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Root Evo 4G to Boost Mobile Guide/Evo 3D

Yoandrisco said:
My story: HTC EVO 3D FLASHED TO METROPCS I had S-ON and everything worked perfect.... One day a new solution came out to get S-OFF (the one with the cable trick) anyways I did this s-off tutorial and everything went well I got S-OFF!! BUTTT the MEID went back to the sprint one instead of the metro meid that it had... SO Im trying to Get my metro meid back to the phone...I already did all steps but im stuck in the part where i have to go to the "nvm" folder in efs explorer..... Theres no "0" or "1943" file in there ... I already repeated all steps several times... Check all software version (qpst 2.7 355 etc..) please help me

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I have cdma workshop 3.4.5 bought it 2 years ago idk if that can help me in something. Thanks

Android 2.3.4
HTC Sense 3.0
software number 2.08.651.2
Baseband Version 1.06.00.1216
pri 1.42_003
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for metro pcs you do not change the meid, you pay metro to add that phone to there esn list.:p
 
mnJuggalo87 said:
Im so close to say F:mad: it all in this whole process and dropping 600$ and buy the 4G evo from boost that they just released. i bought a guide i fallowed all the steps. And the guide said that you can use any 3G boost mobile phone ive got the samsung galaxy prevail and the samsung transform ultra. i got to where you use QXDM and try to find the HA and AAA passwords by typing in the password blah blah then the requestnvitemread blah blah stuff and everything comes up as zeros i need a detailed tip on how to find that and if i go to ##data# enter spc and hit edit enter spc i can change the HA and AAA password there cant i just do that or dose it need to be the one from the phone......NEED HELP DONT WANT TO DROP 600$
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You can not get those from the prevail through those programs, there is other way but it takes time and patience.
This post tells the way to get them.
xda-developers - View Single Post - Htc flash to boost mobile guide [noob]
 
at2ndct said:
ok! hey guys i followed the instructions on how to put the evo 4g on boost!
i kind of got stuck on the zeroing part! but after trying everything out there from
downgrading from radio 2.15.00.11.19 to 2.15.00.01.09 nothing was working for me!
i had to upgrade again to radio 2.15.00.11.19 and then did a bunch of different scans! and finally i was able to zero out both my esn & meid!

now i wrote the donnors (incognito) meid to the evo and on qpst followed the editing part of prof 0 and prof 1 and active user to 0 wrote to the phone and then rebooted by itself and during the reboot the screen on my pc popped a screen saying the mobile reported the follwing errors while writing nv!!!!
error nv_ue_imei_i nv_readonly_s
well i let the phone finish rebooting itself it does show my incognitos info! but i get no 3g!!!
i went back to qpst to redo the last steps a few times i noticed that everything looks good! expept for the active user 0!!!
it wont stay on 0 !!

any help with this issue would be appreciated!! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Could you possibly post all the addresses for the MEID locations you used? I am having trouble find a couple, I have done scan after scan and such, the ESN is zeroed but now I just need the MEID. Thanks in advance!
 
I can find all the ESN locations but only 7 of the MEID locations, I have done the scan in CDMA WS over and over and still come up with the same results. Has anyone done this with radio 2.15.00.11.19 and can post the addresses they used? It's been about a week and I am about to smash the phone. Also the Evo 3D method does not work, can't see file 0 or 1943 in EFS, although using revskills I can browse using their EFS and I see both files but I can't edit them cause it doesn't have that option.
 
Pokeemonn said:
I can find all the ESN locations but only 7 of the MEID locations, I have done the scan in CDMA WS over and over and still come up with the same results. Has anyone done this with radio 2.15.00.11.19 and can post the addresses they used? It's been about a week and I am about to smash the phone. Also the Evo 3D method does not work, can't see file 0 or 1943 in EFS, although using revskills I can browse using their EFS and I see both files but I can't edit them cause it doesn't have that option.
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you do not edit them on the phone. You copy them to your computer then using hex editor edit them then copy them(and replacing the one on the phone) back to the phone
 
new optimus said:
you do not edit them on the phone. You copy them to your computer then using hex editor edit them then copy them(and replacing the one on the phone) back to the phone
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I understand that, I don't see them at all in the folder using EFS Explorer but I can see it using the EFS tool in RevSkills. For some reason it is hidden in the Num folder. Any ideas?
 
