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Iphone unlocking

A friend of mine has purchased an iphone and has tried to unlock it, i am not sure what has gone wrong but he cant reload the software after unlocking. does any one have any clue to this
regards,
prash

One of the most important parts of unlocking the iPhone is reading and understanding the instructions.
Much like reading and understanding the forum titles and purposes of the forums There's a thread for iPhone support which has some useful links.
Can't put the firmware back on could be so many, many different things that it's impossible to help without more information.

what firmware does he have.. 1.1.2 or earlier.
if he has an iphone with otb 1.1.1 or lower it could be unlocked easily. pm me. if newer than for now turbosim from bladox is the way to go....

iphone unlocking
prash1410 said:
A friend of mine has purchased an iphone and has tried to unlock it, i am not sure what has gone wrong but he cant reload the software after unlocking. does any one have any clue to this
regards,
prash
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your friend should join this site will help him with that iphone
www.modmyifone.com

8715000 said:
your friend should join this site will help him with that iphone
www.modmyifone.com
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CORRECT!!!this is the best forum of all iphone topic forum..trust me

www.hackint0sh.org is where the magic happens ..but beware people are not very friendly out there

Chinese iphone clone

Hi!
I just got a phone bought in Dubai, that appears to be a iphone clone. The problem however is that i can't figure out which one this is. I've tride to open the phone, read trough the manual, tried MyPhoneExplorer in help of identifing it, with no luck.
Does anyone have any idea about some tools, something to figure this out? I can't even figure out which OS its running.
Yeah, im a newbie.
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to forums
This is an HTC devices only forum, hope someone can point you to the right place but do not expect too much as apart from not being HTC also is a copy
Good luck,

Thanks for your reply
True, i also have a touch diamond, thats why i love this place =)
just threw in a longshot in hope of someone having the knowledge of some tools or any advice at all regarding this strange device.

well what comes up when you plug the phone into your computer? (i'm assuming you have an appropriate cable).

I have several choices i.e mass storage etc, but the COM connection displays as a "MTK6255" which my OS (win7) dont recognize.

MTK6255 is the platform on your phone.
Try using the MTK driver from here:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=540559

might be a meizu m8...i have one

Don't think so. The M8 runs on Windows CE platform as described here:
http://www.techtickerblog.com/2009/02/09/meizu-m8-review/

i think i just found your phone here:
http://www.downtownkey.com/hiphone-3g-music-cell-phone-support-mp3mp4-bluetooth_p7403.html
Note the CPU.

SciPhone?
It might be a SciPhone.
This guy put together a review of a lot of the iPhone clones: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/Sciphone-i68.html.
There is a forum for SciPhones, http://www.mysciphone.com/English_Sciphone_Forum/index.php. I'd check that out too.
The MTK processors are really, really, really slow and do not run Windows Mobile.
I have a CiPhone C5, which runs on a 450MhZ Samsung Processor with Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. Much better than any of the phones you'll find at mysciphone.com. xda-developers.com has been amazing for learning how to use and modify my phone.

Welcome to the forum
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Please guys!
Do not buy copies, they are cheap, bad quality and not long lasting
Buy the original stuff!

Thanks so much for replys guys, really appreciate it.
For the Sciphone i68-3G, its identical in looks, but i dont have any 3,5mm Jack
Whereas to the hiphone, I found this:
"How to find HiPhone firmware version
Call #*44673#1# and press "version info". You should now see the firmware version of your HiPhone."
Which dont work for me...
thesecondsfade: Is the MTK processor really that sucky? I really dont think i will be using this phone anyways, but I really just want to explore and learn as much as i can. But if it is that crap, i guess i cant do anything
I may have forgotten to mention that i found somewhere in the manual where it stated "mini iphoen" "mini iphone". -But aint so mini imo..

orb3000 said:
Welcome to the forum
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Thanks . It's been so helpful for me so far.
orb3000 said:
Please guys!
Do not buy copies, they are cheap, bad quality and not long lasting
Buy the original stuff!
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I know it's probably not as high quality as some of the other retail phones available on long data/phone contracts with the US cell phone companies, but I just can't afford that. I really wanted a new Windows Mobile phone without having to sign up for an expensive plan to get it... so I bought the CiPhone C5. I did a lot of research before buying it.

