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Old Fart (really) Needs Help!!!

I know now that it was a mistake, but I bought a Chinese Clone of the HTC Touch Diamond2(?) but now I am stuck with it. What the problem is that at my residence, I have a poor signal from my Rogers provider and will only work intermittently just in one corner of the house if I stand in the corner, hold my mouth the right way, stand on one foot (you know what I mean). From reading your forum and others, it is suggested that upgrading your ROM may help with reception issues. O.K., more than willing to try this but for the life of me, I can't get this phone to upgrade. Seller is of no help either. I can get into the boot menu buy holding the phone answer and power buttons at the same time. I have not found the combination or a way to get it to give me a hard reboot. I have tried the HardSPL method but that does not work or the RUU way either. I am having major surgery two months from now and will be bed ridden for at least 6 weeks. I would dearly like this phone to work for so I can keep in touch with my children via text messaging. Here are some of the numbers I have found inside:
02-8174-85053
T5353
Serial:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IMEI:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Windows Mobile 6.1
O/S: 1.0.02.342
Boot: 1.0.02.347
I apologize for being so long winded....just trying to give the most information possible. I really appreciate any help or guidance you can give me. Thank-you from Canada.

Well, the HardSPL and rom flashing are device specific, so even if you bought a device that looks like the Diamond 2, you have something completely different under the hood. Hence, none of the tools that you mentioned will work. As far as upgrading the rom, it isn't the OS rom that may help you with your reception issues, but the Radio. I know of a few Chinese forums that are involved with these knock-offs but to be honest (from what I have read), people simply complain there and I do not know how much help are they receiving.
I am sorry for telling you like this, but there is a very small chance that someone around here is going to have a radio or a custom rom for your device. On the flip side, if you would have been successful at flashing your device, you would now be the proud owner of a shinny, expensive paperweight, so not all has been lost...
I hope you can get some more help. Google your device +your carrier (ie Sunno HD +Rogers +no signal) or something like that (be creative) and you may come up with an answer.
Best of luck with your surgery though

I have a better idea- you were mis-sold a product, and are entitled to a refund. Do that instead. There's no way I'd put up with accepting a copy of a product if it was advertised as such.
In future I would be more careful as to where you purchase things! As an old fart, you should know this!

StarFire039 said:
I have a better idea- you were mis-sold a product, and are entitled to a refund. Do that instead. There's no way I'd put up with accepting a copy of a product if it was advertised as such.
In future I would be more careful as to where you purchase things! As an old fart, you should know this!
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Well, I guess he knew that it was a knock off, and most Chinese Vendors will tell you that whatever you are buying is not the real thing. So, unless there is something really wrong with it, they may be hesitant to refund any money.

Kind of had that feeling that I was screwed but it was worth asking about it. Thanks for all your help.
There is no fool like an old fool!

Crankshaft100 said:
There is no fool like an old fool!
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Nothing wrong with trying to be cost effective and trying to look for and find bargains in this world economy.
We all just need to remember that nine times out of ten, you get what you pay for.

Crankshaft100 said:
Kind of had that feeling that I was screwed but it was worth asking about it. Thanks for all your help.
There is no fool like an old fool!
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Hang in there, we all have had our moments on transactions. Just learn from it & move on positively

Help me help my wife...

My wife has been suck with an LG Vortex for the last few months, and Verizon really is dragging its feet helping us. They want to issue replacement after replacement, when I've found that its a base issue with the phone.
The issue being some sort of screen saber, looks like dock mode almost, that pops up at the most random times, in her purse, while she's texting, on a call, tweeting, whatever. We've resetted it twice now, and that seems to stave it off for a few hours.
So, has anyone owned this phone, us it worth rooting? I found a few posts online about rooting it, not sure how well it works.
The worst part, is that she's seen my bionic, and knows what a smart phone should be, stock. She really wants to just switch phones, but we have 8 months till she's eligible for an upgrade, and Verizon wants us to follow their script first, before we even get the option.
I just think they'll drag it out until we are eligible for an upgrade. As it stands, her phone dies in a couple of hours, just sitting in her desk drawer, which negates its use as an emergency item in case something happens at work.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC

There is no forum for the Vortex, so not much development. Probably have to stick it out or get an off-contract phone. You won't be able to access the marketplace here on XDA since you haven't been a member long enough, but there are sometimes good deals on ebay if you are careful.
I found a couple of posts here on XDA that stated z4root would at least give you root access to able to clean out bloatware and such.

mf2112 said:
There is no forum for the Vortex, so not much development. Probably have to stick it out or get an off-contract phone. You won't be able to access the marketplace here on XDA since you haven't been a member long enough, but there are sometimes good deals on ebay if you are careful.
I found a couple of posts here on XDA that stated z4root would at least give you root access to able to clean out bloatware and such.
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Was thinking about getting root on it. Talking with verizon still, don't want to give them any reason to go "HA! IT WAS YOU!!!" if they want to swap units and find that I rooted it. I know it's rare, but I've become less than.... courteous with these folks, and I'm sure that there's at least one person who'd like to stick it to me.

[Q] A good entry level phone for my dad?

Hi everyone! First, I hope I'm posting in the right section. If not, I'm so sorry!
Recently, I've been trying to get my dad, who is like 50, to get an Android phone. I want to be able to KakaoTalk with him like I do with my mom, video chat, and other things. Since he lives in another state, I'd figure it'd be easier to talk with him that way while I'm in school. He finally agreed to it. As long as I found him a decent phone. I'm not familiar with entry level phones, which is what I want to get him. He's not that tech savvy so I don't want to get him something that will confuse him.
Could any of you recommend a good and relatively cheap entry level phone? I don't think I have any real preferences. I've thought about getting him the Pantech Burst (a phone I love!), but I just want to see if there is anything else out there. I kind of want to root it and it make it look really really pretty for him. Since I've already had the Pantech Burst . . . the rooting process isn't that exciting -.-

Just look for some china mobile phone from chine e-shop... You can find there nice phones, about 100USD and very usefull...

merlise said:
Hi everyone! First, I hope I'm posting in the right section. If not, I'm so sorry!
Recently, I've been trying to get my dad, who is like 50, to get an Android phone. I want to be able to KakaoTalk with him like I do with my mom, video chat, and other things. Since he lives in another state, I'd figure it'd be easier to talk with him that way while I'm in school. He finally agreed to it. As long as I found him a decent phone. I'm not familiar with entry level phones, which is what I want to get him. He's not that tech savvy so I don't want to get him something that will confuse him.
Could any of you recommend a good and relatively cheap entry level phone? I don't think I have any real preferences. I've thought about getting him the Pantech Burst (a phone I love!), but I just want to see if there is anything else out there. I kind of want to root it and it make it look really really pretty for him. Since I've already had the Pantech Burst . . . the rooting process isn't that exciting -.-
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it depends on your carrier, there is a wide range of variants also. the Pantech Burst would be a Great starter phone though.

[Completed] cdma workshop help

hi. am new to both xda & cellphones. have had a casual interest since 1st one i bought a few yrs ago but have never really dug deep. recently, as a means to supplement my income i started buying & selling some phones. thot i knew a little about them! lol well, because i don't like getting ripped off & would never want that to happen to someone else that buys one of my phones, i quickly learned theres a WHOLE lot more to know than i ever imagined! so i started reading everything i could find online to help me. thats why im here. recently purchased cdma ws to be able to unlock & flash phones as an additional service & as another way to supplement my income & my goal is to eventually have my own store that does it all, from providing carrier service to repairs & everything in between. the problem is i dont have much of a computer or technical background & am virtually clueless when opening up cdma ws. i have looked at several youtube videos on the topic but that takes a huge amount of time weeding out the bad ones. also, i have a couple different phones that i've played around with on the software(cdma ws) in an attempt to figure it out with mixed results. two phones in particular im working with are a samsung galaxy s4 us cellular & an htc droid dna verizon. the s4 i purchased off swappa's boneyard advertised as a bad esn. did so with the intention to sell as is and while waiting i figured i'd try to repair esn. come to find out after having run esn on swappa(comes back whitelisted), ting(says only "can't be activated on their network), and checkesnfree website where also comes back whitelisted. have called u.s. cellular and i somewhat remember them saying that previous acct holder owed balance. they had to dig for that info. been a couple wks since conversation. the htc is clean, never activated, never used. would like to flash both phones. the s4 to boost & the htc to pageplus but not definite on either. any and all help would be greatly appreciated. dont mind just getting "clues" or hints as i really enjoy trying to figure it out on my own. thanks in advance!

