08/15/2009, 10:27 PM
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Nope, we were with verizon before and am very pleased with sprint customer service and plan. I love the fact that if I want something blocked on my daughters phone I can do so without having to pay an extra $5.00 for it. We figured that our savings will pay for the etf's on our phones. Would not switch back unless there are drastic changes. Only down side is that rest of fam. is still using Verizon (we'll get them converted
.) I think others being able to would prob. be a good thing though for sake of dev.
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08/15/2009, 11:11 PM
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Don't forget about the Referral program as well, most customers don't know about the referral program, but it is the best of the major carriers at the moment. AT&T - $25 AT&T Gift card each, up to a maximum of $125. Verizon - $25 Visa Card each, up to a maximum of $125. T-Mobile - $25 Service Credit, can't seem to find any direct info on the website though about it, just a link to sign in every time I try to find info. Sprint - (Until 10/31/09) $50 Visa Card for Referrer, $25 for Referee, up to a maximum of $600. Normally $25 Visa Card for the Referrer.
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08/17/2009, 09:34 PM
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POST THE GUIDE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Not everyone wants to be on the most hated network in the U.S. (Survey: Most-Hated Wireless Company Isn’t AT&T, It’s Sprint | Gadget Lab | Wired.com) |
08/17/2009, 10:39 PM
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Palm prē guide
NOTE: DO NOT UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF WEBOS UNTIL AFTER EVERYTHING IS WORKING CORRECTLY. Memory addresses can change with updates and Palm may add other provisioning checks as they develop this mobile OS. Be cautious when updating. First off I have to thank Tonycortes, GaKAsterman, Cleanser, xxRake, and Nickpl for all the wonderful information that has been contributed to this community. Please do not hesitate to look this guide over and suggest any edits or additions to this information, this is solely for the community and will not be distributed by sales, no one person put out all this information, so no one man shall profit from the work of others, therefore it is protected under creative commons licenses. From enabling linux to getting evdo working A start to almost finish guide to the palm prē Okay so you just got your first palm pre, you opened the box and decided it’s just not the time for Sprint. You pop in the battery and power on your palm pre and see a screen that prompts you that you must activate this phone before actually being able to use it, this is crazy! You think to yourself, why can I not use a phone that I paid for!? There are going to be a few things you need for this project: • Qinray’s 1.03 WebOS image: http://uploading.com/files/6342bfad/...ray_1.0.3.jar/ • Diagnostic drivers for the palm pre: Palm Pre SPC/MSL Mini-Howto - Mobile Files dot com • CDMA workshop and/or QXDM with QPST: Unfortunately I cannot tell you were to find these, as it would be illegal to upload these. Just google it and you will find it. There is CDMA workshop 2.7 out there, but I like QXDM and QPST more. The versions I used were: QPST_2.15_build_231 and QXDM31136. • Prl’s for the carrier you will want to use the pre on. They can be found here: Corolada PRL Page • For Alltel use 40051, found here: The Answerman's License To Rant Step 1: So you actually want to use the phone you purchased? (Activation Bypass) Flash your palm prē with the custom xxRake.treo8 WebOSDoctor rom, after clicking the link below click the green button to get your WebOS rom. MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service --> This one may be a faster location. After it is downloaded connect your palm pre to your computer and choose charge only mode, if you haven’t done this before a driver installation will ensue, as soon as this is finished you should be ready to go. Run the jar file and once it’s done you should be good to go. Here are the instructions right off of Palm’s site: Code:
1. Run the tool on your computer. 2. When prompted, connect your phone to your computer. Be sure to use the USB cable that came with your phone. webOS Doctor restores your phone's functionality and updates it to the latest software version. 3. After your phone is reset, log into your Palm profile. Any information that you've backed up to your Palm profile is restored, including applications, contacts, and calendar events. Information from online accounts you synchronize with, such as Google or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, is also restored. 4. If you have media files (picture, videos, music), docs, or other files backed up to your computer, you need to manually restore these files. You can copy the files back from your computer to your phone. Now since we have bypassed activation it is time to open up the wonderful world of linux on our phone. This was known as “rooting” but has been amended to “accessing linux.” There is a newer way on the predevwiki, but I prefer the older method of accessing linux on the pre. Here is the way I did it: Code:
