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[Q] How do I re-unlock my Windows Phone 7 after the latest update?

Dear developers,
I downloaded the latest windows phone 7 update, but it seems to relock my handset again ... I just needed the copy paste feature, so can I keep that and unlock my handset again?
Thank you soo much for your assistance.

Try doing a search before you post your question, as it has been answered one too many times.
You can't dev unlock your device once you have the NoDo update. You must unlock your device and apply the registry edit to keep it unlocked before you apply the update.

thanks for your kind support, but u didnt have to draw my attention to the searching part!

Tell us which handset you have...since LG handsets can be unlocked even after the update.

i have a lg optimus 7, so can i still do all the chevron thingy after the update?

kapanak said:
Tell us which handset you have...since LG handsets can be unlocked even after the update.
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thanks for your response, I have the HTC Trophy 7. Thanks for your kind assistance.

How about unlocking a samsung focus after the NoDo update?

if its not unlocked, get a student dev account
if not you're sol

domineus said:
if its not unlocked, get a student dev account
if not you're sol
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Can you create one if you're not from USA nor have a USA credit card?

Are you kidding me.
ignore what people say about your sol, you just have to restore your device to the previous update using the zune software. i did it for my Samsung focus and got my device dev unlocked again. just make sure to do that registry hack to make your phone from relocking when you update it too NODO again.
I currently have a dev unlocked, unbranded, NODO updated, Samsung Focus!!!

naterice92 said:
ignore what people say about your sol, you just have to restore your device to the previous update using the zune software. i did it for my Samsung focus and got my device dev unlocked again. just make sure to do that registry hack to make your phone from relocking when you update it too NODO again.
I currently have a dev unlocked, unbranded, NODO updated, Samsung Focus!!!
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can you please give me some instruction how to do that?
i also have an Samsung focus whice i updated to nodo

nickrule1896 said:
i have a lg optimus 7, so can i still do all the chevron thingy after the update?
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here are instructions on how to unlock your phone after NoDo. I did this after upgrading my pristine LG Quantum to NoDo and then realized that I forgot to unlock first. You install the MFG app first by calling a number. Then you change your registry with MFG according to the post. Here are instructions on how to install the MFG app. Note that this works without Chevron. In fact, Chevron will not work after that (and would not even work after that before NoDo).
good luck

Is it safe to update from 7.0.7390.0 to 7.0.7392.0

Just a simple question i have a HTC HD7 on 7.0.7390.0 unlocked and i want to find out if i updated it to 7.0.7392.0 using Zune would my phone still be unlocked?

Why would you want to update, when you know you will lose all youur texts?

thekiller99 said:
Just a simple question i have a HTC HD7 on 7.0.7390.0 unlocked and i want to find out if i updated it to 7.0.7392.0 using Zune would my phone still be unlocked?
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if you applied the registry key that is around the forums to keep it unlocked for NODO and everything then it is safe, i have it running and unlocked still
hope i helped.. and remember, if anything would go wrong you can allways "restore" with the zune software to a previous version
hope i helped

Purple11 said:
Why would you want to update, when you know you will lose all youur texts?
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eh? What are you on about? Why would you lose all your texts from updating? He's not talking about flashing a new ROM, he's talking about updating via Zune

HTC Surround unlocked. Updated to 7392, still unlocked

@ JBC2005. How did you stay unlocked. My phone was relocked when I went to 7390. If I'm @ 7392 now can I unlock from here?
Sent from my T8788 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Purple11 said:
Why would you want to update, when you know you will lose all youur texts?
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No, he wont.

Sir. Haxalot said:
No, he wont.
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But didnt that happen to people when they updated to Nodo???

