hello,
i've a big problem on my TYTN, when i turn on my phone,
it crash, After a few seconds, and it don't read my new SIM...
i've update my OS at the WM6, it can create some problems?
Can you help me???
sure, no problem, but you could help yourself first by being a little bit more specific, what rom, radio, etc
yes, shure
the ROM version is :3.54.258.2
DATA ROM:7/6/7
EXTROM: 3.54.258.102
I do not know the radio version, because here is no written information in the device, where i found it????
tnx
i'm gonna suggest the simplest thing first, try putting a different sim in and see if it works, and try putting ur sim into a different phone too
I've just put an other sim in to my Tytn but it don't work...
but if i put my sim in a other phone, the sim work...
Your radio version will be in 'Device Information' in settings, but more important than what version it is would be have you changed the radio at all?
I have the same problem on 1 of my 2 Hermes and I'm going to retire it from using the radio at all and take the sim out and just call it a PDA.
I think it's happened (in my case anyway) because because I upgraded my radio into the 1.54.xx.xx series and from there it's never been the same. Downgraded to the last radio Orange gave out which is 1.30.00.01. Not helped much but the damage is done I thnk.
In other threads, people who know more about the internal workings of a Hermes have theorised that for some people those 1.54.xx.xx radio versions may actually damage your radio and flashing back to a prev version may not help - or at least not repair it (may at least stop further worsening). In my case this is exactly how it's panned out. Occasionally I get a couple of days of good use from it but then (usually it sems when I need to call someone in a hurry) it either gives me 'operation failed' for the call or the sim status becomes unknown and no radio at all is possible until SR, sometimes HR.
The other Hermes never had radio upgrades, just OS, and that's how it's staying.
chunkymonkey said:
Your radio version will be in 'Device Information' in settings, but more important than what version it is would be have you changed the radio at all?
I have the same problem on 1 of my 2 Hermes and I'm going to retire it from using the radio at all and take the sim out and just call it a PDA.
I think it's happened (in my case anyway) because because I upgraded my radio into the 1.54.xx.xx series and from there it's never been the same. Downgraded to the last radio Orange gave out which is 1.30.00.01. Not helped much but the damage is done I thnk.
In other threads, people who know more about the internal workings of a Hermes have theorised that for some people those 1.54.xx.xx radio versions may actually damage your radio and flashing back to a prev version may not help - or at least not repair it (may at least stop further worsening). In my case this is exactly how it's panned out. Occasionally I get a couple of days of good use from it but then (usually it sems when I need to call someone in a hurry) it either gives me 'operation failed' for the call or the sim status becomes unknown and no radio at all is possible until SR, sometimes HR.
The other Hermes never had radio upgrades, just OS, and that's how it's staying.
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hiya chaps, just wondered if anyone has upgraded to thE 1.11.00 radio rom, as i seem to have problems now with it.
i seem to be missing calls even though i have full signal, when people call me they say it goes straight to voicemail. as far as i can tell, this isnt a network problem, as i have 2 o2 phones and people can always get me on my other one, has anyone else had this problem???
Im going to downgrade back to 1.10.00 to see if this does shift the problem anyway.
joey. 8)
I've got exactly the same problem. I'm using a T-mobile mda pro with a Qtek rom
1.30.77
1.11.00
Sometimes the phone rings like 1 sec and then I have a missed call. Or it just doesn't do anything and I have a voicemail later on.
I've had this problem since the beginning. Used like radio 1.03 1.07 1.09 1.10 and 1.11
My battery lifetime is degraded to like 2 days now. If I disable BT it seems it lasts much much longer.
I'm thinking of maybe changing it to the original "new" t-mobile rom and look if that solves anything. I'm hesitated because I would need to reinstall all the programs again and I dont really feel like it.
I might just flash the radio to 1.10 or 1.09 so that I doesn't have to reinstall. Maybe I wait for the new radio
I've been using this radiorom for almost 2 months but I don't have any errors with it... maybe it depends on the network you use, too... (nokia or ericsson base stations for example, etc)
I have this problem with 1.11.00 after every true missed call.
why don't you upgrade to 1.13 version, already uploaded to ftp
I'll try it.
Thanks.
Update: I think it's fixed with 1.13.00. Thank you!!!
hi,i cant found on ftp this radio rom
Search in uploads.
