Want to unlock your OMC / Skate? Tutorial here!

[Guest ninjagordy]

waiting for device ? do you have debugging turned on ?

after i flashed thye srock rom i cant find the debugging option now...can you tell me where it will be ??

[Guest tillaz]

after i flashed thye srock rom i cant find the debugging option now...can you tell me where it will be ??

settings/applications/development

[Guest wrtease]

answered post above

Edited November 11, 2011 by wrtease

[Guest tilal6991]

Updated link - http://minus.com/dbvEvYv2A9623d.zip

[Guest wrtease]

question have you unlocked it yet.

[Guest ninjagordy]

noobtastic...lol....will start again...cheers troops!!

[Guest wrtease]

well this has set the forum on fire it will be buzzing for ages now and probily see all the blade owners bying it now .good for the forum and members .

[Guest zToni]

did you CWM installed before?

YES

[Guest tilal6991]

YES

OK. In which case the flashing of stock recovery should work. Does it say waiting for device while the green android is on screen?

[Guest putbinoot]

ok downloading new zip and going to start but one thing I have installed es file explorer enabled root mounted file system but for the life of me i can't get it to leave the sd card when you press to go up folders it just closes. any ideas.

update in ES File Explorer i had to change home directory. go into settings then home directory and change from /sdcard/ to just / and that lets you into files system.

Edited November 11, 2011 by putbinoot

[Guest tilal6991]

ok downloading new zip and going to start but one thing I have installed es file explorer enabled root mounted file system but for the life of me i can't get it to leave the sd card when you press to go up folders it just closes. any ideas.

press the home button.

[Guest zToni]

OK. In which case the flashing of stock recovery should work. Does it say waiting for device while the green android is on screen?

Yes!

[Guest tilal6991]

Yes!

That is extremely strange - all I have done is replace the clockworkmod image with that of stock recovery.

I think you have a problem with drivers which I have no idea how to sort.

[Guest xiaoyaoswim]

can anyone confirm that after unlocking there phone, this *983*0# no longer works ???

In my case, My OMC, which was shipped with 2.3.4 and updated to 2.3.5 after unlocking, could enter into engineering mode by *983*0#

[Guest MarcinusMarcinusus]

My *983*0# works but wifi mac still showing 11:22:33:44:55:66 when really is 00:50:4c:19:54:30

I unlocked with zte 2.3.5 stock rom

[Guest tilal6991]

My *983*0# works but wifi mac still showing 11:22:33:44:55:66 when really is 00:50:4c:19:54:30

I unlocked with zte 2.3.5 stock rom

Yeah - follow the last step of this guide to normalize it.

[Guest zToni]

That is extremely strange - all I have done is replace the clockworkmod image with that of stock recovery.

I think you have a problem with drivers which I have no idea how to sort.

Thanks! i found mistake!

OMC Unlocked!

[Guest xiaoyaoswim]

So you want to unlock your OMC/Skate? You’ve come to the right place! All the stuff in the tutorial is simplified by me but the full credit for unlock has to go to xiaoyaoswim who originally posted this method here. I HAVE UNFORTUNTLEY BEEN UNABLE TO TEST THIS MYSELF BUT SEVERAL PEOPLE REPORT IT WORKING SO THERE SHOULD BE NO PROBLEMS. HOWEVER THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF LOSING WARRANTY AND MAC ADDRESS.

You should already have the required drivers installed at the beginning of the tutorial.

1. Go to Settings, About Phone, Status and note down the WiFi MAC address on a piece of paper. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
2. Download this file and unzip it.
3. Go into “Preparation” folder and run the “install-recovery-windows.bat”. This should flash stock recovery and reboot the phone.
4. Shut the phone down
5. Remove your battery
6. Get your USB cable ready. Now as you connect the phone to your computer press the volume down button. Don’t let go of the volume button until “FTM” comes up on your phone.
7. Go into the Unlock folder of the extracted zip file and run “download.exe”
8. If you are sure you want to unlock press “START”!
9. Sit through some hairy moments as it flashes itself and unlocks the phone.
10. Remove your USB cable, put the battery back in and any SIM of your choice – your phone is now unlocked!!
11. Power on the phone.
12. OPTIONAL – go to “POST-UNLOCK FOLDER” and run the bat file again – this installs ClockworkMod
13. WiFi will not work as the phone has lost the MAC address. However, once you flash back to the ROM of your choice do the following:
    • Install ES File Explorer on your phone
    • Enable root mode on it and RW to system partition. This can be done in the app’s settings accessed by pressing the menu button
    • Go to /system/etc/nv_4319.txt and click it.
    • Open with Note Editor and scroll down until the the line saying “macadress=…”
    • Change the “…” to your MAC address you noted down.

You now have an unlocked Orange Monte Carlo / ZTE Skate!!!

Hi tilal6991,thanks for your effort to make an easy-to-follow unlocking guide.

I would like just to add 3 points:

1 it' would be good if the windows driver link isincluded http://www.multiupload.com/BQ7VQOQA4L,since some people are in trouble to find it.

2 in step 3 you should mention that USB cable need to be connected prior to run the “install-recovery-windows.bat”

3. in step 13,just as D3abL3 said, there are two lines including “macadress=”, which might make some people confusing. As we know the one begin with # is just annotation.It would be clear if you guide people to edit the line containing “macaddr=00:11:22:33:44:55”.

Edited November 11, 2011 by xiaoyaoswim

[Guest MarcinusMarcinusus]

I have done everything whats possible and my omc runs like Galaxy 2.

Everything works like must be,wifi,bt,3.5 g etc.

I've changed mac adress in nv 4319 and 4329 and it works very good

in phone status mac is showing as writen by me but when i am checking via *983*0# it is 11:22:33:44:55:66 but who cares when my omc runs like SGS2

[Guest putbinoot]

ok clicked on download.exe and got a box something about something not found or expected (sorry i should have writen it down, haden sweden at the end i think) clicked ok came up again clicked ok again and flash box appeared clicked start and all went well, put giffgaff sim in and all ok. went into post unlock folder and clicked on the bat file all went well, installed es file explorer from apk launched and this is were it's not happening can't enable root explorer do i have to root phone again as phone appears back to stock.

Edited November 11, 2011 by putbinoot

[Guest philmein]

ok clicked on download.exe and got a box something about something not found or expected (sorry i should have writen it down, haden sweden at the end i think) clicked ok came up again clicked ok again and flash box appeared clicked start and all went well, put giffgaff sim in and all ok. went into post unlock folder and clicked on the bat file all went well, installed es file explorer from apk launched and this is were it's not happening can't enable root explorer do i have to root phone again as phone appears back to stock.

you need to put a rooted rom on via cmw cm7 or bluemonte

Edited November 11, 2011 by philmein

[Guest wrtease]

just install clockwork and install any rom .you could install atomic and its easier to edit the nv files to get wifi to work.choice is yours.

[Guest zToni]

Thanks! i found mistake!

OMC Unlocked!

after unlock, i can't flash CWM, when i run bat, i see error "device not found", and phone not reboot.

debug - on

[Guest tilal6991]

after unlock, i can't flash CWM, when i run bat, i see error "device not found", and phone not reboot.

debug - on

So USB debugging is on yet it still doesn't work. Try rebooting

[Guest MarcinusMarcinusus]

use TW3 to flash CWM