I don't know how strict people are about "searching" things before posting on the forums, but I rather get yelled at by some nerd on the internet, than to have my $350 device screwed over because I followed the wrong tutorial. Anyways here are my questions:
1) I bought this device from someone brand new, and it came out of the box configured to work with Windmobile, but I was able to get my FIDO SIM card to work by simply inputting it into the device. So does this mean that my device is already unlocked?
2) I still have the old 2.2 version on my phone, and I want the new version (2.3), but since I cannot update the OS from the device itself, I don't know what method I should follow from my computer, also I am afraid that I might lose my unlock (if it is) with the update.
Please link me to the proper tutorial, or give me some insight on my problem, Thank you.
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Hi All,
Having trouble with my G1 (see my post below). The only remedy I see is to get past the opening tmobile Google sign up and get to the real home screen. From there...
I tried to do it through wifi but I don't have an att data plan or an unlocking code for my ATT SIM. (I did put ATT APN settings)
THoughts appreciated?
Regards, PK
BTW, why are my posts not in bold?
Your posts are not in bold until you have new reply to it.
Why would you need att plan to use your wi-fi? That part I don't get but neverless
You will need to get that unlock code to use your att sim card, there's no way around it, period.
If you want to use your phone on wi-fi with no sim card and you have root access then you can just go to this thread and follow the directions. If you don't have root access then then you need to downgrade to RC29 (using DREAIMG.nbh) and then follow the info in this thread. After it's all said and done you can either wait for OTA of the official 1.6 Donut or you can root and install the rom of your choice.
Good luck
very good, Thanks,
I did a successfully flash (I believe, sorta,... "bla, bla installation succesfull") with R29 DREAIMG.nbh from unlockr" .com" I say I believe because the only way I can tell is I can type in return, reboot,return and it reboots +it's a whole new opening screen with the Google runaround . The iffy part of "sorta...sucsesfull" of the flash is, I no longer have any access to any SD card and no ability to sync with PC.
As to unlocking the SIM card, no doubt, It will have to be done. Of the some 25 odd android websites I've been pouring over, theres no definitive statements as to just when in the process it should be done. I also don't know which of these guys are reputable Given my track record of half bricking this thing with my first flash, I'm going forward with a good dose of timidity. I'll take your comment as a go.
As far as wifi Google registration with out SIM card, I appreciate the link. I'll have to study it more but, I can't link to to my P.C. right now. I futzed with everything & follow instructions & prescriptions from everywhere for everything: adb, loaded new usb drivers, HTC drivers, android SDK-3, HTC sync (with supposedly corrected vista HTC drivers), Droid explorer, etc all day till 2 in the morning and the phone just isn't "taking calls", (or Sd's for that matter). But I'll keep trying.
Anyway thanks again for the straightening me out and the links.
Regards, PK
P.S. You can safely assume I tried everything every-which- way to get it to read SD's, that rebooting PC and the phone reformatting SD's, trying different capacities, buying another virgin card, popping the battery in and out,,, all a zillion times. Same goes for syncing. NADA.
thanks for ur information
I have just managed to root my old LG P880/4xHD using advice from this forum. Thought I would try on an old phone first. One reason I tried is because I cannot update Android via the usual About phone, Software updates, Check now for updates. The Android version installed is 4.0.3. I am in Australia and it is possible the phone is an overseas model (got it from a friend in LG). Has "Not for Resale" stamped inside the back cover. When I try to update Android, I get an error message "Registered Error - Your device is not registered yet." I had hoped rooting would get around this but it hasn't. Have looked up old forum posts and there is talk of using .kdz files and all sorts of other things. Can anyone help me get around this registration issue but please be aware I am a novice and most of the older posts I read, I couldn't understand so simple explanations please. Thanks.
What you have is developer or test device and it is a bit different from normal ones. Try googling more but you will have hard time....
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dimi89 said:
What you have is developer or test device and it is a bit different from normal ones. Try googling more but you will have hard time....
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Could it be that it has overseas firmware, I read in a two or three year old post that this can happen but there was a way to get around this.
PD
pdonahue said:
Could it be that it has overseas firmware, I read in a two or three year old post that this can happen but there was a way to get around this.
