does anyone know how to recover (or reset) the pin/numeric password on the htc imagio w/o having to do a hard reset? i need all the contacts (weren't backed up) and microsoft said they'd do it for $59.99 and htc said that they just 'make the phones' and that its not their problem. really makes me want to get an android when my service agreement w/ verizon is over. the fact that MS would charge me for the service means that its possible to crack/hack but i don't have the IT knowledge to do so, so any help is greatly appreciated. thx
If you plug it into a computer you have been syncing with, it will copy over the contacts without having to know the pin. I think you can create a new partnership without the pin as well.
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My Wallaby (T-Mobile, unbranded?) suddenly lost all my contacts, my installed software and everything. I then did a software reset, then a hardware reset.
Now it comes up with a Windows Mobile 2003 and the XDA-Developers wallpaper, and asks to run through the initial calibration etc.
Also it doesn't seem to accept my E-Plus Sim card. It doesn't search for my provider (Eplus).
Instead it suggests to run the T-Mobile autoconfiguration.
Could someone help me, please, to get it functioning again?
Thanks.
Christoph
Krischu said:
My Wallaby (T-Mobile, unbranded?) suddenly lost all my contacts, my installed software and everything. I then did a software reset, then a hardware reset.
Now it comes up with a Windows Mobile 2003 and the XDA-Developers wallpaper, and asks to run through the initial calibration etc.
Also it doesn't seem to accept my E-Plus Sim card. It doesn't search for my provider (Eplus).
Instead it suggests to run the T-Mobile autoconfiguration.
Could someone help me, please, to get it functioning again?
Thanks.
Christoph
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I managed to skip the autoconfiguration and it recognizes my Simcard again and also finds the provider.
I have a backup and a synchronization on my notebook (via Activesync). But the ID of my MDA is currently Pocket_PC. To sync it should have the same ID as my AS host has, doesn't it? How do I achieve this?
And another thing is strange: Isn't there an area of local storage (besides the inserted SD) that carries locally installed programs and other information. It seems that I don't see this file area at all. Could it be corrupted and if, is the a way to recreate/recover it?
Solved! Thanks and excuse the bother. Everything is restored again thanks to the backup I had I was able to restore everything to a very recent state. Only my incoming call history is missing a month.
Hi all
As i'm sure you all may be aware, RIM (Blackberry) have a service that they provide whereby each handset has a PIN number, unique to the device, and this can be used with their software to send messages between blackberry devices if you know the persons Personal Identification Number, this service works over the DATA service
So,
I was wondering if, some developer of WM could perhaps design a piece of software which will do the following:
A central database of people's 'username/PIN' (to ensure that everyone has a unique number)
a program to interface with this service which will effectively act similar to email, but directly to the persons handset
the software will allow the user to input a Username/PIN and a message which would be sent over the DATA/GPRS/HSDPA to gain access to the internet and send the message to the central server/service and relay that to the recipient.
Is something like this possible at all or am i just dreaming and should just go and buy a blackberry instead?!
many thanks!
I think this would be just a pipe dream mate. RIM have the money to invest in the central DB servers required to keep track of all the devices out there. I have a Touch Pro, but also keep my BB for messaging the missus. Bandwidth contraints will more than likely never get this off the ground apart from at the manufacturer level
aside from that, rim continues that madness because its the only consumer like anything they have in their messaging services. What happens when you lose your device? swap a warranty exchange? you guessed it...new pin. What does that mean? no way to get all your friends back...besides email them to ask them for their pin? hmmmmm....that sounds kind of retarded.
pin is a very primitive IM system. let it die a horrible death my friend
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aside from that, rim continues that madness because its the only consumer like anything they have in their messaging services. What happens when you lose your device? swap a warranty exchange? you guessed it...new pin. What does that mean? no way to get all your friends back...besides email them to ask them for their pin? hmmmmm....that sounds kind of retarded.
pin is a very primitive IM system. let it die a horrible death my friend
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LOL!!
I guess I have never even added someone by their PIN anyway, only by their email address (BTW I only have my fiance and my sister as meesenger buddies anyway ) I mean, I have skype, MSN push email, IMAP email etc on my TP, why do I need anything else??
