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Hard SPL not working...irritating

I know there are other threads on this, and I have poured through them. Everytime that I go to unlock my VZW Touch Pro 2, with the radio ON, while it is SYNCED, i get an error stating that I already unlocked another device, and that I should donate if I wish to use the program commercially. I feel like I'm being ripped off here. I don't mind donating, but I don't like being forced into it. I have NEVER owned another windows mobile device before, nor have i unlocked one for somebody else. As a matter of fact, of ALL the people I know, I am the only person who actually HAS a Touch Pro 2.
The main reason I got it was because of the custom ROMS. I followed the instructions involving filing a ticket with the htc-unlock support site, but nobody has gotten back to me. The weekend is the only time I have available to do this, to be able to fiddle with it to make it usable in my everyday life before I head back out to work.
I would like to know WHY I am getting this error. Is it because somebody has usurped my phone's identification and used it for themselves? If that is the case, can they track that person down? Give me their IP address, tell me HOW they could have possible done it, etc. If that is NOT the case, then what other problems could their be. All the complaints about this problem have NOT been answered publically, people were just told to go to the above mentioned site, or to private message somebody.
That annoys me, I would like to know the reason WHY this is happening. It should be common knowledge, and should not be made hidden. I've scowered these forums, as well as PPC Geeks, and nobody has an explanation for this. Can somebody explain this to me?

same problem
I'm having the same problem. Today is my first attempt to ever flash a tp2 phone and I get the fatal error dialog (see below).. what is going on?
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Fatal Error
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Hard-SPL is for non-commercial purposes only, we have detected that you appear to already have unlocked another device, if you wish to unlock commercially, please e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] to discuss solutions; However if this is your first device, then please ensure that the radio is turned ON and retry
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OK
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archimedesjs said:
I know there are other threads on this, and I have poured through them. Everytime that I go to unlock my VZW Touch Pro 2, with the radio ON, while it is SYNCED, i get an error stating that I already unlocked another device, and that I should donate if I wish to use the program commercially. I feel like I'm being ripped off here. I don't mind donating, but I don't like being forced into it. I have NEVER owned another windows mobile device before, nor have i unlocked one for somebody else. As a matter of fact, of ALL the people I know, I am the only person who actually HAS a Touch Pro 2.
The main reason I got it was because of the custom ROMS. I followed the instructions involving filing a ticket with the htc-unlock support site, but nobody has gotten back to me. The weekend is the only time I have available to do this, to be able to fiddle with it to make it usable in my everyday life before I head back out to work.
I would like to know WHY I am getting this error. Is it because somebody has usurped my phone's identification and used it for themselves? If that is the case, can they track that person down? Give me their IP address, tell me HOW they could have possible done it, etc. If that is NOT the case, then what other problems could their be. All the complaints about this problem have NOT been answered publically, people were just told to go to the above mentioned site, or to private message somebody.
That annoys me, I would like to know the reason WHY this is happening. It should be common knowledge, and should not be made hidden. I've scowered these forums, as well as PPC Geeks, and nobody has an explanation for this. Can somebody explain this to me?
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celitrd2, I don't suppose you are also on Verizon by any chance? I think I will wait till some of those bugs are worked out before I try to unlock my TP2 again. I don't even get as far as you guys. Windows Vista sucks ass!

I finally got a response back after my inquiry to the support site. They didn't explain HOW it happened, but they asked for my IMEI # and supposedly they're going to remove it from the "already unlocked" lists or whatever. Hopefully it will work, I'll report back next weekend when i will get some more free time to attempt an unlock.

I have sprint. I created a support ticket on on their site along with my phone imei# yesterday... still awaiting for their response.
THE-COPS said:
celitrd2, I don't suppose you are also on Verizon by any chance? I think I will wait till some of those bugs are worked out before I try to unlock my TP2 again. I don't even get as far as you guys. Windows Vista sucks ass!
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Even on windows Vista, you shouldn't be having a problem using the unlocker.
I do know that a friend of mine tried using the HSPL Unlock on his computer, and kept running into problems. Turns out his phone was trying to sync with WMDC while he was unlocking.
Have you by any chance tried Plugging the phone into the computer. Let the phone completely sync with WMDC, then go into settings and deactivate auto sync. from this point you should be able to Do the unlocker without having any problems.

