How To's: Unlocking, Relocking, Flashing, Dumping and Troubleshooting

[duba22y]

Originally Posted by orangekid

i dont see why you'd have to.

I thought I read that you had to somewhere before. Also, I'm fairly noobish, so I wasn't sure if the programming sequence you'd run to change the number would be any different. (I'm obviously changing it from home because I don't think they'd do it with an unlocked phone at the store).

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by duba22y

I thought I read that you had to somewhere before. Also, I'm fairly noobish, so I wasn't sure if the programming sequence you'd run to change the number would be any different. (I'm obviously changing it from home because I don't think they'd do it with an unlocked phone at the store).

I think you're fine, relocking would only be necessary if you were returning it for a warranty or insurance issue, you can swap esn or change numbers just fine, they'll just put esn on a different number that's all.

as far as "from the store" yeah most of them wouldn't even know how to operate wm6.5 as the settings are in different places, so I'd just do it online or over the phone.

[duba22y]

Originally Posted by orangekid

I think you're fine, relocking would only be necessary if you were returning it for a warranty or insurance issue, you can swap esn or change numbers just fine, they'll just put esn on a different number that's all.

as far as "from the store" yeah most of them wouldn't even know how to operate wm6.5 as the settings are in different places, so I'd just do it online or over the phone.

Well I tried, and it didn't work, I just pretended it did to the Bell staff member because I got the information on how to do it myself over the phone, and dealing with Bell is annoying as hell, i.e. first they disconnected the call, I called back and they transferred me to On-Star for GM cars, then when I actually got through to someone they made me hard reset the phone for no reason because their instructions were wrong lol.

ANYWAY, I'm using OMJ Sense 1921 28005. It let me update the MDN and MSID number, but wouldn't keep the changes. Ah well, I'll flash back to stock and try again. Thanks a bunch for your help though! =)

[GirlGoneGeek]

tobeychris thanks a lot for this tutorial! I am diving in now to make my first step at doing this alone, without wideawakes help. I will of course let you know when I have accomplished my "official" first unlocking and flashing (all by myself)!

also a big thanks to cmonex, no2chem and ghettofreeryder for working so hard to make this so simple!


Edited 2/21

It's official I HAVE NOW! unlocked and flashed my phone to Mightys Windows 6.5 ROM for the HTC Diamond. I am so excited and can't wait to see what I learn next

[fuegochick]

I really appreciate that you took the time to post these really clear step by step instructions. Today I unlocked a phone for the first time and flashed a ROM. It all worked great. Thanks to everyone here for all the helpful posts and instructions.

[Idzy]

Does anyone have another download link for the stock MTS rom file, I have tried downloading the one in the first post several times and it keeps timing out around 40% done.

Tried using IE and Opera to download it on my pc, with and without a download manager addon, speed seems to be the issue as it only gos at 20kb/s

[Marty913]

Originally Posted by Idzy

Does anyone have another download link for the stock MTS rom file, I have tried downloading the one in the first post several times and it keeps timing out around 40% done.

Tried using IE and Opera to download it on my pc, with and without a download manager addon, speed seems to be the issue as it only gos at 20kb/s

I'm having the same issue with the Sprint Shipped RAR. Tried two computers / operating systems several times and the timeout always occurs at 49,504KB (around 46%). Any other link would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Idzy]

Looks like its fixed

[GirlGoneGeek]

Im doing a lot of research and learning a lot. I make things a lot harder than they should be sometimes That's why I'm in the Diamond Upgrades section asking for your advice.

I'm working on starting to build ROM's. I've downloaded a few different kitchens but before I can move ahead I feel I need a clearer understanding and this is the best place to have my Diamond Kitchen questions answered.

What are the different types of kitchens?

In my readings I can only see things such as Diamond Kitchen and HTC Sense Kitchens.

Are these the only 2 types of kitchens? I want to know this so I can experiment with the different types. Please explain......

[aeropatel]

Originally Posted by Courtney1985

Im doing a lot of research and learning a lot. I make things a lot harder than they should be sometimes That's why I'm in the Diamond Upgrades section asking for your advice.

I'm working on starting to build ROM's. I've downloaded a few different kitchens but before I can move ahead I feel I need a clearer understanding and this is the best place to have my Diamond Kitchen questions answered.

What are the different types of kitchens?

In my readings I can only see things such as Diamond Kitchen and HTC Sense Kitchens.

Are these the only 2 types of kitchens? I want to know this so I can experiment with the different types. Please explain......

as far as i know, OMJ's kitchen (titled: htc sense kitchen) and most of the other ones that I've seen are based on Ervius kitchen (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469420) and the other type of kitchen I've heard of is the Vistang kitchen (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=573778). I have recently started cooking my own ROMs so I dont really know what the advantages are of different kitchens but I can tell you for sure that you won't go wrong with using OMJ's kitchen (the latest is V2.0). I was in the same boat you are a few months ago and using OMJ's kitchen based on his guide was pretty straight forward. Give it a try and if you have any questions, people in OMJ's kitchen thread (or just anyone in general) will be more than happy to help out.