I thought this was a great idea initially but since using BBM and now back to Win Mo, I think that BBM is over-rated.
What can BBM do that other chat clients can't? I use MSN and GTalk to keep in contact with friends and they work so much better than BBM.
I know it has encryption but is that really important?
PIN
I had a BB years ago long before converged devices. i still say the PIN is excellent. PINs are guaranteed delivery. and you know when someone got your pin because you got the D notice on your sent pin message.
I agree that trying to get someone's PIN if you replace your device is a pain in the rear but the system does have it's advantages.
sms is still pretty unreliable. good chance if you don't have signal when it gets sent you are not getting it but with PIN when it was back in signal you got the PIN.
I hate the did you get my text question. with pin thhere is no question. if you got the d they got your message.
jmo
surely someone ought to be able to do something around this,
what if, anyone who wished to make use of this service actually purchased up an old blackberry (which had a valid PIN) and somehow, on our wm devices, this PIN was spoofed and made the blackberry pin service think that our wonderful WM devices were in fact the Blackberry which has that corresponding pin?
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surely someone ought to be able to do something around this,
what if, anyone who wished to make use of this service actually purchased up an old blackberry (which had a valid PIN) and somehow, on our wm devices, this PIN was spoofed and made the blackberry pin service think that our wonderful WM devices were in fact the Blackberry which has that corresponding pin?
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Just hold out for the Blackberry Virtualization Suite... It's coming... Then you'll have your precious BBM on your TouchPro 3
(I mean at the rate RIM is going with releasing it, that seems like a reasonable milestone.)
It's proprietary technology, "Spoofing" in just about any sense isn't exactly legal. So have fun finding someone here that's going to try to dupe the BB servers into thinking a WM phone is a Blackberry device, especially when you risk making PINs collide if two join the network at the same time... Not easy and certainly won't be legal. It's like cloning IMEI's...
aaaah fair enough
but i heard that you wont be able to get pin messaging on the virtualisation suite?
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aaaah fair enough
but i heard that you wont be able to get pin messaging on the virtualisation suite?
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I didn't hear that, but I didn't hear it specifically would either. So I guess it's still up in the air, I haven't seen any of the specs regarding it, but taking into consideration that there isn't much of a purpose aside from BBM and the Push email, I don't know why they would bother creating a Suite of just BB OS. I'd imagine it should be a clone of a BB with an individual PIN.
Hi,
I cannot explain why but my wm5 mobile device pwd is not working anymore. I know that I could do a hard reset loosing thus all data I got on my phone. Unfortunatly my last synch is some time ago and I'd prefer a way to gain access to my mobile without a reset because I need the contacts I got on it.
Does anyone know if there is a software, a company or someone who may help. (HTC, MIcrosoft... anyone)
Thanks
Andy009
Dear xda-users.
Sadly I have lost my HD2 after a having it for a week. I have tried to locate it via Microsoft My Phone but it failed me.
My network operator has blocked the sim-card and the phone's IMEI number.
Does anyone know if it is possible to track it down even when the phone has ran out of power and does?
Anybody know any company who is able to track devices?
I hope you can help me.
Regards
Razir.
Well if the SIM card is blocked, there is no way how the device would let you know. It could use wifi, but even if wifi was on, HD2 wont connect unknown networks until told so.
Razir said:
Dear xda-users.
Sadly I have lost my HD2 after a having it for a week. I have tried to locate it via Microsoft My Phone but it failed me.
My network operator has blocked the sim-card and the phone's IMEI number.
Does anyone know if it is possible to track it down even when the phone has ran out of power and does?
Anybody know any company who is able to track devices?
I hope you can help me.
Regards
Razir.
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No power, no way.
if its out of power u wont track it... ull have to wait till someone finds it... recharges it and connects to network.. thats only way how to track it (it broadcasts its imei over network).. even if they hard reset it which would kill myphone tracking
dont know about any companies but in slovakia it is prohobited by law to track down cell phones... before ppl were able to do that by calling police but not anymore
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My network operator has blocked the sim-card and the phone's IMEI number.
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If you asked the network to block the IMEI you're pretty much screwed. If it wasn't blocked, someone could take the phone, change SIM, and hopefully turn it on without hard resetting, which you'd be able to see on myphone. But as the IMEI is blocked, even if he did that, the network wouldn't let it connect, so it wouldn't be able to tell it's position.
