[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] licensedtoquill:
I am not sure you are reading my posts. - The problem is the device not resetting!!

You may be right but just telling me that it is my fault doesn't actually assist me: When I got this phone the screen was frozen at t-mobile. Since then I have flashed successfully in my spare time a few dozen times but never got past that frozen screen. I have upgraded to SPL/2.26 and downgraded to IPL 1.01 (tried to CID unlock unsuccessfully) and upgraded again numerous times but I don't get past the first splash screen which freezes as soon as the red writing appears on it.

Please dont take this the wrong way but you are simply wrong when you say that all which is needed is to flash to the carrier's stable ROM and then do whatever. The last stage in that process isn't the SUCCESS message (or apparently even the installation of the new SPL/IPL), it is the successful restarting of the device.

The procedure doesn't look all that difficult and isn't susceptible to getting it wrong somewhere along the way (especially when users are told they have flashed successfully). When I have followed your instructions to the letter and still get frozen, doesn't it mean something to you?

You say there are posts out there. The search function of this forum isn't the best: Have you ever read any post which says that anyone has flashed to the carrier's ROM and a frozen screen resulted and .......... is the way out of this mess? Why do YOU think there are 612 page views of this thread? The catch 22 is that when you flash the carrier's ROM, you get a frozen screen. Thereafter, as far as I can see, you cant enter the CID unlock from the bootloader screen? You CAN downgrade to button but you still cant reset or unlock.

If you dont agree that the non-resetting is the problem, what reason do you have for the error message I am getting which tells me that when I replace the files in the T-Mobile ROM with the ones you sent after successfully flashing the carrier's ROM, I am told I am using the wrong utility. If we can understand this problem, we might get somewhere but would probably still have the non-resetting problem? With respect, if you continue to tell me to continue to follow the same steps which inevitably result in a frozen screen, we aren't going to get far.

Perhaps if you don't know the answer to this question, you could consider this question for the 612 people out there who seem to have this problem with frozen screens: You say simply "flashing the official carrier's to get your phone back to it's default status,and then downgrade to IPL/SPL 1.xx to CID unlock,or try to flash any IPL/SPL 1.xx Rom,it cud be Button's Rom 1.05 or any Official carrier's Rom 1.xx to downgrade and apply CID unlock." which tells me that the phone becomes CID locked when flashing down after flashing the carrier's ROM (which I didn't know). Should there be some change made to the unlock utility to cover the 612 people who have flashed to the carrier's ROM and the still got to the frozen screen and who can ONLY unlock from the bootloader screen? If so how does one address this problem if your suggested adaptation contained in the zip file you sent results in the WRONG UPGRADE UTILITY error message.

As far as I can see, - and I may be oversimplifying,- besides re-flashing the carrier's ROM 20-30 times before it gets it right and resets, THIS is the only conceivable place where one CAN go wrong in the instructions you gave?

Put another way, has anyone EVER flashed the carrier's ROM successfully to a frozen screen and managed to get out of it without the carrier's ROM starting successfully so that they can get to the steps you mention? Don't take this the wrong way, - I can see you are trying to help, - but to me it is blindingly obvious that the problem you yourself mention (the supposedly incorrectly followed step) is that the device doesn't reset on restart after flashing the carrier's ROM! IT FREEZES.