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 Flashing official UK Orange Omnia's
unclesomebody
post Aug 26 2008, 19:12
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I was thinking it might be useful to have a little thread for those users who have got their Omnia's from Orange and are considering flashing their device. I then noticed that the query has already been raised in the sticky thread above, so I'm not alone in thinking this will be useful. I hope the info for the Orange Omnia's can be consolidated in here so when the great masses arrive there will be atleast a bit of guidance and some decent info!

If you have an Orange Omnia (ie. official UK stock) please post your flashing results. Did you follow Paul's sticky above, did you skip some steps, where did you start and how did you end up? What ROM version did you start with? etc. The more info the better.

My omnia will arrive from Orange tomorrow so I'll be more than happy to get things started once I have it opened and charged. In the meantime, I'm sure there are plenty of users on here who have already flashed their Orange devices, so speak up! I look forward to hearing from you.
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post Aug 26 2008, 20:36
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Mine was from Orange, my device was Unbranded and unlocked, i cant say for certain all future I900's will follow the same rule as Orange will have taken an initial batch directly from samsung to speed up sales.

But anyways, i had to change my device to singapore (as per stickie)

Ran the xp .exe, job done
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post Aug 26 2008, 21:01
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QUOTE(blackhorse @ Aug 26 2008, 21:36) *
Mine was from Orange, my device was Unbranded and unlocked, i cant say for certain all future I900's will follow the same rule as Orange will have taken an initial batch directly from samsung to speed up sales.

But anyways, i had to change my device to singapore (as per stickie)

Ran the xp .exe, job done


who is brave enough to give it a bash?

if anything goes wrong you could just take phone back to shop and get it replaced. they replace the phone with in the first 30 days if anything goes wrong dont they? obviously done say you were messing with roms!
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post Aug 26 2008, 21:59
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Um, blackhorse is saying he did it!

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post Aug 26 2008, 22:15
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QUOTE(blackhorse @ Aug 26 2008, 21:36) *
Mine was from Orange, my device was Unbranded and unlocked, i cant say for certain all future I900's will follow the same rule as Orange will have taken an initial batch directly from samsung to speed up sales.

But anyways, i had to change my device to singapore (as per stickie)

Ran the xp .exe, job done


So all you did was change your device to singapore (process here), then run the i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe (found here)? I'm going to flash mine when it arrives tomorrow, so if you can confirm this worked for you then I'll carry out the same process to see if it works for me with my Orange Omnia.

Thanks
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post Aug 26 2008, 22:18
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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Aug 26 2008, 22:59) *
Um, blackhorse is saying he did it!

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i know i meant who else!

I am going to do mine tomorrow morning, left data cable at work.
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post Aug 27 2008, 07:20
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Hi guys smile.gif

I have a pre-release i900 from Orange which came with the HG5 ROM and I have successfully upgraded to HH1 using Paul's instructions. However the upgrade to HH1 would not work from the original HG5 ROM even after changing the region to Singapore, I had to flash the Portuguese ROM, then change the region and then do the update to HH1..!!

Interestingly enough after speaking to our technical pre-sales consultant at Orange, he informs me all new Omnia's will be coming with the new HH1 ROM "i900BVHH1" I should be getting an official copy off him some time soon smile.gif

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post Aug 27 2008, 07:29
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Sweet, keep us posted Andy!

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post Aug 27 2008, 08:30
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QUOTE(agw82 @ Aug 27 2008, 07:20) *
Interestingly enough after speaking to our technical pre-sales consultant at Orange, he informs me all new Omnia's will be coming with the new HH1 ROM "i900BVHH1" I should be getting an official copy off him some time soon smile.gif

Thanks

Andy


Good news! Maybe we'll be able (this time cool.gif ) to have a DXHH1 PDA with a BVHH1 radio !


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post Aug 27 2008, 15:55
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Well, that was very easy. All I had to do was charge it up, then change the region to singapore (as detailed in the sticky above), then I opened the i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe, ticked the 2 boxes, and it did it's job! Voila!

It seems that Orange Omnia's can follow this super simple update process.
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post Aug 27 2008, 18:07
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QUOTE(unclesomebody @ Aug 27 2008, 16:55) *
Well, that was very easy. All I had to do was charge it up, then change the region to singapore (as detailed in the sticky above), then I opened the i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe, ticked the 2 boxes, and it did it's job! Voila!

It seems that Orange Omnia's can follow this super simple update process.


has any one after flashing changed back from singapore to Uk after flashing or just leave it?

Flashing working for me thanks for everyones efforts.
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post Aug 27 2008, 18:29
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I changed straight back to UK after flashing. It caused no problems... but I can't see it making any difference either.
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post Aug 27 2008, 18:35
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QUOTE(unclesomebody @ Aug 27 2008, 19:29) *
I changed straight back to UK after flashing. It caused no problems... but I can't see it making any difference either.


cool, just done the same smile.gif

Have you noticed any difference appart from haptic feedback, new animations on rotation and flick scroll in windows menus?
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post Aug 27 2008, 19:24
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QUOTE(IZIIZI @ Aug 27 2008, 18:35) *
cool, just done the same smile.gif

Have you noticed any difference appart from haptic feedback, new animations on rotation and flick scroll in windows menus?


Is this rom flash only benefitcal to those who bought their phones from Orange? Mine is on O2 bought from the CPW
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post Aug 27 2008, 19:38
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Check your firmware version, and if it isn't HH1 then it will be worth upgrading!
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post Aug 27 2008, 20:14
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A little concerned. Managed to flash to the portugese version but now whenever i try and run 'i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe' it just gived the invalid software version pop up, i have tried sever al reboots/resets but no change sad.gif

I received it today and came with the XXHG5 software.

Any thoughts?

EDIT - found Paul incorrect version fix and sorted, sorry for wasting your time wink.gif

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post Aug 27 2008, 20:46
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QUOTE(templeman01 @ Aug 27 2008, 21:14) *
A little concerned. Managed to flash to the portugese version but now whenever i try and run 'i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe' it just gived the invalid software version pop up, i have tried sever al reboots/resets but no change sad.gif

I received it today and came with the XXHG5 software.

Any thoughts?


You just need to change your location. Go to the sticky above about rom versions and you'll see the answer there.
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post Aug 28 2008, 11:14
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QUOTE(templeman01 @ Aug 27 2008, 21:14) *
A little concerned. Managed to flash to the portugese version but now whenever i try and run 'i900DXHH1_PDA_updater_xp.exe' it just gived the invalid software version pop up, i have tried sever al reboots/resets but no change sad.gif

I received it today and came with the XXHG5 software.

Any thoughts?

EDIT - found Paul incorrect version fix and sorted, sorry for wasting your time wink.gif


also if you got yours from orange this step wasnt neccassary.
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post Aug 28 2008, 15:43
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flashed mine fine.

just started from step 7 onwards

all working fine..

had to change to singapore before i started though
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post Aug 28 2008, 15:59
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so.. do you just run the hh1 exe or do you have to follow the instructions from step 7? how are people exactly doing their orange supplied phones???

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