[Q] VM Intercept w/ no data. Any suggestions?

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I've been having a nasty time trying to get my Intercept to function properly over the last five days or so. The first issue I had was no inbound or outbound calls but text and data worked fine. After the calling issue was resolved, my data stopped working and that's where I'm stuck now.

I've been in contact with tech support and had a few different trouble tickets opened to get it working but I've also took it upon myself to "tweak" my phone to see if I can fix it. Keep in mind, the WiFi connections work and always have - the cellular data is the connection not working. Oh, and the automated "Activate" option in the main menu has yet to work either.

Here's what I've done so far (in no particular order):
Flash FroYo
Flash Frozen Eclair
Flash Ubuntdroid
Restore APN from a working backup (on all different builds I've flashed)
Manually program the data access username/password/server
Factory reset (at least 25 times so far)
Roll back to the stock VM build of Eclair
And various intermediary things I could think of to do...

Here's the current state of my phone's software:
Eclair, DL05, inxane's kernel, custom recovery

I've tried flashing just about anything I can think of from recovery and/or SWUpdate and I'm ready to pull out (what's left of) my hair. Any ideas on what I can do to get this thing running again? And I've called VM's tech support several times and they've reset stuff on their end, restarted my monthly service and the like.

try going back completely stock by flashing the .tar posted in this thread over at SDX.

Here's a direct link to the download make sure to pick stock vm not sprint.

the .tar does wipe everything so please make sure you have backups.

i take 0 credit or responsibility for what happens to your phone all credit or blame is due to those who put up this information. It's worked for others it can work for you too.

diavolo770,

I was in this boat too. I had gone to froyo, lost data, and went back to eclair and still nothing. here's what i did.

1) I followed the instructions to put froyo back on the phone
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/inte...le-intercept!/

2) install the slapstick to root after step 6.

3)setup the device for recovery.
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/inte...froyo-upgrade/

download the recovery 1.4 if you don't have it and flash it via flashupgrade program.
http://www.sdx-downloads.com/devs/in...ecoveryv14.tar


2) install the slapstick 2.2 ROM
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/inte...and-stable!!)/

The phone has been working perfectly since with great speed across the board for the 1st time.
i get about 1300 down on speedtest app with 3g.

Originally Posted by orateam

diavolo770,

I was in this boat too. I had gone to froyo, lost data, and went back to eclair and still nothing. here's what i did.

1) I followed the instructions to put froyo back on the phone

2) install the slapstick to root after step 6.

3)setup the device for recovery.
download the recovery 1.4 if you don't have it and flash it via flashupgrade program.

2) install the slapstick 2.2 ROM

The phone has been working perfectly since with great speed across the board for the 1st time.
i get about 1300 down on speedtest app with 3g.

I want to do this... except maybe I'm just stupid, what is recovery 1.4? I assume you mean Inxane's recovery, but I can't find a link..

I put the link to the recovery above.

about to get intercept, only thing good with VM is text/data 300minute is like nothing, but is only $25.

beat out ALL CARRIER currently on market, all 3G plan start with 69 or 60 dollar, 60 dollar range only black berry and $10 will be charge for blackberry data....

I have mod T-mobile side kick with G1, plan to switch to mytouch 3G but see those $25 came out.....

nice information, guys.