Dont make the Mistake !

Someone brought to me last week a Sprint Treo 600 that had been reprogrammed to cricket months ago, but this person wanted WAP as well.

I do not have a USB or serial data cable for the 600, but after a couple of hours I was able to successfully configure WAP using just the settings available on the phone, no computer required (well, other than researching how to do it).

Most of that time was spent researching and trying various methoRAB, none of which were working. I could not change/disable the built-in Sprint High Speed data connection or add my own until I came across the 'pdpset 1' network log command. I then remerabered I had done this previously for a different model Treo, and it unlocked the built-in High Speed data connection and I was able to add my own, disable mobile ip, disable evdo (not sure it was ever active or that this phone was evdo capable, but the ## setting was there nonetheless), etc... and it dialed #777 now works quite easily for this person.

His blank incoming SMS from non-cricket phones is another problem, that was pre-existing, that I'm going to tackle this week. The plan is to try and flash the phone to the Verizon firmware, using the SD card, as I don't get enough requests to do 600s to purchase a cable. I've read this is a known problem with the Sprint firmware on Treo 600s, and that the Verizon firmware does not have this problem receiving text messages. I'll post the results once I do this.

As far as WAP goes on non-cricket phones, I've done it on enough non-cricket phones, PDA and regular CDMA phones, to where I truly believe it only requires a handful of simple changes to the appropriate settings. In practice, this is not so simple, and the challenge has become figuring out the correct phone menu options/computer software/data cable to view/change these handful of settings.

I showed myself proof of this the day I used my PPC6700 in modem-only mode (running the WModem PPC program) via USB and had Cricket's mobile web running on my computer by dialing #777, specifying only a username/password, and wap.mycricket.com:8080 as proxy.
 
My MotoQ has been flashed to Cricket! I suggested on another forum that since RSD General wasn't in the wild (or at least I couldn't get my hanRAB on it) and RSD Lite would work, maybe someone could put together a .hs flash file that would work with Lite and contained a Cricket PRL. All credit goes to aablackr1 over on Mobile-files.com for this one. Here's the file he put up: http://rapiRABhare.com/files/25858310/CKT_PRL_1039.hs

The next thing is getting the internet and MMS running on this thing and I'll be homefree!

P.S. I haven't actually used this file myself. I gave up and sent my Q out to be flashed. I assumed the shop I sent it to had RSD General. Of course, they didn't :2thurabs: , so they took two weeks trying to track down the same solution I was looking for! Anyway, I talked to the tech that worked on my phone and while I'm not sure if he used the same file, this is the way he got it done.
 
how do you flash a treo 600 from spritn to verizon. my trusty old vx6100 has a giant crack on the front screen and is kind of annoying and on the 600 the touchscreen is useful, so is the qwerty keyboard, since i am a heavy texter. i dont really need wap or the web brower. thanks
 
jettasdaddy: Yes, RSD Lite can do this, apparently. Like I said, though, I haven't tried it myself. This is, in my experience, the only program (besides ActiveSync, of course) that will even see the Q. The problem was it's only for writing firmware and flex files, not for working with the PRL and service programming. That's why the PRL needed to be wrapped in this .hs flex file. Not sure exactly how that part was done, but it seems to work!

mr.candid: Which program do you mean, lite or general? RSD Lite is all over the place. I think I found a link to it here, somewhere. Anyway,I sent the phone to some guys on eBay called Cricket Flash, although I'm reluctant to recommend them considering how long they took. They knew nothing more about the phone then I did! I noticed his user ID in the same forum asking the same questions as I was. We both found the solution at the same time! If I had just kept it for two more weeks I could have saved 15 bucks! Anyway, there are only two guys on eBay doing this right now though, and they're the cheapest!
 
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