I bought my Magician on eBay and it is the best phone I have ever had. The phone is amazing. But of course 2 months have passed and I am dying to improve the phone. The Brand is a DOPOD 818, which is the HTC magician or Imate JAM.
I see everyone here has the ROM 1.06, mine is 1.01.00WWE with a ROM Date of 10/21/04/ I am sure I should be upgrading my ROM for the enhancements but I am not sure how or where to go.
Everyone says to go to Club Imate but unfortunately my IMEI is registered through DOPOD and not Imate. The DOPOD site does not look like it has an updated ROM.
Can I use a generic ROM? Where can I get one? I am in the USA using T-Mobile, if that helps.
Please let me know what I should do.
Thanks,
John
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After much deliberating and forum reading I finally gave in and purchased one from eBay today. I will need to unlock it when it arrives but I'm not worried about that.
First things I will do is
1) Unlock it
2) Load latest ROM if not already on there
3) Do the big storage update
Any tips / tricks people have learnt that would help me? I also have a BlueTrek G2 bluetooth headset on order.
I have TomTom5 so I will need to order a GPS device. Which ones are you all using / recommend I get?
I'll also need a car kit mount for the phone which also charges it. Again, which do you recommend?
Finally I'll need a 2GB SD card. Again, recommendations on if purchasing a high speed one makes any difference or not?
Many thanks in advance.
hi, i was thinking of doing the same thing, but i have a few questions to ask first before doing so.
1. If i get the mda compact and unlock it and update the rom to say like the i-mate one, will that basically make it an i-mate, without any of the t-mobile stuff?
2. What is a reasonable price for a t-mobile mda compact
3. what would happen about warranty if anything goes wrong with the phone, and your not a t-mobile customer?
thanks in advance
I bought an MDA compact locked to T-Mobile last week on e-bay. Paid £250 and then paid £20 to unlock it.
I have updated the Rom to Imate and can confirm that once it is unlocked it stays unlocked.
Stu
once you updated the rom, does all the t-mobile branding stuff disappear as well?
chenman said:
once you updated the rom, does all the t-mobile branding stuff disappear as well?
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Obviously...
If you use the Imate rom then all the T-Mobile branding is removed.
so what about the warranty on the phone, do you just take it back to t-mobile if there is any problems?
I once had a problem (speaker not working) with my Compact purchased from T-Mobile Germany. I sent it back for repair with an imate ROM without any problems. When it came back, it had the T-Mobile ROM installed though.
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I once had a problem (speaker not working) with my Compact purchased from T-Mobile Germany. I sent it back for repair with an imate ROM without any problems. When it came back, it had the T-Mobile ROM installed though.
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I´ve bought a UK T-mobile Compact for 250 pounds through modaco.com, sim-unlocked it and made the suckar trick with the logo/brand and NOW I want to change the rom to I-mate or Qtek - but when I do i get an country failure code?
Has anyone the latest I-mate rom???
www.importgsm.com
Anyone use these guys? I am trying to decide which version o2, imate, qtek, or t-mobile to buy of this phone. so far it seems as though imate would offer the best warranty. i take it that is why people buy from them. qtek seems to be junk for warranty service (please correct me if i am wrong). t-mobile does not seem to have an english rom - causes me work.
back a few years ago i got an XDA II from o2 to get a cheaper deal than existed on the i-mate version. never had any problems and i think i sold it at a markup from what i got it from direct from britain. now i'm back to purchase a new htc device and am wondering: what more do you get for buying from i-mate really???
hi guys regarding Importgsm they were pretty good on expiditing my order which was a tmobile mda with a qtek rom wwe, which they actually got of this website.
I bought mine for 589 + shiping. they offered one year warranty directly thru them
Hi
I'm a newbie, have checked but can't see anyone has asked this specific question before:
I'd like an xda trion but I've been told by O2 it won't be coming to the uk.
So my question is, if I got hold of an unlocked HTC Hermes or one of it's equivalents and put in my o2 3g sim - could I use all of it's features?
i.e. would this be like using a Trion but without all the O2 software etc..
Also is there a recommended model to buy? - i.e. HTC or imate etc
Thanks
Do you really need to stay with O2 ? Because the T-Mobile and other operator deals can give you a 12/18 month contract + Hermes for the same price as a device without contract.
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Hi
I'm a newbie, have checked but can't see anyone has asked this specific question before:
I'd like an xda trion but I've been told by O2 it won't be coming to the uk.
So my question is, if I got hold of an unlocked HTC Hermes or one of it's equivalents and put in my o2 3g sim - could I use all of it's features?
i.e. would this be like using a Trion but without all the O2 software etc..