The problem I'm having isn't WMDC, it's the exe file within the zip. It will extract on the phone, but when I copy it over to desktop, a file with 0 bytes appears and becomes unaccessable. If I unzip it on the PC, no file appears. They said that AV programs will think it's a virus and prevent it from even showing up. So I disabled Windows Defender and Spybot, yet the same problem still happens. See, the PC with Vista is my sisters. I have XP on mine but no internet (except for VZ broadband on my phone, but that cant be used in this case). Everytime I use Vista, the damn thing irritates the hell out of me. Is anyone familiar with the services that run on Vista? Perhaps maybe you know what else needs to be turned off. There are no other AV programs except Norton Internet Security, and that isn't even enabled. I dont think that would do anything anyway since it's for incoming internet data streams.

Same Deal
I have a sprint tp2. never tried to flash before, ever. Have donated over 40 dollars now to olipro and feel pretty ripped. every time I do everything step by step active sync to the cab file download...but oh yes...the "fatal error" message every time. I'm sick.

Well I went to check the status of my ticket today, and it shows that it was closed. So being as stupid as I am, I assumed that the problem was resolved and I should be able to unlock my phone. I grab my phone, grab my usb cable and hook it up to my computer. I let everythign SYNC, I ensure the radio is on, and then I open up the unlocker. I click auto-flash, wait for the button to pop up to start the flashing, and sure enough I get the error message stating that I already unlocked a phone...etc.
What irks me the most now, is that when I let it be known to them that my time is limited, and the ONLY time I can fiddle with the phone is on the weekends they said I should donate to resolve the problem faster. That pisses me off, and it should piss off anybody who was forced into that situation. I would GLADLY donate money if everything worked properly, but it doesn't. I am going to start looking for a workaround for their security in the meantime. There were several leads on PPC geeks that I need to follow up, and I will not be donating if I am successful through those means. If, however, by some miracle they respond before then(which I doubt), I will be donating. We'll see what happens.

archimedesjs said:
Well I went to check the status of my ticket today, and it shows that it was closed. So being as stupid as I am, I assumed that the problem was resolved and I should be able to unlock my phone. I grab my phone, grab my usb cable and hook it up to my computer. I let everythign SYNC, I ensure the radio is on, and then I open up the unlocker. I click auto-flash, wait for the button to pop up to start the flashing, and sure enough I get the error message stating that I already unlocked a phone...etc.
What irks me the most now, is that when I let it be known to them that my time is limited, and the ONLY time I can fiddle with the phone is on the weekends they said I should donate to resolve the problem faster. That pisses me off, and it should piss off anybody who was forced into that situation. I would GLADLY donate money if everything worked properly, but it doesn't. I am going to start looking for a workaround for their security in the meantime. There were several leads on PPC geeks that I need to follow up, and I will not be donating if I am successful through those means. If, however, by some miracle they respond before then(which I doubt), I will be donating. We'll see what happens.
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I completely agree! I never unlocked my device before - it's completely new and the IMEI has never been used (and I KNOW this for a fact because I work for my provider and know this device is NEW not REFURB) - and yet I am being told that my device is already used and they have to remove my IMEI from the list and to do so I should give them money. WTF?
Anyone been able to unlock their device on the first try without contacting them and giving them money?

I gave up on this. Just going to stick wiith the stock ROM and upgrade to VZ 6.5 ROM. This is too much of a headache for me. I dont remember unlocking ever being this difficult on a device.

jerdog said:
I completely agree! I never unlocked my device before - it's completely new and the IMEI has never been used (and I KNOW this for a fact because I work for my provider and know this device is NEW not REFURB) - and yet I am being told that my device is already used and they have to remove my IMEI from the list and to do so I should give them money. WTF?
Anyone been able to unlock their device on the first try without contacting them and giving them money?
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I had no problems at all. Running windows vista ultimate on my home computer. These are the exact steps i took....Disable all antivirus and antispyware before you download (because it give a false positive and will delete some of the contents of the download), download the file to my desktop, allowed my device to completely sync, ran the exe file, followed the prompts and Unlocked the phone. I did use the paid unlocker though to do the sim unlock but I used the free unlocker for hspl. Make sure your not on a work or public network where someone else may have unlocked a phone. I read somewhere that it also prevents unlocks if someone on the same network unlocked a phone. Hope this helps.

