[Q] Milestone X2 SBF with different carrier?

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Hey everyone!

In short, is there a difference between the SBF from two different carriers of the milestone x2?

Long: I have a MX2 through Cellcom (local company cellcom.com). Currently, there is no SBF for my specific carrier. I know nTelos and Cellcom carry almost the exact same phone and I also know there is an nTelos SBF for the milestone X2. So, my question is, if I use the nTelos SBF for recovery of mine (cellcom)... would this be fine for my phone? Does anyone know exactly what would happen?

Thanks so much!

~Booga

nope, not with the ntellos one anyway

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Originally Posted by Booga Booga

Hey everyone!

In short, is there a difference between the SBF from two different carriers of the milestone x2?

Long: I have a MX2 through Cellcom (local company cellcom.com). Currently, there is no SBF for my specific carrier. I know nTelos and Cellcom carry almost the exact same phone and I also know there is an nTelos SBF for the milestone X2. So, my question is, if I use the nTelos SBF for recovery of mine (cellcom)... would this be fine for my phone? Does anyone know exactly what would happen?

Thanks so much!

~Booga

It doesn't work. At least the sbf from ntellos doesn't, I am having to bring my phone in today to Cellcom to get it fixed. The sbf will flash, and you will have a phone that boots up and works fine, except that the network settings aren't correct, so no voice, texts, or data.

Originally Posted by jaigurudevaom

It doesn't work. At least the sbf from ntellos doesn't, I am having to bring my phone in today to Cellcom to get it fixed. The sbf will flash, and you will have a phone that boots up and works fine, except that the network settings aren't correct, so no voice, texts, or data.

Well I used the ntelos to resurrect my Cspire MX2. Everything worked afterwards....data, text, mms, etc...

does not work on cellcom

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Originally Posted by 754boy

Well I used the ntelos to resurrect my Cspire MX2. Everything worked afterwards....data, text, mms, etc...

I am just saying the ntellos SBF does not work if you have a Cellcom phone. When I brought my phone in to get fixed at the Cellcom headquarters in De Pere they attempted to fix it but couldn't. I had to buy a used phone for the full retail price

Upside is I am pretty happy with my used phone.

Originally Posted by jaigurudevaom

I am just saying the ntellos SBF does not work if you have a Cellcom phone. When I brought my phone in to get fixed at the Cellcom headquarters in De Pere they attempted to fix it but couldn't. I had to buy a used phone for the full retail price

Upside is I am pretty happy with my used phone.

Damn, sorry to hear that. Surprised to hear that they couldn't fix it.

Wow never thought I'd meet another person with cellcom in my life that would try something like this...

Did you do a nandroid backup before flashing your phone?

Nandroid backup
Flash the nTelos SBF
Reinstall the backup

In theory it should work... someone else tried it and it worked fine but now this kinda scares me. lol

How much was the used phone?

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I have Cellcom as well. I had a MX that got too slow for my taste, so my brother let me have his spare MX2. Maybe by now you already tried this, but when I had the MX, I was able to successfully use the nTelos SBF without overwriting the baseband. Phone, Texts, MMS, and all worked fine.You just can't use RSD Lite to SBF. You have to use SBF_Flash in a Linux distro.

Since I just got the MX2, I have a lot of researching to do, so don't quote me on this. Though, SBFing the X2 in Linux should be the same--at least in my mind--as the X.

Yepp its true! What you said is 100% true with sbf_flash and Linux. I'm running cm10 currently but probably going back to eclipse soon waiting for cm10 alpha 3. If you have any questions just ask.

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when it comes to motorola phones its best to use sbf flash for any flashing especially if its a phone on a small carrier... unless your a rsd lite expert. though beware using sbf flash doesnt always give you a clean start ive found that after a flash i still have all my data and most of my settings still set. though if your worried about that you can always boot into stock recovery and do a factory reset.

Originally Posted by ScttN485

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I have Cellcom as well. I had a MX that got too slow for my taste, so my brother let me have his spare MX2. Maybe by now you already tried this, but when I had the MX, I was able to successfully use the nTelos SBF without overwriting the baseband. Phone, Texts, MMS, and all worked fine.You just can't use RSD Lite to SBF. You have to use SBF_Flash in a Linux distro.

Since I just got the MX2, I have a lot of researching to do, so don't quote me on this. Though, SBFing the X2 in Linux should be the same--at least in my mind--as the X.

I'm glad you resurrected this thread. I have a Milestone X2, had CM10, bricked it, and SBF'd using the nTelos SBF and it didn't write over the baseband. It actually used the same baseband that Cellcom uses for this phone (explanation here).

I DID use RSD Lite with SBF on Windows in the process, but since the configuration was all wrong with the phone, I had to take the phone to Cellcom's HQ in De Pere to re-flash it to THEIR version of 2.3.6. They were able to re-flash it successfully, though I wasn't lucky enough to get my hands on whatever image they use to re-flash it.