Changing to standard firmware on O2 XDA Orbit 2

[BadTasteUK]

Hi there, first post for me, first day with my O2 XDA Orbit 2. Pardon my ignorance, I've always been a Nokia man, but the orbit 2 seems to be "O2'd" and different to the Touch Cruise I've seen in videos on the net.

I'm hoping this is the same as mobile operators do with Nokia's, and that you can just change the firmware to the standard one.

Having a read, I'm a bit confused between radio versions, rom versions, cooking, language files, reg editing, etc, and was hoping someone could answer the following... :confused:

1) Is there an easy way to make my orbit a standard Touch Cruise?

2) Are there any downsides, apart from warranty? i.e. Loss of functions?


Thanks for any assistance! Apologies again for being a noob! :rolleyes:

[Abbsta]

1. Easy enough if you know what you are doing which requires a lot of reading of the wiki and various forums like Kaiser forum for example. This thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=356895) would be a good place to start.

2. You may brick you device.

[BadTasteUK]

Fantastic. Thanks for the steer Abbsta. :D I'm a bit wiser now!

I've also seen this thread...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=352625

... called Polaris Project, and I think the output of that is what I'm looking for.

[Abbsta]

It is indeed. But that is only the ROM and you would need to know/do other things first. That's why it's encouraged to read other threads like the one I pointed out and the wiki.