[Q] LGL45C factory reset problems

Hi all, I come to you all in this time of great need. I have in my possession a LG Optimus Net or LGL45C as its know technically.
I started to suffer from problems from gapps resulting from uninstalling the Google Talk app(yes doing this in retrospect was incredibly stupid). After failing to resolve my problem when trying to re-install it, I decided to take the easy way and just do a factory reset and start from scratch. Little did I know what was to meet me. I was given the "Touch to the android to begin" screen like so many others, but it was not meant to be that simple. I would touch the android, and it would light gleefully but it would not reveal to me the next step and sit there motionless. So I proceeded to the next logical step, touching each corner in succession to skip the setup process. But no matter how many times I repeated it, nothing came of it. Next I booted into recovery mode(stock I never bothered to install CWM, another one of my mistakes) and did another factory reset, clear cache, etc. This too did not work. And I thought, there was always installing CWM through ADB where then I can then just flash to a stock ROM I downloaded. But Alas!! USB debugging some how got disabled and it was all fruitless. A little google-fu later I came across a method to flash .kdz using obscure LG utilities. With renewed hope I followed the steps but to no avail. Now I come to you stranger, and plead you in somehow help me in recovering some use of this phone. I have exhausted all my options and I hope someone out there read this and comes in my time of need. Sorry for the long block of text :silly::silly::silly::silly:

Having the same problem as you, bookface.
I couldn't install CWM from the links provided in another post, all lead to a 404 Dropbox page. This sucks. And when I tried to use the installer from Play, I got a dialog saying it's not compatible. Some would say to ignore it, it would be fine...
But if something doesn't feel right, don't do it, I've always been told...
So, I was rooted, but phone started acting funny. Done a factory reset. Since I didn't have CWM, I thought it would clear that mess up.
Nope, almost all apps crash. I'm lucky that at least the browser, Gmail, and music apps work, but everything else, including Google Play Store, all crash upon launch.
Net10's forum is a lame excuse as a "forum." Seems like TracFone employees have NO concept of how a forum works. I looked at there for the same issue, and they rather take software/hardware issues to private messages?
I have NO computer, my hubby's friend who helps him says "You have an Android tablet, that is a computer!" Technically, yes and no. Since I can't root that thing, it's useless. (If you want to know, Polaroid PMID709 4.1 with Rockchip RK29xx, and impossible to root fully, it's "semi-rooted".)
And I'm lost. I and my hubby need this phone to work. Because we need it fpr work (our jobs). And I'm getting sick of TracFone screwing up Android ROMs.
Please help!

youve made much more headway than i. trying to help my neighbor with his. he set a lockscreen password on his lgl34c and then promptly forgot it.
so upon a bit of research, this model is a doozie to work with. i had intended to overdeliver by flashing him a ROM that might allow some hotspotting and the like. upon closer inspection, i dont believe that i will be able to do that. at best a towelroot...
but ONLY IF i can get past this lockscreen. i've tried to factory reset by:
1) removing/replacing battery then holding vol down+power and waiting for LG splashscreen then releasing power (still holding vol down ) and then re-pressing(holding) power again
2) turning phone off and holding home+vol up+power and holding 30-40 sec
ive repeated both methods many many times, and these are the only methods that i have seen described in my google searching. in fact, yours is the most advanced post i have found yet.
how can i factory reset this phone without access to the settings menu?

Issues with LG Stylo H634. NEED HELP ASAP!!!!!!!! Please and thank you :)

I have an LG Stylo H634. I've tried everything to bypass the frp lock. I've exhausted all the options I've found online. Everything everyone else has been able to try to bypass the frp lock on the LG Stylo H634 and LG phones alike, who were successful, but for some reason, all those methods they were able to successfully use, aren't available to me on this particular phone (story of my life, no joke). I don't know what it is. I've tried to access "update word suggestions" that option is literally UNAVAILABLE, like it isn't even listed in the phone anymore (it used to be though). I've tried the "Motor & Cognition" "press & hold" Home button, that didn't work (nothing happened). I've tried "TalkBack>Settings", "settings" option is grayed out. I've tried "Overview 'KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN" button, that didn't work. I've tried flashing with .tot and .dll files with several flashing tools. I've tried "toolbypass" tools. I've tried everything I can find, and literally nothing works. Is there anything that you can think of that you can share with me that might help me in this situation. I don't know what else to do. It's so frustrating because I've literally been at this for several months. This is getting out of hand. I mean, something that's so simple for someone else, is for some reason being so difficult for me. I've never had this many problems with technology. So if you can please at your earliest convenience, post anything that you may find helpful. And please, if you're trying to sell your services, I'm totally good on that. I don't send money to complete strangers with faith that you won't take my money and run. I mean, if I was willing to pay money to have this done for me, don't you think I would take the phone to a professional to have it fixed? Common sense. Anyways, thanks for any helpful tips and for trying. I appreciate it. And anyone that has a successful solution, I will be sure to let you know how grateful I am if any of your suggestions were successful. I will never be able to thank you enough.