tiddylicious said:
Thanks so much for replys guys, really appreciate it.
For the Sciphone i68-3G, its identical in looks, but i dont have any 3,5mm Jack
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It's probably the i68+, not the i68+3G. The 3G model has the 3.5mm jack, the i68+ doesn't.
tiddylicious said:
Whereas to the hiphone, I found this:
"How to find HiPhone firmware version
Call #*44673#1# and press "version info". You should now see the firmware version of your HiPhone."
Which dont work for me...
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Try putting *#8375# into the dialer.
tiddylicious said:
thesecondsfade: Is the MTK processor really that sucky? I really dont think i will be using this phone anyways, but I really just want to explore and learn as much as i can.
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I had one for about a month and it was too slow for my tastes. The firmware was flawed as well. There is a website you can upgrade your firmware, but that'll cost you another $40 bucks or so... probably not worth it but you can decide that for yourself.
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But if it is that crap, i guess i cant do anything
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You can sell it on eBay
tiddylicious said:
I may have forgotten to mention that i found somewhere in the manual where it stated "mini iphoen" "mini iphone". -But aint so mini imo..
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The Chinese clones are known to be sketchy when it comes to their manuals... or even in their descriptions of what they're selling. Most sellers just try to say whatever they can to sell the phones without really knowing what exactly they're selling.

Try putting *#8375# into the dialer.
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Didnt work.
I guess ill sell this and buy the proper phone, HTC Hero

The only other dail code I know for the clones is *#433943#.

this works
*#11*# gives you the software version

that post... are you serious? Cause I would understand if it wasn't intentional... but...
that's just pure fail, in all it's beauty.
FAIL
FAAAAIL

Hi,
I bought a Chinese phone, a clone of the Blackberry HS 9500 I think (looks like the Blockberry 9500 clone) and it has the Engrish manual as you might expect.
Given that I set my aims before purchase (I wanted a cheap dual SIM and not much else besides a media player, basic camera, bluetooth … couldn't care less about the TV/FM and so on) and, it isn't bad but the media player is fairly rubbish inasmuch as I have no idea how to get it to play a track (pref. a series of tracks).
A colleague, though, intrigued me with talk of alternate OS's for phones and given that its OS is by far the worst part of the phone (not bad but not good either) I wondered if cheap phones of this kind can be given a new OS and, if so, how I go about it?
Thx for any advice
Keke

I bought mine from Bigboxstores and within a week it had a dead pixel on screen. I emailed them and said I was returning it for a refund. I packaged it exactly as it was received and it was in mint condition. A whole month went by and I kept emailing them and asking if they had it, eventually they said they did and were checking it. I eventually got an email saying 'sorry no refund, phone works fine, has a few marks on it, thank you'.
No offer to exchange it or anything. I have resigned myself to the fact I have lost my money. Such terrible customer service and using a pony excuse to avoid refunding me. It's not like I'm gonna travel to China to get my money back.
My advice is steer clear of copies and do NOT buy from Bigboxstores as if there is problem with your phone, you will NOT get your money back.
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Htc Dream with Windows Mobile?

Hi,
I was looking for this topic on google, and later on Xda forum but I found nothing. From many years I was working with Windows Mobile, and now my friend asked me to instal Windows on his Htc Dream and I was totaly schocked, when I realise that nobody wanted to change Android to Windows Mobile.
Is there any way to do it? Or can you give me any links to [ROM] Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 for Htc Dream
Thanks for help!

use the search function its been asked before, as far as i remember, no one cares to make a port because why put a bad OS on a phone with a good OS?

It might be possible to port it from the Leo(Not out yet) since it has a capacitive screen. But we would still have to fix the rom to fit the screen size and the drivers and such so it might not even come.

