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Flashed my T68m to T68i by....myself!! |
thejason
Joined: Oct 25, 2002
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on the back of your T68 is a number right above the barcode that is similar to mine that says "02W25" meaning mine was made in 2002, week 25. I got mine from cingular about a month ago too...
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On 2002-11-09 18:11, UW TL wrote:
I have no idea what week is my phone.. but my T68m was obtained about a month ago from the Good Guys. It's a Cingular T68m. The R5D files i have are basically from this site, provided from waikincheng. hope that helps.
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On 2002-11-09 08:11, thejason wrote:
Funny thing, my T68m is also R4B hardware... what week is yours? and where did you obtain the flash files? Mine is week 25.
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On 2002-11-09 07:55, UW TL wrote:
i just flashed my R4b hardware version T58m from R2D to R5D and there are no problems what so ever. BT is fine, and my standby time is fine. I am a happy person!
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av0135
Joined: Sep 24, 2002
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Hey all, just finished with the upgrading of t68m to 68i r5c firmware...and as indicated...everything that is wrong with the upgrade (shorter standby/talktime) is there, but bluetooth works fine..as far as hbh-10 and hbh-30 is concerned. Now, I'm debating whether or not to do my t68i (r3b) firmware...two questions:
1) What in the heck is a .RAR file, it is posted as fw R5D on www.alfamobil.cz/support.html. Is that some sort of zip format? I don't understand it and I would like to try my hand at the R5D version.
2) When I followed waikinchen's instructionsd in upgrading the phone, it cost me 2 credits!! instead of 1, like he stated? Any one knows why? I just bought another 2 credits (just in case) from logosunlimited and would like to find out what happened before I go and burn another 2 credits. What happened for me was, I loaded the AVR file, clicked on write, it logged on to the server and flashed the file...then I loaded the ARM file and the wrote to phone, it did its logging thing and verifying username and pw thing and the flashed the phone, all the way to 100% and then everything went fine. So I go back and plugged in my phone (t68i) and tried to read the software to back it up just in case something went wrong and then it told me I was out of credits!!!???
At any rate, thanks alot guys for all of the learning and patience. I tried to do a search for RAR but all kinds of strange things came up, nothing that answered my question. Again, thanks!! |
p85w
Joined: Apr 25, 2002
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Does someone know if it's possible to flash a t68 to the same FW as in the t300. |
Ja99iE
Joined: Oct 27, 2002
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Get WinRAR @ http://www.rarlab.com
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scarygary
Joined: Nov 10, 2002
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I just flashed my phone using the ericsson client software and an R5D007 binary. I used the flash language method.
Now the phone is completely dead and the client says "failed to restore security data".
What can i do?
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psion
Joined: Nov 10, 2002
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To scarygary:
**** There is always a risk using these clients ******
Before you do anything else, make a backup of the losfile.bin file. This file should be located in the same directory as the client that you used. Make a copy of it and save somewhere else. It usually keeps information that is unique to your phone like the IMEI number.
You can try to flash it again using the Advanced Tab by following instructions posted previously in this thread.
Make sure that you have a full battery. You might need to find a friend that can charge it for you since probably the phone will not charge the battery at its current state.
There is a possibility that this might work but that IMEI number might not be the same as the one from your phone. It might be the IMEI number of the phone that the flash file came from. You can find the IMEI number in the back of your phone when you remove the battery. The software IMEI number can be retrieved by entering *#06#. If the software number matches the one from the back of the phone then it should be fine.
If not, then you can use the "Restore GDFS" button to restore the IMEI and other settings unique to your phone. In the Resurrect Tab of the client there might be a number that probably lists your IMEI number as it is printed on the back of your phone. You will need to select it and hit the "Restore GDFS". Flashing and restoring will cost you 2 credits.
Not sure that it will work in situation but hope it will help. Make sure that battery is full though.
*** Try at your own risk ******
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waikincheng
Joined: Jul 20, 2002
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From: LAX, USA
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@av0135
Whenever you disconnect the phone, you will be charged one more credit. If you keep connecting the phone, it cost you only one credit even you backup first, and then flash it.
About the battery life problem, i think that there is something wrong with the firmware file. At the very beginning, when I first introduced this home made flashing, no one get fail on the battery, we only have BT error. But when this news spread out, and more and more people do the flashing, it turns out that 90% of you get the battery problem! I noticed that in these time, there are more and more fireware files appeared in the web. I wonder if some of them have the problem of battery, therefore when you guys flash with it, you get the same problem. Up to now, I still don't believe that this home made method will cause any battery problem. Because my friend has flashed over 200 phones in this way, but he's never got this problem... |
VS6XFX
Joined: Oct 16, 2002
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From: CA, USA
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On 2002-11-09 01:19, funks wrote:
VS6FX, how did you flash it? using the language file method, or the 2 file AVR ARM method?
