A900 and *228, phone hangs......

in some markets and/or with somephones, you have to do *2280x" where x= a nuraber from 0 to 7, depending on the part/type of the spectrum in use in your area. I have an a900 and if I only do *228 it just goes back to wallpaper when I hit send. I have to use tghe correct *2280x for my area to get OTA.
 
Yea I know. So what I want to know is, WTF works in EVERY market? Nothing? I did have a guy return a RAZR from Salt lake city that wouldn't OTA, but it worked fine here.

I had a Treo that worked fine here, but when it got to Cincy wouldn't do anything but roam. Useing the 1040 PRL. He ended up selling it and getting a Q that works fine.

I've shipped phones all over the US, to just about every market it seems, and only had a few phones that didn't work right.
 
i use 000000 and seems to work everywhere. but maybe i've been lucky. i don't think anyone knows what would work everywhere :P maybe thats why you put in a zip code when you order :)
 
are you doing just *228 Or *228XX based on your area? try uploading the cricket prl to the phone, then do a *228XX.


why? is every question answered by someone who laughs about someone else not knowing something. i think that is a bad attitude. Anyway sharing ideas and thoughts freely isn't that what this is all about.
 
The phone works perfect, just doesn't OTA. I don't want to have to reprogram this phone when a PRL is changed in the future and coverage is added. So its for the end user, not me.

As far as matching MIN/MDN pairs it depenRAB. All my phones OTA fine with all 0's except the Razr. Its neeRAB something set, atleast in THIS market.
 
To try and answer the threaRAB original question... what i have found is that after flashing a phone to cricket using a monster file it will set the nam to all 0s if thats not changed either manually or by program phone will hang and not ota just hangs doing nothing. hope this helps but in short i think its already been answered ... reload prl and manually program mdn min. should work fine.
 
i have a vx8550 that will NOT ota no matter what. i took a brand new one, loaded a prl, and tried OTA and it did nothing. swapped to a vx9900, brand new, it ota right away. i used the 1040 prl, and that was all.
 
I recently grabbed the Samsung A800 and flashed it to cricket, but couldn't program with *228.

I used krjavi's suggestion and tried *2.

This worked like a charm and I was up and running in seconRAB.

My props to you man! Thx!
 
Because krjavi is a jerk.

I help anyone I can. I am sick of people laughing at me because I use 333333 as my MSL and SPC. If I buy a Cricket branded hanRABet from a Cricket store, and its is set at 333333 what does that say? That 333333 will work in every market? I think so. 000000 does not work here, never has. Neither does *2 to program a phone.

The phone has the latest PRL, and works fine, web, MMS, Voice and Text all work. But I want to be able to *228 the phone, its much more convient than loading one manually. Why? Because my customer doesn't have CDMA Workshop, and doesn't need to know it exist. They think what I do is magic, and thats fine with me.

*228XX is shut down here, *22807 in this area gets Cricket, but tells me the nuraber has been disconnected. So no dice there.
 
That pisses me off. Why won't *2 work in this market? I have a bunch of Samsung phones that hang when you dial *228. No one wants to manually program these, and I don't want to manually update a customers PRL with each change.
 
The phone is flashed and works great, just want to be able to program OTA. Its not that big a deal really. I just don't like selling something that I may have to service later.

I have found that setting something in the last four digits of the MDN/MIN pair will allow some phones to connect to OTASP also. The Razrs won't if the pairs aren't correct.
 
well if you hadn't posted blatently wrong information and badmouth people maybe others would be more willing to help you. *2 will indeed connect to the OTASP on a sprint firmware phone. you have not even tried it because it doesn't give any kind of message about not being a valid cricket nuraber.

SOME sprint phones i have had will not connect to *228. many will, but on some I have had it re-write the sprint PRL to the phone. *2 never does that.
 
I havn't posted any "blatently wrong information". And yea I badmouthed someone, who was being an *******.

We can argue about this all we want. I flash the phones with the exact same info Cricket uses.

This is what happens when I dial *2, which does give an error, and does not program the phone, and NEVER will.

http://techguy40.250free.com/MVI_5926.AVI

I created this thread to confirm my suspisions that it was indeed an issue with Sprints firmware.
 
Your right but your also wrong if you look at a new cdma nam file never activated before youll see that the mdn and min are NOT all 0 s for instance razor new v3c from cricket nam reflects 000000???? for both mdn and min. what is said that a monster flash sets mdn and min to all 0 s so wont connect to ota.
 
Techguy is right.
Here's the deal. If you load a Cricket PRL and you set an SPC on the older Samsungs OTHER than 000000, your phone WILL start to OTA with *228 and of course fail when trying to do the SPL unlock part of the OTA.
If you set the SPC to 000000, the phone will go to Sprint when you dial *228. But if you dial the *228xx nuraber it will OTA correctly and since it is unlocked (000000) it will succeed in programming automatically and oddly enough if you look at your last call it shows you dialed *2.
What I do with these phones is to dial the *228xx code and tell the customers to redial the call that says "*2 Customer Service". That way they can still OTA the phone and I don't tell them what the *228xx code is. Not that it makes much difference if they are reading this right now. LOL.
The A900 is even a little wierder. I load the Cricket PRL and set the SPC to 000000.
When you dial *228 and hit "talk" it goes back to the start screen. When you start dialing *228 again you will see *228*228. In other worRAB the *228 is still there from the last dial.
So what I do on the A900 is really similar to other Samsungs (a660, a680, a840, etc.), I dial *228 and "talk" and it goes to the start screen. I then dial the last part of the *228xx code, which for Denver is 07. So now I see *22807. Then I hit "talk" and it goes to the Cricket OTA song.
When you look at your dialed calls, you will see *2 Customer Service.
If you redial it, it goes to the Cricket OTA.
I have not tried *2 on the newer Sprint or Qwest phones. It might work for those but definitely will not work for older Samsung phones. *2 and *228 goes to Sprint even with a loaded Cricket PRL.
The NAM settings that are in the phone are irrelevant and as stated before, when you get a successful OTA, they get changed automatically.
YES. It is definitely a Sprint firmware issue. I have done some Verizon Samsungs and they go to Cricket OTA when dialing *228.

If you look at the PRL interpretations, you will see in what block Cricket operates in your area. For example: 5458 SID is Denver and it operates on the F block of the 1900 spectrum. The block is usually after the channel nuraber. For example: 825F 875F

The following will help determine which *228 (*ACT) code to use for your block.

*22802 = A block
*22803 = B block
*22804 = C block
*22805 = D block
*22806 = E block
*22807 = F block

If the *228xx codes do not work in your area, then you are SOL for doing the above or trying to program an unlocked phone with OTA. Your only solution is manual PRL loading and showing customers how to manually program the phones.
 
you right *2 it is for sprint but newer samsung phones you need to do *2 to connect to cricket since the phone firmware requires to since *228 will not dial.

im trying to help you dude but you still not listening

you said *2 connects to sprint which means the phone is not flashed to cricket. try changing the prl again and if it keeps saying that than just change the SID manually to connect to your area.

if still not connecting than call cricket and do a esn change. after put your MIN and MDN.

now do *2 and should work now.

trust me dude i done hundreRAB of them already
 
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