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Before/ After
DISCLAIMER: This information is provided for education purposes ONLY. I am not responsible for any physical phone or monetary damages that may occur. I also do not guarantee that the following information will work for every circumstance, or that it will always be effective in the future.
*NEW* EASY METHOD
If you don't mind, please run speed tests and post before and after screenshots of the results. I would love to see the effects everyone else has.
Step 1: Obtain your MSL. (call *2 and ask for it nicely, or lie; whatever works. "I lost my MSL code" always works for me)
Step 2: Navigate to this tutorial on your EVO and download this PRL file:
http://www.the-answerman.com/sidlist/prl/40060.prl
Step 3: Dial ##775#, and make sure "All Folders" and Type: prl files are selected. You should see 40060.prl on the list, select it. Press menu-commit.
If you get a 3g connection from this but it keeps dropping, try turning OFF data roaming. Thanks |Jason8|
How to undo the hack
If for whatever reason you wish to reverse this change, all you have to do is update the PRL through your EVO.
F.A.Q.
Q:How does this work?
A: This loads one of Alltel's PRL onto the phone. Before Alltel was eaten up my Verizon, Sprint and Alltel had a contract to combine their EVDO coverage WITHOUT roaming. The PRL just controls which available towers your phone will connect to first, and this one will place priority on Alltel's (now Verizon's) towers.
Q: Will this cause my phone to constantly be roaming?
A: Yes and No... as per definition that is exactly what it is, but it will not appear or count as roaming (as per my last year of using this method).
(that being said, if Sprint/VZN ever decided to change how this was handles I do not take any responsibility for the unlikely charges that could technically occur. You are doing this at your own risk, and probably shouldn't be in the developers forum if you have a problem with that) Sorry, needed a disclaimer.
Q: Are you sure?
As for any roaming charges, no I have NEVER gotten a roaming charge, and I had my Palm Pre set up the same way for an entire year (tethered and downloading torrents [terabytes worth]). Here is an example of how it shows up in my account:
SPRINT DATA - no roaming
Q: Will this affect any other functionality of my phone?
YES. I am still testing out everything to see its changes to the EVO, but I know for sure of the following:
- Dialing *2 after implementing the hack will connect you to VERIZONS activation/customer service line.
- Every time you make a phone call the phone will beep twice at the start of the ringing.
I am in Austin too, I noticed that my 4G speeds dropped after applying this hack.. so I reverted back. Did you notice a drop in 4G speeds too?
I hadn't been able to test 4G speeds before I had applied this but I was more than happy with the speeds I'm getting. About 2.4 down.
On a side note, I don't know if its caused by this or not, but my data has simply stopped working. Can't connect at all and keeps giving me error code 67. Not only that but my wifi has stopped working at all. Cant try to do any updates now because i have no source of data.
I have also been getting this error, but somehow my data did come back. Other than that, this mod works great.
PRL 40060 was working great for me but now I get data error 67. Trying to update PRL back to Sprint and it keeps erroring out.
I've been using the newest one, 60665 or whatever it is since this morning and its been perfect for me so far.
Here is the latest Sprint PRL. In case the PRLs in this thread are no longer working for you, and you can't regain your data connection to update the PRL through device self serivce, just grab it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/397196745/60665.prl
Nope, he isn't the only one. The page isn't down, but is giving an access denied to me from my phone and work PC. It looks like they have some sort of IP filtering setup.
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