Upgrading to Vista? Be aware RUUs won't work.... |
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 Feb 5 2007, 12:19
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,495 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
This is a Public Service Announcement.
Looking to upgrade to Windows Vista? You might just want to keep an XP partition on your machine, as ROM upgrades via the normal RUU client do NOT work from within Vista, due to changes in the way the OS accesses the device. This also prevents IMEI-check unlocks from working on Vista. I found out the hard way, don't make the same mistake  Here ends the Public Service Announcement.  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Feb 5 2007, 13:49
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 Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 46 Joined: 21st July 2003 From: Basingstoke, England Member No.: 10,519 Device(s): SPV C550 & MDA Vario |
That's not good
 I assume you tried all of the 'usual' tricks such as running in Compatibility mode (XP) as Administrator? -------------------- Part time smartphone Developer, full time application developer
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Feb 5 2007, 14:07
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 Staff Team Leader Group: Admin Team Posts: 17,021 Joined: 24th November 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 53 Device(s): C550 and JasJar |
Good job I have another pc with XP
-------------------- 3 mobile where the words "customer" and "service" only exists in the dictionary
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Feb 5 2007, 14:15
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 Moderately moderating in moderation... Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,336 Joined: 9th May 2005 From: Oadby, Leicester, UK Member No.: 128,356 Device(s): Vario II, 8310, C600, C550 |
QUOTE(awarner (MVP) @ Feb 5 2007, 14:07)  Good job I have another pc with XP Lucky I haven't installed vista on my xp machine yet. I still have far too much work to do on that hurricane wm5 rom  Phil -------------------- |
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Feb 5 2007, 14:36
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,495 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(stevekay @ Feb 5 2007, 13:49) That's not good I assume you tried all of the 'usual' tricks such as running in Compatibility mode (XP) as Administrator? Yeah  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Feb 5 2007, 15:24
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 Hardcore Group: MoDaCo Ad Free Posts: 2,725 Joined: 4th November 2003 From: London Member No.: 20,052 Device(s): HTC Diamond |
In these days of min 80gb hard disks etc... I have no problem leaving an XP partition and a Vista Partition. Thats what I did when I got the Action Pack Vista anyway - just installed it over the Vista Beta Partition... But I havent booted XP since...
-------------------- HTC Diamond running Dutty's V1.6 rom.
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Feb 5 2007, 15:49
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 18 Joined: 4th January 2005 From: Texas Member No.: 104,379 Device(s): i-Mate SP5, SP3i |
QUOTE(jimbouk @ Feb 5 2007, 09:24) In these days of min 80gb hard disks etc... I have no problem leaving an XP partition and a Vista Partition. Thats what I did when I got the Action Pack Vista anyway - just installed it over the Vista Beta Partition... But I havent booted XP since... Sometime this year, Virtual PC 2007 (Vista compatible version) should be available as a free download from Microsoft. You could use it to run an XP virtual machine when you to do something that doesn't work in Vista. |
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Feb 5 2007, 15:56
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,495 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I doubt that will help in this instance...
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Feb 5 2007, 20:36
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 Call this Job Satisfaction !  Group: MoDaCo Ad Free Posts: 325 Joined: 6th July 2003 From: Derby, UK Member No.: 9,454 Device(s): Graphite,N95,Vox,Niki,Diamond |
 Found this out myself at the weekend, doesnt even work in compatability mode!! Running the RUU put the phone in bootloader, but goes no further. Better leave one of my machines on XP. Rik |
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Feb 5 2007, 21:30
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 Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 432 Joined: 30th March 2006 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 181,256 Device(s): T-Mobile Wing |
QUOTE(kipnlar @ Feb 5 2007, 09:49) Sometime this year, Virtual PC 2007 (Vista compatible version) should be available as a free download from Microsoft. You could use it to run an XP virtual machine when you to do something that doesn't work in Vista. The beta is out and it works great (not that it will help in this instance). Since pretty much anything that doesn't work in Vista doesn't work in xp 64 either there is nothing stopping me from upgrading .