PD
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So...Did you try flashing kdz file and updating it that way or ... ?
pdonahue said:
I have just managed to root my old LG P880/4xHD using advice from this forum. Thought I would try on an old phone first. One reason I tried is because I cannot update Android via the usual About phone, Software updates, Check now for updates. The Android version installed is 4.0.3. I am in Australia and it is possible the phone is an overseas model (got it from a friend in LG). Has "Not for Resale" stamped inside the back cover. When I try to update Android, I get an error message "Registered Error - Your device is not registered yet." I had hoped rooting would get around this but it hasn't. Have looked up old forum posts and there is talk of using .kdz files and all sorts of other things. Can anyone help me get around this registration issue but please be aware I am a novice and most of the older posts I read, I couldn't understand so simple explanations please. Thanks.
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Its a year old phone, its not like its the nexus one or samsng galaxy s2...
Try flashing 4.12 with kdz. Google is your friend, try kdz flash 4.1.2 Optimus 4x hd.
Funny thing, when I bought my phone, only google asked me to register the phone, the usual Google Play thing. SO what do you exactly mean with REGISTER?
i think the whole phone isn't registred by LG for consumers, like dimi89 said it has to be a dev device. they aren't registred and cannot be updated/used the normal way. the serial number of this phone isn't present in the LG databases i think. Just flash kdz and everything is fine. You know that you don't get any support or warranty on that phone but you should know that.
I have just moved this question here from the General section, hope that's the right move.
I have just managed to root my old LG P880/4xHD using advice from this forum. Thought I would try on an old phone first. One reason I tried is because I cannot update Android via the usual About phone, Software updates, Check now for updates. The Android version installed is 4.0.3. I am in Australia and it is possible the phone is an overseas model (got it from a friend in LG). Has "Not for Resale" stamped inside the back cover. When I try to update Android, I get an error message "Registered Error - Your device is not registered yet." I had hoped rooting would get around this but it hasn't. Have looked up old forum posts and there is talk of using .kdz files and all sorts of other things. Can anyone help me get around this registration issue but please be aware I am a novice and most of the older posts I read, I couldn't understand, so simple explanations please. Thanks, Peter
pdonahue said:
I have just moved this question here from the General section, hope that's the right move.
I have just managed to root my old LG P880/4xHD using advice from this forum. Thought I would try on an old phone first. One reason I tried is because I cannot update Android via the usual About phone, Software updates, Check now for updates. The Android version installed is 4.0.3. I am in Australia and it is possible the phone is an overseas model (got it from a friend in LG). Has "Not for Resale" stamped inside the back cover. When I try to update Android, I get an error message "Registered Error - Your device is not registered yet." I had hoped rooting would get around this but it hasn't. Have looked up old forum posts and there is talk of using .kdz files and all sorts of other things. Can anyone help me get around this registration issue but please be aware I am a novice and most of the older posts I read, I couldn't understand, so simple explanations please. Thanks, Peter
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it is a development edition not a consumer edition. read here .
dont try anything else than root if u dont have good knowledge or u will trash the phone.
I am sorry if this is the wrong place or forum.
I have an HTC 8XT on an MVNO of Sprint. Sprint apparently seems to be withholding a firmware update that would allow this phone to update to 8.1, Sprint 8XTs are running 8.1, but not a single 8XT on my MVNO has gotten it yet.
The current firmware I have is 3030.00.10008.651.
According to HTC the latest is 3030.00.31009.651.
I have taken this phone off my MVNO and left it in a drawer for several months hoping that it would roll off whatever database it might be in. I tried to factory reset and then let it update it over wifi (I know Lumias can do that).
It still says no update found. I chatted with an HTC rep online and reading between the lines, he seemed well aware of Sprint's shenanigans. He hinted that ROMS were 'out there' and an updated ROM, even if it weren't the latest, might be enough to trigger an update. I started my Google Fu. Nothing.
Then I read the FAQ in this forum that said if I needed an HTC ROM I was out of luck.
I know enough about flashing and rooting to be dangerous to my phone . This is not my daily phone, but it's frustrating to buy a device that says "ready for 8.1" and then not be able to roam or send MMS. I'm willing to try some warranty voiding behaviors to update it.
