Hi Folks:
I downgraded, unlocked and upgraded my ROM. My friend has the ATT XDA. To test the unlock, we put his SIM in my PDA with no avail--the device won't even power on. However, we unlocked his phone and it worked (with my SIM).
Are there any issues with ATT SIMS in T-Mobile phones or vice-versa?
Anyone know what it means when the device will not turn on?
Thanks in advance,
JS
R U SURE ITS UNLOCKED, MAYBE U SHOULDA MADE SURE B4 U UPGRADED ROM, TRY AGAIN, BECAUSE I HAVE TRIED ATT & CINGULAR SIMS IN MINE, WHILE ON WM2003: AN THE WORK FINE.
MAYBE HIS SIM IS DAMAGED
IVE FIGURED OUT ITS BETTER 2 TRY MORE VARIABLES B4 JUMPIN TO CONCLUSIONS
Good point--I ran the "unlock program" and it told me the device was "locked." I unlocked it. Just for grines and giggles I re-ran the unlocking program and it said it was already unlocked.
I guess I need to try another SIM.
Will keep you posted. Thx, JS
As some uk t-mobile user might know or not there is no plan to have a wm6 ROM upgrade for Ameo (t-mobile uk) i have confirmed, i am total gutted as i have a universal(MDA PRO) running WM6 and is brilliant, i have tried olipro's unlocker on the ameo and have had two bricked within 3 days, i have received a third . i believe newly shipped versions must have been changed because i can see some people with unlocked phones. Any normally person will think twice after bricking two of these. if there is any UK T-Mobile user who have recently received an ameo and is successfully running wm6 please let me know.
Many thanks for you Time.
digigem said:
As some uk t-mobile user might know or not there is no plan to have a wm6 ROM upgrade for Ameo (t-mobile uk) i have confirmed, i am total gutted as i have a universal(MDA PRO) running WM6 and is brilliant, i have tried olipro's unlocker on the ameo and have had two bricked within 3 days, i have received a third . i believe newly shipped versions must have been changed because i can see some people with unlocked phones. Any normally person will think twice after bricking two of these. if there is any UK T-Mobile user who have recently received an ameo and is successfully running wm6 please let me know.
Many thanks for you Time.
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You don't need to unlock a T-Mobile Ameo to put WM6 on it... there is a TMOB005 verstion that will upgrade the OS without unlocking anything...
Olipro's device is great if followed to the letter, once the initial part is complete, there's always a way to restore, as it is brick-proof Although, as mentioned... you don't need to unlock.. ANY UK T-Mobile Ameo will take the TMOB005 WM6 ROM :-D
Hi, I've got a t-mobile AMEO and did the WM6 update mentioned above with no problems.
Since, I've run Olipro's unlocker and am now running the Blacktouch ROM.
The only thing I found difficult was after stage 1 you need to reflash with a new ROM, whilst the unlocker is in the background.
I agree if you follow the instructions you can do it, but I do think they could be a little more explicit around have you do the above.
Good luck, stick at it, its worth it !
I upgraded to WM6 without unlocking but then unlocked and installed Black Touch.
It's so simple even I could do it!!!!
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I upgraded to WM6 without unlocking but then unlocked and installed Black Touch.
It's so simple even I could do it!!!!
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Could you please guide me to the correct WM6 upgrade for T-Mobile Ameo, I just do not know where to start. Please help.
msolanki80 said:
Could you please guide me to the correct WM6 upgrade for T-Mobile Ameo, I just do not know where to start. Please help.
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I suggest you read up on the matter first, there's a lot of information within the Athena WM6 forum postings. But don't try it unless your confident... if you mess it up through lack of understanding, then all you gain is an expensive flash doorstop.
msolanki80 said:
Could you please guide me to the correct WM6 upgrade for T-Mobile Ameo, I just do not know where to start. Please help.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...55&postcount=4
i bought a htc touch 2 on t-mobile from ebay was brand new i want to use three network so i tryed a few unlock sites and all of them 1 after another saying not available yet. This is confusing does this mean my phone is unlockable it is asking for a unlock code when i insert a diffrent sim so im assuming this wouldnt be their if they never intended for the phone to be unlocked.
i even tryed a unlocking shop he had no joy either.
Anyone any suggestions
Browse this link
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(I can't post links yet)
I have a Hero on Orange UK and I've upgraded the ROM to the latest Orange one and then puchased an unlock code from unlocknow. The code 'seemed' to work and falshed up as being sucessful yet when I try to use it with a Voda sim it will not find the network. It says No service' and no calls can be made. Switching back to an Orange sim the phone works as normal.
Any ideas?
