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Virus on Tmobile Wing

Now this really sux.
I browsed to some site using my HTC Wing and less than 24 hours later, I started losing functionality in my phone. It started with the Start menu losing entries, then my bluetooth ceased, following that I lost internet connectivity completely and I even started having issues trying to place my calls. SMS msgs started coming in with different dates/times.
I'm stuck, In need to sync my phone up yet the sync software has no effect on the phone whatsoever.
I read a little about any possible causes and someone suggested to check my sd card. It's working fine and my files are still intact. Taking it out does not change anything on the phone. Soft and hard boots were performed ofcourse.
Anyone's input would be greatly appreciated.

tmobile sux in general. i had the wing for a few weeks and way too many problems.
i switch to cdma less stress on the brain.. better voice quality, etc..
tmobile just has a sloppy network and all my friends seem to have problems with them,. have you considered finding another provider? i don't have a solution for you, only a suggestion. ditch tmobile.

cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.

onei0077 said:
cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.
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cdma might be older but far from old school. guess thats why i can download at 1.5mbit/s and upload at 400-600kbps.. faster than my home computer.. it's old for sure, yet it's a lot faster than gsm, go figure!
i didn't intend to start a debate. gsm is newer technology but that doesn't mean it's better.. and by no means im saying cdma is better... but look at what cdma does that gsm doesn't, then you decide which is better.

My only two suggestions are: Hard reset, Reflash the ROM.

l3v5y said:
My only two suggestions are: Hard reset, Reflash the ROM.
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and repeat every other day

I love Windows!

No virus on Wing But corrupted directories!!
I still haven't given up. Ran anti virus and anti spyware progs with no luck.
I don't have internet connectivity since I did loose my start menu. I was able to have the wifi working and sent myself an sms text message with an http link so that I could get internet explorer running. I was able to download the progs and check the phone for problems.. None unfortunately.
I did get total commander installed to get a better look at the directory structure and what might be missing. It turns out that the majority of the directories in \\windows\ have their names corrupted (showing boxes or maybe different fonts)..
Activesyn does not work so i can't transfer my files.
Can someone please tell me if there's a way to rename the directories and with what?? the rename command in total commander does not work and when trying to access the directory to see its contents I get "Error 3 changing to dir!"
PLEASE help.. i don't believe in hard resets.. there has to be another way around it.
btw, they directories that are corrupted are located in the main memory, not the SD card.

Could you back up PIM.vol and the other *.vol files in the root of your device, and also backup the "my Documents" folder and then hard reset?
I have had a similar problem with files in my Extended ROM on my prophet, but a hard reset was the only way to fix that.

onei0077 said:
cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.
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I agree GSM is awesome. Also to the kat who has the wing. Hard reset your phone throw it in bootloader and flash it to its original rom

JUST CAN'T fix Q9h WM6.1 SMS timestamp error.