All that to say, is there anything else I can try? Again, apologies if this is the wrong forum. I did try a thread search and saw some close topics, but nothing like this.
Thanks
Well, the simple question is "have you tried the Developer Preview program?" because that bypasses the MO gating when your phone gets updated. Developer-unlock your phone (you don't have to sideload anything, the app just checks to see if you're unlocked), install Preview for Developers from the Store (free app from Microsoft), run it, and enable the installation of preview releases. That *should* let your phone get any relevant updates.
If that doesn't work, then I can't help you any further; I'm not a ROM guy.
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Well, the simple question is "have you tried the Developer Preview program?" because that bypasses the MO gating when your phone gets updated. Developer-unlock your phone (you don't have to sideload anything, the app just checks to see if you're unlocked), install Preview for Developers from the Store (free app from Microsoft), run it, and enable the installation of preview releases. That *should* let your phone get any relevant updates.
If that doesn't work, then I can't help you any further; I'm not a ROM guy.
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Thanks for your reply.
I have been enrolled in the Developer Preview and have never gotten an update on this phone. I think I got this phone shortly after 8.1 was pulled from the DP due to the WiFi issue. Then I read on some Sprint boards that those *with* the Developer Preview were having issues installing the 8.1 when it was rolled out, so I wiped the phone. It has been several weeks since I tried Developer Preview on this phone. I thought it was on to WP10 and it wouldn't help me much.
Still, can't hurt to try to install it one more time, but I am not hopeful.
Thanks again for your time.
Edit: I think in my earlier attempts I missed the registration and unlocking of my phone. Trying that now.
Edit 2: Now it seems that sometime in May, Microsoft shut down the process for unlocking 8.0 phones with SDK
You might try to unlock the phone with the Chinese utility, but I am not sure that developer preview program really checks if your phone is unlocked. Is there a new firmware for your model in navifirm?
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You might try to unlock the phone with the Chinese utility, but I am not sure that developer preview program really checks if your phone is unlocked. Is there a new firmware for your model in navifirm?
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My phone is made by HTC. Isn't navifirm exclusively Nokia?
Hello. I am writing this message to this forum after hours of searching. During all that searching, the most promising leads for a solution to my problem kept bringing me back to this forum, so I figured I'd make a post here and hope for the best.
I recently relocated to China. I brought my phone with me, which was a prepay HTC Desire 510 with Sprint. Awhile ago, I rooted the phone by putting TWRP on it. I basically only did it in an attempt to remove some of the bloatware on the phone, because otherwise, I see very little point in rooting the phone. Much to my displeasure, rooting the phone seemed to have very little effect on what I could do about the bloatware due to write protection, but I was able to manage to (barely) deal with the stupidity that is this phone's storage space. I mention this detail in case anyone thinks it is related to my problem.
So obviously the phone doesn't work in China, so I decide to buy an unlock code off the internet for $8.99. I get the code in a few hours, and the instructions tell me to put in a different SIM card, and I will be prompted with an unlock request from the phone after a reboot. However, that doesn't happen. All I got is a message saying "Invalid Card Please contact customer care" and "Invalid SIM Card 4G services are unavailable as the sim/uicc is invalid".
In the instructions I was provided, they did say make sure your phone has been factory reset, but I was unable to do this due to the TWRP rooting. What I instead did was factory reset it from inside the bootloader menu. This did perform a factory reset of sorts, but I still never got any SIM unlock prompt.
I am basically at the end of my rope. I don't want to have to buy a phone here in China, but if I can't get this unlocked, I will be forced to. If anyone can provide me with a stock ROM image for the HTC Desire 510 Sprint, or tell me some method to input an unlock code I am unaware of, or at least tell me if I am s*** out of luck because of x, y z, then I would greatly appreciate it. I think I have read and clicked on every single link on the first 3 pages of yahoo, searching multiple things like "htc no unlock prompt" and "htc desire stock ROM" with no real solutions to this problem.
EDIT: This was the message the people who sold me the unlock code sent regarding factory resets:
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Dear customer,
we got the code for your phone IMEI directly from Sprint server and this code is
in 100% working condition, it`s official code generated by the official carrier employees.
Seems like the problem on your side. Here is some useful recommendations.
