Pocket Smart Wireless

**wthigon** · 07-26-2010, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by ten0rplaya04

Ok, I don't know when Pocket pushed this out to their phones, but I saw this when flashing a phone yesterday and upped it to my phone. [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Pocket is now on PRL 9. I do not know what exactly this does but it's my guess that we're getting EVDO with this PRL (OR) this is the updated PRL to make it compatible with Cricket once the networks merge.

Note: I have yet to see EVDO on my phone after *228. I also get a weird error message on my Touch Pro when trying to authenticate internet using PRL 9. The weirdest thing about this error is the fact that after ignoring the error, the internet continues to work. (Hence the reason I believe this is the beginning of EVDO for Pocket).

Oh so that's why I have better coverage now at home. With PRL 8 I would barely get 2 bars at home, now with PRL 9 I get 3-4 all the time. How would I check to see if EVDO is available?

**ten0rplaya04** · 07-26-2010, 10:18 AM

You wait for Pocket to announce it. Their customer support doesn't even know what PRL 9 is yet so just have to wait and see. I'm hoping that we'll see an EVDO phone pop up and I'll get the username/password combo from it. Course with all the speculation, I'm thinkin I should try the cricket evdo settings and see if that gives me evdo :P

**wthigon** · 07-26-2010, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by ten0rplaya04

Course with all the speculation, I'm thinkin I should try the cricket evdo settings and see if that gives me evdo :P

That is what I was thinking also.

**wthigon** · 07-31-2010, 11:57 AM

The new PRL has roaming SIDs from Verizon, Alltel, MetroPCS, and T-mobile. I only saw one instance of T-Mobile, the rest are either Verizon, or Alltel. I think the list might be old though.

**ten0rplaya04** · 07-31-2010, 12:11 PM

Well...PRL 9 is the latest for us...the "Pretty Good" rumor mill says that Pocket will become Cricket end of September. Pocket customers will be grandfathered in on their plans, but I don't think that'll include EVDO. For 3g, you'll probably have to change plans to one of Crickets. The end is near...the sky is falling lol. It's been a good 3 year run

**wthigon** · 07-31-2010, 01:08 PM

Would that mean we can flash to cricket as well for Pocket people? Cause Laredo is AWS for Cricket. I hope at least we could use the cricket settings for 3G and MMS.