Experience updating Titan to 7.8

[outismetis]

Yesterday I wasted a significant amount of time trying to update my stock AT&T branded HTC Titan from 7.1 (7720) to 7.8. I figured I would provide what I learned in order to get it working.

1. Backup your phone.

2. If you haven't updated your bootloader from the one that shipped with the phone, you need to do so. You'll get an error otherwise.
Instructions and download link here. I had to factory reset my phone before the HTC update program would recognize that the Titan was connected to my PC.

3. Follow the standard instructions from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306415, choosing everything from 7720 (7.0.7403.0 - 7.10.8107.79) to the recent 7.8 cabs. I only needed the English language files for my update to work. You can put them all in the root folder for WP7 Update Cab Sender. Hit send.

4. Wait patiently.
5. Setup your phone again.
6. Enjoy.

I'm not responsible if this doesn't work for you, or if it messes up your phone. I just thought it might be helpful to someone not looking to waste their time.

 

[berrywr]

Yesterday I wasted a significant amount of time trying to update my stock AT&T branded HTC Titan from 7.1 (7720) to 7.8. I figured I would provide what I learned in order to get it working.

1. Backup your phone.

2. If you haven't updated your bootloader from the one that shipped with the phone, you need to do so. You'll get an error otherwise.
Instructions and download link here. I had to factory reset my phone before the HTC update program would recognize that the Titan was connected to my PC.

3. Follow the standard instructions from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306415, choosing everything from 7720 (7.0.7403.0 - 7.10.8107.79) to the recent 7.8 cabs. I only needed the English language files for my update to work. You can put them all in the root folder for WP7 Update Cab Sender. Hit send.

4. Wait patiently.
5. Setup your phone again.
6. Enjoy.

I'm not responsible if this doesn't work for you, or if it messes up your phone. I just thought it might be helpful to someone not looking to waste their time.

Upgrade your bootloader to what; the HTC update to 2.6.160015.3 or Cotullah's HSPL? If you opt to use Cab Sender you may update from 7720 to 7740 to 8107 to 8112 to 8773 one build at a time or if you set it up correctly all of the incremental builds in order. I'm assuming you tacked on 8858 to the list or did it separately. I'm curious to know if there is anything different at the core of the "official" update than what currently is available on custom ROMs but for those of us who are HSPL and using 7.8, we'll patiently wait until chefs here take a look at it and deploy their magic.

 

[GuestK00161]

Upgrade your bootloader to what; the HTC update to 2.6.160015.3 or Cotullah's HSPL? If you opt to use Cab Sender you may update from 7720 to 7740 to 8107 to 8112 to 8773 one build at a time or if you set it up correctly all of the incremental builds in order. I'm assuming you tacked on 8858 to the list or did it separately. I'm curious to know if there is anything different at the core of the "official" update than what currently is available on custom ROMs but for those of us who are HSPL and using 7.8, we'll patiently wait until chefs here take a look at it and deploy their magic.

Yes, in order to do the cab method on the ATT Titan, you do need to upgrade to the 2.6 bootloader. -don't really know why though. As several Titans could not go through the full cab upgrade process to Tango without it.

 

[derylmccarty]

Upgraded to 7.8

I used the jaxbot Seven-Eighter app on windows phone hacker website (its a name not a hack) and it worked like a charm. I have (had) a locked 7720 ATT Titan (1) and used first jaxbot's updater to make sure the phone had 7720, then upgraded thru all the intermediate releases to 8858. Yeah it took some time, maybe 5-7 minutes per build, but after 30 minutes I was done with no loss in already installed apps, texts, phone calls, passwords or....

8858 is not such-a-much in the "bells and whistles" department; in fact, the only changes I saw (as expected) were the ability to small size the tiles and have more and starker background colors. I am sure there are lots of under-the-covers changes and bug fixes that are not so obvious. But after failing to upgrade my Titan while trying debranding, CABing to gold carding over the past year, all to no avail, it sure was nice to smoothly go to 7.8.

And what a rush. After a year of no ROM loads on the Titan, compared to having averaged 1 new flash PER WEEK on my Fuze, Tilt I, Tilt II, and HD7S - wow what a fix.

