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Updating HTC Arrive to Mango beta

How many people have done it? I'm doing it right now. Step 2 of 9 for the actual beta update...my goodness..it takes a while but it should be worth it.
I'm doing it the way that doesn't require a dev unlocked phone or dev account btw.

Damn that texting bug!! It's still there (kinda). You can keep on typing after 160 characters..just can't send anything.

Hi, how do you get the mango realse?
Hi know that comes out to all developrs on market place, butt i see that you get it in other way...
Can you tell me how you get? E really want to put mango in my htc 7 pro.
Thanks

ms79723 said:
Damn that texting bug!! It's still there (kinda). You can keep on typing after 160 characters..just can't send anything.
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Yeah for real right? I hope it's fixed by the time Mango goes gold

Update went off without a hitch on two Arrives. Developer unlocked them and then ran that provision.exe file to backup/flip the switch to flag the update to come down.

I think the texting thing is a sprint ROM issue. So yeah, I don't think a fix will come until the Sprint Mango update is released.

Trying this on my HTC Arrive right now.
The final 7661 build is installing now!
I will update you guys when complete, if all goes well...
Alex
EDIT: Successful, sweet!

Mine works great non unlocked method
Sent from my arrive using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Update OK but
Update was OK, but I am seeing some issues, I am not sure if they are on all Mango phones.
a.) Screen does not go black (off) when taking a call. Thi is bad, because your ear is pressing buttons on the screen, mainly Hold
b.) custom ringtones work now, but they are still low in volume
c.) battery life, not as good as before Mango
d.) proboems with downloading email atatchements (does not work most of the time)
still missing some stuff:
a.) interface to configure phone network settings like, time before switching to voice box,...
b.) send a full contact to another phone
any other know issues or new features detected ?

drhoros said:
Update was OK, but I am seeing some issues, I am not sure if they are on all Mango phones.
a.) Screen does not go black (off) when taking a call. Thi is bad, because your ear is pressing buttons on the screen, mainly Hold
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This one existed before the Mango update, though it rarely happened for me.
b.) custom ringtones work now, but they are still low in volume
c.) battery life, not as good as before Mango
d.) proboems with downloading email atatchements (does not work most of the time)
still missing some stuff:
a.) interface to configure phone network settings like, time before switching to voice box,...
b.) send a full contact to another phone
any other know issues or new features detected ?
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I did see something I'd not seen before in email:
"This type of message is not supported by current version of Windows Phone."
As far as I can tell it's just a normal e-mail oddly enough, though I think it was digitally signed. I downloaded a picture attachment just fine though, maybe it's the type?

The no unlock process is on windowsphonehacker dot com Follow the directions. You actually update the phone 2 times. After the first time it says there is another update. The 2nd one is Mango. Literally takes an hour.
I'm using it on a HTC Arrive right now. No crashing or weird stuff for me yet.

done it yesterday, it took me about two hours, no problem
I am missing:
Czech QWERTY keyboard
different notifications for sms and IM (I don't want the phone to vibrate for every IM message, but it would be nice to vibrate when stand-by mode)

already put mango in my htc 7 pro and it is amazing, very fast, good performance and a lot of new things.
I like it very much, and the performance of the IE9 is amazing, very fast load the pages. i think is the best improvement in mango. The IE9 is the best browser i try until today.
i have no problem with the SMS about the number of character, until now everything i use must is running perfect.
think the wp7 is getting better and better.

Just gave Mango a shot on my Arrive. So far everything is working after a little setup and it all works flawelessly. Love it so far.

nohandle said:
done it yesterday, it took me about two hours, no problem
I am missing:
Czech QWERTY keyboard
different notifications for sms and IM (I don't want the phone to vibrate for every IM message, but it would be nice to vibrate when stand-by mode)
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I have Czech on my arrive and for the chat thing u can just put it on away or appear offline.

eric12341 said:
I have Czech on my arrive and for the chat thing u can just put it on away or appear offline.
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I have Czech too, but it is QWERTZ not QWERTY, and no option to change it, also when I pop out the HW keyboard the layout changes back to ENG - therefore preventing me from typing characters like čřžšě. Anyone else has problem with this??
Will try the different statuses behavior, but what I meant was: when you chat with someone and you are on the messaging screen it is not necessary to notify every message because you see what is happening.

