Fido Operator logo on V551

[Paul in Toronto]

I bought a V551 a while back. It was locked to Rogers, so I had it
unlocked. Naturally, it displayed "Rogers Wireless" as the operator logo,
and showed a little triangle to indicate that I was roaming. I started
playing around with different flash/flex combinations.

Eventually, I (accidentally) locked the phone to Cingular by installing the
wrong firmware version. Got it unlocked again. Phone displayed "Fido" as
the operator logo, with no roaming indicator. Yay! Unfortunately, some of
the ways the Cingular firmware did things bugged me, so I found and
downloaded an unbranded Motorola firmware and installed it.

Now, my phone thinks it's a V547, and the operator logo is back to telling
me that I'm roaming on Rogers Wireless.

So... Is there any way of hacking the phone to display 302-720 as my *home*
network, rather than roaming? Is there maybe a SIM update I can get through
Fido?

Or am I going to have to lock my phone to Cingular again, get it unlocked,
then look for unbranded software and menus to replae the Cingular stuff?

[JF Mezei]

Post by Paul in Toronto
So... Is there any way of hacking the phone to display 302-720 as my *home*
network, rather than roaming? Is there maybe a SIM update I can get through
Fido?

There is no Fido network anymore. One way to "fake" it is to program
the SIM to accept 302-72 as its home network, and get the phone to think
302-72 belongs to "Fido" instead of "Rogers".

That is how Fido programs its phones now. And such phones will never
show their are on "Rogers".

[Paul in Toronto]

Post by JF Mezei
There is no Fido network anymore. One way to "fake" it is to program

Yeah, yeah. That's what I meant and you bloody well know it. <grin>

Post by JF Mezei
the SIM to accept 302-72 as its home network, and get the phone to think
302-72 belongs to "Fido" instead of "Rogers".

I suspect part of the code that does that is in the phone's software, since
theV551 displayed Fido with the current SIM when it was running Cingular
firmware, but when I flashed it to a generic Motorola firmware, it changed
to "Rogers Wireless."

I've also heard of different phones displaying anything from 302-720 to
Rogers AT&T to Microcell, using the same SIM, varying from phone model to
phone model.

I'm kinda suspecting that there's no way of doing it, actually. Ah well. I
was hoping there was a way to set the phone itself to accept the network as
"home."

[JF Mezei]

Post by Paul in Toronto
I suspect part of the code that does that is in the phone's software, since
theV551 displayed Fido with the current SIM when it was running Cingular
firmware, but when I flashed it to a generic Motorola firmware, it changed
to "Rogers Wireless."

Phones have internal tables of netword ID and corresponding Network Names.

If you can access the phone's file system, you should be able to patch
that database to have it show "Fido" for the rogers network ID.

However, I am not sure that it would recognize it as a "home network".
You probably have to buy a new Fido SIM card to get your phone to think
it is "at home" on the Rogers network instead of roaming on it.
(I suspect the new Fido sim cards have 302-72 as "home" network since
Microscell's network no longer exists).