Me the idiot asking what is a bootloader

[Guest gobhoblin]

please help as someone who learnt to write using a slate and chalk :cry: ( yes some of us old farts are trying to get a bit more savy :wink: )

I have no idea what a bootloader is and more to the point where do I find it on my Orange SPV and how do I tell what version it is :?:

as you may have guessed this particular old fart wants to unlock his phone :P please reply soon at my age I may croak before I get this darn thing unlocked :shock:

please reply here or if you wish to [email protected]

[Guest martin]

Welcome gobhoblin

The bootloader controls the phones boot up process when switched on.

Click hard reset for more info on how to get into the actual bootloader menu which is most often used for hard resets.

Note: If you don't opt to 'press a key' for the bootloader menu then you will go straight to the tri-colour canary screen. I think it's the canary screen you are looking for.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Welcome to the site :P

The Canary screen is the screen you need to find your bootloader version on SPV

Also when prompted to "Press any key" press and hold the Action

button (the control pad)

Out of curiosity why do you need to see what bootloader version you have or are you trying to SIM unlock?

[Guest gobhoblin]

Here is where you younger and wiser bods fall on your backs pissing yourselves laughing.. :P .. yes I am trying to unlock the phone so that I can use any sim am using a SPV unlocker I have figured out how to turn of the WCESCOMM.EXE and now the darn program is telling me to verify that the phone is in bootloader mode......... I dont know how to check this ..... :oops: ......how do I access the canary screen..... :roll: .... see I really am an idiot should I give up and go back to using two tin cans and a bit of string all help advice etc is greatfully received after all I havn't got much more hair left to tear out

[Guest Pondrew]

No problem gobhoblin, to get to the bootloader screen you just have to

1) turn off your SPV

2) hold down the voice record button on the side

3) power on the SPV (while holding the same voice record button)

It should now display a grey screen, probably with the words 'card found', wait a moment and the phone will go into a tri colour screen (called the canary screen. This is the bootloader and the version number will be displayed.

[Guest gobhoblin]

with the aid of your replies to my post and a previous post by awarner re the right unlocking prog for the version of bootlogger I have in my phone 1.10 and giving a link to that prog I have successfully unlocked it........thanks I will definately be browsing around this forum for many months to come just goes to show you can teach an old dog new tricks :wink: