MDA III ROM

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I have tried to warn people out there that you cannot just buy an MDA III for USA use, unless fluent in the German Language.

You have to either wait for the i-Mate PDA2K or make certain that the MDA III is flashed by the supplier prior to forwarding the unit from overseas.

Also be aware that when flashing the MDA III with an English ROM, this is in essence a hack, and most likely will void the T-Mobile Germany device warranty.

How do I know all this, because I own an MDA II, and I went through all of this one year ago.

I'm now waiting for my i-Mate PDA2K.

indeed..
Also bought one from T-Mob Germany and was unsuccessfull trying to run the english rom on my device.

I got this message from a source I don't know up to which level I can trust, supposedly coming from an HTC engineer. If that's only half true then is anyone interested by buying a brand new german MDAIII :? ?

The HTC BlueAngel device was specifically added some customization upon operators requests to prevent unlocking and Rom change out of their control. Without entering into too much details, the memory mapping of each device is adapted to the operator by an hardcoded memory address translater. This translater uses a private key generated by operators and embedded into a component (a single-die chip KFG1216Q2M that can be flashed only once). Result is that attempting to flash an incorrect ROM or attempting bootloader insertion of a different language ROM result in no operation being accepted by the BlueAngel bootloader.

i spotted an xda3 in liverpool uk on saturday it was in english

Will a QTek do ???

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I don't know if it interests you but in Portugal you can buy them branded Qtek9090 and they come in English.

...or i'm i just misreading this post ?!?

This all came before we figured out how to update the Tmo German to imate english. The threads were lost in an Oct disk crash.

lol

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:P my mistake then.....sorry.....