Phone problems - Weird icon, "No Service" - defaults to phone off after reset...

[Kalash]

So...
I picked up a Sprint mogul on Ebay.
It was cheap, stuck in bootloader mode... and easy to get out of that.

I wanted to flash it to MetroPCS - and started doing things to it...
Flashing roms, upgrading radios, putting a different PRL on it, etc...

And somewhere along the way, the phone started not working.
Windows boots up, bootloader works fine, WiFi is cool...

But the phone will not get a signal - even when I change the PRL back to sprint, flash a new rom (Even Altel's latest), etc...

Nothing.
Any ideas?

[gusrod1580]

I had the same problem when i was doing a metro switch over with my mogul, ended up having to get another one. I have a friend that has been messing with the moguls since they came out and he couldnt get it to get the signal back. when you turn it on does it start in air plane mode? and does it give you a message "the phone is off tunr it on?" but you still get no signal? thats what mines was doing. scrap it. its bricked. use it for parts

[Kalash]

Yeah - that's exactly what it's doing.

I kinda gave up on it - got a 6700 that just... works.
This one has the hardware button problem too (something software based, no hardware buttons work for some reason...)

Apparently there's no fix for that either...
Despite it being a software issue.
The hardware buttons work for hard resets and loading bootloader mode, so it's not a hardware problem.

This issue was there when I first got the thing.
The phone problem started with flashing a non-stock rom.

:-/
:(

Oh well.
Thanks for the reply!