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HTC Touch HD remove Telstra

Hi,
I just purchased a new HTC Touch HD phone T8285.
I have realised that it has come pre-loaded with a lot of Telstra configuration. I am not a Telstra customer and I would like to start with a clean phone in the factory shipped state.
I am in Australia and currently have a contract through Virgin (Optus)
Can anyone advise how I can reset the phone configuration so that all reference to Telstra is removed and that the standard factory settings are in place for Australia.
Any help is appreciated
Scott

Hi, welcome to XDA! You would need to flash a chef's cooked rom (must have HardSpl 1st). Check out the Blackstone section of this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=453
Also, read the Sticky's!

How do I determine which one of these posts is relevant to my HTC Touch HD...?
When I search for this there are a lot of listings.....can you point me to one that might be specific for my device and location
Apologies as I am new at this....
Thanks
Scott

Welcome to forums
here you´ll learn how to flash a new ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505377
Hope it helped,

scott56hannah said:
How do I determine which one of these posts is relevant to my HTC Touch HD...?
When I search for this there are a lot of listings.....can you point me to one that might be specific for my device and location
Scott
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Scott, just click the http link in my above post and then do your search

Thanks for that I can see those instructions and will attempt to follow them...
A further question should I attempt to first use the following ROM upgrade link from HTC to see if it resolves my problem. Rather then using the previous reset instructions...
http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=533
Or will this simple return me to the current state with the Telstra settings in place ?
Thanks
Scott

Hi,
Before I work use the post above to re-install the ROM on my HTC Touch HD....could I confirm the following...
- will the re-install of this mean that I will not be able to take updates to the ROM from HTC in the future
- will this process work for me as an Australia mobile phone user ?
- does the install include all the Windows Mobile operating system on the phone ready to use
Once again thanks for you help......I am new to this and want to make sure that I don't stuff the phone that have
Thanks
Scott

scott56hannah said:
Hi,
Before I work use the post above to re-install the ROM on my HTC Touch HD....could I confirm the following...
- will the re-install of this mean that I will not be able to take updates to the ROM from HTC in the future
- will this process work for me as an Australia mobile phone user ?
- does the install include all the Windows Mobile operating system on the phone ready to use
Once again thanks for you help......I am new to this and want to make sure that I don't stuff the phone that have
Thanks
Scott
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- You can make any update in the future, cooked ROM´s from XDA are much better than any "official" version
- It should work
- Yes

Social Web - Remove Telstra Wap Redirections ?
HI,
Dont know if anyone can help ... I have been searching the forums, but cant find this anywhere, so apologies if it is answered somewhere else.
I have a new HD2 with Telstra. I have managed to remove the locked quicklinks on the home page, and completed a few other incredible tweaks, but I just cannot seems to get the Social Web links to work when connected to WiFi - they will work when connected via Next G.
On WiFi, when I click on the Facebook icon for example, I get redirected to waprd.telstra.com/redirect?target=facebook-g ... and then nothing happens for about a minute. Just a white screen until I get a message saying "Could not connect to the remote server" . Yet, when I am connected via Next G I connect to Facebook immediately.
I have tried to find the xml code to change the URl, but I cannot find it anywhere.
Is anyone else having this problem, and if they did, was there a solution? Overall I am really happy with the phone (now that I seem to have spent about 3 days tweaking it!) and I would really like to get this fixed.
Thanks so much in advance.
Sarah

sarah72 said:
HI,
Dont know if anyone can help ... I have been searching the forums, but cant find this anywhere, so apologies if it is answered somewhere else.
I have a new HD2 with Telstra. I have managed to remove the locked quicklinks on the home page, and completed a few other incredible tweaks, but I just cannot seems to get the Social Web links to work when connected to WiFi - they will work when connected via Next G.
On WiFi, when I click on the Facebook icon for example, I get redirected to waprd.telstra.com/redirect?target=facebook-g ... and then nothing happens for about a minute. Just a white screen until I get a message saying "Could not connect to the remote server" . Yet, when I am connected via Next G I connect to Facebook immediately.
I have tried to find the xml code to change the URl, but I cannot find it anywhere.
Is anyone else having this problem, and if they did, was there a solution? Overall I am really happy with the phone (now that I seem to have spent about 3 days tweaking it!) and I would really like to get this fixed.
Thanks so much in advance.
Sarah
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hi sarah,
just wondering how did u get rid of the quicklinks off the the home screen, im not happy how they can not provide a phone in its original state!!any other important tweaks i should do when i purchase the phone??