Good luck!
i've always had these kinds of issues on all the different model pda/phone smartphones. i just get used to it....
besides it's usually my wife getting me tp bring something home for dinner.
Viper® said:
I've got exactly the same problem. I'm using a T-
My battery lifetime is degraded to like 2 days now. If I disable BT it seems it lasts much much longer.
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It is normal that when you Leave your BT enabled it will deminish you battery more faster then when it's disabled... Don't leave your BT on for a long period of time, BT constantly sends a radio signal with a range of 10 meters, so everytime it's sending signal it will degrade your battery that is normal...
I am using LVSW ROMs since 26/03 version, through 08/04 until present 19/05. I also have 1.41 version of Radio ROM. Since I've started using these ROMs, I'm noticing problems with radio stack.
For example, while I was driving a car across Europe (UK->PL) few weeks ago, GSM module hanged almost every time I was crossing a border between countries and phone was loosing signal from one country and had to register in another. All I could see was little [!] sign instead of signal bars, and restarting phone module and/or whole device could help it. Two days ago I was on M1 from Sheffield to London and I've noticed that GSM module just died - pressing green button did just nothing (despite I had full signal bars), and people trying to call me that time, were saying they had regular calling signal, like I was missing a call. Besides that whole device was working properly, with no problems whatsoever.
On the other hand, I have no problems with dropped calls or data sessions. Looks like it is happening mainly on the move, and phone has problems with registering with network properly.
So there is a question(s) - does anyone have similar problems with LVSW ROMs or 1.41 Radio ROM? Should I downgrade Radio ROM to 1.40 or 1.38? I have HardSPLv7 installed, so is it safe to just use this RUU - ftp://xda:[email protected]/Uploads/Hermes/HERM_Radio_Only_1.40.30.00_CustomRUU.rar ? I've been searching forums, but haven't found much information on *downgrading* Radio ROM in particular.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Its the radio rom causing you problems. I've also had problems with data connections in particular using ROM 1.40 and 1.41 (in Asia, on UMTS and EDGE networks).
Suggest you re-flash the pretty-much proven 1.38 ROM. You can find the download link from the Wiki.
radio downgrade
I used the 1.40 on black 2.5 and it was ok , then I upgraded to 1.41 radio and I had problems with the sound quality so I downgraded to 1.40 and the sound become back good
I have HardSPLv7 installed and I am on orange IL Israel
I used for downgrade CustomRUU and had no problems on the downgrade prosses
now i am using the last version of LVWS with radio 1.40 and it is working ok
hope this info help you
another remark :
try to install first the radion and on top of it os and not first os and then radio , i notice in a change of battery life in those 2 variants
Were you driving too fast for the phone to keep up with the radio transmitters passing by????
I'm also using LVSW 19-05 and Radio 1.41 but not having any significant issues unless a program runs at 100%, then the person trying to call me hangs up before the phone starts ringing!
Ciao Oggy.
It's not the LVSW ROM.....! It's the radio 1.41 And this radio was tuned for Cingular. I am on Cingular and i personally think that 1.40 is much much better. Read up on the two radio topics for more info on the two. So the bottom line is it's NOT LVSW at fault here. it's the 1.41 radio...
DAFTEK said:
It's not the LVSW ROM.....! It's the radio 1.41 And this radio was tuned for Cingular. I am on Cingular and i personally think that 1.40 is much much better. Read up on the two radio topics for more info on the two. So the bottom line is it's NOT LVSW at fault here. it's the 1.41 radio...
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Yeah, that's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure either. I'm going to downgrade to 1.40 tonight and will observe any results...
Thanks to all for your inputs.
to be fair I think there is a problem with t-mobile uk at the moment with handovers, let me explain.......
I have a active data connection.........
phone is on 3G, everything fine
phone switches to 2G, data connection is still active, no problems
phone switches to 3G, data connection is broken and the radio reboots (scrolling dots ect.)
I can (and have) replicated this with EVERY radio from 1.27 to 1.41 (and I do mean EVERY radio)
I've also tried EVERY WM6 rom out there all do the same.
so I can only think its T-mobile playing up, its just strange that everything worked fine with WM5 as I remember (and no Im not flashing back to find out!)
Hi, I'm in the Netherlands. Just tested the 1.40 because 1.41 disconnected all the time. So far so good (5 calls later..). Downgrade went fine with the customRUU. Regards Bas
ratcom said:
to be fair I think there is a problem with t-mobile uk at the moment with handovers, let me explain.......
