Guest kd80 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I just rang Orange to organise a replacement San Francisco since mine has the dust under the screen. It was surprisingly painless at how easy it is to get it (one is coming tomorrow morning after getting off the phone to them). I have one or two quick questions:I have reflashed it back to GEN 1 and restored the Orange ROM. Is there a way to wipe EVERYTHING back to factory default? I presume via CWM to wipe cache etc.?The new models they release now, are they still mod-able? I would hate to get the new SF and unable to budge from the crap 2.1 Orange provide. My mate mentioned the new ones aren't, not sure whether he was telling the truth or not.I have made a backup of my current setup (ROM + data) through CWM and copied this to my computer. When I get my new phone tomorrow (and it is customisable), can I just restore this or are there some hardware dependent things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hedgepigdaniel Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I just rang Orange to organise a replacement San Francisco since mine has the dust under the screen. It was surprisingly painless at how easy it is to get it (one is coming tomorrow morning after getting off the phone to them). I have one or two quick questions:I have reflashed it back to GEN 1 and restored the Orange ROM. Is there a way to wipe EVERYTHING back to factory default? I presume via CWM to wipe cache etc.?The new models they release now, are they still mod-able? I would hate to get the new SF and unable to budge from the crap 2.1 Orange provide. My mate mentioned the new ones aren't, not sure whether he was telling the truth or not.I have made a backup of my current setup (ROM + data) through CWM and copied this to my computer. When I get my new phone tomorrow (and it is customisable), can I just restore this or are there some hardware dependent things? 1. Orange stock ROM is as close as you can get. They won't have any idea 2. yes. Easiest way is to do one of wbaw's TPTs (either Gen1 or Gen2 depending on whether your backup is Gen1 or Gen2), it will install clockworkmod and optimise your partitions all in one step, no need to root the Orange ROM etc 3. yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flshg Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Restoring a nandroid from your old phone would restore the mac address wouldn't it? I guess this would be unlikely to cause any real problems but I think it would be best to backup the mac address from your new phone (I think its something like athsavedeeprom.bin). Someone should be able to correct me on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hedgepigdaniel Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Restoring a nandroid from your old phone would restore the mac address wouldn't it? I guess this would be unlikely to cause any real problems but I think it would be best to backup the mac address from your new phone (I think its something like athsavedeeprom.bin). Someone should be able to correct me on this. Yeah it will, but seeing as the old phone is being sent in for replacement I doubt it will ever be a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kd80 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 1. Orange stock ROM is as close as you can get. They won't have any idea 2. yes. Easiest way is to do one of wbaw's TPTs (either Gen1 or Gen2 depending on whether your backup is Gen1 or Gen2), it will install clockworkmod and optimise your partitions all in one step, no need to root the Orange ROM etc 3. yes Perfect, thank you. So even the newew versions are customisable? There's no restriction on the San Francisco or anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondlife Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Surely the orange tpt correctly removes the CWM? relock it to Orange? Format/clean up the SD card (assuming that is going anywhere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Laus_bub Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Hi, sorry for the stupid question, can you please describe how you flashed it back to the original rom? I downloaded the stock rom for switzerland from the thread above an flashed it via clockworkmod as zip file. My problem is that it now stucks on the green android ... Thanks, Lausbub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KenBW2 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I just rang Orange to organise a replacement San Francisco since mine has the dust under the screen. It was surprisingly painless at how easy it is to get it (one is coming tomorrow morning after getting off the phone to them). I have one or two quick questions:I have reflashed it back to GEN 1 and restored the Orange ROM. Is there a way to wipe EVERYTHING back to factory default? I presume via CWM to wipe cache etc.?The new models they release now, are they still mod-able? I would hate to get the new SF and unable to budge from the crap 2.1 Orange provide. My mate mentioned the new ones aren't, not sure whether he was telling the truth or not.I have made a backup of my current setup (ROM + data) through CWM and copied this to my computer. When I get my new phone tomorrow (and it is customisable), can I just restore this or are there some hardware dependent things? I sent mine back with MCR on it as I didn't have time to wipe before they came to replace it. No problems reported back to meI have nothing to add hereFor what it's worth, the nandroid backups I made of my first (TFT) device didn't restore on my replacement (OLED), so I can vouch for a little unreliability - maybe down to the different hardware? Ensure everything's backed up in a way that can easily be recovered in case of a failure to restore your nandroid backup. Please report results though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kd80 Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hi, sorry for the stupid question, can you please describe how you flashed it back to the original rom? I downloaded the stock rom for switzerland from the thread above an flashed it via clockworkmod as zip file. My problem is that it now stucks on the green android ... Thanks, Lausbub Hi, I used the TPT method found here. This is the easiest and it gets the stock recovery back on there too (replacing CWM). I sent mine back with MCR on it as I didn't have time to wipe before they came to replace it. No problems reported back to meI have nothing to add hereFor what it's worth, the nandroid backups I made of my first (TFT) device didn't restore on my replacement (OLED), so I can vouch for a little unreliability - maybe down to the different hardware? Ensure everything's backed up in a way that can easily be recovered in case of a failure to restore your nandroid backup. Please report results though Good point! I just got mine now and it's an OLED :huh: happy, but it means my backups won't work lol, so will do a fresh wipe :blink: thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThermalDroid Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Watch out their repair service is...Dodgy to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swukjay Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 I got a replacement 2 days ago and it was oled! keep your fingers crossed dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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