waprd.telstra
I'm having the same issues any waprd.telstra sites will not work in a wifi enviroment. While I'm asking does anyone know hoe to changes the icons in the telstra "news and sport" or "social web" screens" ?

Hey Magic3091
Unfortunately most of those items are hard wired into the ROM. And the ROM is written to Telstra's specs. Hence the branding and all the BS
I suggest you try a new ROM to remove all of these. You'll have to do some reading to find out which is best for you.
I only just got my HD, and having seen how much Telstra stuff is there I WILL be ROMing it. I just need to figure out which one. If I rememder I will post which I choose.
Currently the MIRI rom looks like the best - new WinMob6.5 and Touch flo.
Cheers
Boxersox

[Q] cant download marketplace apps?

Ok, so I just got my Dell streak on O2 - first thing I did was install 2.1 on it.
when trying to sign into my googlemail account, it kept saying I had no connection (even though I was on wifi, and the browser worked on both streak and my mbp). After trying and try I decided to use the O2 sim that came with the phone (i was using my previous one still on iphone tarrif) and turned off wifi - this allowed me to sign into the market.
I found a handful of apps I wanted to download, but when I go to the download page, they all just say "starting download", the bars are animated but nothing is happening. I have tried this with both wifi on and off.
Is this a 2.1 issue?
I love the phone/tablet (phablet?) but not having access to the marketplace sucks! I also can't sync my contacts!
Help!

Also have the same problem with downloading apps from the "Market", but mine are on the Motorola Milestone, already preloaded with 2.1 ()Eclair. Simply won't let me download any apps, which is a minor problem I 1st had with my old HTC Wildfire, but automatically overcome. Help is greatly needed, thanks.

This is a 2.1/2.2 bug in the Market, which Google has to fix.
Try leaving it on "Downloading..." for a bit, it might start. Else you can try cancel-install a few times, that should get it going.
I thought they fixed this for 2.1, but they obviously didn't :/

Aight then, thanks, so it's basically a common Eclair/Froyo OS problem? Hopefully that'll all work then. Thanks

Would there be any other problems other than the OS that could prevent apps from being downloaded from the "Andorid Market"? Because I've tried the above steps and I'm gettin' nothing.

when the HELL will this be fixed...
i have 2 phones ACER stream and HTC Desire, both have the problem....
my desire was working fine.. but the acer was not, and i tried to play around with the my google account... Now i cant use MARKETPLACE on either one..!!!!

chiraag said:
when the HELL will this be fixed...
i have 2 phones ACER stream and HTC Desire, both have the problem....
my desire was working fine.. but the acer was not, and i tried to play around with the my google account... Now i cant use MARKETPLACE on either one..!!!!
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Have you looked at the logcat? Anything of interest in there? Maybe try posting this...

[Q] Bluetooth Fix Repair v1.0.2 by Phk

I have an HTC Hero that worked flawlessly with my 2010 Prius bluetooth until the Android 2.1 update was applied. I worked with Sprint & HTC and got nowhere, so I purchased another HTC Hero off of eBay that was still running Android 1.5. I am thankful to have an interim solution, but I am still trying to resolve the problem with Android 2.1.
I have been watching for a fix to be posted and was so excited to see a fix in the Android Market. I installed "Bluetooth Fix Repair v1.0.2 by Phk".. However, the application told me that the my phone needed to be rooted. Therefore, I searched and found a procedure to root my phone.
Everything seemed to work fine. I now have Superuser Permissions. So I loaded the application again and tried to run. This time when I selected the "Fix My Bluetooth" button, I received the following:
Error executing fix Make sure you have 'Super User' installed! If you do, please notify 'Phk' at the XDA-Developers.com Forum.
I am new to this forum and wasn't sure how to contact Phk directly, so decided to make this post.
Thanks,
Tim

I have the same problem on my HTC Legend.
Did you solve this ?

