Hi everyone. New to the forum and thought maybe someone here could help with my situation.
I recently purchased my Desire and I'm loving it. The only issue is that I am in Canada and the device is meant for Europe. Therefore even though it knows I'm in Canada and all my dates and times are correct on my end, if someone sends me a text message, the time stamp will show up as 5 hours behind mine. Also, applications will auto adjust their settings based on my location as well.
What I wanted to know is if anyone knows of any options that I have for adding North American Region capabilities to my phone? Will Rooting my phone allow me access to this?
Thanks everyone, any info would be helpful. And sorry if I sound like a NOOB, all this stuff is still fairly new to me.
Cheers.
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Hello all. As you can tell by my post count, I'm a noob, so please forgive me if I ask any stupid questions.
I am having an issue with a software program that I purchased from an eBay "reseller" that promises to unlock any Blackberry model phone for use on any network. The program works, but my problem is that when I try to retrieve any codes, it keeps asking me for a username and password and I was not provided with either one from the merchant I purchased it from. I have tried contacting the seller several times but have gotten no response as yet, and I don't believe that I will get one as it has been almost two weeks since I purchased the software.
So I guess what I wanted to ask is if there is a default username/password that the software will recognize? I'm pretty much at my wits end here and would really appreciate any tips or tricks that anyone can give me.
Thanks in advance for all who respond .
No from what I understand about that software. The username and password are a one time use thing and have a certain number of credit assigned to it for unlocking a phone.
Hi everyone.
I have been looking high and low for a straight answer on this, but none exist. Softbank staff are less then helpful.
So, the situation,
HTC Desire , global unlocked, i believe from hong kong
Softbank Black Sim Card.
I am trying to get this to work and set the APN settings. Im starting to think that when connecting to their network it will detect it as a foreign phone
so, if someone knows, please share how to do the following;
1. Root phone and change settings to register as Japanese mobile
2. Setup APN
if anyone can help that would be great!!
Hey there,
I'm not too exactly sure about your first question, but I *think* I can help you with your second.
Correct me if I am wrong, but you want to set up your APN to Softbank?
If so, you should probably refer to this thread
It basically explains what you need to fill in under your APN fields.
Hope that helps
hey man thanks for the reply
that was the first site i found and doesnt work. it says the apn is configured wrong. would have been gold if it worked, but doesnt. sad....
Sorry about that :/
All is not lost though. I remember when I first got my phone, I was roaming the internet and I found this blog where this Android owner who is/was living in Japan.
Give me a few moments to see if I can find it.
At worse case, you could always contact the owner for his help on his APN settings and the sorts.
Edit: http://www.desire.giesecke.tk/ seems to be the place.
The website contains mods made by the owner on top of custom roms found on XDA. Some (or most) of his ROM mods comes with this "Softbank APN (special Desire version)". Although, if you are not too keen on flashing a ROM over what you have, you could just ask him how he did it.
I hope that helps
wow thats great! i NEED to talk to that guy.
I dont care about rooting, flashing, etc, as long as i can get this bad boy to work.
my friedn is saying it might be a little easier, all i have to do is change the strong name, which i beleive requires rooting.
i am going to try a few things this week i guess and see how we go. I am really going to try and find that one guy though and see if he can help me out in this.
I wish you all the best. Let me know how it goes
Hi there,
I am new to XDA, have heard a lot about it and hope you guys can help me - apologies in advance if this is an issue with my service provider rather than the phone.
Got my HOX off ebay yesterday, in amazing condition and everything running well. Had to change from a standard orange sim to an EE microsim, so rang up and got that sorted.
The phone is functioning perfectly, however I have one annoying issue to do with the network the phone is displaying that it is on. When you pull down the notification bar, it normally states your network at the top left, on my device instead of finding "Orange" or "EE", I see "@@@@@@..."
Has anyone come across this before, anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix this? I have been in contact with orange and they were frankly, pretty useless. I had the settings resent out to my sim but that hasn't sorted the issue.
I have hopefully attached a couple of screenshots that illustrate my issue, thanks for your help, I can find nothing on the internet about this, just hoping someone else has experienced the same.
HTC One X, International, Tegra 3, All Stock, ics 4.0.4, sense 4.1.
Hi, I've come from a Z2 as couldn't get on with it. So far I'm very impressed with G3, though when in the shop I saw it had an option on the lockscreen to tap the numbers 1-4 in succession and the numbers appear in a bubble and they move across the screen as you tap a number. I presume it was a version on knock on. I assume it isn't carrier specific but I do not have it on my unbranded G3 (Its runnning V10L). I'd hate to come across as a noob but has this option been replaced by updated firmware? The only other option I can think of is it is some sort of demo function for use in stores.
Thanks for any assistance...
Ross
Carrier Specific
Well to be honest I've flashed almost all the firmware that LG has released and I have never seen that before, so I'm thinking that it may have to be carrier specific and by the way I have the D855 unlocked international version. I hope that I helped you.
Hi I am pretty sure that is a demo function to show people how the knock-on works.
For the real thing, it will not be much of a pass-code if the phone shows you the sequence to knock!
Hey guys,
I haven't been on here in a long time, but my friend is in trouble! I'm usually the tech expert, as I've rooted many phones in the past, so he came to me for a solution on an annoying pop-up. However, I couldn't find one anywhere! So now I'm posting a bounty here for any and all information regarding the annoying little Mobile Date pop-up that keeps interrupting him. Please, if you know anything about its origin or some files we can mess with let us know. Thanks!