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Focus relocked. Can't unlock again

Yesterday I unlocked my phone with Chevron. I thought I applied the setting in Samsung tools to prevent relocking but apparently not. Today it's locked again and no matter what I try, I can not get it to re-unlock. I followed all the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=918710 several times with no success. Are there any other things to try?
Thanks

Did you install a update or just sync to Zune? Not sure what you have done that caused you to lock back?
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Just synced with Zune. This happened yesterday. Then today, I got my pre-nodo and nodo from AT&T. Tried it again, post nodo, and still no luck unlocking.

Well if you have NODO now you wont unlock again, but if you go back to restore point to previous version then you should be able to unlock again and then add edit to registry to prevent locking, then do the update.

Ah crap. I didn't realize I couldn't unlock with nodo. So how do I roll back?

n8huntsman said:
Ah crap. I didn't realize I couldn't unlock with nodo. So how do I roll back?
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Check zune device / update. If there is no "restore" button, so probably zune deleted the rollback files (they are very big > 5 gb)

Ok. I rolled it back but still have the same issue. I'm wondering if this could have caused a problem. My home copmuter was the main zune partnership with my phone. I wanted to unlock it while I was at work so I changed my work zune from "guest" to main. I then unlocked succesfully. I added some apps and everything worked. When I got home, I installed developer tools on my home computer but could not get xap's to install there. I think it was because it was no considered a guest. Not understanding this, I opened Chevron and clicked re-lock. It changed to "lock" so I tried to re-unlock it and have had issues ever since. Even back at work, where zune Sync Relationship is main, still no luck.

n8huntsman said:
Ok. I rolled it back but still have the same issue. I'm wondering if this could have caused a problem. My home copmuter was the main zune partnership with my phone. I wanted to unlock it while I was at work so I changed my work zune from "guest" to main. I then unlocked succesfully. I added some apps and everything worked. When I got home, I installed developer tools on my home computer but could not get xap's to install there. I think it was because it was no considered a guest. Not understanding this, I opened Chevron and clicked re-lock. It changed to "lock" so I tried to re-unlock it and have had issues ever since. Even back at work, where zune Sync Relationship is main, still no luck.
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So now that you have it rolled back, what is the version of the the OS?

os 7.0.7008.0
firmware 2103.10.10.1

n8huntsman said:
os 7.0.7008.0
firmware 2103.10.10.1
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OK, well when you did the update i am sure you also had to update zune before you updated phone, right? Maybe on the computer that you didnt use, work or home, use the other computer but unistall zune and try to install the older version of zune, then try to unlock. The zune update maybe preventer for chevron to read correctly. Now this might not work but i think it should.

I tried everything I could think of. The only thing that worked was a hard reset. I am now unlocked. I went into "Samsung Tools," and selected "Prevent Device Relocking." I have sync'd with my comp several times and it appears to be working. It has not relocked. Is it now save for me to proceed with the NODO update once again? I don't want it to relock and have to hard reset again so I want to be sure.
Thanks

Mine was unlock before nodo updated to nodo and everything still worked fine, so maybe you'll be ok.
Wp7 Focus

Custom Ringtones On NoDo Devices?

has anyone figured out how to add custom ringtones to devices with nodo already installed on them?? i cant believe microsoft is waiting so long to allow people to use custom ringtones on their devices.
i know before the nodo update you had to have the device unlocked with the chevron unlocker but now if im understanding correctly that no longer works with nodo is there anyway to get custom ringtones on wp7 devices with nodo?

Only one way: Flash back to shipped version 7004, then Chevron it and side load the custom ringtone app. Finally, update to NoDo. Notice that you will be able to sideload any app after NoDo update because it is already unlock before that.

how do i flash back bought a used dell venue pro i wanna unlock my device

when you go to zune.. on the update page.. when it says theres no new update it gives you the option to restore

hamzie said:
when you go to zune.. on the update page.. when it says theres no new update it gives you the option to restore
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what about devices that come with nodo preloaded on them already?

hamzie said:
when you go to zune.. on the update page.. when it says theres no new update it gives you the option to restore
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I have ver.7392 on my Focus. I tried what you said but it doesn't show that option. I wanted to had reset my phone but I have Chevron and didn't want to lose it. Is there anywhere else to check to make sure I have a backup?

deadwrong03 said:
has anyone figured out how to add custom ringtones to devices with nodo already installed on them?? i cant believe microsoft is waiting so long to allow people to use custom ringtones on their devices.
i know before the nodo update you had to have the device unlocked with the chevron unlocker but now if im understanding correctly that no longer works with nodo is there anyway to get custom ringtones on wp7 devices with nodo?
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if you happen to have an LG phone you can still unlock even after NoDo without previous unlock. Which phone do you have? Here are instructions for LG devices. This works before and after NoDo

bennyj71 said:
I have ver.7392 on my Focus. I tried what you said but it doesn't show that option. I wanted to had reset my phone but I have Chevron and didn't want to lose it. Is there anywhere else to check to make sure I have a backup?
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The restore will only be available if you updated your phone with Zune software and it will only show on the same PC you used to run the update. If you used another method to update that didn't use the Zune software then you are out of luck, unless you have an LG phone.

derausgewanderte said:
The restore will only be available if you updated your phone with Zune software and it will only show on the same PC you used to run the update. If you used another method to update that didn't use the Zune software then you are out of luck, unless you have an LG phone.
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I am using the same computer. I updated a friends phone on my computer, but I updated to 7392 a few days later. Someone mentions that Zune saves one backup, but he didn't know if it's one period or one per device.

zune only keeps one last backup. if you connect a different wp7 device to the same zune account it will be handled as guest and it won't let you update (at least here on my PC it didn't with my wife's phone, had to do it on her own zune account).

derausgewanderte said:
zune only keeps one last backup. if you connect a different wp7 device to the same zune account it will be handled as guest and it won't let you update (at least here on my PC it didn't with my wife's phone, had to do it on her own zune account).
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That is disturbing that I have done three updates and not one backup is saved on my computer.

derausgewanderte said:
if you happen to have an LG phone you can still unlock even after NoDo without previous unlock. Which phone do you have? Here are instructions for LG devices. This works before and after NoDo
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i dont have one yet i just wanted to know how to do it as soon as verizon releases the htc trophy then ill be ready to hack away

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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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

Putting HTC trophy to factory state

Hey, just something quick. I'm running teh Mango beta but i keep hearing about the pros of unlocking your phone. So I wanted to unlock. I recieved this phone without the NoDo update, since it downloaded that when I first used zune.
So can I just click return to factory settings on the phone and then use chevron? then go through all the effort of updating back to mango.
thanks

no u cant..

sambaman009 said:
Hey, just something quick. I'm running teh Mango beta but i keep hearing about the pros of unlocking your phone. So I wanted to unlock. I recieved this phone without the NoDo update, since it downloaded that when I first used zune.
So can I just click return to factory settings on the phone and then use chevron? then go through all the effort of updating back to mango.
thanks
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No ...its not that simple...
Sinse your phone has nodo and its not unlocked you cant use chevron to unlock.
You must first flash a pre-nodo rom (7004 or 7008) unlock with chevron and then update all the way up to mango
Roms for trophy can be found here

[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:
Code:
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.

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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!