[HTC Excalibur] Nvious:
Okay guys, this process took me 1 hour on the first Tmobile Dash i flashed cause i was reading and searching instructions from different sources at one time on the FLY so it took me longer. The 2nd Dash i flashed for my girlfriend took me 22 minutes flat cause i saved all these links and files.

You will have your phone done in about 20 minutes from start to finish if you follow these simple instructions.

DISCLAIMER TIME -

I'm writing this because i went through so many threads out there just to find out how i had to reflash the phone. Now, i've done 2 phones back to back and i wanted to put my experience in one SIMPLE thread. This worked for me, twice. I had success in reflashing my new Tmobile dash into an HTC Excalibur so i went and bought one for my girlfriend and did the same thing to hers with success.

I'm not responsible for any damages that you may incur in bricking your phone simple cause i wasn't the one that was reflashing your phone. This is my "story".

I went to http://www.imei-check.com/dashunlock.php to unlock my phone.

Seriously, its $38 bucks, don't be cheap. I did both of my Dash phones through them, its easy as all hell to do AND within 3 minutes, i was SIM unlocked and CID unlocked.

Sim Unlock - Use any carrier's SIM card.

CID Unlock - Unlocking the phone's Software lock

Application Unlock - Unlocking registry and installing 3rd party applicates that don't have certificates.

IMEI Check only SIM and CID unlocks (which is what most ppl do)

Step 1 -

With your new Tmobile dash - I want you to wipe the handheld clear first, based on my experience, it makes loading new ROM's FASTER.

Follow these Key strokes in the start menu

START - EXPERT - Clear Storage - enter 1234 to wipe the handheld.

(make sure your stuff is backed up if any!!)

Step 2 -

Install Activesync on your computer and make sure its Connected!!

Step 3 -

After that's done, you need to run this Rom bootloader update. I found this from the wonderful developers here. This is the link. To run this, all you have to do is download it and just run it on your desktop with your ActiveSync Connected.

ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/smartphones/Excalibur/RUU_Excalibur_SPL-1.11_UpgradeOnly.exe

I've read about ppl getting errors while trying to directly install the NEW ROM so i'm including this step ( once again, these are the exact steps that I took and it worked fine, i'm not going to tell you guys something that I didn't try or didnt work )

Step 4 - Let it fully set up and then install the new ROM. This is the ROM i used. Download it and run it with the ActiveSync Connected (Duh) Here's the link.

ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/smartphones/Excalibur/RUU_Excalibur_HTC_WWE_1.11.405.4_4.1.13.28_02.63.90_Ship.exe

I've read that this was the ROM that was most stable and I'm running it on 2 Dash phones without a single problem.

Now you're almost done!!!!

Step 5

After you get all that stuff set up, you need to edit the registry because the keyboard function still needs to be tweaked. This is a SDA Unlocker that I used on both phones to do the "Application Unlock".

ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Uploads/Excalibur/unlock/SDA_ApplicationUnlock.exe

I know its for the TMobile SDA but it apparently works on the Dash too. This will do the APPLICATION UNLOCK and now you should be able to change the registry keys.

Step 6

Go into the phone and click START - Settings - More - Regional Settings-

Now change everything to English US, Not English UK. After that, reset the phone again for the changes to take place.

Step 7

Now click this link - Its a Registry Editor (best one i've used so far).

http://www.breaksoft.com/Download/MRE/MobileRegistryEditor.zip

Unzip it into a Folder on your desktop (no , its not a virus, scan if it you must)

and open it up.

it should look like this. (taken from their website)

What you're doing right now is you're changing the KEYBOARD layout BACK to the Standard US one. The ABC's work but the secondary symbols don't correspond to each other (IE - "alt" + "K" should be the $ sign but its the Euro Sign instead)

Step 8

Now, go to this location in your registry -

HKEY_Local_Machine -

HARDWARE -

DEVICEMAP -

KEYBD -

Now look for "CurLang" - double click that value and a little window opens up that looks like this

Change the "Value Data" to "1033" as the US Keyboard Layout value.

Exit the program, and restart the Phone.

DONE!!!!!!! - Your phone is unlocked without the TMobile Branding and its back to the good ol HTC Excalibur setup.

Now, Depending on your phone carrier, you must set up the GPRS Settings and stuff. I'm on Cingular's network, you can find their settings on their website by going here-

https://www.cingular.com/support/content.do?page=phone-device-support

I know its for a different phone but the settings are the same.

As for text message setting and voicemail numbers - here's a shortcut -

START - SETTINGS - PHONE - PHONE OPTIONS -

This will automatically download the voicemail numbers and SMS numbers to your phone from the network.

Kennykong116@gmail.com if you have questions.

*****************UPDATE-FEB 13th 2009 *****************

I've just checked my old emails and i've been receiving LOTS of emails about the links on this post being down. There was an issue with the FTP servers before where these roms were stored. They are no longer there.

They can be found by going here -->http://lmgtfy.com/?q=HTC+Excalibur+ROMS

I apologize that i haven't gotten back to those of you who have emailed me.

I no longer have this phone now so i never bothered to look into any of the emails.

There are plenty of sites where you can find the ROM images.