Hi Everyone,
I am new to the MDA compact 3 and have a few questions im hoping someone can clear up for me. I used to have a Motorola V3 and could hack that to hell and back but this seems a lot more complicated.
I have a T-mobile UK MDA Compact 3 and im going to use www.imei-check.co.uk to unlock the sim lock and CID. Unless someone knows of software which allows me to do it myself.
When it is unlocked i want to put an O2 sim card in it but then it will be full of T-mobile crap i dont want. Is it as easy as just wipe it and install a fresh copy of windows mobile 5 on it to erase all T-mobile branding and have a HTC factory stock one similar to a home PC re-install.
Has anyone written a tutorial on how to wipe and re-install, I tried searched but couldnt find anything.
Thanks for any help you can give.
If you do not want the Tmobile crap, just hardreset the phone. During installation, soft reset the phone just after the security section (when it ask if you want to set a password). That will get rid most of the Tmobile crap and your phone will be crap free. Although you may still have the 1st Tmobile splash screen crap. As for the O2 crap that you may need, either do a search for the CAB or you can always input it manually (not that difficult) once you got all the necessary info.
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry for this question but how do I do a hard reset?
So if I do a soft reset, which im guessing is just turn it off and back on using the power button, after the security section it will not put any of the T-mobile crap on it. Does that mean that if it needs to go back and I need to restore it to how I got it, I can do another hard reset and just allow it to run right through without doing the soft reset after the security section.
Start -> Settings -> System -> Clear Storage = hardreset
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Please help,
I have an unlocked T-Mobile WING and the tap screen suddenly does not respond. After going thru the forums one option that I have is to hard reset.
Does the phone still stay unlocked after the hard reset? I went thru a lot to get it unlocked!
I also need to know what do I need to backup before the hard reset? Contacts, calender, tasks, theme, other files? Is the only way to do a backup on WING is thru Activesync on a PC?
I used to own a Blue Angel where I could back up everything on the storage card and thus restore using xBackup. Is there no similar feature with the WING?
first of all ... define "unlocked"
SIM unlock or CID unlock?
If the touch screen doesn't work, Is he OS operable? do the hardware keys work? Are you able to navigate thru the phone using the wheel and hardware keys?
Connect it to a PC and setup activesync to backup any files you need... you can explore the phone with your PC and save any files you need ... as well as backing up your contacts with activesync.
You can try doing a hard reset or running the Stock RUU
which will restore the factory ROM ... or you can try installing any other 3rd party Rom depending on what you have done to your phone regarding what you call "unlocking."
Thanks dupred, the phone is 'SIM unlocked' I use it in Africa on my local network..
Everything else works fine, all the hard keys and alternative navigation works apart from the tap screen which suddenly just stopped without any impact on the phone!
Sorry, just noticed that its duprade!
Try a hard reset ... hopefully that will fix it.
Regarding whether or not the phone will remain unlocked... I don't know, I've never SIM unlocked my phone, so I couldn't tell you... maybe someone else has the answer to this question.
sim unlock should ALWAYS stay in place no matter what phone you have. thats the nature of a sim unlock.
I successfully flashed this ROM http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=70427 onto my friends Titan tested that it worked with calls and SMS. Yes, worked just fine. The didn't switch to the phone and a week later they were ready to reactivate it and use it again. I go to the Verizon website and activate it but when I do the *228 programming on the phone I get nothing. Usually it dials and you press "1" and it starts to activate. Now Nothing. I did a hard reset, reflashed the same ROM and even another ROM and NOTHING when I do the *228 programming. What to do?
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Got the Droid X to activate it on Alltel like I did very successfully with my Eris.
Installed HW virtual serial port software, created the virtual serial port, phone was detected and showing up correctly in QPST, went directly to CDMA Workshop and ripped the NV file from the phone, edited all the NV information to alltel's 3G provisioning with a HEX translator, uploaded the NV file to the phone and uploaded the Alltel PRL... all seemed well. Restarted the phone, it now shows no service. When I go to Settings, it tells me the baseband version is "unknown" and it doesnt know the ESN or anything, that isn't good. I tried reconnecting to CDMA workshop, if I try to restore original NV file, it doesn't know the SPC anymore so it doesn't allow it, SPC 000000 isn't recognized now. How can I recover the radio ? I tried restoring it (hard reset) through the settings, security menu AND the Power+home buttons way. After restoring, still no service and SPC is still incorrect, how do I get the radio back to default values ? CAn I reflash the phone? Anyone know where the factory rom is so I can do this ? Ah man, help me please :O
Other than that, I guess I'll have to have motorola take a look at it since I don't have it signed up to a verizon account, my bet is that verizon won't help me. thanks
Did a system "full reboot" help any??
No it hard resets normally and reboots to the welcome wizard, functions perfectly, but still "No Service" and "unknown" baseband in the settings...
