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It would be pointless. Metro works off Sprint towers so if you want to use Sprints network you would have to change your settings in your phone to automatic network and pay $0.19 a minute. As for data, it's not possible.
 
Roaming on a Sprint network costs nothing. I have seen my phone do it in an area where there is no Metro. Also, Metro does own their own towers, at least down here in SWFL. It is also not pointless. I would like to do it myself, but cannot figure out how. My work building has awful coverage for Metro, but the corporate account is with Sprint so we have a lot of repeaters all over the building. Only people with Sprint have good coverage in our building.
 
It uses Sprint towers when there's no Metro Towers in the area. And there's no charge for it. Was in Maryland and everything on the network was faster there because was running on Sprint. The internet was 2 or 3 times faster
 
you have to use a metro prl seeing as your esn is on metro, even if you did somehow try to input a sprint prl and it took you wouldnt be able to make/recieve calls because your prl and esn werent for the same carrier

I could be wrong....
 
My point is that changing the PRL probably wouldn't affect what we are trying to do here anyway. The OP, and I, want to roam even though we still have a Metro signal. The PRL tells it what towers to use when roaming, not to roam or not. We need to force the phone to roam.
 
I've heard of other people doing this. He needs to edit the prl. Remove the tower its connecting to. Thats extremely difficult as he has no idea what tower its connecting to just by looking at the phone. I've heard of people doing this with cricket service after they signed the roaming deal with sprint. But all the guy did was remove crickets and left sprints.
 
HJRock said:
There's an app for the Optimus S that will force it to roam even when they have sprint Signal. Tried on the M, but didn't do anything.
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Well, if the app is for the Optimus S (Sprint), forcing it to ROAM even when it can connect to Sprint signal, then that means they do NOT want to connect to Sprint. They don't like Sprint signal (for whatever reason), they want something else. It probably says something like "NEVER CONNECT TO SPRINT!".

Whereas you want the exact opposite. You WANT a Sprint signal.

So, that's why this didn't work. :p
 
ChazzMatt said:
Well, if the app is for the Optimus S (Sprint), forcing it to ROAM even when it can connect to Sprint signal, then that means they do NOT want to connect to Sprint. They don't like Sprint signal (for whatever reason), they want something else. It probably says something like "NEVER CONNECT TO SPRINT!".

Whereas you want the exact opposite. You WANT a Sprint signal.

So, that's why this didn't work. :p
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Actually, it's supposed to let you put it on roaming mode. But won't open the options on the M. If it did, we probably would be able to do something with it
 
ChazzMatt said:
Well, if the app is for the Optimus S (Sprint), forcing it to ROAM even when it can connect to Sprint signal, then that means they do NOT want to connect to Sprint. They don't like Sprint signal (for whatever reason), they want something else. It probably says something like "NEVER CONNECT TO SPRINT!".

Whereas you want the exact opposite. You WANT a Sprint signal.

So, that's why this didn't work. :p
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Actually, it is doing something completely different. It is accessing a hidden menu option that tells the phone to force roaming. The launcher pro home can access it. The app doesn't work because our menus are a little different, so the app is pointing to something that doesn't exist on our phone. I found a similar hidden menu option on the M, but changing it did nothing.
 
UKCatFan said:
Actually, it is doing something completely different. It is accessing a hidden menu option that tells the phone to force roaming. The launcher pro home can access it. The app doesn't work because our menus are a little different, so the app is pointing to something that doesn't exist on our phone. I found a similar hidden menu option on the M, but changing it did nothing.
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I was half joking, but also half serious. when you tell it to force roaming on a SPECIFIC carrier, you are telling it to NOT connect to that carrier in some way.

2+2 = 4

but 1+3 also = 4.

If 4 (roaming) is the goal, there's different ways of doing it, was my point. This app may do it by telling Sprint phones to NOT connect to Sprint, thereby forcing roaming.

On a Metro phone trying to connect to Sprint, that would be useless.

Or as you suggested it may be trying to force roaming through another method.

You have actually looked at the source code and you know how the creator wrote the app?
 
You have actually looked at the source code and you know how the creator wrote the app? [/QUOTE]

Read the thread that is linked. It is by the author of the app. It is nothing more than a shortcut to a hidden menu. I looked and we have many similar hidden menus, but they are named slightly different. That is why the app will not work on the M. It also does not tell It to ignore Sprint towers. It just tells the phone to roam. There could be potential in our hidden menus, but I didn't want to ruin my phone trying to find out.
 
UKCatFan said:
You have actually looked at the source code and you know how the creator wrote the app?
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Read the thread that is linked. It is by the author of the app. It is nothing more than a shortcut to a hidden menu. I looked and we have many similar hidden menus, but they are named slightly different. That is why the app will not work on the M. It also does not tell It to ignore Sprint towers. It just tells the phone to roam. There could be potential in our hidden menus, but I didn't want to ruin my phone trying to find out.
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OK, then I stand corrected.
 
UKCatFan said:
No need. Any chance you know anything more than myself about these hidden menus?
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Sorry, no, I don't. I've shied away from the hidden menus, afraid of borking my phone. I've already had to do a complete LGNPST recovery once, re-root, remove everything bloaty, and reinstall all my apps -- and it wasn't a fun experience. It made me just a little more cautious...
 
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