Hi,
I recently bought an unlocked Motorola Atrix from Amazon and I noticed that the phone actually got an Italy version for its firmware. I'm living in the US and I want to be able to get future software upgrades like Android ICS. So just wondering if there is any way to change the firmware to the US version?
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Hi guys,
I am considering Buying what of these phones as the idea of a joypad for a mobile is awesome, just got one question:
I'll be buying this imported (as its way cheaper) so more then likely it will have Hong Kong (Asia) firmware on it..is there "stock Rom" for this? i had a HTC desire HD that i managed to get back to worldwide firmware myself (after 2 weeks of research) so I was wondering if the same thing is possible with the Xperia play?
I don't wanna buy one and be stuck on another counties firmware.
any tips/help would be awesome
Thanks guys
Dougan636 said:
Hi guys,
I am considering Buying what of these phones as the idea of a joypad for a mobile is awesome, just got one question:
I'll be buying this imported (as its way cheaper) so more then likely it will have Hong Kong (Asia) firmware on it..is there "stock Rom" for this? i had a HTC desire HD that i managed to get back to worldwide firmware myself (after 2 weeks of research) so I was wondering if the same thing is possible with the Xperia play?
I don't wanna buy one and be stuck on another counties firmware.
any tips/help would be awesome
Thanks guys
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You should be able to flash the UK generic firmware on it using flash tool. After that you could root it using Gingerbreak, update it to 2.3.3 and remove the bloat.
All without unlocking your boot loader, too. Unless you just want to, that is.
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I'm looking moreso towards an aussie firmware, since my mobile provider would be a 3rd party of optus, I dont mind having optus bloatware on there. if theres aussie genric firmware, i would more then happy to have that over a worldwide firmware?
Dougan636 said:
I'm looking moreso towards an aussie firmware, since my mobile provider would be a 3rd party of optus, I dont mind having optus bloatware on there. if theres aussie genric firmware, i would more then happy to have that over a worldwide firmware?
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I don't know of an Australian FW, but there could be one. Most go for the UK generic because of being able to root then update to 2.3.3 without losing root. You'll need to unless you plan on installing everything on the SD card.
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im not too fussed about it being unlocked...i jsut want a firmware i can easily upgrade ( offical is what im looking for) that supports OTA updates too. its not really breaking any laws if its still the offical firmware suited for the device...any clue where i should start looking for rom guides and files? best to be prepared for when i get the phone!
I would just go with the uk generic. So far when it has come to updates the uk firmware has been one of the first to get the updates.
If you got an aussie firmware with optus bloatware on you would have to wait till optus ok's the update before you get it (god knows how long that would take?). Alot of people got the update weeks later because they had carrier branded software vs people who just have the generic software.
People from usa have even flashed the uk firmware (to get updates quicker) and there has not been any problems. If your phone is sim free it will not make a difference which software is on it.
Follow the steps here to get the uk generic + root with a locked bootloader. Once you have flashed the uk firmware all your future updates will automatically come from the uk.
Hello Guys, My first post
I just recently bought a 3G Xoom in the US to be able to use it here in Europe, but as far as I read, the 3G will never work here with the existing firmware because this device has been locked to work only with Verizon.
I was wondering if one of the developers here could tell me if I install the Stock MZ601_H.6.1-38-1_Retail_Europe.zip, would the 3G function will work with my MZ600 instead of the existing build HTJ85B and fix the issue?or installing Tiamat 2.1 maybe?
Thanks in advance,
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Hello,
I'm really sorry for this question, but I am kinda new to Android, used Windows Phones for couple of years. I live in Eastern Europe and I just bought S4. But my phone has older firmware version and it doesn't offer any updates I want to flash the UK version, how to do that? And will I get updates for UK, not for Eastern Europe afterwards? I have i9505.
Okay, figured it out ))
Niiceg said:
Hello,
I'm really sorry for this question, but I am kinda new to Android, used Windows Phones for couple of years. I live in Eastern Europe and I just bought S4. But my phone has older firmware version and it doesn't offer any updates I want to flash the UK version, how to do that? And will I get updates for UK, not for Eastern Europe afterwards? I have i9505.
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Hey guys,
Saw a very good deal on ebay india, the seller is selling an unlocked version Note - 3 T-mobile (US), so it can work on Indian GSM carriers.
Now, if you see the description: it mentions:
"The OS Software is Unlocked to Work with all GSM SIMS.
You are not supposed to Update the OS Software as Unlock code is applied to it"
2 quick questions:
1) Can you help me understand what does the seller mean here? The device will obviously be running on JB, so i wont be able to update it to the officially released Kitkat? Will manually flashing a firmware from say Sammobile, revert the unlock code and make the device useless?
2) Buying a US phone for Indian use.. Will i miss out on any features? or will it be a problem in any way??
Please help me out guys
Hi guys,
at the moment I'm using a Motorola Droid 4 but to be honest it is getting old So I'm going to buy a used Priv. But I've got a few questions. I'm from germany so all my questions are related to the german versions of the priv.
1.) There are different versions of the Priv (STV100-x), what are difference between them?
2.) What about the updates...If a priv has a branding from Vodafone (German vodafone) do I get the updates directly from Blackberry or do I have to wait for the vodafone version? If the updates comes from vodafone how long they usually need after the release of an update to build their own version?
Thank you guys for your help