Root [Virgin Mobile] Android 4.4.2 VM SPH-L710

[pOsSuM72]

EXCELLENT! What is the PRL number? Mine is 33030

Im there with ya lol

 

[pOsSuM72]

Not sure whats up but my signal is really good now.Never leaves 4G as in spots before it would on MK

 

[TheBritton]

Seems to me like we're on a unified build then. That's starting to be the trend with not only Sprint builds but with custom ROMs.
I read where some people who received the Galaxy S3 in the mail straight from Virgin Mobile were seeing Sprint in the carrier menu and even Sprint apps were on the device instead of VM.
The MK5 build was both for Boost and Virgin Mobile and custom ROMs like Liquid Smooth have a unified build that installs on multiple carrier's S3.
Looks like this is basically a VM ROM if everything functions as such.

 

[TheBritton]

Not sure whats up but my signal is really good now.Never leaves 4G as in spots before it would on MK

Excellent. That's exactly why I'm taking the plunge, I feel like I need an updated modem. I've only been having signal issues the past few months, hopefully it will help.

 

[pOsSuM72]

Excellent. That's exactly why I'm taking the plunge, I feel like I need an updated modem. I've only been having signal issues the past few months, hopefully it will help.

I love it for me im a fabricating mig welder I work in a metal building around alot of steel.On mk3 and 5 I lost signal completely.Now I have signal, got to love it

 

[jmatherly411]

Excellent. That's exactly why I'm taking the plunge, I feel like I need an updated modem. I've only been having signal issues the past few months, hopefully it will help.

Report back when you flash the ND8 build, are you on a stock non-rooted S3?

 

[TheBritton]

I am on rooted stock 4.3 MK5 with Knox

 

[pOsSuM72]

I was on stock 4.3 when I bought the phone.I rooted awhile back ran every custom rom listed.Had to give this a shot just because I can I try everything im a flashaholic.I need help

 

[jmatherly411]

I love it for me im a fabricating mig welder I work in a metal building around alot of steel.On mk3 and 5 I lost signal completely.Now I have signal, got to love it

Hmmm I wonder if they put CDMA 800 as the primary band to scan for first in the ND8 build? Can you do me a favor and go into your dialer and type ##DEBUG# then type 777468 as the password, once you are in the DEBUG menu go to 1x Engineering RF and tell me the band class.

 

[pOsSuM72]

Hmmm I wonder if they put CDMA 800 as the primary band to scan for first in the ND8 build? Can you do me a favor and go into your dialer and type ##DEBUG# then type 777468 as the password, once you are in the DEBUG menu go to 1x Engineering RF and tell me the band class.

It says 1

 

[jmatherly411]

It says 1

Ok thats PCS 1900, I thought maybe the modem would rather be on 800 (if its been rolled out in your area). Thanks!

 

[jmatherly411]

I am on rooted stock 4.3 MK5 with Knox

Will the ND8 build work on a non-rooted stock VM S3 by just flashing it?

 

[pOsSuM72]

Ok thats PCS 1900, I thought maybe the modem would rather be on 800 (if its been rolled out in your area). Thanks!

Whats this mean just curious I have no clue?And your welcome.

 

[TheBritton]

I won't be flashing anything now. Strangely, the power button broke on my S3 and I'm not sure how to fix it. I can't turn it on and there is no resistance on the button. Going to be spending the night trying to figure out how to fix or replace it. Great....

 

[pOsSuM72]

Now that im on ND8 it doesnt matter what other kk rom I flash I have to flash that firmware to get data and all to work.So for me its all good lol better signal on any kk rom

 

[pOsSuM72]

I won't be flashing anything now. Strangely, the power button broke on my S3 and I'm not sure how to fix it. I can't turn it on and there is no resistance on the button. Going to be spending the night trying to figure out how to fix or replace it. Great....

Crap that sucks I have a gs2 here the same way freakin sucks.

 

[jmatherly411]

Whats this mean just curious I have no clue?And your welcome.

Sprint is re-farming there legacy Nextel iDEN 800MHz frequencies that they shut down last year to be used for CDMA 1x service (voice/text/very slow data). If you were on 800 the band class would be "10" instead of band class 1. When you said you were getting a stronger signal I thought maybe they made the ND8 modem prefer 800MHz instead of 1900MHz, this is even if 800 is available in your area, Sprint may not have turned on 800 where you live just yet.

But since you are getting a stronger signal Samsung has either changed at which decibels (dB) the signal bars refer too or the ND8 build has the RF power in the radio turned up just a bit to receive a signal better.

So Band Class 1 is 1900MHz PCS (Personal Communication/Cellular Service)
and Band Class 10 is 800MHz SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio).

 

[pOsSuM72]

Thanks makes since but sprint and all carriers pretty much is my area.I thought at work when I had sweet signal I was like bam im good.Glad I cant go back.As of yet anyways.
Its weird why am I getting better now?

 

[kwknott]

I flashes the ND8 tar this morning out of boredom and it does seem like a have a bit of a better signal. I even flashed back to Beanstalk and still seems better to me. Could be placebo effect but who knows.

 

[jmatherly411]

So I was over at Samsung Opensource Release Center and it looks like they added another KitKat version, Build Number L710VPUCNDC for the S3 SPH-L710. Thoughts?

 

[iMaYG]

I'm on cm snapshot m6. Can I just flash the nd8 tar? I hear it has a better signal. Isn't it just a baseband so it won't affect the ROM?

 

[pOsSuM72]

New build is up data fixed.

 

[craig71200]

Where can I get just the modem?

 

[kwknott]

I'm on cm snapshot m6. Can I just flash the nd8 tar? I hear it has a better signal. Isn't it just a baseband so it won't affect the ROM?

The tar overwrites everything including rom, recovery, modem and everything in between. A tar is a complete package and essentially reverts your phone to 100% nd8 stock with exception of resetting knox flag. You can always backup your current rom, flash tar, reinstall custom recovery and restore your backup. That way you'll have your current rom with new baseband

Where can I get just the modem?

No where just yet. A few people bricked their phones trying to just flash the modem so the link got pulled.

 

[mudflap2020]

now, I flashed the stock nd8 rom from odin, I had nothing to worry about, because I had knox already, and had nothing to lose, so im on 4.4, everything sprint, as this is unified and didn't need any assert changing, but one question; can I still flash lower versions of android that don't have the knox crap?, like the mk5 stock that doesn't flash a bootloader? I ask this because at zda they said you can brick if you try to change you firmware, which I don't get because know shouldn't care about the firmware flash, but if the bootloader is changed to non-knox, (can someone clarify if I can revert to 4.3?)