Virgin Mobile HTC One V Prepaid Smartphone $50 + Free Shipping (expired)

This is a guide that will walk you through Unlocking your Bootloader, Rooting, Installing a Recovery, Making a Backup, and Flashing to PagePlus.

Disclaimer: This will void your warranty. I am not responsible for any problems this may cause with your phone (but I'll do my best to get it working).

NOTE: This was all done in Windows 7. I originally tried in Windows 8, but ran into too many problems so I installed Windows 7 on another Hard Drive and booted from it.

Also, since this was done on a new install of Win 7, I do not have Word installed, so I am using WordPad, which lacks Spellcheck. I think everything is good though.

Most of the content from this tutorial was taken from the xda-developers forum and modified to fix some missing steps and to be more specific and easy to understand. I did not figure any of this out alone by myself. The members at xda-developers did. Also, a big thanks to dzap, octavio, and all of the other members that helped me to get my phone working in the Cyber Monday thread for this deal.

PagePlus Plans (Monthly or Minutes)

• https://www.pagepluscellular.com/Plans.aspx

Unlocking the Bootloader and Rooting

• Follow the Primo C CDMA steps. Following the Primo U GSM steps will brick your phone.

• http://forum.xda-developers.com/s...?t=1598964

Flashing TWRP

• Download this: http://www.androidfiles.org/secur...covery.img

• Copy it into C:\fastboot\

• Boot into Fastboot and open CMD

• Type: fastboot flash recovery twrprecovery.img

Making a Backup

• plug your microSD card into the phone, if you haven't already

• boot into bootloader and select "Recovery"

• TWRP will open

• Select "Backup", select the items you want to backup and then swipe

• Backup will complete and you will now have a backup on your microSD card, copy this over to your computer

Flashing to PagePlus

• NOTE: 3G will not work. Speeds will be 1X. No one from the Cyber Monday deal has been able to get 3G to work yet. It may be possible, but don't expect it.

• This will not work on custom AOSP ROMs, install a custom ROM (if you want) after flashing

• Open the Play Store, search "MSL Reader", download and install

• Open "MSL Reader", grant it root access when prompted, get your MSL and write it down

• Call PagePlus (800) 550-2436, select 1 at the menu for activation of a new phone
• Hold tme has been about 15-20 minutes for me during the 5 or so times I have called in

• Tell them you are flashing a new phone to PagePlus and you need a MDN (the phone number) and a MIN. They will ask you for the ESN, read them the MEID Decimal from the back of the phone.

• They will try to have you dial a number for Over the Air Ativation, this is a VM phone so it woin't work. Tell them it doesn't work, but you know what you're doing. They will give you the MDN, MIN, and probably the SID. You do not need the SID.

• Download CDMA Workshop (get the demo): http://www.cdma-ware.com/workshop.html

• Download QPST: http://www.4shared.com/rar/G82rq8...27374.html

• Download the HTC Drivers: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ni61eq...rivers.zip

• Download the PagePlus PRL file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8ukr2x...geplus.zip

• Install CDMA Workshop and QPST

• Plug your phone into the computer and dial ##3424# choose "ON' to put it in diagnostic mode, click "SELECT", enter your MSL at the prompt, it should say "Diag enabled"

• Open 'Device Manager', just hit the windows key and type it in

• Look for "HTC Diag", it was under "Other Devices" for me. It should have a yellow exclamation point next to it.

• Right click it and select "Update Driver...", select "Browse my computer...", select "Let me pick...", "Show all devices", "Have disk...", "Browse..."

• Navigate to the drivers you downloaded and choose either the 64 or 32 bit driver. Whichever your OS runs. Select 'Next' and then tell Winows it's safe at the prompt.

• Open up CDMA Workshop, select "Port" from the top and double-click your phone which will be named "HTC USB Modem #", then click "Connect" (also up top)

• Click the Security tab

• On the bottom right it says “SPC/user lock”, enter the MSL the MSL Reader app gave you. Click SPC and select "Send". If you entered the right MSL, it should say device unlocked successfully.

• Click SPC again and select "Write 000000", it should say successfully written.

• Click the "Other" tab at the top, choose "Write" from under PRL and select the PRL file you downloaded. It should say successfully written.

• Click the Main tab, click "Read" from above the security tab, then click "Read" in the bottom right corner. It will fail to read some items, this is normal, they are inactive or are only read in the non-demo version.

• There are two boxes that say "MIN", delete the current MIN and enter the MIN that PagePus gave you.

• Look for the "Dir_Number" and "Dir_PCS" boxes, delete whatever is in them and enter the phone number (MDN) that PagePlus gave you.

• Click the "Write" tab, it will write, then close CDMA Workshop, save changes when asked.
• The phone will reboot, close CDMA Workshop and open QPST.

• Dial ##3424# again and make sure your phone is still in Diagnostic Mode

• Hit the Windows key on your computer keyboard, type QPST and select "QPST Configuration"

• Click "add new port", choose the COM port that your phone is plugged into.

• From the top bar, select "Start Clients", then "Service Programming", uncheck "Show Serial and USB/QC Diagnostic ports only", double click on your phone (mine shows up as COM# - USB/QC Data Modem) and a new window will open.

• Click "Read from Phone" in the bottom left of QPST, enter 000000 (yor new MSL you wrote in CDMA W)

• At the top right, there are a bunch of tabs, click the right arrow until you see the "M.IP" tab, select it when you do, on the bottom it will say Mobile IP Behavior, select "Simple IP only"

• Double click profile 2

• In NAI, enter phonenumber@vzw3g.com (for phone number, type the MDN PagePlus gave you)

• For tethered NAI put phonenumber@dun.vzw3g.com (for phone number, type the MDN PagePlus gave you)

• In the "HA Shared Secret", select "Enter Text String" and then type in 'vzw'. Repeat this in the "AAA Shared Secret"

• On the right, Home Address should be set to 0.0.0.0, both Primary and Secondary HA addresses should be set to 255.255.255.255

• Hit ok at bottom left, now look at the tabs again and navigate to the "PPP Config" tab

• Click "um"

• For user ID enter phonenumber@vzw3g.com (for phone number, type the MDN PagePlus gave you)

• For tethered NAI enter phonenumber@dun.vzw3g.com (for phone number, type the MDN PagePlus gave you)

• Click in the password box and type “vzw”

• Click the AN tab

• User ID is your phonenumber@vzw3g.com (for phone number, type the MDN PagePlus gave you)

• Password is "vzw"

• Click "Write to phone"

• You will now get a read only error that pops up, this is NORMAL. The phonne will reboot and you will get another error saying that the phone disconnected. This is also NORMAL.

• You are now done with QPST.

• When the phone reboots, make a call, dial the phone number of another cell you own or your home phone. NOTE: Your phone will still say Virgin Mobile. This is because that is built into the ROM, you will be on PagePlus. To change this you will need a custom ROM.
• Your call will go to a PagePlus automated message. Press 1 for English. Your account is now active and you have a $2.00 balance. Your call will now go through to the number you originally called.

• Congratulations, you're done and now on PagePlus!

• This seemed to fix MMS.
  Dial ##3282#
  Select edit mode
  enter your code (hopefully you have changed it to 000000)
  Go to Advanced ==> MMSC Setting
  
  Name= Production
  MMS= http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
  Port= clear this field leave it blank
  Proxy = clear this field leave it blank

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