THIS IS NOT A HOW-TO! This is just general information on what it took to make this happen. With your own brain-power you, too, can figure it out.
This is all proof of concept only as some of the steps here would be illegal to do in the US in real life.

Pre-reqs:
1. Has to be non-divested Alltel!
2. Having an “in” in Alltel (We have a business account manager who rocks)
3. Need to have a means of fixing the “stick” issue
with the Motorola Droid’s PPP username always reverting to “@vzw3g.com”. I’m waiting for permission to release the information, DO NOT ASK ME HOW, PERIOD.
4. QPST
5. CDMA Workshop (newest version, not the pirate copy of 2.7 floating around)
6. HW Virtual Serial Port
7. A phone that can be used to easily clone the droid temporarily
8. Alltel PRL

Note: This does not require the Motorola Droid to be rooted.

First of all, the PPP “stick” issue needs resolved. Once again, I will not be going through that here. Once that is done, you need your MEID on Alltel. This is where you NEED to know someone on the inside. If you are persistent enough, you can call their general customer service and find someone to do it. We lost a Droid this way however, a CSR flagged the MEID as not usable on Alltel’s network once they found out what we were trying to do. Once that’s done, here comes the fun part…

Before activating the Droid, the Droid needs cloned to your easy-clone phone, preferably an Alltel phone. This will allow you to retrieve your HA Shared Secret which you will need for EVDO (3g) service. For some reason the Droid does not retrieve this when activated. Without this step, data WILL STILL WORK! Just at 1x speeds instead of EVDO. Now, activate this phone, retrieve your HA SS (might require QXDM depending on the phone used) and save it for later. Restore this phone to it’s original settings and power it off.

Now, Motorola Droid. Put the Droid into FTM mode (hold T while powering on). Use HW Virtual Serial Port to give the Droid a com port. Use QPST to write the SID and PRL to the phone, as well as setting a few settings. HA Auth needs to be disabled. Now, go into the menu where you can write the HA Shared Secret, and paste in (hex) what you retrieved from the easy-clone phone. Write these settings to the phone and reboot. Activate just for fun and make sure you’re on the Alltel network.

Next, put the phone into FTM mode again, and fire up CDMA Workshop. This time, write the PPP, PAP, HDR, and HDR usernames and passwords. The PPP and PAP passwords are alltel. The HDR passwords are the phones pESN.

After all this, I had working EVDO on the Droid, and it’s great.

My beef dropped and decayed long before this day. What’s even more pathetic, everyone I told thought it was the damn funniest thing they’ve ever heard. Someday… will they grow up? I hope not, I love them just as they are. Reminiscing about these events still brings a smile to my face and a chuckle escapes my lips. Anger makes people weak and it shows.

Yay!

For some strange reason, they think I sabotaged their computer.  Bizzare that I could do such a thing since I don’t know anything about this tech stuff.  The reality is they just need to remove my static DNS addresses, as I’m sure they don’t match up to their DSL modem settings and/or ISP.  “It doesn’t say anything about IP address” they say, but why would it?  A computer can’t really troubleshoot itself… but what do I know.  I mean anyone could do my job.  Oh well.  Did they figure it out yet?  Who cares.

(08/19/2008 08:40:06 PM) njwalsh2005: http://www.tidder.net/blog/

(08/19/2008 08:40:14 PM) njwalsh2005: that the kind of husband you want cassie

(08/19/2008 08:40:18 PM) njwalsh2005: pretty sad there darlin

(08/19/2008 08:55:37 PM) njwalsh2005: The worst part about it is you just sat there and let him

(08/19/2008 08:55:44 PM) njwalsh2005: I guess your just willing to lose all for him friends family

(08/19/2008 08:55:48 PM) njwalsh2005: its nice

(08/19/2008 08:55:49 PM) njwalsh2005: though

(08/19/2008 08:56:05 PM) njwalsh2005: what a weight lifted not having to walk on egg shells around poor poor cassie anymore

(08/19/2008 08:58:38 PM) njwalsh2005: if you didn’t want to work here

(08/19/2008 08:58:43 PM) njwalsh2005: or work from your home

(08/19/2008 08:58:51 PM) njwalsh2005: you should have just said that

(08/19/2008 08:59:03 PM) njwalsh2005: but nope you and ty arent happy unless life is in shambles right?

(08/19/2008 10:30:43 PM) njwalsh2005: and the “shed brigade” thanks you so much for being so kind and helpful all the while.

(08/19/2008 10:30:51 PM) njwalsh2005: such a sweetie pie

(08/19/2008 11:27:53 PM) njwalsh2005: and you guys are telling Tom that my “drunk” dad pushed you… wow – that is classic – and so now Tom is in a fight with Grandpa. I hope you all are proud – proud day eh?

(08/20/2008 01:09:25 AM) njwalsh2005: I need all the files you haev as well

(08/20/2008 01:09:29 AM) njwalsh2005: and the file cabinet

(08/20/2008 01:09:34 AM) njwalsh2005: I will send someone by for all that

(08/20/2008 01:09:39 AM) njwalsh2005: let me know when its ready

(08/20/2008 01:10:36 AM) njwalsh2005: All of that would be company property

(08:06:36 AM) njwalsh2005: Cassie laughs at people who are quick to anger. WOW. Yesterday.

Mood: amused

(08:07:02 AM) njwalsh2005: Is it amusing to you two how nasty you are – i wonder I just WONDER how your little church would feel about the way you and tyler treat people

(08:07:13 AM) njwalsh2005: your a funny funny girl

(08:10:05 AM) njwalsh2005: And how you lie, about family as well – wonder about that

(08:15:24 AM) njwalsh2005: hypocrit – sad sad little person

(08:15:41 AM) njwalsh2005: and as I wipe you out of my life so goes the instant message as well

(08:16:34 AM) njwalsh2005: so when you get some guts and can call about your own problems, and when tyler leaves you again…:D Which he will, give me call – I’ll be happy to help just like old times.

(08:16:58 AM) njwalsh2005: And while your at it – why don’t you and Tyler get off of Grandma and Grnadpa’s STOLEN property

*Tidder note: Files?  What files? How on earth could cassie have files if she wasn’t ever an employee?? What a scary business this njwalsh2005 person runs where anyone has access to their files…

*Tidder note #2: Last I checked this land is still in my fathers name, and also last I checked I’m somehow paying to live here.