Hi, thank you fro using XDA Assist. Our mission at XDA Assist is to point users in the right direction to get help on their device's. What you're asking is way outside the scope of XDA Assist.
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[Completed] Help Rooting the dreaded Huawei phone! (Sorry if Wrong Area)

Hi!
My phone is a Vodafone New Zealand Carried Huawei Y6 Elite. Nothing else, it's less than three days old. Stock, nothing added to it, sim's in, WI-FI is on, all that jazz, no settings changed (BESIDES THE ONE NEEDED FOR OBVIOUSLY ROOTING) but for some reason i can't do it. I am dying on the inside.
All I can say is, I bought this phone specifically to root it - literally specifically to **** with it. It's probably, two - three years old (since release) and is a piece of **** to many, and in performance comparison to a Samsung phone but don't judge me. I am ambitiously poor.
So, I pretty much tried everything and according to every root software's list of devices they support, this piece of **** phone is not in any of those god damn lists, please someone tell me why. I rooted a Vodafone phone. But can't root a piece of **** Huawei. I know nothing of technology just tutorials on the internet, so I literally followed everything I could find related to 'ROOTING HUAWEI Y6 ELITE' although most pages actually showed P8's and ****, but anywho. I can't root it. I tried the ADB Thing, it just doesn't recognize the device in the cmd thing, like I found a tutorial with the commands for it and ****.
Oh my god, this is frustrating can someone help me please? I don't know what else to put in this I'm not overly tech savvy, I had to google where to find my serial number. I know some things though, I'm not overly useless but this was hard.
Hey thanks anyway, I probably look a fool but please help <3
edit: also so u understand new zealand an iphone cost $1,100 and a Huawei P8 cost $800, this phone cost $89.

nzshade said:
Hi!
My phone is a Vodafone New Zealand Carried Huawei Y6 Elite. Nothing else, it's less than three days old. Stock, nothing added to it, sim's in, WI-FI is on, all that jazz, no settings changed (BESIDES THE ONE NEEDED FOR OBVIOUSLY ROOTING) but for some reason i can't do it. I am dying on the inside.
All I can say is, I bought this phone specifically to root it - literally specifically to **** with it. It's probably, two - three years old (since release) and is a piece of **** to many, and in performance comparison to a Samsung phone but don't judge me. I am ambitiously poor.
So, I pretty much tried everything and according to every root software's list of devices they support, this piece of **** phone is not in any of those god damn lists, please someone tell me why. I rooted a Vodafone phone. But can't root a piece of **** Huawei. I know nothing of technology just tutorials on the internet, so I literally followed everything I could find related to 'ROOTING HUAWEI Y6 ELITE' although most pages actually showed P8's and ****, but anywho. I can't root it. I tried the ADB Thing, it just doesn't recognize the device in the cmd thing, like I found a tutorial with the commands for it and ****.
Oh my god, this is frustrating can someone help me please? I don't know what else to put in this I'm not overly tech savvy, I had to google where to find my serial number. I know some things though, I'm not overly useless but this was hard.
Hey thanks anyway, I probably look a fool but please help <3
edit: also so u understand new zealand an iphone cost $1,100 and a Huawei P8 cost $800, this phone cost $89.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. Have you unlocked the bootloader ? This thread might help you
https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help/how-to-root-huawei-y6-elite-lyo-l02-t3495930
Good luck
Sawdoctor