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v1640 AKU2 upgrade?

Hi, as a newbie, could anyone tell me how to get the rom upgrade for this device please, and the easy way to install it
Having been in touch with vodafone they pushed me back to my contract supplier (carfone warehouse) who are useless.
On the imate website I can see the rom upgrade but, after entering my IMEI it wont allow me any further!
- would this rom upgrade work anyway, or do i need the vodafone specific one? - i note that orange / o2 upgrade is already available
any help/info greatly received
thankx in advance

Hello ck1,
pls search the forum...also get hold of FTP of this web site and navigate yrself to Universal Folder..u will see lot of ROMs and the ways to put them in yr device.
Happy ROMing :lol:

where do you start?
Hi thanks for reply
had a look around - slightly overwhelmed with all the info on here!
any suggestions as to what to do first with my v1640 ?

The vodafone offical ROMs will be ready in the next week or so.

O2 UK Orbit CID Locked MUST NOT do ROM upgrading!!

Since O2 UK had introduced the Orbit to the UK market, there's non of Official O2 Orbit ROM released.
So, UK Orbit CID Locked owners MUST NOT do the ROM thing.
Ask : Why must not do that??
Ans : If the device is bricked, there's no way to fix it without paying the money to "Unlocked CID Dudes" and I bet you don't want to.
Ask : What do I need Official O2 Orbit for?
Ans : If the device is bricked, it's the only way to bring your device back to life without paying.
Ask : How about I download the Orbit German ROM and install it?
Ans : the Germany ROM will NOT allow the UK Orbit device to do that.
Ask : How about USPL thing before upgrading the ROM?
Ans : You will take a very high risk if you want to
Ask : If I upgrade only the OS?
Ans : Same as above
Ask : What should I do now?
Ans : Wait for the O2 UK to release the Official O2 Orbit ROM and you can take any risk whichever ROM from wherever you want. If it's brick, you can bring it back to life with the bootloader.
Ask : When the O2 UK will release an Official ROM for the Orbit?
Ans : Don't know the right date yet but I'm pretty sure that we have been waiting for that news.
Ask : How about the owners that already brick their device?
Ans : Hehe, they're still waiting for an official ROM also. (including me)
SO!!, why ain't we force them(O2 UK) to release the WM6 soon. or how about we ask them to release at least Original official WM5 out here like O2 Germany does, so we can get it unbrinked.

yep, that's the situation I'm in.
I called o2 a few days ago and they said that WM6 would be available in a few weeks!
They also said it would only be available for a limited time. Strange.
Anyway, I'm stuck using my old Nokia 3330 until o2 release a ROM update!

O2 update
I emailed O2 with this exact question....(When will WM6 be available for download)
They called me a day later saying that they intend to release WM6 for the Orbit at the end of summer (around end of August sometime). That was exactly what they told me.............
I guess it's just a bit more of a waiting game then..........so annoying when version 6 has been around for a while already.....

Bricked Device Solution
Hi guys,
Just thought I'd let you know that I too bricked my Orbit. I took it back to the shop and acted like it just happened by itself ;-) They took it in and I had it repaired free of charge within 10 days. It can't hurt to try.

hehe...
i bricked my orbit, taken it in to shop, no questions asked they re-flashed ROM back to WM5 with no charge or sucking the back of their teeth, saying that it has taken nearly 3 weeks,

subdude said:
Ask : How about USPL thing before upgrading the ROM?
Ans : You will take a very high risk if you want to
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i did the WM6 upgrade on my CID locked orbit, and it worked first time without any problems, i think if you follow the instructions carefully you will be ok. not sure if the USPL upgrade method will unbrick a device but it does work, you just need to be brave and very careful.

it was posted a number of times already...
- before upgrading, do uspl to be safe.
- have original rom before upgrade, so you can always come back to original rom if you want;
it is always your choice upgrade it or not. nobody force you.
regards,

Hi,
I did my first ROM upgrade the other day on my CID locked O2 XDA Orbit using the USPL method.
Found it very clear and easy to use and I now have a lovely WM6 version.
Just follow the instructions properly and you should be fine.
Cheers

There is now original O2 Orbit WM5 ROM available so you can return your orbit to how it was..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314866

O2 Orbit Original WM5 Rom 1.25.206.2 found - SD card image

Hello Everyone, Have spent 6 Days hunting for "O2 Orbit Original WM5 Rom ARTE200 1.25.206.2" with little success
I am now putting a bounty on the head of this ROM in the form of a £40 Paypal transaction. I will make instant Payment after the ROM has been verified as the genuine ROM and then make the ROM available to all though Rapidshare, and with some luck help to un-brick a lot of O2 Orbits before O2 UK WM6 is released.
Contact me on [email protected]
Problem caused by - Updating ROM without running USPL on a CID Locked O2 Orbit, The device is USB Bootloader contactable but requires the identical original ROM to restore "Error 244 Device ID"
Many thanks to everyone for their continued help and support.
Rom
1.25.206.2
Radio
02.67.90
Protocol
4.1.13.28
MOD EDIT - SEE POST 12 OF THIS THREAD

the only way you will find this rom, is either on o2 xda website after a WM6 update and hopefully they will do this as a downgrade option after upgrade to wm6.
or
the only other way is to know someone who works for o2 uk, there repair centre will have the only copy, and the only way to maybe even get a copy, is if you are good friends with someone in that department.
currently, there is no rom, for o2 anyway, yet.
goodluck finding it though, you just never know.

