Herikstad Solutions: jailbreak

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Dynamics 2.0 ROM on HTC Titan WP7

My Marketplace app didn't work, so I figured I'd install a Custom ROM on my HTC Titan phone. After a bit of googling I found:

Dynamics 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691921)
Eburon (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731921)
HTC Titan 7.8 Sianto Edition AL (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908624)

Also I found that I already had DFT Eternity 24 langs Freedom V1 Pearl Edition (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26842868&postcount=46) installed from my jailbreaking

I decided to try Dynamics 2.0. Here's how I did it:

Get the prerequisites.

Details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1521763
Download: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=923630&d=1330440102 (1MB)
Download and Install:

Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14) (Might already be installed if you have Windows 7 or newer).
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 (https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-express)
or
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 (https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2010-express) (?MB) with Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 Service Pack 1 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23691) (450MB)
If you already have it installed and the trial has expired, don't worry a license is free, all you have to do is register. I used VS Express 2010.
Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27570) (500MB)

Backup user content.

Download WPBackup
Details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010135
Download: rhiffsta.ch/ultrashot/WPBackup_v1.0.rar
or
http://uploaded.net/file/xkg2k12x
Run backup

Usage instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010135&page=12#118
Unpack the rar file to a location of your choice.
Start Zune (can't remember if I had to quit Zune before backing up or not, might want to try that if WPBackup doesn't start).
Connect your phone and sync it with Zune.
Start WMDC on your phone (don't quit it while backing up). Press Run and get IP, doesn't matter what it is, if you don't get an IP follow the instructions on the forum (worked fine for me on the first try).
Start WPBackup. If no program window shows, you are missing some prerequisite or Zune or WMDC.
Press connect in WPBackup
Follow instructions in WPBackup to backup whatever you want.

Install Dynamics ROM.

Download ROM and instructions.
Details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691921 and http://dl.xda-developers.com/attachdl/9b7772b952cedc1d300ace97fe037123/51c218cf/1/5/0/5/9/4/5/release_2.0_en.txt
Download: rhiffsta.ch/ultrashot/Dynamics_2.0_Titan.rar (450MB)
Install ROM

Disconnect your phone from the USB cable and turn it off. Press both volume buttons and then while pressing, turn the phone on. Wait for the SPL to show (bootloader showing statistics).
Connect the USB cable and wait for the text 'Serial' to change to 'USB' on the phone.
Make sure that the phone is connected as Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM on your PC.
Unpack the rar file to a location of your choice.
Start TitanAdvancedRUU.exe and select regular RUU and Dynamics_2.0_Titan.nbh, then press Next.
Check the 'I've read the readme' box and press next.
Check 'I completed the steps indicated above' and press next.
Press the 'Update' button. You should get a view saying "From Image Version: To Image Version: 4.06.401.03".
Press Next.
Press Next.
Wait for the ROM to be installed. The phone will reboot and let you go through the standard WP7 setup.

Restore backup

Start Zune and set up phone there.
Start WMDC on your phone, press run.
Start WPBackup on your computer, press connect.
Select restore. Select what you want to restore (Restore seems to work even though it says "Please, setup Live account first!").
Restore

Install the apps you want from the restore (your phone will show the Marketplace page for each app), then go back to WMDC and press OK in WPBackup.

Reboot phone

Note: You should restore the backup before setting up any accounts such as Facebook, Gmail, or Yahoo. If you don't, restored contacts and SMSes that are duplicates of the ones downloaded from your accounts will be read only and show up twice (in the case of contacts). Very annoying.

Good luck! Hopefully it will work smoothly for you. :) If you have problems, just add a comment or ask at the forums. :)

Below are some screenshots from my process.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jailbreaking Windows Phone 7.5 HTC Titan

I have a HTC Titan (X310e) which suddenly turned into garbage when it would only show a garbled home screen after having the screen turned off once (Everything looked fine after reboot). Also all my email "apps" were missing and I could not access anything social (People, or settings about People og social networks).

After lots of Googling, I gave up on finding a solution online. I decided to delete everything on the phone and jailbreak it (since vanilla WP7 didn't have any backup functions anyways).

I followed this tutorial: forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26842868&postcount=46
So thanks to dragonide from XDA Developers.

The tutorial was good, but I'll add some minor details that might be useful:

Download files from:
DFT__HSPL_WP7SG1.rar: http://htcfanboys.com/download/cotulla/?action=view&file=10777
DFT Eternity 24 langs Freedom V1 Pearl Edition.7z: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684907
RUU_ETERNITY_Radio_Signed_17.5006.08.27_17.08.50.06.7z: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6i5r5a5amkwx8h
Turn off your phone and disconnect it from the computer.
Remove your SIM card.
Hold volume up and down then press power. continue holding the volume buttons.
When you see green text on white background with for example version PI39100
Radio 17.0...
..., you are in SPL. It should also say "Serial" about 2/3 of the way down the screen
Connect to computer with USB. you might have to try different USB ports. Check"Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" in the system tray; My phone came up as Titan USB Sync on some ports, in that case flashing failed with 264 and 266 errors. (See http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Elf_RUU_Error_Codes for explanation of errors). When it came up as Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM on a port, flashing worked fine.
Unpack DFT__HSPL_WP7SG1.rar using for example 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/), just right click the file and select open archive.
Run \DFT_HSPL_WP7SG1\1_SPL205\TITAN\ROMUpdateUtility.exe and follow instructions (takes about 1 min).
You should see the progress bar in parallel on both the computer and the phone.
When complete, the phone reboots. Hold the volume buttons until you enter SPL. Notice that it now says "HSPL2.5.160015.3 (137079)" and "Radio-16.23.06.10" (Radio was 17... before flashing on my phone).
Run \DFT_HSPL_WP7SG1\2_HSPL\DFT_HSPL_WP7SG1_INSTALL.exe and follow instructions (install HSPL) (takes about 1 min).
Phone will reboot after flashing. When rebooting, hold volume to enter SPL.
Unpack DFT Eternity 24 langs Freedom V1 Pearl Edition.7z.
Run \DFT Eternity 24 langs Freedom V1 Pearl Edition\ROMUpdateUtility.exe and follow instructions (takes about 10 min).
After completing flashing the phone will reboot and probably hang/freeze on boot (just showing the HTC logo). Reboot phone (just hold the power button or remove the battery). Hold volume buttons to enter SPL.
Unpack RUU_ETERNITY_Radio_Signed_17.5006.08.27_17.08.50.06.7z
Run \RUU_ETERNITY_Radio_Signed_17.5006.08.27_17.08.50.06\ROMUpdateUtility.exe (takes less than 1 minute).
After flashing, the phone reboots, hold volume buttons to enter SPL and check that Radio is now 17.5006.08.27
Turn off the phone (remove the battery).
Put your SIM card back in.
Power on the phone like normal and go through the Windows Phone 7 setup process.
Enjoy jailbroken WP7.