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Is my phone cid locked?

How can I tell if my phone is cid-locked, I would really like to change the ROM without the risk of bricking it. Has anyone one tried lokiwiz to cidunlock their phone? any advice would be appreciated. BTW I bought the phone from gray market in Hong Kong and is Vodafone branded, do you think it would be locked?
It came preloaded with Dopod Rom, but I don't like it that much. Also what is the best radio rom, the dopod radio rom is a bit weak.
IPL 2.15.0001
SPL 2.15.0001
Rom vs: 2.15.13.27 WWE
Radio: 02.19.21
Protocol version: 4.1.13.09
Ext ROM: 2.15.13.21
Thanks

locked
you are on G4, so yes you are still CID locked.
Normally when you flash your rom you will know imediately when it try to update.

kenxu said:
you are on G4, so yes you are still CID locked.
Normally when you flash your rom you will know imediately when it try to update.
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so should I try to flash a rom and see what happens? if it goes through without an error it is cid unlocked? if an error pops up it is locked? Should I try this or should I avoid the risks? Any ROM suggestions? Qtek maybe?

Since your phone is G4 chip, i'm pretty sure you are CID locked. Dont worry about the CID locking for now, GOOD ROMS outthere been using different programs to get around CID locking problem. I suggest you can start with PDAMobiz rom from the other thread. REMEMBER USE G4 program not G3 or other programs. or look for any rom that has NoVender CID in the name.

MDA VARIO II with Dopod WM6
I recently bought Tmobile MDA Vario ii with Dopod Wm6. When it boots it shows dopod sign so I think it is dopod. The ROM is 3.54.707.3.
I want to upgrade to Wm6.1 but Tmobile has only official 3.60.xx rom presently available for download. Can I directly flash any Hermis compatible ROM on MDA Vario II.?
Since it has Dopod WM6 the CID lock must have been diabled I suppose. Am I right? and should I directly flash any HERMIS official or extended ROM? what are your suggestions Thanks
Hemant

I don't know enough about the Hermes and flashing to be certain, but I think you'll need to HardSPL (which bypasses bootloader CID checks) before flashing a ROM.
Take a look at the Hermes sub fora before doing anything though...

Trouble with new mda

so I lost my tricked out mda and got a new one from my insurance and I've beeen trying to upgrade to wm6 and I've been having so many problems. I downgraded to the love rom and tried to cid unlock it and when I try using my cooked roms they don't seem to install because the love splash keeps showing up and its still running wm5. I don't know if I'm even cooking the roms correctly because it been a while since I cooked a rom and the kitchen was not working properly and I even downloaded a new kitchen. I even tried installing a premade rom and it still it boots up as the love rom. my ipl is 1.26 and the spl is 2.26. can someone please help.

hello
did you succeed in cid unlocking the wizard ? Because i had the same issue and, after unlocking my pda properly, all worked fine. u could also try to install a t-mobile wm5 official rom.

I think I cid unlocked it, I ran lokiwiz and when I try to run it again it say theres an error.

Flash another WM6 rom

Hy!
I have my mda vario flashed with wm6, and works ok. But now, I want another version of wm6 rom on my mda vario. My ipl/spl is 3.08.
Question:
Can I just flash it now with another wm6 rom, or I must first downgrade my ipl/spl? Or is there something else what I have to do before flashing my mda vario with another wm6 rom.
Thanks for HELP!

loop12 said:
Hy!
I have my mda vario flashed with wm6, and works ok. But now, I want another version of wm6 rom on my mda vario. My ipl/spl is 3.08.
Question:
Can I just flash it now with another wm6 rom, or I must first downgrade my ipl/spl? Or is there something else what I have to do before flashing my mda vario with another wm6 rom.
Thanks for HELP!
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always go through the forum and read before posting and starting any thread,this question has been asked and answered 100 of times,if you wud have cared to search read,you must have found your answer,there was no need to start a new thread for this.
As you have already upgraded to wm6 rom and you know the whole method,why than put this question,yes you can upgrade to any wm6 rom.it doesn't matter if you have ipl/spl 3.08,it's just a bootloader upgrade.New roms are cooked without containing any ipl/spl,therefore they do not change any ipl/spl,so any new latest wm6 rom can be flashed,as your device is already cid unlocked and will remain unlocked,good luck

if you are already running wm6, then read the reviews of the other roms and flash away, now choose the rom that would suit you best

You may find it beneficial to back down to one of the official ROMs first though (T-Mo 2.26 US is usually used), to avoid ExtROM corruption. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1579787&postcount=2 for possible ill effects on battery life if you do not.

How I flashed my TYTN-II successfully without HARDSPL ?

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,

T-Mobile Germany original ROM incl. Radio SPL and so on (badly needed)

Hi Community,
my mda vario III (HTC Kaiser) is an waranty case and i badly need the original rom incl all, this one in the forum is only the OS without radio spl and so on.
best regards
HT

I also needed it, bust just installed the OS and a working Radio.
T-Mobile does not even care what is installed, i guess they don't even startup the device but send it straight back to HTC. I switched about 20 T-Mobile HTC Devices and it worked everytime to just install the OS and a working Radio.

If you know the Radio and OEM SPL version you can probably get them from this site somewhere. They dont have to be extracted from the Dumped Shipped ROM.
Ta
Dave

DaveShaw said:
If you know the Radio and OEM SPL version you can probably get them from this site somewhere. They dont have to be extracted from the Dumped Shipped ROM.
Ta
Dave
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thats teh problem i dont know them :-(

Ah, Just have to see if anyone knows the OEM SPL and Radio versions.
Does it have to be WM6 or Wm6.1 Versoin, or are you not bothered. I don't think anyone will care so long as it is a T Mob stock version.
Ta
Dave

WM 6.1 T-Mobile German
You can download the latest German ROM from the T-Mobile website
http://www.t-mobile.de/fremdcontent/1,2790,123254,00.html