Very often unlock code is not working because our customers flashing on
their phones custom ROM`s which includes custom basebands. These
changes in the structure of the radio module (baseband) are not acceptable
to unlock and this may be the reason why our code is not working. So
please make sure that your phone using original stock ROM and original
baseband firmware and your phone never was modified before.
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So it looks like I need help finding a stock ROM. I tried downloading what I found on this site:
****htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
But it doesn't work in Linux. Wine gets to a certain point, and the program just dies. If anyone has a stock ROM for the HTC Desire 510 (Sprint) out there, I would greatly appreciate it.
Update:
I was able to follow the instructions here to eventually extract the rom.zip image from the RUU, rename it so that hboot would recognize it, and return my phone to a stock ROM image.
But as you may have guessed, this did not ever bring me to an SIM unlock screen.
I am basically at the point of giving up. At this point, I would just like to know why this is impossible. Tampered flag? Relocked flag? Maybe I'm just an idiot and didn't realize something about the Sprint "SIM" card makes it incompatible with a Chinese SIM card (it does refer to it as a UICC card)?
Any suggestions on why this didn't work would be nice. Guess I wasted $8.99 and 10+ hours for nothing.
I am attaching the links for Stock Rom And stock kernel
Someone7070 said:
Hello. I am writing this message to this forum after hours of searching. During all that searching, the most promising leads for a solution to my problem kept bringing me back to this forum, so I figured I'd make a post here and hope for the best.
I recently relocated to China. I brought my phone with me, which was a prepay HTC Desire 510 with Sprint. Awhile ago, I rooted the phone by putting TWRP on it. I basically only did it in an attempt to remove some of the bloatware on the phone, because otherwise, I see very little point in rooting the phone. Much to my displeasure, rooting the phone seemed to have very little effect on what I could do about the bloatware due to write protection, but I was able to manage to (barely) deal with the stupidity that is this phone's storage space. I mention this detail in case anyone thinks it is related to my problem.
So obviously the phone doesn't work in China, so I decide to buy an unlock code off the internet for $8.99. I get the code in a few hours, and the instructions tell me to put in a different SIM card, and I will be prompted with an unlock request from the phone after a reboot. However, that doesn't happen. All I got is a message saying "Invalid Card Please contact customer care" and "Invalid SIM Card 4G services are unavailable as the sim/uicc is invalid".
In the instructions I was provided, they did say make sure your phone has been factory reset, but I was unable to do this due to the TWRP rooting. What I instead did was factory reset it from inside the bootloader menu. This did perform a factory reset of sorts, but I still never got any SIM unlock prompt.
I am basically at the end of my rope. I don't want to have to buy a phone here in China, but if I can't get this unlocked, I will be forced to. If anyone can provide me with a stock ROM image for the HTC Desire 510 Sprint, or tell me some method to input an unlock code I am unaware of, or at least tell me if I am s*** out of luck because of x, y z, then I would greatly appreciate it. I think I have read and clicked on every single link on the first 3 pages of yahoo, searching multiple things like "htc no unlock prompt" and "htc desire stock ROM" with no real solutions to this problem.
EDIT: This was the message the people who sold me the unlock code sent regarding factory resets:
--------
Dear customer,
we got the code for your phone IMEI directly from Sprint server and this code is
in 100% working condition, it`s official code generated by the official carrier employees.
Seems like the problem on your side. Here is some useful recommendations.
Very often unlock code is not working because our customers flashing on
their phones custom ROM`s which includes custom basebands. These
changes in the structure of the radio module (baseband) are not acceptable
to unlock and this may be the reason why our code is not working. So
please make sure that your phone using original stock ROM and original
baseband firmware and your phone never was modified before.
----------
So it looks like I need help finding a stock ROM. I tried downloading what I found on this site:
****htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
But it doesn't work in Linux. Wine gets to a certain point, and the program just dies. If anyone has a stock ROM for the HTC Desire 510 (Sprint) out there, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Just download files which i am attaching ?.
Stock kernel for Htc Desire 510 Sprint :-https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Xn-xeQyQwebFI2VXNxLWJ4OG8/view?usp=docslist_api
Stock Rom For Htc Desire 510 Sprint :-https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Xn-xeQyQweZ0kyMVFKb0tmcE0/view?usp=docslist_api