I'd try flashing a custom ROM. It is known that some Orange ROMs cannot be unlocked but I was unsure what would happen if an unlockable ROM was applied after the unlock procedure.
In theory, flashing a custom ROM *should* resolve this.
Use BTDAG's guide linked in my signature for step by step instructions.
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sb5917 said:
I have a Hero on Orange UK and I've upgraded the ROM to the latest Orange one and then puchased an unlock code from unlocknow. The code 'seemed' to work and falshed up as being sucessful yet when I try to use it with a Voda sim it will not find the network. It says No service' and no calls can be made. Switching back to an Orange sim the phone works as normal.
Any ideas?
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Does the phone come up with the unlock message again when you insert the vodafone sim or has it gone for good? If its gone for good then the phone is unlocked and your IMEI may be blocked on certain networks. If it comes back all the time then the phone is locked still, funny because the latest ROM is supposed to fix the unlock problems people were having with the Orange phone... well according to some.
I can confirm that you can EASILY unlock a HTC Hero on ORANGE without having the go thru the tricky procedure of installing the Modaco Custom Rom also known as rooting.
I bought a brand new HTC Hero on eBay locked to Orange, when I recieved it I noted that it was not running the latest Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 so I updated it, this was fairly straightforward as I had an Orange PAYG sim to hand which I got for FREE also on eBay which allowed me to check the version.
The only problem I had was related to Windows 7 64bit (and possibly Vista 64bit) in that I kept getting error 170 when trying to install the new Orange ROM, I ended up doing it on my Windows 7 32bit netbook instead.
Once updated I purchased an unlock code for £ 6.50 on eBay which was to unlock Hero on T-Mobile but unlock codes are specific to the IMEI not the supplier so it worked with the Orange.
SUCCESS!
Rooting and unlocking are two very different things offering radically different functionality
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Rooting and unlocking are two very different things offering radically different functionality
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I know but previously with an Orange locked phone you HAD to root in order to unlock it, which is quite an undertaking for the less technical amongst us.
Since February 2010 Orange ROM update 2.73.61.66 was released all you now had to do was update the ROM to the latest Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 which is much easier proposition. This fact is not mentioned on the HTC site or on Orange info about the update.
I am not saying rooting is still no beneficial its just there does not seem to be much regarding this new easy way to unlock the Orange out there.
My first google searches returned posts many of which dated back to 2009 and after a quick search I had come to the conclusion that unlocking an Orange Hero was not really feasable.
It was only because I won an auction for one on eBay which did not have the simlock mentioned in the listing which turned out to be an Orange that I started to look into it further and found a few references to the fact that the 2.73.61.66 ROM update solved the problem but info was still pretty scarce.
If you search this forum for HTC orange unlock there is very little information there, hopefully someone searching in future will find this and have the confidence to buy Orange locked Heros or be able to lock theirs should they already have one.
You never had to root it before you unlocked it! I unlocked my first hero the day i got it, i never rooted that one. I rooted this one and havent unlocked it
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You never had to root it before you unlocked it! I unlocked my first hero the day i got it, i never rooted that one. I rooted this one and havent unlocked it
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Exactly
Some Orange handsets never gave the option to input the network unlock code. Can't remember which ROM version it was now. But yeah, some had to downgrade or update to get that option. Same as mine.
I've unlocked 4 Heroes on Orange using different ROM versions..
Just to clarify - untill the release of the February Orange ROM Update 2.73.61.66 it was impossible to unlock the ORANGE variant of the HTC Hero without installing the Modaco Custom Rom first (aka rooting) which was a tricky proposition for those who did not want to get their hands too dirty.
Heros locked to other networks never had this problem and it was possible to unlock them with any ROM. The ORANGE variant needs the 2.73.61.66 ROM update to enable relatively simply unlocking.
Like I said I just updated my brand new ORANGE locked Hero from an older ORANGE ROM to the latest 2.73.61.66 ROM available on the HTC Hero UK Site and was able to unlock the phone after purchasing a £ 6.50 unlock code from eBay which was for a T-Mobile phone but the unlock is based on the IMEI not the brand so any properly generated unlock code will then work.
EDIT: I think some early HTC Heros from Orange had a ROM which did allow unlocking but that was replaced by a further set of updates which disabled unlocking untill the February 2.73.61.66 ROM update enabled unlocking once again, this may explain why some people say they had no problem unlocking their early Orange HTC Hero.
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Just to clarify - untill the release of the February Orange ROM Update 2.73.61.66 it was impossible to unlock the ORANGE variant of the HTC Hero without installing the Modaco Custom Rom first (aka rooting)
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I thick your getting things a little mixed up here, for a start Installing a Custom ROM such as MC will not root your device, the fact is you need to have the device rooted (and have a recovery image installed) before you can install it.