Nope. No one lost any text messages by updating to NoDo. People may have lost text messages if, in an attempt to resolve a problem during the update, they chose to hard reset their phone. But that has nothing to do with the update itself.

macjr82 said:
@ JBC2005. How did you stay unlocked. My phone was relocked when I went to 7390. If I'm @ 7392 now can I unlock from here?
Sent from my T8788 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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anyone? {count to ten}

macjr82 said:
@ JBC2005. How did you stay unlocked. My phone was relocked when I went to 7390. If I'm @ 7392 now can I unlock from here?
Sent from my T8788 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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as i said before
if you applied the registry key that is around the forums to keep it unlocked for NODO and everything then it is safe, i have it running and unlocked still
hope i helped.. and remember, if anything would go wrong you can allways "restore" with the zune software to a previous version
hope i helped
but no, right now you can't unlock from 7392 but the way im saying it keeps it unlocked for sure as that is the way i did it with my HD7

tombrighteyes said:
as i said before
if you applied the registry key that is around the forums to keep it unlocked for NODO and everything then it is safe, i have it running and unlocked still
hope i helped.. and remember, if anything would go wrong you can allways "restore" with the zune software to a previous version
hope i helped
but no, right now you can't unlock from 7392 but the way im saying it keeps it unlocked for sure as that is the way i did it with my HD7
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what do u mean bu the registry key?? When I updated my HTC hd7 I was told to put airplane mode on and update and now its unlock is it the same now with this update?

thekiller99 said:
what do u mean bu the registry key?? When I updated my HTC hd7 I was told to put airplane mode on and update and now its unlock is it the same now with this update?
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i mean the registry hack that came up when going to "NODO" update would re-lock your phone. and this would anable you to keep your unlock for further even for this newer update.
i think there is a .xap file now that does it automated. but thats what i did and it worked.. i didn't do the airplane mode for that, i think that was just to fool zune into giving you the update when it wasn't showing up if i remember correctly.
i was busy for a while till i found the right place with the info using the search.
this is the link to the .xap i found in another post http://dl.dbank.com/c0u5q3xic8

No, without a developer unlock, 7392 can't be unlocked. I restored from 7390 to 7008, performed the Chevron unlock, edited the registry to prevent relocking, then updated back to 7390, and the phone remained unlocked. After updating to 7392, the phone retains its unlocked status.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Update will not ruin your phone (Dev Unlocked)
But i found some bugs.
If you let your phone run like 2 days non-stops, daily use, sometime the phone wake up in laggy condition. I mean, everything inside the apps is laggy, not the metro ui. The Metro UI is still smooth, but in people tab, photo tabs, IE... everything is laggy. It forces me to reset the phone.
I don't know if this issue is releated to the reg hack to instant resume apps (for now, maybe Mango will have some kind of new "multi-tasking" that we don't know) .
BTW, just upgrade it.

What do you mean by "edited the registry to prevent relocking?" is it the file where I copy to my windows on my phone??

thekiller99 said:
What do you mean by "edited the registry to prevent relocking?" is it the file where I copy to my windows on my phone??
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as i said before, you go and get the .xap file that does the edit for you or you go and look for the registry to edit with a registry editor for your phone
the easiest way to do it is to side load the .xap files that does it for you and then just run it on your phone and you're done.
just get the .xap file i provided from another forum or if you don't trust that then search is your best bet, if you wan't do it manually or do it for you with a .xap
of course if you don't have a registry editor on there allready i would just go for the .xap file that does it for you that i provided on my previous post.
hope you get it this time

My phone version is 7390 do I need to rollback to the version which doesn't have nodo update

thekiller99 said:
My phone version is 7390 do I need to rollback to the version which doesn't have nodo update
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yes you do, before NODO and then unlock it and do as i instructed and should be all dandy once you did everything fine and then update back up to 7392. hope you get it going

[Q] on following Mango update guide

I have a Samsung Focus that I am trying to update. I am trying to follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101344
However, I don't understand this part:
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4. Run Application Deployment, click on browse
--- for hTC phones, click on TouchXplorer.xap
--- for Omnia 7, click on WP7RootTools 0.5 alpha.xap
-- and click on open
Does my phone need to be unlocked to follow this? Should I do it with Chevron?

hedpe said:
I have a Samsung Focus that I am trying to update. I am trying to follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101344
Does my phone need to be unlocked to follow this? Should I do it with Chevron?
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if you are not unlocked and upgrade to Mango you will have a hard time unlocking it within Mango (and won't be able to sideload). Unlock in pre-NoDo and then carry the unlock over to NoDo and Mango following the guide. yes, people have successfully carried their Chevron unlock over to NoDo and then Mango. You need to make sure that it cannot relock when you connect to Zune. The tools listed allow you to make the reg changes to do that.