UGH! i can't move the damn file 0 and file 1943..every time i try to copy the files from the phone i get error code (222) invalid argument!!:( any ideas?????? im seriously close to smashing this evo 3d into a million pieces.

*EDIT* Ok i solved the issue for anyone having the same problem. instead of using QPST 2.7 Build 355 i used QPST 2.7 Build 366 and i could drag the files..

i am however stuck agian :/..

stuck on "Round 9" i have zeroed out and everything went well now i need to write my meid hex id in QXDM but i'm unsure what it is or where the find it..

i think it has something to do with "round 3" and "round 4"

as the evo 3d guide has you obtain 465,466,1192,1194 and nam1 and nam2 but never says what to do with the files maybe it was accidentally left out of the 3d guide?

so where may i obtain my meid hex id? any help is much appreciated thanks!

*EDIT 2*

alrighty, so i believe i have the esn and meid part done correctly however after finishing everything up (ha, aaa etc) and rebooting the phone sits on hands free activation and never finishes and errors out.

("Your activation could not be completed to try again, choose "update profile" inthe system updates area of settings. if the problem persists, you may need to contact customer support. error code:1012").

also let it be known this phone was previously owned by a friend of mine in which he had it flashed to verizon (the msl was all zeros etc) so i did a ##786# reset and cleared everything out but it still wont activate.. i did notice after doing that the info in ##786# the phone number is now 000000#### (#'s being the last four digits of his old number) but the meid and esn matches my donor any idea whats going on or what i can try to do to get this thing working? thanks in advance.
 
Ok so I updated to build 355 of QPST and I can now see files 0 and 1943! Thanks panic.exe for that one! Now my only problem is I can't click and drag it to my desktop, doesn't even drag at all. Any ideas?
 
ok got an update on my status...

got everything correctly put in programming service.. hands free activation still isn't working so i decided to try to make a phone call to see if i could dial out or if i got sometype or error.

I got transferred to "welcome to verizon wireless, please wait will we transfer your call" so somehow the phone is still trying to use verizon???? any idea how i would change this? is there a setting somewhere on the phone that i am missing???

i was looking around and i think you have to flash a .000001 prl to get it to work with verizon so maybe that is the problem? how would i go about flashing the correct prl if that is the problem? also where would i be able to get the correct prl i need? can i pull it off my donor?

any help would be very much appreciated thanks alot!
 
panic.exe said:
ok got an update on my status...

got everything correctly put in programming service.. hands free activation still isn't working so i decided to try to make a phone call to see if i could dial out or if i got sometype or error.

I got transferred to "welcome to verizon wireless, please wait will we transfer your call" so somehow the phone is still trying to use verizon???? any idea how i would change this? is there a setting somewhere on the phone that i am missing???

i was looking around and i think you have to flash a .000001 prl to get it to work with verizon so maybe that is the problem? how would i go about flashing the correct prl if that is the problem? also where would i be able to get the correct prl i need? can i pull it off my donor?

any help would be very much appreciated thanks alot!
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prl is easy you can do that with cdma ws or qpst sprint prls will work perfectly and you can find them at xda forum or just do a search for sprint prl.
 
new optimus said:
prl is easy you can do that with cdma ws or qpst sprint prls will work perfectly and you can find them at xda forum or just do a search for sprint prl.
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alrighty so i wrote nam1 and nam2 from my donor to the 3d in cdma workshop and the correct info is now displayed under ##786# my phone number is correct and msid is correct as well as the esn and meid however if i do a factory reset from this screen when the phone reboots after it is done clearing everything it reverts back to the phone number being 0000007812 but the esn and meid is correct for my donor.

i tried to make an outgoing call to see what the message would be before reseting in ##786# while the info is correct and got error number 16 while making the call.

trying to call after the reset (when the number is reverted back to 0000007812) the message says "your account is not autherized to make calls to this number, please call customer service yada yada yada"

i did write the prl from my donor (nam1.prl it said nam2 didn't have prl info or something like that) in cdma workshop under the other tab. but it didn't make a difference still unable to do hands free activation after rewriting nam1 and nam2 under the nam tab.

any ideas if im doing something wrong? or any ideas what to try next?