This comes directly from the predevwiki here: Accessing Linux From Windows - WebOS Internals This procedure works as is with Windows XP or Vista, and can be made to work with Windows 7 by manually installing Novacom as described on the Novacom and Windows 7 page. Using an XP virtual machine (VMware or Windows 7's "XP mode") has been reported to work if you do not have a supported platform. Estimated time: 30 minutes depending on experience - including Next Steps after obtaining access. Preparation • Download the webOS image. • Change the file extension from .jar to .zip and then extract the archive. • Run the driver installer from the extracted file by browsing to the folder webosdoctorp100ewwsprint/resources/ and running NovacomInstaller_x86.msi (for 32-bit Windows) or NovacomInstaller_x64.msi (for 64-bit Windows). • Download Putty.exe from PuTTY Download Page. Note that there is no installation, you're simply downloading an exe you will run. Note where you downloaded it. • Download and install Python 2.6 from Download Python. Make sure it's not a more recent or an older version - it must be 2.6.x! o Install using all the default choices. • Get a copy of the novaproxy.py script from http://github.com/asedeno/novaproxy/...r/novaproxy.py (Right click and Save the file where you are going to remember you put it). The actual process • Type in the Konami code on your Pre (upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart) to access the Developer Mode application. A blue developer icon will pop up on the Pre • Open the Developer Mode application on your Pre and enable the Developer Mode switch, resetting the device when prompted. • Connect the Pre to your PC using a USB cable. Choose the option to "Just Charge". Windows should see a new device called Palm Novacom and automatically install the drivers for it. If you are asked to locate the drivers yourself, they are in C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc\novacom\x86 (for 32-bit Windows) or C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc\novacom\amd64 (for 64-bit Windows). • If you installed Python with all the default choices, you can simply double-click the novaproxy.py file to start Novaproxy. Otherwise, bring up a command prompt window, cd to the location in which you extracted the zip file, then type python novaproxy.py to run the script. • The script will execute and provide further instructions. If it tells you it's listening on a localhost port (usually 8023), everything is working. Be sure not to close this window. • If the script does not work, or tells you there is a problem and the provided instructions don't help, join our IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #webos-internals) and feel free to ask for help. • Run putty.exe • In PuTTY's Host Name box, type localhost and select a connection type of RAW. In the Port box, type the port that Novaproxy says it's listening on (usually 8023). • Click on Terminal in the treeview on the left, and under Line discipline options, set both Local echo and Local line editing to Force off. • If you want to save these settings so you don't have to set them again later, click on Session in the left treeview, enter a name for your saved connection (such as "MyPre") in the Saved Sessions box, and click the Save button. The next time you want to connect, start Novaproxy, then launch PuTTY and double-click the saved connection. • Click the big Open button. Novaproxy should indicate it is connecting, and PuTTY should show a root prompt that looks like this: root@castle:/# Congrats, you are now in as root. Tread lightly. On a sidenote you can continue with the “Next Steps” section in the wiki to install the optware packages for the pre, but they are not the main point of this guide. (However it may be in your best interest to install the optware packages if you are going to use PmModemFactory and TilIpcTest later). You will also want to look at the section about logging in via ssh, it’s very important for pretty much anything else you want to do on the pre. Step 3: So you want to get the pre on a different carrier? (Change the SPC) Well the first thing you are going to want to do is find the Palm pre’s SPC/MSL code, this stands for the Service Provider Code or Master Subsidiary Lock. This allows the provider to lock out certain features or makes it so the user cannot change certain items in the phone; say your mobile directory number or mobile station number, but more on that later. Here is the mini how to GakAsterman wrote up: Palm Pre SPC/MSL Mini-Howto - Mobile Files dot com Quote:
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Step 4: So you want to get your pre working on a different network? (Almost to the data part)
Since you now have your SPC code it is very easy to get the pre on a new network. • Connect your pre to your computer, login in via putty (you should have downloaded putty a while ago when rooting) login as root and type the command: mpt d, this will put your pre into diagnostic mode. You should see a driver install dialogue pop up and install some com ports, you will definitely be using this to connect to QPST. • Once you have those com ports available to you configure QPST to use that port. • Under Service Programming go to the Roaming tab and upload your PRL • After that the easiest way to change your MDN and MSID is to go into the dialer and enter ##SPC# (SPC == your SPC) • Then input your MSID and MDN and close the card • If in the case that you have Alltel or Verizon you are going to want to call their customer support hotlines