How To: Upgrade Asian Graphite to WM6

[Guest nanodemon]

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

1. Unzip the UK O2 Rom package, open ResHacker, and Open the Graphite_Upgrade_utility_V3.4.0.exe in Reshacker.
   
2. Now we need to modify the part of the package which is responsible for telling you that the phone you plugged in is not an XDA Graphite. And its actually correct, as the device name for Asian graphites is something like "O2 Graphite" not "XDA Graphite" which is what the installer is expecting. SO - Expand the node in the tree on the left that says "String Table" and then expand the node "3". Click the "1033" node, and you'll get some text displayed on the right. Look for a like that says: 34, "Xda Graphite" and chang it to your device's name so it looks like this: "34, "O2 Graphite".
   
3. Click File -> Save As and save the updated package as something like UpdatedInstaller.exe.
   
4. If you try run the exe now, if will get further but it will still tell you that your phones default language is buggered. So to get around this we must change you phones registry settings to UK settings. So run the mobile registry editor, and browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEnls. You'll see a few keys here, and the 2 we are interested are DefaultLCID and SystemLCID. Double click both these and change the values to 2057 which is the localisation ID for UK, and close the reg editor.
   
5. NOW run the UpdatedInstaller.exe, and it should take quite some time, but when its done, you should have WM6 running. If you like doing things the hard way or it doesn't work for you, continue on to Method 2.
   

Method 2 - BootLoading

1. You'll need a microSD card for this method, i used a 2gb sandisk card.
   
2. Follow steps 1 to 4 from method 1 - you still need to modify the reg settings and update the exe.
   
3. Open the modified exe in reshacker (not the original the one we modified).
   
4. highlight the BIN folder, right click and select "Save [bIN] resources", pick a file name like BinaryOutput or something, it doesn't matter.
   
5. Close reshacker, and go to the directory you extracted all the files to, there'll be quite a few but we only are interested in 2, the 2 big ones. Delete all of them except the 67,483kB and the one and the 1027kb one.
   
6. Rename the big file (65mb or so) to Jupiter.abi and the smaller (1mb or so) file to Jupiter_SPBL.abi. These must be named exactly as shown including capitalisation.
   
7. Copy these 2 files to your microSD card, either using a card reader or through active sync. Make sure they are the only things on that card. No other files/directories or anything just those 2 files in the root. This may not matter, but i'm not willing to take the chance.
   
8. Put the card into your phone, and switch it on in bootloader mode: Hold the power On Button and the Joystick down at the same time.
   
9. The phone will load up and you'll see the red bar count up followed by the green bar like a LOT of times, but eventually WM6 will be installed and the phone will start it up.
   

Phew, well that took a while to type in, but I hope it helps people out with the upgrade. I searched around a lot for info and couldn't find any.

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)

Edited February 9, 2008 by nanodemon

[Guest ronny]

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. :D

- 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

1. Unzip the UK O2 Rom package, open ResHacker, and Open the Graphite_Upgrade_utility_V3.4.0.exe in Reshacker.
   
2. Now we need to modify the part of the package which is responsible for telling you that the phone you plugged in is not an XDA Graphite. And its actually correct, as the device name for Asian graphites is something like "O2 Graphite" not "XDA Graphite" which is what the installer is expecting. SO - Expand the node in the tree on the left that says "String Table" and then expand the node "3". Click the "1033" node, and you'll get some text displayed on the right. Look for a like that says: 34, "Xda Graphite" and chang it to your device's name so it looks like this: "34, "O2 Graphite".
   
3. Click File -> Save As and save the updated package as something like UpdatedInstaller.exe.
   
4. If you try run the exe now, if will get further but it will still tell you that your phones default language is buggered. So to get around this we must change you phones registry settings to UK settings. So run the mobile registry editor, and browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEnls. You'll see a few keys here, and the 2 we are interested are DefaultLCID and SystemLCID. Double click both these and change the values to 2057 which is the localisation ID for UK, and close the reg editor.
   
5. NOW run the UpdatedInstaller.exe, and it should take quite some time, but when its done, you should have WM6 running. If you like doing things the hard way or it doesn't work for you, continue on to Method 2.
   

