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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] i009030:
Just repeated the entire process from 1 to 16, but problem remains !

Simply wont get the SLP to 1.xx. it stays at 2.18!

Da........ "%"^$%£

Anyone who wants a "free" wizard ? Cant wait to get the new HTC 7xx series.

I009030

PS. I allmost downloaded your suggestion for a stable ROM (Tmobile ....) BUT a thing came to mind: I am in Europe and we use GSM 900 and 1800. Dont U guys in the STATES use GSM 1900 ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Wow. First I've heard of this. Not sure what to tell you :confused:. Maybe someone else has seen this (or similar and will have ideas). Only other thing I could think of would be to try putting on the Wizard Love rom and then downgrading again after that (not sure how many more times you want to mess with this ;)).

Let me ask one other set of questions:

* When you load the Qtek official ROM, what is the exact IPL and SPL that you have?

* When you run Button the first time, what is the IPL and SPL that you have?

The thing that confuses me is in your first post where you said your IPL is 1.01. Button should give you 1.05, so I'm wondering where this 1.01 is coming from.

GSM freqencies in the states are different, but others in the UK and all are running TMobile 2.26 with no problems (but I'll have to let someone on the other side of the pond comment on how that works for sure). As an example, I run the TMobile 2.19.11 UK Radio ROM on my phone and have no issues with cell connections here in the US (and this Radio seems to actually work better than the official Cingular one for my phone... Go figure).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] i009030:
OK. Sounds safe then. Thanks again

I009030

PS. Not sure how this QUOTE works, might look a bit odd ! Sorry

PSS. Maybe a stupid question: do I have to take out the sim card during this unluck process ? :-/ or does it not matter ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
The Wizard Love ROM is seeded on PirateBay and there are some RapidShare links floating around for it (sorry, don't know them off hand). I've never used it, but from what people say, it is a safe ROM to flash.

Also, please verify that you have the correct Button ROM. It should be:

CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE.exe (Its also seeded on PirateBay and elsewhere). Maybe I don't remember correctly, but I thought for sure that when you put on Button, your IPL changes to 1.05 and not 1.01 (but its been a few weeks for me now so I may be confused).

Hoping someone else has ideas / solution for you as I'm not sure what else to do here.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
When you click on Quote, it uses BBCode to put [ quote ] and [ /quote ] (without spaces) around the previous post. You can edit that and add your own tags (which is what I do) to quote and reply in places :)

No, leave the SIM card in. You can pull out your miniSD card if you have one to be safe (but I left mine in while I did my CID Unlock).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Ok I just did some research and from past postings it does seem that 1.01 may be correct (I still seem to remember mine being 1.05, but I've slept a few days since then ;). If you ran lokiwiz and didn't get any errors, then you may be CID Unlocked... You could try flashing a non Qtek ROM on your device to see if it takes. If it does you are CID unlocked. I'm not sure what else to tell you at this point. Good luck...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Donbegles:
I am having the same problem. I cna't get the SPL to downgrade from 2.25. I tried all the steps multiple times, but it never downgrades. I even tried the Tmobile flash as a test but it did not work. I have a Cingular 8125 version 3.

Thanks

DB
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
Does your phone reboot after each step when you run lokiwiz?

If you want more help you must provide more info.

DETAIL EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING, STEP BY STEP!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Donbegles:
Sorry.. About the lack of details.. I install button 1.05 then I follow the directions exactly.. I follow the directions for lokiwiz02b. The file you copy over EnableRapi.cab when I select it per the instructions it wants to install it in ROM or EXT/Rom2. I did not know which to select. I tried ROM and then ran loki twice. I then reloaded button 1.05. At that point the SPL is still 2.25. I even tried doing LOKI again and reloading Button still no dice. Per you instruction I tried the TMOBILE but it gaves me an error indication that the ROM was not for my device. I rebooted my 8125 and was able to get into the button 1.05 . I then went back to the Cingular ROM. Ideas? And yes it it reboots just fine after each run of Loki. Thanks in Advance..

