[Q] Debranding Vodafone UK Desire Z

[kefan77]

hi,

do you have any suggestions how to get rid of Vodafone welcome screen when booting my desire Z?

This is my first android, so I'm totally not sure, with WM 6.5, it was easy, getting hold of new stock HTC rom or cooked rom like energy, flashing it on the phone and job done.

Is there any place where I can get hold of stock HTC sense rom for desire Z?

like shipped-roms.com/shipped/Vision

I'm bit concerned, because it says T-Mobile US...

any help and suggestions are appreciated.

thanks

 

[steviewevie]

There are splash screen images in the zip files for the ROMs, so I presume that you can replace them easily. I don't know the correct procedure, but if you flash as complete ROM then I imagine that'll do the job.

Talking of complete ROMs, the standard European ROM is on this forum, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822908 . That's an RUU, but you can run it and then extract the zip file and flash that directly if you want.

However, you need to be careful about ROM versions if you have S-OFF. If you don't have S-OFF, then it won't let you flash an earlier ROM normally, so you need to follow the "debranding" guide (not very well-named IMHO) to flash an earlier ROM. If you do have S-OFF then you must follow the debranding guide, because if you try to flash an earlier ROM from HBOOT and have S-OFF you will probably brick your phone.

If you're flashing a later ROM version then everything should be fine.

 

[kefan77]

I've managed to flash the ROM from the link you provided on my Z using the gold card method.

wonderful. so much better without the Vodafone logo. Thanks a lot.