[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] okinz:
x01ht unlocking

I want to thank all of you that have taken your time to help all of us here unlocking our New X01HT Softbank phone. Especially Dandare123 and jokinawa.

I wanted to make it easier for any one else that is thinking about taking the plunge in to getting rid of the Kanji for good…

Please use these instructions completely at your own risk,

The entire successful process took me less then an hour to complete.

First you need to unlock the phone with the tool at

http://www.imei-check.co.uk/m3100unlock.php

There is a charge for this service. It only takes about 10 minutes to Unlock with the downloadable unlocker software from this site and the key code you purchase with a Pay Pal account.

When I ran the program I had to do one important Step to make it work, I had to turn of the windows firewall and turn off my Norton antivirus.

When running the unlocker software the first two times I had an error where it said that this phone version cannot be unlocked. On the next try it worked perfect.

...then after you phone is unlocked, follow the directions from dandare123. and Jokinawa edited to make some of it easier to understand for us Noobs.

Originally Posted by dandare123

The steps I took were:

1. I flashed the unit usiung the JASJAM_WWE_1.20.305.3_1.20.305.104_1.07.03.10_ship and let it setp through the configuration process without selecting any of the network choices it gives (I suspect that this can cause a problem). This process takes about 25 to 30 minutes, DO NOT TUN OFF the computer or the phone during this process…

Then (downloaded) the SoftBank X01HT ExtROM (Japanese) from http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index...s_ExtendedRoms

I then (downloaded) the Fit4cat Hermes tweaker from http://www.fit4cat.de/thread.php?threadid=56 (used to set up phone for the EXT rom set up)

I established a Active Sync with the Hermes and moved Fit4cat Hermes tweaker to Hermes and installed it. Then I ran it, enabled 'HSPDA settings'and checked all the boxes on the 'security' tab (mount extROM, unlock extROM, allow non certified apps)

This will install as a normal pocket pc application onto the phone.

After a Hermes reboot, open the extended rom folder through the active synch software and locate the extended rom folder on the phone(the fit4cat Hermes tweaker made this folder viewable) I deleted all cab files in the Hermes Extended Rom folder and moved all the cab files from SoftBank X01HT ExtROM to the Hermes.

After this do a HARD RESET

Press and hold the Left SOFT KEY and Right SOFT KEY, and at the same time, use the stylus to press the RESET button at the bottom of your device. You will be presented with a menu saying 'press R to reset, X to exit', if you press R Your device will be set back to factory default settings.

(The L/R soft keys are the "--" keys just up the start and OK buttons)

After you follow these instructions and reboot you should not need to do any set up for the internet connection, The hard Reset should have set it all up for you.

The only thing that you would have left to do is a keyboard hack to correct most of the keys since this is a US operating system on the Japanese keyboard that has a few differences.

The best we could do corrects all of the keys except for the . and the , are reversed,

No big deal it actually makes it easy to type a . with out using the Mode key.

To make the registry I used a pocket PC registry editing program by Resco.

There are other programs out there that do the same thing.

In the regedit program on the pocket PC

Goto the following registry entry

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oem\Qwerty]

There is a key called 'Layout' and it is in Decimal.

The default value of English ROM is 20409, and Japanese ROM is 20411 (both are in hexadecimal).

So all you need to do is change the 20409 to 20411 save your changes and do a SOFT reset.

Next, enjoy your new English phone.