Alltel 6800 flash to Verizon firmware?

[chanderson]

Talked to a VZ tech today who told me that if i was to activate to VZW and get a phone I could do an ESN change (he would force the ESN on the VZW network) with my Alltel PPC6800....
One catch he said I had to flash the phone with the VZW firmware before he could do it so he could be held liable for extra charge if the phone wasnt VZW compatiable, also he can not supply me with the flash kit.

Anyone have any ideas on this ?

[ronco3]

Talked to a VZ tech today who told me that if i was to activate to VZW and get a phone I could do an ESN change (he would force the ESN on the VZW network) with my Alltel PPC6800....
One catch he said I had to flash the phone with the VZW firmware before he could do it so he could be held liable for extra charge if the phone wasnt VZW compatiable, also he can not supply me with the flash kit.

Anyone have any ideas on this ?

Flash it, and then call him back. It not hard & works great.

[aguas]

flash the mr1 update. here's (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=TitanRecentHome) the wiki for flashing, recommend you read over that. you should however flash VZ's rom (ftp://ppcgeeks.com/Titan/CarrierRoms/Verizon_Stock_ROM/VZW_Passworded_Ruu_signed/) and have them program your phone before flashing any sort of custom rom.

[scrosler]

DO NOT FLASH THE VZW MR1 ROM!

THis will lock down you GPS to be used only by VZ Navigator. Assuming that you care to have unlocked GPS.
Do you care about GPS?

Also need to know the ROM you have right now.

Go to System->Settings->About (?) and report what it says.

[Big Dawg 23]

Flash To MR1 and use the Valhalla fix to unlock GPS. Or do like others said go to MR1 and then to a custom rom. Last choice is go to the Stock 6800 with no 6.1 and then go to a customer DCD rom after they authorize the phone. You have many choices.

[chanderson]

Well since GPS wasnt really a factor to me i decided to go ahead and run the RUU_TITAN_VZW_WWE_3.57.605.1_RS_TITAN_3.37.75_OM_V ZW_ShipFULL file from the HTC website and i got to 11% and got an error 294 Invalid Vendor ID

Do I need to unlock this phone first? makes sense but i didnt try first.

Also
Windows Mobile 6 Pro CE OS 5.2.1629 Build 18136.0.4.8
and
TITA100
SPL-2.07.0000
CPLD-9

[chanderson]

instead of me getting frustrated and then drunk may i ask someone to layout the instructions they would follow to flash this alltel phone to the MR1 VZ flash...
All the reading is making my head hurt and i understand less and less the more i read

edit:: Ok 6 beers later i got the nerve up to use the Hard-SPL-MFG.exe and the RUU from the verizon site so far so good going monday to see about getting it turned on then i get to restore tomtom off of my sd card and follow the GPS fix and see if that works.
Thanks for the advice

[chanderson]

Just wanted to update everyone that VZ swapped my Alltel PPC over with no questions. They told us (me and the tech) to dial *228 and choose opt. 3 and the system activated no problem....maybe this is verizon getting ready for the Open Equipment Policy???? I dunno but it sure made my life a little easier...just got the dreaded PPP 11 Error now :( no help for that

edit:: So the tech that swapped my equipment an hour ago called me back from the store ( I work at Radioshack and VZ is four doors down so we are friends) to come and get my phone that the PPP 11 Error will be fixed tomorrow when a higher teir is at work that for SOME REASON ed(hehehe) the VZW system didnt recognize the ESN as a PPC and the Data Session was Hung somewhere. Everything else is working calling in and out and reg sms txt is sending just no Data till tomorrow :(

!!!!!!QUESTION for anyone who reads this....I just got to thinking this is something that should be on the Wiki for people with data problems mainly with all the Number porting,,,on the PPP usernames should it be
your MDN or MSID @vzw3g.com ???? because for some of us that is two different numbers

[tbaker077]

so what is the update on this because I can get the alltel version for like 50 while the vzw is twice as much not to mention the alltel version looks better.

[drewcam888]

It is a whole lot of work to try to get the phone on. And there are no guarantees

[tbaker077]

so even though Verizon is a parent company of Alltel I just can't flash it with Verizon rom and then get it activated on VZW?