I have a active data connection.........
phone is on 3G, everything fine
phone switches to 2G, data connection is still active, no problems
phone switches to 3G, data connection is broken and the radio reboots (scrolling dots ect.)
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Interesting - it might be worth to check, but here in London it's actually hard to find a place where phone would switch itself 3G->2G. But anyway, I had problems not only on T-Mobile UK network, as I stated in first post, so I rather think it's Radio ROM related problem, more than network.
Sorry...I've been to positive. Right now only incoming calls come through. Outgoing is still a disaster. I'll downgrade to 1.38. Ill let you know if this works..
Currently in Thailand on DTAC, an EDGE network (all their GSM networks here have EDGE).
Radio 1.40: Voice calls were okay, didn't seem to have any problems, until I tried using data (gprs/edge). The data connection was completely unstable and unusable. Downgraded to radio 1.38...
Radio 1.38: Everything okay so far, EDGE data and voice calls.
Same boat!
Yup, same thing here with T-Mobile and the 3G/2G thingy.
Though I must admit 1.40 is pretty sucky anyway, 1.41 was worse.
Considering going back to 1.38, I've forgotten what it came with 1.2x or something, which, for its sins was pretty OK.
Oi! T-Mobile!! Sort it out before I head back to Orange!!!!
Actually, forget that rant, no point taking two steps backwards and starting to pay per MB again!!! LMAO
mccreath said:
Yup, same thing here with T-Mobile and the 3G/2G thingy.
Though I must admit 1.40 is pretty sucky anyway, 1.41 was worse.
Considering going back to 1.38, I've forgotten what it came with 1.2x or something, which, for its sins was pretty OK.
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One more thing, which just came to my mind - in the original T-Mobile's MDA Vario II Extended ROM there is a file called P_rilgsm_patch.CAB, which could be related to Radio. Maybe this is a key for these problems? I guess this patch is network-specific - well, I believe this patch is there for a reason...
Btw, I've just downgraded to 1.40...
Error message flashing Radio 1.40.30
Hope someone can help me with this. I'm encountering an error message when trying to flash to radio 1.40.30. I have Custel 2.5 installed on a JasJam with Radio 1.41 currently.
When I run the update RUU program and click the AutoDetect button, I get a message that says "Error, Unknown version! You should pick SSPL".
I have HardSPL7 installed, so my question is, is it safe to force SSPL? Is that what it is asking me to do?
Thanks.
Nevermind, I think I found the answer finally - it only took many days:
1. Select "2.10 new..."
2. Tick "Is it HARD Spl?"
And then run the update as per normal.
where is the link to downgrade the radio 1.38
thanks
naxos said:
where is the link to downgrade the radio 1.38
thanks
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You will find all the Radio roms available at this link:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_ExtractedRadioRoms
thanks man
tried P_rilgsm_patch.CAB which as made abit of a mess Could some post rilgsm.dll from a LVSW rom plz as I managed to backup the wrong file
ratcom said:
tried P_rilgsm_patch.CAB which as made abit of a mess Could some post rilgsm.dll from a LVSW rom plz as I managed to backup the wrong file
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OK, but how to actually copy/send rilgsm.dll file?? Each time I have 'File cannot be copied' message, or such like... :-o
Btw, what happened, when you applied rilgsm patch?
i now get a "E" icon instead of "3G" and the radio seems slower handing over from 3G to 2G and back (thank god my stairs are 2G only!) I've sent you a PM on how to copy that file.
Hello,
i am facing some problems with my Hermes and I really don't know what is going on, the problems is that, although it shows that is connected to the telephone network, if somebody calls me it doesn't ring and is not responding. At that time that is not responding if i try to call the phone screen shows that is dialing but it is not, if i click the "End call" it doesn't end until it times out, after that it is not responding again and it needs a reset. After the reset it's working again until the next time that will crash.
I am using Schap's 4.31 rom with 1.54.30.10 radio
What do you suggest that i should do?
I got the same problem with older Schap's ROMs. When I flashed to K's or anything else (not based on Schap's) the problem disappeared.
I had the same exact issue, my solution to this issue was to replace the radio with 1.47.30.10. It has been 5 days without any issue. I hope that helps.
you just changed the radio? or the windows rom also?
