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[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Puff The Magic Wagon!:
Simlock.exe is the program that runs when you have a SIM inserted that is not belonging to O2 - asks you for the unlock code.

Alternatively can be run as standalone exe for the same purpose.

rustek/tenzin

They cannot legally NOT allow you to unlock the phone if you request it. It is against OFTEL regulations in this country. If they persist, just mention that to them, further non-cooperation, ring OFTEL and get them to intervene - the "watchdog" is there for our benefit.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] tenzin:
Thanks a lot , Puff, I'll try that ! :wink: :D
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Fais:
Tenzin, did you try the Oftel route?

If it works that would be great then i'll be down to the shops to snap up an XDAII. I want to use my phone on orange. I'm willing to pay of the year line rental but not @ £35 a month for 12 months... after 4 months i want to drop it to their £16 tariff.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] phonefreak:
you can buy it on their lowest line rental of £15...or just buy another handset and just upgrade to the xda 2 straight away (as i did) without paying any premium
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] xdaer:
I got my xda2 thru the Link (DSG). ON the Biz tarriff £9 / month The xda2 only cost me £200 and eventually got unlocked for free. It took me a week of hasseling o2 and Genisis but got it done in the end. My advice to you all is Keep trying don't let them stop you getting your XDA2 unlocked. It's your right as a consumer to put whateven sim you want in!! It's your phone damn it!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Fais:
which branch of the link xdaer?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] xdaer:
eeeer don't want to get the manager in trouble but it was in Manchester Market Street Branch (Craig). should have been £300 but reduced it to £200 You can get the Genesis Biz tarriff for £9/month no free minutes. So... you can get it unlocked and use whatever. Got the Jabra BT200 for £35 with it but had no joy with it. The Link don't stock XDA2's they are special order only so you wait a week for one. But hey you save some money there! O2 shops say they will price match but it needs to be in stock at the competitors shop to do that.

Best of luck!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] cheekymonkey:
I'm absolutely amazed by some of the deals you guys are getting. Can anyone please provide any links to details, particularly xdaer with 'Genesis'? I got mine from the o2 shop in Manchester city centre (Cross Street) for £350(!!) as an upgrade on the xda 1. Yes I'm completely ignorant of what deals are out there, but they really don't do you any favours do they?

TIA guys.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Old Man:
Hi guys,

here in Italy we usually sell Phone unlocked... I don't know whether this information could be usefull to you in some way... or not.

Anyway... we have prices problems... our prices are way to far higher than the UK ones...

As far as I am concerned I'm looking for the XDA 2 in the UK !!!

Is that possible to get an XDA 2 unlocked delivered in Italy ?!?

:roll:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] zoe:
xda 2

call o2 and they will unlock xda2 provided you pay the line rental for the full 12 month term.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] zoe:
xda2

o2 will unlock the xda 2 provided the line rental for the full 12 month term is paid, plus £15.00 for the privilege.

I have had this confirmed by more than one source at o2... a good excuse for requiring the unlock is to say the handset is to be used both on o2 in UK and with foreign networks SIM for a few months fo the year.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] rakh1:
Just had mine unlocked - told it would cost £15 but no mention of the line rental up front. Didnt wanna post until it I actually had the code incase they changed their mind.

However, I went through staff accounts as my friend works for O2.

R
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] xdaer:
cheeky monkey are you local to the great northwest??
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] xdaer:
i got the bluetooth headset working... I'd stopped o2 active as i don't like the interface, thus stopping the profile display. I didn't realise you had a headset control in the profile settings. I'd much prefer a Developers ROM like the XDA1 just to get rid of all the o2 junk.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] phonefreak:
Expansys are now supplying the unlocked version of the XDA2..for £560
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] jgadallah:
has anybody tried using the orginal 'XDAunlock.exe' to unlock xda2 or wouldnt it work?

:?:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] srcurtis:
I paid the £15 to O2 over 2 weeks ago, but still no unlock code.

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] srcurtis:
I tried the original XDAunlock.exe and it reports an error reading the IMIE number.

Just chased O2 customer services for the unlock code that I paid for 2 weeks ago and have been told the there is a policy of not unlocking an XDA2 and there is NO WAY that they can give me an unlock code!

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Finrott:
I too have been trying to unlock my XDA II and thats how I stumbled cross this site.

In my reserach through trawling through the net I have found 2 possible ways of unlocking.

1. Dixons in Heathrow & Gatwick airport sell the XDA II simfree for £590 (not sure if this is dutyfree price). I have encountered 2 people who have purchased phones from them (1 from greece 1 from italy) Dixons have no signs anywhere in their shop saying these phones are locked to O2 but they are. In result of this the people from abroad who bought these phones assumed they were unlocked and found out how wrong they were when their planes touched down. They rang up O2 and explained the situation to them and got the unlock codes (Italian got codes straight away the greek had to put up a bit of a fight but did eventually get the codes) no fees etc. You could try ringing O2 and using the same excuse as them and you might be in luck.

2. If you can't be bothered for that bulls**t try checking out

http://www.unlockaphone.co.uk/o2_xda.htm

Charge £10 = £4 P&P

I haven't tried them yet but I'll let you know if any of these work for me. Please post results if you try any of the above.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] SuperDDD:
Greetings,

Just called the above group. Unfortunately they don't deal with XDAII

at the moment :cry:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Finrott:
:oops: Sorry guys, my bad. :oops:

As the advert says unlock O2's new XDA I assumed it was the XDA II.

Man, what have I learn't from this experience, Never assume anything and O2's are a pain in the butt to unlock.

OK THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE HELP PLEASE!!! :P
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] SuperDDD:
There is an old saying:

"Assumption is the Mother of all F*ck-Ups" :D
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] jgadallah:
hey guys

do you think that if we flashed the rom with a serial cable from the info at

http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3731&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

and installed the english rom, do you think it would unlock the phone??

Jerreb
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] cheekymonkey:
@ xdaer, yup, I'm in Manchester.

I phoned o2 and acted rather sheepish and a whole lot unsure.... I explained how I want to use my xda2 at work with my work's SIM and pop in my o2 SIM for GPRS instead of using my work's access which is through Orange. :D

I said how I bought my xda and did not upgrade, she agreed it was a lot of money, spoke to her manager and now I am due my unlock code :D

I deserve an Oscar for my performance as a n00b, but it was worth it. Now I use my Orange SIM with the Orange GPRS @ £2.35 / MB instead of the o2 GPRS rip off that I cancelled 5 minutes later. Nice.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] srcurtis:
Did they give you an unlock code there and then, or did you have to wait for it?

If there was a wait, how long?

I was told that it may take up to 30 days?

Cheers

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] xdaer:
cheeky monkey - an award winning performance indeed only over shadowed by the bull s@@t performances o2 staff give when they say they can't give out the unlock codes to customers who have paid £100's for their piece of kit.
[HTC One S] Bogdan9183:
Hello guys. I've finally created an account and joined your community hoping that i would finally be able to find an answer to problem my phone has, as i haven't really found something similar while i was wasting time searching on google. I have the S4 version of the One S, updated to 4.1.1 stock, no rooting or anything else done.

Okay, now let me describe what happens : Whenever i turn on my Data connection, it works fine for a couple of minutes, then it self-reboots. The screen randomly turns off, then the HTC logo appears and it's back on. If i don't turn data connection off as soon as possible, it won't pass too long until it reboots again. Each time, I receive the notification to send the error report to HTC, but it didn't really help me. This has been happening ever since i bought my phone, 3 months ago.

I even tried contacting HTC support, i chatted with an operator and described him my problem, but his only two solutions were factory reset or warranty. The first one didn't work, unfortunately. That's why i came here, hoping that there may be a software problem or something like that which could be fixed somehow.

PS: Wi-Fi has no problem at all. It's all smooth and fine. Reboots are only caused by data connection.

Wish you a nice day!
[HTC One S] BilboSwaggins:
I'm no expert, but it seems that you have a retarded phone. Try running an RUU for your CID, take it back down to Ice Cream Sandwich and then do the OTA update again. If that continues to happen, then run the RUU again and stick with ICS. It's better than Jelly Bean, battery life is much much longer, and the sense improvements aren't all that good. Having personalised text message themes is nice, but that's one of the only upsides.
[HTC One S] Bogdan9183:
Running RUU doesn't require unlocking, which voids the warranty? If i do that, and it eventually fails, warranty won't be an option anymore, i guess. Am i wrong?
[HTC One S] BilboSwaggins:
Running RUUs requires having a LOCKED bootloader, so you don't have to worry about that. Secondly, it says that is MAY void your warranty. HTC have to prove that unlocking the bootloader made it break.
[HTC One S] Bogdan9183:
But, from what I read, as I have very little knowledge of this, I still have to downgrade the hboot from 2.15, my actual version to a lower one. And this requires rooting. Am I right?

I will try tomorrow to use the RUU from 4.1.1, it has the same version and radio like my phone. I suppose that's fine, right? [my Cid is 405]
[HTC One S] BilboSwaggins:
If the RUU says HTC__405 and Ville (if you have the 1.5Ghz S4 version) or Ville_C2 (if you have the 1.7Ghz S3 processor) then it will work perfectly.
[HTC One S] mihaiolimpiu:
Take it to warranty if it was doing that from the first day you bought it... DON't Try to fix it, it sounds as a hardware problem, and to be fair, why do you want to repair it??? TAKE IT TO THE SHOP YOU BOUGHT IT! STOP.

I also had some kind of problem, it wasn't related to Data, but more with WIFI, and it wasn't fixed completely until I flashed A FULL RUU of the latest Jelly Bean Rom Available, probably in the process rewriting every bit of software, radio and such!

I was on the verge of throwing my phone out the window more than one time, but I bought it second hand so I didn't had warranty!

This is the only thing you cand do, flash a RUU for your region or operator, beside that it's hard to diagnose the problem... OTA Updates can do nasty things sometimes, so I don't recommend it...

After the flash, if it still acts up it's a hardware problem!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsmas:
Can someone explain nomenclature of jb roms. LSB, LSC, LSF, LSZ. If seen in this order LSZ should be latest. May be the release dates varies, development dates could be serialed. Just curious.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M3TALLICA:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1356325

---------- Post added at 08:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 PM ----------

It seems they have changed Year Code in 2013

L = 2013 ?
[HTC One S] meleelord:
I have just been looking on Three UK to get a new contract for my mum and noticed the One S has been taken off... all they have left now is the One and Desire C. Have they gone out of production?

Looking for a mid range phone and don't want to be paying out lots. I have seen you can still but it from various places but that is a bit far out of my price range.
[HTC One S] gelo01:
Maybe in UK, but here in asia, HTC still offer One S, though it's only the S3 variant..
[HTC One S] meleelord:
It's a real shame as it was the perfect phone which I was suggesting to my mum. She didn't want a big phone, but also wanted something quite up to date. I really don't want to go over to the Samsung side. Maybe I will look at Sony! :)
[HTC One S] gelo01:
I'd suggest that you look at Xperia S when you are really into sony, coz before i bought my One S, i was torn between those two. And probably it has a reasonable price now, since the release of their newer phones like the Xperia Z. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hpmaxim:
Lately I've noticed something odd. Depending on the USB cable I use the charge rate seems to vary substantially. In fact, in some cases under heavy phone usage, I've seen the battery decrease while on the charger. Now, I know what you're thinking: Some USB cables have the D+/D- pins shorted which switches from USB (500mA) to AC (1A) charging mode. I'm using a really cool CTC-2USB-5V2A charger which seems to show up as AC on all cables (including the ones that barely charge it). The two cables I know are charging it well are the one that came with my HP Touchpad and the one that came with my Kindle Fire HD 7, the ones that didn't have been el-cheapo eBay cables. Since its showing up as AC for all the cables, I'm assuming the only difference can be that the eBay cables use thinner wires which take more voltage drop.

