New UNLOCKABLE Sprint ROM?

[dcperdue]

Reading the unlocker thread will do you no good. The new sprint rom has some sort of new protection in it. I unlocked 3 brand new phones today with the old sprint rom to flash them over to cricket with no problems. The 4th phone had the newest sprint rom and it gives the same error other people are reporting. So with this its not possible that anything is wrong with my setup as the 3 phones with the older stock roms worked fine.

You also cant flash another rom while in boot loader as it disables the usb connection while in the bootloader or something to that effect as I just get a rom update failed.

Looks like sprint is catching on.

[etski]

Originally Posted by dcperdue

Reading the unlocker thread will do you no good. The new sprint rom has some sort of new protection in it. I unlocked 3 brand new phones today with the old sprint rom to flash them over to cricket with no problems. The 4th phone had the newest sprint rom and it gives the same error other people are reporting. So with this its not possible that anything is wrong with my setup as the 3 phones with the older stock roms worked fine.

You also cant flash another rom while in boot loader as it disables the usb connection while in the bootloader or something to that effect as I just get a rom update failed.

Looks like sprint is catching on.

I got a refurbished phone and decided to put the new sprint diamond rom on before I did the unlocker so that I would get the radio update before unlocking and loading grooverom 5. I also had the rom update failure trying to unlock, it just hung on the rainbow screen and never rebooted. The rainbow screen said security unlocked and cmonex but it never rebooted and when I checked, it definitely hadn't taken. When I tried to load grooverom hoping that it was unlocked from the new sprint rom as someone else suggested, it also either hung trying to write the rom and some of the failures even crashed my XP pro/sp2 machine hard with noises and the BSOD . I tried disabling the advanced network and that seemed to be what took my XP machine down, but then I couldn't not crash it.....UNTIL......

I realized/remembered SPB backup was running on the taskbar of my PC and while I had closed it when it opened a sync window when I hooked up activesync, that didn't get rid of the instance on the taskbar. I tried closing the instance on the taskbar before I hooked up active sync for the rom unlock and miracle of miracles, the unlocker worked!!!!! I then finally installed grooverom. My first custom rom!!!! =D>=D> I'm pretty sure spb backup was messing with activesync and that's what did it. Did you perchance run spb backup in between the first 3 sprint phones that worked and the last one that didn't? I had switched to a different cable (didn't seem to work) and then finally that different cable with a different USB port on the attempt that worked, but I really think SPB backup was the culprit!

Can anyone confirm this? I hope this is the answer and this helps someone else!

I'm really enjoying the ROM, but really think the titanium is almost as annoying as tf3d. What I really liked on 6.1 was BigHTCHOME.cab. After all the work I've spent customizing, I'm almost afraid to try it on 6.5, do you think it will work on 6.5 if I turn titanium off? Do you think my SPB backup works on 6.5? It runs, even looks pretty good when I expand the bacup file, but do you think it gets everything and will be useful to restore if I do mess things up? I always have activesync for contacts, but I hate rebuilding all my email accounts and phone faves, and preferences, etc.

I do love all the programs out there on this rom! I thought about going simple rom, but it didn't look like it had voice command and I can't live without that!

Thanx Groove!!!! Great work!!!!! It inspired me to download the whole kitchen and check it out!!!! Thanx =D>=D>