[KIN One and Two General] johnkussack:
Hi everyone.

I'm bit tired of having the phone being just placed over the table without doing anything (it's on the "updating modem..." state)with it, and no one seems to "seriously developing" for it, so here it goes.

I'm offering a real cash for solutions to it.

The bounty goes on two options (mutually exclusive, so if one is done, the other is cancelled):

Description

Option A: Solve my factory mode "brick"

Prize: 50€ (~70$)

I must get my phone unbricked with some software program, so i can recover some time to try to hack the mtpz protocol and so on.

There is no need to get a new OS on the device,as the kin default it's ok.

Option A.2: Get a bypass for "Updating modem" screen from Verizon

Prize: 25€ (~35$)

Mmm just a way to bypass the "Updating modem" screen over the phone, called "OTA update" from verizon radio by hotkeys or software (both are ok).

Option B: Get a OS on the device

Prize: 100€ (~141$)

Get the above done by flashing a new OS or a winCE-like (or android, or X), so i can have my phone back and also enjoy a new OS there.

Carrier software does not matter.

Payment

Payment would be done

only

through

PayPal

, so the guy/gal solving this must provide or have a destination PayPal address.

Payment would

NOT be done

if the requirements specified below are not met. Specially if my phone doesn't work after the end of one of the options.

Currency conversion would be done on paypal automation conversion OR if donation / transaction is in dollars, it would be done on the google €->$ conversion rounded to floor (so 100,9$ is 100$ and 100,1$ is also 100$).

Solutions would be tried on a first got first processed option so if i get an option B solution before an option B (or the opposite), the first one working OK would get the cash, even if the other is better.

My own main purpose here is to get my phone operative again.

The above means that if Option A solution is met, Option B is

CANCELLED

and the bounty is

FINISHED

. Same for option B.

Rules for the options

General

I can't be waiting forever so i give a month timelapse from the posting date, so this ends on April 21th.

I have no access to 64 bits hardware, so all the 64 bits software is not accepted.

I can't and wont access CDMA networks, so not able to get Verizon update OTA to fix the "modem updating" problem.

I

do not

, repeat

do not

need any of the verizon / carrier options, so the software or roms can just not have it as I

don't care

. As long as the phone boots on it and can have wifi & usb connections(and GPS optionally) i'm fine with it.

Software (if available) will be sent together with instructions and detailed. I'm a developer and "advanced" PC user, but i may not know all the steps in mobile flashing just by opening a program.

Solving person may be from outside here, as long as it's available by forum rules and so on. So if you know a mobile guy wizard, you can tell this.

Software SHOULD be sent to me before paying (obviously) to test the solution to either option. If the author wants it that way, the software could be posted publicly to the masses AFTER it works. So in plain words, if i get my phone unbricked or flashed, software will be released to everyone.

Option A: Solve my factory mode "brick" or A.2

If the phone passes the "updating modem..." state but it's not solved (aka "not booting the kin OS anymore"), i consider this option to be

not-completed

, so

not-paid

.

Option B: Get a OS on the device

Again, in this option the phone must pass the "updating modem..." state AND enter an OS.

Also, this option requires to give software that can write (succesfully, of course) to the device and load the kin OS or another OS (winCE,android, ... ). The solution may work on linux / windows / mac as the solving person decides, as long as it doesn't require 64 bits thing.

Software given, if named (like "MrGuy Kin flashing") will be still owned by "MrGuy" in the distribution itself, being binaries or sourcecode.

Note here that if flashed but not passing the brick status or not booting means again

not-completed

, so

not-paid

.

If verizon kindly gives the Kin ROM (as stated on this forums), software that flashes it to the device is OK with this option, so solving person doesnt need to find a suitable ROM and so on. Of course, as long as the flashing works, it's available to do so.

Contact

If you wanna provide solutions or make a non-public question/comment, feel free to PM me here or use johnkussack@gmail.com for it.