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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hey, guys, how and where can i download English ROM for MDA...

I wanna to change language from German to English...

The link is corrupted... Help me?

My device: HTC, T-Mobile (unlocked SIM), MDA, WM-2002...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Texas_30:
T Mobile MDA Compact does not open, need HELP!!!

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this board and I read nearly all threads about MDA. I bought my T Mobile MDA Compact 2 weeks ago from Germany. Yesterday while I was trying to change its language to English its locked. I installed Windows 2003 SE then device restarted but not open anymore. Now I can not open it. When I try to open it on the top of the screen it writes "Seial" and at tthe bottom it writes "1.00 Version". What should I do? I need immediate assistant; can anybody help me to make my MDA Compact working again?

Thanks

AE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Texas_30:
I solved the Problem

Hi All,

I solved the problem using I Mate JAM ROM.

AE

T Mobile MDA Compact (using I mate ROM)

ROM version: 1.06.00 WWE

ROM date: 01/06/05

Radio version: 1.01.00

Protocol version: 1337.38

ExtROM version: 1.06.150 WWE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Mastah-GSi:
Ok I try to read the thread at my best, but I really confused (sorry for that).

I have the following:

A MDA Compact with the German languague

Device Info:

PM10A 0 A

GERR

T-MOB101

1.01.01 0 1

1.01.120

1.00.10 GER

Now I do have the following (Dutch?) ROM:

MA_DT_WWE_DutchRetail_11100_550_11100_Ship.exe

by Dangaard

With the following files included in the exe:

- UI.dll

- RUU.dll

- RUU.conf

- ROMUpgradeUt.exe

- radio.nbf

- nk.nbf

- ms.nbf

- EnterBL.exe

Now my question:

Is it possible to flash this ROM into the German MDA Compact I have here?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Mastah-GSi:
Nobody can give me a clear answer on my question mentioned above?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
Mastah-Gsi,

yes you can upgrade with the ROM you have. You need to replace the ROMUpgradeUt.exe with the attached file though. This fixes the Country ID error you would encounter when using the original ROMUpgradeUt.exe. Just replace the file in the temp folder and run the copied one manually. It may not work the first time, just run it again and it will work.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PanagiotaroS:
guys plz tell me!

where can i find ricardos rom??? :oops:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PanagiotaroS:
PLEASE I NEED RICARDO'S ENGLISH ROM
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] gizmo man:
help please

dear friends of this forum,please assist me i want to unlock my mda compact and secondly i want to change the languege from german to english.thanks friends.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] sayashi:
i just update to the latest GER rom

and i would like to know how to change the language to english from German
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] wes0000:
Yes, i just found the UK version for MDA Compact v1.13, You can click it >>>here

I dont know WM5 possible for O2 mini or not, if anyone did successful to upgrade to WM5 pls tell me, so far i cant found a thread said that they successful to upgrade to WM5 for magician (O2mini). And if possible pls let me know on it. Thanks!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] errachidi:
MOD EDIT just rude!

post like this again and you will be banned from this forum.

thank you
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
well they obviously don't have it.

I think they have an imate jam and are try in to get it off and put it into some sort of install and things are not going that well.

You guys might be stuck with a german device for a while, someone eventually will figure it out.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
you guys are trusting, you bought a german device from some retailer who has promised (and not delivered) some sort of english rom?

And you don't speak german. umm hello, you must have lots of money.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Umm hello? Their tech "did not know how to do it?" Guess she didn't find out how to do it tomorrow since it is tomorrow already.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
same with XDA3. Not a problem at all. And they figured a ROM out together with Globalcommsuppliers here too. So i dont care and wait few more :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] edsub:
It is posted allready. Use search. Cant remenber whether is was here or on www.ppc-welt.info
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
That wasn't their tech but their sales. These ppl at Nowicom are very friendly and so far I trust them. They have kept all their promises so far.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
are you working for them ? Because we are still waiting for the rom upgrade and they don't answer to our emails ...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] andrewpmoore:
Which bit have they kept. I was told it would ship with an English Rom when i ordered it. Then I was told I'd have to do it myself and would get it on Thursday. Thursday came and they said Friday, Friday came and they said Monday.

If the only reason they didn't put the patch on themselves was because there were so many orders, then what would they have done if there'd only been a couple. I'm sure they still couldn't have put on a english rom, because if they could, they'd have had the patch ready on Thursday.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
more news ...

http://www.compactjam.com/threadView.aspx?id=44

Forget nowicom !
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
whats that?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
the site is down. You will see on the thread that Nowicom doesn't have the upgrade as promised!

