Friends,
So far I have had no problems flasing hardspl and chef roms. I know this is a stupid question but I would imagine this would void the warranty of the device with my at&t provider?
I have my own personal insurance on the device (not with at&t). But what if I start experiencing problems with the device. Would there be a way to revert back to the custom rom and change the hardspl?
Please advise.
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just find the att stock rom on this forum..not sure where it is as i havent looked through the roms as i dont own a fuze but have been active in the forum because i plan on getting one SOON..and for hardspl..dont know about ehre but like in the kaiser forum they have att stock spl and you revert back by using a SSPL (Software SPL) that is in EXE format and you open it in the file manager and it loads up the bootloader and then you flash the old SPL from there because you cant load a SPL from the normal bootloader because SPL IS YOUR BOOTLOADER so just look for those or wait for someone to post the needed files (you can find the att stock rom for sure) but in actuality alot of people have gotten away without reverting the SPL (i havent heard of anyone getting charged for voiding the warranty) but if you want to be safe you can always go down to a DSC (Device Spport Center) (http://www.wireless.att.com/answer-center/main.jsp?t=solutionTab&solutionId=KB91429 for a list of DSC's) and once they swap it your home free and they have never checked the bootloader for me (well everytime ive broughten it in it was stuck in bootloader but they never examined the screen) so yah thats my 2 cents ;-)
ive exchanged multiple tilts with warranty exchange, and never had an issue with the hardspl. i would always flash the stock rom back on though
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Hey,
I want to try WM6 out, but don't want to lose my warranty.
I've bought the wizard (KJAM) from my operator, that has its own boot screen and extended rom, but the rom is the regular IMATE WWE that i've downloaded from the IMATE website.
Now a few questions:
1. Will I be able to install the official ROM from IMATE directly over the WM6 one?
2. If I install the official IMATE ROM, and copy the extended rom of my operator (that i can copy using Total Commander), will it bring back everything like it was before?
3. Searching around here turned up very complicated ways to backup and reinstall original (ROMS +Extended), and not 100% reliable.
Is there any easy, straight-forward and reliable way to backup and restore everything (and I mean everything, even restore the CID lock), so I won't lose my warranty?
Thanks A lot, sorry if answered before and I couldn't find it.
Welcome to the forums...
First off, understand that most everything being done here will violate your warranty. So remember that before you proceed with anything else if thats a real concern. I can tell you that a friend of mine CID Unlocked his phone upgraded to WM6 and then had an issue. He just flashed back to the default Cingular rom, and there was no problem with the warranty exchange... BUT YMMV...
First step is you need to determine if you have a G3 or G4. But really either way, if you don't want to CID Unlock, then you can check out the sticky in the G4 and the Wizard Upgrading boards on how to flash without CID Unlocking.
I'd suggest you start reading here as this will help you figure out which type of Wizard you have and how to proceed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298613
3. Searching around here turned up very complicated ways to backup and reinstall original (ROMS +Extended), and not 100% reliable.
Is there any easy, straight-forward and reliable way to backup and restore everything (and I mean everything, even restore the CID lock), so I won't lose my warranty?
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If you are talking about for a warranty exchange you just have to reflash your carrier's official rom and you are back to that. You can use spb backup (or similar) to take a full backup before you start flashing new roms, and then restore to that backup when you go back to WM5 (but don't use that backup on a WM6 rom and don't use spb backup to restore from one rom to another one).
As for putting back the CID Lock (on a G3), just flash back to the Button ROM, and then flash your carrier rom. As I understand it, you will be CID Locked when you move from 1.xx to 2.xx (at least I know you have to do lokiwiz again if you go back to 1.xx so I assume that means the CID lock is back).
Thanks, I know that my phone is G3, and I've read many times how to flash a ROM. My problem is how to backup my current ROM with all the operator's customizations....
Hi,
I purchased my TYTN-II from UK as sim free in Oct-07. From the last five months i was under the impression that HARDSPL is very much necessary for flashing. Though i never tried to HARDSPL my unit. Last month there was RUU upgrade from HTC e-club. Since it was from HTC and there was no special instruction before running RUU. So i run the RUU directly and my unit was successfully upgraded to WM 6.1.
After that i realised that 6.1 is not stable. So, with the help of the forum ... i downloaded the WM 6 shiped RUU from the forum and run directly and again my device accepted the WM6.
Now, i am confused that how this happened ? am i not suppose to HardSPL my device before flashing specially at downgrading level ?
OR since my device is SIM Free / Unlocked thats why it doesn't need HardSPL ?
I am just trying to educate myself nothing else ...
Regards
i believe that u still need to hard spl the right spl for that rom u installed...the spls are stickied in this forum
admins = plz shut this thread down...