DB
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] NotATreoFan:
Error When Running LokiWiz 0.2b

Unfortunately my Cingular 8125 took a crap about 2 weeks ago. On my old phone I was running the Molski.Biz 2.26 Final Rom.

I received a replacement phone from Cingular last week, and confirmed it is a G3 (no .0001 after IPL/SPL).

Before trying to run LokiWiz, I first run the 1.xx Rom downgrade as stated in the instructions, and the Rom appears to flash correctly. However, once the phone reboots, my SPL is still 2.25.

I went on to run the Rom Downgrade 3 more times, and each time the update appeared to be successful, however my SPL would still be 2.25 and my phone would not boot into Windows.

I am able to successfully, re-flash my phone back to OEM defaults with the Cingular Rom from HTC's site.

Because the Rom downgrade did not work successfully, I decided to try the CID Unlock from the OEM Rom, and I get the error message:

CopyFileToTFFS(cidunlocked.bin:0, 0, 00010000)

ERROR: ITWriteDisk - An internal error occurred.

Then my phone reboots. This occurs with both "C" and "U" options from LokiWiz. I am running LokiWiz from "C:\unlock"

--

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
This is actually normal and common. If your IPL went to 1.x then go ahead and do lokiwiz. After it runs and you reboot, THEN do the downgrade again and you should have both IPL and SPL at 1.x. THEN you can move back to a 2.x official ROM.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] NotATreoFan:
The problem I run into is that after my IPL changes to 1.x and my SPL remains at 2.25, my phone will not boot into Windows. It just stays at the "Beer" Splash for several minutes.

Did I not leave the phone sit at the loading screen for long enough?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Understand for us to assist, we really need full details and not a synopsis. So to help out here, detail what happens at each step please.

Ok, so you run Button ROM. When the phone reboots, what is your IPL and SPL (the SPL will probably still be 2.x, but your IPL should be 1.x at this point).

When you select the cab file, did it run successfully? When I did this I installed it to the Device and not to the Storage Card. Not sure that matters though as long as it completes.

I assume (per the instructions) you have lokiwiz located in your C:\ on your PC (also, what OS are you running? XP?) Now when you run lokiwiz and choose U, does it run and your Wizard reboots? Then when you run it again and choose C in lokiwiz, does it run and your wizard reboots again? If those both run without error AND the Wizard reboots each time, then you should be able to run Button ROM again and get your SPL down to 1.x. Now flash an official ROM.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
If you truly waited a couple of minutes, then yeah something isn't right. Maybe look at grabbing a different copy of the Button ROM (its seeded on PirateBay).

Also, what OS are you running on your PC? (Don't use Vista)

You could also see about trying to flash the Wizard Love ROM and then downgrading from it (you can use PirateBay to search for Wizard_Love) to see if that might work.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] John Anderton:
T-Mobile?

A great guide I must say. As a new pda user, I really found it really helpful :)

I had one question though. When it says we should goto the T-Mobile ROM before going to any other ROM, that stands for any wizard right? Doesn't matter if I have a wizard by i-mate (the K-JAM). The ROM by T-Mobile will have no issues with the i-mate phone of mine?

Or should I find an i-mate equivalent?

Also my IPL and SPL are 1.0.1 and 1.0.6 respectively. I still need to install Button's 1.05 custom ROM, right?

Anyway, I have the final intended ROM and am downloading Buttons 1.05 ROM. If someone can answer my first question then I'll know which ROM should I use as base before jumping off to newer ones :)

Thanks for all the help. And a great job done Dr. P :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
No, stay put. Lokiwiz will only work on a 1.x device. You can skip the Button step.

The T-Mobile is only used to upgrade the IPL and SPL to the latest released version after you've unlocked with Lokiwiz. After that you can upgrade to whatever you please.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] NotATreoFan:
My laptop is running XP Pro. My desktop is Vista. I have only tried from XP.

I tried again this morning, and got the same results as before. I then put the phone back to the default Cingular Rom.

