Flashing How-To. Updated 5/23/08 to Include Quick GPS/Rev-A How-To

[theproletariat]

Thanks for what looks to be a great tutorial. Like many people here I'm still a complete n00b when it comes to this stuff and there will be much terrified gnashing of teeth when I try this later tonight...

A couple things. To whoever was looking for a stock Bell ROM for the Vogue, check out this post:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1301200

Or alternately, here are the download links for the official instructions .doc and the updater .exe (Windows XP only, Vista apparently not supported) respectively:

http://www.utstarcom.com/pcd/downloads/MP6900BM%20Bell%20Aliant%20Update%20Instructions.d oc

http://www.utstarcom.com/pcd/downloa...31398_Ship.exe

This looks to be the version I'm running currently, the most recent official Bell ROM afaik, which is version 1.17.666.1

Now, a quick question, and perhaps a stupid one, but I want to be sure. When I bought this phone and it was first turned on, the salesguy had to go through this whole rigamarole typing codes into the phone to activate it.. Programming the ESN or something. Whatever he was doing, I'm sure it was something critical to activating it. Now is flashing different ROMs going to mess any of that up, or will my phone just work normally?

Oh, and is there anything I should be concerned with flashing a Bell phone with a Sprint-based ROM? I know they're both CDMA phones so no problems there, but are there any settings that would need to be changed in order to use the internet, text messaging, and such? Different gateways or whatever? Or is this something else I just don't have to worry about?

Thanks a ton,
A grateful n00b.