I have a Samsung focus dev unlocked on Mango RTM. I have just received an SD card that is purported to work with this phone.
My question is, If I do a hard reset on the phone will it still be dev unlocked? I also have a couple of custom registry settings to enable MMS.
Thanks in advance.
A total reset will remove the device unlock (everything gone from the phone), but given that you have an AppHub account, you can remove it from the list there and re-register again.
ZeBond said:
A total reset will remove the device unlock (everything gone from the phone), but given that you have an AppHub account, you can remove it from the list there and re-register again.
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Thanks I was afraid of that. I have an unlocked focus on Mango RTM and just received an SD card for it.
Going to be a bit of work to get it sorted the way I want I suspect.
As I said - if you have a developer account, it is not going to be a problem at all. Remember, however, since you are trying to remove the original SD card, that you might encounter problems other than losing the unlock. Specifically, there might be serious performance lags (for non-optimized SD cards).
What if I have a chevron unlocked phone and hard reset... Anyway to redo the last few steps or something and re-unlock it. This is running Mango RTM.
Also is resetting with the volume keys the same as resetting from within Phone 7? Are they both hard resets and do the same thing?
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I was using my phone for tethering following this post and it was working great.
Today in order to install the Mango Beta update I did a reset on my phone so that the backup step would be faster.
But I forgot to switch back my phone from "HTC Modem" mode to "Zune Sync" mode.
Now it just wont connect to the computer. I cannot install the same XAP file to enable the "Zune Sync" mode as the phone is not dev unlocked (it was dev unlocked before reset).
Now the phone is just recognized as a modem on my machine and Zune just won't recognize it.
I have searched google and the XDA forums but could not find any solution to this issue.
Any pointers to fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.
H8 to say it, but I think you are screwed because u can't unlock your phone. Talk to your carrier, make it seem like you are innocent, ask for a replacement and cross your fingers.
I am sorry
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Have you tried reset via diagnosis menu?
Dial ##634# to get in Diagnostic mode and *2767*3855# to do a full reset.
After changing some settings in my omnia, it wouldn't connect to 3g, no matter what I did. I flashed roms, updates, did a reset via settings menu, called my mobile operator... today I did this reset and the phone wen't back to normal, so I assume that this reset is "harder" then the other
pjlsantos said:
Have you tried reset via diagnosis menu?
Dial ##634# to get in Diagnostic mode and *2767*3855# to do a full reset.
After changing some settings in my omnia, it wouldn't connect to 3g, no matter what I did. I flashed roms, updates, did a reset via settings menu, called my mobile operator... today I did this reset and the phone wen't back to normal, so I assume that this reset is "harder" then the other
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Tried this, its just for samsung decives. I could not find the Diagnostic code for HTC phones. Thanks for your answer.
Found the following on this thread:
Call ##634#
From the new debugging menu, enter: *#7284#
You see three options come up: Zune, Modem Tethered Call, Modem Diagnostic.
Then its easy to switch to Zune mode. But the problem is it just works on Samsung phones. I am not sure what the Diagnosis code for HD7 is. I have searched everywhere
I am not sure if I can call t-mobile for help as I had unlocked my phone and moved to another carrier.
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I am not sure if I can call t-mobile for help as I had unlocked my phone and moved to another carrier.
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Act all innocent and just say you have no idea why it won't update, tried on different friend's computers etc. Dont mention it's been unlocked as they will never find out how. However the replacement phone wont be unlocked so you'll have to unlock it again.
When I bought my Toshiba TG01 on Orange, I NEVER put an orange sim card into it, I used it with my O2 sim and I had it returned when it was 11 months
BiG K said:
Act all innocent and just say you have no idea why it won't update, tried on different friend's computers etc. Dont mention it's been unlocked as they will never find out how. However the replacement phone wont be unlocked so you'll have to unlock it again.
When I bought my Toshiba TG01 on Orange, I NEVER put an orange sim card into it, I used it with my O2 sim and I had it returned when it was 11 months
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Thanks for the response. I will definitely try returning it.
I've never done before and i remember reading with the mango leaks there was a new free way to do this. Im trying to unlock it because my notifications stopped working and i really dont want to do another hard reset is there anyway to unlock it and reset my notifications so that they are all working again without having to hard reset??
I just had 4 sideloaded programs on my 7 pro revoked
I've interop-unlocked my my phone since 1 year ago and updated to 8107 quite sometime ago
What's going on?? Anyone encountering this too? Or is this a signal for me to go full unlock?
