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WM2003 & T-Mobile ???

Anyone have a ROM of WM2003 that works w/ T-mobile USA? I tried about 5 and no luck. XDA dev Rom works great and so does my old one, but can't find a 2003 rom that works. All either hang at the boot/welcome screen or don't boot.
--Mike

So far I have tried 3 different 2003 roms.
The first the "O2" rom loaded, but gave me some intermittent problems.
The second “For Testing Only” rom worked great. Only one small problem with Microsoft reader. I most likely wouldn’t have changed except that the new ROMkitchen got me more excited than it probably should have.
Now I am using the ROMkitchen version very happily….(same problem with the reader though)

Interesting because I tried the ROMkitchen version yesterday and got the same, hangs on welcome screen result. Did you do anything special other than put it on SD with XDArit? I have Wallaby 5.15 bootloader which I think is what the unit shipped with but from what I've read this is fine.
I'm just at a loss because I've tried most everything I can think of. Which file type did you select from the ROMkitchen? I grabbed the nb1. Should I try NBF? Does it matter what I put in the "header string" at the bottom of the ROMkitchen page? I noticed when I try to upgrade it says my device is PW10B1. Does that matter?
Maybe you can post or email me your ROM and I can try that today.
--Mike

I didn't use the SD card boot with the Kitchen rom version. I had the Kitchen create an .exe file and let it load through usb. I actually did it 2 times...and it worked both times. Just did it the second time after they fixed PocketMVP.
I will e-mail it to you if you want, but I think that you should try creating an .exe through the Kitchen first...since that is what I would e-mail anyway.
Scott

The Hang that you see may be caused by the simtoolkit loading on startup. Try removing the link in the windows startup folder. that may help

My fellow T-Mobile WM2003 users, I have been using all 3 versions successfuly with no freezups. There is a little trick that increases stability when on the US networks:
Go to your \Windows\StartUp\ directory and DELETE Ussd.lnk and STK.lnk.
These are autoconfiguration apps that work with European providers but do nothing for the T-Mobile network; so much so, that with the T-Mo original ROM these apps were not used at all.
When these apps run in T-Mo's (Cingular's) network here in Los Angeles area, I've even experienced random cold resets when switching cell sites.

Ok, sounds like that's the problem then, but how do I remove this from the startup if I can't get it to go past the welcome screen? Can I bould a ROM in the kitchen w/o these options? I only saw an option for where to "move" these apps and not an option to not have them installed at all.
--Mike

Sorry, the kitchen doesn't allow you to do that. If you know how, you can burn your own rom and exclude these items. Anyone know what ussd is for? As mentioned, i have deleted the toolkit link and have not had any problems, just curious as to what ussd is.

valheru said:
Sorry, the kitchen doesn't allow you to do that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now it does...
Check the new 'Remove 'stk.lnk' from Startup folder' option. If someone tells me what ussd is and why it's bad, I'll add it to the remove list for this option...

Tried the new ROM w/ stk.lnk
Ok, I tried the new ROM and still no luck. Tried it as both .exe and as a SD flash and get the same net result. System hangs after bringing up the radio stack version and OS version as well as the third number which is: G324e4.
This device flawlessly runs the 3.17 xda ROM as well as T-mobile 3.14 so I don't understand why it will not take any 2003 ROM successfully. Any more ideas?

USSD
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data
USSD is a means of transmitting information or instructions over a GSM network. USSD has some similarities with SMS since both use the GSM network's signaling path. Unlike SMS, USSD is not a store and forward service and is session-oriented such that when a user accesses a USSD service, a session is established and the radio connection stays open until the user, application, or time out releases it. This has more in common with Data than SMS. USSD text messages can be up to 182 characters in length.
STK is for SIM ToolKit - It should not cause any problems unless you have a really old SIM Card.
I think USSD is basicaly a thing for ie. GSM banking - it allows the network to send you binary SMSes deciphered by the SIM (when I login with my GSM key to a bank account, I receive a message with temporary password, it is not sent through ordinary SMS, but delivered to the SIM toolkit area which is protected by PIN)

XDA developer Peter Poelman said:
valheru said:
Sorry, the kitchen doesn't allow you to do that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now it does...
Check the new 'Remove 'stk.lnk' from Startup folder' option. If someone tells me what ussd is and why it's bad, I'll add it to the remove list for this option...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
xda-developers,
might be a stupid question but, i checked the command to remove stk.lnk from startup in (one of the reigstry hacks) and the command is the same as to add object. how do u remove it from startup, is it based on the file name. this one has rmobj extension.
thanks
alex

Sim Manger

Just wanted to say thank you for all the good info on this site and wanted to contribute. After un locking my sx56 to T-mobile i cook up a new rom and found i could no longer access my sim card contacts afterwards to fix this i copyied my sim manger files from old rom and used active sync to reinstall them to ppc windows directory and it work these are the files i used it ask you to write over click yes this worked for me but please verify with otheir's i not out to mess up pda's
SIM_Mgr(shortcut), SIM_Mgr.exe, SIMManager.htm, SIMManagerHelp, SIMManagerHelp(shortcut), simreader(shortcut), SIMReader.htm, Thumbs.db.
file is attached

thanks! but did you say you extracted files from another rom!?
if that can be done, perhaps you can do the same for media player 9 from 2003. and then we wont have to upgrade and put up with the bugs in 2003.
also... i have SMS messages saved on my sim card, from when i used it in a regular cell phone. any ideas on how to read them on ppc?