I am glad someone else has posted this, last week i was looking for some info on this and noticed all of the WinMo threads were closed.
I am hoping that WinMo makes it to the G1, i plan on buying a Cliq when they are released so the G1 is going to be a play/spare phone and it would be cool to play around with Winmo 6.5 and whatnot. I know a lot of people said WinMo sucks, but on decent hardware like the G1 it should be better.
Also as i was looking around dba.net i noticed a lot of the new HTC WinMo phones have the same chipset, CPU and whatnot. Hopefully this will make porting it a lot easier for some cooks and we will see WinMo on the Dream hardware sometime in the near future =)

While we're at it why don't we put the iphone os on the G1 too.

Maybe not iPhone software, I think Symbian S60 is better
But let's back, is there anyone on the earth who has already cooked this rom or it's only hoping that after a lot of time there will be a person, who will answer on our requests and make rom for g1??

Heniek_W said:
Maybe not iPhone software, I think Symbian S60 is better
But let's back, is there anyone on the earth who has already cooked this rom or it's only hoping that after a lot of time there will be a person, who will answer on our requests and make rom for g1??
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Well I know you couldn't tell but I was being sarcastic with the iphone os. And people got the G1 to have android and not windows mobile. I doubt anyone will ever build a windows mobile rom for the g1. So don't hold your breath.

supremeteam256 said:
While we're at it why don't we put the iphone os on the G1 too.
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/cry
I really liked that supreme guy
/cry
but now i gotsta cut em from the will
/cry
he's been spending too much time with codani
P.S. I cooked my own WM6.1 ROM when I had a Kaiser. Now that I have a G1 I have absolutely no interest is seeing WM again.

fingerlickin said:
he's been spending too much time with codani
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I've been doin my best to bash him for it. But I think he finally got frustrated enought. Think he's waitin on the sholes now.

hehe I know, I really hope HTC announces a successor to the G1 soon cause I really don't like moto.

Fingerlickin said:
hehe I know, I really hope HTC announces a successor to the G1 soon cause I really don't like moto.
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Yessir me too. Plus you just won't have the support for moto like you do with htc.

You're shocked that nobody would want to put GARBAGE in place of GOLD?
If you want GARBAGE, why buy a PREMIUM SMARTPHONE?
Heniek_W said:
Hi,
I was looking for this topic on google, and later on Xda forum but I found nothing. From many years I was working with Windows Mobile, and now my friend asked me to instal Windows on his Htc Dream and I was totaly schocked, when I realise that nobody wanted to change Android to Windows Mobile.
Is there any way to do it? Or can you give me any links to [ROM] Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 for Htc Dream
Thanks for help!
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A swear there's a thread like this every week. If only we could implement a function in the dream forum to disallow thread titles with windows and mobile in them

AdrianK said:
A swear there's a thread like this every week. If only we could implement a function in the dream forum to disallow thread titles with windows and mobile in them
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I second that motion.

3rded
It would be too hard anyway. I doubt the experienced devs for android are gonna spend time rewritting the drivers and going all out of their way for winmo. They would probably much rather work on making their android roms better

supremeteam256 said:
Well I know you couldn't tell but I was being sarcastic with the iphone os. And people got the G1 to have android and not windows mobile. I doubt anyone will ever build a windows mobile rom for the g1. So don't hold your breath.
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OK, but when they pass case that Android isn't the best OS they could have, they want to change it for another OS, exactly for Windows Mobile. And now they havn't any possibility to do it.
Maybe for some of them Android is the BEST OS, but not for all.

So topic has ended. Ok, I see that all of you affirm Android is the best thing which was made for this smartphone.
But I will be thankful, when someone cooks Windows Rom for G1.

the g1 is only one of the army of android phones .. the statements you made is said by members who have not really fully experienced android , I loved w_mobile over the iphone , but then android came along , so i filed for a divorce ,, now I fully support android .,..,

android= most complete, refined mobile os. period. and i have an iphone too. it sucks. least flexible mobile os ever. even with jailbreak
only thing good about it is that there's a crapload of fart apps.

