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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

[Resolved] [Q] SMS Problem - Text have been added to my SMS. Can you help me find why?

Hello,
I'm having a serious problem. I sent a SMS to a good friend this afternoon, and he got an altered version of it.
When I look in my Sent SMS folder, I see what I typed. When looking in his Received SMS folder, we see a modified version of what I sent him.
Before my original SMS we can now read this "I bought a segway, and am being drunk, sorry" (in French)
Then come my original SMS.
He use a Palm Pre2, and I have a Sony Ericsson Neo, with the latest official firmware, and root access. I didn't unlock my bootloader.
Recently, I installed "Set DNS" to solve the Google Market's unbearable slowness.
Do you have an idea about the cause of this problem?
Should I flash my phone back to original firmware?
Could Set DNS intercept my SMS and modify them?
Thanks you for any advice or hint you can offer me.
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Problem solved, it is a bug from my friend's Pre2, he has got some of his messages mixed together. The text that have been added to my message is coming from someone else's message.
Thanks anyway, perhaps this post can help a future victim of this bug

In what way was it altered? Can you post the before and after messages (French is fine for comparason purposes)?
I know that some carriers have SMS Signature features that can be set up via their website/account admin tools, is it possible that that's what you're experiencing?

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

[Q]How to update a Coolpad 9976A?

Hi to hall.This is a beginner question (i can help with your pets, I am only veterinarian). Appreciate the simple answer of the recognized experts in this fórum.
I only a week ago that I have the Coolpad 9976A and since I connected to the network, it asks me to update to version 2.056 (from .048). And although it seems trivial, I do not how to do it: I'm click on OK and leaves all in Chinese, as you know, and do not ask me more.
Nothing, happens:...a dialogue on gray background, which leads to nowhere, because the system is not updated. I leave this screen restarting with a long press on the power button. Goes off first and then restart, but nothing has been updated.
Can someone guide me in this?.
I tried to contact the brand, but email address which supplied, does not really exist and returned the mail to me, also have tried to contact anovo, technical service in Europe (I'm Spanish) but I had no answer.
I do not need rooting, or anything special, if update, because at least with this firmware, important errors occur in some google apps (i buyed on aliexpress and comes with play store) as maps, navigation, weather...etc.
Please, can anyone tell me how to proceed to update this firmware?
I've known by here, that there are two updates more after this. I guess I won't bother more with the following, if someone explains me, how to make the first...
Thank you in advance, sorry for my English, and regards to everyone!!

[Completed] [Q] contact syncro problem on viber

Hi guys
So, this is my first thread here, and probably this is a much discussed issue, sorry if its so
Currently, I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini, running 4.1.2 factory ROM, the phone is rooted, and this is my second Android device, after a couple of years with a Galaxy Wonder
I saw a couple of topics on google about this issue: I installed Viber, and the app doubled (and tripled, and more) a lot of names on the contact list after syncro.
I've already unistalled and reinstalled the app a couple of times, and the problem remains
I'm using the contact list from my phone's memory
Any tip from you experts out there?
Kind regards
Antonio

Hi,
I'm afraid I can't find your issue. You can try wiping data for viber, but other than that...it sounds like an app issue. You may need to contact the app developer about that.
Feel free to ask for help in your device section if you'd like though....
> Samsung Galaxy S III Mini > Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!

Thanks, I'll do that

Thread closed. Thank you.

Samsung Galaxy S7 - Smart Locker Issue

Hello XDA Team,
First of all, I am new here and I apologize*in advanve for any inconvenience.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S7 and I am facing an issue with my phone, recently I got a kind of Smart locker tool or program I am not sure, but the problem is I don't remember that I've installed or allow any kind of this programs in my phone (I tried to put a link to screenshots of the program but since I'm now I can't put a link, please who-else needs the pictures let me know), and even if I deactivate it, it returns automatically and sometimes it blocks my phone.
The following also appears in this program:
"res/layout/fragment_rec_list.xml
res/layout-v14/list_item_review.xml10%"
I can't find it in applications section to uninstall it. This is really bothering and I can't do nothing about it.
Kindly help me to resolve this issue.
Many Thanks Team