I then tried a copy of Button 1.05 that I had on my PC from my first 8125, and same problem.

Today I'm going to try a hard reset, and then re-flash.

We'll see. Thanks for all your help so far.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] John Anderton:
Hmm.. So if I want to upgrade to the ROM I want, what should I exactly do now?

I understood the role of the T-Mobile ROM but what should my current steps be.

I don't need to downgrade to Button's 1.05. So I should use Lokiwiz directly now (which should work since my IPL and SPL are 1.x, right?) Then after that, do I need to upgrade my IPL and SPL (since the ROM I'm going for apparently doesn't do that *cough* crossbow *cough* :P)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
Start at step 4.

Your device requires a 2.x IPL/SPL to function with any new ROM correctly (recently some rocket surgeons here "discovered" that mixing a 2.x IPL and a 1.x SPL caused problems...)

If you don't want the latest IPL/SPL then install the latest Cingular 2.25

(Don't ask us which one you should install please..)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Removing my duplicate post as it basically said what the good Dr said above...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] NotATreoFan:
Don't ask me why, but after 7 (count 'em) Hard Resets on the Cingular ROM, I was able to flash Button's 1.05 ROM and get my phone to boot correctly. I then followed the instructions to the "T" and woo-hoo!

I am now running the latest Molski.Biz AKU 3.3 rom and loving it. I'm still gonna hold off on WM6 due to the issues my other 8125 gave me with those ROMs (Flash to 96%, then Communication Error)

Thanks to all for your assistance with this.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] albttar1001:
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

hi

i cant unlock mobile because my mobile is stop in bootloader and its cant logon , sync with active sync

can i find a method to unlock it from bootloader

please help me quiq

and thanks for all
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] deadeyezzz:
success

Followed the unlock instructions on my G3 and had zero problems. Now running WM6. Thanks Doc, thats's just the prescription my MDA needed.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Donbegles:
Thanks for all the help. :) I just got it to work. I just installed underground.. Is it a good one to start? AGain thank's..

DB
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Great job... If you haven't seen it yet, the new WM6 ROM from Faria is VERY nice and cleaner than Underground and MBE... Things really work! ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Tulaine:
Can I backup my old ROM

Can I?

My Wizard is showing lots of annoyances, not least is random soft resets (but somehow when it comes back up it doesn't need my PIN - but that's another issue) but while it's resetting it's unusable for over 2 minutes.

I'm pretty sure a fresh ROM will make life sweeter, but I'm a bit concerned that I could lose any hope of support from my provider in the 8 months remaining on the contract period if it's not loaded with the original ROM stuff.

My originals are

IPL 1.06

SPL 1.06

GSM 01.12.10

OS 1.6.2.4

My provider is T-Mobile (UK)

So I have 2 questions...

1) How can I get a backup of my existing ROM stuff (or at least a set of originals to flash over if necessary) ?

2) (Assuming I gather the cohones to take the leap) who can point me at a most beautiful ROM for my Wizard that will keep my T-Mobile (UK) connection?

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
I had similar issues with my stock Cingular 8125. I was at the point of tossing my phone in the trash and moving back to a Symbian smartphone device as this one had become completely unreliable. Part of why I found this site.

Flashing any of the custom roms will void your warranty, but for me, it was well worth it as I'm finding that my phone has become much more relliable and all. Sure, each ROM has its own quirk / bug, but I find most of those less annoying that a phone that locks up or just randomly reboots and drops calls. Note, that even if you move to a custom rom, you can always flash back to a stock provider rom. Your phone will be CID unlocked, but from what I understand, most providers don't check for that when doing warranty replacements. YMMV

You have two options here...

1) Go ahead and CID unlock. With your IPL/SPL you don't even have to do the downgrade... Just start with the Lokiwiz part and move forward from there...