In fact I had my device rooted for several months on the stock Orange UK ROM.
And there was never a problem whereby you could not unlock an Orange branded phone without flashing a custom ROM, I did it on the old Orange ROM (pre-feb update).
Believe me there was a problem with some Orange ROMS and unlocking, a method employed was to root the phone, installing a Modaco Custom Rom was part of the rooting process after which you could unlock.
What happened was that it would ask for the unlock code and when you entered it, it said unlock successfull but you would get a no service message when you tried a SIM other then Orange in the phone.
After rebooting the phone the unlock message would appear again and if you entered the code again the same thing would happen.
Apparently the phone would hang with a message saying unlocking so the unlock did not actually go through despite it saying it had completed successfully.
If you do a google search you will find multiple instances where people had this problem. You can also get the no service message on a phone that has been unlocked successfully (with the 2.73.61.66 ROM for example) but that is usually because the IMEI has been blocked on some (if not all) networks.
There were definitely Orange Heros that couldn't be unlocked without installing another ROM.. (you technically didnt need to root however)
I have one. I cant even remember which ROM it had when I bought it.. but the code I bought didn't work.. I changed to a custom ROM.. and it worked fine. (Quite a lot of unlocking sites tell you to do this)
Orange do seem to do it quite often as they apparently change the algorithm a bit.. they do it on nokias as well, as I tried to get orange to unlock one for me a few years back.. and Orange themselves couldnt unlock it as id flashed a non-orange ROM to it so the codes they generated (for a phone they supplied) didnt work any longer and it had to be reflashed by nokia first back to the orange rom.. so they could unlock it for me (i had to post it in to Oranges technical people in newcastle) and then i had to reflash it back to the ROM i wanted.
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There were definitely Orange Heros that couldn't be unlocked without installing another ROM.. (you technically didnt need to root however)
I have one. I cant even remember which ROM it had when I bought it.. but the code I bought didn't work.. I changed to a custom ROM.. and it worked fine. (Quite a lot of unlocking sites tell you to do this)
Orange do seem to do it quite often as they apparently change the algorithm a bit.. they do it on nokias as well, as I tried to get orange to unlock one for me a few years back.. and Orange themselves couldnt unlock it as id flashed a non-orange ROM to it so the codes they generated (for a phone they supplied) didnt work any longer and it had to be reflashed by nokia first back to the orange rom.. so they could unlock it for me (i had to post it in to Oranges technical people in newcastle) and then i had to reflash it back to the ROM i wanted.
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As you quite rightly point out you did not need to flash a custom ROM, if you downgraded to one of the earliest Orange ROMs on which unlocking was possible then you could unlock successfully. The thing is the older Orange ROMs might not have been available or people just did not know which of the oldest Orange ROMs allowed unlocking so a fair few of them installed custom ROMs to get around the problem else they put the phone back on eBay. All you have to do now is install Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 as to whether future Orange ROM updates will still allow unlocking to work is another matter.
The problem was that the phone on certain Orange ROMs would hang at the "unlocking SIM" stage, it was regarded as a firmware bug and perhaps had something to do with the algorithm as you pointed out - even unlock codes provided by Orange themselves would not work.
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I can confirm that you can EASILY unlock a HTC Hero on ORANGE without having the go thru the tricky procedure of installing the Modaco Custom Rom also known as rooting.
I bought a brand new HTC Hero on eBay locked to Orange, when I recieved it I noted that it was not running the latest Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 so I updated it, this was fairly straightforward as I had an Orange PAYG sim to hand which I got for FREE also on eBay which allowed me to check the version.
The only problem I had was related to Windows 7 64bit (and possibly Vista 64bit) in that I kept getting error 170 when trying to install the new Orange ROM, I ended up doing it on my Windows 7 32bit netbook instead.
Once updated I purchased an unlock code for £ 6.50 on eBay which was to unlock Hero on T-Mobile but unlock codes are specific to the IMEI not the supplier so it worked with the Orange.
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Hi Nlel
I have a htc hero orange uk branded. I wanted to unlock it so i can use my o2simcard. How can i do this? and where did you buy the code for £6.50 on ebay?
Can you please provide a link if possbile?
Thanks in advance
Fame123 said:
Hi Nlel
I have a htc hero orange uk branded. I wanted to unlock it so i can use my o2simcard. How can i do this? and where did you buy the code for £6.50 on ebay?
Can you please provide a link if possbile?
Thanks in advance
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Its simple, first you must make sure you update to Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 which is available at http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=283&act=sd&cat=all its the 2010/02/04 ROM update. This is needed to unlock the phone as many older ROM versions had a problem when it came to unlocking this particular brand of phone.