i thought I was reading somewhere that it's not possible to unlock past 7004 or something like that, which was before NoDo? (using Chevron)

hedpe said:
i thought I was reading somewhere that it's not possible to unlock past 7004 or something like that, which was before NoDo? (using Chevron)
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you are correct. I corrected my post. So you need to start with
A. NoDo Update Guide: How To Pass ChevronWP7 from OS 7004 to OS February 2011 update and 7392 NoDo

So let me try to understand that, if my phone is unlocked now and when I update to mango it might might not unlock anymore, regardless if I got a SIM code from htc? I am new into this so I'm trying to get into it lol.......

I have a question regarding the official Mango update for my HTC Trophy. I unlocked 7004 via Chevron, did some hacks for preventing it from being relocked (via this thread) and updated to 7392 (NoDo). Everything is OK, device is still unlocked.
What should I do for preventing my device being relocked during the ongoing official Mango update?
Is there already some solution, or will it be after the official Mango release will appear in Zune?

epbur42128 said:
So let me try to understand that, if my phone is unlocked now and when I update to mango it might might not unlock anymore, regardless if I got a SIM code from htc? I am new into this so I'm trying to get into it lol.......
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I think we are talking about two different kinds of unlocking. I am referring to unlocking the phone for sideloading homebrew apps. If you upgrade to Mango you might not be able to sideload homebew apps that allow you to customize your phone until the gurus come up with a solution for Mango. Then there is SIM unlock to be able to use a device with a different SIM. I think that is what you are referring to. That will not change for you if you upgrade to Mango.
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Kositch said:
I have a question regarding the official Mango update for my HTC Trophy. I unlocked 7004 via Chevron, did some hacks for preventing it from being relocked (via this thread) and updated to 7392 (NoDo). Everything is OK, device is still unlocked.
What should I do for preventing my device being relocked during the ongoing official Mango update?
Is there already some solution, or will it be after the official Mango release will appear in Zune?
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If you follow Ansar's tutorial you will see that there are preventions you can take to stay unlocked. You basically finished part A of his tutorial and can continue to part B with prerequisites for Mango upgrade.
B. MangoB2 Update Guide: How To Pass ChevronWP7 from OS 7392 [NoDo] to OS 7403 and 7712
In your case 7712 will be 7720.68 once it is released.
When you have all prerequisits finished from Ansar's post you stop there and are ready for official Mango once it comes out.
Reports from people who were NoDo unlocked and proceeded to Mango are mixed. Some kept the unlock some didn't. If it doesn't stay unlocked you have to have the files ready on the device to be able to unlock it without going back to NoDo. This is what Ansar's post explains. For the HTC you will put a CustClear.provxml file in place that you can deploy to unlock it.
This post also explains how to keep it unlocked. You follow the guide to the point at which it does the actual Mango upgrade. That is where you stop and wait for the official one.
But even if your device is locked in Mango you can go back to a NoDo restore point you created before you went to Mango. All explained in the guides/tutorials above.

derausgewanderte said:
Reports from people who were NoDo unlocked and proceeded to Mango are mixed. Some kept the unlock some didn't.
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You think some of those who followed the Ansars guide or those who just upgraded from unlocked NoDo to Mango without any other hacks before update?
The second link is some other guide than Ansars, if I am right, I can choose which one to use?
Thanks for help!

Kositch said:
You think some of those who followed the Ansars guide or those who just upgraded from unlocked NoDo to Mango without any other hacks before update?
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those who just upgraded. I myself just upgraded but luckily for LG users there is an LG phone tool on the device that allows to modify the registry at any stage.

