Mine seems to have issues rebooting. Sometimes after powering down I can't get it to reboot, even pulling battery isn't help. Making this a slow progress.
Now what would the advantage of this be? You can roam for free?
Virgin doesn't support roaming. I'd imagine that if you tried to roam you'd get no service anyway, but the phone defaults to "Home Only" so it shouldn't roam to begin with. The advantage is that you get the most up to date list of towers and potentially gain access to towers that the vast majority of VM customers don't get, hopefully resulting in faster data, more reliable calls, and better service overall.
Originally Posted by wonshikee
Mine seems to have issues rebooting. Sometimes after powering down I can't get it to reboot, even pulling battery isn't help. Making this a slow progress.
Sometimes the phone will take a long time to shut down when the USB is plugged in. I've seen as fast as a few seconds to nearly a minute a couple times with all the reboots I did trying to figure this out. Best plan is to shut it down, wait however long it takes for the battery graphic to show up, and then reboot. If you try to power on immediately after the screen goes blank you'll just get a black screen until you let go of the button, then the battery graphic will show up when you release it. If your phone just flat out won't shut down you may have other problems entirely.
I have installed the F phone driver download from the phone as instructed, and it looks like the ADB driver has
connected ok. However, I have rebooted my phone like 20 times, and I never saw the 'port' field on the device
manager(btw. I am using win7) the only thing I saw that is being refreshed during the connection is the HVUSB
and the ADB???
I'm only seeing the Write to Phone once, and when I tried to write to it then, doesn't seem to do anything after writing. I've tried at least a dozen times, can't get a second opportunity to open.
I'm only seeing the Write to Phone once, and when I tried to write to it then, doesn't seem to do anything after writing.
Ahhhhhh finally figured out what works for me.
As soon as the first White to Phone lights up, press it. You should see a blue progress bar over the top left box, then shortly after you'll lose connection to the port, afterwards, waaay later in the boot, it comes up again. I couldn't get it to come up a second time any other way - but doing this, and writing to phone again, I saw the blue progress bar - then the phone rebooted. Finally stuck.
well, ill be damned! i accidentally wrote it during the short com interval on accident, got a little excited! but it worked any how because I have fingers like a ninja cat. Anyway, I can confirm an increase in reception for me. I had no bars where I leave my phone on the table during this process, but after the reboot into 1115 prl loaded, i have 1 bar, constantly. Thanks a dude! i owe you a beer.
and holy cow, 3g reconnect when leaving wifi is instant.
Edit: ran SpeedTest and got 288ms P 361kbps Down and 138kbps Up. Not sure what that is suposed to belike at 1 bar reception. Also how does one check the dB of reception instead of bars?
Well, finally figured out the com port... but now comes to the next problem.
for my MT, the 2 ports are on COM6 and COM8, and the title for them are Diagnostics over Android(COM6) and FTM over Android(COM8). However, neither one of the 2 ports shows up on the 'add New port' windows(I already uncheck the box as instructed) The one thing I could imagine is if I am STILL using a wrong driver somehow.... Could anyone provides some detail info(like the title &.inf) of the driver so I can confirm on that? Or if someone knows what I did wrong? Thanks!!
p.s. For people having the problem seeing the ports setting like I do, the solution is actually simple. All you need to do is go to Action>Add legacy hardware, choose manual install, then select Ports(COM & LPT), then choose a whichever driver you want; This will make a bogus hardware, and make the port category visible. You will then see the 2 ports when you reboot the MT; You can always delete the bogus later on. Hope that helps
Tried to reboot couple more times after the last reply, and all of the sudden, the com ports shows up!! I am positive I have not done anything in order to achieve that, so I guess it just takes time to kick in... Maybe pull the USB and replug it do the trick??
The rest is a snap, as long as you read OP instruction, it is easy to do; I finished everything in 2 reboots
using my old vm670 at the moment, so can't test it now. Will swap them tomorrow and see if there is a difference in my 'hood
Thanks for the superb guide OP
neither one of the 2 ports shows up on the 'add New port' windows(I already uncheck the box as instructed)
This caused me a second of confusion as well. After opening the "Add new port" window and unchecking that box, click "OK" and then watch for your phone in the previous window while it boots
You guys are making this way too hard on yourselves..
There's no need to endlessly boot your phone trying to catch a small window of opportunity. You simply have to change the com port mode using a hidden activity. Then the diagnostic mode will be enabled all the time and you can complete the task at your leisure. Here's how:
Install Anycut from the android market (it's free)
Open Anycut and select "New Shortcut"
Now click Activity
Scroll down the list of activities until you see "Select COM Port Mode" and click it. Just hit ok to accept the default name
You will see a "shortcut created" notification. Go back to your homescreen and look for the new shortcut
Once you click the new shortcut you'll see three radio buttons. Simply change from Mass Storage to Diag and your debugging port will be on all the time.
Once you're done updating your PRL simply switch back to Mass Storage.
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