Method 2 - BootLoading

1. You'll need a microSD card for this method, i used a 2gb sandisk card.
   
2. Follow steps 1 to 4 from method 1 - you still need to modify the reg settings and update the exe.
   
3. Open the modified exe in reshacker (not the original the one we modified).
   
4. highlight the BIN folder, right click and select "Save [bIN] resources", pick a file name like BinaryOutput or something, it doesn't matter.
   
5. Close reshacker, and go to the directory you extracted all the files to, there'll be quite a few but we only are interested in 2, the 2 big ones. Delete all of them except the 67,483kB and the one and the 1027kb one.
   
6. Rename the big on to Jupiter_SPBL.abi and the 1k one to Jupiter.abi . These must be named exactly as shown including capitalisation.
   
7. Copy these 2 files to your microSD card, either using a card reader or through active sync. Make sure they are the only things on that card. No other files/directories or anything just those 2 files in the root. This may not matter, but i'm not willing to take the chance.
   
8. Put the card into your phone, and switch it on in bootloader mode: Hold the power On Button and the Joystick down at the same time.
   
9. The phone will load up and you'll see the red bar count up followed by the green bar like a LOT of times, but eventually WM6 will be installed and the phone will start it up.
   

Phew, well that took a while to type in, but I hope it helps people out with the upgrade. I searched around a lot for info and couldn't find any.

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. :)

Edited February 9, 2008 by ronny

[Guest nanodemon]

Tested the Procedure and it works perfectly without problems (I used the Method 1). Thanks a lot Bro for the procedure. :)

No worries dude, glad it helped you out! :D

[Guest M11]

No worries dude, glad it helped you out! :D

Hi nanodemon!

I used the first Method,it worked perfekt! :D

There is my little blog with pictures to your komplet method.

http://pdaplus.hu/content/view/2021/1/

thank the advance!

cheers from Hungary! :)

[Guest nanodemon]

Awesome pics! glad it worked for you as well!

[Guest alimx]

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..

[Guest ronny]

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.

[Guest ronny]

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?

[Guest sourtzis]

very nice job thank you

[Guest de vetnek]

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"

[Guest alimx]

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,

[Guest M11]

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

[Guest ronny]

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

[Guest longj49]

thanks for the procedure - trying it now with fingers crossed, so far so good.

Edited February 18, 2008 by longj49

[Guest longj49]

woohoo! updating went successfully without any hitch. thanks, nanodemon!

[Guest satyab]

Is it going to work on iMate SP5??

[Guest jtaysw]

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/

[Guest ronny]

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.

[Guest jtaysw]

Were you able to install the autoconfig and o2 menu successfully? thanks.

Sorry, just tried it. I'm unable to get it to work either. Back to manual input <_<

[Guest aris]

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

[Guest krishn]

No worries dude, glad it helped you out! :D

my upgrade in process, 2 hour is passed and still not showing anything, can you tell me how much time will upgrade take?

Edited February 28, 2008 by krishn

[Guest krishn]

upgrading time completed 1 hour and 37 minutes. and it is still going.

how much max. time should I wait.

please tell me I am scared. :D

[Guest ronny]

upgrading time completed 1 hour and 37 minutes. and it is still going.

how much max. time should I wait.

please tell me I am scared. :D

It took 15-20min. for me to complete the update. were you able to upgrade successfully?

[Guest tmunn]

Successfully done! Thankyou so much.

Some observations: battery life is longer; still loses the network on weak signal - but not as much; doesn't appear to go blank and hang as often.

Does anyone know if Office Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/software/officemobile.mspx) can now be installed as Handango's device check reports not compatible with Graphite.

[Guest emeowww]

To everyone having problems with AutoConfig and GPRS/MMS/WAP etc. settings - I've found a way of uploading those XML files found in the Network folder from the extended ROM without needing AutoConfig at all! Here are the instructions:

1. Download RapiConfig.exe - it's one of the WM2003SE SDK tools from Microsoft. You can get it from its official site via the SDK package, or here at http://www.airfagev.com/utilities%5Crapiconfig.zip.

2. Extract rapiconfig.exe to a convenient folder and open a command prompt in that folder.

3. Copy your operator XML file from the 'Network' folder to that location.

4. Connect your phone, and then type in the command prompt:

rapiconfig /P

5. If successful, the program should let you know that.

With that, I've finally got my MMS working perfectly for Telstra. :D