Just updated my PRL from 50567 to 50619 on my Verizon V3M. How are we supposed to know when to update our PRL's if Verizon doesnt release when new updates are out?
I know this is a really old thread, but I came across it, and I'm curious. How do I get the Verizon PRLs now that my phone is flashed to Alltel? And what happens if I don't get them? Actually, what's a PRL anyway?
You still use *228 just the same. A properly fhashed and cinfigured Alltel Monster will have no issues with *228. I just finished flashing both phones last night using the latest guide (http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Monster1.htm) so I could get EVDO working. I can personally confirm that *228 will not harm anything. PRL is short for Preferred Roaming List. My understanding is that when your phone has a choice between multiple towers, it will seek out a Verizon tower first, then towers owned by other carriers. If there are no Verizon owned towers, the PRL tells the phone which companies tower is preferred over another. Yor phone doesn't simply seek the strongest signal, it looks for the cheapest one basically.
Okay, that makes sense. But I remember reading somewhere about getting PRLs from other people who have verizon phones because it would mess up my phone to just dial *228. I guess it must not be that important, though, since I never had to dial that before I flashed.
The only time I read that was in an older tutorial for flashing a V3c or V3m with the Alltel customer upgrade. With the Monster flash and the excellent research that went into the new tutorial, it doesn't mees up data services like it was said to do with the customer upgrade. I tried doing a *228 earlier today just to make sure and everything is still working flawlessly.
Just keep in mind, when doing a *228 option 2 update, it will turn the phone back to evdo. So people in our situation who flashed before the EVDO fix was released, it will re-enable EVDO, so we must go in and force it back to 1x so our data will work. I personally update the PRL manually anyways, as it takes just as long to dial *228 and wait for it to go thru its process, as it does for me to load up PST, and write the newest PRL to my phone. In fact, I find it QUICKER to manually do it, and it removes any risk of losing data.