Forget this saler!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hi,

i am a boss of nowicom. First i want to tell you that we never had a english ROM for the compact in our hand, if somebody told someone that- its wrong and i will speak to the guy directly who said that.

Next thing is, that we have expieriences with flashing updates to english (like we did together on the MDA3). We sold tons of MDA compact in the last week and all customers are happy. We couldnt deliver all compact in the same time- sorry for that but we can only sell what tmobile give us.

About the software. We work hardly on it and we are discussing with HTC and imate in the moment for getting the english ROM and also we are working on to create the our own ROM. All warranty is via nowicom- so there is no problem.

I am sure that we have the update until latest time wednesday. If there are some users who cant wait, there is no problem, just return the phone and we refund the full money.

I am sorry that you guys have to wait longer than expect.

PS: the tmobile ROM lock is like on the MDA3 not a problem. (i think there are until today no other english MDA3 ROM out than ours, and everybody is happy too ;-)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
Yes! An answer from Nowicom. I have only one thing to say : we will see wednesday.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
@jpa

Please send me a mail with your name to smeyer@nowicom.com

I have to check why you didnt got a mail. the whole customer service is writing emails the whole day. And for the english language customers thats 4 people in the same time. It is possible that an answer needs few hours, but that you never here from us is not good, so tell me your datas and i will check out whats wrong...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
I also bought from Nowicom and haven't had an answer about the English ROM since Thu. I had to call myself. What's bothering me about all this is that ppl at Nowicom are lying to us.

When I first called they told me it's only in German. After 5 mins they called me back and they said they were mistaken ... "we have it in English but you will have to do it yourself ... we will send you a link ...".

So I confirmed the order. When I asked for the link they said they don't have it yet! ... "we should have it by Thu ...".

Then I started to get suspicious and asked them whether they actually have the ROM or not! They said they are working on it and will have it ready on Fri. Then on Fri they said it's Monday latest. Now it's Wednesday .....

Maybe I'm lucky that my power switch is not working properly and I will have to return it back anyway.

Mind you, NOWICOM PROVIDED ME WITH AN EXCELLENT SERVICE, but I was expecting them to be more straight forward when it came to the English ROM issue.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
In addition to my last post above, I sent an e-mail to S. Meyer at Nowicom and he replied immediately. I will be returning the phone, Nowicom will arrange for a UPS pick up and they will cover all the costs. That is very professional and nice of them. I certainly won't have any problems buying from them again.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
To nowicom boss! :)

Hi Boss from nowicom, :lol:

Anynews about the ROM today? Do you think that you can make it by tomorrow as you promised? And PLEASEEEEEEEE tell us are we gonna get future upgrades on time? Do you have to unlock its new ROM everytime you are getting one? or is it an "once unlocked then upgrade whenever you want" process? If you answer this as well then we will be happy customers of yours :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Yes, you can still change our opinion about Nowicom ..... :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
hm, i forgot to register again :( So i am the boss of nowicom again.

Our Dubai partner supports us in the moment with the original imate jam ROM, so i think we only need few hours to work it out- i hope so :lol:

The ROM works like the MDA3 ROM, we make a .exe file and that unlocks and updates the phone. I pray that we have the ROM ready until today in the late evening. I will post the downloadlink to our server in this thread than.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Thanks Seba!!!

:D

Ciao
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] optica:
Thanks for this precision Mr Guess ....

we hope the English ROM for this evening.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
Thanks. Maybe this night will be short ... my Mda need to be customized !

:D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
If you manage to deliver the ROM to us then it will be great and you will have many pleased customers or should I say future customers too! :wink:

Can I consider that after unlocking the phone we will be able to upgrade our MDA Compacts with imate's ROM updates without having to get an exe from you? Please answer that!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] madds:
Hi, mr "boss of nowicon.de"

Since you will be giving us a upgrade from a different brand of the device, it would be good for us to have a responsability term from you emailed to us. As we all know changing the language of the tmobile device rom to a tmobile rom isn't good at all. Changing it to another distributer rom it's even worse.

Just write a few lines telling that it was up to you to get the upgrade, and that your company will be held responsible in case tmobile support decides to not support the mda compact due to a language change.

Also it would be interesting to have a german rom ready to upload to the device in case it needs service from tmobile.

Just my advice!!!!

Thank's
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Good point madds! A copy of the original ROM is good to have just in case something goes wrong, but in case of a fawlty device Nowicom already stated that we only have to send it to them and it will be covered by their warranty.

But we better leave him alone for the day at least till he finishes with our ROM upgrade! :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] madds:
we are all looking foward to that upgrade.

