Looking at the wiki here and looking at the ROM upgrades but which one will allow it to be unbranded instead of it having a bunch of cingular stuff on it? It seems all but a bunch of European ROM's
Is it possible to unbrand it? just wanted to know before I spend $119 on another PDA.. 3 in one week is enough.
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Is it possible to unbrand it? just wanted to know before I spend $119 on another PDA.. 3 in one week is enough.
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Ever since I stopped using I-mate ROMs and went with the ROMs from here I have not had any branding of any tyope in my BA. The ROMs here work perfectly well for me in the Middle East even though they were not "developed for here". They are quite generic in nature and should be fine for you no matter were you reside. I have seen users from all over the world posting in these forums about the updates they have flashed. There is a wealth of knowledge both here in the forums and in the wiki as well, more in the wiki actually.
I have a BA PH20B (Qtek 9090) which came with WM2003 from TIM Brasil.
I've used "generic" ROMs from (WM6) Helmi's and Xplode without problems, eventhough there is no WM6 branded ROM to compare.
I believe that you won't have problems with it.
JP
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OK, so the wait is over and we finally have, to our dissapointment the Official O2 1.72 roms. Yay! (not) So we've had to wait longer than all the other operators we got their in the end. I have to admit i'm tempted byu the xdaIIs, as i cant see much further support for the poor old XDA II. When there was still hope of a WM2003SE update I could see a reason to stay with the device as its by far the best PPC ive ever owned, but now i'm looking at other options(espicially now i got my p900 - now theres a phone!). I'm a bit pissed that when SE was launched several people had beta releases of 2003SE on their devices, however none seemed to want to discuss the release. Now with no chance of an update being released how about some feedback from the people who actually USED the upgrade? (And if some kind soul posts the file we'd all be eternally gratefull! Anyone who wants it that bad wont care about it being 'unsupported')
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Hi,
As per the post below on O2 I thought I would drop T-Mobile an email.
Here is the reply
"Good afternoon.
Thank you for your email.
We had thought about providing an upgrade to WM6 for our devices, however we have decided against this. It was decided that our phones ran well with WM5 and to concentrate our resources on releasing our new MDA Touch and, in time, MDA Vario III with WM6.
Kind regards.
Paul Byrne
T-Mobile"
I am have been monitoring the various WM6 roms on this site but I was holding off on updating my MDAC3 to see if T-Mobile would update it. Seems like that ain't going to happen.
Bugger, may have to take the plunge with one of the ROMs on here.
Regards
take a plunge mate, use the uspl tool and then upgrade, its easy if you follow instructions,
thats T-mobile for you though, they dont look after there customers properly. shoddy i say. its not like they have to pay for it. they could even just get hold of the original htc copy and put there code on it for there branded device. ndont take much...
im using the new rom with the htc touchflo included, and its bloody awesome.
ive been running a few WM6 roms without any problems on my MDACIII.
Ive been running the 3.5 rom recently which is great and as we speak im upgrading to 3.7.
Please Delete.
not a scooby but its a higher version and im a sucker for the latest and greatest.
Please Delete.
Would I have to unlock my MDACIII if I am to also upgrade the ROM to WM6 of which is available here?
No, but you'll need to download and run the USPL first.
I've been looking on their site and you can't email them to ask. All the WM6 ROMS floating around look good but I'd be more comfortable if I could get one directly from HTC for my my country. I'm new to Flashing and CID unlocking and all that but I wouldn't mind if I could get it from HTC's web site. Any info on a release or is there one out that I've missed?
Sorry if I've asked a question that's already been answered but I've been searching this forum for a month now and I'm a little confused about all the different versions of ROMS.
BTW, I'm about to buy an HTC P3300 in the US to use on T-Mobile USA and, of course, it has WM5. All I want to do is upgrade to WM6 and run TomTom from the memory card instead of main memory and I don't want to loose any of the original programs. (I've already read about how to move TomTom)
After we purchased the T-Mobile Compact III, they told us that it would not switch to english. Now I am here and being flooded with Too Much Info. Could someone help out a poor sucker get this thing backed up, reflashed with an english version and maybe find a free GPS program? The only thing keeping me from running some of the stuff that I have found is backing up my current ROM. I want to be able to put the T-Mobile ROM back on the thing just in case....
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and probably by many service members here in Germany who will soon end up in my shoes.
Maybe my question was not clear....
I may have not stated my question clearly. I am looking for the T-Mobile German ROM that comes with the T-Mobile MDA Compact III here in Germany, or a way to back up the ROM on my Artemis...
I want to have the factory ROM on hand in case I have to reflash it back to original config... Once I have this or back it up, I can flash which ever rom I need. I do not want to end up with a brick that I cannot try to return to the original config.
Any help would be appreciated.
Growing Pains
Well, I have flashed my MDA with several ROMS to see which one my wife likes best. Risky, I know, but ya gotta please the missus...
I was disappointed that the WiFi was disabled in the german models, as it would have saved alot of money for us... O2 Germany's MDA's are WiFi enabled I found out today.
I am also disappointed that the GPS is very hard to get working. T-mobile cannot explain how to do it, and I am making that my next project.