2) You may just simply want to move to a newer ROM from your provider. T-Mobile (US) is a 2.26 ROM and is much more stable than the older ones (from everything I've heard). Simply moving to that ROM (Check the UK T-Mobile site to see what the latest is) may resolve issues you have and not void warranties and such (if thats really a concern for you). If you do move up to a 2.x ROM though without CID Unlocking, then if you decide to do that later, you will have to downgrade with teh Button ROM before you run lokiwiz (just follow every step in the first post of this thread).

You can take a backup of all of your settings and all with a tool like Spb Backup, or Sprite Backup (there are others, but those are two of the more popular ones). But this won't backup your ROM itself. Again, go to TMobile UK's website and see what ROMs they have for your phone and download those. That will give you a path back...

The new Faria "the real thing" ROM will give you WM6, and it has the setups for TMobile UK (and most other providers) built into it. you will probably still have to do some tweaking (my GPRS worked, but MMS didn't. That was fixed for me by going to CIngular's support site and getting the settings for MMS). For a WM6 ROM, its probably the most complete and ready to go. I haven't tried mUns yet (may try it today or tomorrow) just to compare. I was using Most Beautiful Edition, but have to say Farias is better now (Wifi and more works).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] dwny:
T-Mo Warranty Replacements

I've been using the same G3 device for 11.5 months and I've flashed everything with it. It got just a little worn so I called up for a warranty replacement. My replacement was a G3 but acted like a G4. I tried all the unlocking tools and even the shell-tool, roms would install but wouldn't boot up.

Since what I wasn't doing wasn't working, I decided to read the 1st page of this thread line for line. IT WORKS!!!! Everything happened like the doc said. After fighting with this thing, I felt like a noob...no offence. Now I'm good.

WARNING: The new devices are a new bread than the ones released a year ago. Before, you could just run Xelencin's T-Mo ROM & your device would be CID unlocked....not anymore :mad: . The CID's are much harder to crack but with patience...you can unlock both....your CID & SIM (Lockwiz03 gave me my sim code, Lockwiz02b CID unlocked my device)

They key part of CID unlocking your device is to get both IPL & SPL down to 1.xx. After downgrading your ROM to the Buttons version, use Lockwiz02b to unlock 1st and then CID unlock. Run Buttons Rom again and then your IPL & SPL will match @ 1.xx. Install a ROM (one of your carrier's rom's...I used T-Mo's ROM from July of 2006) that will give you 2.26 for IPL & SPL and then the ROM of your choice.

I'm not a ROM chef nor am I fresh out the box with a new device...I've been around for a while and this device made me check myself. All the info you need is here!

I felt the need to share this with you guys that are here every day 5-6 times a day :D and also to the noob who's device wouldn't reboot. :eek:

As long as your device will power up....it can be fixed !!!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Excellent post dwny... The Doc's post will work on G3 devices if you do everyting line by line as you say (and as he says right in that post). But so many people want to take short cuts, or think they understand and do it the way they think they understood it. Do it as a check list with each line and verify things as you go (his post even tells you what to look for).

Good luck and happy flashing!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] daveward:
wohooooooo

thank you so much for this tut

you guys were right i thaught iknew whaat i was doing making shortcuts jumping the gun and i couldnt do iti read the whole topic fully and did the process line for line i wasnt putting active sync in guest (i thaught it wouldnt matter) what an arse lol now its all good thanks so much u guys made my day
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] rpodos:
Ditto on dwny's post... I just got a warranty replacement as well, and it's a "new" G3. Walking through the original post STEP-BY-STEP worked once again!!

Hats off for the nth time to Doc, faria, Button, et al!!! :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
You're welcome!

Glad this has helped. Indeed if one follows each and every step in order one shouldn't have an issue.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Lucia:
I have a MDA Vario with a Dutch language ROM. Will the update procedure given work for a Dutch language ROM ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] b.mann:
HELP!

