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[kaleid101]

blowdart, on May 17 2007, 11:04, said:

After a call from data support yesterday (where they said that I should talk to HTC, to which my response was "No, you sold it to me, you support it" I got a call from someone from the developer partner team today.

My first post here... I called 150 with the same issue ( tried to install Avantgo, worked a treat on my SPV600 which I upgraded from). Was told to contact HTC. I told Orange they supplied the phone, therefore they were responsible. I was told they supplied the connection and SIM card. I told them they supplied the phone... which was not fit for purpose...

Anyway eventually got put through to someone who took an interest and I reported the frequent freezing only remedied by battery removal, the inability to install applications and the issues when trying to text and the keypad only enters numbers into the text body, not letters.

The operator told me that he had not come across any of these issues before - ( i assured him everyone else on this forum had). He assured me he would pass it on to technical support - and call me with an update in the next few days. I'll share the update when I get it..!

[mutejute]

i just hope you get a reply from them soon with good news.

[mutejute]

Is this a known issue to ALL Orange E650 phones? In some threads, I see some posts that they manage to install apps like TomTom Manager or doing registry hacks in their Orange E650 phones. How did they manage to do that?  I tried installing the app unlocking from http://spvunlock.rd.francetelecom.com/ but I cant cause I cant really install anything on this phone and had to hard-reboot everytime i do this.

is there a step-by-step guide or trick to bypass this security?

Edited by mutejute, 19 May 2007 - 08:33 AM.

[Looby]

The tweak seems to be install the app. on to the phone, choose device or card and let the coloured icon spin for a couple of minutes and then hit the Home button. Switch your device off (don't remove battery) it will appear as if it is not switching off but if you leave it it will after a period of time. Upon switching the device back on the app. will be installed correctly. Because it appears the device does not switch off it is tempting to remove the battery but if you do the app. will not install. Patience seems to be the key here.

[mutejute]

Looby, on May 19 2007, 10:47, said:

The tweak seems to be install the app. on to the phone, choose device or card and let the coloured icon spin for a couple of minutes and then hit the Home button. Switch your device off (don't remove battery) it will appear as if it is not switching off but if you leave it it will after a period of time. Upon switching the device back on the app. will be installed correctly. Because it appears the device does not switch off it is tempting to remove the battery but if you do the app. will not install. Patience seems to be the key here.

do i need to do the app unlocking first before i install anything? or can i just go ahead installing apps without the app unlock?

[Prof. Yaffle]

Mine seems  to be fine up to now. The only thing I had to do on mine other than the unlock file from  http://spvunlock.rd.francetelecom.com/ was to alter one of the registry entry values using Mobile Registry Editor. Beforehand it wouldn't allow me to install CardCache but everything else was fine.

[Looby]

mutejute, on May 19 2007, 11:17, said:

do i need to do the app unlocking first before i install anything? or can i just go ahead installing apps without the app unlock?

All the apps. I installed were without the device being application unlocked.

[Prof. Yaffle]

In reply to a pm from Mutejute, here's how I application unlocked my phone.

Before I did the Francetelecom unlock I'd previously ran Pauls RemoveSecurity.cab file from here by copying it to my storage card and then running it and rebooting the phone. If that made a difference or not I'm not sure.

All I did to unlock mine was to register for the .cab file from http://spvunlock.rd.francetelecom.com/. Once I'd received the file I copied it to my storage card and ran it on the phone (only took a few seconds). Once it had finished I switched the phone off and back on again. I then downloaded Mobile Registry Editor from here. and made these changes as listed here by Xavalon.

Quote

Change under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies:
- DWORD "1001" to 1
- DWORD "1005" to 40

The first one on my phone was already set to 1 so I only had to change the second one. I then rebooted the phone and my apps installed perfectly. Up to now I don't seem to have suffered from the problems a lot of people seem to be having.

Edited by Prof. Yaffle, 21 May 2007 - 11:17 PM.