 

[berrywr]

I used the jaxbot Seven-Eighter app on windows phone hacker website (its a name not a hack) and it worked like a charm. I have (had) a locked 7720 ATT Titan (1) and used first jaxbot's updater to make sure the phone had 7720, then upgraded thru all the intermediate releases to 8858. Yeah it took some time, maybe 5-7 minutes per build, but after 30 minutes I was done with no loss in already installed apps, texts, phone calls, passwords or....

8858 is not such-a-much in the "bells and whistles" department; in fact, the only changes I saw (as expected) were the ability to small size the tiles and have more and starker background colors. I am sure there are lots of under-the-covers changes and bug fixes that are not so obvious. But after failing to upgrade my Titan while trying debranding, CABing to gold carding over the past year, all to no avail, it sure was nice to smoothly go to 7.8.

And what a rush. After a year of no ROM loads on the Titan, compared to having averaged 1 new flash PER WEEK on my Fuze, Tilt I, Tilt II, and HD7S - wow what a fix.

You're Air Force? I'm a former weather forecaster now in college full-time majoring in mathematics (calculus) to compliment my meteorology training. HSPL is by no means an easy task though I successfully did it twice but each very different experiences. Prior to HSPL the devices I incrementally added those builds too via Cab Sender. I'm not aware the official release is any different than those of us custom flashing our devices; the build we're using is also 8858.136 and as you know when it boils down to the OS it's mostly cosmetics though I saw some security updates and Bluetooth compatibility but like 7.x and 8.x you still can't use a Bluetooth keyboard on the Titan. What drove me nuts about Windows Phone is the inability to side load apps which I think is just ridiculous. There is an incredible amount of apps out there not on any the varying Marketplaces which again seems stupid to me but by far Nokia has a good selection of apps though many are redundant among the other device makers. I loved my Rhodium (Touch Pro 2/Tilt II) which I flashed the hell out of that thing and continue to use it as a GPS device and backup phone. I have an HD2 that like many here I've done about everything with and it runs Windows Phone 7.8 flawlessly though at the moment I have Jellybean on it.

 

[thuan92xd]

Upgrade your bootloader to what; the HTC update to 2.6.160015.3 or Cotullah's HSPL? If you opt to use Cab Sender you may update from 7720 to 7740 to 8107 to 8112 to 8773 one build at a time or if you set it up correctly all of the incremental builds in order. I'm assuming you tacked on 8858 to the list or did it separately. I'm curious to know if there is anything different at the core of the "official" update than what currently is available on custom ROMs but for those of us who are HSPL and using 7.8, we'll patiently wait until chefs here take a look at it and deploy their magic.

but my device is error HSPL.i update your bootloader to 2.6,but it isn't succesfull.HElP ME!

 

[GuestK00161]

but my device is error HSPL.i update your bootloader to 2.6,but it isn't succesfull.HElP ME!

naw, try seven eighter..and see if that works first...

 

[mreaglejr]

I used the jaxbot Seven-Eighter app on windows phone hacker website (its a name not a hack) and it worked like a charm. I have (had) a locked 7720 ATT Titan (1) and used first jaxbot's updater to make sure the phone had 7720, then upgraded thru all the intermediate releases to 8858. Yeah it took some time, maybe 5-7 minutes per build, but after 30 minutes I was done with no loss in already installed apps, texts, phone calls, passwords or....

8858 is not such-a-much in the "bells and whistles" department; in fact, the only changes I saw (as expected) were the ability to small size the tiles and have more and starker background colors. I am sure there are lots of under-the-covers changes and bug fixes that are not so obvious. But after failing to upgrade my Titan while trying debranding, CABing to gold carding over the past year, all to no avail, it sure was nice to smoothly go to 7.8.

Is there a difference between upgrading to 7.8
- via the seven eighter or
- via the official at&t update (that is not available yet)?

It's probably a stupid question as at&t doesn't have anything for the Titan, but I'm wondering if there are differences usually?
Different marketplace? Different drivers? Different ringtones? Anything?

Update: I see it doesn't change anything, which is pretty cool!

 

[GuestK00161]

Is there a difference between upgrading to 7.8
- via the seven eighter or
- via the official at&t update (that is not available yet)?

It's probably a stupid question as at&t doesn't have anything for the Titan, but I'm wondering if there are differences usually?
Different marketplace? Different drivers? Different ringtones? Anything?

