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StillHacking

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OK, short story is I bought a droid X to experiment with on ebay. It arrived as promised in usable condition with the flash at 4.5.621 stock. It also had been flashed to Cricket

I immediately flashed and rooted using the Milestone sbf. Successfully rooted and installed the stock rooted rom. For some reason it still has the Cricket flash. I deleted all data from all settings I could find. At one point after experimenting with CDMA workshop and or QPST I could get it to activate on Verizon voice and text only, no 3g data and no 3g symbol.

I also noted in QPST it clearly still has cricket selected. It was even more frustrating to make all the corrections and write to phone and see it goes through the motions with no errors but Cricket is NOT overwritten.

I have been searching the net for 3 days now with no answer. Perhaps before the .621 update it was simpler to sbf back to stock, not sure.

If anyone has any suggestions please comment. For now this has been a great project and I feel I could now flash my original X with the stock root easily. for now it looks like this phone is stuck on Cricket.

Thanks,
SH
 
StillHacking said:
OK, short story is I bought a droid X to experiment with on ebay. It arrived as promised in usable condition with the flash at 4.5.621 stock. It also had been flashed to Cricket

I immediately flashed and rooted using the Milestone sbf. Successfully rooted and installed the stock rooted rom. For some reason it still has the Cricket flash. I deleted all data from all settings I could find. At one point after experimenting with CDMA workshop and or QPST I could get it to activate on Verizon voice and text only, no 3g data and no 3g symbol.

I also noted in QPST it clearly still has cricket selected. It was even more frustrating to make all the corrections and write to phone and see it goes through the motions with no errors but Cricket is NOT overwritten.

I have been searching the net for 3 days now with no answer. Perhaps before the .621 update it was simpler to sbf back to stock, not sure.

If anyone has any suggestions please comment. For now this has been a great project and I feel I could now flash my original X with the stock root easily. for now it looks like this phone is stuck on Cricket.

Thanks,
SH
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I'm guessing this was your mistake. I think you should have SBF'ed with 621 and done a factory reset first. Anyway, I suggest you start from scratch...SFB 621, factory reset, SBF to 604, root, etc.
 
ylexot said:
I'm guessing this was your mistake. I think you should have SBF'ed with 621 and done a factory reset first. Anyway, I suggest you start from scratch...SFB 621, factory reset, SBF to 604, root, etc.
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ylexot,

Thanks for the input, I thought I did this but I just did it again and it's still Cricket. Is it required to sbf to 621, factory reset then sbf to 604 and factory reset again to clear? I'll look for a 604 sbf.

SH
 
Um, yes correct it is again at 4.5.604 Milestone using the sbf linux cd. I think the Milestone sbf does not allow you to change from cricket to verizon or vice versa if you took the factory .621 update. As I was experimenting with QPST it would write but not take when I changed from Cricket under M.IP, and PPP Config Um and AN. NAI, Tethered NAI and User ID comes up phonenumber@mycricket.com. Strange, someone please prove me wrong...
 
OK, it looks like QPST WILL write to the phone under M.IP only. I can now again activate under Verizon for voice and text only. Is there a way to update the PRL back to verizon? I see PRL's available for Cricket and other but not Verizon. Not sure if I can write anyhow. I need to take a break from this it is starting to not be fun.
 
The answer is...

My phone was "changed" by the Cricket flash. If a phone was Cricket and or had corrupted firmware you may loose the 3G connection.

I thought the Milestone flash was returning my phone to factory settings, most of you know of course it was not. Originally I did not sbf to .621. I did not know it was an option.

I thought we could no longer sbf in the Microsoft world with this phone at .621, wrong. I properly sbfed to .621 using information found here: SBF'd works but no data network?

RSD Lite 5.6 with the .621 sbf got me where I needed to be. I'd forgotten about the blue triangle where the 3g symbol lands after activation.

The link information woke me up as to what I was missing. The good news is if you have flashed to Cricket and wish to root with the Milestone method, you can keep the Cricket flash.

Many thanks to all the developers out there as well as, ylexot and Goose306 for your post on Droid x forums.

In defense of my own ineptitude this problem seems to be out there. I stumbled through many threads unanswered concerning this issue. If the sbf back to stock is here I missed it, perhaps it should be a sticky, or does it no longer matter for this aging/obsolete phone.

I do like experimenting with older "cheaper" technology.

Thanks again,
SH
 
I stumbled across this thread while searching for a way to remove a Cricket flash and return the phone back to Verizon. Just bought a Verizon Droid RAZR online, and while I can connect to Verizon's 4G data network, it tries to connect to a Cricket voice network. Though I am an engineer, I am on the RF/antenna hardware side of things and have no experience with this stuff. SO two questions: will Cricket unflash the phone and (after you all stop laughing) is there a step-by-step method I can use to return this phone to a Verizon-friendly state? 'Preciate the help.
 
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