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Update your PRL'S
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I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread, but here's "Understanding VZW *228 Updates & Myths"
Excerpts:
What It DOES NOT Do:
Contrary to the seemingly endless loads of mis-information & rumor on the net, & sometimes from CS employees, The PRL & *228 Update DOES NOT:
1 - Have Anything to do with any individual "Towers", or accessing newly built "towers". If a company builds a new tower near your home, that new tower is already part of an existing system ("company"), which either is already listed in the PRL, or isn't. Only ENTIRE system ID's are in a PRL. There is no way for VZW to add or block any individual new or old "Towers" by way of the PRL. That's not how the PRL works. Period.
2 - The PRL update can't increase a weak native VZW signal strength issue.
ok........ I can't take it any more..... I build networks for a living for all the carriers. They do NOT own their own towers...lol, in fact almost all of the towers are owned by Crown Castle, SBA, or American Tower!!!!
At one particular tower there might be at&t, verizon, t-mobile, and nextel all on the same tower. So that tower you see nextdoor...lol... is not a verizon tower.
Just a rant......
From my viewpoint.....
angrymexican
New Member
i just got mine updated today to 51992 northwest ohio !!:icon_ banana:
New Mexico
Just went from 51926 to 51992 in New Mexico.
My wifes' phone didn't want to update. Had to do hers three times.
As an FYI, if your's fails it will give you a nasty looking prompt that you have to call and activate your phone manually.
Hit the back button, not any of the choices on the nasty looking popup.
The back button will take you back to your home screens.
Just redial, or punch in *22899, or dial your preprogrammed contact/shortcut again.
It'll eventually do its thing.
Just went from 51926 to 51992 in New Mexico.
My wifes' phone didn't want to update. Had to do hers three times.
As an FYI, if your's fails it will give you a nasty looking prompt that you have to call and activate your phone manually.
Hit the back button, not any of the choices on the nasty looking popup.
The back button will take you back to your home screens.
Just redial, or punch in *22899, or dial your preprogrammed contact/shortcut again.
It'll eventually do its thing.
windstrings
Active Member
At one particular tower there might be at&t, verizon, t-mobile, and nextel all on the same tower. So that tower you see nextdoor...lol... is not a verizon tower.
Just a rant......
From my viewpoint.....
yes, similar to sharing a hilltop.... one guy owns the tower and rents space on it "more $ the higher up on the tower" to other guys.
However each antennea I'm sure is tied to its own propietary computer that links to a given network ie: verizon, at@t, etc.....
So prl updates are still needed basically to stay in touch with recent updates and changes to the system.
Why they can't be force uploaded without the customers intervention is another question that drives me nuts?
Why does the guy thats clueless about prl's and updating have to walk around 2 years behind the times because he doesn't know what or how to do a prl update or that it even exist?
Especially now with Froyo 2.2 we can do autoupdates with our apps.. why can't they factor that same technology into updating prl's automatically?
Yes each antenna is linked to its propietary computer.At one particular tower there might be at&t, verizon, t-mobile, and nextel all on the same tower. So that tower you see nextdoor...lol... is not a verizon tower.
Just a rant......
From my viewpoint.....
yes, similar to sharing a hilltop.... one guy owns the tower and rents space on it "more $ the higher up on the tower" to other guys.
However each antennea I'm sure is tied to its own propietary computer that links to a given network ie: verizon, at@t, etc.....
So prl updates are still needed basically to stay in touch with recent updates and changes to the system.
Why they can't be force uploaded without the customers intervention is another question that drives me nuts?
Why does the guy thats clueless about prl's and updating have to walk around 2 years behind the times because he doesn't know what or how to do a prl update or that it even exist?
Especially now with Froyo 2.2 we can do autoupdates with our apps.. why can't they factor that same technology into updating prl's automatically?
And yes, I agree that they should force update...... I know many, many people whom only get the updates via a new phone...:icon_eek:
Dark Lazer
Active Member
Okay has anyones battery life gone to hell by doing this? I have a D2 and got the extended battery several weeks ago. The phone was fine lasting over a day, moderate usage, etc. Then about 2 days ago I woke up at around 7:00 a.m and took my phone with me out of town with some friends. I pulled my phone out of my pocket at about 10 a.m. and noticed it was down to 60% without using it at ALL. I had to shut it off because I didnt want it to die while I was there. We got back at around 8:00 p.m and it was pretty much down to about 15% (only because I shut it off for several hours in between).
