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[Voxpop2011]

mealy1, on 04 February 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

Hi voxpop2011

Tonight the first try to unlock my OMC, The only problem was Win 7 did not see the phone But once I went to the add port, Port 22 for me, The unlock worked perfect.

Thanks again for your support

Well you are a jammy devil .  Rooted and unlocked in no time at all.  I guess if you can get Windows to 'play nice' with the drivers, half the battle is won.  At this rate, you will be flashing roms like a pro.

[mealy1]

Voxpop2011, on 05 February 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

Well you are a jammy devil .  Rooted and unlocked in no time at all.  I guess if you can get Windows to 'play nice' with the drivers, half the battle is won.  At this rate, you will be flashing roms like a pro.

[mealy1]

Voxpop2011, on 05 February 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

Well you are a jammy devil .  Rooted and unlocked in no time at all.  I guess if you can get Windows to 'play nice' with the drivers, half the battle is won.  At this rate, you will be flashing roms like a pro.

After the unlock I have had to root it again, Still feeling my way Though, I will try another rom,  Pleased to get rid of the O+++ge sim Dont know how or were the money from the payg topup has gone as I have not made any phone calls I used my wifi all the time, no indication that I was using it on the net.

[Voxpop2011]

mealy1, on 05 February 2012 - 08:19 PM, said:

After the unlock I have had to root it again, Still feeling my way Though, I will try another rom,  Pleased to get rid of the O+++ge sim Dont know how or were the money from the payg topup has gone as I have not made any phone calls I used my wifi all the time, no indication that I was using it on the net.

Tell me about it.  Orange is the most expensive network for pay and go.  The real problem though is that in the initial set up for Orange, there is an option to use Orange internet or wi-fi only.  You probably missed that.  I bought a five pound vodafone sim to 'test' the unlock and will probably stick with them.

[mealy1]

Voxpop2011, on 05 February 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

Tell me about it.  Orange is the most expensive network for pay and go.  The real problem though is that in the initial set up for Orange, there is an option to use Orange internet or wi-fi only.  You probably missed that.  I bought a five pound vodafone sim to 'test' the unlock and will probably stick with them.

For me the best sim is from lycamobile Just have a look at there site and there payg charges, We have family in Sweden, Providing the person you are phoning has the lycamobile sim Its only 15 pence for a 30 min call thats been the charge for a lest 18 months, As well as some more phone companies they use the Vodafone network. Try phoning Sweden with a Vodafone sim and see how much it costs

[DaiJas]

Still falling at the first hurdle when trying to unlock my monte carlo - when running install-recovery-windows.bat I get the waiting for device and the green android man on the phone and does not recognise the drivers when i point it towards the directory. Tried various cables and usb port combinations and also tried it on another machine over the weekend but the same result.

Has anyone any suggestions on as to what is going wrong ?  

[roadstrbikr]

Hello all,

I have a strange problem that doesn't seem to have surfaced here (that I've seen, although I may have missed it).  I have had no problem getting up to step 6 in the pinned post here.  The problem is that when I connect the phone to my computer and press the volume down  button, I get dumped into the MoDaCo Recovery!!!. I don’t ever see the “FTM” come up on my  phone.  I know that I could flash a new ROM, but I only want to network unlock the phone... Any ideas?

Cheers.

[Rosz]

Hello All,

I am unable to load the link - http://www.multiupload.com/BQ7VQOQA4L . I am not sure if it is a problem only for me, but unfortunately I am unable to download the drivers


Does the link work for you?
Is there other place I can download them?


Thanks

[Voxpop2011]

roadstrbikr, on 12 February 2012 - 08:41 PM, said:

Hello all,

I have a strange problem that doesn't seem to have surfaced here (that I've seen, although I may have missed it).  I have had no problem getting up to step 6 in the pinned post here.  The problem is that when I connect the phone to my computer and press the volume down  button, I get dumped into the MoDaCo Recovery!!!. I don’t ever see the “FTM” come up on my  phone.  I know that I could flash a new ROM, but I only want to network unlock the phone... Any ideas?

Cheers.

At some point you must have installed this.  In any event, you will not be able to boot into FTM mode until you remove recovery.  Do you have any back up programs such as Titanium?

