Has anyone managed to unlock the extended rom on an XDA IIi, Just got my hands on one, so any help would be great.
I could also do with unlocking mine as well, i have tried all the extended rom unlocking software for the XDA2 and XDA2s but neither work on the 2i
Thanks
John
update
Been at thiis for the last day, it would seem that HTC have revamped the memory layout, the Extended rom is now listed under vdisk under hkey local machine/system/storagemanager/profiles. so far had no luck trying to expose it let alone unlock it. will keep at it though.
anyone managed to get that chip unlock it's use?
I have some problem with unlocking my extended rom on Qtek2020i.
Anybody have any information about resolve this bad situation?
Guru&developers! Please help!
Hi Guys,
I do not remember the name and thread...pls try tosearch in Himalaya section.There's one chap who had extracted the Ext ROM from 2i and posted...and I have all those files...Pls check..and then we can ask how did he manage to do so
hi
you can UNHIDE the ext rom and get files from it but cant delete or write to it as it remains unlocked..
you can unhide it by finding a file called loadvdisk in windows directory (be careful not to reset as it goes back into hiding after a reset)
how to unlock the ext rom remains a mystery.....
i hope someone is working on it though.....
Does this help?
http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/...664be4&threadid=46946&perpage=20&pagenumber=1
I think it's what you are looking for...
I know about loadvdisk.exe from Windows directory, but this program only unhide this part of memory.
I need unhide&unlock program, like program for XDA II
Hallo,
please, is any news about unlocking Ext.ROM ALPINE? Utilitily "loadvdisk.exe" (see above) Extended ROM unhiding, but not unlocking.
Thanks and Regards
what are the advantages of unlocking the ext.ROM?
Customizing must have programs and simpler start them after hard reset for example.
I'm seek way for unlock ext rom in 2i too but didn't see one,now.
I've another solution to unhide your 2i without any addition program.
just Hard Reset your Device in first screen do notthing just leave it & connect it with computer you will see Extended ROM folder
anyone had UNLOCK it????
Related
I have been offered a O2 XDA II but I am on Vodafone, it has been unlocked but I want to get rid of all the O2 things on it and make it like an i-mate. Is this possible and if so how?
Cheers
Hi,
I'm on Vodafone too, and it's quite easy to get rid of the O2 stuff. Simply go to Start/System/Remove Programs and you should find 3 O2 programs at the bottom of the list (assuming you've installed other stuff). These can be uninstalled.
NOTE : Before you do this, go into Start/System/Today and set the Today screen to Windows Default.
Don't worry if the uninstall shows things it can't delete, you can reset your XDA 2 and delete the offending directories if you wish afterwards.
I've done this process lots of times and it works great.
Hope this helps.
and if it complaine about missing something when starting up find the offending shortcut in windows\Startup and remove it
If you want to be 100% sure everything's gone and you have a an O2 free phone, then you will need to unlock the extended rom and rename the config.txt file to config.txt.bak or something, then hardreset. The device will not load the customisations and you will have a clean phone.
Afterwards unlock the extended rom and then selectively install the applications you want, - caller id, camera etc.
Cheerio
Howard
Hi all,
well we have recently bought 36 m2000s and we use various software on them for our engineers out in the field.
So i was trying to unlock the extended Rom so i can add .CAB files i have tried using "ExtendedROMUnlocker 1 .arm" and this unhide the Extended Rom but I cant access the files inside they are read only still and the Unlock part of the tool generates an error. What else could i use and are there any tips you can give me.
Also we ideally would like all users information (Emails, contacts and calendar) stored to an SD card straight away, instead of the information stored on the device then having to backup... just encase they have a problem we can just send a new device and pull the information from the card.
Would that be a feasible idea?
cheers guys any info would be great!
Sean
Would there be a way to modify the rom in order to keep the 4 digit pin and user information after a hard reset. My old hx2410 used the ipaq filestore for this and the hp protect tool.
I currently have a Qtek 9090 and would like a similar feature if possible...
Thanks in advance.
Florian
No there is no way. I would like to have the HP Protect Tools on my QTek 9100 too. But is there a way to extract the files from a rom?
Does a hard reset not clean out the rom and thus all its data.
So what do you want to protect as all the apps that you installed are gone as well as you contacts ect.
Am I missing something?
After a hard-reset the device is still locked with HP Protect Tools, so it's useless for the thiefs, they can't use the device!
Yes that's the reason I'd like the same feature...!
anyone know an security app that stores the password in a file that we could somehow modify the rom with ?
Anybody got access to a HP rom update file? We can try to take it apart.
V
Does this help????
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/22776.html
It looks like hp hasn't issued a ROM update for WM5 yet.
I still have my hx2410 - if you tell me how, I might be able to send you the rom
I had a hx2110 upgraded to WM5 but i sold it I'm currently loading the german WM5 upgrade for it (donkey).
iPaq PDA (not sure about hx series), have a bit of persistant memory that they used for data backup, incases where your battery goes dead and data lost. These persistant storage is so small that it is usually used to stored data/file, not programs. I'm wondering if a hardreset will wipe this persistant memory or not. If not, they might happily store the PIN number on this persistant storage.
