is there any way to extract the PRL and upload it?

If I ring *22800 it says I need to talk to someone as they can't automatically provision my phone.

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I talked to someone, and they are unable to provision my phone at all, even manually because they can't unlock it. They asked what my PRL was, I gave them 60661 or whatever comes with 3.27 radio, they said it should only be 4 digits long. Then they said they can't help me.

A TCNZ PRL would be appreciated.

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No they can't give you a prl but I will download some files on line tomorrow for you, one is a epst and but adding that to your ROM you should be able to sort your phone out and telecom will be able to help you.

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I think I ran across your issue last night. Sounds like you let the Sprint customizations run.

I had to flash back to the stock Verizon ROM which removed the MSL and set it to 000000. Then I ran the 3.16 ROM again and reset before the Sprint customizations could run. That should fix your problem.

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Make sense, with what you have said. Most providers work out the MSL lock code by running a tool to calculate it using the ESN number, with TCNZ they have a stock standard code of 482826 and by using other providers epst files this number gets all missed up and hence Telecom can’t get you into the epst file to change or confirm your MSID and MDN.


download dcd's 3.2.2 kitchen
Delete epst.epst file in the dcd_carrier_telus and replace with this one.
In the Kitchen build the rom selecting Telus as the carrier

Once flashed
· type in the phone ##778#
· edit and use the unlock code of 482826 (if this number doesn’t work then use the GETSPC to calculate your ESN Hex umber that is printed under your battery, make sure to use CAPS)
· go to view info and update your Nam Setting MDN and MSID
· you MDN is you full mobile number eg 0275670008 and your MSID is 173 and your mobile number -027 so in this case the MSID would be 1735670008.

You should now be able to save and reset your phone and then download a PRL by dialling in *22800

At the end of the day I am using the Aero Rom as it seems the most stable for me.

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And John trumps me with a better solution once again. ;)

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Thanks guys, worked perfectly!

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Does the EVDO work? because mine isn't working after flashing dcd's latest rom, Telecom sorted out the MSID etc but now evdo won't work will downloading the prl fix this?

Cheers

Phill