Motorola Flashing Howto

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Megan W

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OK this is how to load PRL onto MOST Motorola phones. Please add to STICKY so people stop asking!!

You need to have Motorola PST for these instructions. I am telling you only how to after you have installed all the proprietary software that you aren't supposed to have. Google is your bestest friend, you can find these things out from there.

  1. Open Motorola PST's Phone Programmer before connecting phone
  2. Once Phone Programmer is opened, Connect Phone, wait for computer to beep like 5-10 times
  3. From the File menu select Open->CDMA PRL
  4. Browse to your PRL file and open it
  5. Select write to phone
  6. If Security Code is needed, cancel and follow instructions below
  7. Reset phone
  8. ALL DONE

To Retrieve Security code (and reset to 000000) you will also need P2k Seem (i am not responsible if you mess up your phone on this one!)
  1. Leave Motorola PST open so phone is in correct USB mode
  2. Open P2K Seem
  3. For seem enter 0055
  4. for bytes enter e
  5. read from phone
  6. in the main part you will see a 6 digit code at the top on the right column
  7. put your cursor clicky clicky on the first nuraber and punch 0 six times to write over nuraber
  8. choose save to phone
  9. now your SPC/security/sublock code is 000000

edited because google is the place to go for a lot of things.
 
SPC=MSL=SUB-LOCK

OTKSL=SECURITY CODE

but that's just terminology.

verizon post-paid comes with spc of 000000. pre-paid does not. you're probably not making that mistake, if the phone has an SPC i think you need to know it to change it.
 
Had to be problem on there end.. We always have problems here with OTA Programming here no matter what the phone is.. Cricket's OTA isnt the greatest Manually programming the phone is the fastest way to program a phone.... Try this next time you have a phone that wont over the air manully program the phone then OTA the phone...

I have noticed that sometimes if the phone's MDN and MIN is not at least a loacal area code it will not program but as soon as i change it to a local area code like 8015554213 it works.
 
I wasn't trying to say you were doing it wrong. Just that if by default, on a Cricket branded hanRABet its 333333, why not use that? I'm in the Dayton area, one of the oldest markets.

I did not know that on VZW Pre-Paid phones the MSL wasn't 000000. So that may have been part of my problem.

I don't ever manually program the phones. I don't want someone calling me after I flash the phone saying they changed their nuraber, and it won't program OTA.
 
right the explanation we were given was that the file containing the spc's was corrupted and they were waiting for a new file from kyocera. i have done *228 in other markets on my phone and it works just fine, so i'm not really sure about the area code thing? you're supposed to be able to OTASP in any cricket market to download roaming PRL.
Yeah i can manually program a lot faster than the minute or so it takes to OTASP, but when i am in store activating accounts, it's better to call *228 and set the phone down while doing other things like explaining billing or something. plus manual programming won't download roaming prls.
 
333333 is OTKSL, it is not MSL. that's what we're trying to figure out now is if OTKSL will actually work for OTASP. I'm sufficiently interested to poke around and try if I can.
 
Good howto. You should add that Google is your friend on the post so we dont get people who know how to do it but start asking for software that we cant post.

or...

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(You can use the address that the image is linked to. I have it set in a folder that won't let me delete it, Its on my server)
 
Not on a Sanyo MM-9000. I have 1 to flash for a local store. If I get this one working, I get 10 more of them. I changed the OTKSL to 333333. But when I changed the MSL QXDM screwed something up, and now its blank. Completely missing from the NV. It hangs at 28 seconRAB when you OTASP. Nothing can fix this phone now it seems, a working MSL is required to write a new MSL. I can't even manually prgram the NAM without it.
 
Im in the process of loading the PRL on to my moto razr maxx, however when i goto write the file on to my phone, about have way thought it say "error: unable to determine munber of NAMS". can any one help???
 
... Because i've never gotten a hanRABet to program OTA with 333333 :)


... Heck. I've never gotten ANY hanRABet to program with ANY MSL :( I suck at flashing phones LOL.
 
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