Hi guys,
This is my first post I think, and I have a question about roms.
I purchased my phone from a company that assured me it was a Rogers branded phone. They were wrong, it's branded to Fido.
I'm uneasy about rooting my phone, but have done jailbreaking before, so I know the risks and such. My issue is this: I hate having the Fido boot logo, as well as the Fido account manager on my phone, I would rather it all be showing as Rogers.
How would I go about doing so? I saw a post before about someone who had the Rogers nandroid back-up, but I am unsure what to do.
Any help from you folks would be much appreciated.
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I want to get the HTC Hero from Telus (im in canada), unlock it...and use my Rogers SIM card with it. I asked two rogers CS people today, one said "yes it should work" and the other said "no, it wont". So internet...you are my last hope...lol. Please do let me know if this has worked for you.
From a Rogers user, with an Telus Hero, I can tell you, it's flawless. the only downside, I still could not root it. But soon, mate, we will be able to.
3G, Thetering, Gmail, Market, Voicemail, etc everything works as expected.
Same thing for all my HTC phones, tho. But android is getting me from my sentiments. Viva Montreal, tabarnak!
I have a telus hero and and i had no problem in rooting it. I think alot of others as well on this forums.
yup i've got a telus hero on rogers rooted with the MoDaCo custom ROM on it
Did you guys all buy these phones outright and put in a rigers sim card first, or was there once a telus sim card in them? I'm thinking of picking up a used one and unlocking it, but i'm wondering if i will have to change any of the apn setting or hvae any issues getting everything to work. Could someone post their apn setting that you have on your rogers hero, thanks.
Hi All...i come from a iphone background so bear with me....
some background...i am in australia...and got the motorola from a local place that sell bell handsets out of asia. and its a bellmobility phone with OLYLA_U4_0.37.4 on it.
Now the question, just got a update notice from my phone, should i choose to update if i am going to try and put the telstra sbf on here along with greyblur or something?
as from what i have been reading some people have had success putting the telstra sbf on the bell handset and achieving uncapped speeds, plus the bell handset has a heap of stuff i cant access anyway as a none bell customer.
would this sbf work on my phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042499
and cheers for the help
Found a "deal" on a SGSII branded from Bell - I live in the south US and want to know if I throw a ROM (say Cog or a US dev. ROM) or even if I odin back to a factory ROM from an AT&T model - will this work? I cant think of something that would cause this to be an issue & I'm pretty sure it would get rid of the Bell boot up screens or any other branding but I am not 100% on that as I have never taken a out of country phone and attempted to do this before. I'm no noob with flashing but I'm also no developer either so your experience & assistance is appreciated!
(I searched & couldn't find this answered)
You don't need to replace the ROM. If the Bell phone is sim-locked, you'll need the unlock code; there's an unlocker program in one of the other forums that works with the earlier ROMs. IIRC, more recent ROMs have a different unlock mechanism that hasn't been reverse-engineered yet.
You can't replace the Bell ROM with an AT&T one, since AT&T doesn't have one -- no US carrier has released the SGS2 yet. The factory ROM will do the job; I bought a EU SGS2 back in May and have used it on AT&T since then. I get 3G & HSPA+ data at speeds up to 7 Mbps, using an old 3G SIM I've had for several years.
tried Cellunlock.net and they were unable to get the unlock code saying it was not in the Rogers Database, Called Rogers and even they said the IMEI was not in their system.
Phone is from Rogers, want to unlock it to use on Virgin Mobile Canada, but unable to do it.
any ideas on where I can go from here to get this phone to work on my Carrier.
anything I can do via Root?
hmm the phone is not in their database? that sounds super odd, are you sure the phone is rogers? like sure? does it have the rogers crappy bloatware installed? I suppose you dont really know if the phone is rogers unless you actually bought it from them. (ie someone could have just installed rogers rom on it if you bought it off someone)
Ive unlocked s iii's from like every major carrier (telus, bell , rogers) never had a problem. You might want to try getting the code off someone on ebay too.
edit- also as far as my knowledge there is no root free unlock like there was on the s i and sii phones. so you are stuck with the code (for now anyway)
good luck
It was for sure a rogers phone. Ended up going to a different site and they unlocked the phone for me.
thanks for your help
Hello. I had a quick search around but could not find a definitive answer to my question.
I have just purchased a Samsung I9305 that was imei locked through the Australian carrier Optus.
The phone had been lost so the owner rang and reported such.
When he found the phone in his wet weather gear a week later (It was for his business) He obviously could no longer use it
I purchased the phone from him after confirming the details. There is a company here that can unlock the imei and through talks with them I can unlock the imei for other carriers than Optus and other carriers on that network. I have no problem with this as Optus do not have the service and coverage I need So I am with Telstra.
I have upgraded roms and unlocked my S2 a few times
Now that the details are out of the way, my question is this:
I HATE phones that have all the carrier bloat on them. Can I change the ROM on this phone without problems (I have not looked yet but want an Australian Rom not associated with any carrier), or will the Imei lock come back if I do. I do not want to brick the phone or lock it from being used. I would go with a Telstra rom if I have to or at the very least root the phone and remove all traces of the Optus bloat
Thanks for any help in advance...and really hope that someone does not immediately link to another post I missed due to poor search technique