Sounded strange as Sim Manager seems to be available on many roms I have cooked, espescially t-mobile roms. What I found missing is STK or SAT Sim Application Toolkit. Any idea how to get it on a t-mobile rom 2003?

I dont know about media player but as far as the sim manger it was in the cooked roms. but it never opened in any of the roms that i cooked so i put at&t's original rom wm2003 ver A.30.09eng used active sync found the files i thougt it needed reinstalled a tmobile cooked rom 4.00.16 used at&t's files to replacet the ones on the rom now i can open my sim an copy them to my contacts before i could not.

how to disable the stk menu from WM5 !!!

i want to disable the stk menu from WM5
decause the STK menu always auto startup when i was using programs,I'm crazy!~!~!~
did anyone tell me how to do?
Thank u!!!

STK menu?

Yeap, STK Menu is the services which our provider ex. Vodafone put in the sim card.

Ok, I got an idea. Might sound stupid and is not the most ellegant solution but it will work: Why don't we put together a little program that deletes the shortcut and we put this program in the startup folder? This way the icon won't reappear after each soft-reset.
Can anybody here do this for me? Just a simple little program to delete the file. The one which needs to be deleted is:
\\Windows\Startmenü\Programme\Special.lnk
Thank you so much!

Can you change the title of this thread to a ? not a !
Otherwise it looks like you have an answer, not a question.
STK is partly to do with your sim, and partly your OS. What kind of SIM are you using? Ie a dual sim etc?
V

Hi! Sorry I can't edit the title as I didn't start the thread. I only have the same problem and thought about it.
I am using a T-Mobile Germany SIM. No Dual-Sim in the game. Do you have a better idea how to get rid of the shortcut being created after every softreset?
ROM: 2.18.7.7 GER (QTEK)

XDA II: don't worry, I wasn't asking you to change the title of the thread, I was talking to ncwjk
But I don't think your idea would work - how would you run your little program - you'd put it in the \startup\ folder.
So you would just be gambling that the phone would run your program before stk, since we can't be sure which one would run first. So STk might run first, or your program might be run first... not sure though. I don't use STK so can test it.
V

Ok, I can see your point. However I don't think there's anything to lose. If anybody can make that little program I am willing to try it. Worst case is that it does not work, or am I wrong?
Or is there a possibility to completely remove STK? You say you don't use it. I don't either, but it's there.... Can it be deactivated on the SIM maybe?

there is no way to disable it!
i got to China mobile to change a sim card without stk menu,
they told me,all sim card with stk menu now,so can't help me!

I got this new sim card in Jan,2006
my old sim card don't have this problem!
but, this time,i must use the new card number!
so,i hope there is a way to disable the stk menu!
help me~! tky

read STK menu

Hi to all!
I have few question, so if u have some time then advice me.
1)How could i get the STK menu from simple SIM card (application must run on the phone)?
2)Which platform should i choose? (j2me, winMe, android,symbian, os x etc)
3)If i should use APDU(SATSA in j2me) where could i get samples about this?
4)I saw some guys read\write SIM card like a file system with a hex* names, where could i find the structure of SIM card?
p.s. my task is to develop the wrapper for sim toolkit.
Regards
Craig.

Anybody can help me, or advice or at least something, pleaseeee.
Regards
Craig.

can someone help me please? i want to read STK from sim card
exactly, i want to know what commands sent from Sim application to operator for recharging. i want to set it on my application .
Regards

error while trying to copy contacts to sim

Hi
I have a TyTN with a wm6.1 rom upgrade
im trying to copy the contacts i have on my phone to my new sim
but the sim manager gives me an error message sayin "Bad Parameter" even if i try to copy a single contact (i have tried a few). i tried it with the new 6.1 version of the sim manager and it still doesnt work. any ideas?

May we know what os your SIM Provider..

orange
in israel if its any help

I know a few months have passed....
I wanted to do exactly this, copy sim contacts to a new sim card without going through the tedious process of copying each individual contact from sim to phone blah blah.
found an app called Turbo Contact Backup 0.01. Goolge should find it.
Saves sim contacts to an xml file which can then be restored to a new sim card, lovely free app.