Hi everyone!
I've been going through this ENTIRE forum, and countless others on top of dozens upon dozens of google searches, and I still haven't found a solution to my SMS timestamp error.
All the solutions offered up by people seem seriously promising, because they seem to help a lot of people, and that is what's kept me hopeful: that someone out there/in here can help me fix this problem.
Basically, I have an unlocked Fido Motorola Q9h, that is being used on the Rogers network. Never delved into flashing my device, cuz I was happy with WM6. Not to mention I'd got it tweaked to a very lovely point
Then a week ago, my phone locked up after I'd put my phone into airplane mode (I'd done this countless times before with no issue), and just would not let me turn the antenna back on. Nothing I tried worked, so of course I eventually caved and did a hard reset. That was when I figured I would give WM6.1 a try, seeing as how my device was gonna be starting from scratch anyway.
I flashed to an unlocked AT&T WM6.1 ROM, and went ahead with all the registry tweaks to remove all the bloatware. Phone is pretty damn clean if I do say so myself. I've got PHM on there, GPSID, CHome COnfigurator, and that's really about it.
After all that was said and done, and I got my first SMS, I realized the message was timestamped 4 hours behind. Every single SMS from every single contact shows timestamped 4 hours earlier. In the threaded SMS stream, my messages are timestamped correctly, but the other peoples' aren't.
Example:
Me (7:37): Send me a text to see if this timestamp issue's been fixed.
Steph (3:37): Okay =)
The strange thing is that MMS messages come in with the correct timestamp, and that is something that seriously boggles my mind.
Please, please, PLEASE. If anyone out there has some kind of suggestion, I would absolutely love to hear it. Here are the remedies I've tried that have had no effect:
-Installed DST cab from Microsoft.
-"TrustTimeZoneField" w/DWORD value of "0" minus quotations of course
-"TrustTimeZoneField" wDWORD value of "1" to allow the device to trust the provider's time just in case my phone was screwing up.
-"RcvTimeStamp" w/DWORD value of "1"
-tweaked some "NetworkTimeSync" (or something along those lines) entry to a value of "1" instead of its current value of "0," but nothing.
I'm at the end of my rope here guys and girls, so please, anything you can suggest that I haven't already tried would be infinitely appreciated
Thanks in advance everybody

although i dont know the answer ive got a thing for you to try
in the setting section make sure you regional settings are set correctly

Thanks Pilot, will double check those settings. Well, as per your instructions, I've double-checked the settings, and they're correct. Have my locale set as English (Canada), and nothing. Even changed it to English (United States) just to see, but to no avail.
*sigh*
I am almost at my wits end...Is there no one out there with a Q9h running the unlocked AT&T WM6.1 ROM, that's having the same issue??? Or even better, someone out there who's SOLVED the issue?
I've even called Rogers and they suggested a new SIM card, seeing as how I have the original SIM from Rogers, and I'm waiting on it. I've even tried my sister's SIM which is a new one, but nothing. Figure it HAS to be the ROM

Found a solution to timestamp issue with q9 & wm6.1!!!
Hi everyone!!!
I can't believe I'm actually going to be the person posting the solution to this problem, but I guess it's true that perseverance pays off
This post is in regards to the sms timestamp issue that I've noticed several people are having with the moto q9 once they upgrade to wm6.1 and are on a Canadian service provider.
***This solution involves modifying your device's registry, so if you do not feel comfortable or are unfamiliar with the process, please do not proceed with the modification. I will not be held responsible for any bricked/malfunctioning devices as a result of this tweak***
Use a reg editor (I used the free PHM registry editor), and navigate to:
-HKLM (HKey Local Machine)
-Software
-Motorola
-RilDrv
Now that you're in the RilDrv Folder, there should be a few more folders in here...don't navigate to any specific one, just click the "values" softkey (whatever it may be for your devices), and somewhere in the values that become visible, you should see one that says "LocalizedTimeStamp." Open that value and modify it's value to "0" (without the " " of course)
Reboot your device, wait 10 seconds, cross your fingers and toes, and restart your device. Once your device is fully booted, and seems to be functioning normally, send yourself a text message, and check the received timestamp. It *should* be correct (ie. a minute or two or less in the future of your sent timestamp). To be sure it isn't just for your own texts, ask someone to text you anything, and hopefully the result it yields will be the same.
I have only tested this solution on an unlocked Motorola Q9h from Fido, running the unlocked AT&T WM6.1 ROM on Rogers.
I serached for close to a month with no real viable solution, so I just kept poking and prodding at my registry. Yeah, kinda dangerous I know, but I was at my wits end with this little bug. Finally though, the time and investigation paid off
Hope it goes well for all of you out there who are having the same problem!

data crashes

hey all.i have problem with my htc tornado.so i triyed to update rom,and i have "data crashes" when sim card inserted.so what i must to do with my phone?i tried to use any unlockers for that and any ROM's,but it still data crashes.
so what should i do with that?