I've had this issue on my Hermes, although it was evident on WM5, which is one of the reasons I upgraded to WM6, which alas just created other problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355823
Elwyn M3100 said:
I've had this issue on my Hermes, although it was evident on WM5, which is one of the reasons I upgraded to WM6, which alas just created other problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355823
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nah i don't think i will downgrade to WM5, maybe i will try another rom.
also the battery doesn't last long, maybe 3 hours, i don't know why is that, and maybe that is what is causing the problem.
I just downloaded the radio from this link http://www.parkingdenied.com/filebrowser/Hermes/Radio+Roms
If I was you, I will try Radio down-grade first.
Good luck
When the phone freezes on the "dialing..." screen it is cuz the phone lost its network connection (although it wont show it). U can remedy this by turning the "phone" part (not the whole device) off then on again, so it will reconnect to the network.
Also, some radios are very power draining. Try check here for feedback on different radios.
Basically, there is a good chance all this messin u up is ur radio
Recurring 8525 problem since upgrading to WM6 ROM (AT&T version). The phone will freeze completely (clock doesn't advance, screen and buttons and keyboard don't accept input, display freezes at on or off). When restarted by soft reset, the phone will frequently come back up with no GSM. When that happens, sometimes if I remove the battery and leave the phone off for a few hours then GSM will come back and will work for a while and then lock up again.
When it comes back with GSM service all of the network logon info for GPRS, my Wi-Fi networks with their auth info is gone.
Also email accounts are gone from the account picker and can't be re-created with the same names even though they have completely disappeared. I assume the settings are still in the registry but accounts just aren't showing. One account still shows on the Today screen, but isn't in the account picker.
A hard reset "fixes" things for a while. I've experimented with only installing a few of the most necessary 3rd party apps, without finding any "smoking gun" program that's causing problems. I've also re-seated the SIM card multiple times. I'm thinking it might be a hardware problem.
Today I flashed the radio to 1.54 and it has worked for a couple of hours without needing to be reset.
I'd be interested to hear what possible diagnostic paths I should look at before I call AT&T and begin the rigmarole required by tech support. Anyone with a very similar situation?
Thanks in advance.
I'm having the same problem. I was thinking of going to AT&T to get a new SIM, thinking that was the problem. Any solution yet?
-Pete
I started having the same problem with mine last week.
Sometimes it locks up, sometimes it gets stuck at the windows logo durring boot, always displays no gsm rom on boot.
Take a look at the how to unbrick thread. no gsm rom msg is one of the types of brick.
I installed hard spl ( already had it actually ). Flashed os, but it didn't help. Flashed GSM and no gsm msg went away. The phone is still acting strangely.
remember, just because the rom came from your carrier DOESNT mean that it doesnt have problems. Alot of people seem to have problems with upgraded rom versions from their carrier and end up either downgrading to previous rom or flashing cooked roms. try the previous rom or another cooked rom and see if that fixes the problem before blaming the hardware. It will save you a major headache trying to troubleshoot something that is working perfectly....
Please remember to do a bit of reading and hard spl your device before going off and bricking your Hermes. 10 minutes of reading might prevent hours, days or weeks of hair pulling, nail biting insanity to find the answer. Cheers.
hello people,
I have my SVP M3100, original from orange spain - but CID unlock to work with portuguese carrier, now I live and work in Hereford UK, and I use a sim from Three and other from Lebara the three sim is to have net on my pc and the lebara sim is to make low cost international call, and i switch many times the sim's to make calls and to have internet, now i have the same problem that you have, i try to upload the HTC original rom that have IPL. BOOTLOADER, SPLASH SCREENS EXTROM GSM, but lock at 12% I try upload ongly radio rom and the same a think that somekind of hardware problem caused by to many sims switch, if any body have one solution please tell me
Sometimes it locks up, sometimes it gets stuck at the windows logo durring boot, always displays no gsm rom on boot."
Same thing happened to me. Tried to reflash original ATT ROM , Radio Only, OS only. Gonna send it for the repair. Phone is not under warranty anymore hope that the price of repair will be less than price of new phone.
BTW, is there any way to remove Hard SPL from the phone?
how much was the price of repair?
Try changing you radio to a new one. i have had the same problems in the past with different radio roms and rom versions. so i am using radio 1.54.30.10 with pdavet roms and have had no isuue.