Updated using non-dev process. Took 2 hours but works flawlessly. Posting from my Sprint HTC Arrive while eating phad tai...so spicy.

Any concerns by anyone that the unlock process (which I haven't read the steps yet) will lock you out of future updates in the same way that the previous WP7 unlocks did?
I've got a Dev account (a couple of free apps in the marketplace), but that's limited to three phones and I've got 5 phones at home.....want to upgrade everyone.

You mean looking before you leap? Thats crazy! Come on in, the waters fine. Maybe you remember that old tale from "Scary stories to tell in the dark" - Room for One More...muahahaha

LayneRobinson said:
Any concerns by anyone that the unlock process (which I haven't read the steps yet) will lock you out of future updates in the same way that the previous WP7 unlocks did?
I've got a Dev account (a couple of free apps in the marketplace), but that's limited to three phones and I've got 5 phones at home.....want to upgrade everyone.
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If you're worried- september 22nd is the Mango drop date on the street. I'm sure we will see something non-beta around here shortly before that.
There is a process on windowsphonehacker to go back to NoDo.

[Q] Just got an "HTC Update for Windows Phone" while running Mango RTM

So I had my HD7 running the RTM of Mango and was having issues syncing with Zune so I did a 'reset your phone' from the 'about' settings menu.
When I was setting it back up zune installed a "HTC Update for Windows Phone". I considered yanking the cord out for fear I was being downgraded back to NoDo but I decided to let it go.
After the process completed I found I was still running Mango??
How can I tell if I am still on the RTM or if I got some other update? Can someone post OS version, Firmware, Radio etc from an HD7 running Mango RTM?

What you got was a firmware update from HTC, not an OS update from Microsoft. Even though they are both distributed via Zune, they are not related at all. Even the infamous "Walshed" phones earlier this year were able to receive firmware updates, even though they could not receive any OS updates.

do you have wifi tether now? because afaik HTC finalized their 7720 before the feature was added and they were due to update their drivers or sumth before the feature could be supported. just iirc. cant check my mozart since its up with the warranty guys.

Wifi Tether
I am sure HTC have confirmed the Wifi Tether will not be avaialable on 1st gen phones
Even if they are on Mango
There is a link on XDA somehwre

Not true, first gen devices just need another update after 7720.

Sweet - I will look forward to it then

I still feel like it was more than firmware but since I don't know how to tell...
Either way, things seem different. The selection of ringtones is different, the Engadget app works again and my music is not freezing between tracks while the screen is locked anymore.

Sounds good, I take it your phone wasn't unlocked when you reset ?
When I reset I lost unlock
Sent from my Unlocked HD7 running 7720.68 RTM via XDA Windows Phone 7 App

[Q] UPDATED TO OFFICIAL MANGO AND STILL UNLOCKED. Confused? Am I on Mango?

After a marathon 3 hours I am finally on Mango according to the Zune Update but I am still unlocked and am able to sideload apps.
There are a few observations I have made though.
1. I cannot add hidden wifi networks which I was able to do when I had installed the HTC Shipped Rom for HTC 7 Pro T7576.
2. The firmware version has not changed not has the SPL which changed when the HTC Shipped Rom was installed.
So do I have Mango or not? I am confused. Please help

hi,
if you installed the shipped rom, then you've basically just reinstalled it in this update. there should be not many changes except a refresh of the registry. if you were previously unlocked, then the updater took that into account, and rewrote the value (this is the kind of stuff it does in the "preparing update" stage). after that, it just rewrote everything. which is not bad.
if you want to get hidden wifi back, just use provxml to rewrite the reg values to show the menu.
enjoy mango. (and try the connected media app, it should work).