For those who read this thread and decided that I was wasting space, sorry. I have read through about 45% of all artemis threads over the past 48 hours and my brain is thoroughly scrambled with TMI.
So far, Artemis Touch full version is the one that my wife likes, and I like it too. We tried the O2 ROM, but it is not compatible with the T-mobile network for some reason...(lol) Since I am still new, I have not learned how to flash a ROM using an .rar file yet, but with more thread reading I should be able to learn this as well.
BT Rom would not flash either, stating that it was the wrong model number. Found that in a thread as well... Next up... GPS...
the eagle-eyed amongst may be aware via previous postings
that I am desperatley hoping to upgrade my Orange WM 5 Trinity to WM 6.1 with Orange.
my latest idea would be to somehow extract just the Orange branding only, from this rom:
RUU_HTC_TyTN_II_Kaiser_ORANGE_UK_3.28.61.0R_radio_sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.16.25_Ship.exe
could I then re-flash with one of the good WM 6.1 roms from here, and then add the Orange.
would this be possible or feasable ?
PLEASE someone tell me if I am on a wild goose chase or not
then at least I could find something else to occupy my old age ... AND stop pestering all you good folk.
thanks,
Kevin
carkev said:
the eagle-eyed amongst may be aware via previous postings
that I am desperatley hoping to upgrade my Orange WM 5 Trinity to WM 6.1 with Orange.
my latest idea would be to somehow extract just the Orange branding only, from this rom:
RUU_HTC_TyTN_II_Kaiser_ORANGE_UK_3.28.61.0R_radio_sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.16.25_Ship.exe
could I then re-flash with one of the good WM 6.1 roms from here, and then add the Orange.
would this be possible or feasable ?
PLEASE someone tell me if I am on a wild goose chase or not
then at least I could find something else to occupy my old age ... AND stop pestering all you good folk.
thanks,
Kevin
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Nope
Last update (official) for trin is still WM5
sorry
mostly, a TYtn ROm would not suit the P3600 at all
You can extract some Orange things from the ROm and try to port them to Trinity, though, I would say faisable
brds
nAr
EDIT : no one's interested in branded ROMs ... only to sell second hand maybe ... your best choice is to Hard SPL then flash an 6.5 ROM
thanks Narshorn,
the very fact that you think it may be feasable gives me some hope.
I take on board what you say re branded roms etc,
but find that I much prefer using my phone with the jogwheel, and the Orange stuff suits me very well.
I have done some re-flashing thanks to the good advice on here,
but suspect that extracting from that 6.1 rom may be beyond my capabilities.
there are many very talented folks on here, and my best hope would be that someone see this post and would offer to do it for me -
for a suitable Donation of course.
I know someone who has white trin orange branded ... il'' ask him to dump his phone one day
brds,
nAr
that's good of you to suggest ...
but would the the Orange stuff be WM5 as I have on mine ?
From what I saw, there's a vertical widget bar on left side of the screen
The interface is "buble rose"
It's orange branded
please don't think me ugrateful, but I would not want your friend to go to the trouble if uneccessary.
as I understand it, Orange never made WM 6 for Trinity, so I expect your friend has the same version as I do.
the Orange WM6.1 they did for the Kaiser roms looks similar but is actually superior, which is why I worded my first posting as I did
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please don't think me ugrateful, but I would not want your friend to go to the trouble if uneccessary.
as I understand it, Orange never made WM 6 for Trinity, so I expect your friend has the same version as I do.
the Orange WM6.1 they did for the Kaiser roms looks similar but is actually superior, which is why I worded my first posting as I did
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i found this...
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torre...TC-3600-amp;-ORANGE-SPV-M700-AX3L-OS-v2-0-8-1
on orange the trinity is called spv m700. I used to have one seems there's about 3 user made orange branded wm6.0 roms arround. give it a try
philocritus ... WOW ... top man ! ... I have just downloaded it and may try a flash later.
having read the 'read me' (which hopefully I have attached)
I am not absolutely sure that it contains the Orange branding/sidebar I seek, but the last 4 lines might indicate that it does ? - would you agree ? ...
I would welcome your opinion before I go ahead.
>>>> This ROM include:
HardSPL + OS + OEM SplashScreen + Radio + ExtROM
anyway, The ExtROM is empty and the "customization process" only
enable HSDPA and install PhoneHelper...
BTW:
your searching is superior to mine as I have tried all kind of search stings in Google & various forums for over a month now
and not even come close to with what you found !
I will now hammer all the torrent sites to see if I can anything else.
thanks a lot.
Kevin
update
I bit the bullet and tried that Rom ... it all went on fine, but sadly was an HTC branded WM6,
rather nice though it was, I have re-flashed to my WM 5 with Orange,
and taken the opportunity to also flash the 1.56.70.11 Radio.
so I continue to hope my original 'Plan A' will yield some results,
or hope that 'Plan B' ... finding that the roms you mentioned are out there.
this is all very good fun though, and thanks to this super forum, tweaking my Smartphone has become a new hobby in my retirement.
thanks,
Kevin