Except if the guy connects to a wifi. But he'd certainly think about hard resetting before that.
Thank you guys. Your answers have been useful.
As it might be a little late for you now I ran across this program called Ultimate Theft Alert. If you would have had this application installed you might have been able to locate your phone. Or at least tell you who has it.
http://www.wm6software.net/utilities/_ultimate_theft_alert_v35_.html
I'd like to blatantly push a free and VERY full featured program here called remote tracker. Lets you do all the phone tracking stuff, send it a text and it sends you back a link to google maps with lcation, location based on gps and/or cell towers, it can record a 5 minute gps track and send it to you, it has sim swap alert, wipe your simcard,wipe sd card, run scripts remotely, lock up your phone, throw up messages on screen, have the phone call you back, it is soft reset friendly (hard reset proof if you cook it in yourself),,,
http://remotetracker.sourceforge.net/
oh, and no i'm not the author, and nor do i get a kickback
oh, and it can respond by text, email or ftp (or all the above)
edit - sorry to the OP :-(
Hi guys,
I also lost my HTC HD2 but didn't speak to my network yet, so do I have any chance to find it?? any idea how?
Thanks
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If you asked the network to block the IMEI you're pretty much screwed. If it wasn't blocked, someone could take the phone, change SIM, and hopefully turn it on without hard resetting, which you'd be able to see on myphone. But as the IMEI is blocked, even if he did that, the network wouldn't let it connect, so it wouldn't be able to tell it's position.
Except if the guy connects to a wifi. But he'd certainly think about hard resetting before that.
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Hey I am in a similar situation. Can youplease confirm. If I DO Unblock the IMEI from my carrier, will the myphone service be able to locate the HD2 even if it does now have a new SIM card in it?
I lost the phone O/S and would do anything to get it back - I have it registered to the microsoft myphone service. Now that I am back home, I got a new sim card with the same number. Will the myphone service search via IMEI or does it need my active sim card in it?
Thanks
Myphone ONLY uses the sync relationship with the phone. The position is updated when the phone is synced. So the position you see is the one of the last sync, and if the new "owner" is clever enough to hard reset your phone, you'll never get position updates again.
Dear All, I badly need help. Actually, my phone, regularly owned and connected to my Microsoft account, pretends it is in Recovery Mode Protection. It happened after I restored it.
The facts:
I did not remember to have activated this protection
When I try to check the IMEI of the phone in account.microsoft.com/devices/ it tells me the protection is not active
When I tried to follow the online suggestion of disconnecting the phone from the account, to obtain the unlock code on the webpage and to have it sent to my email, both these two things did not happen.
In summary, I have my phone locked (I suppose it is an error in phone software), removed from my account, and I cannot have the unlock code, nor ask Microsoft for it because, to them, my phone is not locked.
When I ask for support they bounce me among Accounts, Windows and Mobile support. Three weeks have passed, nothing happened of the case I opened with them.
Could you suggest me anything I could do, or get me to the right support to have my phone fixed?
I can provide the purchase proof of the phone.
Thank you in advance!
Kind regards
NeedHelpPlease001 said:
Dear All, I badly need help. Actually, my phone, regularly owned and connected to my Microsoft account, pretends it is in Recovery Mode Protection. It happened after I restored it.
The facts:
I did not remember to have activated this protection
When I try to check the IMEI of the phone in account.microsoft.com/devices/ it tells me the protection is not active
When I tried to follow the online suggestion of disconnecting the phone from the account, to obtain the unlock code on the webpage and to have it sent to my email, both these two things did not happen.
In summary, I have my phone locked (I suppose it is an error in phone software), removed from my account, and I cannot have the unlock code, nor ask Microsoft for it because, to them, my phone is not locked.
When I ask for support they bounce me among Accounts, Windows and Mobile support. Three weeks have passed, nothing happened of the case I opened with them.
Could you suggest me anything I could do, or get me to the right support to have my phone fixed?
I can provide the purchase proof of the phone.
Thank you in advance!
Kind regards
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Hi, solved with this...
www . youtube . com/watch?v=4RQtSq0oqDM