Please help.. a little girl waits :(

[laurasaur]

Heh apologoies for title but im really stuck and desperate for any help!!

I have been trying to unlock my Cingular 8525 for many hours now without any luck.

I bought it off ebay knowing it was locked because I had seen these forums and knew it wasnt too harder job. I live in NZ we have a compatible 3G network here (they sell these phones branded as JasJams).

Anyway I dont have a cingular sim card, only a Vodafone NZ simcard. I dont know if that is a problem for me or not...

My problem is that I get part way through the update process and the connection between pc and phone gets cut everytime at the same place.

On my bootload screen during the setup it says
HERM100 IPL-SSPL by Des

HERM100 SPL-1.09.ds


and then

HERM100 IPL-1.01

HERM100 SPL-1.40.Olipro

Then I tick the appropriate checkboxes, I HAVE to soft reset my phone here to get it to sync up with my PC again, I dont think this should be a problem though,

It then gives me the button to select the Update button (Update the radio and bootloader)
So I click that, it gives the next screen, click next, tells you its going to take 10 minutes etc, so click next,

It then instantly disconnects the active sync connection and about a minute later I get an error screen saying the unlocker encountered communications errors.

I have been through this whole proccess 6 times now with no joy :(
Someone pleeeeeeeeease help me :(

Thanks

[laurasaur]

im willing to pay for a code all i want is a unlocked sim phone none of this radio stuff etc

[amet]

try Wiki

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/

or alternatively

http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=27

[laurasaur]

Thanks but not really helpful, I have read the wiki through and through. I have tried that flashing HardSPL v7 and i get exactly the same problem.

PLEASE somebody help me :(

[pcm2a]

The only piece that is confusing is what to do once your done. The instructions say that you will be replacing your radio with a tweaked one to allow the unlock. After the entire process is done I assume you will need to have your favorite radio (1.40.3 in my case) handy to flash back onto your Hermes?

I also assume that flashing your favorite radio back to the Hermes won't lock it back again.

[chunkymonkey]

To be honest, I'd suggest going back to basics. You could try quite a few workarounds and end up doing this anyway..:

Reflash the original ROM your phone came with. Should be found easily via wiki.

Then you can start upgrading again.

If that's difficult, try flashing from your MicroSD card, which I've found never fails, having bricked my Hermes quite a few times now with my own cockamayme (sp) versions of ROMs that I've cobbled together from bits of code and chewing-gum.

[amet]

as far as I know you dont need to CID unlock before flashing.... With olipro spl and custom RUU updater you can flash anything on your phone....

laurasaur, after you have installed 1.4 olipro, use custom RUU updater

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298737

use the RUU updater with your choice of Rom.

or if yo want to unlock the device before

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665

[sn00x]

as far as I know you dont need to CID unlock before flashing.... With olipro spl and custom RUU updater you can flash anything on your phone....

laurasaur, after you have installed 1.4 olipro, use custom RUU updater

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298737

use the RUU updater with your choice of Rom.

or if yo want to unlock the device before

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665She want's to SIM-Unlock, not to CID-Unlock.

Do you use Vista? I encountered a similar problem with Windows Vista. Try a PC with Windows XP for the unlocking process.

[amet]

ok my bad.... :(

[Sleuth255]

I've seen this issue with v1.4 Olipro. Upgrade bootloader to the latest Olipro 2.1 version then re-attempt.

[laurasaur]

ok thanks everyone for your advice but i am still screwed.

im not running vista.
i can not upgrade to olipro 2.1 because the upgrade utility always gets error 260 (update error) the update utility cannot connect to your PDA Phone.

I have now tried on 3 computers, my own, my parents and my work all resulting in the same thing.

I think now I will try and flash a WM6 rom onto my phone just using the olipro 1.4 and the custom RUU updater and see how I go but I dont have much hope :(

[laurasaur]

ok im currently updating the rom to wm6 as posted on the forums and oh my gosh i have a progress bar for the first time ever!! woot~~

[laurasaur]

um ok. now i have WM6 dopod version and fkn still sim locked :( someone help me before i throw my phone at the wall lol :( im going on holiday tomorrow and will have no phone for a week if i dont fix this in the next 3 hrs :(

[Nagata]

Sim Unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665

[pof]

On my bootload screen during the setup it says
HERM100 IPL-SSPL by Des

HERM100 SPL-1.09.ds


and then

HERM100 IPL-1.01

HERM100 SPL-1.40.Olipro

Then I tick the appropriate checkboxes, I HAVE to soft reset my phone here to get it to sync up with my PC again, I dont think this should be a problem though,


Do *NOT* soft reset your phone here, it is normal that activesync disconnects while the pda is in bootloader mode (activesync only works while OS is running). Just click "next, next, next" in the RUU and it will go fine.

[laurasaur]

woooa i think i love you Pof, I seriously do. Im not sure how I became such a noob at reading instructions but im sorry and thank you so much I now have progress bar :D

[ibanyard]

if you're short on time avoid any radio updates, they seem a bit hit and miss - its not worth upgrading then going away to find you've got a tossy signal!!!!

hope it worked out!