Here is your answer

As gutek85 already pointed to my post, let me add that your problem has nothing to do with ROM upgrades. ROM upgrades (aka "flashing") have different parts you usually do not touch (Splash-Screen, Radio + Low-Level-loaders: IPL and SPL) and those that you want to change (OS - aka "Windows Version").
None of those are touching the "encrypted block".
When getting a device from anyone, always check if the device can work with your SIM Card. If you get the "data crashes" message - see the post referenced. If you get a message about entering an unlock code then your device is SIM locked.
The Lokiwiz tooling can remedy this problem and (if applied correctly and with care) supply you a SIM unlocked and CID unlocked device.

i was bought this phone and unlock it with code one year ago..
i think its need some soft operation

The diagnosis is 100% sure. If you have the message "data crashes..." when inserting your SIM and trying to get Radio contact, then your encrypted block IS corrupted. If everything was ok after you unlocked the device, why did you bother to do something more to that? What went wrong? I never had problems with lokiwiz - enough written about it in my kitchen post.
Please mind that to my knowledge all tools dealing with unlocking (lokiwiz or wizardunlock, which does not work on my Tornados) are reading the whole encrypted block (just 64k), modify something inside (either remove CID lock or remove SIM Lock - some even claim to change the IMEI) and then write back the whole block. So if anything goes wrong to the things these tools are writing in the encrypted block, your only way to get back is to restore the original block. If you do not have it any longer - you are lost if on your own. You can play around for hours or days (and fail) or pay 10GBP to the imei-check.uk guys and you are done - your choice.
Luckily you can still use the device as a WinMo music player or alike - just GSM Radio will not work as long as your encrypted block is broken.

i can pay 10 GBP...they send me block's or they send me code only?

look it up here: http://imei-check.co.uk/c600_unlock.php
C600 is one of the many Tornado variants - it will work for you as well.

Is it posible to write backuped encrypted block from another Tornado phone?
It could be a solution for people like kviaff...

No it does not work - you can try (if you backup the original to restore later). It seems that the IMEI (read with *#06#) is taken from another (hidden?) place and it must match the one stored in the encrypted block.
This is why the "data crashes..." message appears! The IMEI do not match. I had received such a wrong written Tornado board (from AlainL - we had a thread about this here in the forum, in my kitchen thread I believe) and it could successfully be recovered with the imei-check.uk method (paying them, of course).
Mind that the lokiwiz will not take care of existing lock-backup.bin files in its directory. The next call to any option will overwrite the previous. It could be safeguarded in the batchfile (for those who are batch wizards), but you can rename this yourself before calling the next option.

What if I change my imei (with Wizard Service Tool) to imei of the phone with corrupted encrypted block and then create backup? Maybe it can help fix problem...

Well you are the only one that has reported that the Wizard Service Tool works on the Tornado - and only with the 6.5 ROM from SGregory.
I don't know what actually these tools are doing in detail to the devices - and time as well as effort to investigate on this is not worth it if you just shell out 10 GBP to have it working again.
You would also first need to find out which kind of corruption the encrypted block actually has. It could well be that a non-matching IMEI is just one of many reasons to issue this "data crashes..." message (it was for me - as reported).
You should know (you do, I think) that changing the IMEI is illegal and you must obviously obey the rules how an IMEI is constructed. So why bother with all this?
kviaff must discuss what he did to the device with the guys at imei-check.uk and ask them if their procedure will recover it. We can only guess here as he did not tell how that happened to his device yet.

I know, that imei changing is illegal, but in situations of service it's legal. Similar to Windows Mobile modifications (you know it, I think) But back to the cost of reconstructing, 10 GBP is enough money to fix it by myself. In Poland i can buy SPV C600 for equivalent 15-20 GBP (in good condition) so it's uneconmic
I have one reserve C600 so I'll experimented with it (I'll make a backup copy of course) So wish me luck and of course will inform you of the results

By searching for something else I found this blog and finally also this XDA thread. I have not checked the tool yet (maybe will never do) - but in case anyone dares?!
Possibly the data-crashes goes away if everything is re-constructed in the encrypted block for a new IMEI (or the original one)? Should have found it in January this year when I payed IMEI-CHECK.UK the bucks to recover a Tornado board.

