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OK, that makes sense now...

 

It makes sense that Sprint, Verizon, and the Fruit Company wouldn't let iPhones authenticated on one network to not authenticated on the other. What kind of carrier file black magic it would take to break that? I have no clue.

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I don't think it's possible to roam on Verizon LTE without hacking their network. When I force roam on Verizon on my devices here in New Mexico, it first tries to connect to Verizon eHRPD. And then it fails to authenticate and then tries EVDO-A, which does authenticate and connects to data.

 

Why doesn't it allow me to connect to VZW eHRPD? Because the eHRPD is run through VZW's LTE core. So if we cannot authenticate to eHRPD, we probably cannot to LTE either. I believe that the allowed roaming networks for eHRPD and LTE come from the SIM card and not the PRL. I believe it would take hacking VZW's network to allow it to authorize your device on to their network. Otherwise, I don't think it will happen until Sprint and VZW work out a deal, and VZW opens up their eHRPD/LTE network to Sprint devices and authorizes their SIM profile to the network.

 

 

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

After NV and Verizon's huge user numbers have saturated their LTE network down to where they are getting Smoked by Sprint's LTE speeds, it will be Verizon wanting to strike a deal to roam onto Sprints NV towers....haha J/k dare to dream tho! :-)

 

 

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For verification I have successfully forced my iPhone 5 that is jailbroken running 6.1.2 to use the Verizon 3G network be default. The process involved downloading a PRL (can be found by Googling) and watching a YouTube video on how to change the PRL over.

 

Once the process was completed I was connected to the Verizon towers and generally getting between 1.5 - 2.5 Mbps download speeds. This compares to the 0.05 Mbps speeds I was receiving via Sprint 3G. I had this PRL set for about 20 days before I started getting close to the 300 MB limit at which point a ran the ##UPDATE# command to set back the standard Sprint PRL.

 

This process does count towards your roaming on Sprint, and will show up on your account as roaming. I wouldn't recommend this method unless you are usually connected to WIFI, as you can quickly reach the 300 MB limit.

 

I can try and find the PRL and video that I followed if there's interest.

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No please do not post it here. There are many many flaws with that PRL. Not to mention gray areas of roaming all the time. If someone needs that PRL all the time they need to switch to that carrier.

 

I would love to see someone run that PRL near the border or on a cruise ship. It would look like you are not roaming at all due to the PRL creator's severe inexperience. Rack of a huge roaming bill and not know it.. All due to the ignorance of running that 100% roaming PRL. Would serve them right.

 

Hate that PRL with a passion... Can you tell?

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

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No please do not post it here. There are many many flaws with that PRL. Not to mention gray areas of roaming all the time. If someone needs that PRL all the time they need to switch to that carrier.

 

I would love to see someone run that PRL near the border or on a cruise ship. It would look like you are not roaming at all due to the PRL creator's severe inexperience. Rack of a huge roaming bill and not know it.. All due to the ignorance of running that 100% roaming PRL. Would serve them right.

 

Hate that PRL with a passion... Can you tell?

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

Haha... Yes it would serve them right. No reason not to allow people to make their own decisions. Natural selection... Don't play with things you don't understand enough to control.

 

FWIW I have several PRLs that I toggle between as needed, including a couple that are VZW-only. Only irritant with when I load any of VZW-only ones is, the phone will not connect to Sprint LTE and fall back on VZW 3G. It's just full-time VZW, basically as if I owned a Verizon 4S or something. If I could figure out how to make the preference Sprint LTE --> VZW 3G --> Sprint 3G --> Sprint 1X --> VZW 1X for data, and Sprint -> VZW for voice, that would be pretty sweet. Then I might leave that PRL up pretty much always. As it stands, I run 560xx PRLs by default, which is pretty decent most days.

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