Have people seen this before? Is this the problem? Does anyone know where to get some quality 2 meter / 6 ft cables cheap?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
If you want to verify that one cable is allowing more current through than another, I would suggest getting "Battery Monitor Widget" by 3c (in the play store)

Put the apps widget on your screen, plug our phone in and wait for widget to update. Do the same for each cable and compare
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hpmaxim:
CNexus, I am absolutely convinced one is charging faster than another.I was using the battery monitoring that came with the phone (or at least the one in Blazer ROM). You can plug one cable in and update the graph and the slope of the battery state is much higher on one cable than another. I installed battery monitor widget and I do not see anything that shows how much current is going into the phone.

But this really doesn't address the question of why one cable is charging faster than another, is it the wire gauge? Is there something else going on I don't know about?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] timmetal6669:
I can absolutely verify that this is true. It's usually that the pins in the micro sd port are running thin from normal use. Usually normal wear and tear, or possibly the cable has gotten crimped somewhere on it Respectively, the same Non- charging cables are likely to corrupt data transfer as well, making it difficult to do development, or transfer your favorite videos or songs.. Someone recently stole my new cable and all the files I'd transferred to my phone from the computer or vice versa from my older cable were corrupted. Especially ROMS, KERneLS, and Video. This could be a potential huge problem for someone in a sticky situation needing to ODIN, or make an ABD shell connection. I suggest tossing those cables and buying new ones. I know they're expensive, but it might be the difference between having your phone soft bricked till next payday or not. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hpmaxim:
Timmetal, just to be clear I am comparing multiple identical eBay cables to the Touchpad/Kindle Fire cables.... Sounds like you are saying it is a manufacturing defect in the cables (presumably all of them) that are not necessarily related to the wire gauge. Regardles...

A 6 foot 28 gauge cable would drop about 800+ mV (which is a lot, since a fully charged battery is probably around 4.2V and USB is 5V).

A 6 foot 24 gauge cable would be about 400 mV drop.

A 6 foot 22 gauge cable would probably be 250-300 mV drop.

Monoprice has 3 styles of cable:

1) the 28/28 economy cable (which I presume means 28 gauge on all wires) for 81 cents the

2) the 24/28 cable (presumably 24 gauge on power and ground, and 28 on the others) for $1.40

3) the "premium" cable which they don't give any info on, for $2.96

Newegg has a 22 gauge for $4

Price isn't that big of a deal one 1, but I'll probably buy 10 which starts to make a difference (although prices go down a bit with quantity on all of these). Sounds like the 24/28 Monoprice might be the best bet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Battery monitor widget is an app, after you download it long press on your home screen > widgets > and there should be one for the "battery monitor widget" app, so basically put the "battery monitor widget" widget on one of your homescreens

And im not saying this is to see whether one is charging more than another, because you can just see that clearly

This is to see how much more it is because this app shows you the mA coming through the cord
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
The phone software controls the charge rate based on what it thinks it is plugged into. I think it limits its draw to 500ma if it senses a USB port on the other end (since the USB standard limits it to 500ma anyway), it charges at 700ma if it senses a wall-wart type charger. Not sure how it senses the difference, but you will notice on the lock screen it will say either Charging (USB) or Charging (AC).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hpmaxim:
Sorry if I didn't make this clear, the phone is claiming it is an AC charger in both cases, but one cable versus another makes a big difference in charging speed. Anyway, I ordered 9 of the $1.40 Monoprice cables. We'll see if they work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] twig49:
Sort of off topic but Interesting. My lock screen just shows charging. USB port on computer, USB cable plugged into wall charger or dedicated 700mah Blackberry wall charger, it makes no distinction as to how it's being charged. It does charge faster using a wall charger obviously but I've never noticed a difference in rate between using different cables.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gman781:
I am rooted and received the OTA notification could I do the update without un-rooting or should I un-root using Wug?