I'll try it and write if it works with "Data craches..." problem

tobbbie said:
Well you are the only one that has reported that the Wizard Service Tool works on the Tornado - and only with the 6.5 ROM from SGregory.
I don't know what actually these tools are doing in detail to the devices - and time as well as effort to investigate on this is not worth it if you just shell out 10 GBP to have it working again.
You would also first need to find out which kind of corruption the encrypted block actually has. It could well be that a non-matching IMEI is just one of many reasons to issue this "data crashes..." message (it was for me - as reported).
You should know (you do, I think) that changing the IMEI is illegal and you must obviously obey the rules how an IMEI is constructed. So why bother with all this?
kviaff must discuss what he did to the device with the guys at imei-check.uk and ask them if their procedure will recover it. We can only guess here as he did not tell how that happened to his device yet.
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I can vouch for the fact that Wizard Service Tool works on Tornado. I had Super CID unlocked my mob using some other method and then while doing some random stuff, had changed the IMEI to something like 000..123..90 or something just for fun's sake. Then a few months later, India passed a law which made phones with invalid IMEI useless. So, I had to use some software to recover my IMEI from a memory block, forgot which one I used ( I had erased the IMEI off from the surface below battery due to another freakish accident ) Then I used WST to restore my earlier IMEI.

Most probably you have loaded the WM65 ROM from Gregory - there it works and the "data crashes" message is suppressed (by the ROM). The corrupted block would not work with any other ROM and the WST would not work with any other as well.
At least these are the conclusions from gutek85 so far.
Mind that the WST is not the IMEI changer for the wizard!

It's posible to read original IMEI from (original) CID block with WST.
CID Action => Read CID block

Ok, finally I tried the IMEI change Wizard on one of my spare Tornados. Result is:
it works in changing the IMEI, if the device was ok before the change then there is still no "data crashes" after the change
it should NOT work in getting rid of the "data crashes" message because obviously the encrypted block is not linked to the IMEI of the device but to a HW characteristic of the device itself.
If I remember right (when searching for a solution for my old "data crashes" PBA) the encrypted block is linked to the Disc-On-Chip-ID which is HW unique per DOC in each device. It cannot be linked to the IMEI because otherwise a change of the IMEI would have created the data-crashes message. I have checked if the encrypted block is changed by the IMEI Update Wizard - and it is not. It is still possible that the "encrypted block" is extending beyond the 64k that lokiwiz is backing up.
So it is a nice tool to play with but has no real purpose for those who are legal owners of their devices. There is plenty of information regarding the consequences of changing the IMEI (legal and technical), so let me pick the simplest: If you change your device type (the first 6 digits) then the network may treat your device in a wrong way and you could experience strange behavior of e.g. MMS or configuration messages.
If you pick the IMEI of an existing (and connected) device you may bring the legal owner in problems - not only yourself.
For the curious:
In the scope of changing the IMEI the tool reads (and decrypts?) a block of 16k. It saves it temporarily in its program directory under "pdocread.dat"
after change (before write back) it holds the changed data there as well. For the Tornado you see that the IMEI is stored at offset x'300C safeguarded by some checksum at x'3008.
Mind: "IMEI Change Wizard" is NOT the "Wizard Service Tool (WST)"
I also finally succeeded to make the WST run with a stock WM5 Tornado. You have to manually add one policy setting:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies
add there a DWORD "0000101a" and set it to the value "1". This is what the "Cert_SPCS.cab" does but this will run only on PPC devices and not on a smartphone. Not sure though which of the operations from the WST will actually work on the Tornado and which will kill the device in one or the other way.

Good job
So there is still no way to fix Encrypted Block for free... Maybe someone could crack IMEICheck tool for avoid keyfile or make keyfile generator I tryed, but haven't enough knowledge...

