Deathace
29-10-2007, 11:45 PM
Hi All,
I am sure there are many people waiting for information on the whereabouts of the T-mobile UK shipped rom and I thought I would try and update the situation a little to at least let people know whats what.
After being on the phone to technical support for a while tonight I have managed to find out a little more information. The shipped rom was actually put together and flashed to the phones by a company called WDS Global (http://www.wdsglobal.com/) who are responsible for all the major UK operators (Vodafone, O2, Orange, 3 and T-Mobile) in terms of mobile based handsets and configuring them prior to them being shipped to the relevant operator to be sent to us lucky people.
T-Mobile do not have a copy of the shipped rom as it wouldn't be something they would do (flash phones) as WDS is responsible for that, so no point phoning them up trying to get it.
The support chap (Aidan) is going to escalate an email to his bosses and thus further on to get WDS to contact me direct to see what can be done about obtaining the original shipped rom, as well as this I have contacted WDS directly asking them if they would be able to supply a copy of the shipped rom so I can put my phone back to the defaults it was shipped with as installing programs and such has messed my phone up and a hard reset does not fix it.
As soon as I have any further information or a copy of the ROM if im ever that lucky I will post here for people to use as a backup if they want to try other roms.
Aidan did say to me that we should be able to use the vanilla HTC rom on the phone with no problems as other than a few backgrounds, ringtones and the settings (which he gave me manually) and web n walk the T-mobile rom is almost identical. However this would make our warranties void in the event of any genuine hardware failure. Hence why I would prefer to have the OEM rom from T-mobile first before messing any further.
Hope this helps bring to light a few answers to questions that people may have regarding this issue.
Russ
I am sure there are many people waiting for information on the whereabouts of the T-mobile UK shipped rom and I thought I would try and update the situation a little to at least let people know whats what.
After being on the phone to technical support for a while tonight I have managed to find out a little more information. The shipped rom was actually put together and flashed to the phones by a company called WDS Global (http://www.wdsglobal.com/) who are responsible for all the major UK operators (Vodafone, O2, Orange, 3 and T-Mobile) in terms of mobile based handsets and configuring them prior to them being shipped to the relevant operator to be sent to us lucky people.
T-Mobile do not have a copy of the shipped rom as it wouldn't be something they would do (flash phones) as WDS is responsible for that, so no point phoning them up trying to get it.
The support chap (Aidan) is going to escalate an email to his bosses and thus further on to get WDS to contact me direct to see what can be done about obtaining the original shipped rom, as well as this I have contacted WDS directly asking them if they would be able to supply a copy of the shipped rom so I can put my phone back to the defaults it was shipped with as installing programs and such has messed my phone up and a hard reset does not fix it.
As soon as I have any further information or a copy of the ROM if im ever that lucky I will post here for people to use as a backup if they want to try other roms.
Aidan did say to me that we should be able to use the vanilla HTC rom on the phone with no problems as other than a few backgrounds, ringtones and the settings (which he gave me manually) and web n walk the T-mobile rom is almost identical. However this would make our warranties void in the event of any genuine hardware failure. Hence why I would prefer to have the OEM rom from T-mobile first before messing any further.
Hope this helps bring to light a few answers to questions that people may have regarding this issue.
Russ