Thanks

G
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wisefreakz:
Give us more details....

Which version are U? Only rooted or modded?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eqjunkie829:
If you are rooted then why would you want to update with ota?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cymru:
Presumably, if it keeps root like he is asking, it'd be quicker for him to accept the update on his phone than go to a computer, download the update and then install from there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eqjunkie829:
What I meant is that if he is rooted then he can flash any version of android on his phone and doesn't need to update with ota

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] petrus425:
Rooted doesn't mean he has a custom recovery and can flash easily.

So in this case ota is easier.

And ota updates really are updates, which means you don't lose your data.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jfeath01:
You can take the OTA. I took the update and didn't have to have stock recovery. I had to restore a backup of completely stock 4.1.1 because an audio mod was making the update fail. CWM also has a protect root option after the update and will allow you to switch back to stock recovery if you want.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mbb15:
I have a problem with my S2, my screen is broken. I don't want to replace it because im getting a new phone within a month. I only want to retrieve my data from my internal SD card.

Because my screen isnt working anymore I can't connect my micro usb to the PC anymore and connect my galaxy s2 to the PC. Because you need to connect the usb via a touch on the screen, there is just no way to do it.

So my question is, is there a way to retrieve the data from my phone ( like if you start the phone it will automaticly connect the media storage to the PC?), I can get in download mode and flash roms because you only need the volume,home, shutdown keys to do that.

Thanks for the help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
Can you get in recovery mode ?

If so what kernel you've used ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mbb15:
I can't see whats on my screen because its broken, so I can't get in recovery mode only download mode. Also touching on my screen doesn't work anymore because the inside is broken. I need to find a way to retrieve the data from my internal sd to my pc without having the need to touch the screen
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
Had you flashed any rom on your phone before he get screwed :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mbb15:
I have now installed a stock rom but it will not work, I just need to find a way to connect the galaxy s2 to my pc without having the ability to touch the screen :o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
That's nasty :sly:

If you had a custom rom installed I could tell you how to use in recovery mode the steps how to mount the usb storage.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mbb15:
Great idea! mayby I can install an old custom rom via odin and boot it in recovery mode, I hope I dont need to use the touch screen to get in recovery and you can tell me the steps to mount usb storage without using the screen.

Do you have an custom rom which you can flash via odin?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mbb15:
YES it worked, with help from a friend he told me the stept i needed to do
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
Great I'm glad you managed to fix your problem :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Good for u...

Please add [SOLVED] to the title of ur post...

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azertguigui:
Hi I'm looking for a mod or trick to make my softkeys background and status bar (only on the homescreen) transparent... Any idea or 'howto' that worked with the Galaxy Nexus ?

Thanks by advance for help !

Note : I'm on 4.2.2 stock rooted
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azertguigui:
UP :good:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedygonzo:
Very good job searching the forums. (Sarcasm)

Just use Paranoid Android...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azertguigui:
No no... The idea was to stay in 4.2.2 stock. I know there are many custom roms that allow that but I don't want it for the moment...

But thanks for your help (sarcasm :D)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grubbster:
Probably not going to happen on stock. Might as well go custom. Once you change stock it is no longer stock.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azertguigui:
yes I know... But you understood what I meant :o
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uaral:
I have big problem my htc one just work for 7 hours with full charge with data on and normal use just facebook and ... How can i improve it ! ?

I got my phone 2 days ago and after 3 times charge nothing change !
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fidelcstrl:
Disable google now, and use powersaver ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichi2k:
check and see what apps are running in the background, how bright is you screen setting?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hx11:
How much screen time in those 7 hours?

I found instant photo upload on dropbox and G+ did not help if you are shooting Zoes!