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help! I bought a sx56 but dropped it and broke it.
I had to buy this new one on ebay. (they are so expensive!) Sorry, but I am not real fond of this software. Is there any way of just going back to the normal software it comes with when it is brand new? Please help.[/list]
what software ?
the xda special rom ?
also not sure about in the US but here xda2 are not any more expensive then xda1 so if mine broke i would surely get a xda2
yes, i do not want your software with all the bells and whistles. i need it just plain like when i bought mine new
then maybe you can download the rom from the manufactors site
otherwise you could use the kitchen and uncheck all the extre program and settings
kitchen?
the place where you make those roms which may or may not include bells and whistles
http://kitchen.romanweb.com/kitchen/index.php
Please. I need to find someone with a working XDAII so that I can fool the Upgrade Utility so that I can flash with correct ROM.
My XDA II has been damaged by downgrading after TMob ROM v1.72. Changed model ID so I need a working XDA II so I can use it for Upgrade program to detect as correct model number.
(see post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=8606 solution 1.)
If anyone in Melbourne AUST would allow me to stick my device in your cradle it would be greatly appreciated.
Looks more like they are going to stick their device into your cradle :lol:
What makes you say that?
I can simply take an upgrade with me on mass storage device. All I ask is for someone with a cradle & XDA II to run the upgrade utility.
Doesn't matter who's cradle it is... Whoever is kind enough to help will be limited the inconvienience by me going to them. (Wherever you are... in Melb AU)
i know that my post is likely to be as little of use as cairo31male's and
i admit that i had to phycialy restrain myself from making a simalar replay but to make his replay's reason try reading this
with a dirty tounge in cheek state of mind
If anyone in Melbourne AUST would allow me to stick my device in your cradle it would be greatly appreciated.
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hope you find somebody one day .... hmmm or something
Yes, it was indeed intended as joke, as Rudegar put it: "with a dirty tounge in cheek state of mind "
But it is true that it would be simpler to use your own cradle on your own computer. That way, you would only need the other device for 2 minutes to start the upgrade, then the other person can leave and you would leave your device in the cradle for the rest of the process (up to 1 hour).
The other way round would be easier for the other party, as you will go to them, but they will have to wait for 1 hour for your upgrade to finish.
Okey dokey, i'm in Melbourne with a XDAII. I'm on the road quite a bit so won't be easy to sort out a time, but what the hell....i'll do my best
Drop me a line at [email protected] and we'll see what we can figure out.
Cheers - Steve
Thanks
thanks to the ppl who replied (productively) to this post. Your offers were well appreciated however I have put my XDA II in for repair as this solution would only be temporary.
Well, after the last email i sent to dopod about a newer firmware i posted here, i sent another one, as theres obviously AKU3.3 updates from HTC themselves.
Dear Michael,
The 838pro ROM code is AKU2.3
I checked our schedule again for you and nothing has changed since your last email . There would not be any new ROM update in future for the Dopod 838 Pro.
If you want an updated unit, we suggest buying the newer Dopod 810. I appreciate that the Dopod 838 Pro is our current top PDA, however, we feel no update is needed. If your not happy with not having WPA2, i suggest more care in selecting a PDA next time.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
ANZ Service
Dopod International (Australia New Zealand) Pty Ltd
ABN 48 119 011 639
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Be rest assured, the "CARE" i take next time, will be NEVER to buy, or recommend a Dopod to anyone ever again. Considering they are trying very hard to break into the Australian market, they've done an appaling job at winning customers with crap service like this.
And no offence but its clear they don't care and are employing monkeys with there "engirsh"
8one pissed off Dopod owner8
Gosh That's really bad news...
I will also Inform and Definately NOT recommend to any of me friends/forums on DoPoD Devices (YuCK!)
or you can politely make it known to them that we've a aku 3.3 update for hermes here so they can just put a note in their future sales boxes to inform customers to come here to update a software that they are too lazy to do
:LooooooooooooooooooooL: m8!!
They surely are lazy!
that is fu**n s**t of Dopod as im using a Dopod 838 Pro.... as i stuffed by radio when trying to unlock the CID im now stuck to Dopod... might just have to go and buy the IMEI-CHECK unlocker....
Ahh wells.. At least they are the OEM distributor for HTC. We still can get nice updates.