Update: I see it doesn't change anything, which is pretty cool!

There "might"/should be a new bootloader -seeing the ATT Titan is still at stock SPL ..."IF" ATT does push out the update. But seeing that T-Mobile skipped the official 7.8 update for their devices, my reassurance that the ATT Titan will actually receive an official update is somewhat diminishing now.

But honestly, everyone is better off just doing the cab method...or attempting the unlock process. Grandma death will be knocking at your door if you end up waiting for an official update from our stupid carrier.

 

[berrywr]

There "might"/should be a new bootloader -seeing the ATT Titan is still at stock SPL ..."IF" ATT does push out the update. But seeing that T-Mobile skipped the official 7.8 update for their devices, my reassurance that the ATT Titan will actually receive an official update is somewhat diminishing now.

But honestly, everyone is better off just doing the cab method...or attempting the unlock process. Grandma death will be knocking at your door if you end up waiting for an official update from our stupid carrier.

Completely agree with that last sentiment; twice promises were made and twice broken and now there is this stupid law in regards to carriers and subsidy "locked" devices.

 

[GuestK00161]

Completely agree with that last sentiment; twice promises were made and twice broken and now there is this stupid law in regards to carriers and subsidy "locked" devices.

Give a cookie to the carriers...the next thing they want, the entire batch.

 

[nikola92]

same error with seven eighter on my titan, now i tryed on cingular rom, update from 8112-8773 shows the error, i slected corresponding language,what is problem?

 

[GuestK00161]

same error with seven eighter on my titan, now i tryed on cingular rom, update from 8112-8773 shows the error, i slected corresponding language,what is problem?

interesting, I used seven eighter on a half-bricked ATT titan (stuck on the euro 1.9 rom). the only errors I got were after the update process...with certain languages not installed -causing applications to not respond. I flashed via goldcard to the 1.9 rom after and redid the update process with the correct languages and everything worked.

I know you have been half-bricked for awhile nikola, is it possible for you to flash via goldcard to a euro rom? IF so you would most likely get the 7.8 update through zune (which I was actually working for me until I decided to just do the seven eighter app).

 

[nikola92]

its like u said install spl 2.6 and we roll now i have wp 7.8

 

[lund123]

I am on HSPL and for some reason I cannot upgrade to SPL 2.6. It loads fine via RUU but the SPL never changes to 2.6, stays stuck on 2.5 even though I have HSPL. Beccause of this I guess I cannot get 7.8 update either

its like u said install spl 2.6 and we roll now i have wp 7.8

 

[GuestK00161]

I am on HSPL and for some reason I cannot upgrade to SPL 2.6. It loads fine via RUU but the SPL never changes to 2.6, stays stuck on 2.5 even though I have HSPL. Beccause of this I guess I cannot get 7.8 update either

It will never change to SPL 2.6 after flashing the 2.6 SPL. -simply because you are stuck.

However, for some reason, it will let you upgrade to 7.8 if you do flash 2.6 (even though it did not change)

 

[nikola92]

true +1

 

[Antillean 1]

Great Info on upgrading HTC Titan to Windows 7.8

Thanks a million. I had wasted a couple of evenings trying to upgrade and keep getting error messages. I followed your recommendation and updated my bootloader from the HTC website and used the Sharp&7Loader and that was it. After about one hour I have 7.8 on my HTC Titan phone.

Yesterday I wasted a significant amount of time trying to update my stock AT&T branded HTC Titan from 7.1 (7720) to 7.8. I figured I would provide what I learned in order to get it working.

1. Backup your phone.

2. If you haven't updated your bootloader from the one that shipped with the phone, you need to do so. You'll get an error otherwise.
Instructions and download link here. I had to factory reset my phone before the HTC update program would recognize that the Titan was connected to my PC.

3. Follow the standard instructions from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306415, choosing everything from 7720 (7.0.7403.0 - 7.10.8107.79) to the recent 7.8 cabs. I only needed the English language files for my update to work. You can put them all in the root folder for WP7 Update Cab Sender. Hit send.

4. Wait patiently.
5. Setup your phone again.
6. Enjoy.

I'm not responsible if this doesn't work for you, or if it messes up your phone. I just thought it might be helpful to someone not looking to waste their time.