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I used the two files AVR and ARM.
Any suggestion? |
VS6XFX
Joined: Oct 16, 2002
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1) What in the heck is a .RAR file, it is posted as fw R5D on http://www.alfamobil.cz/support.html. Is that some sort of zip format? I don't understand it and I would like to try my hand at the R5D version.
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To answer your question about .RAR file.
You may find WINRAR.exe from download.com
It similar to Winzip but WINRAR also decompress .zip file.
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funks
Joined: Aug 28, 2002
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scarygary
This might revive your phone if you still have the "LOSFile.bin" in your unlocking directory (make a backup of it).
The following instructions might work, you can get the killavr bin file from SevenFire's Website
http://www.sevenfire.net/T68.html
Note that I never tested the following, but if your phone is dead and you have extra logs along with the Losfile.bin (back it up), then it might work.
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1. Check that in the Resurrect Function - if ur dead phones imei in it. (if have that mean your LosFile.bin still have.)
2. Go to Advanced Function:
- Select KILL AVR FLASH CHIP
- Start address = 0000-0000
- Length = 0080-0000
3. Open the bin file - KILL AVR Flash file for AT&T T68 download at: http://www.gsmhacker.com/forum
4. Press Flash SW
5. After finish flashing ur imei will change and All lock = 0 counter
6. Using the Resurrect function: Find the original imei for ur phone and press restore GDFS.
7. Pls note: This method I never using with DEAD T68 AT&T phone, but test with normal DEAD T68.
BR
Thomas
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av0135
Joined: Sep 24, 2002
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waikincheng...thanks for answering my post concerning why I was losing 2 credits..oh, thanks everyone else who also answered...but back to the flashing...you (waikincheng) said that if I didn't "disconnect" my phone, I wouldn't be charged another credit, right? But what does that mean? I didn't disconnect the cable from the phone, and as far as the program is concerned, this is exactly what happened..when the first bin file was done, I had to click the arm file and then open it and set the range and then, only then, did I click on the write software button...I didn't disconnect anything...Please tell me what you meant and how you did it...The phone works fine, battery life is severely low...bluetooth works but I didn't test with computer...that's it...waiting for your response..thanks |
waikincheng
Joined: Jul 20, 2002
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What i mean "disconnect" should be phycially. For your case, I think there maybe be some problem with the internet connection, or there is some problem in the program or the server. I noticed that you said that the program check your password again after flashing AVR, right? this is a sign of reconnection. I haven't experienced this problem, but i've two guesses. First, your internet connection is once stopped, so the server thinks that you have disconnected. But i personally also think that the chance of this case is so slim. Second, your server restricted your maximum action. You are using LVwireless's server, right? But we used to using unlocking's...MAYBE there is a difference...
I really don't know the real reason, i'm just guessing...but i was not lying to you, I really used only one credit to flash. |
funks
Joined: Aug 28, 2002
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I really don't know the real reason, i'm just guessing...but i was not lying to you, I really used only one credit to flash.
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I can second that.. When I backup and flash, I only used up one log - I didn't disconnect the cable..
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av0135
Joined: Sep 24, 2002
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waikinchen...at no point did I think that you were "lying"..man you've been a great help to me, as well well as many many others on this issue!! Thanks!!! I think you're right about the disconnect at the server side thing...I have cablemodem and it is always on...I did the flash as quickly and as continuously as I could..but the server somehow disconnected me...I will post a question to logosunlimited and see what they say. I also tried to contact unlocKing tonight and they haven't answered yet...remember, we are (west coast) GST-8 hours so night overhere is morning overthere...hope he answers soon...have you got any clean firmware files for the t68i's? A clean R5D perhaps?
By the way, you're out there in LA? What area? I am overthere all of the time...I am doing some things to my Porsche and I have to be out there lots...Great hearing from you, take care and thanks again! |
funks
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On 2002-11-10 09:59, av0135 wrote:
I will post a question to logosunlimited and see what they say. I also tried to contact unlocKing tonight and they haven't answered yet...remember, we are (west coast) GST-8 hours so night overhere is morning overthere...hope he answers soon...have you got any clean firmware files for the t68i's? A clean R5D perhaps?
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Has unlocking even answered you? There servers have been down, sent them money 2 days ago and I still don't have my username/password.. No replies from their e-mail too (ericsony@unlocking.co.uk bounces, sales@unlocking.co.uk seems to work but not a reply).
LVWireless is also selling the logs for the same price I believe using his US server - From reports, it seems to be alot more reliable than Unlocking (which I believe LogosUnlimited is also using), Unlocking server seems to be quite braindamaged most of the time and not up.
For a client T68i firmware, try http://www.sevenfire.net/T68.html - he has an R5D007 T68i East European firmware which has 0 call timer, and less than 70 joystick moves..
As usual - Flashing it this way might kill the BT functionality of your phone.
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