[arnookie]

I have phone on custom rom atomic rom. I want to unlock but was unsure if this is possible with custom rom installed. Will it mess up if I try doing it with my custom rom? Do I need to flash back to stock rom first before the unlock?
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.
Also the mac address problem will this still be a problem or do I need to repair that after unlock?
Thanks for any help )

[Voxpop2011]

arnookie, on 14 February 2012 - 05:06 PM, said:

I have phone on custom rom atomic rom. I want to unlock but was unsure if this is possible with custom rom installed. Will it mess up if I try doing it with my custom rom? Do I need to flash back to stock rom first before the unlock?
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.
Also the mac address problem will this still be a problem or do I need to repair that after unlock?
Thanks for any help )

Okay.  The unlock tutorial is purely to allow use of the OMC on other networks, but if you do not follow the recommended back-up procedures in the tutorial you will loose stuff.  Clockwork is a way to enable custom roms to be installed, but in this case it will get in the way of the unlocking process so needs to be removed.  In any event the post-unlock procedure will, in your case, reinstall clockwork recovery.

So far as the tutorial is concerned, it has been modified so that the broken MAC address is no longer an issue.   However, it is a good idea to make a note of this in case something does go wrong, and you can find the fix in another thread on this forum.   I myself used this tutorial to unlock and even though it took me two weekends, it worked.

[arnookie]

Voxpop2011, on 14 February 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

Okay.  The unlock tutorial is purely to allow use of the OMC on other networks, but if you do not follow the recommended back-up procedures in the tutorial you will loose stuff.  Clockwork is a way to enable custom roms to be installed, but in this case it will get in the way of the unlocking process so needs to be removed.  In any event the post-unlock procedure will, in your case, reinstall clockwork recovery.

So far as the tutorial is concerned, it has been modified so that the broken MAC address is no longer an issue.   However, it is a good idea to make a note of this in case something does go wrong, and you can find the fix in another thread on this forum.   I myself used this tutorial to unlock and even though it took me two weekends, it worked.

Thanks for your reply. But I am still unsure if I should remove clockwork or let the unlock method do it. I still don't know if I need to go back to stock rom or if I can use this with custom rom already installed. Thanks.

[Voxpop2011]

arnookie, on 14 February 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

Thanks for your reply. But I am still unsure if I should remove clockwork or let the unlock method do it. I still don't know if I need to go back to stock rom or if I can use this with custom rom already installed. Thanks.

You will have to remove Clockwork as it is preventing the phone from booting into the FTM mode.  When you have done that, follow the tutorial to the letter, do not be tempted to skip anything in particular, the post-unlocking step as this will re-install Clockwork recovery and you can then, if necessry, re-flash your custom rom.

I must confess I found the whole unlocking really challenging and as I said before, it took several weekends.

[arnookie]

Voxpop2011, on 15 February 2012 - 08:41 PM, said:

You will have to remove Clockwork as it is preventing the phone from booting into the FTM mode.  When you have done that, follow the tutorial to the letter, do not be tempted to skip anything in particular, the post-unlocking step as this will re-install Clockwork recovery and you can then, if necessry, re-flash your custom rom.

I must confess I found the whole unlocking really challenging and as I said before, it took several weekends.

Thanks I just wanted to check about clockwork getting in the way. I'll give it a try and see how I go. )

[arnookie]

arnookie, on 15 February 2012 - 11:45 PM, said:

Thanks I just wanted to check about clockwork getting in the way. I'll give it a try and see how I go. )

I am just about to attempt this but If I remove clockwork do I really need to restore stock rom or can I do this with my custom rom as long as I remove clockwork? Do I really need the phone back at stock rom or do I just need stock recovery?

Looks like im stuck because multiuplad is not working. Anyone have a link for the correct drivers?

Edited by arnookie, 16 February 2012 - 05:48 PM.

[Darren W]

Link to drivers are not working? Please help.

[razzmataz1478]

If you need driver etc..all the unlock files are here and the new clockworkmod, but DELETE THE QCN FILE

http://bit.ly/wCK7p1

Edited by razzmataz1478, 18 February 2012 - 04:29 PM.

[klacirtg]

Friends, Romans...coutrymen! I did it!!! It worked 100%!
Big thanks to the author!!!

[akay]

thanks very much for this thread ,unlocking went smoothly first try  

[alfa999]

Thanks very much to tilal6991 and xiaoyaoswim for the unlocking information.

  I had the usual week looking for drivers that worked and then all went well.