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Root Triumph wont activate AT ALL!!

jrosario198

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First of all, i want to thank all the DEV's for making the triumph a badass little phone ;) and for all the hard work put into it :thumbup:

My triumph have apparently gone bunkers. i bought my triumph last year November and all was fine until maybe May when i cut the line. i tried activating my phone again and went pure stock (Using the stock[final].zip that g60 recently updated) but now the phone is stuck on roaming and when i try to make a phone call a verizon message comes up saying my phone number isn't activated or w.e. when i checked out the settings apparently the prl is in 1 and esn and meid is all 00000000000. i never messed with it like that, i just flashed roms you guys provided and thats it, never from elsewhere and never tried doing prl swap or anything like that. is there fix or is my triumph dead?
 
First of all, i want to thank all the DEV's for making the triumph a badass little phone ;) and for all the hard work put into it :thumbup:

My triumph have apparently gone bunkers. i bought my triumph last year November and all was fine until maybe May when i cut the line. i tried activating my phone again and went pure stock (Using the stock[final].zip that g60 recently updated) but now the phone is stuck on roaming and when i try to make a phone call a verizon message comes up saying my phone number isn't activated or w.e. when i checked out the settings apparently the prl is in 1 and esn and meid is all 00000000000. i never messed with it like that, i just flashed roms you guys provided and thats it, never from elsewhere and never tried doing prl swap or anything like that. is there fix or is my triumph dead?

You need to call VM> You can't just deactivate and reactivate your phone whenever you feel like it. (I'm assuming that's what you meant by "cutting the line") Your ESN is probably blacklisted.

Looks like you may have to pay an activation fee to get it working. No ROM is gonna fix this for you.
 
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Hi:

You might want to try a factory reset and then clear dalvik cache and then reinstall the stock rom. Check the MD5 before you install it as well to cover all the bases. Then flash the gapps and maybe reflash or replace the Clockwork mod with the original stock image. For an added good measure restart your phone. Then call VM when your stock is up and running with gapps. Good luck!
If you somehow owe Virgin money then indeed your ESN is probably listed by Virgin as bad and you can ask about any additional fees to see if it's worth activating the phone.
 
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Hi:

You might want to try a factory reset and then clear dalvik cache and then reinstall the stock rom. Check the MD5 before you install it as well to cover all the bases. Then flash the gapps and maybe reflash or replace the Clockwork mod with the original stock image. For an added good measure restart your phone. Then call VM when your stock is up and running with gapps. Good luck!
If you somehow owe Virgin money then indeed your ESN is probably listed by Virgin as bad and you can ask about any additional fees to see if it's worth activating the phone.

GAPPS come with the stock rom. You will want to avoid flashing gapps.
 
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Ah... You messed up your PRL somehow. You said you never messed with those kind of things but I believe you did. I think you may even have flashed a ROM from Verizon phone that overrides PRL. That's why you are getting Verizon message and that's why you have PRL as 1. If I'm not wrong, you flashed a GSM ROM over to Triumph.

No one can help you but yourself. Not even Virgin Mobile can help you with this because tech support will be completely useless. They will even put you on some service list that will never end and your phone will never be fixed unless you fix it.

It's easy to fix really. I'll just warn you not to mess with anything else but the PRL. Now, it's a long process and you will need a great patience.

First of all, read this thread. If you have never done it before, read this like 10 times so that you know what you are doing or you at least familiar with what you are doing.

Then, Download this PRL and place it in where PRL will be flashed.

After that, call VM to ask your MSID and MDN to activate it. Before you call, make sure you register your ESN or MEID online. It's easy. Go to activation page and enter those hex keys. You'll be all set. (This last part about ESN and MEID, VM reps can help you with that too.)

MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS IN PURE STOCK ROM.
 
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