I'm now promoting this day as the less productive of the year in my work and as the one with the most visits to xda-developers.com and compactjam.com (i speak for myself :shock: )
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
@Moderators: How many times are we allowed to refresh this page? :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Xetra:
I'm an happy mda compact owner and very happy nowicom customer (except i have one dead pixel on my screen :( maybe covered by the warranty ?)

but excellent service from nowicom.

We waiting english update.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
@Nowicom boss

What time do you normally go to sleep? :lol:

(... just to see when I can go to sleep as well)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
Now i registered a new account :D

So, yeah, the imate english ROM allow you to unlock and upgrade your compact with the jam software. YOu never will have warranty problems, its the same with the MDA2 or 3, i never got back one of this phones with original software, and we got them all repaired without problems. If there should be a problem- nowicom offers to all products we sell 2years unlimited warranty to our customers, with free pick up. (we have to do that, coz i some countrys we deliver phones, the phones never come out officially)

I am sorry to tell you that i go to bed really late, round about 2am MET, but i am leaving the office 7pm MEZ, than i have more time and i will keep you posted, that yyou dont have to wait that long

8)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
What I was asking is if someone that will flash the upgrade that you are working on tonight and have access to imate's future ROMS will be able to use imate's ROMs without having you to unlock them first each time!

Can you clear this up for us please?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
yeah, sure. Only the provider branded stuff (tmobile, vodafone, orange) do have the ROM locks. After this upgrade you have a compact like you bought it from imate, so you can upgrade any software on it.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
What's the situation now? Do you think you will make it till tonight?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
no news yet, my programmer have to do a brake now, better check tomorrow morning again here pls :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
You are killing us! Should I send you my credit card details again so you can buy him loads of food and coffee so he finishes the job for us??? I would be glad to! :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] aristobrat:
Will nowicom customers have access to future i-mate ROM updates?

The reason I ask is that you normally have to login to clubimate.com to download them, and normally only customers with i-mate branded devices can get access.

THANKS!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
you don't need to login. the ftp site accept anonymous access

ftp.clubimate.com/support
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
:D :D :D Noooo :D

It is possible that he finish it tonight, but i dont want you all to stay awake and maybe for nothing tonight.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Can you get him to post the link here in case he finishes tonight? Get him a few days of! He deserves it if he makes it by tonight! :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
be sure, in the second it works, i show the link here, and the guy have the rest of the week holiday :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I guess Suzan and Sandy will need some holidays too after the availability of this upgrade! At some time I felt like a teacher going hard on a 10 year old student that didn't do his homework when I talked to one of them and the only word she could come up with was "sorry". :lol:

If your programmer manage to get the update soon Christmas will seem to be a lot sooner for you people at Nowicom! :lol: :lol: :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Please let us know if he quits for tonight! If he goes to sleep then I will too! :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Bman:
Hee Katsj, does your live depend on it? :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I will be leaving on a bussiness trip tomorrow for a couple of days so I would love to have it! Thats the reason for my anxiety! :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
ok, so here is the status:

he is not answering the phone, i think he fall in sleep. His last problem was to get it again into a working *.exe file and to test if the unlocking really works.

I have to go to bed now too, i am totally done for today.

Tomorrow Thomas (the programmer) is coming 10am to the office, give us just 1-2 hours more for testing.

I will (and also the Customercare) will keep you up to date and we are sending the link with the SW on our server around in the second it works :-D

thanks guys

have still a good night

Sebastian
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I guess that means you are close in fixing our unlocking ROM. I hope you ll make it till 12:00 pm tomorrow.

Goodnight Sebastian!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] vpreHoose:
Which English ROM version?

Which version of the ROM are you guys using for the update?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] vpreHoose:
I severely doubt this to be true.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
why ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] wnpublic:
As one of the three or so guys who worked out how to change the German MDA3 ROM to the English imate PDA2K ROM, I can tell you that whoever told you that is fibbing. The various resellers who had German MDA3s to sell had made ZERO progress before community people got involved and found a way to do it, the results of which were provided to these resellers. So don't get your hopes up that someone's "programmers" can do it.

Um, that's not how it worked. So I would take anything you hear from the person who said this with a grain of salt.

That said, I would be very surprised if the Magician could not be transplanted with an English ROM in the same fashion that the BlueAngel was. If there is an English ROM readily available, it's a matter of fixing up the header file to "fool" the upgrade process into thinking it is upgrading like to like, e.g., english to english or german to german. Such a process would need to be performed on an upgrade ROM file each time, but it's very simple once you understand it.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] gratefuled:
Those who think that once, if it happens, they get an i-Mate JAM ROM on a T-Mobile device that it will magically turn into a JAM with full Club I-Mate support are mistaken. You need an I-Mate device serial # to be a member there.

