Hi there,
I've just had a replacement Vario 2 after the previous one developed a number of faults, only to find that the new one had the tight screen surround problem. Loosening the screws and using a credit card around the edge hasn't sorted the problem, and I'm not prepared to dismantle the phone.
Unfortunately, before I found out what the issue was, I updated the firmware according to this guide, updating to Black Satin, rather than Black Majik, although obviously the problem with the screen is still there.
The thing is, I'd like to restore the original firmware, ie the original software, or at least make it look as though it's as it came when they gave me the phone. I've done some looking around for replacement firmware, and found one referencing t-mobile and the UK, but it hasn't changed anything - there's still the Black Satin splash screen when the phone turns on. I guess the main thing is removing that really.
So one of two things really - how do I remove the splash screen and make the phone look 'out-of-the-box', or where do I get the original firmware to restore it to it's OOTB condition?
There are a couple of dumped T-Mobile ROMs on the FTP site - one is ftp://xda:[email protected]/Uploads/Hermes/DUMPEDT-MobileUKRomUpdated.rar - I have no idea if it is a WM5 ROM or not, so it's up to you if you want to try it or not......"no warranties, express or implied" ;-)
There is another guide on MrVanx's site that explains what steps you need to follow in order to downgrade successfully - here's the link.... WM5 Downgrade Guide v2
Good luck with whatever you decide to do!!
Cheers,
Mark.
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Hi there, I've recently bought an XDA / Wallaby originally locked to O2 and thanks to your software on the site I've now got it running on my Orange payg with full web access in under 2 hours of ownership - Wonderful! Big improvement over my Psion Revo .
Since getting this, my wife's now decided she loves the xda also so I'm looking for a second one for her.
My question is this; I've now found one listed on ebay quite local to me (so I can see it's as described before paying) but it has the following apparent problem, quoted verbatim:-
'I recently tried to upgrade the OS on it which resulted in me deleting the ROM Image so the OS/Rom needs to be re-installed. I would take the time to do this myself but do not have the time, and I have just got myself a P900 so am looking to use that. The software can be easily re-installed and is freely available. I have moved to the P900 purely for its bluetooth and camera functions and no other reason, i was totally happy with the XDA, it just needs a good home with someone that will take the time to load the software back onto it.'
Can I obtain any software to rectify this or am I biting off too great a problem?
As the item closes tonight (thursday) I'd appreciate any comments asap.
Thanks all, Charles
If Boootloader is working, reflashing the device should be no problem. You just require a SD-Card >= 64 MB and a (external) Card Writer.
How to do thi is described here http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Wallaby_HT_FlashSD
You can ask him, if he can try enter Bootloader by pressing Power button and doing a soft reset. It will be interesting, what there is displayed....
Stefan
thanks for that. Just read the link article. So I need to factor in the cost of a SD read/writer as I haven't got one. On that basis I think it could work out cheaper to just buy another O2 locked wallaby xda and unlock it for Orange.
But I'll watch to see what the item closes at.
BTW, do you have any idea of the price of the sd read/writer? I'll check with ebay myself as well.
Rgds
Charles
Should be not much. About 5 Euro, max 10 Euro + shipping.....
Stefan
Hi all
Anyone here had any experiences of returning a flashed phone for a warranty claim? I wonder how carefully they inspect the set-up. I'm suffering very bad battery life (<4 hours) and a dead camera on my Vario II, but I'm sure T-Mobile won't accept a claim (WM6, Radio 1.43, HardSPL, unlocked etc).
I can revert some things, for instance I got the original T-Mobile WM5 installed OK but can't find the original Radio ROM (1.05).
If there's no hope I'll just open the bugger up and try jiggling the camera connector or just remove it completely!!
sim
if youre returning your phone to a brick and mortar store then as long as it looks unmodded then I don't think they'd notice. Like if you reflashed with the provider's logo, etc.... they are just sales people, MOST of them know very little about any technical aspect of the phone. From my experience of getting one of my phones exchanged the reps I spoke to were not able to answer my technical problems, which is why I replaced it... so i say go for it
Hi zammykoo,
Do they not send it back to a service centre for evaluation? I'm a bit worried that even if the shop gives me a replacement on the spot, they might check out my busted model later and then slap me with a penalty fee or something.
sim
what exactly is the problem you are having with the camera? if it is under warranty then shouldn't it cover manufacturer defects like that? if that is the case. and it should apply to the bad battery life too, if those things were not caused by you (like water damage, they can tell) then they wouldn't have anything to say..... but as far as software reflash then i really don't think it'll matter cause they will probably reflash it themselves to clear out any previous user settings before putting back on the market
Hi there,
I just found an official WM6 flash from T-Mobile UK, so I've flashed that and taken it back to the shop for repair. Thought I'd take a chance as the phone is effectively useless at the moment (camera is dead and battery loses 20% per hour).