Ray_jai said:
how much was the price of repair?
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Got my phone back fixed. They charged me for shipping only $19
only $19!?
What if I don't have ATT anymore?
do you know?
i had the same issue check for my previous posts i think no GSM is a common error there is method flashing himalaya rom on hermes to erase GSM sector.
if you cant find the link PM me .
i hope it solves your problem.
tracylynnt said:
Recurring 8525 problem since upgrading to WM6 ROM (AT&T version). The phone will freeze completely (clock doesn't advance, screen and buttons and keyboard don't accept input, display freezes at on or off). When restarted by soft reset, the phone will frequently come back up with no GSM. When that happens, sometimes if I remove the battery and leave the phone off for a few hours then GSM will come back and will work for a while and then lock up again.
When it comes back with GSM service all of the network logon info for GPRS, my Wi-Fi networks with their auth info is gone.
Also email accounts are gone from the account picker and can't be re-created with the same names even though they have completely disappeared. I assume the settings are still in the registry but accounts just aren't showing. One account still shows on the Today screen, but isn't in the account picker.
A hard reset "fixes" things for a while. I've experimented with only installing a few of the most necessary 3rd party apps, without finding any "smoking gun" program that's causing problems. I've also re-seated the SIM card multiple times. I'm thinking it might be a hardware problem.
Today I flashed the radio to 1.54 and it has worked for a couple of hours without needing to be reset.
I'd be interested to hear what possible diagnostic paths I should look at before I call AT&T and begin the rigmarole required by tech support. Anyone with a very similar situation?
Thanks in advance.
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I've got exact the same symtoms. No GSM, network and auth settings gone, opera registration lost etc. It started a few days a go, in the beginning I had a working GSM most of the time, but it became less and less and now it doesn't have service at all anymore.
Currently device information shows:
ROM version: K's Rom v1.21
ROM date: 10/03/07
Radio version: NONE
Protocol version: NONE
Model No.: HERM300
IMEI: <empty>
Does anyone know a permanent solution?
I have the SAME PROBLEM!
I was about to get radio to work 3 days ago, and now the radio says none.
it's like the radio removed itself.
ok this doesn't make sense, I used the hima rom to remove the radio.
and now the radio is back! wtf?
Hm I tried everything but I can't seem to reflash the radio. About every version I try hangs at 0%. Sometimes when I flash from SD card it hangs at arount 10%.
Tried different SPL versions as well
Damn you radio!!!
BTW, I have no idea what they did to my phone there, but after returning from the AT&T Repair center the Call timer was zeroed and Device ID is now different from what it was before in Skyscape software
Any solutions yet? Im having the same issues.
The reason why Active Sync restarts
For many people the Workaround "not a hack or registry at all" does not work is because of a event based notification that runs the program anytime the time changes. Since your phone updates from the cell tower, it updates the time alot even if by mere seconds well this update runs activesync. Get yourself MemMaid
run it in advanced mode then Jump to Databases then select Notification Queue you will see a list of 3 types of Queues; Time Based, Classic Time Based, and Event based. Go to the event based queue, you should see at the end of this list 3 listing for repllog.exe with the active sync icon. Click on them individualy and read what shows up in the window below put a check mark next to the listing that describes the event as "apprunaftertimechange" it is normaly the last one on list
Also make sure there is no repllog.exe listed in any other queue for a time based event. Leave the other instances of repllog.exe since you still want your device to sync when its connected to the computer. Once you select all events that desribe running repllog.exe after a time change or at a certian time and date press the delete button.
This worked for me on my 8125 and the tilt and if i would of figured this out before i had ATT replace my 8525 i probably would of not got the tilt but lol they gave me tilt free cause all the problems i had with 8525.
let me know if this works for you guys that still see activesync running after the fake server WORKAROUND.
This should work
memmaid is not free but i think its free to try and if all you do with it is fix this problem then great or find a way to register it cause it does help has cool tricks and tweaks
Wow, still no real fixes for this problem, bummer
running memmaid work
running memmaid works and fixes the random start of activesync and once the random start of activesync is fixed the device will not lock up because of activesync this not to say if some other program you may have installed locking you up as well
Hi, I have an O2 xda exec, at the moment it has:
WM 6.1 (CE OS 5.2.19900 - build 19900.1.0.2 RAN)
ROM version: D.07.70 RAN
ROM Date: 02/01/08
Radio version: 1.09.00
Protocol version: 42.42.P8
ExtROM version: 2.07.60 RAN
How do I get it back to factory Defaults?
