HELP! How can I unlock a dev Red-e (that re-locked itself!)

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

Our Red-e/Compal development smartphone managed to re-locked itself!!!

(see the story here: http://www.smartphonedn.com/forums/viewtop...php?p=1672#1672 )

I have seen your article about unlocking the Orange SPV:

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1992

But can this be somehow applied to the Red-e phone, too ?

If not, is there a way to download / install a microsoft development certificate and install it on the device ?

(i.e. through the SD Card, the USB link or even maybe SMS ?)

[Guest spacemonkey]

The method of unlocking should work on other phones as it's part of the standard microsoft procedures, however, Orange's site checks that the IMEI numbers etc match their database, as your phone isn't an SPV, it might not work on their site. I'd give it a go tho...

Other options, in eVC++ in project settings on the last tab you have security information, you can pick your dev certificate and tell it to load that to your phone.

When a build completes eVC++ will try and run rapiconfig to load your certificate through the USB connection. If this works, you're happy ;) (you also need this working if you hope to get the debugger working, cos it needs privileged access to the phone which rapiconfig can give you).

If it doesn't work then it means your phone is locked for rapiconfig.

So, if neither of those work... was your phone locked out of the box? If it's ROM is setup to be in an unlocked state then maybe a hard reset will sort it out. Hard resetting is controlled by the bootloader rather than the OS and the bootloader may well be different as the phone is from a different hardware supplier. Another option is if you look at the bootloader, does it allow you to backup IPSM? If so a backup of IPSM from an unlocked phone, when restored, should make a phone unlocked... if you have two Red-E's...

I only have a SPV myself, and this is based purely on my understanding of the OS from playing and the SDK docs...

[Guest spacemonkey]

Here's how to hardreset the red-e from the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer news group:

Check out the FAQ here:  

http://microsoft.smartphonedevkit.everlink...ss.com/faq.aspx  

How do I reset the SC 1100 (cold reset)?  

Plug-in main charger.  

Press and hold on '3' + '*' keys.  

Press and hold on POWER key to power on device.  

Yellow progress bar will appear to indicate flash erase is in progress.  

Following step 4, blue progress bar will appear to indicate successful flash  

erase and file system format is in progress.  

Once complete, device will continues its power on sequence.  

--  

Robert Levy  

http://www.RobertLevy.NET  

Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices, Smartphone  

[Guest Coolboy1982]

Here's how to hardreset the red-e from the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer news group:

Yes, but that hardreset might not help him, because the phone does not

seem to "know" that it's an unlocked developer device. It seems to think

that it's normal state is to be locked! That's why it relocked itself!