Thanks for your advice!
sim
Undo HardSPL? Mtty's format command clears everything?
Hi...I have a few questions about this topic as well.
It looks like my radio (hardware) died on me after a soft reset...I'd been having some problems with it before then. Anyways, I went through my provider's warranty exchange and I'm about to send my old handset back. My questions:
1) I'm stuck in the bootloader screen, since I couldn't upgrade my radio. I have Hard-SPL installed on my device, and you can see that (it says "Olipro" in the bootloader screen). Is there any way to remove Hard-SPL, or do you guys think I even need to worry/bother with that?
2) In the process of trying to reflash my phone and fix things myself, I used mtty and its format command...What exactly does that format? Is my phone's memory completely clean? That's fine by me if it is; I don't think that would be an issue with service personnel. I'm just wanting to know exactly what mtty's format does.
In addition, if anyone else has had to make a return under similar conditions, I'd appreciate hearing about your experience. THANKS!
i dont think any spl have a format command!!!!
r u kidding???
No, SPL's don't have a format command (that I know of!); I used this utility called mtty...I read about it here in the forums; it comes in handy when you're trying to recover from a bad flash, I think.
Anyone else have an answer to my questions?
1) I'm stuck in the bootloader screen, since I couldn't upgrade my radio. I have Hard-SPL installed on my device, and you can see that (it says "Olipro" in the bootloader screen). Is there any way to remove Hard-SPL, or do you guys think I even need to worry/bother with that?
2) In the process of trying to reflash my phone and fix things myself, I used mtty and its format command...What exactly does that format? Is my phone's memory completely clean? That's fine by me if it is; I don't think that would be an issue with service personnel. I'm just wanting to know exactly what mtty's format does.
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I had no problem with AT&T returning several unlocked and upgraded phones for replacement.
Thank for the response...
tvone said:
I had no problem with AT&T returning several unlocked and upgraded phones for replacement.
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tvone, thanks for taking the time to respond; I appreciate it.
Based on what you're telling me, I guess I won't worry about "downgrading" from HardSPL before taking it in.
If anyone has a different experience - or would just like to provide more reassurance (I'd love to have it!) - please let me know soon...I'll be taking care of this today!
THANKS!
Hi,
I have a Jasjam which is getting NoGSM errors. I believe this may be causing my hanging issues that I've been having a lot of.
I've had a look at the Wiki page on this, and a couple of things aren't very clear.
I'm currently running Bootloader SPL-1.10, and it says to go back to 1.04. Can I change to SPL-2.10Oli to do this as well (I guess this is easier).
Also, after this step, it says to Flash the patched radio to simunlock my jasjam, however it is already simunlocked.
I just wanted to clarify these things before giving this a go, so if anybody can enlighten me it would be greatly appreciated, as it is really starting to get to me.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
NoGSM Error in Jasjam - clarification of wiki
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Just wanted to bump this to see if anybody can help me out. I'm still having NoGSM problems, have tried the fix on the Wiki, but things aren't completely clear, as so far it hasn't made any difference.
Sorry mate, probably because no-one HAS a surefire method to fix the "No GSM" problem. Lots of people claim that something fixed it but they seem to keep popping up in the threads still trying to fix their problem. You might have to just try everything until you either give up or something noticeably improves or someone pulls the answer out of thin air.. We all live under the threat of "No GSM" and dread the day if/when it will finally arrive... Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you can shoot me til your hearts content.
Cheers...
Thanks for that, so pretty much I should keep on trying to flash different radios until I find one that sticks around for a while?
Would try to flash a stock rom 1st. What Telco are you with? Use their "Official"rom and see if that works. THEN go nus trying radio only roms. Chances are though that if you can't flash 1 radio rom your radio has been corrupted and is unrecoverable.
Good Luck
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Would try to flash a stock rom 1st. What Telco are you with? Use their "Official"rom and see if that works. THEN go nus trying radio only roms. Chances are though that if you can't flash 1 radio rom your radio has been corrupted and is unrecoverable.
Good Luck
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Hi, I've got a Jasjam (so therefore it's a Telstra phone). I've gone from the official rom to unofficial roms and back again. I've installed individual radio roms. Most things go onto the phone fine, and it will work perfectly for maybe half a day, and then it crashes, and when I restart I get NoGSM. I might reset it 5 times, and then the radio will come back.
I bought it on ebay, but I've managed to get hold of the details to get a duplicate invoice, so I've put the phone back onto Telstra ROM and a standard SPL, and I'm going to get them to have a look at it, as it looks as though it's a hardware problem, unless any of you smart bods here have other ideas...
Can anybody shed any extra light before I take it into the shop? Just don't want to admit defeat if I can
If you can, the best way to fix is through warranty. If they try to fix 3 times and fail they have to give you a new handset. I believe Telstra no longer have the jasjams so you might be upgraded to the Tytn II.
