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
Hi all!
I hope i'm posting on the right place
My questions is really simple: My mobile connection need a proxy to work correctly, so i have setup it and the browser works well! But the google apps ( sync/gmail/maps etc ) cannot connect!
I can't understand if this is a system related wrong setting OR google apps can't work with proxy.
Anyone have investigated about? Any suggestion?
I have an HTC Tatto device with Android 2.2 CM6, but i've got the same problem on 1.6.
Thank you to anyone reply!
i work in IT support. One of my users is having a problem with the s planner app on his galaxy note 3. some appointments and birthday reminders appear twice in the calendar. he is running android 4.2.2 if my memory serves me correctly. his mail is setup via active sync, the problem is not occuring on his WIN 8.1 laptop (outlook 2013) I haven't had much of an opportunity to try out different possible solutions. I have deleted the account and recreated it, restarted the device in between deleting and re-adding account. Looked through any setting that could maybe affect this. no luck.
I would greatly appreciate any ideas. Thank you
Hello
Welcome to XDA Assist.
Have you tried clearing data and cache of S planner ?
it would be in Settings --> Application Manager --> All Apps
To get better support ,join the forums and post in the official Galaxy Note 3 Q/A section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help
Have a good day !
hi
thanx for the quick response. I haven't given it a try yet. will be the first thing I try when I can my hands on the phone. I hope it does the trick. thanx again
I have tried that with no success unfortunately. it seemed to have done the trick but things started duplicating again not too long after.
Hello ! I have a rooted Galaxy S3 phone. The problem im having is an annoying check your connection. The playstore would be able to browse apps, but as soon as I went to the apps page to install it would return Check your connection and try again. I've encountered this error on my other Device and as soon as I saw it on primary device it just made me want to kill myself. This problem has haunted me for years, I was unable to use Playstore, so I uninstalled it on my old Device, Factory reset, yet the problem still persists. I decided to sell my device. To get this new Phone only to discover the same ****ing error. I tried googling online for a solution, I was up from 12am to 7am right now just trying to fix it. However, I somehow managed to get an even worse error by clearing data of the google play apps: Error while retrieving information from server. I also googled this, it was even worse then the other error. The only solution I have left is to factory reset, BUT I DONT WANT TO ****ING FACTORY RESET. I'VE DONE THIS BEFORE AND THE SAME ERROR ENDURES. WTF IS GOOGLE PLAY THINKING, THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL AN APP, WHY WOULD YOU RELEASE THIS TO YOUR CONSUMERS IF THIS ERROR EXSIST, ****ING RETARDED GOOGLE PLAY. Anyways, can someone please help me, im losing sleep and time I could've been doing other things...
Hello and thank you for using XDA Assist,
please create an account and ask in our Android S3 Q&A section:
Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
The experts there should be able to help you.
Kind regards & good luck
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I cannot enable wifi in my eonon ga6150f and even tried to use 3g dongle instead with no result. Its hard do do anything, because I cant get it online at all, so no app store or anything. I wonder if I put custom rom in it if it would help, but I dont want to do it in case I had to send it back. Heres a little video of the issue /watch?v=PAA-lzeYtLE
Hi there and welcome to assist,
Unfortunately there is nothing about your question/device on XDA forum. Try a Google search first but i'm pretty sure that is hardware fault.
You'll have to create an account to post in the main forums if you have any other questions.
Good luck