New phones from Orange may already have this update you can check which version you currently have in the Settings/About Phone/Status. At the moment there is no guarantee that future ROMs will still allow unlocking so its best to flash the latest (as of today) 2010/02/04 2.73.61.66 Orange ROM update to be sure.
After you have flashed the phone you can then buy an unlock code for £ 6.50 on eBay (from any seller) I used this eBay seller http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Unlock-HTC-Hero-Lock-T-Mobile-UK-/290421723982?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item439e7bd34e don`t worry that it says T-Mobile the code provided will unlock an Orange as well and in fact any brand of Hero just follow the instructions carefully. Simply insert your O2 sim and enter the unlock code provided when prompted - jobs a goodun!.
Once you have unlocked the phone it stays unlocked forever so you can flash future ROM updates without fear of it becoming locked again.
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Its simple, first you must make sure you update to Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 which is available at http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=283&act=sd&cat=all its the 2010/02/04 ROM update. This is needed to unlock the phone as many older ROM versions had a problem when it came to unlocking this particular brand of phone.
New phones from Orange may already have this update you can check which version you currently have in the Settings/About Phone/Status. At the moment there is no guarantee that future ROMs will still allow unlocking so its best to flash the latest (as of today) 2010/02/04 2.73.61.66 Orange ROM update to be sure.
After you have flashed the phone you can then buy an unlock code for £ 6.50 on eBay (from any seller) I used this eBay seller http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Unlock-HTC-Hero-Lock-T-Mobile-UK-/290421723982?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item439e7bd34e don`t worry that it says T-Mobile the code provided will unlock an Orange as well and in fact any brand of Hero just follow the instructions carefully. Simply insert your O2 sim and enter the unlock code provided when prompted - jobs a goodun!.
Once you have unlocked the phone it stays unlocked forever so you can flash future ROM updates without fear of it becoming locked again.
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Hi nlel
thanks for the prompt reply, really appreciated
But are you definately sure that it will work with orange uk bcz in the description it says:
***Warning: We DO NOT UNLOCK HTC HERO ON ORANGE and following Network Provider***
So does it still work?
Thanks.
Fame123 said:
Hi nlel
thanks for the prompt reply, really appreciated
But are you definately sure that it will work with orange uk bcz in the description it says:
***Warning: We DO NOT UNLOCK HTC HERO ON ORANGE and following Network Provider***
So does it still work?
Thanks.
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Yes it works, the reason why they say they do not unlock Orange is because of the problems I mentioned with some older ROMS and they do not want/need comebacks from uninformed people on Orange struggling to unlock.
When you buy the code you do not actually have to tell them which network its locked to but if you do just say its an Orange phone that has been rooted, thats what I told them although it hadn`t actually been rooted just flashed to the Orange ROM 2.73.61.66 2010/02/04.
You will notice they have exceptions to the NO Orange rule in that if you ROOT the phone then they will support an Orange unlock. Rooting is no longer necessary once you flash the Orange 2.73.61.66 ROM 2010/02/04 and they do not know this.
Hope this clears up any final hesitations.
what are you guys saying..i'am having a htc hero which is locked to orange.It is running on villain12.0 custom rom.is it possible to unlock the phone without buying the unlcok code from sites like unlock-now or unlock2go..?
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what are you guys saying..i'am having a htc hero which is locked to orange.It is running on villain12.0 custom rom.is it possible to unlock the phone without buying the unlcok code from sites like unlock-now or unlock2go..?
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No, you need to buy a code but villain 12 should support unlocking as it's based on a plain unbranded rom
rosemolr said:
what are you guys saying..i'am having a htc hero which is locked to orange.It is running on villain12.0 custom rom.is it possible to unlock the phone without buying the unlcok code from sites like unlock-now or unlock2go..?
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No we are not saying this - it will never be possible to unlock a HTC Hero without an unlock code (which can be bought for only £ 6.50 on eBay).
If you could find some way of generating a valid unlock code for free perhaps by using some kind of generator then maybe it would be possible to do it for free.
But at the moment I know of no way to generate a free unlock code therefore had to pay £ 6.50 for one on eBay.
We were just talking specifically about how to go about unlocking a HTC Hero on Orange using an unlock code bought from eBay.
Hi
I have had the hero for a month now which is locked to orange
i have tried various things such as Turbo Sims, codes and etc
They didnt worked out for me. i have been looking for ages for a code.
Currently i bought a unlock code for £12, however it says "Incorrect pin"
I am currently on the Villian Rom 12.
Can any 1 help
Thanks in advance