How to upgrade an xv6800 with the new Sprint ROM

[ggaeta]

All of the custom ROMS i can find are .rar files. Is

[leindurstit]

Good morning, everyone. Surfing a few threads yielded no leads, so I'm asking here.

I received a XV6800 last night, and the first thing I did (out of ignorance) was to try to flash it as quick as I could. Of course, I activated it before I flashed to make sure the thing worked first, and it went fine.

As for the flash, for the most part, it seems to have taken, except now I cannot make phone calls or initiate a modem call. Would this have something to do with not copying down the MSID, MDN and (possibly) Akey? It *seems* to be working otherwise, and the cellular modem obviously works because I'm getting Verizon's friendly "no authentication" message after a few rings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If anyone thinks a phone call to them would clear this up (with the typical 'I don't know, it looks like it hard reset' ploy,) well, that'd be good to know.

For the record, would writing down and reapplying those numbers from the ##778 menu prevent this from having to be fixed up in the future? It'd be nice to know that I won't have to call Verizon every time I update the rom.

Thank you.

[Getitnowmarketing]

Originally Posted by McBadass

Well, final update: I went through hell to get it, but my phone is finally up and running again. Apparently I only spoke to durtards at Verizon and they never reset my data usage or something like that. I ended up calling Verizon 10 or so times, they directed me to Asurian at one point, who directed me to my local verizon store, who directed me back to the verizon phone number.

Long story somewhat short: they were all idiots and I finally spoke to someone competant to get the data reset.

Word of warning: DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. You will most likely need an A-key in any case, so find what yours is and save it forever.

An A-key is a one use authentication key to enable voice over 1x. A dmu reset will help reset the data authentication and your evdo data connection. Just tell them you did a hard reset as its a well known issue with the xv6800 with vzw tech support.

[SephirothWGP]

I didn't read through all of this thread. But has anyone noticed slower speeds with the "Official" Rom. I had been running the leaked rom for a while and saw almost always at least 1500kb/s, now I'm lucky to see 1000kb/s.

[flexpackman]

Thanks Geckotek!

After lurking for so long maybe I can give others my experience to take the leap if a Verizon user.

Just upgraded to the 6800 after using the 6700 for the past 2 years. Kitchen Enhanced of course!

After reading through the many help files, especially yours, I took the "thrill" ride to upgrade my XV6800. Went pretty much uneventful. Some confusion in the bootloader process I think for many is if you come from the 6700 world you are so used to deactivating the USB connections in Activesync for flashing where the 6800 loader needs it. That's were I got scared...

After I flashed the new Sprint ROM, then the Kitchen Build of No2Chem 5060 I didn't have to reload any phone settings as you indicated. I did make a test phone call and received several calls from others afterwards. My data connectivity also worked fine. Set my Exchange Server info and synced all my contacts, calendar, and emails. So far, so good. To set this up, when I am at home, I am roaming in a USCellular area.

Traveling this morning to my workplace, I came into my cell home area with Verizon. After being "very well" in the home area, I was also getting the normal morning filling of my Inbox. Again so far, so good.

Then... I got my first phone call. One ring and that was it. Call ended by itself. When I tried to call the party back I got the evil "Phone not Authenticated" message. As you had eluded to, I called the number the message indicated to call and said I had done a hard reset. No issue with the CSR and they immediately took me through the process of loading a A-Key number. After that, life was and has been good...

So it looks like when the Verizon network seen me, wham-o!

Anyway, thanks again!

[flexpackman]

Originally Posted by leindurstit

Good morning, everyone. Surfing a few threads yielded no leads, so I'm asking here.

I received a XV6800 last night, and the first thing I did (out of ignorance) was to try to flash it as quick as I could. Of course, I activated it before I flashed to make sure the thing worked first, and it went fine.

As for the flash, for the most part, it seems to have taken, except now I cannot make phone calls or initiate a modem call. Would this have something to do with not copying down the MSID, MDN and (possibly) Akey? It *seems* to be working otherwise, and the cellular modem obviously works because I'm getting Verizon's friendly "no authentication" message after a few rings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If anyone thinks a phone call to them would clear this up (with the typical 'I don't know, it looks like it hard reset' ploy,) well, that'd be good to know.

For the record, would writing down and reapplying those numbers from the ##778 menu prevent this from having to be fixed up in the future? It'd be nice to know that I won't have to call Verizon every time I update the rom.

Thank you.

As I left in the previous message, it appears you will have to at least do the A-Key load with a CSR. The message I got said to dial #8899 and that connected me to a CSR. I even think she said "Did you do a Hard Reset" before I did. At least she was very familar with the phone. She had me stay on another phone that she called me on as she needed to watch my progress on her computer as I made a test call with the 6800. But she never said anything about checking the data connection, nor did I (should have to at least hear what she would have said). I can only assume she seen that I had the data package on her computer.

I would at least make the call to get an A-Key.

Good Luck!

[nick aguas]

Ok this was the second time ive flashed the Sprint ROM (first time let the customizations run, ended up stock reflashing and sending back to VZ for a refurb). anyway, this time went smoothly and upgraded to DCD's 3.0.4 on Thursday. When i was on radio 3.27.00 and dcd's 2.1.0, had no problem with GPS and google maps. ive been working at it for days now and still no beans. could the reg edits i entered for the bt/beam be affecting this?

edit: got gps working now. tried a few COM ports and 3 was the one that worked. soft reset and works great. most satellites ive ever connected to in so cal too, 7.

[Nickles]

Originally Posted by nick aguas

edit: got gps working now. tried a few COM ports and 3 was the one that worked. soft reset and works great. most satellites ive ever connected to in so cal too, 7.

THATS weird.. com4 is the GPS port.... do you have some port redirector on your phone ? (like GPS Gate) ?
that shouldn't be working !

[nick aguas]

Originally Posted by Nickles

THATS weird.. com4 is the GPS port.... do you have some port redirector on your phone ? (like GPS Gate) ?
that shouldn't be working !

i know ! i was using gps on COM 4 for months with dcd's 2.1.0. COM 4 or 5 would not work, but COM 3 connected to 7 satellites. and no i dont have any redirectors. upgraded to sprints ROM though.

[kcmoney13]

i know i have wrote about this before but I am still having issues with my gps connecting to the sattelites. For some reason it either wont conntect at all or takes 15-30 min to connect. I have tried using GPS view and it still does not fix the problem. My buddy sitting next to me has a sprint rom and his connects within seconds. WHAT GIVES? I am running DCD 3.0.1 and RADIO 3.35.04. Any ideas? anyone?