I always thought it was normal for sim free phones.
I could just be thick. But I thought it was due to networks and simlocks that people had to HardSPL.
So its just for cooked ROMs. I get it now. So you flashed a HTC ROM on a HTC device. Which would have flashed the correct SPL anyway.
Hard SPL's allow you to flash cooked roms safely without bricking the device. Since you flashed an official rom from HTC you wouldn't require a modded SPL
There are different hard spl's for wm6.1 thats all. To be honest you are normally safer just to hardspl anyway. Back in the day, if you hadnt hard spl'd your phone and you bricked it, it was basically impossible to fix. Not sure these days on the kaiser, i have never tried not hard spl'ing mine so i couldnt say.
OEM SPL does NOT allow you to downgrade even if the ROM fits your device. I don't know why you not taking HardSPL, if you worry about the warranty, just go ahead to flash ROM with HardSPL, then flash OEM SPL back after it.
if you device is from HTC and not locked to a provider you can flash roms from HTC-E club BUT!!! your phone is not truly safe HardSPL is like a condom for your kaiser if something happens lets say the USB plug comes out while flashing NOT having HardSPL you might have an issue BUT you probably WILL... Just do yourself a favor and flash HardSPL you can always revert back to the shipped SPL if you need to for a warranty return......
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if you device is from HTC and not locked to a provider you can flash roms from HTC-E club BUT!!! your phone is not truly safe HardSPL is like a condom for your kaiser if something happens lets say the USB plug comes out while flashing NOT having HardSPL you might have an issue BUT you probably WILL... Just do yourself a favor and flash HardSPL you can always revert back to the shipped SPL if you need to for a warranty return......
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Thanks austinsync,
It seems to me that i almost tried to kill my device. Now advice me which Hard SPL should i use for TYTN-II. I mean 3.28 or something else ?
They look like same to me ...
Regards,
Hey, I just got my Fuze yesterday, and I'm loving it. I just have a question that I couldn't seem to find by the search.
How would I go about returning the Fuze to the stock SPL after flashing it to HardSPL? I'm asking just incase I need to return it. Would I just flash the default AT&T ROM to restore everything? Or does more have to be done? AKA Do the directions in the Hard-SPL thread apply to the Fuze?
Sorry if this is a dumb question--it's been a while since I've owned a WM phone. (Wizard to be exact =])
NVM Found the answer.
Here for those that want to know:
No need to have the SPL 1.95...I had to exchange my Fuze today because of a problem with buttons...
Just follow the steps on the front page and then afterwards reflash the stock att rom(the one with SPL 1.95)...it will flash SPL 1.95 with it
confirm by going into bootloader
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what front page? i want to reflash to oem to exchange for a new fuze
hard spl has overwrite protection. you will have to flash the unsigned spl to overwrite ti (just search for "stock spl"). However, my question is, if you flash the stock rom, do you have to go thru flashing the original spl as well or the hard spl will work with the stock rom as well?
thank you all!
The ADP1.1h Came with a new boot-loader so now there are 4 boot-loaders engineering boot-loader, ADP1 boot-loader, ADP1.1 Boot-loader, and the RC Boot-loader(worst)
Why would you want any other SPL than HardSPL?
i am asking wheather the boot-loader came with adp1.1h is thebetter one ag google may know that ppl use hardspl so it would be better to provide 1 better than it or an official better 1... i m not saying i would switch on to it so easily
Well hardspl is just an edit of the old adp bootloader. Will it be updated?
popsi said:
Why would you want any other SPL than HardSPL?
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Warranty perhaps? My G1 is going back to T-Mobile for hardware problems and they probably won't accept the phone if it is running an unofficial SPL.
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Datruesurfer said:
Warranty perhaps? My G1 is going back to T-Mobile for hardware problems and they probably won't accept the phone if it is running an unofficial SPL.
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I hear you, but if there is something hardware related my guess they would never bother to check the SPL. I've had some HTC phones in for service, they were all with modified SPL and firmware and I never got any warranty issues.
I bought the Dream second hand off ebay and living in Norway I'm pretty much stuck solving any problems myself .
I want to know what my phone should look, so that I can change it back in for a warrenty.
And is there a video out to show how to STOCK SPL - FOR WARRANTY REASONS ONLY.
Can you please provide all the information that is needed so that I will not be charge or mess over my contract. Thanks.
If you have HARDSPL installed then your boot screen shows 1.90olinex if you are at STOCK SPL then it shows 1.90.
Before I returned my phone I flashed the HTC ATT ROM that includes radio, then I flashed it with STOCK SPL to return my bootloader from 1.90olinex to 1.90.
That is as much info as I can give you without doing searches of the forum. I think you can handle a few searches from here. Just look for Stock SPL and use the Wiki.