abhilaksh said:
hi,
if you installed the shipped rom, then you've basically just reinstalled it in this update. there should be not many changes except a refresh of the registry. if you were previously unlocked, then the updater took that into account, and rewrote the value (this is the kind of stuff it does in the "preparing update" stage). after that, it just rewrote everything. which is not bad.
if you want to get hidden wifi back, just use provxml to rewrite the reg values to show the menu.
enjoy mango. (and try the connected media app, it should work).
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I have rolled back to prenodo(7.0.7004) and then updated through Zune to 7.0.7008, 7.0.7403 and finally to Mango but while updating to Mango the Zune's update screen was showing Mango ISV Beta(7720). When i was in 7004 , i used chevron unlock and the ansars xap to keep the unlock going through the updates. One more observation i have is i don't have the Facebook chat as well in the messaging section

Me too thought the same for few hours ,,,, But When I tried to sideload the apps. Mango said "You Cheat ! You are caught .."

[Q] How do I reprovision my phone to get the proper Mango update?

I have the RTM build installed and I came from the beta version. My phone has yet to receive the firmware update from HTC to let the HTC mango apps install. My wife has the same phone, went from nodo to RTM and she to the fw update a month ago.
I think I must have changed my provisioning in order to get the beta. How do I change it back, preferably without having to hard reset the device.
Many thanks in advance.

What did you do to get to the beta version? If it was just using the official tools, you should be fine. If you used a tool off XDA or a similar site, which one was it?
You could try Ansar's U2M7720 app, I guess, though I don't know if it will work for you. My phone got prompted for the retail build (from the beta) a month or so back. You can always try connecting it to Zune and doing the "pull-the-plug" trick, too.
Also, be wary of the latest HTC update. It will prevent apps like TouchXplorer from working. Specifically, it breaks the HTC ComRegRW.dll and ComFileRW.dll libraries. COMDMXML.dll, used for ProvXML, seems to still work, though. The big problem is that this means you can't use Connection Setup to interop-unlock your phone. If you interop-unlock on 7720 before installing the HTC update, you will keep interop-unlock. However, if you get both updates together (which is how MS is now pushing them out), or if you later lose interop-unlock for any reason, you won't be able to get it back!

I have tried pulling the plug for hours and it never works. Very annoying as I have got it to work with other peoples phones which have not had RTM on them.
When I went to the beta I used provision.exe and the beta version of mango. What should I do from here?

Update your Zune

I did update zune but nothing. In the end I pushed the cab file of the firmware to the device, big improvement, smoother and louder. Still not sure if I have the right provisioning but my device is bang up to date for now.

Field Test doesnt work on some ROMs (HTC)

Ive used a few ROMs for HTC Trophy and have found that some ROMs, the Field Test doesnt work. Ive tried a few codes that I knew of, and the only thing you get is Field Test Loading ....
The chef of the ROM isnt sure why it doesnt work. Can anyone else shed light on this? What would be the reason it doesnt work, any possible fixes?

