Bypass Orange stuff at hard reset?

[riffian]

I just did a hard reset of my Orange TyTN ii, and had heard that if you soft reset before the 3 second countdown for customisation then you don't get all the Orange guff installed. (The people who developed the Orange dialler should be banned from developing for life!)

Trouble is, when I hit the soft reset, it's performing a hard reset every time. Am I doing something wrong? Or will this trick not work on the new ROM and 6.1?

Any advice would be very gratefully accepted because I just could not bear to be stuck with that awful Orange dialler. I don't want to flash the ROM on this brand new device, if I can help it either in case I cock things up!

[Sayuuk]

I just did a hard reset of my Orange TyTN ii, and had heard that if you soft reset before the 3 second countdown for customisation then you don't get all the Orange guff installed. (The people who developed the Orange dialler should be banned from developing for life!)

Trouble is, when I hit the soft reset, it's performing a hard reset every time. Am I doing something wrong? Or will this trick not work on the new ROM and 6.1?

Any advice would be very gratefully accepted because I just could not bear to be stuck with that awful Orange dialler. I don't want to flash the ROM on this brand new device, if I can help it either in case I cock things up!

Maybe you can do a hard-reset with the battery-cover already removed, boot up, go through the initial setup and when the countdown starts, remove the battery.

[SiJ2000]

That trick only worked in WM6... WM6.1 doesn't work!

[riffian]

Thanks for the replies.

Typical! Microsoft continues to annoy and alienate its customers by further restricting their freedoms. It's almost as if they want to drive people to open source software. If only there was a Linux alternative to Windows Mobile. Sigh.

As for Orange, I've sent in a complaint to them about their incompetent developers - not that I expect them to take a blind bit of notice.

Is there a registry hack to banish Orange's crappy dialler and restore the much better HTC version?

[rfarnell]

Thanks for the replies.

Typical! Microsoft continues to annoy and alienate its customers by further restricting their freedoms. It's almost as if they want to drive people to open source software. If only there was a Linux alternative to Windows Mobile. Sigh.

As for Orange, I've sent in a complaint to them about their incompetent developers - not that I expect them to take a blind bit of notice.

Is there a registry hack to banish Orange's crappy dialler and restore the much better HTC version?

I think it is time for you to venture into the Kaiser ROM forum like I did when I became sick of the Orange software :D

[riffian]

I think it is time for you to venture into the Kaiser ROM forum like I did when I became sick of the Orange software :D

I'm too scared! ;-) If there's any chance of screwing it up, I'd rather not risk it until the Orange contract is over. But unless I can find a registry hack or some other way to replace the dialler, I might have to do it.

It's unbelievable that Orange has buried speed dial in a sub menu! What kind of moronic developer thinks that's a good idea? Have these idiots ever used a phone?

[Restorer]

You can get rid of the Orange stuff easily enough without replacing the ROM! Just install whatever CAB files take your fancy. Start with HTC Home Plugin and use HTC Home Customiser to get it the way you like. Then choose from the dozens of nice diallers people on here have developed.