This may or may not be an issue, and this Site is the place where you will ultimately get the best support and future upgrades.

A year ago I was able to upgrade my hacked MDA II with T-Mobile Netherland ROMs set with WWE. That way I could at least keep my T-Mobile device ROMs under the same brand, which eliminates the Country ID issues, etc.

I will say though, that many users switch Branded ROMs on a regular basis seemingly without issue, but to do so you will need to be prepared to re-work certain items within the ROM.

Good luck guys. Nowicom is the Tek N Toys of a year ago. At least people got the devices, however.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Who should I believe now? :roll:

Let's wait and see people! Let's give Nowicom a chacne to prove what they say! If they don't deliver the ROM and if upgrading to an imate ROM coming directly from imateclub site is not possible then you may take the piss out of them! But for now please let them prove their selfs.

All of us the people who bought an MDA Compact from them we need some hope! Let us hope!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Matterhorn:
OH no! No politics here please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
If a bit of teasing and some Humour considered to be politics then ok erase my message! I didn't mean to offend anyone! Come on! We are talking about the chance to get our phones unlocked! Is this planet loosing its sense of humour???? :(

I edited my previous message! I hope you are happy now! :(

BTW what's that Tek N Toys thing?????? Could you please explain?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Matterhorn:
OK, I step down from my soapbox :)

Off the subject of this thread, I remember reading that you are going to try the Sandisk WiFi card with 256mg on your Compact, have you tried it yet?

Matt
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I am expecting it to arrive some time next week. I will let you know! I am really impatient for that too! Did you find any info somewhere else about the compatibility of this card? Only a pic at msmobiles gives me some hope! :roll:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Matterhorn:
I did read in a thread somewhere that somebody contacted the guy that wrote the review. He apparently verified that the iMate works with the Sandisk SD Wifi 256mg. I hope so because I sent back my standard wifi card and ordered the one with memory because of what I read...throwing the dice :D

Matt
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Saw the following on the imate forums, isn't this a nowicom guy?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Yes !?? Hey M. Nowicom, can you explain us ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
Any type of message/reply/update to the above posts from Mr. Nowicom will be greatly appreciated! And it will help his business too.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
Has everyone gone quite, or are you all busy re-packing your MDA Compact for return? :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Quite ? No! Nervous ? Yes!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hey M. Meyer, did you found the rom yesterday to hack it an to send it to your customers ? :twisted:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Well I requested a return yesterday, and haven't heard a thing from them. Strange that they seem much less responsive to returns than sales. They might get away with it if there's a ROM by 4pm, as i've one has not arrived by then, it's on it's way back.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] nowicom:
ok, here are the news:

my guy have problems. The thing is he got the english ROM, worked on it and couldnt bring it to work. He told me last night

as the last, that he need a new *.exe file of the software because he didnt have the one we had anymore (the one from imate).

I cant get it again and today in the morning he only told me he cant do it.

I didnt read all posts since yesterday night here, but i read from someone who worked also on the MDA3 ROM (and faster than

nowicom) so i want to ask everybody here (and i will do it on the phone to some people i know too) everybody who can do the

english imate/compact/s100 ROM, will get 400€ or a compact for free from nowicom.

I am absolutely unsatisfied with this situation, everybody who cant wait anymore can still return his phone- (pls contact the

customer service for that) i can understand that.

If there is someone who can help us, please send me a mail and i will give you the files we have already maybe that helps.

If there are more questions for today, please write a mail too.

I am on the road for the rest of the day, so i am unable to post in this forum before today in the late night or

tomorrow morning. If someone want to contact me please email me to: smeyer@nowicom.com

thanks and sorry again

Seb

PS: why only guests saying bad things about nowicom, why you dont show your name instead to write so much trash in this topic

full of seriuos problems and questions without showing where you are?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hello,

And so, where is the rom ? What is the new issue ?

Thanks
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] wnpublic:
He hacked the original and only copy he had of the english ROM? Ridiculous.

If someone can send me an original imate JAM ROM, I can take a look at it and see if it can be modded to install on an MDA Compact using the same method as used for the MDA III.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I will be sending you the ROM! I am going to get it soon! But how are you gonna try it without an MDA Compact? PM me your e-mail
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] andrewpmoore:
Sounds all too crazy to me too.

Might be worth getting in touch with BMan on the thread here:

http://www.compactjam.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12&PN=1&TPN=2

he's got an English ROM (but tmobile locked I think)