AliciaLeighB said:
I have an LG Stylo H634. I've tried everything to bypass the frp lock. I've exhausted all the options I've found online. Everything everyone else has been able to try to bypass the frp lock on the LG Stylo H634 and LG phones alike, who were successful, but for some reason, all those methods they were able to successfully use, aren't available to me on this particular phone (story of my life, no joke). I don't know what it is. I've tried to access "update word suggestions" that option is literally UNAVAILABLE, like it isn't even listed in the phone anymore (it used to be though). I've tried the "Motor & Cognition" "press & hold" Home button, that didn't work (nothing happened). I've tried "TalkBack>Settings", "settings" option is grayed out. I've tried "Overview 'KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN" button, that didn't work. I've tried flashing with .tot and .dll files with several flashing tools. I've tried "toolbypass" tools. I've tried everything I can find, and literally nothing works. Is there anything that you can think of that you can share with me that might help me in this situation. I don't know what else to do. It's so frustrating because I've literally been at this for several months. This is getting out of hand. I mean, something that's so simple for someone else, is for some reason being so difficult for me. I've never had this many problems with technology. So if you can please at your earliest convenience, post anything that you may find helpful. And please, if you're trying to sell your services, I'm totally good on that. I don't send money to complete strangers with faith that you won't take my money and run. I mean, if I was willing to pay money to have this done for me, don't you think I would take the phone to a professional to have it fixed? Common sense. Anyways, thanks for any helpful tips and for trying. I appreciate it. And anyone that has a successful solution, I will be sure to let you know how grateful I am if any of your suggestions were successful. I will never be able to thank you enough.
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https(colon)//youtu(dot)be/sNPdLHu33ac

Probably sorted it out or trashed your Stylo by now but if not here's how I broke past FRP on this bastard roughly 15 minutes ago (someone gave it to me for the purpose of getting past FRP without using any tools but Google and my small collection of brain cells as a learning aide...good times). That said, I'd about given up and was looking at the tool tuts on YouTube and was ready to let the LG Tool thing do it's business when I stumbled into something about using a WiFi hotspot, then switching it off just as Google was trying to update before it usually tells you to f*** off or login with the unavailable Google account. I had TalkBack on and Universal Switch on yada yada blah blah Overview shortcut assigned to the volume down key and on the second attempt I switched my other phone's WiFi hotspot off just in time to have the screen switch to "Choose A Name" and pretty soon I was twerking about in the LG Stylo/Android OS settings menu. Disappointed to see no Android 6.0.1 update waiting in stasis though. Cricket continues to serve as the gold standard of suck. Smaller storage. Crappier camera. Probably never see Android M outside a custom rom (if there's a Santa). Some weird storage bug if you stream tunes requiring you download an update?! Tf!? And sealed up like Ft. Knox to become the toughest FRP bypass I've seen out of 4 total cases (all LG surprise, surprise) including an LG Leon I opted to use as a projectile weapon last summer just because it pleased me to see it die :angel: anywho good luck. Chin up. Pip pip cheery-oh and all that fun stuff.

Thanks for the help
Thank you so much. I actually figured it out a couple months ago via youtube. I finally found a video that had useful information for a change lol. I was so ecstatic, you don't even know lol. I had been trying to get into this phone for literally months, and I'm not exaggerating lol. I use it now for my google voice. But thank you so much responding and actually being interested in helping. This is the video that I watched on youtube h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPdLHu33ac. This was the only video I found to actually work for me.