Cheers....
Hiya,
sorry to intrude - new user.
Is there a way to completely de-brand my xda2?
just successfully run the unlocking tool, but want to update windows, and ge rid of the o2 crap.
thamks 4 ur help, i'm a bit of a noob, but we all started sumwhere eh?
To get rid of the O2 software you need to do a hard reset, which will wipe everything you have installed so make sure it is all backed up first, and then when it restarts and says "Applying customisation in 3 secs" or something similar you need to soft reset.
Alternatively just flash it with a completely new ROM and upgrade to WM5 or WM6. Just make sure you have a Himalaya, XDA II, and not an Alpine, XDA IIi, as despite looking very similar they are competely different internally.
If you want to remove the physical o2 logo's on your device i have a great tip (my device was orange by default).
If you want to remove the logo's printed on the device, use a sugar cube and rub over the logo with it. it will look as if you are scratching the device but you aren't. Afterwards, cleen it with a wet tissue and voila. it's removed and the silver shine is still intact.
I did this a while ago, i think there are some tutorials about it online too.
Problem there as the O2 ones are more than just a transfer/sticker, they are a physical embossing on the case. Removal is damn near impossible without wrecking the case.
Well, after 9 months of lusting after this phone I finally got one. I wanted one with the intention of putting WP7 Mango on it and having a cheap WP7 phone.
I finally got one for $150 with money saved up from both Christmas and my birthday, but it had Android installed. I flashed an energy ROM on it, and played with that for a couple hours. I then looked at this thread:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/wp7-hd2/139787-how-flash-wp7-your-hd2.html
to see how to put WP7 on it. I downloaded "World Wide English (WWE) 1.66.405.2" since the thread says it has a .50 radio. Well, it seems it doesn't, because now I've got the same brick that happens when you flash a .51 radio.
No poweron, no tricolor screen, nothing. Occasionally I'll get a short chirp from the vibrator motor, but that's it. My computer makes no indication whatsoever of its existence.
Is my phone past DIY help? Would a cell phone repair store be able to do anything? Any clue how much they would charge for it?
Thanks a million
That's pretty unlucky, but also demonstrates why you shouldn't just blindly follow guides without some understanding of what's going on.
The rule for tmous isn't quite as simple as "..50.. radios only",, because 2.04.50 and 2.05.50 are also ..51.. radios.
Also, that rom you flashed usually comes with 2.06.51, so you probably got caught by a filename error, but that still doesn't excuse it properly, since had you read around the forum you would 1 - see the line " all non tmous stock roms WILL brick a tmous," (even without the radio, the rom wouldn't boot on your phone anyway) and 2. - you would have discovered that using hspl3 or Hspl4.would have done what you wanted without downgrading your rom.
so, unlucky, its bricked. JTAG will save it or new mainboard, and I'm betting you never dive in so quickly again!
(Before you start ranting about HTC and what a stupid phone, blah blah, remember it was t mo who asked HTC for a "special version",,, its all t mo's fault)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_ex3VGHIM
samsamuel said:
That's pretty unlucky, but also demonstrates why you shouldn't just blindly follow guides without some understanding of what's going on.
The rule for tmous isn't quite as simple as "..50.. radios only",, because 2.04.50 and 2.05.50 are also ..51.. radios.
Also, that rom you flashed usually comes with 2.06.51, so you probably got caught by a filename error, but that still doesn't excuse it properly, since had you read around the forum you would 1 - see the line " all non tmous stock roms WILL brick a tmous," (even without the radio, the rom wouldn't boot on your phone anyway) and 2. - you would have discovered that using hspl3 or Hspl4.would have done what you wanted without downgrading your rom.
so, unlucky, its bricked. JTAG will save it or new mainboard, and I'm betting you never dive in so quickly again!
(Before you start ranting about HTC and what a stupid phone, blah blah, remember it was t mo who asked HTC for a "special version",,, its all t mo's fault)
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I had no understanding of what the previous owner put on the device, I wanted to get it back to complete stock and try from scratch, mostly for the experience of doing it myself (something I enjoy doing). I don't know what amount of reading around would have saved me from a poorly-named file, but whatever.
Looks like I can get it JTAG'd for $40+sh, though I'm kind of hoping I can find someone cheaper on XDA-developers (this other guy is on eBay).
I guess that turns this thread into: Where's the best place I can send my phone to have it JTAG'd?
Ahh its not simply a 0 being a 1 in the filename.
for future reference the only stock roms you can flash will say TMOUS in the filename, and will never ever be rom version 1.x. , valid tmous rom versions are 2.10 2.13 and 3.14.
As for "what amount of reading..", did you find the dedicated tmous section of this forum yet?
(Not trying to be funny, just edjumacation!)