Since then, I've uninstalled the latest apps I've installed just in case one of them was the problem, but it's still bad. I went to bed at around 11:30 last night, phone was at 70%. Woke up 12 hours later, and it was dead. Before this, the phone would've only gone down 10 or 20% (if that).
Finally I remembered I tried this PRL update the night before this started happening. This is the only thing I can think of that could be affecting my battery life. Is there any way to go back to whatever it used to be before?
Since then, I've uninstalled the latest apps I've installed just in case one of them was the problem, but it's still bad. I went to bed at around 11:30 last night, phone was at 70%. Woke up 12 hours later, and it was dead. Before this, the phone would've only gone down 10 or 20% (if that).
Finally I remembered I tried this PRL update the night before this started happening. This is the only thing I can think of that could be affecting my battery life. Is there any way to go back to whatever it used to be before?
windstrings
Active Member
I've said it before, I guess I'll say it again.
Its obvious some of the apps didn't make the 2.2 update gracefully.
1. As soon as we got the update things slowed terribly.
2. Some claim great improvement after a factory reset.... but is this because the non compliant apps were gone?... or the OS was really corrupted?.... I tend to thing the former.
3. I personally found Handcent bringing my system to a crawl.. I simply removed it and things improved greatly.. after about a week, I reinstalled Handcent.. seems it works fine now.
4. I installed an app called "App 2 SD"... I now have almost 600 meg free on my phone's memory.... "don't move live screensavers to SD... they need to load "before" the SD card does upon reboot.
5. I have not done a factory reset and things run great.
6. Its also obvious the apps are still not "perfect" with 2.2 but "almost fully adapted now".
7. As far as battery life... these phones do so much, thats hard to pin down. Now that Flash is running smoothly, that alone should help when browsing.
8. If your system is still slow... try tossing your text messaging app "if its third party" and see what happens, then try to reinstall it. Make sure you don't have any conflicting settings in your "stock" messaging app... "turn off auto receive in the stock".
9. Turn off unnecessary syncing with apps you never use.
10. Turn off task killers "really".... go to google and learn and watch videos on how android really works.
While many apps turn on upon first reboot, androids shuts them off once it realizes you aren't using them..... moving apps to the SD card makes this a non issue since your memory is your ram too. Just because an app is open, that doesn't mean its using any processor usage.
Its obvious some of the apps didn't make the 2.2 update gracefully.
1. As soon as we got the update things slowed terribly.
2. Some claim great improvement after a factory reset.... but is this because the non compliant apps were gone?... or the OS was really corrupted?.... I tend to thing the former.
3. I personally found Handcent bringing my system to a crawl.. I simply removed it and things improved greatly.. after about a week, I reinstalled Handcent.. seems it works fine now.
4. I installed an app called "App 2 SD"... I now have almost 600 meg free on my phone's memory.... "don't move live screensavers to SD... they need to load "before" the SD card does upon reboot.
5. I have not done a factory reset and things run great.
6. Its also obvious the apps are still not "perfect" with 2.2 but "almost fully adapted now".
7. As far as battery life... these phones do so much, thats hard to pin down. Now that Flash is running smoothly, that alone should help when browsing.
8. If your system is still slow... try tossing your text messaging app "if its third party" and see what happens, then try to reinstall it. Make sure you don't have any conflicting settings in your "stock" messaging app... "turn off auto receive in the stock".
9. Turn off unnecessary syncing with apps you never use.
10. Turn off task killers "really".... go to google and learn and watch videos on how android really works.
While many apps turn on upon first reboot, androids shuts them off once it realizes you aren't using them..... moving apps to the SD card makes this a non issue since your memory is your ram too. Just because an app is open, that doesn't mean its using any processor usage.
New PRL already....
52031
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my prl is the same as OP. i'm in cinci, oh.
30060 here in Columbus, Ohio. I must be way behind.
Anyone in Charlottle, NC? What's your PRL?
btonetbone
Member
my prl is the same as OP. i'm in cinci, oh.
30060 here in Columbus, Ohio. I must be way behind.
Anyone in Charlottle, NC? What's your PRL?
Are you still on an Alltel plan? That looks like one of their PRL numbers...
Its all Verizon now. Had Alltel at one point, but that was a LONG time ago. This phone was never on Alltel.
blackdog043
New Member
my prl is the same as OP. i'm in cinci, oh.
30060 here in Columbus, Ohio. I must be way behind.
Anyone in Charlottle, NC? What's your PRL?
20 miles north of Charlotte, just updated 52031