Have the same problem
Sent from my HTC Legend using Tapatalk

Have the same problem with my Dell Streak 1.6
Any solution ?

Heyyy, just saw this, any news?
Btw, new version is available..
Cheers!

interested in this issue. I have a g2x and bluetooth quit errors. Blue tooth fix repair worked but use the free credit up. Need a permanet solution

rosevilletoyota said:
interested in this issue. I have a g2x and bluetooth quit errors. Blue tooth fix repair worked but use the free credit up. Need a permanet solution
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That's why I made the Unlocker, to stop with the credit counts.
If you think that paying 2€ for a fix like this is too much, think about it as a donation.
There is no permanent solution, the problem is in the protocol stack, sometimes in the android, sometimes in the receiver. Its really confusing; I was lucky to find the fix but it was totally non-logical and attempt-based.
So what else can I tell you.. well, I'm glad it worked for you
Thanks
Phk

Anyone else's android market not working?

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, but is anyone else's android market not working, im in england on my Samsung Galaxy S, and its been fine until not, it downloads the file then just constantly says downloading, my friend is having the same problem with his Motorola Milestone(droid)
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance

lewymd said:
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, but is anyone else's android market not working, im in england on my Samsung Galaxy S, and its been fine until not, it downloads the file then just constantly says downloading, my friend is having the same problem with his Motorola Milestone(droid)
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
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Thread moved to General.
I saw that the market widget was constantly trying to update and nothing. There may just be something going down @ Google.

I'm on an Incredible, and I too am having problems. Attempt to sync produces complaint about not connecting, asks to "check interncet connection".

yeah..me too...i had deleted my gtalk before that

I'm having Market problems.
Apps start downloading but never end.
They start updating but never end.
What's wrong?

Done.
Re-installed Google Talk

Android market just works here if google talks is enabled and connected...

[Q] skype not available in android market

Hi guys,
I just bought a new HTC inspire with froyo 2.2 from ATT in the US unlocked. Now I sent this phone to my bro in Peru, where he had a HTC aria without any problems.
Phone works great but we can not install skype. We can not even find it in the android market. I tried to download it from skype.com/m but I cant. It says (this item is not available in your carrier). However as I told you he has an HTC aria with the same phone carrier and uses skype there without a problem.
How can I fix this ????
Thanks

..Sorry was on my phone and posted to the wrong thread.....lol

MEUDUPCH said:
Hi guys,
I just bought a new HTC inspire with froyo 2.2 from ATT in the US unlocked. Now I sent this phone to my bro in Peru, where he had a HTC aria without any problems.
Phone works great but we can not install skype. We can not even find it in the android market. I tried to download it from skype.com/m but I cant. It says (this item is not available in your carrier). However as I told you he has an HTC aria with the same phone carrier and uses skype there without a problem.
How can I fix this ????
Thanks
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Have you tried turning off data and accessing the market through wifi only?

If the phone is rooted use market enabler not sure if works with unrooted ones, also try 4shared app from 4shared.com to find Skype apk, can have issues tho until u download the right apk for ur device

Problem fixed!
I had Skype up and running on my Android, but my phone's hardware died and went to Hades. I received a replacement phone; when I tried to re-load Skype, I found it didn't even show up on the Android Market! I tried other application download engines, as well as the download link from Skype.Com, all with the same result.
After hours of agonizing with Skype and Sprint tech support, and getting nowhere, I spent about 7 hours reviewing, over and over, my Android's settings. I finally resolved it thus:
1. Open the Android Market
2. Choose "Settings."
3. Change the "Content Filtering" maturity rating to "Medium."
And that's it! I don't understand why Skype requires a slightly immoral maturity rating, since the app is positively "G" rated, and I've already complained to them about that.
Good luck!