[Q] Operator/Network Branding Removal Help

Is there a way to remove branding on the LG P920? I bought the phone outright but it is filled with useless stuff from Optus here in Australia and i am with Vodafone.
Any help highly appreciated!

Aussie Adam said:
Is there a way to remove branding on the LG P920? I bought the phone outright but it is filled with useless stuff from Optus here in Australia and i am with Vodafone.
Any help highly appreciated!
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Just curious,how much does Optus charge for a outright phone,i thought they were available only on the $59 plan.
Dont know if these are any help,but they will remove Optus voicemail and other garbage :
HOW TO TURN OFF ALL OF OPTUS'S GARBAGE
1) Dial ##002# -> Turn off diversions. It works, but only partially.
2) Dial ##21# -> Turn off call redirect. Don't ask me what the difference to the above was.
Now, this is supposed to turn off ALL redirects (below), but Optus STILL didn't want to give up it's useless services! I had to disable them seperately.
So you will need to:
3) Dial ##67# -> Disable Busy redirect. People will NOT GET CHARGED if you're on the phone, and simply get a 'number busy' error.
4) Dial ##61# -> The phone will RING OUT and the caller will NOT GET CHARGED for useless voicemail, which whilst still apparently 'disabled' from above.. Isn't!
5) Dial ##62# -> The caller will simply get a 'phone not available' message, when Out of Coverage area or switched off. No charge-incurring voicemail.
Now, time to turn off useless services like Missed Call Services, which are redundant anyway.
6) SMS 'OFF' (without the ') to 159 -> Disable 'Missed Call Service'. You may get an error, but just keep spamming this number over days/weeks and it will eventually work.
7) SMS 'OFF' to 147 -> Disabled 'Call Recall'

Wow, so much info. Thank-you for taking the time to post all that. I bought the phone from Telechoice for $679, sold my iPhone 4 to get it lol.
I am trying to remove all the icons an menus on the phone that relate to Optus Zoo, there is so a lot. Also there is an Optus screen at startup. My call services are all working fine with Vofafone sim eg; Voicenail and diversions.

root your phone then install root unstaller you can remove anything
Sent from my LG-P920 using Tapatalk

Cheers Mate, really appreciate this solution you have given me, when i can read more info and find an easy way to root that i am confident with i will give it a go. Only been using Android for 3 day's and don't know much yet. It's not easy from what i read here. I am used to the simple jailbreak tools for iPhone for the past 3 years.

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Cheers Mate, really appreciate this solution you have given me, when i can read more info and find an easy way to root that i am confident with i will give it a go. Only been using Android for 3 day's and don't know much yet. It's not easy from what i read here. I am used to the simple jailbreak tools for iPhone for the past 3 years.
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Goto settings then applications then development turn on usb debugging
then connect the phone to your pc
download this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IKMS0QN3
extract it run super one click as admin click root after it's done reboot the phone
you should see superuser app on your phone

SuperOneClick should be done in less than 20 seconds, if it's stuck then you probably need to load the proper drivers.
Download the LG Mobile Tool from here: http://www.lg.com/uk/support/mc-support/mobile-phone-support.jsp
Run it, set your country and language in the options menu and then press the Install USB Driver button on the right. Doubleclick on LGP920 and it should download and install the proper drivers. If for some reason the LGP920 doesn't show up in the list you can select another country where it's available (The Netherlands for example).
Then follow ik911's instructions again and you're rooted. I recommend getting the Busybox installer from the market and run it once you're rooted to get all the proper tools a rooted phone needs.

Adam ,be careful when you root this phone,several people on this board have bricked their phones after rooting it, unless the branding is severely annoying you then dont do it,its not worth the risk.I dont want to be the one who says "i told you so ".

