How To: Upgrade Asian Graphite to WM6, A guide on how I upgraded my Asian O2 Graphite from WM5 to WM6 using t |
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How To: Upgrade Asian Graphite to WM6, A guide on how I upgraded my Asian O2 Graphite from WM5 to WM6 using t |
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Feb 7 2008, 22:43
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 5 Joined: 7th February 2008 From: Australia Member No.: 353,990 Device(s): O2 XPhone II, O2 XDA Graphite |
Hi All! Long time reader, first time poster - because I figured a lot of people would probably be interested in how to do this.
First up, let me start with a disclaimer : DONT ATTEMPT THIS IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BRICK YOUR PHONE. Rom upgrades are always risky, and doing stuff like this can result in broken phones. If your not comfortable with hacking stuff and trying risky stuff on your expensive mobile, just leave it alone. If you do brick your phone, don't come crying to me. I'll laugh at you, possibly point and laugh, depends how i'm feeling at the time. - you do this at your own risk, as did I. Now, before we start hacking at stuff, download these free tools, yes just do it now, you'll need them soon. - The official UK O2 Rom Upgrade - it's been posted around a bit here's another link. - Active Sync 4.5 - ResHacker - We'll be using this one to modify the UK Rom Upgrade so it works on an asian graphite. - Mobile Registry Editor - We'll need this to modify the Graphites registry, so we can pass the region region checks. - This also the Microsoft's .Net framework installed to run. If you don't want to use this tool, use your favourite smartphone registry editor. Right here we go, i'll give 2 methods of upgrading, the first is the easiest, and uses the upgarde tool to do the upgrade, the 2nd is using a microSD card and loading the new rom via the phone's bootloader. Note: after doing this you'll have WM6 installed, but as its a UK rom you'll have all the UK O2 grps settings and crap installed. Write down your settings now so that you can remember them after the install and fix them up. Also, I reccommend using a backup tool like Jeyo's smartphone backup tool to backup your contacts/numbers/sms's and what not. Make sure your phone is full charged before doing this! YES FULLY CHARGED, not 50% not even 75%: FULL. Method 1 - Modifying the Upgrader
If you now have a brick, sorry, but this is the exact method I followed, and it worked for me. Good luck! (Edited Method 2 - I had the file names the wrong way round) This post has been edited by nanodemon: Feb 9 2008, 22:57 |
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Feb 9 2008, 11:47
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 487 Joined: 2nd July 2003 From: HTC Touch Dual and O2 Graphite User PHILIPPINES Member No.: 9,237 Device(s): HTC Touch Dual / O2 Graphite |
Hi All! Long time reader, first time poster - because I figured a lot of people would probably be interested in how to do this. First up, let me start with a disclaimer : DONT ATTEMPT THIS IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BRICK YOUR PHONE. Rom upgrades are always risky, and doing stuff like this can result in broken phones. If your not comfortable with hacking stuff and trying risky stuff on your expensive mobile, just leave it alone. If you do brick your phone, don't come crying to me. I'll laugh at you, possibly point and laugh, depends how i'm feeling at the time. - you do this at your own risk, as did I. Now, before we start hacking at stuff, download these free tools, yes just do it now, you'll need them soon. - The official UK O2 Rom Upgrade - it's been posted around a bit here's another link. - Active Sync 4.5 - ResHacker - We'll be using this one to modify the UK Rom Upgrade so it works on an asian graphite. - Mobile Registry Editor - We'll need this to modify the Graphites registry, so we can pass the region region checks. - This also the Microsoft's .Net framework installed to run. If you don't want to use this tool, use your favourite smartphone registry editor. Right here we go, i'll give 2 methods of upgrading, the first is the easiest, and uses the upgarde tool to do the upgrade, the 2nd is using a microSD card and loading the new rom via the phone's bootloader. Note: after doing this you'll have WM6 installed, but as its a UK rom you'll have all the UK O2 grps settings and crap installed. Write down your settings now so that you can remember them after the install and fix them up. Also, I reccommend using a backup tool like Jeyo's smartphone backup tool to backup your contacts/numbers/sms's and what not. Make sure your phone is full charged before doing this! YES FULLY CHARGED, not 50% not even 75%: FULL. Method 1 - Modifying the Upgrader
If you now have a brick, sorry, but this is the exact method I followed, and it worked for me. Good luck! Tested the Procedure and it works perfectly without problems (I used the Method 1). Thanks a lot Bro for the procedure. This post has been edited by ronny: Feb 9 2008, 11:49 |
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Feb 9 2008, 12:26
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 5 Joined: 7th February 2008 From: Australia Member No.: 353,990 Device(s): O2 XPhone II, O2 XDA Graphite |
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Feb 9 2008, 20:14
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 3 Joined: 3rd August 2007 From: Hungary Member No.: 284,982 Device(s): O2 XDA_Graphite |
No worries dude, glad it helped you out! Hi nanodemon!I used the first Method,it worked perfekt! There is my little blog with pictures to your komplet method. http://pdaplus.hu/content/view/2021/1/ thank the advance! cheers from Hungary! |
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Feb 9 2008, 22:52
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 5 Joined: 7th February 2008 From: Australia Member No.: 353,990 Device(s): O2 XPhone II, O2 XDA Graphite |
Awesome pics! glad it worked for you as well!