As for the HTC series here, either you put your PIN number on your Ext ROM or burned it into your ROM itself, there doesn't seems to have other method of keeping any means of data that is able to survive a hardreset. E.g. would be the SMS-theft software that will send silently send SMS to a defined phone number in the case of theft, but this phone number is burned into the ROM itself.
I'm on WM2003 SE on my Qtek 9090. And yes I was thinking about some kind of program that would auto-install from the rom after a hard reset and be linked to a pin also on the rom if you see what I mean. But how to do that I have no idea...
While having a security tool like HP protect tools is great against theft, dont bother using the one from HP. I tried it a few months back on an IPAQ and it is a pretty useless software, just like MS Pocket Streets with GPS. Increases bootup time by three fold, slows down general use with filesystem encryption, locks up occasionally when phone call comes in. And YES, you can remove it with a hard reset, which I did after a week to remove it.
Now i have the ROMs:
http://home.teleos-web.de/vschildmann/GER-hx2000_WM5_Upgrade.exe
http://home.teleos-web.de/vschildmann/GER-hx2700_WM5_Upgrade.exe
The First is for hx2100 and hx2400. Maybe anyone can extract files of it and test it.
Hi all, I have read lots of articles on the Extended ROM on Universal so far but I am still trying to find a great use out of it.
I used the tool developed by our mighty Buzz (thanks Buzz!) to unlock the Extended ROM which is excellent because I can now customize the contents in it. However I haven't been able to install programs on it. When I tried installing the program onto Extended ROM, though it let me select it on the list, the program ended up in the main memory instead.
I know Buzz was trying to develop a tool to reformat the Universal's DOC so that we can merge the Extended ROM into the main memory. I am not sure if he has completed it because I can't find this tool. At the moment I have an empty Extended ROM which I can't do much about. I can store files in it but since I have a 4GB SD card anyway I don't find it too useful to do that.
Can anybody tell me how to reformat this Extended ROM DOC partition and merge it to the main memory or other way of making more use of it? Thanks in advance!
It is too dangerous. IPL, SPL (aka bootloader) are located on DOC, and repartitioning may potentially kill them. Noone is willing to kill the device just to add additional 10 mb to storage
mamaich:
UUppss - so that killed my firs universal - I tried to format them and get a error - and after this may be 1 or 2 weeks later I lost my DOC.
Did you know from where to get new DOC and if is emty did I need to reprogram it outside of Universal because ot M-System site they give a program and shchematic to program DOC.
Thanks in advanced
if you can enter bootloader - use "task 28 55aa", this would restore DOC to its original layout.
If you cannot - contact service center.
mamaich:
Thanks for help - I'll try it imediately and post results ))
mamaich said:
if you can enter bootloader - use "task 28 55aa", this would restore DOC to its original layout.
If you cannot - contact service center.
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MAMAICH
IF SOME ONE SAY THAT YOU'RE NOT A GOD - HI LIES !!!
AFTER THIS EVERYTHING IS RUNING OK ON MY OLD UNIVERSAL!!!
Thank you very very very MUCH !!!
I'll put a complete new thread to help other universal users
Thank you again !!!
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It is too dangerous. IPL, SPL (aka bootloader) are located on DOC, and repartitioning may potentially kill them. Noone is willing to kill the device just to add additional 10 mb to storage
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Thanks for the reply Mamaich, I will hold on to the 10MB empty Extended ROM then. It is better this way than having a dead Universal I suppose.
I like the way HP do some of theirs like my wife's iPAQ rw6828, which doesn't have a ExtROM thus it comes with 49.xxMB free space!!
Hi all, i have problem with extrom. I cant find solution for long time. I would like use extrom as normal disk, that means i would like to install programs on it and modify files on it.
I normaly do it, but big problem is after reset, when my files are replaced by original files from ext rom.
I tried many roms a same like dopod 900 aku 2.6 dont do it(after reset my files staied ext rom). I dont know where is the problem, mayby somehere in registry.
I dont know, where is original files backup. because i delete all files from extrom and tried find some of them in windows directory,no was there.But after soft reset original files are still here.
Please help
I would like to second the motion for this request. I do so with the full understanding that this question is already discussed in the forum. However, the threads are soooo long and contain information that is often conflicting. I have already followed along and tried several different methods of effecting this exact result. In the end, I have the EXT ROM area visible, but I cannot rid it of the O2 files and open it for use like the iPAQ File Store I used to have in my previous device.
Again, I apologize for requesting this information that already exists, but a definitive How To would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your consideration...and more importantly, all of the hard work put into the site!
you need to both UNHIDE (make it visable) and UNLOCK it...that is you need 2 cabs to do this
Thank you; I understand that I need to both unhide and unlock this area. I have attempted this several times in several ways with several tools/executables...
good, now is ok. Before i used only extunhider. Now i run ext rom unlocker and it is ok