Do Not flash your Artemis with a different carrier/cooked Rom without cid unlocking

[meschle]

Noobs beware!
As a number have been flashing their devices with various roms not from their own carrier or country or cooked roms and bricking their device - I put up this sticky. Your device must be cid unlocked first before you do this. This applies to the coming wm6 roms to - if the rom is not specific to your device - i.e. if you try to flash the upcoming htc 3300 wm6 rom on O2 orbit - you must cid unlock first - with imei check or you will end up with a BRICK!

This does not apply if you are only updating the os http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 or radio.

cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor

cid unlock for the artemis is here with USPL http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311403 (thanks pof)

or here http://www.imei-check.com/c3unlock.php (costs though)

Bricked devices

If you have flashed your device and not cid unlocked it, your device maybe salvagable if you can get it into bootloader mode.

Hold down the voice speed dial button and soft reset - you should then enter bootloader mode 'multicolored' screen'

If you do, attach device to pc via usb cable (a small usb will appear bottom left of screen) and flash factory rom. (run rom executable or RUU updater from pc) You do not need to be activesynced to do this.

HTC P3300 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/19322112...0_WWE_SHIP.rar

Dopod P800 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/21058219...0_WWE_SHIP.rar

O2 Orbit WM5 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/41574866/Arteimg.nbh

O2 Orbit WM6 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rs314.rapidshare.com/files/10...06.90_Ship.exe

Before you flash again with a non-factory rom, your device MUST be cid unlocked.

If you cannot enter bootloader mode your bootloader has been damaged and your device will need to be sent away for repair.

[ziggyred]

Hi Folks,

Firstly many thanks for everyone's freely given time! Great Forum!

There seems to be a lot of confusion about who and what can be flashed with the German official ROM and then with Bepe's creation.

Can we try to clear some of the ambiguity for us simple folk? Might stop some of the repeated questions littering threads in both related artemis sections.

So, many thanks to anyone who can clarify the situation by providing definitive answers to the following questions!


(1) Can an 02 Orbit from, say, the UK or Holland be flashed with either the German and/or Bepe's ROM, even if it is CID Locked (i.e. same devcie and carrier, different country).

(2) Can a non-Orbit O2 device be flashed with either the German or bepe's ROM, even if it is CID Locked (i.e. different devcie but same carrier).

(3) Is there a fall back Rom available for non-German O2 Orbits should the upgrade fail?

Again, many thanks for your time.

Cheers - Adam.

[Pocha]

Hi people, when I tried to upgrade to wm6, I recived a msg telling me "wrong vendor", but when I bought my HTC, it was free, no carrier sold me this device...

[kaemon]

Originally Posted by Pocha Hi people, when I tried to upgrade to wm6, I recived a msg telling me "wrong vendor", but when I bought my HTC, it was free, no carrier sold me this device...

Same here...
any help anyone ?
By what i read "wrong vendor" means CID locked right ? but what EXACTLY is CID locked definition ?? i CAN put any sim card inside my HTC P-3300, whether from SFR operator (france) or Proximus (belgium) one... so why do i have this wrong vendor when trying to upgrade to WM6 german rom ?

[Pocha]

Take a look to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 I tried it, and now I have wm6 on my HTC P3300, it's true that you can't have upgrades to radio or extrom, but meanwhile I can use wm6

[meschle]

Originally Posted by kaemon Same here... any help anyone ? By what i read "wrong vendor" means CID locked right ? but what EXACTLY is CID locked definition ?? i CAN put any sim card inside my HTC P-3300, whether from SFR operator (france) or Proximus (belgium) one... so why do i have this wrong vendor when trying to upgrade to WM6 german rom ?

cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor thats why cid needs unlocking before flashing diff any of aboves roms.

[xan_asmodi]

is it just me or is any one on this forum a bit sceptical of a merchant who so brazenly operates their business under the assumption that all potential customers are all fraudsters/criminal scum? is there no - more customer friendly- merchant who can perform this much valued service?

my first serious post!

xan

[Pocha]

My HTC has no vendor since I can use all SIMs from different vendors, now I upgraded from HTC Spanish version to HTC WWE version, so Vendor and Language (plus location?) locks are disabled?

[fred1010]

[QUOTE=meschle;1275085]Noobs beware!
As a number have been flashing their devices with various roms not from their own carrier or country or cooked roms and bricking their device - I put up this sticky. Your device must be cid unlocked first before you do this. This applies to the coming wm6 roms to - if the rom is not specific to your device - i.e. if you try to flash the upcoming htc 3300 wm6 rom on O2 orbit - you must cid unlock first - with imei check or you will end up with a BRICK!

This does not apply if you are only updating the os http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 or radio.

cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor

cid unlock for the artemis is here http://www.imei-check.com/c3unlock.php

Bricked devices

If you have flashed your device and not cid unlocked it, your device maybe salvagable if you can get it into bootloader mode.

Hold down the voice speed dial button and soft reset - you should then enter bootloader mode 'multicolored' screen'

If you do, attach device to pc via usb cable (a small usb will appear bottom left of screen) and flash factory rom. (run rom executable or RUU updater from pc) You do not need to be activesynced to do this.

HTC P3300 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/19322112...0_WWE_SHIP.rar
Dopod P800 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/21058219...0_WWE_SHIP.rar

Before you flash again with a non-factory rom, your device MUST be cid unlocked.

If you cannot enter bootloader mode your bootloader has been damaged and your device will need to be sent away for repair.[/Q






HI I TRY TO FLASH MY HTC P3300 (BRICKED) WITH FACTORY ROMS AND NEGATIVE RESULT THE PROCESS STOP AT 2%.

CAN ANYBODY HELP ?

[dangel2001]

Hello,
I would like to Upgrade my O2 XDA Mini S with Windows Mobile 6 (localized / German version). I hardly searched for such a WM6 Upgrade but there seems to be no final version for my device and german language.

I figured out that there is an WM6 OS Upgrade for the XDA Orbit and XDA Trion (coming soon). Might it be possible to flash only an OS-ROM for WM6 extracted from one of these O2 ROM updates? I was able to extract the OS-Image and I already backed up my current ROM using aWizard. aWizard also supports flashing a single OS-ROM only.

Some people in this forum already said I might brick my device. Is it possible or not to flash the OS ROM? Is it risky to give it a try?

Do you know a final working German Upgrade for the XDA Mini S (Qtek 9100)?

Best Regards
Gabriel