The reason is my sim from O2 doesn't work in it, even though I select the network as O2 it never gets a signal.
I'm probably going to sell it once I get it working correctly. I have all the cd's, boxes and cables plus a new case for it.
regards Lee
Hi,
Check this information page on XDA-Wiki
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Atom
Good luck with that
Thanks fsabatino, but mine isn't an atom exec its a xda exec like this one:
xda exec
But hey you helped me find the wiki so thanks fsabatino.
Happy new year, remember 2008 was going to be great, so 2009 is going to be fine
Ok thought I would upgrade first, so, I used:
VNInt WM6.1 (5.2.20931) ??? G3/G4 64Mb&128Mb 12/12/2008 20931.1.5.0
I then upgraded my Radio ROM to 1.15.00. The OS boots fine and very smooth actually, but I'm still getting no connection, its says 'no service' I can connect every other way but not via phone. do you think I have damaged my phone somehow?
"remember 2008 was going to be great, so 2009 is going to be fine"
too bad 2008 turn out to be very bad and 2009 is looking to be worse :S
This is an opportunity for everyone to focus, the banks have behaved like absolute twats, I actually told my credit card company to reduce my allowed credit limit, it was getting stupid, £15,000 I was allocated!!! that on one card, I actually have 3... Idiots.
Anyway I digress, I have now downgrded the radio rom to 1.06.00 but still no luck. I can't seem to downgrade the OS rom as I can't find the original ROM.
2009 is going to be mine.
darkan9el said:
This is an opportunity for everyone to focus, the banks have behaved like absolute twats, I actually told my credit card company to reduce my allowed credit limit, it was getting stupid, £15,000 I was allocated!!! that on one card, I actually have 3... Idiots.
Anyway I digress, I have now downgrded the radio rom to 1.06.00 but still no luck. I can't seem to downgrade the OS rom as I can't find the original ROM.
2009 is going to be mine.
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Here you can find some ROM´s: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Upgrades
Hope it helps,
cheers orb'by unfortunately the O2 roms can't be downloaded because bill got mardy.
Right... been reading some of the posts and it would seem there are no fixes to having 'No Service' I've read several posts referencing 'No Service' and none have a solution.
I'm going to see if my phone is actually blocked although it shouldn't be.
The thing is I can update the main rom or radio rom and even upgraded the bootloader to v1.01 with no problems, everything works fine except for No Service, so I'm inclined to think this is not a OS rom issue or a radio rom issue, neither is it a settings issue because I have tried every combo that can be tried, i.e. auto network, manual network, band, auto and manual etc oh and the sim is fine as I have it working in one of my old O2 phones < keep them for situations like this lol!
If I can flash to pretty much any radio rom wouldn't that suggest the radio rom is ok?
I would also like to know how to check the phone to make sure its unlocked, although again if I can do all the above I would assume it is unlocked... am I wrong in that assumption?
I have been reading about IMEI's and can't seem to find any clear instructions or links to software for checking this, although again I can't see why that would change.
So my only conclusion; with my limited knowledge is the phone is blocked. So I'm going to contact O2 today to find out if it is.
Just had a chat to O2, and they said the phone was blocked, but that they will unblock it and it should be done within 24 hours, so we shall see.
Ok in my quest I found this site: IMEI checker I also checked my IMEI against my box ( I did *#06# to check) and its reads correctly other than it has two extra digits: 01
The IMEI checker says my phone is unblocked, the 01 is ok as long as the first 15 digits match.
Still 'No Service' showing
Update:
Well I have tried every Radio Rom I can find, I have tried several OS Roms, I like VNInt's Full rom the best so that's on the phone now. Apparently O2 Xda Exec's come already sim unlocked which is pretty decent of them.
I think, personally there is a manufacture fault with the built-in antennae, as I have seen so many posts on O2 phones having the 'No Service' issue. Its a shame because with the right cooked rom and radio rom these PDA/Phones run very well, well mine did until this happened.
Bill in his ultimate blindness has seen to it we can't get back to a standard ROM from a cooked one, that leaves a lot of xda exec explorers stranded. It's for this reason and the 'No Service fault' I will never buy another O2 branded phone.
putting it on ebay soon...