How to flash your Dutch Samsung Omnia Vodafone branded

[Guest MichaelV79]

After many irritating bugs on my Dutch Vodafone branded Samsung Omnia i900V I decided to flash the thing.

After many calls with Vodafone they kept telling me that they where working at an update.

That was a long time ago.... and still no update.

Today I found a solution to get rid of my ARHG5_HH1 version and the Dutch Vodafone brand garbage.

My "Vodafone" Omnia is now an unbranded Dutch XKHJ3 version.

After the update Windows mobile asked me to choose witch language to use.

I could choose between Dutch, English and French.

This is what I did:

1) Edit the following registry key on the Omina HKCU\ControlPanel\Version\CustomVersion to XKHJ3

The original keys value on mine was ARHG5_HH1 I just altered it to read XKHJ3)

Check this setting has been stored by using the version checker in Start\Settings\System

4) Run the official updater.

If all goes correctly you should end up with the following versions:

PDA: i900XKHJ3/XKHJ3

Phone: i900XXHI4

Remember: Flashing is done at your own risk!

I hope this info may prove helpful to others.

Now I have to check whether or not this is the most up-to-date version available.

But everything better than a Vodafone branded Omnia with ARHG5_HH1

Have fun!

[Guest staffordniko]

Does this realy work?

Also on a Tmobile branded Omnia?

After many irritating bugs on my Dutch Vodafone branded Samsung Omnia i900V I decided to flash the thing.

After many calls with Vodafone they kept telling me that they where working at an update.

That was a long time ago.... and still no update.

Today I found a solution to get rid of my ARHG5_HH1 version and the Dutch Vodafone brand garbage.

My "Vodafone" Omnia is now an unbranded Dutch XKHJ3 version.

After the update Windows mobile asked me to choose witch language to use.

I could choose between Dutch, English and French.

This is what I did:

1) Edit the following registry key on the Omina HKCU\ControlPanel\Version\CustomVersion to XKHJ3

The original keys value on mine was ARHG5_HH1 I just altered it to read XKHJ3)

Check this setting has been stored by using the version checker in Start\Settings\System

4) Run the official updater.

If all goes correctly you should end up with the following versions:

PDA: i900XKHJ3/XKHJ3

Phone: i900XXHI4

Remember: Flashing is done at your own risk!

I hope this info may prove helpful to others.

Now I have to check whether or not this is the most up-to-date version available.

But everything better than a Vodafone branded Omnia with ARHG5_HH1

Have fun!

[Guest MichaelV79]

Does this realy work?

Also on a Tmobile branded Omnia?

I don't know. But it worked on a Vodafone NL;)

[Guest Compuse]

I've got a t-mob branded one, .. I removed it all by simply updating it with a custom rom! :)