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

Is this the wrong forum? New Optimus I'm not sure if you were replying to me about the Evo 3d method. If you were I am already rooted. I had no problem with that. I just can't recieve calls. I need to swap my meid and the way I'm doing it there seems to be a problem.

Thank You.
 
openphone said:
Is this the wrong forum? New Optimus I'm not sure if you were replying to me about the Evo 3d method. If you were I am already rooted. I had no problem with that. I just can't recieve calls. I need to swap my meid and the way I'm doing it there seems to be a problem.

Thank You.
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I should have been clearer you will use the evo 3d method of meid change.
I use winhex instead of the HxD

Round 6:
Follow these steps in exact order.
1. Download and install the QPST Build 366 of version 2.7 and the HxD, and the latest Android SDK from the following link: Android SDK | Android Developers
2. Put the phone in USB debugging mode by going to settings/ applications/ development and check in where it says USB debugging, also it is helpful to check stay awake so you can see the phone processes while working.
3. Go to phone and dial ##3424# to access Diagnostics mode the computer will need the appropriate drivers to continue, once installed move on to the next step.
5. Open your device manager from the control panel, and locate your com ports, expand the com port section and you will see the port for HTC DIAGNOSTICS.
6. Open QPST Configuration and add the new port for the HTC, then close configuration.
7. Open EFS Explorer from the start menu under QPST and make sure the phone is showing up then, Enter the SPC code and press OK.
8. Once the phone reads completely make a new directory named (open sesame door) without the parentheses and all lower case
9. After making the new folder locate abd.exe from the android sdk install folder and press: start, run and type cmd then press enter you will get a command prompt window that opens up navigate to the android sdk directory and type; adb reboot, the phone should then reboot if you’ve done as you were supposed to.
10. After the phone reboots read it again with QPST EFS Explorer which still should be opened, you will notice that the red no access circle has been removed from the nvm directory so expand it and go to the num directory, locate file 0 and drag it from EFS to your desktop and file 1943 the same way.
11. Open HxD and then open up the 0 file on the desktop it should be your ESN. Zero it all out and then save it, do the same for the MEID in 1943.
12. Back to EFS and right click in the area and click Copy Item File from PC…, then select the new saved files one at time, it will write the and confirm it.

13. Go back to the adb command prompt and type adb reboot again, after reboot read the phone once again then with EFS and delete the (open sesame door) folder.
14. Reboot the phone one last time with adb reboot in the command prompt, when the phone reboots it’s done, dial ##786# to make sure there all zeros.
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new optimus said:
To run through terminal emulator you would just use

$su
#

then at the # just as I posted before.
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Cool, thanks for the clarification. Not that I'm unsure of adb or anything. Just never used it much and atm my hard drive in my pc is on its last legs. So it's cool to know I can use those commands in a terminal emulator. Especially with the abundance of aosp roms out there.
 
creed7727 said:
hello all

new here after reading this. is there a list of boost donor phone that could be used ?
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-Sanyo Incognito
-Samsung Rant
-Samsung Prevail
-Samsung Replenish
-LG Rumor Reflex
-HTC Evo 4G Design (Even 4G if you fix Mac Address...)
-Samsung Galaxy S2 (Boost Version)

I have personally used the Incognito, the Rant, the Prevail and the Replenish.

I haven't tried the Reflex. Dont want to go spend $70 or so on a phone just for experiments. Haven't tried the Evo Design for the same obvious reasons. Haven't even seen a Boost S2 in the wild yet.
 
Hi everyone and thanks for all the info on this post! I am currently trying to flash a evo 4g to metro i got to this step:
"now get your evo 4g and load it up with qpst. once you have the com port open open efs browser inside qpst and open your phone. you'll need your spc."

However when i open efs it shows the phone but when i enter the spc it gives me an error and i can not access the files in the folder. Has anyone else ran in to this issue? I got the spc from the MEID Converter app.
 
MMoosh44 said:
Hi everyone and thanks for all the info on this post! I am currently trying to flash a evo 4g to metro i got to this step:
"now get your evo 4g and load it up with qpst. once you have the com port open open efs browser inside qpst and open your phone. you'll need your spc."

However when i open efs it shows the phone but when i enter the spc it gives me an error and i can not access the files in the folder. Has anyone else ran in to this issue? I got the spc from the MEID Converter app.
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Be sure to use MEIDconverter.com or Whiterabbit. Alternatively, you can use CDMA Workshop if you can't get the correct SPC.
 
Okay so I just spent the last three hours reading through all of this and i am sure ill be rereading..but here is my perdicament...


I bought a flashed evo 4g and everything was fine except the signal/3g

Web barely works...texts and calls do not have enough signal to go through most of the time.

I thought the phone was really messed up until i went about ten minutes south down the road to the dr and i had great signal and my data was perfect..

The guy who flashed the phone is worthless basically. I know it is possible to get good signal at my house...my husband is on VM and my MIL is on Boost.

I guess my question is..are there any changes i can make in ##3282# with my msl to help it out? should my roaming stuff be set a certain way? I guess I am just trying to try everything before I spend the money to get it reflashed or to buy a donor phone.....waay too much money has gone into this so far and while I love doing it and love learning...i do need a working phone and I cant shell out 40 bucks without blinking...

any ideas?

oh, and he will not come up off the donor phone unless i give him 60 bucks..so..thats out of the question as well.

thank you guys!
 
