Tmobile BOHH5 flashed successfully

[Guest Jimmy X]

I have noticed a few posts asking for information on flashing BOHH5. I gave it a go (checking my phone was insured against "having a bath" if it failed.)

For those who want to know here is the process as I did it (in a nutshell I used an official samsung ROM first then the hacked one).

1) installed activesync 4.5

2) installed samsung modem

3) switched phone off and plugged usb into PC

4) disconnected other usb devices except mouse and KB

5) Ran official i900DXHJ1 flasher (downloaded from samsung)

6) I didnt choose to wipe my storage area from the option

7) waited.

8) panicked when I got a bunch of errors about not finding a COM port (but waited)

9) waited more - be patient

10) When told it had finished I rebooted the phone.

11) phone will reboot a couple of times - once during the WM screen

12) repeated steps 5) onwards but with i900-DXHL3-FINAL-OMNIA-MODACO.COM ROM instead

13) smugly sat back at my vastly improved battery life (but I still needed to soft reset to reliably get my GPS to work first time)

I bought my phone in december 2008 and it had the usual TMobile firmware. One thing you will lose is the regular messaging - you get the conversation messaging instead although a registry tweak fixes that.

Paranoid people may think about using a UPS as I wouldnt like to lose power midway through....

Edited February 12, 2009 by Jimmy X

[Guest leethesparky]

im on uk tmobile and have been thinking about doing this for a while but not tried it because im too tight to pay for the insurance .. did you have to get the settings back off the tmobile site for the sms, mms ect?

[Guest gjjh25]

i am T-Mobile too and couldntdecide for a long time about flashing.

But in the end i didnt use an official flash, i used qbus clean flash rom and it is the best thing i could have done, excedllent rom all the benefits of the new official rom, bvattery life etc and before i did it i had about 9mb of storage after flashing rom i had 120mb of storage.

[Guest Frankish]

im on uk tmobile and have been thinking about doing this for a while but not tried it because im too tight to pay for the insurance .. did you have to get the settings back off the tmobile site for the sms, mms ect?

I didn't have to mine just worked still.

[Guest Tezar]

Jimmy X, thanks for the information! I guess I will try that as well. It would be really great if you could post the links to files used in flashing (or links to location where the files could be found)...

Edited February 13, 2009 by Tezar

[Guest balding2early]

can this be done in vista?

[Guest Del1701]

Done mine last night using vista, all went well.

[Guest justpratik]

I have noticed a few posts asking for information on flashing BOHH5. I gave it a go (checking my phone was insured against "having a bath" if it failed.)

For those who want to know here is the process as I did it (in a nutshell I used an official samsung ROM first then the hacked one).

1) installed activesync 4.5

2) installed samsung modem

3) switched phone off and plugged usb into PC

4) disconnected other usb devices except mouse and KB

5) Ran official i900DXHJ1 flasher (downloaded from samsung)

6) I didnt choose to wipe my storage area from the option

7) waited.

8) panicked when I got a bunch of errors about not finding a COM port (but waited)

9) waited more - be patient

10) When told it had finished I rebooted the phone.

11) phone will reboot a couple of times - once during the WM screen

12) repeated steps 5) onwards but with i900-DXHL3-FINAL-OMNIA-MODACO.COM ROM instead

13) smugly sat back at my vastly improved battery life (but I still needed to soft reset to reliably get my GPS to work first time)

I bought my phone in december 2008 and it had the usual TMobile firmware. One thing you will lose is the regular messaging - you get the conversation messaging instead although a registry tweak fixes that.

Paranoid people may think about using a UPS as I wouldnt like to lose power midway through....

hi,

how did u manaecd to update i900dxjh1 updater.

don't u have found incorrect software version error

[Guest Pyroboy_UK]

Ah excellent, i have been looking at a guide like this for ages. I really want to get rid of the T-mobile firmware on my phone, the phone can sometimes run slow and when i get to see everyone around me updating there Omnias to get the latest performance, i have to sit back and wait a few years for T-Mobile to pull there fingers out and do something.

When i flash, can i just leave it at the Official Samsung Firmware, and just keep updating everyime they release a new one, or do i have to install "Custom" firmware?

Thanks

[Guest NickH1982]

I have BOHH5

What does flashing it do?

[Guest Beanflickr]

I have BOHH5

What does flashing it do?

Replaces the old software making the phone run to a newer and better one. It's like when you had microsoft windows 98 and then installed windows xp on your computer. Flashing does the same but on a mobile phone. You won't have a new operating system as Omnia's work on windows mobile 6.1 (although i've heard of someone putting windows mobile 6.5 on an omnia) but it will remove/install and tweak files on the phone to make it rum better and iron out bugs, depending on what rom you install onto it.

There are two classes of roms, official and custom.

Official are the ones that come with the phone or are officially recognised by the manufacturer. Custom roms are one's that those cleaver preple out there have made to put on the phone because they think they can do better than the manufacturers.

I also have BOHH5 and it's rubbish. I've flashed my old Sony Erricssons before but this is my first Samsung mobile so i'm trying to find the best rom and also get the software to work with my pc.

Flashing must be done by the instructions and everything must work correctly. It is not really for the novice and can render your phone useless with no chance of repair if something goes wrong. So do so at your own risk, or practice on an old mobile phone you don't mind wrecking, (bricking) if something should go wrong.

I'm still thinking about it and trying to figure out what i should run on mine. If I have any luck i'll let you know.