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I just had 4 sideloaded programs on my 7 pro revoked
I've interop-unlocked my my phone since 1 year ago and updated to 8107 quite sometime ago
What's going on?? Anyone encountering this too? Or is this a signal for me to go full unlock?
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They can relock your phone if the proper values aren't set to prevent it in the registry. Most of the interop unlock methods now include this as part of the unlock.
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They can relock your phone if the proper values aren't set to prevent it in the registry. Most of the interop unlock methods now include this as part of the unlock.
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that's what I thought too, but fact is that my phone is now locked
I've had it on interop-unlock for more than a year, survived the upgrade to mango and all the updates but I just got locked
Oh man FML
Somewhere on this forum GDTD once mentioned he had a relock and it seemed to occur when his Zune Pass expired and he had forgot to renew it (or something like that). When he did the phone relocked (and he definitely knows how to set the reg to prevent relock). Did you have your Zune Pass expire or you added one?
Seriously MS needs to stop this already, what is wrong with us wanting more acent colors or using custom alert sounds? If they didn't want anyone hacking or moding then give it to us. Honestly this is one of many things that is turning most away from the platform. What they should focus on is things like getting freakin' AT&T and Verizon to release the keyboard issue update.
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Somewhere on this forum GDTD once mentioned he had a relock and it seemed to occur when his Zune Pass expired and he had forgot to renew it (or something like that). When he did the phone relocked (and he definitely knows how to set the reg to prevent relock). Did you have your Zune Pass expire or you added one?
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Nope I dont have Zune pass
What is so weird is that I have already set the reg to prevent relock all the way back to pre-nodo and it is still able to lock itself up.
Thanks though, maybe I'll go flash a rom for a full unlock
Can those roms still receive official updates?
*edit: I'm at work now, so it's a little inconvenient for me to do a search, but did GDTD find a fix?
He just unlocked again. If you have Dev unlock/Chevron and use Heathcliff's method just do it again. If you were unlocked from back to NoDo, the prevent unlock reg edit probably didn't stay along the way at some point. It is too hard to figure out your exact situation without knowing your history and phone details.
P.S. Outside of your situation, the only other one I have seen where a relock occurred was the Zune Pass situation. Here is the thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22242939&highlight=zune+pass#post22242939
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Oh, and as far as the full-unlocked ROMs, they are all custom and I don't think they accept official updates anymore (you have to wait for the custom rom cook to brew a new one with the latest).
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He just unlocked again. If you have Dev unlock/Chevron and use Heathcliff's method just do it again. If you were unlocked from back to NoDo, the prevent unlock reg edit probably didn't stay along the way at some point. It is too hard to figure out your exact situation without knowing your history and phone details.
P.S. Outside of your situation, the only other one I have seen where a relock occurred was the Zune Pass situation. Here is the thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22242939&highlight=zune+pass#post22242939
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Oh, and as far as the full-unlocked ROMs, they are all custom and I don't think they accept official updates anymore (you have to wait for the custom rom cook to brew a new one with the latest).
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thanks
I'll try a restore when I get home (think I have a pre 8107) copy
I read that 8107 prevents writing to the registry now, so I'm not sure how I'm going to do an interop-unlock
Thanks guys for the help. It seems I'll have to get through the day with 4 blank tiles on my home screen (can't even do a soft reset wtf!)
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thanks
I'll try a restore when I get home (think I have a pre 8107) copy
I read that 8107 prevents writing to the registry now, so I'm not sure how I'm going to do an interop-unlock
Thanks guys for the help. It seems I'll have to get through the day with 4 blank tiles on my home screen (can't even do a soft reset wtf!)
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8107 itself does not block interop-unlock or reg edit abilities. But if you update to the latest OEM drivers it is the drivers that do. I have 8107 but have not allowed HTC's latest driver updates - v2 ones (and Samsung has new drivers that wreak it as well I think called KK2). Good luck and don't let the latest drivers update (and if you want 8107 push it with Heathcliff's CAB method).
Thanks
Will try it when I get home
Another thread with a relock occurring; need to keep an eye on this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23532141#post23532141
Question 1 - did everyone that had a relock connect to Zune on the PC just prior?
Question 2 - if not, did you connect to anything MS related on your phone (Marketplace, XBOX Games)?
I guess it is possible if you make a connection to a MS server and it sees you are a WP it could do a probe.
i just did a restore to a working backup (twice actually) and it's not working anymore
yes, my last action before this **** happened was to sync to zune
i don't have zune pass, disabled xbox live logins, applied all the necessary tweaks (since pre-nodo) to prevent a relock but this still happened
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it's not working anymore = the unlock (dev-unlock, interop-unlock) are not working anymore
all my apps, other than those installed through marketplace, got revoked
Since Zune seems to be the source of the problem try restoring your backup with your internet connection on your pc turned off.
will try that when I get him tonight (like 12 hours later)
It seems like the battery status app was working for a while cos it got updated. Will try restoring without sim+internet tonight
And what's this thing about the phone relocking after a year? I don't exactly remember when did I unlock, but it's roughly around this period last year
How did you do the unlock?
