Please Assist- Cingular 8125 and downgrade options(if any)

[aixenv]

I have currently the following:

IPL 2.25
SPL 2.25
GSM 2.25.11
OS 2.25.11.1

I am a self proclaimed newb when it comes to cell phone mods, however i've started to research on this site and read a few of faria's and other people threads. I have come to the conclusion i'd like to test out summiters AKUv2.3 ROM, however from what im reading it seems since my phone is NOT CID locked i can not first downgrade to unlock the CID (needing what i believe is an <v2.21) to then flash the rom to his custome rom. although i also saw where someone said they used a cingular shipped rom to downgrade their phone, i believe my phone originally came with v1.18. my other option is to return this phone to the carrier and get another phone which would ship with the v.1.18 or whatever it was and then i can follow faria's thread..

am i correct? or is there the ability to downgrade with my current setup

Thank you, great site, loads of info

[gamescan]

If your phone is CID locked (and it is CID locked by default unless you have unlocked it) upgrading to the 2.25 ROM has prevented you from using the free tools on this site to do the unlock.

If you want to CID unlock you will have to pay for the http://imei-check.co.uk service. It claims to do both a SIM and CID unlock and is currently the only known way to CID unlock ROMs that are version 2.21 and higher. If you wait, a free solution will no doubt come out but if you want it now, it's going to cost you £20/$40.

Once the Wizard is CID unlocked you can flash any Wizard ROM you choose to it.

[summiter]

I have currently the following:

IPL 2.25
SPL 2.25
GSM 2.25.11
OS 2.25.11.1

I am a self proclaimed newb when it comes to cell phone mods, however i've started to research on this site and read a few of faria's and other people threads. I have come to the conclusion i'd like to test out summiters AKUv2.3 ROM, however from what im reading it seems since my phone is NOT CID locked i can not first downgrade to unlock the CID (needing what i believe is an <v2.21) to then flash the rom to his custome rom. although i also saw where someone said they used a cingular shipped rom to downgrade their phone, i believe my phone originally came with v1.18. my other option is to return this phone to the carrier and get another phone which would ship with the v.1.18 or whatever it was and then i can follow faria's thread..

am i correct? or is there the ability to downgrade with my current setup

Thank you, great site, loads of info


You'll want to flash to the original shipping rom which is on the xda-dev ftp at:

ftp://xda:xda@xda-developers.com/Wizard/Roms/Cingular/Cingular_RUU_1.8.11.1.WWE.ship.exe

Once that's installed, use awizard or lokiwiz to CID unlock. And once that's done, flash to whichever ROM floats your boat.

Post back here if you run into any snags and can't resolve it reading through the existing messages.

Are you an AIX admin?

[aixenv]

ahh yes im now finding on the ftp server

Cingular_RUU_1.8.11.1.WWE.ship.exe

yes linux/UNIX guru (AIX, FreeBSD, SUSE, etc) & phone noob, go figure..

im seeing conflicting statements here, 1 saying i can just downgrade to my shipped rom, the other saying i cant.

i received the phone yesterday, read up on some of the apps to try out, saw the new rom out, decided to try that out, did a soft reset on cingular extrom and then well have what i have, now i wanted to play a little more and test other peoples roms out and yet with no CID lock which would be the default i was under the impression i was SoL.. is that not correct? JUST to reverify with conflicting reports

[aixenv]

after doing some more research i'm not sure which way is the accurate position, i read on one forum that there is a locking done once you go past the v2.21 rom so you cant downgrade to then Cid unlock, but then i've read other places you can, im downloading the v1.8.11.1 file and i guess ill find out soon enough :)

[kyphur]

after doing some more research i'm not sure which way is the accurate position, i read on one forum that there is a locking done once you go past the v2.21 rom so you cant downgrade to then Cid unlock, but then i've read other places you can, im downloading the v1.8.11.1 file and i guess ill find out soon enough :)

Try it, the worst that will happen is that you get an error saying that you can't flash an older Rom (than what is already installed).

[aixenv]

well the update (downgrade to v1.8 shipped rom from 2.25) util is at 75% atm, .. will update accordingly....

[aixenv]

ok well it ran the "downgrade" with no problems, i soft reset on the cingular apps, and when the system boots back up i get the following:

IPL = 1.08
SPL = 2.25
GSM = 1.09.11
OS = 1.8.11.1

so from what ive read on the forums i think it's a good thing i asked them to overnight me a new phone due to faulty reception (which is true it doesn't get the reception a buddies gets)..because i would assume with the SPL at > 2.25 i wouldnt be able to unlock the CID, correct?