Remove Hard SPL

[ashkash]

I recently bought a Tmobile Wing on ebay and it has been hard spl'ed as I can see the SPL as 4.70 Yang in the bootloader mode.

Is there any way to remove the hard spl and just have the original spl on their?

I saw this thread where it has instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364543
but in this thread it says to also reflash it with the original rom after removing the hard spl. It looks like the phone is running a standard tmobile rom and I do not want to reflash the rom, just remove the hard spl. Thanks.

[elazullizard]

You need to flash the stock rom in order to remove the hardSPL. Afterwards, you can still use USPL to flash ROMs.

[ashkash]

Can I not just flash spl.nbh extracted from the stock rom to remove the hard spl? Maybe by renaming spl.nbh to HERAIMG.nbh and placing it on an sd card and flashing from the sd? I do not want to flash the entire stock rom as this will erase everything and I know the phone is currently running a stock tmobile rom, just with hard spl.

[ace10134]

Only way I know of is to flash the Stock T-Mobile ROM.

But why the hell would you want to remove HardSPL?? Having it HardSPLed makes your phone basically immune to bricking, you can flash ANY ROM, etc. It's wayyy better. Why would you want to remove it?

AND, why would you stick with the default ROM that it came with?? Use a custom ROM, like Ivan's JustStable or something. They are about 3x faster than a stock ROM. Wayyyyy faster.

You can look through all the ROM's here (http://thewingster.com/roms.aspx)

[dcmetrodude]

Is it necessary to remove the hard SPL to install one of these roms from wingster? Before I brick my wing, I'd appreciate a response. Sorry, noob here. :)

[ivanmmj]

Is it necessary to remove the hard SPL to install one of these roms from wingster? Before I brick my wing, I'd appreciate a response. Sorry, noob here. :)
Quite the opposite. You NEED it.

[dcmetrodude]

Thanks for the quick response. I assume it does not need to be unlocked either.

[ivanmmj]

Thanks for the quick response. I assume it does not need to be unlocked either.
The HardSPL takes care of the CID unlocking.