[mutejute]

prof.yaffle, many thanks for the guide.

[surur]

Prof. Yaffle, on May 22 2007, 00:16, said:

In reply to a pm from Mutejute, here's how I application unlocked my phone.

Before I did the Francetelecom unlock I'd previously ran Pauls RemoveSecurity.cab file from here by copying it to my storage card and then running it and rebooting the phone. If that made a difference or not I'm not sure.

All I did to unlock mine was to register for the .cab file from http://spvunlock.rd.francetelecom.com/. Once I'd received the file I copied it to my storage card and ran it on the phone (only took a few seconds). Once it had finished I switched the phone off and back on again. I then downloaded Mobile Registry Editor from here. and made these changes as listed here by Xavalon.
The first one on my phone was already set to 1 so I only had to change the second one. I then rebooted the phone and my apps installed perfectly. Up to now I don't seem to have suffered from the problems a lot of people seem to be having.

I can verify those works well, and since doing this 4 days ago I have not needed to restart my Vox yet! It finally feels as if its my own phone, not Orange's.

Surur

[mutejute]

just one more question, did you guys install the removesecurity.cab and .cab from francetelecom into the storage card or to the device? im currently installing the removesecurity into the device but the busy icon is still spinning for some time now.  is it ok to press the home button to make it go away and then restart the phone? although my previous experience with this is that when i restart the phone, it just stops with the orange icon and never booted.

or should i install it in the storage card? never tried this yet cause i always install to the device.

[mutejute]

just restarted the phone and it seems fine. now i ran the .cab i get from francetelecom and the busy icon still there again. will wait for some time and then will press home and restart the phone.

[mutejute]

to prof.yaffle, many many thanks! it works! i can install apps now to my e650! although the busy icon still doesnt go away when i install a program but you can always press the home button. i dont have to restart the phone when installing too. installed clockontop, inbox extender, sktools lite and vitocopypaste. all work fine.

thanks again prof.yaffle. cheers!

Edited by mutejute, 22 May 2007 - 09:26 AM.

[PaulOBrien]

For those who are still having the problem, try the following:

- unlock using the FranceTelecom tool
- run the attached CAB

You should then be sorted

P

Attached Files

•  MoDaCo_E650_ExtraUnlock.cab   551bytes   194 downloads

[DAK ATTACK]

You know, I had no issues whatsoever installing to the SPV until I installed chess and then I get the 'wheel' problem.

Tried the cab and doesn't make a difference....sadly

....but after uninstalling the chess app the problem is still there but the wheel no longer rotates....my head hurts

[Disco Stu]

Paul (MVP), on May 22 2007, 10:42, said:

For those who are still having the problem, try the following:

- unlock using the FranceTelecom tool
- run the attached CAB

You should then be sorted

P

Cheers, Paul
That's sorted me out  

[DAK ATTACK]

Stu,
Did you remove the past cabs and start again with using only the french cab and Paul's new one?
Also do you get any wheel roating lark or does it resolve all issues.

I just can't believe that I have installed over ten cabs and no problems whatsoever and after installing chess I have the issues....its annoying enough to do a hard reset!

[Thumper Net]

I thought my problems were over but they are back again that wheel is getting beyond a joke , used the frace telecoms unlock and pauls extra but still the wheel rolls

[Disco Stu]

I've only ever used the French cab and have done no registry tweaking.
Today I ran Paul's cab and installed the clock thing from the Vox freeware thread, a couple of OmniG Soft games demoes and V2R's Photo Dialler.
Everything installed immediately with only the usual minimal spinner action. There was no need to soft reset between installations and certainly no battery pulling !

Both OrangeFrance & Paul's cabs were installed to phone.

You sure the chess app is compatible with WM6 ?

[Disco Stu]

peekie, on May 22 2007, 19:03, said:

I thought my problems were over but they are back again that wheel is getting beyond a joke , used the frace telecoms unlock and pauls extra but still the wheel rolls

What software were you trying to install when the problem reappeared ?