Thanks for the info you all have provided. I feel that i am confident in the methods supplied but will head Bolino's advice and wait a little longer before i root the phone.
Regards to all for taking time on this,
Adam

I thought you could only brick it if you rewrite the bootloader, but that you can mess up the rom and recovery partitions as much as you like, as restore of the default LG rom/recovery partitions would be possible with the bootloader and software on PC...
Is this wrong? if so, how does it work?
or is this an special case of extra brickability with the Optimus 3D that i should be aware of, and not install common root apps like CWM recovery or ROM managers?
(I ask because I'm getting one in the morning, and will no doubt root it immediately,.. then after that ill gain root access to to OS..)
Thanks

verizon galaxy siii programming mdn required on non-stock roms?

Relocated from email discussion:
Hey, great tool[editorial: I think in reference to: http://code.google.com/p/cdmaworkshoptool/ ]. Would it be possible for me to get a copy of the most recent build? I'm looking into some things on the galaxy s3 because we lose the min and phone number on non-stock roms. -C
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Most recent build is .2 which is public.. What exactly do you mean by lose? As in they must be reprogrammed after.a rom is flashed? Does the, normal version of dev term you have downloaded fail to write the number back?
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It's a temporary problem with cm10. Development has been slow. It's lost on the first reboot and then mms doesn't work. In android, under status about it lists "My Phone Number" as unknown and Min as unknown. Just trying to see if I can write them while the OS is booted.
to C:
To write a mdn and min typically you would connect to the phone in diagnostic mode.. Send mode offline. Send spc. Then simply write mdn and min from the nam part of the interface.. There are typically three nv items which dev term writes for mdn, and min. Then, mode reset will reset and you can confirm if this wrote the nv item..
Did that answer any questions?
to C:
Having never tested a galaxy s iii I'm not sure if devterm should work... There is alot of chatter online about a program called ets, you might look.for that if devterm doesn't work. Please let me know if you are able to successfully write on the galaxy siii.
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We are able to write to it with qpst. I actually got the numbers back, but I'm not sure how. Now Im in the process of seeing if I can figure out how to replicate it. What is supposed to happen when you put it into reset mode? It doesn't work for me after that.
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After mode reset the radio of the phone will literally reset.. Some phones this will actually turn off and on the whole phone.. Some will just show no.service temporarily... After mode reset.cdmadevterm will disconnect.from phone.. There are alot of variables, but typically if.qpst could write the phone devterm should also be able.. The mdn and min are really quite simply three nv items, I suspect the subsystem that normally stores this information is being overwritten or formatted by cyanogen...
if you have ever used cdma worksop or qxdm the mode offline and mode reset is functionally the.same..
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Thank you so much for going back and forth with me on this. I really appreciate it. The only major difference I noticed between an nv dump on stock and cm is that cm has a lock code for some reason. What is this ETS software you're referring to? CDMA workshop is a bit too expensive unfortunately.

Although I am not totally familiar with the tool it is linked on XDA in another section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696621
I wonder if this might have something to do with the chipset not being qualcomm? On the other hand if you said it worked with qpst maybe they are somehow compatible?

The VIA tool probably won't work since we do have a qualcomm chipset. I still have not figured out how i managed to get it to work once but it came up with the unlock sim message I put in the code for my phone that I Found in nvram and then I tried the spc and a few other things and eventually hit dismiss. It said that it could not connect or something to that effect. Then I checked and it had my phone number as 000-000-xxxx which xxx was that unlock code. Then I restarted and I had the number again. I'm wondering if I somehow got the phone to let go of how its storing the phone number.

Hm. If it is qualcomm I would think that cdmaDevTerm should work... this is how one would normally write the mdn and min with devterm:
http://www.chromableedstudios.com/techninjutsu/howtowritemdnminwithcdmadevterm
Perhaps if this doesn't work you could include the response to the NV write from the LogQ tab to help understand the behavior? Maybe the rom is activating a different Nam profile or something?(I'm not sure if I even have a spot on the UI for that in devterm but a log might help understand)
(for logging purposes you may want to trying writing a fake phone number for privacy)
I guess my question also is: are you trying to figure out why the rom does this? or just a good way to fix it when it does?