Root [GUIDE] CM7 - CM9 - MIUI - EASY Carrier Name Change

[mantera]

Disclaimer: If your phone explodes, dies a miserable death, or any of a million things, don't come crying to me. Do this at your own risk!

Having said that... this is THE EASIEST way to change the Carrier Name in CM7 and MIUI on the Triumph.

This will NOT work on stock FROYO!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Download flashable Zip at end of post -- triumph_cm7_miui_carrier_name.zip
2. Open the Zip file and extract the eri.xml file in data/ to your desktop using a zip utility such as WinZip, 7-zip, etc.
3. Open the eri.xml file in your favorite text editor such as notepad++.
4. In LINE 7, change Virgin Mobile in Eritext="Virgin Mobile" to whatever text you want, for example:

<EriInfo RoamingIndicator="1" IconIndex="1" IconMode="0" EriText="I am AWESOME" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />

IF you want to use the following special characters in the text, you will need to use the escape characters instead (for example instead of & use & ):

Character Reference

&   & 
<   &lt; 
>   &gt; 
"   & quot;   (there is no space between the & and quot; had to add the space in the post since the forum is not rendering it correctly)
'   &apos;

5. Save the eri.xml file after making your changes.

The following are 3 methods of updating your phone. Use whichever method you are most comfortable with.

A. Using the flashable zip and flashing in CWM.
1. Add the updated eri.xml back into the /data folder in the triumph_cm7_miui_carrier_name.zip -- make sure that you use "no compression" or "store" when adding it back.
2. Save the triumph_cm7_miui_carrier_name.zip on your sdcard.
3. Reboot into CWM and flash the zip file as usual.

B. Using ES File Explorer, Root Explorer, or another file explorer capable of root. (In the instructions below, I'll reference ES File Explorer since that is what I use but the instructions should be similar for any of the file explorers.)
1. Copy the updated eri.xml file onto your sd card.
2. On your phone, open up ES File Explorer.

Make sure that you have your settings set to mount the file system as writable:
2a. In ES File Explorer, hit menu --> Settings.
2b. Make sure there is a checkmark in the following checkboxes: "Root Explorer" and "Mount File System".

3. In ES File Explorer, browse to your sd card where you saved the eri.xml file.
4. Long press on eri.xml to bring up the popup menu.
5. Select Copy.
6. Next, browse to /data/. To do that, click the Favorites button on the toolbar and select the / from the Favorites popup window and then go into /data/.
7. Hit the Menu button on your phone and select Operations --> Paste.
8. You should now see the eri.xml file in your /data/ folder.
9. Close out of ES File Explorer.
10. Toggle Airplane Mode on and then off. When your service comes back, the carrier name should reflect your new Carrier name text. If not, reboot your phone.

C. Using ADB. The following instructions are for windows but you should be able to do the same in any other OS.
1. This assumes that the updated eri.xml file is on your desktop as I instructed above and you already have your phone connected to your computer. Open the command line in Windows.
2. type the following commands:

cd %userprofile%\desktop
adb push eri.xml /data/eri.xml

3. Toggle Airplane Mode on and then off. When your service comes back, the carrier name should reflect your new Carrier name text. If not, reboot your phone.

If you are uncomfortable using adb or don't have it installed or don't know what it is, then I'd recommend using method A or B.

To UNDO all changes:
This is SUPER EASY:
1. Using ES File Explorer, browse to /data/
2. Delete the eri.xml file.
3. Toggle Airplane Mode on and then off. When your service comes back, the carrier name should reflect your original Carrier name text. If not, reboot your phone.

 

[agentc13]

Nice find! This should be easy enough everyone should be able to do this on their own.

 

[shmackshmack]

you made this stupidly hard.


all you gotta do is download THIS

[Mod] Extended Settings - Translations - Come and help translate it to your language!!

you flash it in CWM recovery, and when you boot back into MIUI, theres a new app installed called "miui control"

it allows you to change some really advanced stuff all in gui through miui menus. carrier name, status bar color and opacity, how the clock and battery icons show up, date format, overcrolling options, its really cool and SUPER easy

ive been using it since I first installed MIUI.

the miui forums have a lot of cool mods to install.

 

[mantera]

you made this stupidly hard.


all you gotta do is download THIS

[Mod] Extended Settings - Translations - Come and help translate it to your language!!

you flash it in CWM recovery, and when you boot back into MIUI, theres a new app installed called "miui control"

it allows you to change some really advanced stuff all in gui through miui menus. carrier name, status bar color and opacity, how the clock and battery icons show up, date format, overcrolling options, its really cool and SUPER easy

ive been using it since I first installed MIUI.

the miui forums have a lot of cool mods to install. some rotation animation mods too

/shrug

This is mostly for CM7 where there is NOT such a mod. I mentioned the MIUI part mainly because this also works there...