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How did you do the unlock?
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original chevron from pre-nodo
I use an actual Dev license to keep my device unlocked (seriously....its $100 a year...a small price to pay to have a legitimately unlocked phone...plus I actually develop and release apps and games for a livingt)
Back on topic, my phone "relocked" itself recently. apparantly, MS has a "lease" of sorts that it issues on locked devices for developers and this "lease" expires after a year. I had remove my device from the list of registered devices and re-register it to renew the lease on the phone to unlock it.
Hi guys,
Long story short: My phone lost its developers lock and I can no longer unlock it again without having to hard reset my phone (this will restore the portal urls in the registry).
My issue is I have sms's dating back to when i got the phone (htc hd7) at launch and I really dont want to loose these. It's not an option for me to loose them.
What I need to know is if there is any way of backing this sms data up without it being developer unlocked? The reason why I cant unlock it is because I removed the Portal url info in the phones registry prior to me going legit with a developers account and I forgot to change it back. This is now preventing the phone from checking that I have a legitimate developers account.
Any help appreciated.
Do you have a backup of the phone (Zune restore point) from when you were unlocked? You can restore that, and you'll be unlocked again and still have all the SMS you've received prior to taking that backup. Not perfect, but it should work...
Odd that an official dev-unlock (via AppHub) doesn't work. My phone has the PortalURL values wiped (to prevent it from continuously resetting my interop-unlock) but the Windows Phone Developer Registration tool can still access my phone and sees it as currently being unlocked. Maybe it's becuase I first unlocked with the official unlock, then applied "keep unlocked" (the Portal reg values) and interop-unlock?
That said, to use any of the SMS backup tools you'll need at least an interop-unlock as well, and if your firmware version is too recent that's not currently possible. Even if you previously had WP7 Root Tools installed, you wouldn't be able to run it.
I just restored to a previous backup of an interop-unlocked version of Tango with Zune and my phone became relocked after two days. Does anyone know if Zune now puts back the MS internet lock check links in the registry during restores? These are the two http addresses that are to prevent relock and the ones you have to undo for Tango updates to prevent relock.
I am going to restore again with the work around to prevent relock and see if these registry values are modified, but it seems it is not just updating to Tango that causes this but even a restore to a backup (and my backup was made after I edited the registry back to prevent relock).
Zune Restores Relock now
UPDATE: I have tried going back to past backups I know worked before and everytime the restore is relocked immediately. MS has done something new to Zune where it relocks the phone regardless of the state you backed up. I also confirmed this with the internet disconnected so it is locally embedded in the Zune program.
I am now going back through the HTC IU process (thankfully I still have the v1 drivers) but this might explain issues I am seeing on the forum.
Question - is there any other method to restore a backup without using Zune?
Question2 - can you undo any changes MS does to Zune? How about using an older version?
This is not good
Yes, the registry entries responsible for the calling home are restored upon updating to Tango. For more information on how to upgrade without using your unlock see this guide written by Jaxbot.
Also, have you put your phone in airplane mode, too whilst trying this?
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Yes, the registry entries responsible for the calling home are restored upon updating to Tango. For more information on how to upgrade without using your unlock see this guide written by Jaxbot.
Also, have you put your phone in airplane mode, too whilst trying this?
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Yes, I am fully aware and had been unlocked on Tango. I was messing around some more with hacks on my Tango and I wanted to revert back to my backup from a few weeks ago and found that Zune's restore process locks the phone regardless of any previous unlock saved in the backup. Zune has never done this before and I have restored to unlocked backups many times.
This is new behavior for Zune and I am wondering if anyone else has seen this. Unfortunately I don't recommend trying this as if it is new and true you will lose your unlock. However, it makes going back to an unlocked backup useless now.
This appears to be related to Chevron Labs token expiring even though I have an AppHub account. I had to unlock the phone again through AppHub and then reapply the IU HTC trick. I read over on WPCentral that even if you are on an AppHub unlocked and came from the Chevron token you can still get relocked when you sync with Zune since the tokens expired. Unfortunately you have to unlock again (and this does not work if you have the prevent unlock hack applied; you have to undo that first).
Pain in the ars....hopefully my rambling and findings come in handy for anyone else in this scenario.