Also is there a recommended model to buy? - i.e. HTC or imate etc
Thanks
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I bought an unlocked TyTN from mobilefun.co.uk aswell as a 1GB microSD (the UltraII one). Works a charm, no rpobelsm(LOL leaving that for irony) whatsoever (apart from ones ive made hehe). Its the HTC branded TyTN but ive flashed it with the imate JASJAM ROM and used the HTC ext rom to get the standard green content etc.... (having tried the updated unnofficial HTC rom, aswell as the dopod rom). 3G works a treat and im still on my O2 online contract (sim only.....1 month rolling contract...£25 line rental...1000 txts and 1000 off-peak minutes)
O2 is pretty good for me and im ok with not having the full speed internet and settling for (around) 1mbps on 3G.
kevino - I wish I could, my current contract doesn't finish until April though.... there's no way out is there?
mrvanx - thanks for the info that's great. Think I'll look for second hand though, it's expensive isn't it.
Also I'll have to look in to all this rom update stuff to get it all sorted.
Thanks guys - very helpful.
Kenny
Kenny,
April is a long way off. I just moved to T-Mobile because of W'n'W. Depending on your usage it may be worth your while to just get a new contract anyway. You can, I believe, buy out your contract if you want to keep your number. Anyway I'm sure you'll know what's best for yourself.
BUY OR NOT? I can save about 150$ but i see that ppl have many problems with it. so i don't know buy or not. I would like to see your opinion/
I'm using it, have no problem at all.
in someplace here i readed that it not fully unlocked or something and that i have much more problems that TYTN ... but still it's 150$ difference
it able to upgrade it to WM 6?
it will work at any country i want?
i just think that or buy softbank or buy this http://www.gsmarena.com/toshiba_g900-1905.php
cause its 50$ difference from tytn and it looks better (but bigger)
is it any analogs of hermes (and all hermes based...)? (exept g900)
suggest nothing other then HTC. cause you can see how much support you can get from Xda here. also check out this http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Available Original Shipped WM6 ROM Versions
you can pick the rom you want for X01HT.. also X01HT=Tytn=Dopod 838Pro= CHT 9000= Hermes...
i can put any rom of hermes to softbank? even of tytn?
im asking too many questions cauze i get money today and i want to buy it today ....
and what u think about G900?
yes, but you need to unlock it. It is great if it come with unlocked but if not you can check out this to find the unlock program http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Hermes
u shure about this? any rom i want?
also couples site for useful info. for X01HT
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_provider_cabs
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry
so can u answer me several question and that all (please =) ):
1) is x01ht same as tytn and it possible to do all things like in tytn?
2) can i put original tytn wm6 rom to softbank? (just make x01ht tytn )
3) y u choosed softbank and not tytn?
4) what about g900?
5) at my place which pda phone u perefer to buy?
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also couples site for useful info. for X01HT
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_provider_cabs
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry
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im form israel....
I'm a junior, I do my best to answer urs question.
1) both X01HT and Tytn are using the same platform-Hermes. they pretty muc the same. Just X01HT is Japan version that out with their carrier "softbank", so it come with a Japaness rom. Tytn is europe version.
2) u can put tytn rom on x01ht, but need to be unlocked
3) cheaper when the time I bought it.
4) G900.. you won't get the support from XDA, you can see pretty much all the discussion are HTC platform pda. if you want better one you should just go for HTC Kaiser.
5) really don't, it depends on you carrier. check to see if they carrier similar product.http://pdadb.net
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I'm a junior, I do my best to answer urs question.
1) both X01HT and Tytn are using the same platform-Hermes. they pretty muc the same. Just X01HT is Japan version that out with their carrier "softbank", so it come with a Japaness rom. Tytn is europe version.
2) u can put tytn rom on x01ht, but need to be unlocked
3) cheaper when the time I bought it.
4) G900.. you won't get the support from XDA, you can see pretty much all the discussion are HTC platform pda. if you want better one you should just go for HTC Kaiser.
5) really don't, it depends on you carrier. check to see if they carrier similar product.http://pdadb.net
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so u bought it unloked? where? after it u putted english rom and that all?
can u pt here links to rom u used? u r using wm6?
I bought it in HK unlocked. and I try US At&t 8525 rom, but I'm using HongKong Dopod 838 pro wm6 now
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I bought it in HK unlocked. and I try US At&t 8525 rom, but I'm using HongKong Dopod 838 pro wm6 now
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what it means Hong kong unlocked? and where u live?
my cariier here it's orange (but not the sam like in UK for example) (utms/gsm...)
I'm in US.. does you carrier offer pda phone? do you need built in GPS? do you need to have a slide out keyboard?
my carrier sells TYTN but for about 1100$ !!!! no way ill buy it here...
i dont need gps... and i think that kayboard it inportant.... hate to write sms only cauze all celulars have lame keys in... so un-comfortable to write....
i gonna install messenger on pda and that all
Howdy you all,
Not sure what a good price is but if interested pop here if you like.
One only for quick sale (upgrading). Used and loved for 8 months .
It is running the Telstra WM6 official upgrade, but happy to throw anyone else's good cooked ROM on it before I send it.