All i can tell you is this: a metropcs clerk handed me a print-out from the metrpcs tech department. it stated CLEARLY: #1 - that the store people are to hook-up the cell to the ?cellbrite? machine #2 - naviagate to the lg esteem location #3 - push out the VV5 version of the Esteem ROM to the Connect now, YOU go argue with them. i am merely reporting what i HAD IN MY HAND and READ. and i am a pc tech for 28+ yrs...i am NOT some 'noob'. the reason i even had it was because the dumb clerk said we could do this from home, till i read the directions and i told him that this cannot be done from home and he took it back. second thing, if it WORKS...WHY did i READ the ACTUAL email from the atlanta customer service dept stating that they have NO CLUE on how to fix this??? AND they authorize phone swap-outs???? say what you want...my Connect and about 15 other people's did not work either, and some of them DID have the vv5, they were getting put on while i was THERE...after that, we ALL got NEW phones (another model). there maybe TWO vv5's...metropcs is pushing out the ESTEEM rom...in hopes that it will work, and that is dangerous, as they are NOT the same.... all i know is the esteem vv5 being pushed out (at least 2 weeks ago) by metropcs does not work and i have a BRAND NEW phone now....
^^^ This just confirms that profound, fluid stupidity is not limited to just the corporate store level
ANYWAY....zandersig might be on to something here; try using VV4/VV5 phone firmware to see if that will work. Herein lies the problem, Peter:
I'm far from an android expert. I don't believe that taking the phone.apk from VV5 and simply dumping it in VV3 system is going to do anything. What I need to know is, maybe a little bit of help here, what (if anything) else needs to be replaced? Does the com.android.phone represent a process of the phone.apk, or is that something else entirely? Do we need to have matching baseband files (VV3/4/5 have different BB!!), modem files etc?
Also, my Connect has NO service. I couldn't even test to see if switching files fixes the error since I can only get a signal db reading, I show no 1x, 3G, 4G because it's decommissioned. So, of course testers would be required.
So if anybody with better system knowledge wants to chime in here, feel free. I'm not going to try this until then. I need money, and this Connect I have is still worth a few bucks so I'm not going to risk bricking it without knowing what I'm getting into LOL...