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Feb 10 2008, 18:08
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 9 Joined: 18th January 2004 Member No.: 29,040 |
how long is quite sometime? I run the RUU, and waited for about 1 hr now, and the RUU is still running, with progress bar is at the end of finish. But the RUU won't quit or telling me if the upgrade went successfully. Should I just wait?
btw : You forgot there's a Button of "COMPILE SCRIPT" when you finished change the "Xda Graphite" into "O2 Graphite", then you SAVE the file. It will put ORIGINAL copy on the same folder. Great Tutorial, waited a long time for this.. many thanks.. |
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Feb 11 2008, 04:16
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 487 Joined: 2nd July 2003 From: HTC Touch Dual and O2 Graphite User PHILIPPINES Member No.: 9,237 Device(s): HTC Touch Dual / O2 Graphite |
how long is quite sometime? I run the RUU, and waited for about 1 hr now, and the RUU is still running, with progress bar is at the end of finish. But the RUU won't quit or telling me if the upgrade went successfully. Should I just wait? btw : You forgot there's a Button of "COMPILE SCRIPT" when you finished change the "Xda Graphite" into "O2 Graphite", then you SAVE the file. It will put ORIGINAL copy on the same folder. Great Tutorial, waited a long time for this.. many thanks.. It took 15-20min. for me to complete the update. |
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Feb 11 2008, 06:46
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 487 Joined: 2nd July 2003 From: HTC Touch Dual and O2 Graphite User PHILIPPINES Member No.: 9,237 Device(s): HTC Touch Dual / O2 Graphite |
how long is quite sometime? I run the RUU, and waited for about 1 hr now, and the RUU is still running, with progress bar is at the end of finish. But the RUU won't quit or telling me if the upgrade went successfully. Should I just wait? btw : You forgot there's a Button of "COMPILE SCRIPT" when you finished change the "Xda Graphite" into "O2 Graphite", then you SAVE the file. It will put ORIGINAL copy on the same folder. Great Tutorial, waited a long time for this.. many thanks.. do you have a copy of the asian O2 autoconfig and O2 menu? |
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Feb 11 2008, 17:40
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 18th May 2005 Member No.: 130,140 |
very nice job thank you
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Feb 13 2008, 20:00
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 30 Joined: 17th November 2003 From: Hoogeveen, NL Member No.: 21,255 |
interesting to know whether it will also work on other phones.
I'm offering my StrTrk for experiment. I already tried with the settings you instructed but didn't worked out. got the error "phone is not XDA" |
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Feb 13 2008, 20:03
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 9 Joined: 18th January 2004 Member No.: 29,040 |
do you have a copy of the asian O2 autoconfig and O2 menu? I am sorry for the delayed reply. I don't have, it is on my graphite though, but don't know how to extract from Extended rom. I didn't manage to Upgrade, both of the Method 1 and 2 didn't work for me, it only upgrades the radio on my graphite. Fortunately it didn't bricked my graphite, so I can still use it on WM5. Great to hear all of you succeed with the upgrade, I will try again or just wait the Asian version if it ever come out. cheers, |
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Feb 13 2008, 22:32
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 3 Joined: 3rd August 2007 From: Hungary Member No.: 284,982 Device(s): O2 XDA_Graphite |
do you have a copy of the asian O2 autoconfig and O2 menu? my uploads, komplet WM5 extrom ;-)http://rapidshare.com/files/91603207/WM5_E...dvdhal.rar.html |
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Feb 14 2008, 10:49
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 487 Joined: 2nd July 2003 From: HTC Touch Dual and O2 Graphite User PHILIPPINES Member No.: 9,237 Device(s): HTC Touch Dual / O2 Graphite |
my uploads, komplet WM5 extrom ;-) http://rapidshare.com/files/91603207/WM5_E...dvdhal.rar.html Hi M11, thank you very much for the O2 files. but i need one more help from you, i tried to install them and the installation went ok but when i try to run the program it says "Can't find 'autoconfig' (or one of it's components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all the required libraries are available. Btw, where will i put all the other files like the "network folder and others. thanks again, hope you can help me again |
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Feb 18 2008, 09:42
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 16 Joined: 12th January 2004 Member No.: 28,237 |
thanks for the procedure - trying it now with fingers crossed, so far so good.
This post has been edited by longj49: Feb 18 2008, 09:55 |
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Feb 18 2008, 10:17
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 16 Joined: 12th January 2004 Member No.: 28,237 |
woohoo! updating went successfully without any hitch. thanks, nanodemon!
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Feb 19 2008, 06:34
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 23 Joined: 9th July 2007 From: India Member No.: 276,024 Device(s): i-mate SP5 |
Is it going to work on iMate SP5??
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Feb 19 2008, 08:40
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 25th March 2007 Member No.: 241,364 Device(s): o2 Graphite |
Thanks M11 for the extended ROM.
Those asian graphite owners who are still unsuccessful in upgrading to WM6 with these steps can check out the steps I used at http://www.modaco.com/content-page/258086/...ar-you/page/80/ |
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Feb 19 2008, 10:22
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 487 Joined: 2nd July 2003 From: HTC Touch Dual and O2 Graphite User PHILIPPINES Member No.: 9,237 Device(s): HTC Touch Dual / O2 Graphite |
Thanks M11 for the extended ROM. Those asian graphite owners who are still unsuccessful in upgrading to WM6 with these steps can check out the steps I used at http://www.modaco.com/content-page/258086/...ar-you/page/80/ Were you able to install the autoconfig and o2 menu successfully? thanks. |
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Feb 20 2008, 18:14
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 25th March 2007 Member No.: 241,364 Device(s): o2 Graphite |
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Feb 23 2008, 13:30
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 3 Joined: 27th March 2003 From: Pasig City, Metro Manila Member No.: 3,941 |
I have an Asian O2 Graphite and successfully upgraded to WM6 using the UK version....Is there a way to downgrade to WM5 and get the original asian version??? WM6 does not have the O2 AutoConfig and O2 Menu which is important for me...PLEASE H E L P!!!
Thanks! Aris |
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