Thats the bit about it all i don't understand.
HTC own Dopod now. There supposed to be HTC's break into Asia pacific etc.
Even though HTC release newer, needed ROM's, dopod's answer to that is essentially "Go F**k yourself, we want more money from you, so to upgrade buy another PDA"
Rest assured, when i buy a new PDA, especially in Oz, it won't ever be a Dopod thats for sure.
If your not happy with not having WPA2, i suggest more care in selecting a PDA next time.
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Someone interacting with customers and talking like that will soon find out that this can be "career limiting experience".
What is the email for the support or the person you contacted?
I reckon if enough of us ask about it they might respond
Cheers
If they're owned by HTC, I'd forward that onto them. It is not good customer service to respond like that. A
nyway the problem is that when you are buying a device finding information in that much detail is very hard and it is completely capable of WPA2 and you would assume a market leading device would be capable of that.
-wireless- said:
What is the email for the support or the person you contacted?
I reckon if enough of us ask about it they might respond
Cheers
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[email protected]
I've fowarded onto HTC. Lets see what they have to say about how there new retail arm treats HTC's new market and potential customers.
Seriously, i can handle them not doing an update (although that in itself is poor customer after sales support, basically buy the unit then we don't give a f**k about you) but the complete lack of respect for me and their own company pisses me off.
Oh well, how ever much i actually love the device, another dopod product will never grace my hands again, thats for sure.
yeah, dopod service sucks in this part of the world. you should pray that the device has no issue. i have a loose stylus issue and would rather not send it in for servicing
I appreciate that the Dopod 838 Pro is our current top PDA [...] i suggest more care in selecting a PDA next time.
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what a tool!
Some people really dont understand how to treat their customers. There are hundreds of better ways he could have gotten his point accross without being rude, and contradicting himself.
Hi, first post here.
I have owned numerous PDA's over the last 5yrs or so and cannot remember any of them getting an upgrade for the firmware. There have been various updates to fix minor bugs but usually if you wanted a newer OS then you replaced the PDA. HTC and Dopod arent doing anything different than any other manufacturer. I dont like it either but can see that if they released a new OS for the product then no-one would buy the newest kit.
It stinks but thats how it is
Umm, clearly you are very mistaken.
PDA's have had continuos updates for bug fixes etc for a long time. The Hermes has bugs that need to be resolved.
AKU3.3 is NOT a new OS. Its WIN CE 5 still, just with latest patches. Nearly all other manufacturers release updates. I don't care what happened 5 years ago, then industry and its problems then are nothing like they are today.
Its perfectly acceptable to expect a third party producer of a product, that the main manufacturer has released updates for, to get of their own lazy arses and customise that update for them.
What your saying, is its perfectly fine to release unfinished, bug ridden hardware/software and then the consumer should just pay for a whole new unit on a hope that that one isn't as bad.
Or, would you expect a simple update that they have to do very little work to customise to be released when its spoon fed to them.
Tell you what, buy a car from me, i won't include wheels with it. Everythign will work, but it will be usesless to you. You'd expect me to supply some simple wheels, but i will palm you off with bad service, **** english and tell you you should buy the newer, better car as that has wheels.
Um, clearly in my post i stated:
There have been various updates to fix minor bugs but usually if you wanted a newer OS then you replaced the PDA. If this is a MINOR update then I stand to be corrected.
You can keep your car by the way
No its not minor, its probably in the same capacity as SP2 was for XP.
However, nonetheless, it is an update thats needed to make the devices function as they are supposed to.
The update has been released by HTC to carriers. Dopod, are simply to tight and lazy to do anything, and beleive it acceptable to shaft its customers, rather than what some of the better carriers are doing (HTC direct, AT&T etc) and releasing an update thats much needed.