*edit* ok so i couldnt get the new sprint prl to flash with qpst was saying something about it has no data or something however i was able to get it to write a boost prl (61008.prl) but i still can't get it to do the hands free activation thing :/ any ideas on what to try next :(?
 
panic.exe said:
uninstall build 355 and install build 366.
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Thanks, now I can drag the files, edit them but when I drag them back into EFS I get the same error you had, error 222 invalid argument?

EDIT: Got the files changed out ESN and MEID are now zeroed, just wondering if I could have just changed the ESN/MEID right in those files instead of using QXDM to write it?

EDIT #2: Got the ESN and MEID from my donor on my phone, I think I got the wrong HA and AAA pws though which sucks cause the computer I use for XP is terrible and don't feel like doing that all over again. I assume this is the problem cause I still have no voice or anything.
 
when it comes to switching the numbers around mine has one of the 0's in front of it. it should look like this A00000 but instead it looks like this 0A0000

i used HHD SOFTWARE hex editor
 
Pokeemonn said:
Thanks, now I can drag the files, edit them but when I drag them back into EFS I get the same error you had, error 222 invalid argument?

EDIT: Got the files changed out ESN and MEID are now zeroed, just wondering if I could have just changed the ESN/MEID right in those files instead of using QXDM to write it?

EDIT #2: Got the ESN and MEID from my donor on my phone, I think I got the wrong HA and AAA pws though which sucks cause the computer I use for XP is terrible and don't feel like doing that all over again. I assume this is the problem cause I still have no voice or anything.
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im pretty sure you got the right ha and aaa. i can't imagine it giving you a false one regardless of the system quality (i could be wrong) the only sure way is to grab it agian and see if it matches. did you write your nam1 and nam 2 to the phone yet?
 
panic.exe said:
im pretty sure you got the right ha and aaa. i can't imagine it giving you a false one regardless of the system quality (i could be wrong) the only sure way is to grab it agian and see if it matches. did you write your nam1 and nam 2 to the phone yet?
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Got it all going good, rebooted the phone called my house to make sure I can make calls and then tried to send a text that was no good but the call went through. About 5 minutes later tried to make a call and got error 16 switch 1 or something of that sort. Any ideas?

EDIT: Stayed on the line and spoke to a customer service rep(DONOR PHONE WAS POWERED OFF) and used my landline while my Evo was on and they told me to turn off my "phone"(turned off my evo at this time) the woman instructed me to wait 2 minutes and turn it back on while she refreshed my account. I turned the phone on and bam had it all working! Hope that helps anyone that has had this problem and I want to say THANK YOU to everyone in this thread that has posted any help and information to help get this done!
 
Pokeemonn said:
Got it all going good, rebooted the phone called my house to make sure I can make calls and then tried to send a text that was no good but the call went through. About 5 minutes later tried to make a call and got error 16 switch 1 or something of that sort. Any ideas?
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to get messaging working you have to dial ##3282# goto edit mode click on advanced and scroll to the bottom and change the mms server from mms.sprintpcs.com to http://mm.myboostmobile.com
 
+1 on the mikg 3.11
Very good, stable rom. Been running it with the classic-sbc kernel, Been a nice set up.

Sorry bout off topic. I've been looking at this. Was wondering if it's any easier if your already rooted? And do I need two donor phones? It seems that there are two phones discussed as donors. Or did I just miss read that:rolleyes:
 
Ken C said:
+1 on the mikg 3.11
Very good, stable rom. Been running it with the classic-sbc kernel, Been a nice set up.

Sorry bout off topic. I've been looking at this. Was wondering if it's any easier if your already rooted? And do I need two donor phones? It seems that there are two phones discussed as donors. Or did I just miss read that:rolleyes:
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really no difference if rooted or not, you still use the same method.

you only need one donor, the guide was talking about 2 different donors to choose from.. as each have a different method to grabbing the files and things you need from the phones.
 
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