I'm thinking I'll have to have the stock Rom file to flash my phone, hopefully this will flash the factory baseband too or maybe tomorrows update will fix my broken baseband, looks like from the information, it updates the baseband, wonder if it will update a totally dysfunctional baseband?
Yikes,.. this blows.
I don't understand why you didn't back up the rom if you were attempting something like this.
There is a Droid X update coming pretty soon, so I'm sure by that time the new rom will be available.
Well, I backed up the NV items, I figured that would be sufficient, guess not, Trial and error I suppose, but you're right.
What software do I use to back up the rom of the Droid X ? I know there is a key sequence on the Droid, what about the droid X ? The recovery screen (Power + Home) brings me to a menu allowing system recovery/wipe install update.zip from memory card, and thats it.
I have a buddy right here in town down the block that got the droid x with me, can I back the rom up off of his and flash that rom to my phone?
Help is SO appreciated...
EDIT
The system dumps that are floating around the web, is that a ROM backup ? http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-hacks/114-new-droid-x-retail-dump-straight-out-pot.html
Can I put that file in the SD card as update.zip and flash it?
stevey500 said:
Got the Droid X to activate it on Alltel like I did very successfully with my Eris.
Installed HW virtual serial port software, created the virtual serial port, phone was detected and showing up correctly in QPST, went directly to CDMA Workshop and ripped the NV file from the phone, edited all the NV information to alltel's 3G provisioning with a HEX translator, uploaded the NV file to the phone and uploaded the Alltel PRL... all seemed well. Restarted the phone, it now shows no service. When I go to Settings, it tells me the baseband version is "unknown" and it doesnt know the ESN or anything, that isn't good. I tried reconnecting to CDMA workshop, if I try to restore original NV file, it doesn't know the SPC anymore so it doesn't allow it, SPC 000000 isn't recognized now. How can I recover the radio ? I tried restoring it (hard reset) through the settings, security menu AND the Power+home buttons way. After restoring, still no service and SPC is still incorrect, how do I get the radio back to default values ? CAn I reflash the phone? Anyone know where the factory rom is so I can do this ? Ah man, help me please :O
Other than that, I guess I'll have to have motorola take a look at it since I don't have it signed up to a verizon account, my bet is that verizon won't help me. thanks
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why not use QXDM to modify the ESN?
Worth a shot...
You can try using the motorola troubleshooter. Its what they use to update your phone anyways and since the new update came out you might be able to install over what you did...I cant post a link because Im new but follow the instructions below and it will walk you through the update process via computer. I figure with a phone thats not working its worth a shot.
Go to Motorola's website and click the droid advert right on the left side of the screen.
Under the "Support" tab in the upper right hand corner is another tab called "Owner Support" click on that.
On the left hand side there are more tabs so this time click on "Update My Software"
It will give you a list of options, choose "Via Computer"
From here it will check your computer for their software and prompt you to download it. Its the troubleshooting software and it will ask you a few questions, its also what they use to update your software via computer so it may be capable of flashing your phone for you. Best of luck and let us know what the end result is.
I haven't tried either of these... but I'm about to start flashing a droid X to cricket and bookmarked these posts in case I mess something up. Proceed with caution as I have no first hand experience with these.
I'm still trying to get a handle on if the service programming parameters (the spc, MDN, MIN, SID, etc.) are updated as part of baseband updates, it sounds like they are since they are saying the device needs to be re-activated after applying either of these updates.
If a baseband update refreshes the service programming parameters here are the two ways I've found of updating the baseband:
Here's a link to a post for updating the baseband portion of your device (without updating the ROM):
http://alldroid.org/Default.aspx?tabid=62&g=posts&t=246
I don't know if this will work on a device that doesn't have a valid baseband prior to the update. Regardless, if your phone is bricked this may be a valid option to try.
There is also a 2.1 SPL file floating around which is the entire system image, the baseband and the rom. You will need to use rsdlite to apply this image to your phone. DO NOT APPLY THIS IF YOU ARE RUNNING FROYO.
Alright guys, i'm having an issue. I changed my phone number at Sprint, and now I can't send text messages (in my area i'm roaming 24/7).
So I decided I had to reactivate my phone, but I don't know how. So I tried reflashing CM11 nightly, and CM10 stable with no success. In settings it still shows my old phone number.
So my question is, how can I get my phone to update itself? Currently i'm downloading this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2650706
I think it's the stock firmware. So it should give me the activation process correct?
Also how do I know if my baseband/modem is updated? I'm confused as to what that actually is/means.
All your answers are here in these forums and available with a couple of google searches.
PLEASE do some searching.
And you should provide WAY more detials - what version of Android (4.3, 4.4? TW?) were you running before you attempted to install CM?
How did you try to install CM?
What did the Sprint people do?
If they changed your number THEY should activate that number right there and walk you through any processes you need to make it work (provided you didn't screw the pooch).
Is the ESN good, or did you change the number because of a bad ESN?
If so the phone will NOT activate correctly or at all.
Did you update the PRL and Profiles?