However, perhaps somebody doesn't want to install the Extended Settings Mod for MIUI. They have a choice.

 

[thangfish]

Nice. Took 2 minutes, worked like a charm!

 

[Whyzor]

/shrug

This is mostly for CM7 where there is NOT such a mod. I mentioned the MIUI part mainly because this also works there...

However, perhaps somebody doesn't want to install the Extended Settings Mod for MIUI. They have a choice.

I also don't like to install an app (giving away access permissions) to do something so simple. Plus it's nice to know how things work internally.

 

[thangfish]

I also don't like to install an app (giving away access permissions) to do something so simple. Plus it's nice to know how things work internally.

I gotta +1 that statement!

 

[matthewrocz]

Weird, cant copy in Astro. and which data folder? theres no data folder in system and theres one in the absolute root dictionary and in sd card.

 

[marc12868]

Weird, cant copy in Astro. and which data folder? theres no data folder in system and theres one in the absolute root dictionary and in sd card.

Astro doesn't give you root permission I don't think... Your gonna have to use es file explorer or root explorer.

 

[mantera]

Weird, cant copy in Astro. and which data folder? theres no data folder in system and theres one in the absolute root dictionary and in sd card.

I don't know if Astro has root privileges. You need a file explorer that can gain root privileges in order to be able to access the /data/ folder which is off the root and not in /system/.

Edit: Damn! Ninja'ed by marc12868. lol. 2nd time got ninjaed today by somebody. Need to be faster on the typing...

 

[ziggy46]

it works good!

 

[marc12868]

Edit: Damn! Ninja'ed by marc12868. lol. 2nd time got ninjaed today by somebody. Need to be faster on the typing...

Don'tcha just hate that?

 

[mantera]

Don'tcha just hate that?

LOL. yep! Lots of knowledgeable forum readers here. It's great!

 

[shmackshmack]

/shrug

This is mostly for CM7 where there is NOT such a mod. I mentioned the MIUI part mainly because this also works there...

However, perhaps somebody doesn't want to install the Extended Settings Mod for MIUI. They have a choice.

fair enough, I do appreciate the effort you put in to figuring it out the manual way for CM7 users.

 

[viget]

I've changed the text in line 7 and updated using CWM, but I still see Virgin Mobile.
I've check eri.xml file, and it is updated to the file I've edited.
I've rebooted twice and toggle airplane mode on and off once, still no change.
Wonder why.

 

[mantera]

I've changed the text in line 7 and updated using CWM, but I still see Virgin Mobile.
I've check eri.xml file, and it is updated to the file I've edited.
I've rebooted twice and toggle airplane mode on and off once, still no change.
Wonder why.

What ROM are you using?

You've made sure that eri.xml is in the /data/ folder?

 

[redgjm]

I was also having trouble flashing through CWM after editing the file, so I went with method B and it worked. Thanks for this!

 

[mantera]

I've changed the text in line 7 and updated using CWM, but I still see Virgin Mobile.
I've check eri.xml file, and it is updated to the file I've edited.
I've rebooted twice and toggle airplane mode on and off once, still no change.
Wonder why.

I figured out what the problem was. Sorry about that. I had the file in the wrong folder structure in the zip file and the updater-script was putting it in the wrong folder. Should have just been /data/ and not system/data.

Uploaded a new zip that has the correct folder structure and updater-script.

 

[viget]

I figured out what the problem was. Sorry about that. I had the file in the wrong folder structure in the zip file and the updater-script was putting it in the wrong folder. Should have just been /data/ and not system/data.

Uploaded a new zip that has the correct folder structure and updater-script.

It worked. Thanks

 

[jatke]

I figured out what the problem was. Sorry about that. I had the file in the wrong folder structure in the zip file and the updater-script was putting it in the wrong folder. Should have just been /data/ and not system/data.

Did the previous zip also create a /system/data dir? Its curious that eri.xml is the only file in /system/data/

 

[mantera]

Did the previous zip also create a /system/data dir? Its curious that eri.xml is the only file in /system/data/

That's correct. You can delete that file and folder if you want.

 

[dsmryder]

It's dumb, but I love it. I think it's awesome we can customize the silliest things.

And in case anyone cares, after you install it, you can make the changes straight from the file under
/data/eri.xml

Just mount the root as writable

 

[mantera]

Yep! Didn't it just bring a smile to your face that first time when you toggled Airplane mode on and then off again or rebooted your phone and saw that your customized text name was showing...

 

[agentc13]

Mine has said agentc13 since you posted the first way to change this on stock a loooong time ago! I love little tweaks to personalize my phone .

 

[retromind]

Is there a way to change the 'Searching for Service' & 'No Service' captions?