A900 and *228, phone hangs......

[Royal Blue]

in some markets and/or with somephones, you have to do *2280x" where x= a nuraber from 0 to 7, depending on the part/type of the spectrum in use in your area. I have an a900 and if I only do *228 it just goes back to wallpaper when I hit send. I have to use tghe correct *2280x for my area to get OTA.

[chd guy]

Yea I know. So what I want to know is, WTF works in EVERY market? Nothing? I did have a guy return a RAZR from Salt lake city that wouldn't OTA, but it worked fine here.

I had a Treo that worked fine here, but when it got to Cincy wouldn't do anything but roam. Useing the 1040 PRL. He ended up selling it and getting a Q that works fine.

I've shipped phones all over the US, to just about every market it seems, and only had a few phones that didn't work right.

[TheOneAndOnly]

i use 000000 and seems to work everywhere. but maybe i've been lucky. i don't think anyone knows what would work everywhere :P maybe thats why you put in a zip code when you order

[Oba no cchio]

are you doing just *228 Or *228XX based on your area? try uploading the cricket prl to the phone, then do a *228XX.


why? is every question answered by someone who laughs about someone else not knowing something. i think that is a bad attitude. Anyway sharing ideas and thoughts freely isn't that what this is all about.

[013megustastu013]

The phone works perfect, just doesn't OTA. I don't want to have to reprogram this phone when a PRL is changed in the future and coverage is added. So its for the end user, not me.

As far as matching MIN/MDN pairs it depenRAB. All my phones OTA fine with all 0's except the Razr. Its neeRAB something set, atleast in THIS market.

[Belinda R]

lol..... ok keep wasting your time not my problem

[Cadence]

To try and answer the threaRAB original question... what i have found is that after flashing a phone to cricket using a monster file it will set the nam to all 0s if thats not changed either manually or by program phone will hang and not ota just hangs doing nothing. hope this helps but in short i think its already been answered ... reload prl and manually program mdn min. should work fine.

[Ladarius W]

yes. a valid min/msn pair is required to connect to *228

[slsk]

i have a vx8550 that will NOT ota no matter what. i took a brand new one, loaded a prl, and tried OTA and it did nothing. swapped to a vx9900, brand new, it ota right away. i used the 1040 prl, and that was all.

[Krista]

I recently grabbed the Samsung A800 and flashed it to cricket, but couldn't program with *228.

I used krjavi's suggestion and tried *2.

This worked like a charm and I was up and running in seconRAB.

My props to you man! Thx!