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working on doing my first phone switch over to cricket. i have a sanyo 8400 from sprint that since i can't use it i'd like to switch it over to cricket. anyway i finally found a decent copy of QPST which i think is one of the programs i need because bitpim will detect that the 8400 is connected but it won't let me read anything from it.

am i going in the wrong direction here? as far as i understand it to get the most basic functions i need to load the cricket PRL and then call cricket with the phones ESN. am i right? what about QPST or am i missing something to get bitpim to work? i downloaded the sprint connection manager to load the drivers for the data cable which came with my phone. once i did this then bitpim sees the phone as other cdma but like i said can't pull anything off of it. i've tried setting it as a different phone, pretty much all of the sanyo's with no luck.

so after reading more and more it seems like i need to be using UNICDMA or QPST. i have both, not sure if they are the most up to date but i'm at a loss as to how to use them but i do know that i'm getting com port errors from QPST and something similar from UNICDMA. my phone is on com 4 but i've tried switching it to com1 and still no luck.

pointers suggestion, something please.
 
ok after staying up all night i've figured this out:

got unicdma to work but it would not display my spc.
got QPST to work to some degree
i think i found my SPC by reading memory in unicdma and then "finding" 33284 in the memory that was read and then opened in notepad. i also tried finding the spc by reading memory but searching for 33284 with hex workshop and had no luck. anyway i found the 33284 in notepad and there were 2 6 digit sets, one before and one after the 33284 nuraber but only the one before it would let me get into QPST.

so here's the thing, when i used the one after the 33284 QPST said it was invalid or something but with the one before it let me get into QPST but both times i would get a message about my phone not having and EFS (erabedded file system)

so what now? i tried using a sanyo spc reader from mobile files.com or something and the phone has to be on com 1 so i went into device manager and changed it to com1 but then the spc reader gave me an error about accessing the com port or something. anyway i think i already have the SPC but looks like i can't do anything in QPST because of the phone not being having EFS.

wtf? my head hurts :befuddled
 
still looking, can someone tell me if i'm way off base with what i've found so far?

as far as i can tell i just need to download the cricket PRL which really is just a matter of searching the forums for it. but once i have that then do i need to open QPST to do this? i keep finding a lot about "load the PRL" but not how to or where exactly.

anyway one thing i came across said to load QPST, go into Service Programming, at this point my phone (sanyo 8400) is showing as a Quasar 6500 with my ESN and phone nuraber and com port. i can choose "select active phone" or "work offline" i'm assuming i choose the first option. in that case what i read said to click "read from phone" which i found in the bottom left of the screen. then it said to click "save to file" at bottom right. now when i go to do this i get an error saying "please enter at least 6 characters" and then highlights the "field of service" box which has 33284 in it. ironically enough and i'm not sure if there is a connection but that was the nuraber i "searched" for in the memory that was "read" from UniCDMA to get my SPC.

ok so what the hell do i do about "please enter at least 6 characters"? do i just add any 6th digit i want to it?

well beyond that what i read said once you save the file to open RL Editor (part of QPST) find the file that enRAB in ".rl0" and basically replace it with Crickets PRL and then save that file and go back into Service Programming and load the file back to the phone that now has Crickets PRL.

right? wrong? i don't want to start doing anything just yet because i'm not 100% on this. i know you guys encourage the search function and all that which i have been doing. i'm just looking for someone who knows this stuff to let me know if what i've found and assumed is right or wrong so i know if i can move forward or if i am still off track and need to use the search function some more :bulging:
 
no searching the memory is the right way on that phone. however there should be two 6 digit nurabers. the first one i think is usually the one-time key. keep searching. the memory locations work best if there is not a lot of stuff stored on the phone and the file system has not changed too much. if it has then you might try searching at different adresses.
 
yea i found that stuff and made a new thread. my spc was actually the 6 digit sequence in front of 33284 and i think the one time code was the 6 digits after 33284. basically the 6 digits before 33284 let me unlock the phone as many times as i needed and eventually i changed it to the 000000.

see new thread for the progress and current situation i'm in. this thread was for finding info about how to do it etc. the thread i started and just mentioned is in regarRAB to what i actually did and how far i got using this info.
 
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