Originally Posted by munkeyphyst

try powering down, and once powered off, press Volume Down + Power + Camera buttons.

Sent from my SGH-i917 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

good, this works to enter the phone in the sync mode, but is there any way to make a hard reset with combination of some other bottoms???

Unlocked Rom on Locked Att?

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Is there a way to flash unlocked dell venue pro firmware on the locked att dell venue pro?

Not yet...

Does this programme actually work if I got an original rom to reflash my phone ?

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Originally Posted by batthead

may be this program? http://www.wpcentral.com/wp7-backup-tool-homebrew

Does the programme you provided actually work to reflash the phone if I can get a member to share their original backup ?

I got a bricked dip so need one desperately ... ....

BTW my card is empty and the phone is saying storage problems ... ... does it work if i can get my friend's samsung omnia 7 to formate my card and work it in the DVP or I would need a DVP to flash the card to make it work ?

Or at least if I reformat the card then I can get the windows phone support tools working to recover ?

Ok, so here's what I'm getting. Every back up would be set for one persons phone only do to the fact that each phone provides its own key locked to that file. I'm assuming then the idea of dev unlocking would be the only way to get a universal file since it would be a "testing" version.
As far as the sd card goes, using anything outside of dell would provide an sd card for that phone. So, no, the samsung idea wouldn't work though that would be a good theory since they're all windows phones. From what I gather, that would mean anything outside of your own phone would produce unwanted files and not a backup for you to use since the key for it would only be decrypted by the phone that created it.
I'm learning very quickly of 2 things that are being made very obviousvery quickly.
1. Dell sucks.
2. Windows phones suck as well.
(1 & 2 refer to the blocking of modding)
I'm guessing then that each DVP creates a whitelist to block all other phones that are not it(?) That sounds a bit confusing.
These are all inferences, nothing is set in stone or absolute. I could be misreading some of these and clafirication would be nice.