oliversettle said:
Hello Everyone, Have spent 6 Days hunting for "O2 Orbit Original WM5 Rom ARTE200 1.25.206.2" with little success
I am now putting a bounty on the head of this ROM in the form of a £40 Paypal transaction. I will make instant Payment after the ROM has been verified as the genuine ROM and then make the ROM available to all though Rapidshare, and with some luck help to un-brick a lot of O2 Orbits before O2 UK WM6 is released.
Contact me on [email protected]
Problem caused by - Updating ROM without running USPL on a CID Locked O2 Orbit, The device is USB Bootloader contactable but requires the identical original ROM to restore "Error 244 Device ID"
Many thanks to everyone for their continued help and support.
Rom
1.25.206.2
Radio
02.67.90
Protocol
4.1.13.28
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Hi, I have got O2 orbit with this rom and if somebody tells me how to get it from xda into the pc I am happy to do it and share.

majo_scigo said:
Hi, I have got O2 orbit with this rom and if somebody tells me how to get it from xda into the pc I am happy to do it and share.
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There is already a dump availalbe, but no known way to bypass the bootloader security to load it.
How are the guys at IMEI-Check unbricking them? Either they have a WM5 O2 rom (which means it has leaked) or are they hot-swaping/reflashing roms, or using some vulnerability in the bootloader?
Just out of interest, does anyone have an XDA that has been unbricked by IMEI-Check and did it show any signs of being disassembled?

O2 Orbit Original WM5 Rom ARTE200 1.25.206.2 "IMEI-CHECK" Information
O2 Orbit Original WM5 Rom ARTE200 1.25.206.2
IMEI-CHECK Information
"" The only thing we can offir (for EUROPEAN customers) is to send the device so we can fix it.
We don't have a "magic" ROM which can fix your device. It is hard work to open it and to reflash the rom directly to the flash chip...
IMEI-CHECK Team ""

good guy!
thank you very much!

I would be very very grateful if this ROM appeared!

well, well...
not sure if i'm 100% if this is ground breaking stuff, but i just received my xda from o2 repair centre and when i went to put my sd card in phone there was one in it already from o2 which has WM5 image on it?!

step0011 said:
not sure if i'm 100% if this is ground breaking stuff, but i just received my xda from o2 repair centre and when i went to put my sd card in phone there was one in it already from o2 which has WM5 image on it?!
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This is indeed quite interesting, it is obviously a SD flash used for restoring the Orbit. If you could make an image of the SD card I'm sure there are many people here who would be eternally grateful.

well, this will be done as soon as i get home tonight, if someone is willing to host the file i will make it available,

step0011 said:
well, this will be done as soon as i get home tonight, if someone is willing to host the file i will make it available,
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I send you on PM.
Mac

http://rapidshare.com/files/41574866/Arteimg.nbh
rite, uploading to mac now, managed to upload to rapidshare, (address in title)

It's works!!!
http://makus.folijka.pl/OrbitO2UK.rar
set as sticky if you can )
Thanks !
Mak

Thanks Step0011 for the rom image and makus for confirming that is works - i have made the thread a sticky - will download the image and confirm it works myself.
Step0011 should get the £40 bounty from oliversettle!

I Just UNBRICKED my orbit with this
Hi. A BIG BIG THANX !!!!! I just unbricked my orbit with this. I tried to flash it with WM6 and failed to run the USPL and bricked it. Now using this original WM5 put it back where it was before I bricked it. I had usee Artemis USPL and replaced the RUU_USPL_signed.nbh with this and worked like a charm from boot loader. (record button and softreset) Now I can flash anything I want and bring it back if I brick it again. Thanx a lot. YeeeeeHa

Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum but I must say that I am very impressed abt the works done. I do have a very expensive brick!! Ya! Ya.. my orbit is a BRICK. well I didn't do it, A friend of mine did.. tried to flash WM6 mini O2 into the orbit and VIOLA!. A BRICK!! Well! I knew this wud happen but hey, it wasn't me who did it.Hence I'm in this forum day in day out. tried every possible thing. flashing with SD or MTTY, every thing U guys had offer but got the same device ID error. so far no hope, but am currently downloading the image thru rapidshare http://makus.folijka.pl/OrbitO2UK.rar. Have to get a rapidshare account though. Hope this works.... will post soon.... keep ur fingers crossed.
A Big Hug to step0011. for a hope.
And the rest for the XDA developers.. all i can offer is my wallet.cause I'm not a software developer, but am into hardware repairing. And I will post the results if any for u guys who keeps this forum alive and kicking.
cheers pof and to all.

