I have a couple of bizarre problems that I've encountered with activating phones. Please post any others or comment on these if this has happened to you.
Situation 1: I did an ESN change on a Kyocera K323 cricket branded phone.
Then the phone cannot make any outgoing calls. Not *228, not 611, not any local nuraber.
The phone was fully functional before the ESN change.
Solution: Manually programmed phone. Easy solution but how can this phone be completely disabled with an ESN change? Very wierd.
I heard other dealers having same problem and it seems it is only with cricKet branded phones.
Situation 2: I was reprogramming (AKA "flashing"--I don't know why. I've haven't seen a Cricket Q monster pack yet) a Motorola Q. Anyways. I dialed *228 and the Q programmed successfully. I went to use QPST with virtual port to get the EVDO settings on the phone and QPST is telling me that I have entered a wrong SPC. I thought it was a QPST hiccup so I tried again. No dice. 000000 did not work.
I thought that someone changed the SPC before I worked on it. Well.......NO. If the SPC was anything other than 000000, then how did it program OTA?
Sure enough; the SPC was not 000000. It was 333330. How in the hell it got there? I don't know.
Solution: Changed SPC to 000000. Again. Simple solution but I've never seen the SPC changed by dialing *228.
Situation 1: I did an ESN change on a Kyocera K323 cricket branded phone.
Then the phone cannot make any outgoing calls. Not *228, not 611, not any local nuraber.
The phone was fully functional before the ESN change.
Solution: Manually programmed phone. Easy solution but how can this phone be completely disabled with an ESN change? Very wierd.
I heard other dealers having same problem and it seems it is only with cricKet branded phones.
Situation 2: I was reprogramming (AKA "flashing"--I don't know why. I've haven't seen a Cricket Q monster pack yet) a Motorola Q. Anyways. I dialed *228 and the Q programmed successfully. I went to use QPST with virtual port to get the EVDO settings on the phone and QPST is telling me that I have entered a wrong SPC. I thought it was a QPST hiccup so I tried again. No dice. 000000 did not work.
I thought that someone changed the SPC before I worked on it. Well.......NO. If the SPC was anything other than 000000, then how did it program OTA?
Sure enough; the SPC was not 000000. It was 333330. How in the hell it got there? I don't know.
Solution: Changed SPC to 000000. Again. Simple solution but I've never seen the SPC changed by dialing *228.