-------------------- "Oh, you're a loon aren't you? Where have you escaped from, I'll take you back." Lord Bravery
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Feb 5 2007, 22:12
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 8 Joined: 28th November 2004 Member No.: 66,883 |
Just remember that us Mac users still need an XP box kicking around! - Even Parallels (which does almost everything) is not quite enough.
I've had Vista for a while and to be honest would go back to XP as I dont think that it is worth it just now. The prospect of re-installing everything puts me off... Having had more OS's than I can shake a stick at (from 8088's upwards and not just Windows but early linux and OS 9 etc as well....even BeOS for a bit) I cannot see the point in it. I don't agree that the OS should drive the machine and not the machine driving the OS. Ho Hum, least my Trinity is running the Dopod test rom now ;-) |
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Feb 6 2007, 00:18
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 Abre Los Ojos  Group: Posters Posts: 757 Joined: 14th February 2003 From: NewcastleGateshead Member No.: 2,830 Device(s): HTC TyTn II |
Guess IMEI Check are gonna have a busy few weeks ahead!
-------------------- I will tell you in another life when we are both cats
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Feb 6 2007, 00:33
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Moderately moderating in moderation... Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,336 Joined: 9th May 2005 From: Oadby, Leicester, UK Member No.: 128,356 Device(s): Vario II, 8310, C600, C550 |
QUOTE(tobyanscombe @ Feb 5 2007, 22:12) Just remember that us Mac users still need an XP box kicking around! This is why I need an intel mac, so i can dual boot OS X (for general use) and XP (for phone/rom stuff) QUOTE(pisquee @ ' post=) Guess IMEI Check are gonna have a busy few weeks ahead! Yep they will, I'm also curious as to whether mtty1.42.exe is still able to comunicate with the phone in bootloader running under vista tho, i know the SPV-Services client we all know and love doesn't work  Sounds like vista isn't worth me upgrading from XP yet then Phil -------------------- |
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Feb 6 2007, 07:42
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 Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,265 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
My main box runs SBS2003 - which lots of things don't rub on. My laptop was running Vista beta(slowly) but has gone bang - not sure whether it's worth repairing or just getting a new better spec one. so I have an old box running XP (and it is an old one) just to overcome all the compatibility issues. I really need an older box running DOS so I can play the discworld games....
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Feb 6 2007, 09:38
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 384 Joined: 31st March 2005 From: Surrey, UK Member No.: 120,987 Device(s): MDA Vario III + MDA Vario |
QUOTE(kipnlar @ Feb 5 2007, 15:49) Sometime this year, Virtual PC 2007 (Vista compatible version) should be available as a free download from Microsoft. You could use it to run an XP virtual machine when you to do something that doesn't work in Vista. It might help with doing some things, but not anything which communicates with USB devices. Unlike VMWare which has had USB support for years, Virtual PC 2007 still hasn't got USB support, so you cannot communicate with USB devices from within a guest OS. |
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Feb 6 2007, 15:29
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 Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 99 Joined: 8th January 2004 From: West Midlands Member No.: 27,853 Device(s): HTC Universal, HTC Wizard |
This has been working for some over on XDA Devs, but not for others.
Either way, if it doesn't work, you won't get far enough to break anything, it just doesn't work full stop. If it does work, then whoopie! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291723 -------------------- |
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Jun 10 2007, 11:25
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 1 Joined: 30th October 2006 Member No.: 212,202 Device(s): qtek 8310 |
OT, Confusios, you can always run dosbox in windows xp
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Jun 10 2007, 12:26
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Hardcore Group: MoDaCo Ad Free Posts: 2,725 Joined: 4th November 2003 From: London Member No.: 20,052 Device(s): HTC Diamond |
wmdc 6.1 apparently will run RUU's.
-------------------- HTC Diamond running Dutty's V1.6 rom.
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