Im not asking for them to update to Crossbow for free. Im asking them to release a standard upgrade, to help their device they released to function properly.
you just got the standard Customer Support bugger-off-with-with-new-rom-inquiries reply, it's not up to him to know whether it will be available or not..
also known as hermes 100 i think. my father in law has just got one, its locked to orange but wants to use it on vodafone. he took it to shop yesterday and they said they cant do it. my question is can it be unlocked to vodafone? if so can i do it, where is the idiots guide hehe. the guy in shop said i need to flash the phone and the software costs me £35 so he said id have to charge more than that to do it. iv looked in the sticky thread but cant seem to see the right link with instructions
thank you
hope i posted it in the right place
noney82 said:
also known as hermes 100 i think. my father in law has just got one, its locked to orange but wants to use it on vodafone. he took it to shop yesterday and they said they cant do it. my question is can it be unlocked to vodafone? if so can i do it, where is the idiots guide hehe. the guy in shop said i need to flash the phone and the software costs me £35 so he said id have to charge more than that to do it. iv looked in the sticky thread but cant seem to see the right link with instructions
thank you
hope i posted it in the right place
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see here, its free, and its easy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665
thank you
Gotta love those phone stores where most people give you a blank look when you walk in and ask for anything thats not a nokia or Iphone....
Ask anything technical and you get the greatest story ever told..Sometimes funny to go to there & ask to see the clowns in action, almost like going to the circus, almost....
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Gotta love those phone stores where most people give you a blank look when you walk in and ask for anything thats not a nokia or Iphone....
Ask anything technical and you get the greatest story ever told..Sometimes funny to go to there & ask to see the clowns in action, almost like going to the circus, almost....
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Yeah I have experienced your sense of stupification! I don't mind people saying they don't know something, it's when they try to blag it and pretend they have a clue...
@noney82
Unlocking your phone (thanks to Pof et al) is pretty straight forward and painless. It you plan on doing any more upgrading or flashing then read the sections in the WIKI carefully and thoroughly, they will keep you safe.
iv sorted it, thank you all very much for your help you been great, turned out very easy. im now going to put a new rom on my orbit i think
Before flashing a new OS, PLEASE make sure you put Hard SPL on the Hermes...
Here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37669&d=1177280888
It won't guarantee a flawless flash but if there is a problem you have a much better chance to recover the phone... Better than none, which is about what you get without it..
I'd like to say also, and I know Wam7 is with me on this, installing with the sd card method is safer and easier than using the PC. For instructions on how to install Hard SPL with the sd card instead of the PC go to page 116 - post 1160 on the thread I linked above..
To use the sd card method for an OS (after installing Hard SPL) just do the same thing but leave out steps 5 &6.
Cheers...
i'll look into it still not brave enough yet tho
Ok, so here is my story. I just got a T-Mobile HD2 yesterday. I successfully installed HPSL, and was running Android 2.2 beautifully. Except I had the problem with the distortion during calls. So I started searching...I must have done at least 3hrs of research before I did anything.
So what I was told was that I needed to flash the radio. I read dozens of forums with people talking about trying all different kinds of roms and people even going as far as saying that if you flash one that doesnt work, dont worry just reflash.
Well, I THOUGHT I had narrowed my search down to the rom I needed. I was under the impression that I should use this rom;
(Leo_RADIO_15.28.50.07U_2.05.51.05_2 (from HTC ** 1.48)
But I unintentionally downloaded this one;
Leo_RADIO_15.28.50.07U_2.05.50.11 **(from TMOUS 2.01)
Now My phone wont even come on! Ive heard people talking about un-bricking these phone, but they all start with going to the boot loader. Mine does NOTHING AT ALL....the light doesn't even come on when I plug the charger in
When I flashed it everything went fine, no errors, nothing, I had the htc loading bar on my screen, it hit 100% and it shut off and it wont come back on.
By the way, I flashed it via usb.
I have a bad feeling that I'm screwed. But if anyone can help it would be appreciated. As I received this phone from a friend who switched to the EVO, I don't even have the T-Mobile service yet, I was going to switch at the end of the month. I don't believe I have a way to get it replaced.
OK, so some more research has found that I definately installed the wrong rom...duh. and that this problem is specific to the tmobile phones.
At this point I have been reading about jtag, RIFF box to be specific. I would be willing to pay someone (a reasonable amount) if they could fix my phone. I'm may be willing to purchase my own riff box, if I cant get my hands on a new phone. I just don't want to spend $150 on a piece of equipment that ill only use once.
But if absolutely necessary, is there anyone out there willing to provide me with step by step instructions on how to connect the jtag to the phone, and run the software? I know its going to involve soldering, I have that coverd, But what and where to solder?
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OK, so some more research has found that I definately installed the wrong rom...duh. and that this problem is specific to the tmobile phones.
