[Q] unlock rom image for hp 6515

[cesumer]

Hi
I have a cingular hp 6515a . I cannot unlock it.I need an unlock hp 6515 rom image.please help me.

[Rinoceros]

Thats very easy.
1: Download the (upgrade and unlocked) ROM from HP's website
2: HardReset your phone, but leave it in the first welcome screen (before the align screen and so)
3: Connect the phone to your PC, and wait for the connection to be established.
4: Run the downloaded Upgrade package (from HP), the phone will show a bootloader-screen.

Sometimes, the phone will not accept the upgrade program.
In that case do the following, but nothing else!
1: Disconnect the phone and soft reset it (it will come back into the bootloader)
2: Close the HP-upgrade program with taskmanager on your PC
3: Reconnect the phone to the PC
4: Rerun the HP ROM upgrade program.
Now your phone will show its upgrade status. It will take a while (about 20 minutes or so), but afterwards you will have a clean unlocked 6515.
I did this with several locked phones (especially Vodafone) from international sources.

Above will work fine, on every PC with Active-Sync (in my case 4.5) installed. :rolleyes:

I assume, you will have a backup, made by the SIP-backup program on one of your memory cards. You can restore it after you've upgraded your phone :p

[plerky]

SKU error,, did not work

[Rinoceros]

Did you use the rom you download here: HP 6515 ROM upgrades (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=501212&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=215348&prodSeriesId=501209&taskId=135) ?

I did it again today, but with a soft reset of the 6515 and shutting down the upgrade program with taskmanager. Do NOT Hard-reset the device or reboot your computer! Before restarting the upgrade, the computer has to reconnect to the 6515 although it is in the bootloader mode.

[deivasankar]

Hi guys,

I tried my cingular hw6515a to update the ROM to 1.21 unlocked ROM, it went successful but when booting it shows the initial setup and it hung on the second step "Pop-up Menus" and it doesnt show up any next button. What should i do now, please help me..

Thanks a lot in advance.

[ApexPredatorBoids]

Has anyone managed to get this to work on a 6515 "A"? When I tried it I got an error message that said something like "Incorrect device SKU". I then decided to try upgrading to 1.20 which went smoothly. However, I still get the same SKU error message when trying to upgrade to 1.21. Is there a way to force it into bootloader mode? Anyone know some trick that I'm missing?

[Rinoceros]

SKU-error means wrong language.....:confused:

[Rinoceros]

Hi guys,

I tried my cingular hw6515a to update the ROM to 1.21 unlocked ROM, it went successful but when booting it shows the initial setup and it hung on the second step "Pop-up Menus" and it doesnt show up any next button. What should i do now, please help me..

Thanks a lot in advance.

Retry the update, or downgrade to 1.20

[cellsolution]

Accordint to i know sim/Net locks r stored on different partison or ROM image of WM so when u upgrade it it dont removes sim/net locks..............

[Arruor]

Hi there,
I've tried upgrade from 1.04 to 1.21WWE, but the upgrade process died on 12.5%.
I use the original rom upgrade from HP with ActiveSync 4.5 on XP.
I've tried many times to restart the upgrade process, but it fails on .1%.
Cann someone tell me where I can find the original 6515.bin. I've try to gogole it but with no success.
Thanks in advance.

[Rinoceros]

Accordint to i know sim/Net locks r stored on different partison or ROM image of WM so when u upgrade it it dont removes sim/net locks..............

I've done it several times. The HP Roms contains also the RadioROM.
If you just think it cannot done... Why don't you give it try...

[Rinoceros]

Hi there,
I've tried upgrade from 1.04 to 1.21WWE, but the upgrade process died on 12.5%.
I use the original rom upgrade from HP with ActiveSync 4.5 on XP.
I've tried many times to restart the upgrade process, but it fails on .1%.
Cann someone tell me where I can find the original 6515.bin. I've try to gogole it but with no success.
Thanks in advance.

What language do you use?
For WWE you wil find v1.21, v1.20, v1.12 and v1.00 here (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=501212&prodTypeId=215348&prodSeriesId=501209&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=2050).

[doublei2]

SKU ERROR help pls

[jin_214]

Accordint to i know sim/Net locks r stored on different partison or ROM image of WM so when u upgrade it it dont removes sim/net locks..............

So how can we solve this problem?

[bolun]

This method worked for for an iPaq hw6515 after many long nights, but may be good as well for others:

Do this only from an Windows XP OS.
Make sure you have up to date ActiveSync from Microsoft!

To Unlock,

Just reflash your iPaq with the THE SAME language from HP official support site: h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=501212&lang=en&cc=us &prodTypeId=215348&prodSeriesId=501209&taskId=1 35

Connect your PDA to the computer and check it is in state connected in ActiveSync.
Download the current language ROM from the provided link, unpack, , and follow the instructions.
This official tool will do everything for you!
When it completes (~30 minutes), your phone will be unlocked.

After that if you need to change the language, follow this instructions:



How to change the language in your iPaq:

Here is the detailed process completed, borrowed from Barr :

1. Download and extract BOTH current and desired ROM language pack from HP site to the computer. Unpack them to different folders.
2. Establishing connection with the computer, copy EnterBL.exe (from desired language ROM folder) to the mydocument folder of the PDA.
3. Run the EnterBL.exe from the PDA. (Now your PDA will go to Bootloader mode).
4. (before executing step 4, prepare for step 5 since step 5 will have to be executed right after step4). From your PC, start updating the current ROM by lunching hpRUU.exe of the current installed language of your PDA.

5. Right after step4, when it will start updating, copy all the data (*.nbf) files of desired/intendedlanguage ROM pack to the current ROM pack. (the Rradio.nbf may be skipped if the device is already unlocked).
6. At the end of copying, it might show an error message, press OK to ignore.
7. The phone will restart!

[jin_214]

Hi there,
I've tried upgrade from 1.04 to 1.21WWE, but the upgrade process died on 12.5%.
I use the original rom upgrade from HP with ActiveSync 4.5 on XP.
I've tried many times to restart the upgrade process, but it fails on .1%.
Cann someone tell me where I can find the original 6515.bin. I've try to gogole it but with no success.
Thanks in advance.

Same here i reflash again last night but upgrade process fails on .02%