I wouldn't say that Android is complete..... there are still a lot of things to be implemented.
However, Android is handsdown the best MobileOS thanks to the 3rd party community

[Q] Any Updates on rooting Lumia 520 or the WP8 phones by nokia?

Well i have searched for it and i dint find it sorry if such a thread already exists.
As the name specifies is there any kind of rooting possible for lumia's?
ive seen a inteprop unlock for the samsung phones.....

SSSidGGG said:
Well i have searched for it and i dint find it sorry if such a thread already exists.
As the name specifies is there any kind of rooting possible for lumia's?
ive seen a inteprop unlock for the samsung phones.....
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Nothing exists for the Lumias as of now. Looking through the top threads under Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking, you'll see that same question asked.

ohh...
Im sorry for posting it again
Thanks for the reply.
Any estimations on the hacks/
Sent from my Lumia 520

SSSidGGG said:
ohh...
Im sorry for posting it again
Thanks for the reply.
Any estimations on the hacks/
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When you or someone else with a Lumia 520 hacks it. That's the best answer you're going to get

Me hacking a lumia?...when dev's were not able to do it...how am i supposed to do it?
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SSSidGGG said:
Well i have searched for it and i dint find it sorry if such a thread already exists.
As the name specifies is there any kind of rooting possible for lumia's?
ive seen a inteprop unlock for the samsung phones.....
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snickler said:
Nothing exists for the Lumias as of now. Looking through the top threads under Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking, you'll see that same question asked.
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this it's reason because I switch off my 520 for now
sent from p3100

SSSidGGG said:
Me hacking a lumia?...when dev's were not able to do it...how am i supposed to do it?
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You're making the assumption that there's devs actively trying to do it... I was the first one to perm-root the Garminfone (Android), simply because nobody else was trying

trust me, there's a lot of people trying. The samsungs are easier because they've got the built-in registry editor.

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trust me, there's a lot of people trying. The samsungs are easier because they've got the built-in registry editor.
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hacking lumia phones look to be very hard.
sometimes i think about switch to Ativ S but i love my L920

If someone could tell me how i can get in to the system of the lumia windows os i could try messing with it and maybe find something out!

... I don't even know how to respond to that. Have you read *anything* about our work hacking this OS? Assigning reasonable meanings to "get in to the system" and "find something out" (because you were incredibly vague), no we can't tell you that; the whole point is that we don't yet know how to "get in". If you just meant read-only access througg, there's the webserver (limited permissions but runs on a retail device) or the ROM image (which you can mount and browse at will, but it's not "live" in any way).

I asked that coz they have obv got into the device or else there wouldnt have been the inteprop unlock...i just wanted to know how..
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SSSidGGG said:
I asked that coz they have obv got into the device or else there wouldnt have been the inteprop unlock...i just wanted to know how..
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go look at the forum that explains how interop unlock was achieved on the ATIV S. If you've read enough to know that a wp8 phone is interop unlocked, you'd know the reasoning why it was possible for the ativ s and not the lumias right now. Just wait until someone releases a thread detailing how to interop unlock the Lumia devices. Until then, you'll have to use your phone as.... A normal retail wp8 phone.
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Thanks snickler ur one of the devs right?..
Well does anyone know why sideloaded games dont work but apps do?...i have a dev app and i tried the to sideload games which just startup and automatically shutdown...whereas apps work fine
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I'm going to go wayyyy out on a limb and guess it's because your dev app is a legitimate development version of an app, whereas your games are not?

Yeah...this sounds like he's wanting advice in terms of piracy. This community isn't for helping you get your cracked apps/games working on your phone. If you want games and apps to work, BUY THEM LEGITIMATELY AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPERS.
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Not piracy i was testing if it would work ...dint work anyways :/ thanks for help guys
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[Q] 5,674,187 members and not one of you answer

I know I am new here and have been asking a question for a couple of days now and I would think with this many members at least someone would step up to the plate an offer some help or tell me where to go for being a newbie. Come on now I sure could use some help here. Please?

It would be a lot more productive if you actually posted what you needed help with...