Yip. That's d mfg menu, and I love it..
Sent from my LG Optimus 7

Today I have succesfuly registered my ISIC student card with validity until december this year into the Microsoft Developer Account.
Now I have Chevron unlocked NoDo WP7 (HTC Trophy) with some modifications to prevent it from relocking during sync etc. I would like to unlock it via official Developer Account I now have.
1) If am not wrong - I should HR my phone, it will go to NoDo locked and then I can use application "Windows Phone Developer Registration" which will unlock my device and it will stay unlocked also after Mango update?
2) Is it possible by developer unlocked device to modify registry entries? I need to add one entry, so I will have Mango in my native language after update.
3) After one year, will it automatically lock my device and I will need to perform new ISIC validation, which will be in that day already expired?
4) If it will expire, will it hard reset or block my phone or will it stay in way it is, but it will not only be possible to side load xap's?
Thanks for answers!

Relock bootloader?

hi everyone
so after doing a massive search around the site, i still couldnt find my answer lol
basically, i unlocked the bootloader desire S 2.3.5 using the htc dev website then rooted the phone however the phone has now developed a fauly, backlight flickers some times and im thinking of sending it for repair..
I found that the boot loader can be Relocked but it will say Re-Locked instead of Locked?
is there a way so that it can be locked again to out of the box condition?
btw its unbranded uk version
thanks in advance

tele27 said:
hi everyone
so after doing a massive search around the site, i still couldnt find my answer lol
basically, i unlocked the bootloader desire S 2.3.5 using the htc dev website then rooted the phone however the phone has now developed a fauly, backlight flickers some times and im thinking of sending it for repair..
I found that the boot loader can be Relocked but it will say Re-Locked instead of Locked?
is there a way so that it can be locked again to out of the box condition?
btw its unbranded uk version
thanks in advance
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No, that is the chance you take when you unlock using the HTCDEV site. It leaves a tell-tale sign to HTC that you have modified your phone.

have you already check this thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318919&page=4

Sim unlocked, but still shows "Activate this device" in the settings.

I bought a htc a9 sprint unlocked version online 2 months ago.
It has boot loader unlocked and s-off
But after I accidentally updated the phone with 7.0 ruu, it got aim locked.
After few weeks of work and I can't unlock it, so I turn to others for help.
He has unlocked the sim lock, but "activate this device" still appears in the settings.
Is there any way to activate this device? People said I need a Sprint account to do that, unfortunately I don't have one.
By the way, I can't get mobile data on this phone, is that because it needs to be activated?
Can any one help me with that? Thanks!
HTC A9, 32gb, software version 1.57.651.1 (android 6.0.1)

sigma910910 said:
I bought a htc a9 sprint unlocked version online 2 months ago.
It has boot loader unlocked and s-off
But after I accidentally updated the phone with 7.0 ruu, it got aim locked.
After few weeks of work and I can't unlock it, so I turn to others for help.
He has unlocked the sim lock, but "activate this device" still appears in the settings.
Is there any way to activate this device? People said I need a Sprint account to do that, unfortunately I don't have one.
By the way, I can't get mobile data on this phone, is that because it needs to be activated?
Can any one help me with that? Thanks!
HTC A9, 32gb, software version 1.57.651.1 (android 6.0.1)
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same thing happened to me bro, I'm still wondering how can I resolve my problem, you have HTC A9 2PQ930000 isn't it?
I changed MID and installed Nougat but I got a problem of not having 3g and 4g signals, but I had 2g signals, now I restored my MID back to 2PQ93000 and got Sprint RUU installed but still have no data and it is always asking to unlock. It drives me mad.

Fear not, get Sunshine and S-OFF the phone ($25 but it's worth it!) And follow the guide to convert your phone to dev unlock, it's easier than it sounds!

Mbuuqw said:
Fear not, get Sunshine and S-OFF the phone ($25 but it's worth it!) And follow the guide to convert your phone to dev unlock, it's easier than it sounds!
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Same problem after update to 7.0 phone write "sim lock" enabled
S-OFF has
How convert to dev unlock? give link please.

Abzal said:
Same problem after update to 7.0 phone write "sim lock" enabled
S-OFF has
How convert to dev unlock? give link please.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/one-a9/general/guide-convert-sprint-boost-htc-one-a9-t3530278/page4
Try that.