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[cyMthey]

Wish to know if there is any interest to have in CM9 the facility to program SPH-D700 for various operators. To have a menu to change easily for example PRL, SID, NID, Slot Cycle Index or the configuration of DATA and PPPConfig.

To have besides the OTA activation in Sprint also the opportunity to configure the phone for a user-defined operator after a move or on a journey.

CM9 resides between CM9 alpha and beta and so I hope that there will be time and a chance to uncage and liberate this phone entirely of every constraint!

This exciting CM9 with ICS keeps blazing the trail to realize the promise with which Epic 4g started once.

Please, I request to give to SPH-D700 a configuration menu for radio and data network!

[cyMthey]

There are now 97 views but no reply. So I'll comment what I've done in the meantime:
Now using CM9 Alpha 4 there is a ROM sufficient solid to connect my SPH-D700 via TCP/IP (WiFi) and 'ADB over network' (System settings  > {} Developer options > ADB over network) with the Terminal program in my Mac (iMac).

I've already installed the android-sdk (http://developer.and.../sdk/index.html) and in my Mac I'm navigating to 'platform-tools' over the shell of Mac Terminal.
After checking the 'ADB over network'- box  you can use (but you don't) the app 'adbWireless' (Google Market)to see what you have to type into the Mac terminal after the system prompt YourAccount$ or so:

./adb connect YourIPaddress:5555

In my Mac it shows :

MyMac:platform-tools MyAccount$ ./adb connect MyIPaddress:5555
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
connected to MyIPaddress:5555

MyIPaddress you can find in Settings  > About phone   > Status   > IP address  (When WiFi is running!!)

With
./adb pull
and
./adb push
using the 0xED Hex Editor (Mac) I'll change entries in build.prop. For example  operator name  and operator MCC MNC.

Will report when I'm certain that I'm able to run this procedure blindfolded!

!!Caution!!  !!Caution!!
Have many experience in reanimating my!!! phone. But each phone is different and has its own history.

You can then follow, but on your own risk.
Neither this site nor the following will be liable if your phone will never be more than a simple but costly paperweight!
http://developer.and.../tools/adb.html

If you have own eperience in this work, please let me know. But each one follows at his own risk!
I know that it is a kind of hubris not to fear to make another bug when correcting the first one!

[xwatchmanx]

I'm pretty sure the reason you haven't gotten any responses is because, in most cases, flashing CDMA phones to other networks is illegal. Just sayin!

[cyMthey]

xwatchmanx, on 28 February 2012 - 04:47 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure the reason you haven't gotten any responses is because, in most cases, flashing CDMA phones to other networks is illegal. Just sayin!

Yeah! Yeah! You are so right man! But the following site will put out the more legal aspect of this matter:

http://www.copyright...-Statement.html

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(2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.
(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.
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Thinking of Apple's 1984 Macintosh Commercial () and imagening all that restrictions they use nowadays in an iPhone (up to the famous pentalobe screws!) I'll hide me abashed in a corner (with my iMac) crying in grief and despair!

Many thanks to Sprint for this splendid phone (a love at first sight!!), I bought it legally.  And thanks to Iusacell, my Mexican operator who activated my Epic 4g. But this rest of Sprint brand appears again and again like the ghost of Hamlet's father and makes e.g. that the tower distance has 8728.0929 Miles (Tower Long 489.439). Surprising CDMA technology receiving a Sprint signal  from so far away! As network appears Sprint in 'System settings' but the carrier is Portatel Del Sureste - really a remarkable Joint Venture!

Der Freiheit eine Gasse! Give way to freedom!

[xwatchmanx]

Oh, I see. My apologies, I didn't realize you were out of the States. That makes a lot more sense. I'm unfamiliar with the law in Mexico, so yeah.

At least here in America, the general rule is that it's illegal to flash a CDMA phone to another carrier unless the carrier you're flashing to allows flashed phones: In other words, It's legal to flash phones to carriers like Metro PCS and Cricket which openly allow flashed phones, but it's illegal to do such to Sprint or Verizon, which disallow flashed phones as part of the contract. The act itself isn't illegal, but the fact that you would be knowingly breaking the contract, and doing so deceitfully, would be.

But since you're not in America and the laws are like you say, that shouldn't be a problem.

[cyMthey]

xwatchmanx, on 28 February 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

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But since you're not in America and the laws are like you say, that shouldn't be a problem.

You are right and I understand, but the laws I referred to and which I cited according to a
Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking

are the the laws of the United States of America. And they say the same as you wrote.

And just sayin, it took a lot of energy to explain to my people in Germany that Mexico, where I'm living now isn't situated in Central America (Mittelamerika) but in North America.
Living in Germany I was a member of Europe and in this part of the world I'm an American living in North America.

[xwatchmanx]

Hm. Interesting.

[Howard Hicks]

xwatchmanx, on 28 February 2012 - 04:47 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure the reason you haven't gotten any responses is because, in most cases, flashing CDMA phones to other networks is illegal. Just sayin!

Because of the ruling he quoted, it's not illegal at all if you own the phone legitimately and outright (not on contract). The important bits are the ones he quoted and:

"Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention."

Not to mention, it's not the carrier's software, it's google's.

Edited by Howard Hicks, 08 March 2012 - 01:42 PM.

[thearchetype512]

Howard Hicks, on 08 March 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

Because of the ruling he quoted, it's not illegal at all if you own the phone legitimately and outright (not on contract). The important bits are the ones he quoted and:

"Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention."

Not to mention, it's not the carrier's software, it's google's.

    

Google's android is all opensource;)