Step by Step tutorial for unlocking your device and cooking your own ROM!!!

[ShackMaster]

Stayed up last night messing around with it, and built ROM based on 20755. I still had the same problem, but with significantly fewer applications. SO, it's not fixed, it's just a little better. Can anyone suggest anything, or have any ideas?

Just another example of the symptoms: Skype, I can launch from the today plugin. But when I attempt to launch either from Programs, or shortcts I have in Ultimate Launch, I get the error.

[lcrazyaznl]

Just did this the other night, one thing that got me stuck on the step by step was that if i got stuck in bootloader mode at anytime, do this thread...

Didn't realize that it was just there as addtional info. I was trying to get out of bootloader mode for an hr.

Then posted and someone said just cook away!

Thanks man!

[dopdahtc]

Originally Posted by GaMedic

I will now outline the steps you can use to unlock your phone.

This unlocks the phone so that you can put a different Radio (GPS enabled) and a different ROM on it. You can use Olipro 2.40 or nuespl 2.47 to unlock your Titan device.
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Edit : This information was sent to me by another user, so I am adding it to the Tutorial.
When you unRAR nueSPL, you don't actually rename it and place it in the root. You run the exe from within the device and it automatically checks to make sure all the other requirements are in place, then creates the TITAIMG.nbh file for you in the right location and walks you through putting the phone into the bootloader.

Could you plz tell me whether I have to unlock the phone before I update the low version to a higher one? As mine is a Spanish language phone with the RADIO version 1.67, I really wanna update it. But last time when I did that, the HTC6800 turned to be a brick. This time I dare not update the SPL again when I start the BOOTLOADER......

[puff]

Originally Posted by dopdahtc

Could you plz tell me whether I have to unlock the phone before I update the low version to a higher one? As mine is a Spanish language phone with the RADIO version 1.67, I really wanna update it. But last time when I did that, the HTC6800 turned to be a brick. This time I dare not update the SPL again when I start the BOOTLOADER......

well that's kinda tricky. depending on your carrier if you can flash a stock GPS ROM (look here for stock ROMs) with a full ship exe ROM upgrade (certain carriers only) you can upgrade the radio/bootloader/OS (excluding bootloader if you've unlocked as it has overwrite protection) without unlocking - now with a dump however, you may need to unlock first. Of course there's another method, would be to unlock using Olipro 2.40 (as NueSPL requires GPS 3.X ROM) and then flash GPS radio followed by flashing GPS OS Rom. The easiest method being to flash via SD Card (excluding Olipro 2.40 which must be done via usb cable/RUU)

[digitalr0gue]

Originally Posted by GaMedic

Thats funny. Hope it really is that easy.

Well, I can say that I am brand-spankin' new to this, found this thread in the first few minutes on this site, followed your guide, and had a successful hack on my first night. Literally just an hour or two after i delved into this scene. Fan-f***ing-tastic guide dude. Already on my third ROM revision now. Now I just need to get GPS working and I am golden. I am just worried about calling Verizon for a new Akey... I already had my phone legitimately drop off the network once requiring that call. Not sure if they will go for this again just a month later...

[lcrazyaznl]

It really took me a few hrs only cuz i got stuck on a technicality but after that it seems really easy.

[1fstnsx]

Hey guys, im pretty new here, and been reading this post. I did the first step of unlocking the phone and stuff, but I think i messed up the phone. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I Dont know if i messed up the phone, but the phone is stuck at the titan rainbow screen...? i cannot sync it, i tried to hard reset it but it still goes back to the screen, PLEASE HELP ME !!

[meanfishy]

Originally Posted by 1fstnsx

Hey guys, im pretty new here, and been reading this post. I did the first step of unlocking the phone and stuff, but I think i messed up the phone. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I Dont know if i messed up the phone, but the phone is stuck at the titan rainbow screen...? i cannot sync it, i tried to hard reset it but it still goes back to the screen, PLEASE HELP ME !!

you need to remove the battery for 1 minute, if that doesn't work then you need to use this utility ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/Im...tan_exitbl.rar its called exit titan bootloader that should get you out of the bootloader and back to your phone. hook your phone up to the usb and run the utility on your computer.

[flyers2114]

Originally Posted by 1fstnsx

Hey guys, im pretty new here, and been reading this post. I did the first step of unlocking the phone and stuff, but I think i messed up the phone. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I Dont know if i messed up the phone, but the phone is stuck at the titan rainbow screen...? i cannot sync it, i tried to hard reset it but it still goes back to the screen, PLEASE HELP ME !!

Flash any rom you like and it should be ok...

[meanfishy]

Originally Posted by 1fstnsx

Hey guys, im pretty new here, and been reading this post. I did the first step of unlocking the phone and stuff, but I think i messed up the phone. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I Dont know if i messed up the phone, but the phone is stuck at the titan rainbow screen...? i cannot sync it, i tried to hard reset it but it still goes back to the screen, PLEASE HELP ME !!

what does the bootloader "rainbow screen" say?
depending on what it says you phone could just be waiting for the new ROM to be flashed, if so I would STRONGLY suggest using the SD method to flash and make sure the SD card is in the phone before you launch the bootloader screen