Jola66 said:
Ive used a few ROMs for HTC Trophy and have found that some ROMs, the Field Test doesnt work. Ive tried a few codes that I knew of, and the only thing you get is Field Test Loading ....
sianto1997 and I fired a few private messages back in forth, hopefully we'll get sianto1997's SparkW rom to the level of XevRev in the programming department very soon!
The chef of the ROM isnt sure why it doesnt work. Can anyone else shed light on this? What would be the reason it doesnt work, any possible fixes?
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Well, I was doing some digging on this today.. by accident.. while I waited for my frank-n-spark-w to finish an update test. I noticed my frank-n-spark-w had a newer PRL, so I tired to update it on my primary phone running myXevRev beta 1a... no go. I cannot get my PRL to update?!
I talked to ultrashot before the release of my rom (because I didn't see the point if I couldn't at least get the phone to program, which wasn't possible previously), and he told me to update the Xap Deployer package found in Dynamics7 to the newest version [v1.1-upd1]. Sure enough, after that, the phone appears to program.. but it can fail if done too quickly after first boot.
I know Servicetools.xap from the PMENU package is installing correctly now beyond a reasonable doubt (otherwise ##PST# wouldn't work in my rom), but I can't be sure EmbeddedTool.xap is installing correctly. I think that package had to do with the actual modification of the radio data for the CDMA Trophy during *228 programming.
I've got a GoldC (HTC Pro 7 or Arrive for Sprint users) from US Cellular on the way, so I'll be diving into that phone soon enough. I want to know if US Cellular and Sprint users have had similar programming issues with their phones and unlocked roms.. but haven't really had time to look up the info or go ask them. XD Sprint phones program using a different process then Verizon, plus Sprint can usually push PRL updates out whenever they want to users. US Cellular.. I dunno how they work vs Sprint.
After today though, I'm sure that even with some of the issue worked out, but other parts remain to be fixed. I swore that on a stock SparkW, that the phone would automatically put itself into airplane mode for a second after programing, but it doesn't appear to do that using my XevRev rom, but you can still program the phone even after a full factory reset (which isn't possible using DFT or older Dynamics7 for full unlock with SparkW).
Ultrashot may have some more ideas, but I'll test to confirm which part is still broken. I still have yet to try unsigning the xap in question and seeing if it will install then. The default xaps in that package are signed just like Market Place xap files, even though you can't download them as Market Place apps. ^^; I'm still working on getting my kitchen back up and running after my desktop died, so I'll be exploring this issue again soon.

TheXev said:
Well, I was doing some digging on this today.. by accident.. while I waited for my frank-n-spark-w to finish an update test. I noticed my frank-n-spark-w had a newer PRL, so I tired to update it on my primary phone running myXevRev beta 1a... no go. I cannot get my PRL to update?!
I talked to ultrashot before the release of my rom (because I didn't see the point if I couldn't at least get the phone to program, which wasn't possible previously), and he told me to update the Xap Deployer package found in Dynamics7 to the newest version [v1.1-upd1]. Sure enough, after that, the phone appears to program.. but it can fail if done too quickly after first boot.
I know Servicetools.xap from the PMENU package is installing correctly now beyond a reasonable doubt (otherwise ##PST# wouldn't work in my rom), but I can't be sure EmbeddedTool.xap is installing correctly. I think that package had to do with the actual modification of the radio data for the CDMA Trophy during *228 programming.
I've got a GoldC (HTC Pro 7 or Arrive for Sprint users) from US Cellular on the way, so I'll be diving into that phone soon enough. I want to know if US Cellular and Sprint users have had similar programming issues with their phones and unlocked roms.. but haven't really had time to look up the info or go ask them. XD Sprint phones program using a different process then Verizon, plus Sprint can usually push PRL updates out whenever they want to users. US Cellular.. I dunno how they work vs Sprint.
After today though, I'm sure that even with some of the issue worked out, but other parts remain to be fixed. I swore that on a stock SparkW, that the phone would automatically put itself into airplane mode for a second after programing, but it doesn't appear to do that using my XevRev rom, but you can still program the phone even after a full factory reset (which isn't possible using DFT or older Dynamics7 for full unlock with SparkW).
Ultrashot may have some more ideas, but I'll test to confirm which part is still broken. I still have yet to try unsigning the xap in question and seeing if it will install then. The default xaps in that package are signed just like Market Place xap files, even though you can't download them as Market Place apps. ^^; I'm still working on getting my kitchen back up and running after my desktop died, so I'll be exploring this issue again soon.
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No problem anymore! I (am the chef, and I) fixed it in v1.5.4! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909006)
(an for the HTC Arrive, I made that rom already! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900007))
My ROMs are all now smooth and just working. Thank you very much!

sianto1997 said:
No problem anymore! I (am the chef, and I) fixed it in v1.5.4! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909006)
(an for the HTC Arrive, I made that rom already! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900007))
My ROMs are all now smooth and just working. Thank you very much!
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Okay, EmbeddedTool was working in my rom, you need to dial ##634# to access it. Still, there is something funky with programing okay on.. I'm going to make a video so I can demonstrate it.