I've downgraded to the 1.05 button ROM, but i can never get a connection on my computer because drivers are missing for the ActiveSync. Is it just my comp, and should i try another one? :mad:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
This procedure is to unlock, that's all. Once you're unlocked you can load any ROM (the joy of being unlocked)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
So, you downgraded to 1.05 and you can't run lokiwiz? Or if you did run lokiwiz you can't install an official 2.x ROM?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Adilmobiles:
Hi Sir

Hi there

how r u sir

m Adil From Pakistan n I want to know that what is cid? wat is mean by G3 and G4 wat is different between G3 n G4 ?

is it is must to totelly flash to kjam for unlocking(sim lock)?

plz answer me quickly as soon as possible

thanx in Advance
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Awais:
Adil you should visit this page and study it carefully

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] daisu:
Hi,

I'm having an issue, actually. I can downgrade to the Button's ROM but once I get to that step I cannot connect to Activesync. Normally I'd go to the Connections tab, USB to PC button, and uncheck the "advanced USB" functions but there is no USB to PC button. :\

Anyone have this issue? I would really like to unlock my phone in the next few days.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
What version of ActiveSync do you have on your PC? What OS is your PC? Have you rebooted your PC to clear everything? Do a hard reset on your phone and see if that allows ActiveSync to connect.

You might try connecting your phone to a different PC to see if it connects there ok.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] daisu:
I tried it with activesync 4.2 and 4.5beta (I think those are the two versions). Using XP, did hard and soft reboots. ActiveSync connects with the current tmobile official ROM.

Before reading your email I did try it on another machine (a somewhat unpatched, non networked XP machine) and it worked. I was able to downgrade the ROM and I ran the unlocker. It appears to have worked, however... my SPL is still reporting a 2.x version (and I have re installed the Button ROM a few times)

I tried, earlier, to upgrade and then do a backup using RomUpdate115 but got an error that says I don't have the correct security level. :(

I feel so close and yet so far. Any ideas?

What version of ActiveSync do you have on your PC? What OS is your PC? Have you rebooted your PC to clear everything? Do a hard reset on your phone and see if that allows ActiveSync to connect.

You might try connecting your phone to a different PC to see if it connects there ok.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
Yeah a page or two back there were a couple of other people saying similar. IPL went to 1.x but SPL stayed at 2.x through numerous flashes of the button rom. One thing you might try is pulling out your SD card of your phone. One of the posts indicated that after about 8 attempts at flashing the button rom, various hard resets, et al, it suddenly just worked to get the SPL down to 1.x. So I'm really not sure what to tell you (other than try it 10 times with some hard resets thrown in for "fun"). Ugh.

I couldn't tell from your post, but if you upgraded your IPL back to 2.x before your SPL made it down to 1.x then you will have to do the downgrade and the lokiwiz steps again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] DimaV83:
There is a link to "T-Mobile MDA Software Version (2.26.10.2) ". As far as I know, Wizard is MDA Vario, not MDA. Is this ROM compatible with HTC Wizard?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mfrazzz:
As I understand it, the MDA and MDA Vario are both Wizards. The MDA is USA version and MDA Vario is Europe.

Check the Wiki on Wizard versions:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Wizard_Versions

So yes, that rom is compatible with all Wizards (MDA, MDA Vario, etc).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] daisu:
Hey Thanks. I did try it over and over and over again. I'm not sure on which go but it eventually took.

Yes, someone should mention that in the first post (about the IPL being 2.x). That's exactly what happened, so I downgraded, did the whole shebang, and now I have both numbers at 1.x and will try an upgrade once I charge my phone. I'm going to do a ROM dump and will just leave a message later if I was successful. Thanks guys, this forum is really the best.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
daisu said (and I quote)

What do you mean?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] MrStorm:
THANKS 100 Times

THANKS Doctor P

I hadd'nt been succesfull in CID Unlocking my MDA Vario up untill now.

Your Superb guide made all te difference.

Again THANKS
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] bassabbas:
hmm

i've made a mistake... after running the button 1.05 rom, i've tried to install aku 3.3 rom... but now i know i should have installed a 2.26 rom first...

now my pda is rebooting al the time after about a minute of loading...

ipl 1.01

spl 1.01

gsm has disappearde

os 3.3.0.0

is there a way i can get my phone back to life?