Another happy WM5 Orbit user again. It has beena chore using an OLD spve200 for the last few weeks. Taught me a valuable lesson though.
Thanks for the up.

Bravo! And well done to the O2 service bod who forgot to take the MicroSD card out!
Now how do I use it? Put it on a SD card and switch on?

i just replaced the german rom file with the uk orbit one (renamed to match original) and then ran the update from windows (phone in bootloader via usb).
A little suprised it actually worked in vista!

Yippeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Fisrt of all whoever he is he owes step0011 40 bucks..
Lots and lots of thanks to step0011 for providing the ROM image and also to the guy who forgot to remove the SD card. He had made a lot of people happy.
Hi guys.
I did it. My orbit is alive and kicking. there is nothing to it, just download the ROM and run RUU. and VIOLA! good as knew.below are the details
bootloader (this is all I can see now but before when it was bricked it showed the GSM no. too )
IPL 1.25.0001
SPL 1.25.0000
Device information
ROM version: 1.25.206.2 WWE
ROM Date : 10/4/06
Radio version : 02.67.90
Protocol version : 4.1.13.28
ExtROM version : 1.25.206.10
Works like a charm. to think that I wud have to wait for official ROM release.
Now I can do anything I want. I can brick it as much as I can. and flash the WM6 ROM. Now I am thinking of tinckering with the ROM cooking steps u guys are telling abt. I'm going to customise my own ROM. . First of all to superCID the orbit. wish me luck.
much thanks to all who keeps this forum alive.
BRB.

where i can find Original T-Moblie ROM for MDA compact lll?

Hi all,
i had recently upgraded the WM6 on my MDA compact 3. everything was good however, i could not able to get the TOMTOM 6 working.
does anyone had experience on this? and got TOMTOM working? if do, which version and where to download?
or if the worst case. please someone help to tell me how i can go back to T-mobile ROM?
many thanks to all

Hi!
I have installed the O2 WM6 Rom on my MDAcIII. The TomTom build in the ROM works for me! I only copied my Card to the SD and registered it, thats all!
Greets
KobiP

hi KobiP,
thanks for reply. which and where do you get the rom build in TOMTOM? can you suggest the link please?
thanks

OK, I have first CID-Unlocked my MDAcIII, then I have installed the WM6 Update of O2 Germany.
http://www.o2online.de/nw/support/downloads/software/xda/xdaorbit/index.html
After the Update, the branding and TomTom gets installed.

hey KobiP
listen mate - just got me a MDA compact III on t-mobile.
I have tried Lowitz utlity - no joy their !!!
There is someone who says they can unlock the SIM but not CID .
I really would like to use my Orange pay montly contract SIM but its SIMlocked - I am tempted to get it unlocked via IMEI-unlock.co.uk
Any advice how u unlocked your - cheers !!!
peace
tli

tli said:
listen mate - just got me a MDA compact III on t-mobile.
I have tried Lowitz utlity - no joy their !!!
There is someone who says they can unlock the SIM but not CID .
I really would like to use my Orange pay montly contract SIM but its SIMlocked - I am tempted to get it unlocked via IMEI-unlock.co.uk
Any advice how u unlocked your - cheers !!!
peace
tli
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. CID Unlock means that you can Install other ROMS on your Phone, SIM-Unlock means that you can use no other SIM-Card. The MDAcIII is NetLocked, so you can use just T-Mobile cards.
If that wasn't your question, please ask again

Vodafone 1606 Hermes - How to WM6?

Hi,
my firsts post here!
Can anyone direct me to a thread where they explain to me how to upgrade my Vodafone 1606 Hermes version to WM6?
I spoke to Vodafone and HTC a few times. In mid June Voda told me that they know nothing about it, in mid Aug, a lady was 100% sure that there is a link on their website, i wish i tried there and then, of course i cud not find anything, then in late Aug I was transferred to a guy that seemed to know what he was talking about (from tech-support, said he has Hermes) and he said he is embarassed that Vodafone does not provide an upgrade.
Anyway, I registered for HTC fan club but it does not recognise my S/N....
Pls help by advising how or at least where to look
ap

asherpat,
Welcome to xda-developers. It can be really overwhelming at first, but this is the site for you. If you want to upgrade your hermes, start here:
Hermes_Upgrade For Beginners
And for any question you have, first use google's search site tool and search here extensively. You will eventually find what you are looking for.

Registering on htc site
Hi mate,
You cannot register your v1605 on htc site as it is vodafone... By upgrading to no vodafone official upgrade you will be voiding your warranty... something i did two days after buying my v1605!!... Good Luck mate... I found no trouble during the process.