7 Pro on US Cellular

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I have the 7 Pro on a smaller regional carrier in the US. Generally the dev community behind the devices they carry is non-existent.


With WP7 are the unlocks/jailbreaks fairly universal? I see lots of references to 1st gen vs. 2nd gen HTC devices and understand the difference to be drivers.

I am on the base OS build yet, 7004. I read through the jailbreaking instructions I believe should work (http://wiki.windowsphonehacker.com/w...1st_Generation). It does not mention the 7 Pro/Gold at all, should I assume it will work on this device for this small regional carrier?


Very new to this community (have had the device for a day), not tech inept at all, programming experience and rom building experience for Android. Just looking for a good place to start with this device that has no real community backing on this specific carrier.


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I'd actually like to hear an answer for that, I also have U.S. Cellular (updated to Mango - 7740) but I want Internet Sharing so that I can use the net on the go. Is there a way to put a custom ROM on our carriers phone. And what about the Chevron Labs unlock tool, what does that do in terms of putting ROMs on your phone?

My understanding is that the 7 Pro has some jailbreak / unlock capability in the pre-NoDo days (so the OP might be able to do them). The Chevron unlock tool only lets you side-load applications without going through the marketplace and doesn't help you with custom ROMs (AFAIK). The Arrive (Sprint's 7 Pro version) is still stuck in the unfortunate mode of locked for hacking.

Originally Posted by colem91

I'd actually like to hear an answer for that, I also have U.S. Cellular (updated to Mango - 7740) but I want Internet Sharing so that I can use the net on the go. Is there a way to put a custom ROM on our carriers phone. And what about the Chevron Labs unlock tool, what does that do in terms of putting ROMs on your phone?

I'm with US Cell AND their official answer is if you want any kind of teathering, it'll cost you $30 / month and THEY control turning it on.
From everything I've been reading, ICS is actually built into WP7 BUT the crew has yet to figure an easy way to enable it without unlocking the phone AND, from what I've read, it's still uncertain as to if the proceedure is only for GSM phones or will work with US Cell's CDMA phones.. I was reading a thread here yesterday, sorry, no link, where a group is working hard on figureing out which reg keys need to be corrected to enable ICS..
HOPEFULLY someone will figure a way that will work with all phones and NOT have to get a DEV key to unlock.. I love my 7 Pro phone but I really miss my Touch Pro and WinMobile WiFi Router. <sigh>

Actually, they do support tethering by default on their data plans now. I haven't seen a plan since the change to Belief that doesn't have it. The problem, the HTC 7 Pro does not support tethering AT ALL. This is most likely due to changes in the OS platform that prevents it or simply does not make it available to be used as a modem.


Source:
uscellular.com/smartphones/windows-mobile/tethering.html

Originally Posted by gadwil

Actually, they do support tethering by default on their data plans now. I haven't seen a plan since the change to Belief that doesn't have it. The problem, the HTC 7 Pro does not support tethering AT ALL. This is most likely due to changes in the OS platform that prevents it or simply does not make it available to be used as a modem.


Source:
uscellular.com/smartphones/windows-mobile/tethering.html

FWIW, I called and talked to the US Cell tech support last week and was told that YES, tethering IS available BUT it is a charge service AND it has to be "turned on" by the company..

Just saying,

The USB port settings in the phone would have to be changed from its default mode that allows Zune connections to the modem mode that allows tethering.

Samsung and LG phones have Engineering menu codes that allow changing the USB port mode. As far as I know, the HTC 7 Pro/HTC Arrive does not...