At this point I have been reading about jtag, RIFF box to be specific. I would be willing to pay someone (a reasonable amount) if they could fix my phone. I'm may be willing to purchase my own riff box, if I cant get my hands on a new phone. I just don't want to spend $150 on a piece of equipment that ill only use once.
But if absolutely necessary, is there anyone out there willing to provide me with step by step instructions on how to connect the jtag to the phone, and run the software? I know its going to involve soldering, I have that coverd, But what and where to solder?
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i hope someone answers and you get this fixed because after you hit a radio brick.. im lost.. thats time for me to call my insurance company..
good news is.. there are enough bricks on here that if you have to buy something that will fix a radio brick.. if you chaged $30 -$50 a phone to fix them you would have more phones in your hands than youd know what to do with and would def get your money back.
there was a thread that samsamuel and some other guy were discussing this. the other guy (forget who it was) can do this...but lives in south america. if you search for it, maybe he can help. yes, a very looooong shot...but an idea...
Well I have some good news, for me anyway, I did some research and found that the phone I had received is still under warranty until March. So I'm hoping that since its a complete brick that they wont be able to tell It was modified, and also I believe the rom I was trying to flash is actually an "official" rom(correct me if im wrong).
I have given serious thought to getting the riff box and selling the service, I could definitely use the money, but I don't know the first thing about how to use it.
Now, this seriously needs to be done!! What rom should the T-Mobile USA users use to flash the radio in there HTC HD2? I know I'm not the first or the last person who will brick there phone. I searched for over 3hrs and kept getting linked back to the same thread,
([REF]The HTC HD2 Radio ROM Thread)
Now while that does seem to be a very complete list of roms, nowhere does it give any info on what one to use for what device. Furthermore, I knew what phone I had, what model, the ram and rom size, all the jazz, but nowhere did anyone tell me that the !!T-Mobile!! HD2 was just "Slightly" different than the others. I didnt find that out until AFTER I bricked the phone, as did ALL of the other users who bricked there devices.
I, and most of the other bricked users would agree, there needs to be a thread(maybe even a sticky) that is solely dedicated to us T-Mobile HD2 users. So lets start here!
The primary and really only issue is this...what is the proper radio rom to use on these phones and what is the proper way to flash them? If this question can be discussed it will make many of us very happy.
BTW. Other than the robotic voices, the HD2 ran android AMAZING props to whoever created FroyoStone_Sense_V3.1. its simply amazing!
re post 1 unfortunately you haven't got your information right. the first one will def kill a tmous because it is a ..51.. radio, and the second one will also kill a tmous because 2.04.50.x and 2.05.50.x are from test roms and don't support the 576ram giving the same effect as a ..51.. radio.
re post 5 the radio thread you mentioned. i suspect you have been only reading the regular hd2 section, (this section) when in fact the tmous has it whole own section, complete with tmous radio thread with all these warnings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=631
on a plus note loads of people have claimed on warranty, just don't mention flashing.
Thank you! I love to be proven wrong. (No sarcasm intended)
I had no idea there was a tmous thread. anyway this was the original radio thread
httpa:Z//Zforum.xda-developers.Zcom/showthread.Zphp?t=611787
I threw some Z's in the link because I'm still new here so I cant post links yet.
And no way did I tell HTC that I flashed the phone. I just told them that I put it on charge, went to bed, woke up, and it was dead as a doornail. I should have it back in 3 weeks.
When you get it back, stick to the tmous hd2 forums for flashing info. For everything else, though, I find the original hd2 forums we're in now a lot more informative and active. The phone are identical except for rom size and the fact you can't flash certain radios. But you can use the same software, etc.
Good luck returning your phone.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
We'll I should have my phone back within a few weeks. Apparently HTC repair is backed up, its got something to do with the Nexus One. I didnt say a word about it being hacked, so I hope they don't find out. But anyway, I wanted to thank all of you for the positive feed back with my problem, and for linking me to the right forum. I was expecting to be bombarded with people calling me an idiot, and saying things like "use the F'ing search button", but Instead I was given very useful and sympathetic replies, and all the info I need to not make the same mistake twice. Thank all of you, I wish the users of more forums could be this professional, helpful, and quite frankly this grown up.
Thank you.
P.S: Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not HTC will be able to recognize that the phone was hacked?