Reprogramming other CDMA carrier phones to Cricket

[Phx_Cricket]

Ok, I have not bought a phone from Cricket in the 4 years with them. My first phone, a Nokia 5170i, was given to me. It finally died a few months ago, (yes I used it for 3+ years). Now I have an Audiovox CDM8910, but it is an Alltel phone reprogrammed with Cricket's SID and PRL file. The phone works great, for voice and plain text SMS. It's the BREW and MMS that have me stuck. I also have done the same with a Verizon LG VX6000 phone and same results. I can get into the file systems of both phones with BitPim and QPST software. I can see many settings in files that still contain the other carrier's WAP, BREW, and MMS gateway, servers, addresses etc. I have searched high and low, lost many hours sleep staring at my monitor, looking for Crickets parameters. Only thing I came up with is a sever (mms.mycricket.com - 63.214.184.165). Whether this is a valid setting somewhere, I don't know and more are obviously required to get things functioning. What I really could use is a backup image of a current Cricket phone's file system made with BitPim so I can see what things are set to for Cricket's network. If anyone can help me email or PM me. It will be appreciated and a great value to all who like to do what isn't supposed to be possible. Why didn't I just buy a Cricket phone in the first place? Cuz I love tinkering with electronics and computers, and doing something they said couldn't be done. And it keeps my mind distracted so I don't think about the political broohaha going on all around us . We might all get along if we all just Hack our Cellphones.

[cricket]

Originally Posted by Phx_Cricket

Why didn't I just buy a Cricket phone in the first place? Cuz I love tinkering with electronics and computers, and doing something they said couldn't be done. And it keeps my mind distracted so I don't think about the political broohaha going on all around us . We might all get along if we all just Hack our Cellphones.

That's classic Phx_Cricket! I love your determination.

[Navyderek]

Hey, I've been digging through the internet to try and find how to convert my Kyocera Slider (from Virgin Mobile) over to Cricket. I can get into the programming menu, but I have no idea what I need to do from there. What needs to happen so that I can finally switch to the good guys? I've called around and nobody in the Dayton area seems to flash the phones. Can I do this myself?

Thanks!

[Phx_Cricket]

Yes it can be done but there are a couple of things you will need. First and most important is the SID number Cricket uses for your area. In Phx it is 4923. Every market has a different SID, I had a link to a website that listed all the SID's used by all the carriers in all the US markets but I had to format and reinstall Win XP and lost a great deal of my info. I found the link on Howard Forums, a person whose name was 3 letters starting with X__. Anyway go into that programming menu and in the NAM 1 setup you need to enter the SID, and enter your 10 digit phone number where it asks for MIN and MDN. They may be called other things, (mobile id number, phone number, directory number, MSID) but usually it's just your number you need to enter. The rest of the stuff in the programming menu just leave as it is or set to default value. Now if you are lucky when you dial 611 you will get Cricket's automated system and you only need to give the rep your ESN for them to activate your phone on the network. If you still get VM's CS when dialing 611 then you will need a data cable, free software called BITPIM and a copy of Cricket's current PRL file. That file is automaticly downloaded to your phone when dialing *228 but like I said if your not getting Cricket with 611 then the data cable is needed to manually load the file. Post back here if you have any problems and I will try to help. I have sucessfully done this for two phones (only voice and text msging, don't have parameters to make MMS and BREW work yet)so it is possible. Good luck.


EDIT
Found the link to the SIDs. The person's name is XFF. I believe the SID for the Dayton-Springfield area is 5450.
http://www.rainyday.ca/~dialtone/Cricket/cr_01030.htm

[geraboy2087]

Hi, I just got my new phone from verizon a RAZR V3m, I want to put it with cricket and I already did the manual programing but it did not take me to cricket CS, I also tried *228 and it didn't work, what I think I need is the PRL version 1039 to be exact I want to know where can I get and also how to install it here is what I have:

RAZR V3m
USB data cable
Bitpim(latest version)
MPT(latest version)
PST 7.2.3

Please give me a hand with this I will really appreciate it, here is my email gerardoguerra2087@hotmail.com

[Phx_Cricket]

Ok here's a link to dload the 1039 PRL file http://www.howardforums.com/attachme...chmentid=60248 . Unzip the file and start PST with your phone connected. Click File>Open>CDMA PRL. Change the type from .rla to All files*.* Now browse to where you extracted the "prl_1039.prl" file from the zip you downloaded. A window should come up in PST with all the data filled in. Now all thats left is to click the toolbar button that says "Write Data to Phone. When that is finished click the "Restart Phone" button and when the phone is back up you should have the PRL loaded. You can verify this by checking the phone status information menu or with PST click File>New CDMA Prefered Roaming File and click "Read Data From Phone". It should fill with the data from the 1039 file. Post back if you have any other ?'s.

[geraboy2087]

Ok thanks I did it I really appreciate your help, thank you very much

[boomer187um]

Originally Posted by Phx_Cricket

What I really could use is a backup image of a current Cricket phone's file system made with BitPim so I can see what things are set to for Cricket's network.

ok, done

[Phx_Cricket]

Originally Posted by boomer187um

ok, done

Thanks dude, but I posted that way back in April. I made a brick out of that phone and had to go buy an actual cricKet phone one Sunday afternoon. Thank God cricKet actually has a store open for 4 hours on Sundays here in Phoenix. So I have all the info I was looking for back then but thanks for actually doing it. It is more than I've recieved to my few requests here or elsewhere.

[boomer187um]

ok, np but now what if you have a cricket phone, hose it and flash to alltel and get everything going except mms/wap of coarse, buy another cricket phone (w/ replacement plan this time ) what should i need to do to get the original working 100% since i now have a "new" one to copy settings from? because i did this and sold the "alltell" one i told the guy to goto store and have them upgrade his softare for him, if they refuse or catch anything alltell im sure won't and he'll be coming back to me