Download this.
Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: toboost.rar

Understand that they have viruses in them. The computer that you're going to run these on will be wonky afterwards and you'll have to turn off your antivirus to install the programs that you need. Once installed put the phone in diagnostic. ##3424#. Plug the phone into the computer. Find out what com port it is on.

Connect CDMA WS to the phone. Send the default Sprint password. Hopefully your MSL shows up just like that. If it does then awesome. We can proceed to the next step.
 
Hi. noob here. Can't get past round 1. I bought a used Incognito donor phone on Ebay which I activated on Boost and ported my Sprint phone number to it. It will not map to a com port when connecting to windows xp pc. I loaded drivers, last attempt being sy06 and drivers seem to load successfully, but device is still unknown. Worse yet, microusb connecter seems loose and intermittent.

Question:

Would a bluetooth connection be a substitute for a usb cable connection ?
Could I put a bluetooth dongle on the xp computer, determine the dongle/com port mapping, pair up the Incognito to the computer via bluetooth, and use cdma workshop if I set it to the bluetooth com port ?
I have already paired up the Incognito with my Evo 4G and was able to move files back and forth between them. Would I still need some drivers to get to the innards of the Incognito?

Thanks,
Lou
 
Negative walter. You'll have to have a working USB port on the phone. No other way that I know of. You need to get the aaa keys from the device. Hold it still and try to make it work. The file that I linked to on post 445 has everything you need. If those drivers are not working for you then you might have a bad usb port incognito. What's the condition of this XP machine? Many times my computer will stop recognizing devices and start throwing out errors on all new devices. I just wipe windows off my machine and reinstall. But my primary machine is not XP so I have no qualms wiping it. Good luck.
 
kc3 said:
Well the main portion of the guide you need than is this (keep in mind you'll still have to go through part of the guide because you need to get the SPC of your evo via CDMA workshop)



Also keep in mind that the "open sesame door" directory actually goes on the phone via efs explorer, for some reason I kept messing that up.
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Ok, I'm stuck. I've gone through the "open sesame door" and the no access circle has been removed from the nvm directory so I expanded it and go to the num directory. Here's the issue:

There is no file 0 and no file 1943.

Does anyone have any idea on how to find where this is? I did find a file 1194 which when I open it in HxD displays #############@hcm.sprintpcs.com I think that whole thing is the MSID? I'm a little confused on that and I know my ESN but have searched all of the files in the num Dir and can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated


Evo 3D
Software version: 2.08.651.2
Rooted
 
Hey, pretty new to the forum. And Hello I'm jamaal57g. haha. But I had a couple questions that didn't seem worth of starting a new thread and were pretty relevant to this one. I have two phones.
1 My virgin mobile rumor touch, purchases from radioshack with active account.
2 An Evo V for vmobile purchased from a wholesale dealer phone wasn't stolen the previouse user just never deactivated the account. So i would have to wait like 2 months for the account to end.
So i am most likely going to take my rumor touch's meid and retire that it. I was wondering if i do that will the evo be able to get 4g
 
No 4g. Sorry Jamaal. But I do have a work around. Flash the Evo over to Virgin using the Rumor. Use it for 2-3 months or whatever it takes for Virgin to retire the Evo from the locked account and then revert the Evo back to what it used to be.

How to do it? IDK. I'm not that much into Virgin... Good luck.
 
I am almost done with my evo to boostmobile conversion. So I was wondering, when I get to the step to flash a radio rom, how does it have our meid in it? I suspect part of the install process gets the meid from another partition and writes it over to our new radio rom. Is this true ?

Confused....
 
waltercowan said:
I am almost done with my evo to boostmobile conversion. So I was wondering, when I get to the step to flash a radio rom, how does it have our meid in it? I suspect part of the install process gets the meid from another partition and writes it over to our new radio rom. Is this true ?

Confused....
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Do not try the reading memory locations and zeroing them out method. That is a recipe for trouble.

Look into the "open sesame door" method. It'll zero out your meid in a much simpler and straight forward way. Follow the guide till you get to the 0ing out part. Do open sesame door. Pick up the guide after the 0ing out process.

Google is your friend.
 
kolosus said:
Do not try the reading memory locations and zeroing them out method. That is a recipe for trouble.

Look into the "open sesame door" method. It'll zero out your meid in a much simpler and straight forward way. Follow the guide till you get to the 0ing out part. Do open sesame door. Pick up the guide after the 0ing out process.

Google is your friend.
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Actually we have that method listed with the regular method right at the beginning post. Not to mention I have quoted it probably half a dozen times.

But I dont think that is quite the question the guy has. However his question does not quite make sense.
The radio does not contain meid. The NV partition does and all requests(by the network) look to that nv
 
wow. this is so much fun, but I'm not getting much sleep....so I used the open sesame door method. pulled out the 0 and 1943 files. hex edited them to zeros, deleted the originals, and replaced them with the zeroed ones into the nv/num folder..(typing this from memory, may have the names a little wrong)...anyway, when i did the nvitemread, my meid was all zeroes. then I did the write with the donor meid, and both green and blue (tx,rx) had the new donor meid. did a ##data# on my evo, and the meid was still zero. Rebooted the evo and I got the old, original meid...wtf......??

So I guess it lurks. Why does the old method have us look for 9 and 11 meid and esn locations ? Are they in the nv partition and does the nvitemwrite take care of all of them......still confused but having fun.....btw, thanks for your quick replies and spot on advice !!
 
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