At least someone out here is alive
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It would be a lot more productive if you actually posted what you needed help with...
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Thanks for the reply. I have for the past 2 days in a row. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini SM-G730A with a locked bootloader that I need to figure out how to get unlocked so I can change carrier on. I love the phone and want to keep it but my patience has all but worn thin on. I have tried just about everything I can find out on the internet on and nothing has worked so far.

texasgoldbuyer said:
Thanks for the reply. I have for the past 2 days in a row. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini SM-G730A with a locked bootloader that I need to figure out how to get unlocked so I can change carrier on. I love the phone and want to keep it but my patience has all but worn thin on. I have tried just about everything I can find out on the internet on and nothing has worked so far.
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If you searched through some of the threads regarding the SM--G730A you would've learned that it's bootloader is not unlocked yet, and there exists no way to unlock it as of yet. I don't think any active developers have that phone either, and to my knowledge only a recovery has been built for the phone (but you can't flash it because of the locked bootloader), only root has been achieved for your phone.
The phone you have isn't the S3 Mini here (the S3 mini here is the GT-I8190), Samsung's naming conventions are really stupid at times - your phone and the GT-I8190 have nothing in common outside of it's name. I think the GT-I8190 was marketed heavily overseas in Europe and such, whereas your model's only available in the States and Canada.

Thanks for the reply
Exothermic said:
If you searched through some of the threads regarding the SM--G730A you would've learned that it's bootloader is not unlocked yet, and there exists no way to unlock it as of yet. I don't think any active developers have that phone either, and to my knowledge only a recovery has been built for the phone (but you can't flash it because of the locked bootloader), only root has been achieved for your phone.
The phone you have isn't the S3 Mini here (the S3 mini here is the GT-I8190), Samsung's naming conventions are really stupid at times - your phone and the GT-I8190 have nothing in common outside of it's name. I think the GT-I8190 was marketed heavily overseas in Europe and such, whereas your model's only available in the States and Canada.
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Well Thanks. Now I know what to do. I will get another phone and get rid of this pile of crap. That is why I switched to Linux I wanted my machine to do what I wanted not what some pencil neck billionaire told me it had to do. Thanks and I will go get me a new phone tomorrow....

texasgoldbuyer said:
Well Thanks. Now I know what to do. I will get another phone and get rid of this pile of crap. That is why I switched to Linux I wanted my machine to do what I wanted not what some pencil neck billionaire told me it had to do. Thanks and I will go get me a new phone tomorrow....
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Just a tip - search through xda to see if there's any active development on your phone, it'll save you a crapload of trouble, and I'd also avoid verizon and at&t phones in general because of their tendency to lock boot-loaders, I notice the google play edition of phones and the t-mobile versions tend to have unlocked boot-loaders and have better support.
Oh and google's dropped the price on the Nexus 5, about $320 usd for the 16gb, if you're interested and have the money.

Thanks Again
Exothermic said:
Just a tip - search through xda to see if there's any active development on your phone, it'll save you a crapload of trouble, and I'd also avoid verizon and at&t phones in general because of their tendency to lock boot-loaders, I notice the google play edition of phones and the t-mobile versions tend to have unlocked boot-loaders and have better support.
Oh and google's dropped the price on the Nexus 5, about $320 usd for the 16gb, if you're interested and have the money.
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I'm looking for a T-Mobile phone now. Thanks for all the replies and have a good one.

your best friend is google.
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

factorexh said:
your best friend is google.
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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+1 to this.
To OP =because not at all members active in this thread sometimes your question is on thread already and lazy to answer repeatedly. Sell your phone and buy another nexus or GT must prefer lot of dev using it
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

you can allways pm me i will help if i can. good luck

i personally see no point in helping some one who posts a thread like this
such a spoiled selfish approach demanding the community to reply to a thread
same goes for any thread posted about if this phone is worth buying

efaustino84 said:
i personally see no point in helping some one who posts a thread like this
such a spoiled selfish approach demanding the community to reply to a thread
same goes for any thread posted about if this phone is worth buying
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+1
No one knows how to search ?