and try to get them to add your pre’s MEID (I told them it was a Palm Centro and they gave me no hassle adding it) • Once that is done dial *228 for over the air activation. EDIT: Also for verizon you need to edit NV_ITEM 9000 from 02 to 01, this changes it from Sprint to Verizon. • If you don’t want to deal with getting them to add the MEID, just clone the ESN of a different phone already on the network. NOTE: This is very much illegal and I do not condone these practices in any way. The information on this is in the thread here: Palm Pre MEID Solution (CDMA WORKSHOP) - Mobile Files dot com • Congrats you now have voice and sms working on your palm pre on a different network. • For a cosmetic change you can edit the palm pre’s banner by editing it with PmModemFactory. Just edit nv item 9047 and input the decimal equivalent of the word, use this tool found here: TRANSLATOR, BINARY Code:
PmModemFactory –p 000000 {<--spc code}
PmModemFactory –n write 9047 {decimal equivalent of the banner name here}
• First off the information here is provided by GakAsterman here in this thread: Getting data going on the Palm Pre (1xRTT-EVDO) - Mobile Files dot com Quote:
First you might need some settings, so these settings will be different depending on the provider, I will try to compile a list of them. Here are alltel's various settings, thanks to Nickpl: Quote:
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his is something I found over on PPCGeeks, could be of use: Quote:
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08/17/2009, 10:41 PM
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US Cellular
NAI: {your number}@uscc.net Tethered NAI: {your number}@uscc.net HA Shared Secret: Need to get this from a US Cellular device AAA Shared Secret: (haven't found this yet) MN-HA: 10E1 MN-AAA: 2 Rev Tunnel Preferred: enable Home Address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA Address: 255.255.255.255 Secondary HA address: 255.255.255.255 DMU Public Key: 41 Cricket NAI: {your number}@mycricket.com Tethered NAI: {your number}@mycricket.com HA Shared Secret: AAA Shared Secret: MN-HA: MN-AAA: Rev Tunnel Preferred: enable Home Address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA Address: 192.190.109.42 Secondary HA address: 192.190.109.43 DMU Public Key: PAP/PPP user: {your number}@mycricket.com PAP/PPP pass: cricket UPDATE 8/13/09 Verizon Profile Enabled: yes NAI: {your number}@vzw3g.com Tethered NAI: {your number}@dun.vzw3g.com (NOTE: This resets to myphonenumber after every write) Rev Tunnel Preferred: yes Home address: 0.0.0.0 Primary HA address: 255.255.255.255 Seconday HA address: 255.255.255.255 MN-HA SPI: 12C MN-AAA SPI: 2 DMU Public Key ID: 10 DMU Mobile Authenticator: HA Shared Secret: AAA Shared Secret: Active User Profile: 2 Mobile IP Behavior is set to Simple Only PPP Settings UM Tethered NAI: {your number}@dun.vzw3g.com userid: {your number}@vzw3g.com password: vzw AN userid:{your number}@vzw3g.com password: vzw If anyone has anything else to share it would be very helpful, since I have not been able to find all the different carriers data settings.
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08/17/2009, 10:44 PM
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Also you must take into accounthow many of those customers may have been repeat callers because they felt they were entitled to something (You would be surprised how often this happens, although that is probably a small portion of customers). Or how many of those people have felt this way for years but stay anyway. Really all surveys have issues. But you have to look not only at the data itself but the context surrounding it as well. Back On Topic. Post the Guide. :-)
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09/08/2009, 11:40 AM
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It's ironic how going on that site and reading the survey about how horrible Sprint is, you can then continue to scroll down and read comments of users in which every single one exclaims their loyalty to Sprint (i.e. How long they've been with Sprint) and talks about how they have never had issues at all. I feel this survey is very skewed... *shrug* |
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Yup.....but not for me because I still have an employee plan. I'm still sure that Verizon is going to get the Palm Pre in January/February, but I have someone interested in trading me his Pre. It'd be really nice to take it for some test runs. |
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09/14/2009, 07:34 AM
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I pay 48 a month for unlimited data, sms, and voice for alltel. that is not more expensive in my book.
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02/08/2010, 03:40 PM
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But Sprint no longer has a referral program of any kind. Why are you mentioning it? I received a notice from them that they were discontinuing it effective 1/9/2010. Here is a link to it:
Sprint Referral Rewards Program "The Sprint Referral Rewards Program has ended The Sprint Referral Rewards Program ended 1/9/10. If you activated a phone or a Mobile Broadband card by 1/9/10 and submitted the Referral by 1/24/10 (or within 15 days of activation), you should receive your Referral Rewards 8-12 weeks from the date of your submission." Quote:
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