Data recovery/retreival for LG Stylo 2 (MS550)

Hey guys,
I tried posting in a related thread, but someone suggested looking here.
I dont know as much as you guys, but I am having a problem with my LG Stylo 2 (MS550)
I am getting the "corrupt" error message and I need to get some important data from the phone's memory.
I am willing to do ANYTHING.
I decent with electronics, but I have never gotten into Android stuff.
Here is the problem:
My LG Stylo 2 froze one day and I had to take the battery out to shut it off. When I tried to reboot it, it wouldn't do anything. Now a month has passed and when I power on, sometimes it says:
"Your device is corrupted and cannot be trusted"
The top left of the sceen says "Boot verification Fail!! - cause DIFFERENT_HASH" and there is always a different 4 digit number to the left of the message.
It just keeps rebooting and cycles thru the same thing.
I cannot enter recovery mode, but I can access fastboot mode and the factory reset screen. I have NOT done a reset or touched anything. I can get the computer to recognize the USB connection for the fastboot, but I don't know what software I need to look at/edit it.
I believe that I have some very important data on the phone memory. I am willing to do anything to find out.
I dont care about fixing the phone. I just need to access the data. Mainly text messages and files that are saved on the phone's memory. Photos would help, but are not important.
I have been searching everywhere and it's hard for me to find much helpful info.
I am hoping that there might be some software that might allow me to copy the phone memory. But it sounds like I might need to repair the bootloader first?
If it comes down to it, I am willing to crack it open and manually make a conection to the phone's memory. I am fairly good with electronics, but I need to know what Im looking for and how to get it. I have used arduino with an FTDI adapter to program some boards before, but nothing this complex. I am willing to purchase whatever I need to get this job done. I do not have access to a raspberry pi, but I assume that it would be compatible. I am willing to do any soldering but I dont know what connections to look for. It there somewhere I can find a complete diagram/pinout for this phone? (LG Stylo 2). If anybody knows any information about how I can get the data, please let me know.
I was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and I don't know how much time I have left.
Meanwhile, I am being accused of something that I did not do, and there is evidence on the phone that will help.
You guys can be as harsh if you want, but at this point I just need a little help. I am willing to try anything.
Please let me know if anybody can help point me in the right direction.
Thanks!

Question IMEI / fingerprint problems... Any fix?

So today I'm doing the usual flashing of new roms to try them out and I run into a problem. During device setup, Google Fi fails to activate giving error code B042, and also errors out when it's time to register my fingerprint. Didn't think much of it at first, but now I've tried everything I can think of with no luck. Eventually I notice both IMEIs are listed as all zeros. I've wiped data multiple times, reflashed many factory and custom rom versions both with Android flash tool and manually, and always get the same issue with Fi activation and fingerprint scanner not working. I talked with Google techs and they just tell me to take it to Best Buy where it was purchased. I'm thinking a partition must have corrupted or something that doesn't restore during a typical reflash. Can anyone comment on what's going on, and if there's a way to go about fixing it myself. I do have both IMEIs listed on the box if there's a way to go about restoring them, but I doubt that would do anything with the fingerprint problem if even possible. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Been on these forums for a decade and this may be my first time posting since I've always been able to work through problems myself, but I'm totally stuck on this one. Oh and the Pixel 7 pro I just bought to mess around with root and roms as a second phone, and my main S22u is still working fine, so not exactly an emergency or anything. Thanks in advance.

oncestruck said:
So today I'm doing the usual flashing of new roms to try them out and I run into a problem. During device setup, Google Fi fails to activate giving error code B042, and also errors out when it's time to register my fingerprint. Didn't think much of it at first, but now I've tried everything I can think of with no luck. Eventually I notice both IMEIs are listed as all zeros. I've wiped data multiple times, reflashed many factory and custom rom versions both with Android flash tool and manually, and always get the same issue with Fi activation and fingerprint scanner not working. I talked with Google techs and they just tell me to take it to Best Buy where it was purchased. I'm thinking a partition must have corrupted or something that doesn't restore during a typical reflash. Can anyone comment on what's going on, and if there's a way to go about fixing it myself. I do have both IMEIs listed on the box if there's a way to go about restoring them, but I doubt that would do anything with the fingerprint problem if even possible. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Been on these forums for a decade and this may be my first time posting since I've always been able to work through problems myself, but I'm totally stuck on this one. Oh and the Pixel 7 pro I just bought to mess around with root and roms as a second phone, and my main S22u is still working fine, so not exactly an emergency or anything. Thanks in advance.
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Sounds like your EFS partition got corrupted...
I haven't done anything with my P7P, it's stock, so can't offer any advice other than a google search to get you started... here

If the mod will erase it not state it. You mess with that you are on your own? Broke the op as well. Just delete it.