thanks for the update. i hope the tiny-umbrella solution works. In the cdma world, QPST is always our friend. All qualcomm chips must go into diag mode. They all do, not one has failed. There will be alot of editing involved for Cricket, if we dont get the phone to read in diag mode. Someone will have to release an automated system to make all of the adjustments for cricket. The sms issue doesnt make sense with the whole facetime idea. Facetime is data streaming, sms is a seperate issue. I'm NOT an iphone guru, but im wondering why that phone still shows PRL and PRI files from other carriers in the bundle pkgs. Is this like a LTE world phone under the covers. Maybe thats why the phone will not go into diag mode. Something is up with this phone......