EMERGENCY: Phone Service won't enable.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I just sold my SPV.

I had the trial of Orange 1.56 on the phone.

I couldn't ship the phone with that ROM so I downgraded to 1.3.5.6.

Now the radio won't go on.

I've tried my SIM in another phone and it works.

Any ideas what's going on?

I didn't fry my phone did I?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Checked the Band selection settings are correct?

Tried a hard reset and checked the settings again?

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Yes & Yes.

Any other ideas what could be wrong.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Clutching at straws....

rerun the update?

[Guest nickcornaglia]

re-ran the 1.3.5.6 update....no good.

Multiple Hard Resets....no good.

Switched between PCS and Dual Band multiple times....no good.

Re-Installed 1.56.....radio works again.

Guess you can't downgrade the ROM?

Thanks for your help.

Nick

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Hmm thats a point. It's possible the 1.3.5 doesn't change the GSM layer, whereas i believe 1.56 does. So downgrading to 1.3.5 will still be using 1.56 GSM, which seems to be incompatible...

Try digging out one of the foreign ROM updates, Eurotek/Qtek/I-Mate, see if any of them update GSM as well.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I added the Eurotel ROM. Works fine. Just have to check with the buyer to see if it's okay since they were expecting the Orange ROM. Is the Eurotel ROM decerted?

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I guess it's not application locked as I just installed and ran SmartExplorer.

[Guest beersoft]

I had the same problem when i first put the qtek update on my spv, i confused the hell out of orange care when i told them i had broken it :)

now i have a full backup of everything on the phone for all those "ohsh*t, thats screwed it" moments i have.

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