[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo Upgrading] jpiskorski:
"NO RADIO" or "NO GSM" GSM/3G module failure T-Mobile Ameo original ROM for warranty?

****** A note for those who may be in a similar situation or pondering over something similar ****

How it ended is that HTC refused to honour the warranty for the reason of "nonstandard software installed / user inflicted damage". To be perfectly honest the law is on their side on this one unfortunately.

I was charged for the repair, waiting for the unit now. :/

Conclusion - as was easy to predict is that HTC will try to use the argument of different branding to refuse warranty, so if you're using HTC branded ROM on T-Mobile branded unit - the warranty goes.

Nothing new here, just for others to have a track.

Also, for those experiencing following problems:

- No GSM, No 3G, but at the same time WiFi and GPS working

- At the boot "NO GSM", "NO RADIO" or "R NONE" displayed instead of the radio stack version, the message depends on the radio stack version

... your motherboard is 99% damaged.

It's not repairable apparently (relax, the unit is). I was charged for "M/B repair", but when the unit came back the motherboard was obviously replaced - new IMEI, physical marks gone. Compared to the price of the whole unit the repair is not that much, so don't despair, send it to them. They're very fast.

The fault is apparently rather rare, but not unknown. May be caused by misuse like leaving the power source plugged in when removing the battery or simply a manufacturing fault. If you have standard software, you will have the repair under the warranty.

Mine just died in the middle of the call for no apparent reason and as I had Olipro's SPL and other non-standard ROM on it I was charged for the repair.

The unit is back, like new, I'm happy again and hope it won't happen to any of you. :)

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Hi all.

First of all, thx for all the effort that you've put into making Athena/Ameo work with WM6 and all those tools.

Now, I need an original T-Mobile UK Ameo ROM. I have searched hi and low on FTP, wiki, but I cannot find an original T-Mobile UK ROM, only HTC (different branding, etc)

The situation is such - my Ameo was bought second hand from E-bay. It already had a WM6 put on it by a very nice and helpful seller.

After some time of using it, the phone module got fried somehow. After the soft reset due to a hang in a phone call the device doesn't see the phone anymore.

GPS works, WIFI works but no phone, when booting it shows "R NONE" like there's no radio.

I've tried re-flashing with two different radio ROM's, then a full WM6 re-flash, all to no avail.

I have a feeling it's a fried SIM reader, before going completely it complained once about "incorrect SIM" or something similar. The SIM is ok of course, I've checked it in other mobiles and also other sims in the Ameo with the same result.

I've seen similar posts on the net, but to claim warranty I will have to revert back to WM5 or of course they will try to claim that the phone module got fried by WM6, wich is balls (excuse my Latin).

So... after this lengthy introduction - does ANYONE have a backup copy of T-Mobile UK original ROM?

PLEASE? ;)

Jack